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🚀 The AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports provisioning Transfer Family servers with a custom identity provider (IdP), enabling integration with existing authentication systems and centralized access control. This update automates deployment of SFTP, FTPS, FTP, AS2 and browser-based endpoints using Terraform, removing repeated manual configuration. The module is built on the open source Custom IdP solution and includes an Amazon Cognito example to help teams get started quickly.

🧭 AWS announced the Address Form Solution Builder for Amazon Location Service, a no-code tool that creates customizable address forms with predictive suggestions, autofill for fields like postal code, and an integrated map view. Developers can generate a ready-to-use application in minutes and download a developer package in React JavaScript, React TypeScript, or standalone HTML/JavaScript. The builder aims to speed address entry, reduce errors, and improve delivery and fraud outcomes for enterprise applications.

🔍 AWS Security Incident Response now offers an agentic AI investigative capability that automatically gathers, correlates, and summarizes evidence across AWS data sources. The investigative agent assesses new cases, asks submitters clarifying questions for missing indicators or timeframes, and collects logs from AWS CloudTrail, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon EC2, and AWS Cost Explorer. Findings are presented as clear, actionable summaries, and the feature is enabled automatically at no extra cost in supported Regions.

✨ Amazon SageMaker now offers one-click onboarding of existing AWS datasets into Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, letting customers begin data work in minutes while retaining their current IAM roles and permissions. The feature provisions a pre-configured serverless notebook with a built-in AI agent that supports SQL, Python, Spark, and natural language. Users can start from SageMaker, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon S3 Tables consoles and the setup imports permissions from AWS Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation, and S3 to accelerate first use.

🤖 Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is a built-in AI agent in the new notebook experience that accelerates analytics and ML development. It translates natural-language prompts into detailed execution plans and generates SQL and Python code, while staying aware of notebook context and data catalog metadata. Available in multiple AWS regions, it speeds common tasks like data transformation, statistical analysis, and model prototyping.

🔒 AWS launched VPC Encryption Controls to simplify auditing and enforcement of encryption in transit within and across Amazon Virtual Private Clouds. You can enable it on existing VPCs to monitor encryption status of traffic flows, identify resources that permit plaintext, and generate audit logs for compliance. The feature can also transparently enable hardware-based AES-256 encryption on traffic between supported resources such as AWS Fargate, Network Load Balancers and Application Load Balancers.

🔐 Amazon ECR now offers managed container image signing to simplify and standardize container provenance. Using a few clicks in the ECR Console or a single API call, you create a signing rule that references an AWS Signer signing profile (signature validity, target repositories), and ECR automatically signs images when they are pushed using the pusher's identity. AWS Signer handles key and certificate lifecycle, and all signing operations are logged to CloudTrail. The feature is available in all Regions where AWS Signer is offered.

🛠 AWS Compute Optimizer introduces automation rules to optimize Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes at scale. The feature can automatically clean up unattached volumes and upgrade volumes to the latest-generation types on a recurring schedule, using filters such as AWS Region and Resource Tags. A new dashboard summarizes automation events, shows step history and estimated savings, and supports action reversal.

🧭 AWS CloudFormation StackSets now supports deployment ordering in auto-deployment mode, allowing you to define the sequence in which stack instances deploy across accounts and regions. You can specify up to 10 dependencies per stack instance using the new DependsOn parameter in AutoDeployment to orchestrate foundational and dependent stacks. StackSets performs cycle detection to prevent circular dependencies and returns clear error messages to aid troubleshooting. This capability is available in all Regions where StackSets is offered and can be configured via the CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation Console at no extra charge.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded OR2 and OM2 OpenSearch Optimized instances into additional global regions, delivering higher indexing throughput and S3-based managed storage for indexing-heavy workloads. In AWS internal benchmarks OR2 showed up to 26% higher indexing throughput vs OR1 (70% vs R7g) and OM2 up to 15% vs OR1 (66% vs M7g). Both families include local instance caching, S3-managed storage, pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing, and a range of sizes to fit different compute and memory needs.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports cross-account and cross-region monitoring, enabling teams to observe and manage database fleets across multiple AWS accounts and regions from a single console. The feature centralizes performance metrics and troubleshooting workflows so teams can correlate incidents across distributed environments. It is intended to reduce operational overhead and improve mean time to resolution by enforcing consistent monitoring standards.

