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🛡️ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Update (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) packages. This update includes SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR (RDS 15.00.4480.2.v1) and SQL Server 2022 CU25+GDR (RDS 16.00.4262.2.v1). The GDRs address vulnerabilities such as CVE-2026-47295, CVE-2026-47296, CVE-2026-54118, and CVE-2026-55002. You can apply these updates via the Amazon RDS console, AWS SDK, or CLI.

🔔 Amazon DocumentDB now supports in-place major version upgrades directly from engine versions 3.6 and 4.0 to 8.0, preserving data, configurations, and cluster settings. The capability removes the need for intermediate upgrades and is available in all AWS regions where 3.6 and 4.0 are supported. Upgrading to 8.0 brings the latest security patches, performance improvements, and developer features. For detailed guidance, AWS points customers to the MVU documentation and the 8.0 announcement.

🔍 Partner Revenue Measurement's User Agent string now captures additional AWS services, expanding visibility into attributed revenue and product consumption. Partners who already embed the APN User Agent format (APN_1.1/pc_$) receive this expanded coverage automatically with no additional implementation required. The newly measured consumption appears in the Attributed Revenue Dashboard within Partner Analytics in AWS Partner Central. This complements Resource Tagging and AWS Marketplace Metering integrations and is generally available in all commercial regions.

📊 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now includes an in-console analytics dashboard that gives publishers a global, multi-region view of ad monetization and streaming performance. The dashboard allows comparison across regions and drill-down into individual playback configurations. It surfaces metrics such as fill rate, ad impression rate, video completion rate, and impression recovery, showing billable impressions recovered via server-side beacon retry logic. The dashboard is available in all Regions where MediaTailor is offered and leverages Amazon CloudWatch, with potential pricing for API usage beyond the free tier.

🔗 Amazon Quick now integrates with the AWS Agent Registry to let users discover, enable, and share MCP servers and agents directly within their Amazon Quick workspace. Connection details are pre-populated from the registry, enabling quick enablement and distribution for chat, agents, apps, flows, and research. The integration is available in all regions where Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore are supported, and administrators can connect via Manage account > Permissions > AWS Agent Registry.

🔒 Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). This enables single sign-on using corporate credentials while keeping traffic inside your Amazon VPC and on the AWS network, meeting data residency and network-isolation requirements. Redshift validates and exchanges IAM Identity Center tokens over AWS PrivateLink interface VPC endpoints inside the VPC and supports multi-Region Identity Center replication.

🆕 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in eight additional AWS Regions including Cape Town, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Melbourne, Seoul, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. Timestream for InfluxDB provides fully managed InfluxDB databases with Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, enhanced durability, and multi-node scaling to support real-time time-series applications. You can deploy and manage databases via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

🔁 Amazon Connect Global Resiliency now supports cross-region routing, enabling contacts arriving in one AWS region to be offered to the longest-available matching agent across two linked regions. Managers can view analytics and search contacts across both regions as a unified contact center, and both regions carry live traffic at all times to ensure configurations and integrations are continuously exercised. Customers retain control over traffic distribution and can shift new contacts and agents to a single region when needed.

🔒 AWS invited Upwind to join Security Hub Extended after customers repeatedly cited Upwind as a complementary solution. Upwind integrated deeply, offering runtime-first protection, pay-as-you-go pricing, and aligned go-to-market efforts that have driven strong joint deal activity. The integration enables unified findings in OCSF across build-to-runtime tools, simplified procurement on one AWS bill, and no custom integrations for customers.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now reads from and writes to Apache Iceberg v3 tables in your data lake, adding support for default column values, row lineage, and deletion vectors. Default column values simplify schema evolution by providing initial values when none are supplied. Row lineage exposes pseudo-columns for row identity and update sequence, enabling incremental and CDC workflows. Deletion vectors use compact compressed bitmaps to replace positional delete files, improving read/write performance for frequent updates and deletes.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available, targeting memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, real-time analytics, and containerized applications. R9gd adds local NVMe SSD storage for block-level needs. These instances claim up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton4-based R8g/R8gd and offer enhanced cache and memory speeds. They run on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System with the new Nitro Isolation Engine to improve workload isolation and are available in multiple US and EU regions.

