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📊 Administrators can now monitor Amazon WorkSpaces Applications directly in the service console with real-time session-level metrics, instance resource data, and network performance metrics. This native experience removes the need for third-party tools or custom CloudWatch dashboards and requires no configuration. Fleet-level capacity views, customizable session tables, correlated graphs for frame rate, input latency, bandwidth, and CPU/memory/GPU usage are provided, with metrics also exported to Amazon CloudWatch for flexibility.

🔒 AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for Tape Gateway and Volume Gateway. Previously restricted to the public internet, FIPS traffic can now stay on the private AWS network, simplifying use for regulated workloads. To use it, create a FIPS interface VPC endpoint and choose the FIPS option when activating your gateway; gateways must run software version 3.2.7 or later. The feature is available in eight Regions, including US East, US West, and AWS GovCloud.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8a instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei). These instances deliver up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus R7a, plus 45% more memory bandwidth and SAP certification. Built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth-generation Nitro Cards, R8a offers 12 sizes (including 2 bare metal) for memory-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna in India with India Geo cross-Region inference. This feature ensures inferencing stays within India while automatically routing requests across AWS Regions like Mumbai and Hyderabad for higher throughput. The models run on the bedrock-runtime endpoint and support Responses, Chat Completions, and Converse APIs, integrating with existing account-level controls including model invocation logging and CloudWatch metrics.

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports outbound identity federation in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), enabling workloads to obtain short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to authenticate with external services. This feature allows secure access to third-party clouds, SaaS, and self-hosted applications without long-term credentials. Administrators can enforce token properties and control generation via IAM policies and audit usage with CloudTrail to meet sovereignty and compliance needs.

🔔 Amazon announced critical security patch updates for multiple Amazon Corretto distributions on Aug 18, 2026. The release includes Corretto 26.0.2.11.1, 25.0.4.8.1, 21.0.12.9.1, 17.0.20.10.1, 11.0.32.10.1, and 8u504. Amazon Corretto is a free, production-ready OpenJDK distribution available across platforms, and updates can be obtained via the Corretto homepage or by configuring Apt, Yum, or Apk repos. Feedback is welcomed.

🔔 Amazon Web Services announces general availability of AgentCore payments, part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to discover, access, and pay for paid APIs, MCPs, and content with minimal code. The capability integrates with Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets, supports the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP), and offers payment orchestration, configurable infrastructure-level limits, and end-to-end observability. GA features include Quick Create for Coinbase credentials, a curated Coinbase Bazar MCP server of x402 pay-per-use endpoints, and support for the x402 "upto" scheme for dynamic pricing.

🆕 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Serverless now supports running custom Python functions and shell scripts directly in the serverless runtime using PythonOperator and BashOperator. Package your Python modules or shell scripts as code packages, upload them to Amazon S3, and reference them when creating or updating a workflow. The service snapshots your code at workflow creation time and uses that snapshot for all subsequent runs, ensuring execution consistency. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where MWAA Serverless is offered.

🔧 AWS now supports nested virtualization for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core Managed Bundles, enabling developers to run hypervisor-dependent tools directly on Windows and Linux WorkSpaces. Supported OSes include Windows Server 2019/2022/2025, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, RHEL 8/9, and Rocky 8/9 with DCV. Administrators can toggle nested virtualization per workspace via console, API, or CLI; it’s available in most AWS Regions with some exceptions.

🔎 Amazon S3 Metadata and annotations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling faster discovery, understanding, and enrichment of S3 data. S3 Metadata captures system-defined details like object size and source and stores them in Amazon S3 Tables for near real-time tabular queries. Annotations let you attach rich business context in JSON, XML, or YAML (up to 1 GB per object) that travels with the object and follows durability and consistency properties.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) has increased the maximum number of replication rules per registry from 10 to 25. This change addresses limitations for complex multi-region and multi-account architectures, allowing more granular replication strategies for scenarios such as distributing images for low-latency pulls and separating production and staging targets. The increase is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon ECR is supported.

🔧 Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters now support configuring custom domain names at the cluster level for both ZooKeeper and KRaft metadata modes. This removes the need to set domains per broker and ensures persistent endpoints across scaling, migrations, and failovers. The setting persists through cluster operations and is available for new and existing clusters in all Regions where MSK Provisioned is offered, at no extra cost.

🔍 The Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now include reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies, enabling supervisors to monitor and optimize contact-to-agent matching. Managers can filter agents by assigned proficiencies, group metrics by routing steps, and track metrics such as the number of contacts queued in a routing step. These analytics are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🔒 Amazon Web Services is rolling out a redesigned AWS Sign-In and session selection experience to a subset of customers, introducing a unified email entry point and refreshed session management. Existing sign-in methods and credentials continue to work, and sign-in with supported identity providers is available only for accounts created with those providers. Organizations using IAM Identity Center or federation should continue to use their existing portals, and administrators who rely on browser automation should review the changes for compatibility.

🔍 AWS Network Firewall now reports rule hit counts for stateful rules, giving administrators visibility into how often each stateful rule in a firewall policy matches traffic. This capability helps accelerate incident response, uncover shadow or redundant rules, and validate policy changes by confirming new rules match intended traffic. Hit counts are enabled by default for custom and managed rule groups, refresh at intervals as low as five minutes, and are available at no additional charge in supported Regions except UAE and Bahrain.

🚀 Amazon Quick announces general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, enabling AI-driven tasks directly within users' M365 environments. The Excel extension assists with advanced analysis, pivot tables, charts, and data cleaning. PowerPoint and Word extensions generate and format presentation decks and documents using organization templates and track changes. The Outlook extension helps prioritize emails, organize inboxes, schedule meetings, and draft replies using Quick data and full inbox context.

🔒 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC-enabled domains, allowing customers with private network configurations to use AI-powered semantic search without exposing domains to the public internet. The feature converts keyword searches into context-aware retrieval, handling all semantic processing automatically and removing the need to manage ML models. It requires OpenSearch version 2.19 or later and is available across 11 Regions globally.

🚀 AWS Console-to-Code now supports 26 additional services and adds cross-region and cross-browser-tab action recording. This expands coverage from 6 to 32 services, helping developers, DevOps, and cloud architects convert manual console workflows into repeatable infrastructure as code (IaC). Actions are consolidated across regions and tabs so complex multi-region deployments retain context. Available today in all commercial AWS Regions.

🗺️ Amazon Location Service now supports server-side per-category and density-based POI filtering via the GetStyleDescriptor API. Developers can pass poi-categories and poi-density parameters to return style descriptors that render only selected categories at the requested density. This removes prior client-side workarounds and ensures consistent maps across web, mobile, and server renderers.

🖥️ AWS CloudShell now offers a built-in visual file editor that launches from your shell with a single 'edit' command, requiring no setup. The browser-based editor supports syntax highlighting, find-and-replace, multi-line selection, copy-paste, and undo-redo, enabling seamless in-console edits for scripts, CloudFormation templates, and Lambda code. This feature is available in all Regions where CloudShell is offered.