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🚀 Today AWS adds durability to Amazon ElastiCache, allowing workloads that need microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss to run on ElastiCache. The feature stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones using a Multi‑AZ transactional log for fast failover, recovery, and node restarts. Two durability modes—synchronous and asynchronous writes—let you trade off zero data loss with millisecond write latency or microsecond write latency with potential brief data loss.

🛰️ Amazon Location Service introduced public transit and intermodal routing in the Routes API, adding two travel modes, Transit and Intermodal, to the CalculateRoutes operation. Developers can now compute journeys combining buses, trains, ferries, walking, driving, taxi, and rental segments, with stop details, departure/arrival times, and last-mile support. These features support mobility, logistics, commutes, and urban planning, and are available in multiple AWS Regions globally.

📣 AWS announced that AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) now integrates directly with AWS Athena and AWS Redshift, enabling customers to query CUR data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL without custom warehousing. Exports are delivered in optimal formats (Parquet, GZIP) and include metadata, templates, table definitions, and loading instructions to accelerate setup. CUR 2.0 refreshes automatically update Athena and Redshift tables, and the feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions except GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

🔬 AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04, enabling customers to use new Nextflow features like record types, the strict syntax parser, workflow output summaries, and agent logging mode. The service is HIPAA-eligible and provides fully managed bioinformatics workflows for healthcare and life sciences. Nextflow v26.04 is available across all AWS HealthOmics regions, improving pipeline reliability, readability, and integration with downstream tools.

🔬 AWS HealthOmics now lets customers specify the Nextflow engine version at run time via the StartRun API, enabling explicit version pinning for controlled migration. Supported versions include 22.04, 23.10, 24.10, 25.10, and 26.04 via a new engine-settings parameter. This run-time override takes precedence over manifest.nextflowVersion, allowing testing across engine versions without changing workflow source. The feature is available in all AWS HealthOmics regions and supports HIPAA-eligible, production-regulated workflows.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now automates placement of ad-hoc activities in agent schedules to minimize impact on service level goals. When scheduling events like training or meetings, supervisors can select placement within a shift, inside a specific time window, or relative to shift boundaries, and the system finds the optimal time within those constraints. This reduces manual scheduling effort and preserves consistent service levels across teams.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling up to 5,000 agents per schedule, simplifying workforce planning for large or multi-skilled agent pools. Additional limits include up to 350 agents per staffing group and 300 staffing groups per forecast group, enabling a forecast group capacity of up to 5,000 agents. The update removes the need to split schedules or maintain separate schedules for shared agent pools, reducing operational complexity and improving schedule optimization. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Customer agent scheduling is offered.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now supports automated schedule update notifications to reduce manual effort. You can define rules to send email or text notifications (via EventBridge) to supervisors and agents when schedules are published, updated, or when an agent’s leave request status changes. This capability helps ensure agents are informed without constantly checking their status and improves scheduler productivity. The feature is available in all Regions where Amazon Connect Customer agent scheduling is offered.

🔒 Amazon Quick now supports connecting privately hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers via Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This enables organizations to integrate proprietary MCP servers running on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Agentcore, or other private compute without exposing them to the public internet. During connector creation, choose your VPC and provide your MCP server URL so teams can interact with private MCPs in Quick while traffic remains routed securely through the VPC.

🔒 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries so organizations enforcing Service Control Policies (SCPs) can provision projects without changing their security posture. When creating a project, SageMaker provisions three IAM roles — a project user role, an Amazon Bedrock service role, and a Bedrock Lambda execution role — and administrators can specify a permissions boundary in the Tooling blueprint configuration. The boundary is attached to all three roles at creation, satisfying SCP requirements and limiting role capabilities while allowing automatic project provisioning across all supported AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon Web Services (AWS) released Spring 2026 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports covering 188 services for the period April 1, 2025–March 31, 2026, providing customers a full year of assurance. Customers can download SOC 1 and 2 reports via AWS Artifact, while the SOC 3 report is available on the AWS SOC Compliance Page and AWS Artifact. AWS also published the SOC report package in NIST OSCAL (JSON) format to support machine-readable, standards-based compliance automation. AWS encourages customers to review services in scope and contact their account teams with questions or feedback.

