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🛡️ AWS Security Incident Response now integrates with popular ITSM platforms like Jira and ServiceNow, offering bidirectional synchronization for issues, comments, attachments, and case updates. The connectors are provided as open-source projects on GitHub with sample code, deployment instructions, and implementation best practices. A modular design and technical documentation make it straightforward to extend support to additional ITSM targets and to leverage AI assistants for rapid customization.

🔒 AWS Security Incident Response is now HITRUST CSF certified, demonstrating alignment with rigorous security and privacy controls used by healthcare, life sciences, and other regulated sectors. The certification confirms that organizations can leverage AWS Security Incident Response to automate alert monitoring, streamline incident coordination, and access 24/7 security experts. Customers can inherit AWS HITRUST scores to reduce audit burden and integrate via console, CLI, or APIs.

🔐 Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Amazon KMS Customer Managed Keys (CMK), giving customers the option to use their own keys instead of AWS-owned keys. This provides greater control over encryption at rest, key rotation, and access policies for data stored in MSF. The update helps address compliance and governance requirements and is available by region; refer to the documentation for implementation details.

📊 AWS announces general availability of AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards, a customizable feature that consolidates spending data from AWS Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization reports. Users can build cost, usage, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instance widgets with line, bar, stacked bar, or table visualizations, arrange layouts, and share dashboards across accounts. The capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial Regions except AWS China Regions.

🔧 AWS Clean Rooms now lets code authors configure error message detail for analyses using PySpark. When every collaboration member approves an analysis, authors can enable more detailed errors to accelerate debugging and testing. This reduces troubleshooting time for models such as marketing attribution from weeks to hours or days while preserving collaborator data protections.

🔓 AWS has made two OpenAI models with open weights — gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — automatically available to all Amazon Bedrock users as of August 5, 2025. Users can access them immediately via the Amazon Bedrock console playground or the unified Bedrock API in supported regions. Administrators retain full control and can restrict usage with AWS IAM policies and Service Control Policies.

🚀 Amazon MSK now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for Standard brokers on MSK Provisioned clusters across eight additional AWS Regions, including both AWS GovCloud regions and several Asia Pacific and European locations. M7g instances offer up to 24% lower compute costs and up to 29% higher write and read throughput versus comparable M5-based clusters. The expansion helps customers optimize performance and reduce operational expenses for production Kafka workloads.

🔒 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS DSPT) assessment for 2024–25, achieving Standards Exceeded. The certification is valid until June 30, 2026 and is available via NHS England and AWS Artifact. NHS DSPT measures performance against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards, covering Personal Confidential Data, Continuity Planning, and IT Protection. AWS emphasises that security is a shared responsibility and directs customers to its compliance resources.

📞 Amazon Connect now supports multi-user web, in-app, and video calling, allowing multiple participants to join the same session with an agent via browser or mobile app. Agents can dynamically add participants during live calls or host scheduled multi-party sessions, and attendees can use audio, video, and screen sharing. This feature enables richer, more inclusive interactions for scenarios such as joint financial planning, family medical consultations, and meetings with legal representatives or translators.

📹 TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.2 is now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) through Amazon Bedrock. The video-first language model is optimized for long-form content and combines visual, audio, and textual signals to deliver advanced video-to-text generation and temporal understanding. Regional availability reduces latency and simplifies architecture for enterprise video-intelligence applications. To begin, request model access via the Amazon Bedrock console.

📨 Amazon Connect now supports embedding Tasks and Emails directly into websites and applications via a new contact form option in the communication widget. Supervisors and managers can use a drag-and-drop editor to design customer-facing forms and generate code snippets for seamless site integration. These interactions continue to be managed through existing Amazon Connect workflows, enabling flexible callback requests and web-based email submissions.

📡AWS announced a new AWS Direct Connect location at the Equinix BA1 data center near Barcelona, Spain, enabling private, direct connectivity to all public AWS Regions (excluding China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the first Direct Connect site in Barcelona and the third in Spain, offering dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps circuits with MACsec encryption available. Direct Connect enables private physical connections between AWS and customer data centers or colocation facilities, delivering a more consistent network experience than the public internet.

🔎 Amazon QuickSight has increased calculated-field capacities: analyses can now include up to 2,000 calculated fields (previously 500) and datasets can include up to 500 calculated fields (previously 200). The expansion enables authors and data curators to build more transformations and extract richer, more complex insights from very large datasets and diverse end-user personas. In regions where Amazon Q is available, users can also construct calculations using natural language. The new limits are currently available across all supported QuickSight regions.

🔁 Amazon Connect now supports recurring activities in agent schedules, enabling managers to create repeating events such as daily stand-ups or weekly team meetings with a few clicks. You can configure recurring series for individual agents or share a single recurring series across multiple agents, removing the need to create each occurrence manually. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is offered and is designed to improve manager productivity and keep agent calendars up to date.

🚀 AWS Marketplace has introduced a streamlined fulfillment experience for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and AMI with CloudFormation products across both the website and console. The update combines configuration and purchase steps on a single page, clearly presenting fulfillment options, related AWS services, and seller-provided guidance. It also brings a new in-console launch experience for container products, providing a consistent multi-region, multi-language workflow.

🆕 Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) statements targeting S3 Tables, enabling creation and population of a managed S3 Table from a single SQL query. The capability supports source data in Parquet, CSV, JSON and lake formats such as Apache Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake. CTAS lets you partition data on the fly and the resulting tables can be queried, JOINed, and updated in Athena. This feature is available in AWS Regions where both Athena and S3 Tables are supported.

🔔 Amazon DynamoDB now emits more granular throttling exceptions together with matching Amazon CloudWatch metrics. The enhanced exception payloads include a list of reasons for the throttle event and the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the table or index affected, helping teams pinpoint what was throttled. CloudWatch metrics are available immediately; to receive the richer exception details you must upgrade to the latest SDK. This capability is available in commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.

📈 DynamoDB now supports selectively emitting events for throttled keys to CloudWatch Contributor Insights, enabling you to monitor only throttled items rather than all accessed keys. By emitting exclusively throttled-key events, you reduce monitoring costs and noise while maintaining visibility into throttling and usage hotspots. This mode is available in all commercial AWS Regions, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.

🔒 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling access to ACM APIs from within an Amazon VPC without traversing the public internet. You can create interface endpoints to connect your VPC to ACM using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation. This private connectivity is available in all Regions where ACM and PrivateLink are supported, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions, and helps meet compliance requirements by keeping API traffic inside the AWS network.

🔒 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports resource-based policies on workspaces, allowing owners to specify which IAM principals can ingest metrics or run PromQL queries from other accounts. This removes the previous need to assume an IAM role in the workspace owner account for cross-account access. Workspace owners can attach policies to allow-list non-owner principals for Prometheus-compatible API actions, and the capability is available in all regions where the service is generally available.