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🤖 Amazon Connect Customer now automates performance evaluations for both human and AI agents in Malay using generative AI. Managers can define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications in their preferred language. The feature also supports cross-language evaluation, allowing assessments to be produced in English even when conversations occur in Malay. It is available across eight AWS regions.

🧭 Amazon Connect Customer announces general availability of the agentic CX designer, a no-code canvas for designing and deploying AI-powered voice and digital self-service experiences. The tool combines flowchart-style visual logic with LLM-driven natural conversation while letting teams enforce deterministic workflows for eligibility, approvals, routing, and compliance. Users can build, test, and launch production-ready experiences without code, shortening delivery from months to weeks.

🚀 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, extending AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers and colocation spaces for a consistent hybrid experience. Organizations across startups, enterprises, and the public sector can order Outposts racks connected to these regions to optimize latency and data residency. Outposts enables local low-latency workloads while connecting to a home Region for management, and supports on-premises data processing to meet residency requirements. This expansion gives customers more flexibility in choosing the AWS Region their Outposts connect to.

🔧 AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2 via the --v2 flag on the cfn test command in the CloudFormation CLI. The new suite expands beyond basic CRUD checks to exercise resource type implementations across every handler operation, with live-state verification after create, update, and delete. New resource types can run these tests during registry submission, and Java-based resource types can run them locally with Docker and a built handler package. Additional checks include schema backward-compatibility, input linting, and detailed HTML and JUnit XML reports to reduce iteration cycles.

🟢 AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. If recording for all resource types is enabled, AWS Config will automatically start tracking these resources. The new types are available for use in Config rules and Config aggregators, enhancing discovery, assessment, auditing, and remediation across Regions.

🔒 Amazon MemoryDB now supports AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East) Regions. You can create an interface VPC endpoint in your VPC via the Amazon VPC console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI to privately access MemoryDB APIs from applications inside your VPC. The VPC endpoint can also be reached from other VPCs via VPC Peering or from on-premises networks using AWS VPN or AWS Direct Connect, keeping traffic off the public internet.

🎛️ AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, allowing account administrators to set a custom account color and control which services and Regions appear in the AWS Management Console. Previously limited to US East (N. Virginia), UXC can now be managed from any commercial Region using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS CloudFormation. The feature is available at no additional charge and integrates with existing infrastructure automation for easier console configuration.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports 18 additional SQL trace flags that administrators can enable via database parameter groups. These flags adjust engine behaviors like cardinality estimation, lock escalation, statistics management, and memory handling to help optimize and stabilize workloads. AWS recommends testing changes in non-production environments before applying them broadly, as some flags may affect performance or memory usage.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now includes a managed consent portal that removes the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party services. The portal is provided per AgentCore Gateway with a hosted web client and credential provider list, enabling platform admins to share a consent URL and users to self-service view connection status. The feature supports agent IDE-based clients that cannot natively handle OAuth consent flows and is available in all commercial regions where Bedrock AgentCore Identity is offered.

📢 AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles to simplify distribution and reuse of render job templates across teams. Bundles include job templates, parameters, and asset references and can be published to a queue from the submitter or CLI. Shared bundles are stored as portable archives in the queue's existing S3 job attachments bucket, requiring no extra infrastructure. Users can browse, preview, and manage bundles via the console or new CLI commands.

🔒 Aesto Health disclosed a data breach affecting more than 9.5 million individuals after unauthorized access to a portion of its AWS infrastructure. The intrusion occurred in December 2025 and was confirmed on May 26, 2026, following a forensic investigation. Exposed data includes names, dates of birth, medical details, government IDs, and Social Security numbers; affected patients began receiving notification and credit monitoring offers in August.

🔍 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduces a DryRun option allowing customers to validate API requests and permissions without executing operations. Previously, teams used brittle workarounds like deliberately failing requests to check access, risking unintended writes if limits changed. The new optional DryRun parameter returns a DryRunOperationException when validation succeeds and is supported for five APIs across all Regions.

🛠️ Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports monitoring of self-managed PostgreSQL instances alongside Amazon RDS and Aurora. Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent to collect health and performance metrics from PostgreSQL running on EC2, and view live database load, wait event analysis, query-level statistics, and host metrics in the Database Insights fleet view. This feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and uses the same Database Insights console and workflows familiar to AWS-managed database users.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports protecting and restoring more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account, aligning with the Amazon S3 bucket quota set for each account. Previously limited to 1,000 buckets, this update enables protection of all general-purpose buckets without requiring changes to existing backup plans when using default AWS Backup managed policies. The feature is available across all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions; consult AWS Backup documentation for custom policy permissions.

🔔 AWS Marketplace now charges a 0% listing fee for professional services when they are sold as part of a qualifying multi-product solution. This builds on a prior reduction to a 0.5% fee and aims to lower costs for Partners transacting services through the Marketplace while preserving centralized billing benefits. The 0% fee applies to new subscriptions across all commercial AWS Regions when services are bundled with at least one paid subscription.

📊 Compact mode for Amazon Connect Customer analytics dashboards increases data density so supervisors can view more operational information without scrolling. The feature reduces widget size, font, and minimizes filters to maximize screen space. Available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered, compact mode helps supervisors spot non-adherent agents faster on smaller displays.

🚀 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 3.3.1. This update brings stateful tasks, multi-language task support via the experimental Language Task SDK (Java and Go), expanded asset partitioning, pluggable retry policies, and bulk actions for DAGs and task instances. Customers can launch new 3.3.1 environments or upgrade from 3.2+ through the AWS Console in supported regions.

🔔 AWS Marketplace now supports auto-renewals for private offers to help sellers and buyers maintain uninterrupted software and service subscriptions. Sellers set renewal terms and choose how pricing carries forward—no change, fixed change, or a defined range—while buyers can opt in or out and update preferences later. AWS notifies both parties before renewal, provides a comparison of terms, and allows either side to opt out before the deadline. This feature is generally available in all commercial AWS Regions for direct private offers with contract pricing and requires no additional onboarding.

🛡️ The White House has launched Project Watershed 250, a pilot program in Texas to provide water and wastewater utilities with federal and private-sector cybersecurity resources at no cost. Announced jointly by Governor Greg Abbott and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, the six-month initiative will deploy expertise from vendors including Microsoft, Google, AWS, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Forescout and Dragos. Supported by Texas Cyber Command, the pilot aims to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen defenses for rural and urban water providers amid growing OT-targeted threats tied to nation-state actors.

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now supports a configurable warm-up period for metric and log alarms to delay alarm evaluation after creation. This reduces noise from missing data when new resources or services start up and begin publishing metrics. You set the warm-up via the WarmUpConfiguration parameter for 1–2,880 minutes, and by default evaluation can start early once sufficient data exists. Warm-up periods are available in all AWS Regions at no extra cost beyond standard CloudWatch alarm pricing.