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🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Application Map now detects and visualizes services that are not instrumented with Application Signals, providing out-of-the-box observability coverage across distributed environments. It also offers cross-account, unified views and retains a history of recent changes so teams can correlate configuration modifications with performance shifts. These enhancements aim to reduce MTTR and are available at no additional cost in most AWS commercial regions.

🔧 AWS Step Functions' TestState API now supports local unit testing of complete workflows, including advanced constructs like Map and Parallel states, without deploying state machines to AWS. Developers can mock AWS service integrations and opt into API contract validation so mocked responses align with actual service outputs, improving test fidelity. TestState calls integrate with frameworks such as Jest and pytest and can be used in CI/CD pipelines; the feature is available via the AWS SDK and CLI in all Regions where Step Functions is offered.

🎨 Amazon QuickSight now provides expanded dashboard theming to help organizations maintain consistent brand identity across analytics dashboards and embedded experiences. Authors can customize interactive sheet backgrounds with gradients and angles, implement sophisticated card styling with configurable borders and opacity, and control typography for titles and subtitles at the theme level. These theme-level controls help ensure visual consistency across departments and enable embedded dashboards to match host application styling so analytics appear native. The enhancements address enterprise needs for professional, brand-aligned presentation and are available in all supported QuickSight regions.

🚀 Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers a lower base capacity of 4 RPUs, reducing the prior minimum from 8 RPUs and enabling entry-level analytics at roughly $1.50 per hour. Each RPU provides 16 GB of memory, so the 4‑RPU configuration supplies up to 64 GB of memory and supports up to 32 TB of Redshift managed storage with limits such as 100 columns per table. The configuration is available in multiple Asia Pacific, European, Middle East, African and Mexico regions and is suited for both development and lightweight production workloads. You continue to pay per-second for active RPU-hours, helping lower cost for sporadic or small-scale analytics.

🛡️ EC2 Auto Scaling introduces an instance lifecycle policy that lets you retain instances when lifecycle hooks fail or time out, enabling manual intervention for graceful shutdowns. Previously, the default continue or abandon outcomes both resulted in instance termination after a timeout; the new policy adds configurable retention triggers to keep instances in a retained state. This is particularly helpful for stateful applications that need to save local data, close database connections, deregister from discovery, or remove sensitive credentials before termination. The feature is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

🔔 AWS now lets customers in India sign up using UPI AutoPay as the default payment method, replacing the prior card-only requirement. Users add and verify a UPI ID in the AWS console, confirm their billing address, and approve an authorization request in their UPI app to enable recurring payments up to INR 15,000. After verification, future invoices up to that limit are charged automatically from the next billing cycle, reducing manual payment steps and the risk of missed payments.

🏷️ Amazon S3 now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC) for general purpose buckets, allowing organizations to use bucket tags to automatically manage permissions. Instead of constantly editing IAM or bucket policies, administrators can create policies that reference bucket tags and grant access by adding or modifying tags. Enable ABAC with the S3 PutBucketAbac API and manage tags via TagResource/UntagResource; you can also require tags at bucket creation to enforce standards. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost via the Console, REST API, CLI, SDK, and CloudFormation.

🔍 Amazon Aurora DSQL now surfaces statement-level cost estimates directly in query plans, providing developers immediate visibility into resource use per SQL statement. The EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE output is extended to append per-category (compute, read, write, and multi-Region write) and total estimated Distributed Processing Unit (DPU) usage. This enhancement offers fine-grained, real-time cost insight that complements CloudWatch metrics, enabling faster identification of cost drivers and more effective query tuning. The feature is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is supported.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to IBEX Q1, a 12-qubit trapped-ion QPU from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) featuring full all-to-all connectivity that eliminates the need for intermediate SWAP gates. The device is available on-demand and via Hybrid Jobs, and customers can reserve dedicated capacity through Braket Direct with hourly pricing and no upfront commitments. IBEX Q1 runs in the Europe (Stockholm) Region with launch access Tuesdays and Wednesdays 09:00–16:00 UTC. Accredited researchers may apply for AWS Cloud Credits for Research to support experiments.

