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🖥️ 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.

🛠️ Administrators can now set per-user limits on index storage and agent hours in Amazon Quick to control subscription costs. Limit profiles let admins cap consumption at user, role, or account levels with a priority hierarchy to ensure appropriate capacity. When a user reaches their limit, new consumption is blocked while existing content is preserved. This capability is available for Professional and Enterprise plans in supported AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon Quick now integrates with Microsoft Purview to enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies across Quick environments. Administrators can apply existing Purview sensitivity labels to control file handling in Quick features such as chat, spaces, and knowledge bases. Enforcement actions—block, warn, or allow—are configurable per label to provide granular control over sensitive file sharing. The integration is available in all AWS Regions that support Amazon Quick agentic capabilities.

🔒 Amazon Quick introduces approval policies that give administrators governance over how assets are shared within an organization. Administrators can require designated approvers to review and approve share requests before access is granted, ensuring sharing of sensitive assets is deliberate, compliant, and auditable. Policies can be scoped to asset types like knowledge bases, spaces, and custom chat agents, and events are recorded in AWS CloudTrail for auditability.

🛡️ Amazon Quick custom permissions now support a deny-by-default governance setting that blocks new AI capabilities until administrators explicitly allow them. Administrators can restrict an AI capability category within a custom permissions profile and assign that profile to users, roles, or an account, causing Quick to deny any newly released capabilities in that category for those subjects. The restriction also affects existing capabilities in the category and can be configured in Manage account or via the AWS CLI. This feature is available in all Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

📣 Amazon Quick now lets report authors replace the default "No data to display" text with a tailored message when a visual returns no data. Authors can configure a custom title, subtitle, and hyperlink, and toggle title/subtitle independently. All text fields support parameters so messages can reflect current filters; hyperlinks accept http://, https://, and mailto: schemas. The feature is available now in all AWS Regions offering Amazon Quick.

📣 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports mobile app deep linking via a new ses:custom-path HTML attribute. When added to an <a> tag, SES preserves the path segment in its tracking URL so iOS Universal Links and Android App Links can route users to the app while keeping engagement tracking enabled. The capability is available in all AWS Regions that offer SES and requires a custom redirect domain with an AASA or Digital Asset Links verification file hosted on that domain. Follow the SES Developer Guide sections on custom domains and email metrics for configuration details.

📊 AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides Managed Dashboards: a set of five preconfigured, read-only dashboards that populate with your account data automatically. They include Cost Overview & Trends, Compute and Database breakdowns, and Reservations and Savings Plans performance views. Dashboards are maintained by AWS, can be duplicated for editing, and support widget export via PDF or CSV.

🛡️ AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will discontinue support for email-validated public certificates by September 30, 2027, aligning with the CA/B Forum’s March 15, 2028 deprecation of email-based domain validation. Customers must migrate to DNS validation; ACM is updating the UpdateCertificateOptions API to allow in-place switching from email to DNS without changing certificate ARNs. ACM provides a CNAME record for DNS validation and offers a 72-hour window to add it; once validated, ACM will handle automatic renewals. AWS provides console and AWS CLI steps, a migration user guide, and support resources to assist customers through the transition.

🛠️ The rebuilt AWS VPN Client v6.0.x now includes a fully featured command-line interface (CLI), enterprise administrative controls, and faster connection establishment, enabling automation and centralized device management. The CLI matches GUI functionality and supports background operations so VPN connections can be scripted into workflows and infrastructure-as-code. Administration controls let organizations scope and enforce profiles per user or provide global device profiles, removing the need to distribute profiles manually. Built on OpenVPN3, the client preserves backward compatibility with existing AWS Client VPN endpoints and runs concurrently with the GUI; it is available today for Windows, macOS, and Linux with no additional charges beyond standard AWS Client VPN pricing.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now supports rg.large and rg.12xlarge RG instances in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East). These RG instances run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x faster than previous RA3 instances and offer about 30% lower price per vCPU. New sizes require patch version P202 or later and existing clusters can be resized or upgraded via Elastic Resize, Classic Resize, or Snapshot & Restore. Multiple pricing options are available including On-Demand and 1- and 3-year Reserved Instances.

🛡️ AWS GovCloud (US) now supports Claude Opus 5, the latest Opus model, with zero data retention (ZDR) enabled by default. The model is accessible via the bedrock-runtime endpoint in both GovCloud regions and via bedrock-mantle in GovCloud (US‑West). Claude Opus 5 improves coding, long-running agents, and complex document reasoning while maintaining regional data residency.

🔔 Amazon Quick has made Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook generally available. These extensions let Quick operate directly inside users' M365 environments to handle complex local tasks, including document redlining, financial model building, presentation creation, and inbox management. Each extension is tailored: Excel for data analysis and cleaning, PowerPoint for template-driven decks, Word for formatted drafting and track changes, and Outlook for prioritizing, organizing, and drafting emails. The extensions are available in multiple AWS regions globally.

🔍 AWS now includes Local Zones in Spot placement score, enabling customers to identify where Spot capacity requests are most likely to succeed. The feature evaluates target capacity and compute requirements and returns scores for Regions or Availability Zones. Previously, Local Zone capacity was excluded from zonal and regional scores; inclusion is now optional and expands Spot capacity visibility. Spot placement score is available via the EC2 Spot Console, AWS CLI, and SDK.

🔒 Beacon attributes a cyber-attack to a compromised AWS access key likely exposed in public Javascript build artifacts, allowing an attacker to download CRM data belonging to about 1,500 UK charities. The incident, identified in activity starting on July 27, saw data decrypted during download despite being encrypted at rest. Beacon has reset credentials, found no evidence of persistence, and instructed customers to report the breach to the ICO. Affected charities have been notified, and there is no confirmation that stolen data has been published or misused.

🔐 AWS Certificate Manager now allows changing domain validation on existing public TLS certificates from e-mail to DNS without reissuing or changing the ARN. ACM will phase out email validation through 2027 per CA/B Forum mandates; it will stop issuing email-validated certs on March 31, 2027 and stop renewing them on September 30, 2027. Use the console or UpdateCertificateOptions API to switch and add provided CNAME records within 72 hours.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports minimum aggregation thresholds for the Custom analysis rule type, preventing queries from returning results about individuals or small groups. Data providers can enforce a minimum identity count (for example, user IDs) per output row and set higher thresholds for specific columns. The update removes the need for pre-approved templates and manual code reviews, allowing ad-hoc custom SQL while specifying which columns may be filtered or joined to protect privacy.

🔒 Administrators can now enforce approval policies in Amazon Quick to govern how assets are shared across their organization. Policies can be scoped to asset types such as knowledge bases, spaces, and custom chat agents, routing share requests to designated approver groups. Approvers can inspect assets (including full dependency packages for custom agents) and approve or deny requests, while all actions are logged to AWS CloudTrail for auditability. The capability is available on Professional and Enterprise plans in Regions that support Amazon Quick agentic features.

🔒 Amazon Quick now lets administrators set per-user limits on index storage and agent hours to control subscription costs. With limits management, admins can create limit profiles that cap individual consumption and assign them at the user, role, or account level with a priority hierarchy. When a user reaches their limit, new consumption is blocked but existing content is preserved. The feature is available for Professional and Enterprise plans in supported AWS Regions.

🗺️ AWS has added an interactive map view to AWS Global View in the AWS Management Console, enabling users to visualize AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones on a single map. Users can toggle between the new map view and the existing list view to see enabled locations and all available AWS locations at a glance. The feature is available in all public AWS Regions and can be accessed via the Regions and Zones page in the AWS Global View console.