🔧 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now offers a PCS‑ready Deep Learning AMI, an AWS‑maintained Amazon Machine Image based on the Deep Learning Base GPU AMI (Ubuntu 24.04). It provides a production‑quality foundation for AI/ML training and HPC with preinstalled, compatibility‑tested infrastructure components such as NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, EFA, Lustre client, PCS Agent, Slurm for PCS, and EFS utilities. Multiple Slurm versions are supported and activate automatically based on cluster configuration, and AWS will regularly update the AMIs for security patches and driver updates. The AMI is available at no additional cost for x86_64 and arm64 in all Regions where AWS PCS is offered.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports EFA-only network interfaces for cluster instance groups, allowing dedicated Elastic Fabric Adapter devices without attaching Elastic Network Adapters for IP networking. This reduces IP address consumption in VPC subnets and enables larger-scale distributed training clusters. To enable it, set efa-only in the ClusterNetworkInterface when creating or updating a HyperPod cluster via the API.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances are available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel cloud processors. They provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations, plus up to 20% higher performance than M7i variants with specific workloads seeing larger gains. M8i‑flex targets common general-purpose sizes from large to 16xlarge, while M8i offers 13 SAP-certified sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge for large-scale applications.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now lets customers reference existing AWS Secrets Manager secret ARNs directly in Credential Providers. Previously, secrets were service-managed and created by AgentCore Identity, limiting tagging, CMK encryption, and governance controls. Customers can now create and manage secrets with their own policies and then reference the ARN without changing runtime behavior. This feature is GA in 14 AWS Regions.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers troubleshooting skills that deliver expert AI/ML cluster diagnostics into coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro. These skills guide natural-language diagnostics for GPU hardware faults, NCCL communication issues, and performance bottlenecks across distributed clusters. They automate evidence collection via AWS Systems Manager and provide actionable recommendations without requiring infrastructure changes.

🛡️ AWS Direct Connect now supports Virtual Interface (VIF) Rate Limiters on dedicated connections to prevent a single VIF from consuming all bandwidth and causing congestion. You can cap bandwidth for up to 10 VIFs per dedicated connection with increments from 50 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps when using a link aggregation group. Rate limiting applies to both ingress and egress, and excess packets are dropped. New CloudWatch metrics include utilization as a percentage of configured capacity and dropped packet counts, and the feature is available in all supported commercial and China Regions via console, API, or SDK.

🟦 Amazon Bedrock customers can now monitor inference traffic to the bedrock-mantle endpoint using Amazon CloudWatch metrics, matching existing support for the bedrock-runtime endpoint and other AWS services. The bedrock-mantle endpoint supports OpenAI Responses and Chat Completions APIs as well as the Anthropic Messages API, enabling easy migration of OpenAI- or Anthropic-based applications to Bedrock. Metrics are published under the AWS/BedrockMantle namespace and include inference counts, token totals, and client error counts across account, project, model, and project-and-model granularities. These metrics are available in all Regions where the bedrock-mantle endpoint is offered and can be used to monitor production inference, set alarms, and plan capacity.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex for production use, offering the same AWS security, governance, and operational controls. GPT-5.5 delivers advanced capabilities for agentic coding, data analysis, and multi-step autonomous tasks on a next-generation inference engine. Codex is available via a dedicated App, CLI, and IDE integrations for Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and Xcode, and can be configured to run through Bedrock with pricing aligned to OpenAI first-party rates.

📢 Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now supports tenant-level suppression lists to isolate bounces and complaints per tenant. Previously, a single suppression list applied to all tenants in an account, which could cause one tenant's delivery issues to affect others. Administrators can choose suppression scope (TENANT or ACCOUNT) and reason filters (BOUNCE, COMPLAINT, or both). API operations with a TenantName parameter let you view and manage suppressed addresses.