All news with #aws tag

🌐Amazon announced the preview of Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver, an internet-reachable DNS resolver that offers secure, anycast-based resolution for authorized clients worldwide. It supports split DNS for public domains and Route 53 private hosted zones and integrates DNS Firewall rules to block threat categories, malicious content, and advanced DNS attacks while logging queries centrally. Global Resolver provides high availability via selection of two or more regions for anycast resolution with automatic failover, and AWS will rename the existing Route 53 Resolver to Route 53 VPC Resolver to clarify the difference.

🔒 AWS now enables AWS Clean Rooms to generate privacy-enhancing synthetic datasets for training regression and classification ML models without exposing raw records. The capability de-identifies subjects in the original data and reduces the risk of models memorizing sensitive information, allowing partners to collaborate on model training while preserving privacy. Typical use cases include campaign optimization, fraud detection, and medical research.

🧭 Amazon CloudWatch launched an AI-powered incident report generator that guides teams through a Five Whys root-cause analysis using a chat-based workflow powered by Amazon Q. The feature combines human inputs and automated analysis of incident data to recommend specific remediation and prevention measures. It is available at no additional cost in multiple AWS regions. To use it, create a CloudWatch investigation, click "Incident report," then select "Guide Me" in the Five Whys section.

🔗 AWS Marketplace now supports solution-centric procurement via multi-product solutions. Partners, including ISVs and System Integrators, can bundle their own software and services with products they are authorized to resell, while each component retains distinct pricing and terms. Customers gain a single point of contact for negotiation, consolidated procurement, and the ability to manage renewals and term lengths for each component independently. This capability is available across all AWS Regions that operate AWS Marketplace and supports SaaS, Server, AI Agents and Tools, Machine Learning, and Professional Services.

⚡ AWS Glue now supports materialized views stored in Apache Iceberg format and managed in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Data teams can create views with standard Spark SQL, attach a refresh schedule, and rely on automatic change detection, incremental updates, and managed compute for refresh jobs. Query engines across Athena, EMR, and AWS Glue rewrite queries to use these views, improving performance by up to 8x and lowering compute costs, while SQL tools like Redshift and SageMaker can read the Iceberg tables directly.

🔎 AWS Marketplace introduced Agent mode and AI-enhanced search to speed solution discovery across 30,000+ listings. Agent mode provides a conversational procurement assistant that ingests use cases and uploaded requirements to deliver tailored recommendations and dynamic side-by-side comparisons. Users can refine results through dialogue, generate downloadable purchasing proposals, and initiate purchases directly. AI-enhanced search supplies contextual results with AI-generated summaries, adaptive categories, and AWS Specializations badges to spotlight validated partners.

🤖 AWS has launched the AWS AI League 2026 Championship, expanding its flagship AI tournament with new challenge tracks and a doubled prize pool of $50,000 to drive builder innovation. The program pairs a brief orientation with two competition tracks: a Model Customization track using Amazon SageMaker AI to fine-tune foundation models for domain-specific tasks, and an Agentic AI track using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build planning and execution agents. Enterprises can apply to host internal tournaments and receive AWS credits to run team competitions, while individual developers can compete at AWS Summits to test skills and build with AWS AI services.

📢 AWS Marketplace now offers variable payments, a general-availability billing option that lets professional services sellers invoice customers as work is delivered while enforcing a predetermined contract cap. Sellers can create private offers and submit payment requests tied to outcomes, milestones, or time-and-materials. Customers receive email notifications and can approve each request manually or enable auto-approval for streamlined processing. The feature increases engagement flexibility and buyer transparency and reduces the need for full upfront payments or rigid installment schedules.

🔒 AWS announced IAM Policy Autopilot, an open-source MCP server and CLI that analyzes Python, TypeScript, and Go code locally to generate baseline, identity-based IAM policies for application roles. It integrates with AI coding assistants such as Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor to speed policy creation. The tool stays current with AWS services and is available at no additional cost for local use. Generated policies are intended as starting points that require review and least-privilege refinement.

🔍 AWS has announced general availability of multimodal retrieval in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, enabling unified search across text, images, audio, and video. The managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow provides developers full control over ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding (including Amazon Nova multimodal), and vector storage. Users can submit text or image queries and receive relevant text, image, audio, and video segments back, which can be combined with the LLM of their choice to generate richer, lower-latency responses. Region availability varies by feature set and is documented by AWS.

