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🔒 AWS Transfer Family web apps now support Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints, enabling private, in‑VPC access to your browser-based S3 file interface at no additional charge. Workforce users can connect through a VPC, AWS Direct Connect, or VPN so that file traffic remains inside your network boundary. Administrators can enforce controls with security groups and subnet-level NACLs, retaining full visibility and control over transfers. Configure and manage endpoints via the Transfer Family console, AWS CLI, or SDK.

🔍 The AWS Management Console now integrates Amazon Q Developer AI-assisted troubleshooting directly into Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. Contextual 'Inspect with Amazon Q' controls appear alongside error and status messages to gather relevant logs and metrics, analyze root causes, and present one-click mitigation suggestions. The experience covers failed tasks, container health checks, deployment rollbacks, cluster and node health, and Kubernetes pod events, and is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🔗 Amazon API Gateway REST APIs now support private integration with Application Load Balancer (ALB), enabling direct inter‑VPC connectivity to internal ALBs. This removes the previously required Network Load Balancer hop, which can reduce latency and simplify deployments. The integration brings Layer 7 capabilities — such as HTTP/HTTPS health checks, advanced request‑based routing, and native container service alignment — while retaining NLB-based layer‑4 options.

🚀 Amazon Web Services today introduced Amazon ECS Express Mode, a managed deployment option that helps developers rapidly launch containerized web applications and APIs with minimal configuration. Every Express Mode service is assigned an AWS‑provided domain and supports public or private HTTPS, autoscaling, and ALB-based traffic distribution. The feature can consolidate up to 25 Express Mode services behind a single Application Load Balancer while preserving isolation through intelligent rule-based routing. All provisioned resources remain in your AWS account and are fully accessible; Express Mode is available now in all AWS Regions at no additional service charge — you pay only for the underlying AWS resources used.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering, enabling centralized protection for FSx for Lustre and FSx for OpenZFS file systems. The Intelligent-Tiering storage class delivers fully elastic file storage that automatically scales with workloads while optimizing costs through pay-for-what-you-use elasticity. Existing Amazon FSx backup plans continue to run without modification. Support is available in all Regions where FSx Intelligent-Tiering is offered, and you can manage protections from the AWS Backup console.

🔗 AWS announced integration of AWS Lambda Kafka event source mapping directly in the Amazon MSK Console, allowing you to connect MSK topics to Lambda functions without switching consoles. The MSK Console now requires only a topic and target function while automatically creating and configuring the event source mapping (ESM), applying optimized defaults and optional IAM role generation. The integration defaults to Provisioned Mode to improve latency and throughput, and is generally available in most AWS Commercial Regions with a few regional exceptions.

🚀 AWS Glue now includes a new Amazon DynamoDB connector that natively supports Apache Spark DataFrames. This enables developers to reuse existing Spark DataFrame code across AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, and other Spark environments with minimal modification, replacing prior reliance on Glue-specific DynamicFrame objects. The connector exposes the full range of DataFrame operations and current Spark performance optimizations and is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where Glue runs.

🚀 Amazon ECS Managed Instances is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West) Regions, bringing a fully managed EC2 compute option to government-focused accounts. Managed Instances dynamically scales and optimizes EC2 capacity, supports task-level requirements (vCPU, memory, CPU architecture), and lets you select instance families including GPU, network-optimized, and burstable types. AWS initiates security patching every 14 days; management fees apply in addition to EC2 costs.

📊Amazon QuickSight now lets dashboard viewers customize tables and pivot tables directly in dashboards. Users can sort, reorder, hide or show, and freeze columns without requiring updates from dashboard authors. These per-view adjustments support cross-team collaboration and tailored analysis — for example, sales teams sorting by revenue or finance freezing account columns to retain context. The features are available in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition across supported regions; see the product documentation and blog for guidance.

🔁 AWS Network Firewall now supports flexible cost allocation through AWS Transit Gateway native attachments, enabling automatic distribution of data processing charges across different AWS accounts. Administrators can create metering policies to apply inspection charges to application teams or business units instead of consolidating expenses in the firewall owner account. This preserves centralized security controls while automating chargeback based on actual usage. Flexible cost allocation is available in all AWS Commercial and Amazon China Regions where supported, with no additional fees beyond standard service pricing.

