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🚀 Amazon Web Services has added Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Canada West (Calgary) to the regional availability for Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. Customers in these regions can now deploy and stream desktops and applications closer to end users to improve responsiveness and address data residency and compliance needs. WorkSpaces Applications is a fully managed application streaming service that handles infrastructure, scaling, and access on demand with pay-as-you-go pricing.

🛡️ A coalition led by OpenAI warns AI will rapidly accelerate cyberattacks, shrinking the window to remediate long-standing weaknesses. The open letter, backed by over 100 tech and security firms including Microsoft, Google, and AWS, urged leaders to prioritize high-risk fixes and provide defenders with cyber-capable AI. The group emphasizes execution of existing security practices and coordinated industry-government action.

🛠️ AWS Secrets Manager now offers one‑click installation for the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (AWCP) on Amazon Linux and Windows, replacing a prior multi‑step build-from-source flow. Pre-built, code-signed binaries for Linux (x86_64, ARM64) and Windows (x64) are available via public download and the Amazon Linux repository, enabling one-command install on Amazon Linux EC2. AWCP resolves secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, caches them in memory, and exposes them via a local HTTP endpoint; it also retrieves certificates from AWS Certificate Manager. The feature is available in all Regions where Secrets Manager is offered at no extra charge beyond standard Secrets Manager pricing.

🔒 Today AWS announced four new capabilities for Automated Security Response on AWS (ASR). Customers can use an AI-driven Toolkit to generate custom remediations with built-in safety guardrails. ASR now supports automatic remediation of findings from Amazon Inspector, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Macie, and offers an enhanced web console to centrally configure remediations. New multi-channel notification adapters for Email, Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow include severity filtering and deadline enforcement.

🔒 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now automatically joins Windows Server instances to an Active Directory domain managed with AWS Directory Service. Previously requiring custom join scripts, the new feature uses configuration options so every instance, including those launched by auto scaling, joins the domain at boot before application deployment. Domain-joined instances can use Windows-integrated authentication, group policy, and access domain resources, and the join process is resilient so failures don't block deployments.

🔔 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now delivers streaming data directly to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets, simplifying ingestion and delivery without building or managing pipelines. S3 general purpose delivery can reduce data delivery costs by up to 60% compared to self-managed alternatives and supports On Demand Advantage and On Demand Standard capacity modes. The feature requires no additional services, custom applications, or self-managed compute; Kinesis handles scaling, retries, and delivery reliability, and is available in all Regions where Kinesis Data Streams is offered.

📣 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers streaming tables, a fully serverless capability that continuously delivers data from Kinesis streams to Amazon S3 Tables in Apache Iceberg format. Streaming tables remove the need for custom Iceberg delivery pipelines, reduce delivery costs by up to 50%, and use intelligent inline compaction to avoid small-file issues and lower downstream query costs by up to 30%. The service handles scaling, retries, compaction, and delivery reliability, and can be configured via console or APIs with usage-based pricing.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances and include 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. C8gn supports sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 384 GiB memory, EFA on select sizes, and up to 120 Gbps EBS bandwidth for network-intensive workloads.

🔒 AWS Transform is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C in the US East (Ohio) Region, enabling customers to run workloads and build applications subject to those compliance requirements. FedRAMP provides a standardized federal approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring. AWS Transform is an agentic migration and modernization service designed to accelerate enterprise migrations and reduce technical debt with less manual handoff and lost context.

🔒 AWS announces general availability of AWS Management Console Private Access, enabling VPCs with no internet connectivity to access supported service consoles via AWS PrivateLink endpoints. This routes authentication, static assets, console-only APIs, and service API calls through interface VPC endpoints, removing the need for an internet gateway or NAT. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions for a select set of consoles and integrates with sign-in resource control policies, VPC endpoint policies, and service control policies to enforce identity, resource, and network perimeters.

🚀 Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo), expanding regional availability. These instances offer 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps ENA throughput, and 4 TB system memory. P6-B300 delivers increased networking, GPU memory, and TFLOPS versus P6-B200, targeting training and deployment of large trillion-parameter FMs and LLMs. The p6-b300.48xlarge size is available in multiple AWS Regions including US West (Oregon) and N. Virginia.

🔔 Amazon EMR on EKS now supports job run admission control with configurable concurrency and queue depth limits. You submit jobs to a virtual cluster mapped to an EKS namespace and EMR on EKS manages packaging, scheduling, and execution. Configure maxConcurrentJobRuns and maxInQueueJobRuns to protect shared clusters from overload and noisy-neighbor failures. When the queue is full, StartJobRun returns an HTTP ValidationException; view limits and counts with DescribeVirtualCluster.

📣 The Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports reading systemd journal (journald) logs directly from Linux instances and sending them to Amazon CloudWatch Logs without writing files to disk. This native integration preserves journald structured metadata such as unit, priority, and process information. You can filter by systemd unit, priority, and journal fields, apply regex filters to reduce noise and control costs, and the feature is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud(US) regions. Update to the latest CloudWatch agent and add a journald section to your configuration to enable this functionality.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now accepts Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) records up to 10 MiB, a tenfold increase from the prior 1 MiB limit. This update lets teams stream much larger payloads directly into Amazon Redshift without splitting records, simplifying ingestion pipelines and enabling new high-volume, large-record use cases. The feature is available now in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Redshift is offered.

🔧 Amazon Redshift integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS to let AI agents like Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor build, query, troubleshoot, and migrate Redshift data warehouses and data lakes. The integration pairs the AWS MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for authenticated AWS API execution with curated Redshift skills—packages of procedures and reference material—to reduce query errors and streamline common tasks. Skills cover SQL syntax, metadata discovery, data loading, materialized view best practices, function and type guidance, extensions, and end-to-end migration workflows for both provisioned clusters and Serverless workgroups. The capability requires no infrastructure changes, is available at no extra charge in supported Regions, and can be enabled via the aws-data-analytics plugin or discovered at runtime by agents with MCP access.

🔁 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) introduces Recovery Plans to automate the sequenced launch of multi-server applications during recoveries and drills. You define server groups and ordered steps once, with configurable wait times, approvals, and non-disruptive drill mode to validate procedures. Recovery Plans provide real-time monitoring, reduce recovery time, and remove manual dependency tracking. The feature is available in all Regions where AWS DRS is offered at no extra cost beyond standard usage.

🔍 Amazon Connect Customer now offers generative AI summaries, real-time call analytics, and real-time rules in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. These features complement existing post-contact conversational analytics to provide AI-driven insights that improve customer experience, agent performance, and operational efficiency. Supervisors and agents receive concise AI-generated summaries after contacts, while live transcription and automated rules enable monitoring and immediate interventions during interactions.

🔄 Amazon Connect Customer now auto-refreshes scheduling metrics on the scheduling page to give managers immediate visibility into the impact of schedule updates. When changes such as a team meeting for several agents are made, metrics like net available headcount and projected service level update automatically. This feature helps workforce managers assess staffing coverage and make faster, informed decisions throughout the day.

🔒 Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports copying backups within and across AWS Regions and across trusted accounts in your AWS organization. This capability lets you store secondary backup copies in different Regions or accounts for improved business continuity, data protection, and compliance. Backups remain secure, incremental, and durably stored across Availability Zones, and you can copy both new and existing backups in all Regions where the service is available.

🔔 AWS Backup now supports copying Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups across AWS Regions and accounts. You can copy FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups to another AWS Region, another AWS account, or both using policy-based backup plans or on-demand copy jobs. Copies can be managed centrally and automated across your organization with AWS Organizations. This capability is available in all commercial Regions where both services are offered.