🔒 Amazon Cognito now supports the GetClientToken API, enabling app clients to obtain access tokens for machine-to-machine authorization without requiring a user pool domain. The API lets an app client authenticate with its client ID and secret to receive access tokens for custom scopes on resource servers and integrates with AWS SDKs, AWS WAF, and VPC interface endpoints. The domain-based OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow remains available, and the feature is live in all regions where Cognito user pools exist.

🔗 Azure Multicloud Interconnect simplifies private connectivity between Azure and AWS by providing high-bandwidth, cloud-native links that abstract multicloud networking complexity. It extends to Azure Private Link for an end-to-end private path and offers features such as MACsec security, four-nines availability, and scalable capacities up to 100 Gbps at GA. The collaboration with AWS implements a standardized Open API to enable faster provisioning, operational simplicity, and potential wider interoperability across hyperscalers and carriers.

🛡️ AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in all commercial AWS Regions. This default-enabled guardrail detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda functions and supported event sources like Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SNS, preventing runaway workloads and unexpected costs. When a loop is detected, Lambda halts processing and sends an AWS Health Dashboard notification with troubleshooting guidance. You can disable detection per function using the PutFunctionRecursionConfig API if intentional recursion is required.

🔍 This post explains how to plan and automate governance for AWS IAM Identity Center across an AWS Organization. It outlines integration with external IdPs, recommended delegation and IAM permissions, and naming conventions to improve discoverability. The article describes a sample solution that uses AWS CDK to deploy reporting and remediation stacks to discover Identity Center applications, generate CSV reports, and optionally enforce assignment policies. It emphasizes cross-team planning, detective controls, and testing before remediation.

🚀Amazon Aurora Serverless now delivers up to 30% better performance and improved scaling across additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Mexico (Central). These upgrades apply to both Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL and are provided in platform version 4 at no extra cost. New clusters and restores launch on platform version 4 automatically; existing clusters can upgrade via maintenance actions, restart, or blue/green deployments.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service added 17 new Cluster Insights that diagnose root causes of Red and Yellow cluster status and offer actionable remediation steps. The insights cover resource exhaustion (JVM OOM, sustained CPU saturation) and configuration problems (zone imbalance, misconfigured replica counts). They automatically identify affected nodes and recommend fixes like resizing instances, increasing disk capacity, or correcting shard allocation.

🔎 AWS Agent Registry is now generally available, offering a private, governed catalog and discovery layer for agents, skills, tools, MCP servers, and custom resources across organizations. It provides semantic and keyword search, a browse experience, and access via the console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDK. Registry integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Quick, and Kiro IDE, and exposes an MCP server interface for IDE queries. New enterprise features include infrastructure-as-code support, tagging, AWS RAM sharing, auto-discovery of AgentCore runtimes, and a Quick Connectors integration.

🔗 AWS has announced the public preview of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, enabling managed private connections between AWS and Microsoft Azure. The preview expands the multicloud interoperability framework first introduced at re:Invent 2025, which includes an open specification for network interoperability. Azure adoption of the specification provides a single managed experience for customers connecting workloads across AWS and Azure in selected regions.

🔁 Amazon MSK Connect now allows restarting newly created connectors and their tasks to speed recovery for streaming data pipelines. The managed service for deploying and scaling Apache Kafka Connectors with Amazon MSK previously required deleting and recreating connectors after failures. You can now restart an entire connector and all tasks or selectively restart only failed tasks, and even restart healthy connectors to resolve transient issues or pick up external changes. The feature is available at no extra cost via the Console, AWS CLI, SDK, and CDK in all Regions where MSK Connect is provided.