📦 AWS License Manager now offers license asset groups, a centralized capability to manage commercial software licenses across AWS regions and accounts in an organization. The enhancement delivers organization-wide visibility with customizable grouping and automated reporting so customers can track expiry dates, streamline audit responses, and take data-driven renewal actions. The feature is available in all commercial regions where License Manager is offered.

🔒AWS Control Tower now supports 279 additional managed AWS Config rules and seven new compliance frameworks in the Control Catalog. You can search, discover, enable, and manage these rules directly from the AWS Control Tower console or via the ListControls, GetControl, and EnableControl APIs. The ListControlMappings API has been enhanced to show relationships between controls — complementary, alternative, or mutually exclusive — helping map detection (Config rules) to prevention (Service Control Policies). These features are available in Regions where Control Tower is offered, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now supports configurable sub-minute GPU sampling for Amazon EKS, enabling GPU metrics to be collected at a per-second sample rate and aggregated to CloudWatch once per minute. This enhancement gives teams finer visibility into short-lived AI/ML inference and GPU-intensive workloads, helping to optimize resource utilization, troubleshoot performance issues, and improve operational efficiency for containerized GPU applications. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports AWS PrivateLink for its dual-stack endpoints. This enables customers to standardize on IPv6 while continuing to accept IPv4 traffic, and to keep API and Docker/OCI request traffic confined to the Amazon network. By routing dual-stack endpoint traffic over PrivateLink, organizations can reduce exposure to the public internet and improve their security posture. The feature is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) regions at no additional cost.

⚙️ Amazon CloudWatch now provides an in-console experience for automated installation and configuration of the CloudWatch agent on EC2 instances. The new UI surfaces agent status across your EC2 fleet, automatically detects supported workloads, and uses CloudWatch observability solutions to recommend monitoring configurations. Customers can deploy agents with one-click installs or create tag-based policies for automated fleet-wide management, including for auto-scaled instances, reducing setup time from hours to minutes.

🔎 Amazon has added an integrated query editor to Aurora DSQL, enabling secure, browser-based SQL access from the AWS Management Console without requiring external client installation or configuration. The editor includes syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and intelligent code assistance, along with schema exploration and result viewing in a single interface. Available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered, this feature shortens time-to-value and simplifies database interactions for developers, analysts, and data engineers.

🔐 AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Network Load Balancers (NLB) now offer an opt-in post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange option. The new PQ-TLS security policies use hybrid key agreement that combines classical algorithms with post-quantum KEMs including the standardized ML-KEM, protecting against 'harvest now, decrypt later' attacks. Available at no extra cost across AWS Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions, the feature requires explicit listener updates and supports monitoring via ALB connection logs and NLB access logs.

🛡️ AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB) now support Health Check Logs that deliver detailed target health check entries to a designated Amazon S3 bucket every five minutes. The optional feature records timestamps, target identifiers, per-target health status, and precise failure reasons to accelerate troubleshooting. You can enable it via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDK. Available in all AWS Commercial Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and AWS China Regions, logs incur no additional fees beyond standard S3 storage and can reduce mean time to resolution for target health investigations.

🌐 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports IPv6 for WorkSpaces Applications domains and external endpoints, allowing users on IPv6-capable devices to connect (SAML authentication is not supported over IPv6). This reduces the need for address-translation appliances, helps meet IPv6 compliance, and simplifies VPC addressing. The feature is available at no additional cost in 16 AWS Regions and uses pay-as-you-go pricing; customers must use the latest client or web access.