🔍 AWS announced general availability of a new Application Observability for AWS GitHub Action and enhancements to the CloudWatch Application Signals MCP server that embed observability into developer workflows. Developers can now request trace-aware diagnostics inside GitHub — for example by mentioning @awsapm in Issues — and receive intelligent, observability-based responses without switching consoles. The MCP server updates also let AI coding agents (such as Kiro) identify the exact file, function, and line causing latency or errors and provide or modify OTel-based instrumentation guidance for CDK or Terraform across ECS, EKS, Lambda, and EC2.

🔒 AWS Security Incident Response introduces a metered pricing model that charges per ingested security finding and includes a free tier for the first 10,000 findings per month. After the free tier, the per-finding rate is $0.000676 with tiered discounts at higher volumes. The consumption-based approach removes upfront commitments and minimum fees, enabling teams to scale response capability as needs evolve. Customers can monitor finding counts via Amazon CloudWatch at no extra cost, and the new pricing automatically applies in supported Regions starting November 21, 2025.

📧 Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Canada West (Calgary) AWS Regions. This expansion lets customers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from local AWS infrastructure, helping reduce latency and address data sovereignty and residency needs. Amazon SES, a scalable and cost-effective cloud email service, is now offered across 29 AWS Regions worldwide.

🚀 AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations now support AWS CloudFormation and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), enabling creation and management of zero-ETL integrations using infrastructure as code. This lets teams ingest data from DynamoDB and enterprise SaaS sources (Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Zendesk) into Amazon Redshift, S3, and S3 Tables. CloudFormation and CDK support makes it easier to deploy, update, and version-control zero-ETL configurations consistently across multiple AWS accounts.

🚀 Amazon Lightsail now offers a new Nginx blueprint that includes IMDSv2 enforced by default and supports IPv6-only instances. With a few clicks you can provision a Lightsail VPS of your chosen size with Nginx preinstalled, using Lightsail instance bundles that combine OS, storage, and monthly data transfer. This blueprint is available in all AWS Regions where Lightsail runs; consult Lightsail documentation for supported blueprints and pricing details.

🗣️ Amazon Lex now supports Wait & Continue in ten additional languages — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, and German. The feature enables deterministic voice and chat bots to pause while customers gather information and then resume the interaction seamlessly. It enhances natural, multilingual self-service experiences and is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates.

🔧 AWS Control Tower v4.0 introduces a controls-focused experience that gives customers direct access to more than 750 AWS managed controls without requiring a full Control Tower deployment. Customers can review the Control Catalog and deploy selected controls into their existing AWS Organization within minutes while retaining their current account structure. The release also separates S3 buckets and SNS notifications for cleaner operations and improved cost attribution.

🌐 Amazon Route 53 now exposes a dual-stack API endpoint at route53.global.api.aws, allowing clients to connect over IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack. The existing IPv4-only endpoint remains available for backward compatibility. IPv6 support is available in all Commercial Regions at no additional cost and can be enabled via the AWS CLI or Management Console. This reduces IPv4 translation complexity and helps organizations meet IPv6 compliance.

⚡ AWS announces enhancements to Lambda's Provisioned mode for Kafka event source mappings, enabling grouping of ESMs and higher density of event pollers to reduce costs by up to 90% for low-throughput workloads. Each Event Poller Unit (EPU) still provides 20 MB/s but now defaults to 10 pollers per EPU and supports shared capacity via the new PollerGroupName parameter. Changes are available today across AWS Commercial Regions and can be configured via API, CLI, Console, SDK, CloudFormation, or SAM.

🔁 Amazon Athena now provides an auto-scaling solution for Capacity Reservations that adjusts reserved DPUs automatically based on workload utilization. The solution uses AWS Step Functions to monitor Amazon CloudWatch metrics and add or remove DPUs when utilization crosses configured high and low thresholds. You can set measurement frequency, utilization thresholds, and capacity limits, and customize behavior via the provided CloudFormation template. The feature is available in Regions where Capacity Reservations is supported.