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🛰️ AWS has made AWS Cloud WAN available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) as of Oct 1, 2025. The service provides a central dashboard and policy-driven networking to create a global network that spans VPCs, Transit Gateways, and on-premises locations. It supports BGP-based global route exchange and connectivity via Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect, or third-party SD-WAN solutions. The dashboard offers consolidated visibility into network health, security, and performance to simplify operations.

🛡️ Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. The managed service integrates MLflow experiment tracking with SageMaker capabilities, streamlining AI experimentation and accelerating GenAI development from idea to production. It provides end-to-end observability to help reduce time-to-market and simplify compliance and operational oversight for government workloads.

📈 Amazon has expanded the CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service integrated analytics experience to five additional commercial regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka and Seoul), Europe (Milan and Spain), and US West (N. California). CloudWatch Logs customers can now query logs with SQL or OpenSearch PPL in addition to CloudWatch Logs Insights QL, including JOINs, subqueries, and rich JSON, mathematical, datetime and string functions. With a few clicks, users can create OpenSearch dashboards for VPC, WAF, and CloudTrail logs and analyze data in-place without copying logs or building ETL pipelines.

🔌 AWS has opened a new AWS Direct Connect location at the Digital Realty MAD3 data center near Madrid, Spain. The site provides dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with optional MACsec encryption and enables private network access to all public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the third Direct Connect site in Madrid and the fourth in Spain, offering a lower-variance networking option compared with the public internet. It joins more than 146 Direct Connect locations worldwide, expanding options for colocations and hybrid deployments.

🔌 AWS expanded 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps Direct Connect dedicated connections with MACsec encryption at the Equinix BG1 data center near Bogota, Colombia. Customers can now provision private, direct network access from this location to all public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. The enhancement delivers more consistent, lower-latency and encrypted connectivity for enterprises and partners in the region.

🛡️ Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports additional FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints across several AWS Regions in the United States and Canada. These FIPS-compliant endpoints allow organizations, including federal contractors, to meet requirements to use validated cryptographic modules when encrypting sensitive data. The new endpoints support requests over dual-stack public and VPC endpoints and are available in US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (N. California and Oregon), Canada (Central and Calgary) and AWS GovCloud (US). Customers can use these endpoints to run SNS workloads that require FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography within the listed regions.

🌐 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports IPv6 for API requests in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, giving customers the option to use IPv6 or IPv4 over dual‑stack public and VPC endpoints. The new endpoints are validated under FIPS 140-3, and SNS now supports IPv6 across all AWS Regions where the service is available.

🔁 AWS Transform for VMware now generates reusable Terraform modules from discovered VMware network definitions, complementing existing AWS CloudFormation and CDK outputs. The feature converts source network configurations into modular, customizable infrastructure code that fits into current deployment pipelines. It is available in all Regions where the service is offered and helps teams preserve operational consistency during migrations. By producing Terraform modules, the service enables reuse of Terraform-based workflows, reduces manual configuration effort, and supports teams that prefer Terraform for network automation.

🔒 Customers can now attach boot and data volumes backed by Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts, with support for authenticated and encrypted volumes. This extends external block volume support alongside NetApp and Pure Storage, enabling use of on‑premises enterprise arrays for OS boot volumes and high‑performance data volumes. AWS provides automation scripts via AWS Samples and access through the Console or CLI; third‑party integration is available on Outposts 2U servers and racks at no additional charge.

🔒 AWS Storage Gateway now supports VPC endpoint policies, allowing administrators to attach fine‑grained endpoint policies to VPC endpoints that control access to Storage Gateway direct APIs. Administrators can scope access by principal, action, and resource to reduce attack surface and enforce data protection controls. The capability is available in all Regions where Storage Gateway operates; review endpoint policies to align with your security and compliance requirements.

🔒 AWS has added four service-specific IAM condition keys for AWS Transfer Family, enabling administrators to write more granular policies and SCPs. These keys let you constrain server protocols, endpoint types, and storage domains at request time. For example, use transfer:RequestServerEndpointType to block public servers or transfer:RequestServerProtocols to allow only SFTP. The keys are available in all Regions where the service is offered.

📣 AWS announces general availability of AWS Service Quotas integration with AWS Step Functions, allowing customers to view account-level quota values in the Service Quotas console and monitor utilization with Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Users can request quota increases directly from the console, and eligible changes are applied automatically to reduce manual intervention. The feature is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Step Functions is provided and can be accessed via the console or CLI.

🚀Today AWS announced that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is available in all availability zones in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions. Amazon EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation directly within your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances powered by AWS Nitro. You can deploy a complete VCF environment in hours using the guided configuration workflow or the AWS CLI with automated deployment, enabling faster migrations, lower latency for end users, and improved compliance and resiliency.

🔒 AWS announces that AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. The service enables cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers to centrally create, deploy, and maintain defense-in-depth security policies across accounts, including AWS WAF protections and managed rule sets. By centralizing policy management, teams can reduce manual configuration, ensure consistent enforcement, and lower operational overhead. Customers should consult the documentation and region table for full feature and pricing details.

📈 Supervisors and managers can now customize Amazon Connect service level calculations directly from the analytics dashboards. The metric configuration lets teams define time thresholds for when a contact is considered to meet service levels and select which contact outcomes to include. Options include counting callbacks, excluding contacts transferred out while waiting, and omitting short abandons using a configurable threshold. The capability is available in all AWS regions, enabling a view of service level performance that better aligns with business operations.

🔒 AWS now supports attaching VPC endpoint policies to Transfer Family interface VPC endpoints, enabling administrators to apply granular access controls to Transfer Family APIs. Administrators can restrict specific API actions, designate which principals may call them, and limit target resources. The capability integrates with existing IAM policies and organizational service control policies, and Transfer Family also supports FIPS 140-3 enabled VPC endpoints across all AWS Regions.

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now deployable in 36 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro). The service provides centralized workforce access, single sign-on, and integration with existing identity sources to streamline account and application access across AWS. It powers personalized experiences in AWS applications such as Amazon Q and supports user-aware access auditing for services like Amazon Redshift. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these Regions.

⚙️ AWS today introduced Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a fully managed compute option that provisions, configures, and operates Amazon EC2 instances on behalf of customers to reduce infrastructure overhead. You specify task requirements (vCPUs, memory, CPU architecture) or desired instance types and ECS automatically selects and manages optimal instances. The service dynamically scales capacity, optimizes task placement, and applies security patching on a 14-day cadence with support for scheduled EC2 event windows.

⚡ Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS US West (Phoenix) Local Zone, bringing managed high-performance shared storage closer to compute and end users. The service supports demanding workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation. This local-zone availability reduces latency, improves throughput for data-intensive workloads, and can lower cross-zone or cross-region transfer overhead for applications that require fast, parallel I/O.

🔍 AWS has added transformation status reporting to the AWS B2B Data Interchange console, enabling operators to view processing outcomes and validation results for EDI transformations in a single interface. The console presents timelines and statuses for up to 10,000 recent input–output pairs per partnership and highlights errors and validation details to speed troubleshooting. This capability covers ANSI X12 and other EDI flows to and from JSON and XML and is available in all Regions where the service runs; AWS provides a user guide and a self-paced workshop to help teams get started.