🔗 AWS has opened a preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud, a new service to create private, resilient, high-speed links between Amazon VPCs and other cloud providers. The preview launches with Google Cloud as the initial partner and a planned expansion to Microsoft Azure in 2026. It integrates with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Cloud WAN, and Amazon VPC, and is available in five AWS Regions via the AWS Management Console. CSPs can adopt the capability through a published open API package on GitHub.

🔌 AWS Interconnect - last mile is a fully managed connectivity service launched in a gated preview with Lumen, letting customers connect branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS in a few clicks. Users enter a location, select bandwidth (1–100 Gbps), and pick an AWS Region while AWS automates BGP peering, VLAN configuration, and ASN assignment, supporting dynamic scaling and zero‑downtime maintenance. The service is architected for high availability, backed by SLAs, and enables MACsec encryption by default; it is available in the US through Lumen.

🛡️ AWS and CrowdStrike have launched an automated integration experience for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM in AWS Marketplace that streamlines cloud-native security monitoring. The guided wizard automates connector configuration and provisions least-privilege IAM roles, Amazon SQS queues, EventBridge rules, and SNS topics. Security teams can quickly enable agentic AI-assisted investigation, advanced correlation, and automated response across their AWS Organization, and subscribe via new pay-as-you-go pricing.

🔧 The AWS MCP Server is now in preview and offers a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface that consolidates the prior AWS API MCP and AWS Knowledge servers into a single endpoint. It enables AI agents and AI-native IDEs to access AWS documentation, generate and execute calls to over 15,000 APIs, and follow pre-built Agent SOPs to perform multi-step tasks. Authentication and authorization use AWS IAM, and audit logging is provided via CloudTrail; the service is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia), with customers paying only for resources and data transfer.

🔧 AWS has expanded its Resilience Competency to include Technology Partners, enabling customers to identify validated software for high availability and recovery. The program evaluates solutions across Design, Recovery, and Operate categories through expert technical validation to meet strict performance and operational requirements. Qualified partners and solutions are discoverable via the AWS Resilience Competency and purchasable through AWS Marketplace, aligning with AWS's shared responsibility model. This aims to help organizations build always-on applications with lower cost and higher availability than on-premises alternatives.

🔒 AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) to scale revocation handling up to 100 million certificates per CA. Partitioning breaks revocation data into ~1 MB CRL partitions and binds certificates to partitions using a critical Issuer Distribution Point (IDP) extension, allowing validators to match CDP and IDP URIs for accurate checks. The feature is backward compatible, RFC5280-compliant, configurable in the console (including S3 setup), and carries no charge beyond AWS Private CA and Amazon S3 usage.

📦 AWS announced a new warm storage tier for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, offering lower-cost storage for extended media retention while preserving sub-second access latency. The existing standard tier is now designated the hot tier and remains optimized for real-time, short-term use. Developers can configure fragment sizes to trade latency for ingestion cost, and both tiers integrate with Amazon Rekognition Video and Amazon SageMaker for continuous video analytics. The warm tier is available in all supported regions except AWS GovCloud (US).

🔔 AWS announced that AWS Compute Optimizer now provides idle resource recommendations for NAT Gateways, helping identify unused NAT Gateways and realize potential cost savings. The feature flags NAT Gateways that show no traffic over a 32-day analysis period by evaluating CloudWatch metrics such as active connection count and incoming packet metrics. Compute Optimizer also checks Route Table associations to avoid recommending critical backup resources and surfaces estimated savings and utilization details for validation before remediation.

🔔 AWS Health introduced two new event schema properties — actionability and persona — to help customers identify and prioritize operational notifications. Delivered via the AWS Health API and Health EventBridge, these fields let organizations programmatically flag events that require customer action and route them to relevant teams such as security or billing. Available across all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, the change streamlines integrations with monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems to improve triage and remediation workflows.

🔔 AWS now supports Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage across key analytics services. These features — available in Amazon EMR 7.12, AWS Glue, SageMaker notebooks, Amazon S3 Tables, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog — accelerate data modifications and make it simpler to identify changed records. Enable V3 by setting the table property 'format-version = 3' in CREATE TABLE or by updating table metadata; supported AWS query engines will automatically use deletion vectors and row lineage.