🔁 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces the ReplaceRootVolume strategy for instance refresh, allowing replacement of an instance's root Amazon EBS volume without stopping or terminating the instance. The feature preserves attachments and metadata (network interfaces, elastic IPs) and reduces operational complexity for OS-level updates, patching, and recovery from corrupted root volumes. It is particularly valuable for specialized instance types such as Mac and GPU instances and for stateful applications where data and attachments must be preserved. ReplaceRootVolume is available in select regions at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage.

🔒 AWS Site-to-Site VPN is partnering with eero to simplify secure connectivity from remote sites to AWS. Using eero Wi‑Fi access points and gateway appliances, customers can automatically establish VPN tunnels to AWS in a few clicks. The integration is intended to accelerate scaling across hundreds of locations and reduce the need for onsite networking expertise. Available in the US geography.

🔍 AWS Site-to-Site VPN now publishes Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) logs from VPN tunnels to Amazon CloudWatch, providing deeper visibility into routing and session behavior. Previously, customers only had access to IKE/IPSec tunnel activity logs; the new BGP logs show session status, transitions, routing updates, and detailed error states. With both tunnel and BGP logs in CloudWatch, teams can correlate events, speed troubleshooting, and identify configuration mismatches between AWS endpoints and customer gateways across commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

🔁 The AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports the Slurm REST API, enabling programmatic job submission, resource management, and cluster monitoring over HTTP. This removes reliance on CLI-only workflows and lets teams integrate HPC operations into web portals, CI/CD pipelines, and data processing frameworks. The feature is available in all AWS Regions with AWS PCS and has no additional charge.

🔐 The new aws login CLI command lets developers obtain temporary programmatic credentials using the same sign-in method as the AWS Management Console, eliminating the need to create and manage long-term access keys. The command opens a browser-based OAuth2 flow and supports root/IAM user sign-in as well as federated identity providers. Issued credentials auto-rotate every 15 minutes and remain valid up to the IAM session duration (maximum 12 hours). Aws login integrates with profiles, remote development workflows, AWS SDKs, AWS Tools for PowerShell, and legacy SDKs via credential_process.

🔐 Amazon Web Services has been designated a critical third-party provider (CTPP) by the European Supervisory Authorities under the EU’s DORA regulation, which took effect in January 2025. The designation establishes a formal oversight relationship between AWS and the ESAs and signals heightened regulatory engagement for financial services customers operating in the EU. AWS says it will continue investing in compliance, operational resilience, risk management, and transparency, and will support customers with documentation, whitepapers, and a dedicated security and compliance team to help meet DORA obligations.

🔍 Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for end-customer self-service across voice and digital channels, including PSTN/telephony, in-app and web calling, chat, SMS, WhatsApp Business, and Apple Messages for Business. The capability analyzes sentiment, redacts sensitive data, surfaces top contact drivers and themes, flags compliance risks, and supports semantic matching rules to categorize interactions. Administrators can use easy-to-customize dashboards to proactively identify areas for improvement and align automated flows with customer needs.

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now supports managed rule groups from AWS Marketplace partners, enabling customers to deploy partner-curated threat intelligence directly from the console. These managed rules are continuously updated by vendors and integrate with existing firewall architectures without routing changes. They reduce operational overhead across multiple VPCs and help maintain compliance and security posture. Customers should evaluate partner offerings against their requirements.

🚀 Beginning today, Amazon has made Amazon Bedrock available in Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain). The managed service provides secure access to a variety of foundation models and tools for building and operating generative AI applications and agents. With regional endpoints, customers can reduce latency and address data residency and compliance needs. To get started, customers can consult the Bedrock documentation and regional resources.

🔒 Check Point and AWS have introduced Check Point Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall to simplify scaling network security across complex cloud environments. The service provides centrally managed, preconfigured rule sets that reduce the time and effort required to deploy and maintain firewalls across multiple VPCs and subnets. By automating updates and delivering threat-informed rules, the offering aims to lower operational overhead, accelerate response to new attack vectors, and free scarce IT resources for higher-value tasks.

📞 Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now let campaign managers set ring duration from 15 to 60 seconds before a call is marked no answer and the dialer moves on. Each contact logs ring start and end timestamps for detailed, per-call reporting and traceability. The change enables tuning dialing behavior to audience patterns to improve contact rates and agent productivity. The feature is available in multiple AWS regions and follows the platform’s pay-as-you-go billing model.