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AWS IoT Core adds SET clause and get_or_default() support

🔧 The AWS IoT Core rules-SQL now supports a SET clause to define and reuse variables across SQL statements, simplifying complex queries and ensuring consistent content when values are referenced multiple times. A new get_or_default() function returns fallback values when encountering data encoding or external dependency failures so rules continue executing. These capabilities reduce SQL complexity and improve reliability across regions.

AWS WAF Adds Web Bot Auth to Verify AI and Bot Traffic

🔐 AWS WAF now supports Web Bot Auth, providing cryptographic verification for automated agents and crawlers that access web applications. The capability uses signed HTTP messages and a public key directory defined by active IETF drafts to authenticate bot identities. AWS WAF will automatically allow verified WBA bots by default, refining previous behavior where the AI category blocked unverified bots. This change helps operators distinguish trusted automated traffic from potentially harmful automation.

Amazon Connect adds monitoring for queued callbacks

🔔 Amazon Connect now enables monitoring of contacts queued for callback, allowing supervisors and integrations to search queued callbacks and view details such as customer phone numbers and queued duration in the Connect UI and via APIs. Teams can proactively route contacts nearing promised callback windows to available agents and clear customers who have already been served to avoid duplicative work. This capability is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

AWS Adds Second-Generation Outposts Racks in Tokyo

📣 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Organizations in and outside Japan can order Outposts racks connected to this region to optimize latency and meet data residency requirements while running low-latency workloads on-premises. Outposts extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools into customer data centers or colocation spaces and connects back to a home Region for centralized management.

Amazon Aurora DSQL Storage Limit Increased to 256 TiB

🔔 Amazon Web Services has raised the maximum storage limit for Aurora DSQL database clusters to 256 TiB, doubling the prior 128 TiB cap. This update enables customers to store and manage much larger datasets within a single cluster, simplifying data management for large-scale applications. Storage continues to auto-scale and customers pay only for used capacity; default clusters remain limited to 10 TiB and higher limits require a Service Quotas request.

Aurora DSQL Adds Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors

🔐 Aurora DSQL now provides Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors that transparently handle IAM token generation for standard PostgreSQL drivers. The connectors integrate with psycopg/psycopg2, node-postgres, Postgres.js, and the PostgreSQL JDBC driver and support common pooling libraries such as HikariCP and built-in pooling in Node.js and Python. By automatically generating IAM tokens via the AWS SDK for each connection, they remove the need for custom token code or manual token provisioning, reducing reliance on static database passwords while preserving existing driver features and workflows.

Amazon EMR 7.12 Adds Apache Iceberg v3 Table Format

🆕 Amazon EMR 7.12 now supports the Apache Iceberg v3 table format (Iceberg 1.10) and includes Apache Spark 3.5.6. This update reduces storage and pipeline costs by marking deleted rows instead of rewriting files, while adding automatic row-level history for stronger governance and change-data capture. It also introduces table-level encryption and integrates with AWS Lake Formation. Apache Trino 476 is included, and EMR 7.12 is available in all Regions that support EMR.

Amazon Connect adds follow-up email replies for agents

📧 Amazon Connect Email now lets agents send follow-up replies to existing email contacts, enabling them to add information or continue assistance without opening a new thread. The feature preserves full conversation history so agents retain context and deliver consistent support. It is available in multiple AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), Canada (Central), several Asia Pacific locations, and Africa (Cape Town). Refer to documentation and pricing to get started.

Flexible Cost Allocation for AWS Transit Gateway GA

💸 AWS has announced general availability of Flexible Cost Allocation (FCA) for AWS Transit Gateway, enabling organizations to distribute data processing and transfer charges more flexibly across accounts. FCA lets you assign usage to the source, destination, or the central Transit Gateway account and supports attachment-level or per-flow granularity. It also supports middle-box appliances such as AWS Network Firewall, allowing costs to be attributed to original source or destination owners. You can enable FCA via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK with no additional charge.

Amazon Athena adds per-query DPU controls for Capacity use

🔧 Amazon Athena now lets you control Data Processing Unit (DPU) allocation for queries running on Capacity Reservations at the workgroup or per-query level. You can set explicit DPU values so small queries consume less capacity while critical jobs receive guaranteed resources. The Athena console and API now report per-query DPU usage, improving visibility into consumption and supporting capacity planning. These controls reduce over-provisioning, manage concurrency, and improve predictability for business-critical workloads in supported AWS Regions.

AWS Transfer Family Terraform Module Adds Custom IdP

🚀 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 Security Incident Response Adds Agentic AI Investigator

🔍 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.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection accelerates anomaly detection

🔍 AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now uses an enhanced algorithm that analyzes spend in rolling 24-hour windows, comparing current costs to equivalent time periods from previous days whenever AWS receives updated cost and usage data. This removes delays from incomplete calendar-day comparisons and aligns analysis to similar times of day, improving accuracy for workloads with distinct morning and evening patterns. The result is faster, more precise anomaly identification with fewer false positives; the enhancement is available in all AWS Regions except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.

Amazon Location Service Adds No-Code Address Form Builder

🧭 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.

Amazon SageMaker One-Click Onboarding for Existing Data

✨ 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 for Analytics and ML Development

🤖 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.

Amazon OpenSearch Adds OR2 and OM2 Instances in Regions

🚀 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.

AWS Control Tower Adds 279 AWS Config Rules and Frameworks

🔒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 EKS add-on: AWS Secrets Store CSI Driver Provider

🔐 AWS has announced general availability of the Amazon EKS add-on for the AWS Secrets Store CSI Driver provider, enabling clusters to mount secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and parameters from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as files on Kubernetes workloads. The add-on installs and manages the AWS provider component and supports automated setup and lifecycle management for new and existing Amazon EKS clusters. It is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS Organizations adds upgrade rollout policy for RDS

🔔 AWS Organizations now supports an upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, enabling staggered automatic minor version upgrades across accounts and resources. Administrators can define simple sequences (first, second, last) via account-level policies or resource tags so upgrades begin in development and progress to production only after validation. AWS Health notifications between phases, built-in validation periods, and the ability to pause progression provide control and observability. The feature is available in all commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US); RDS for Oracle support applies to engine versions released after January 2026.