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🚀 Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 2.2, offering runtime improvements including Java 17 support, RocksDB 8.10.0 for improved I/O, and serialization enhancements. The release deprecates the Dataset API and Scala APIs. You can create new Flink 2.2 applications or perform in-place version upgrades across AWS regions to simplify adoption. These updates aim to improve performance, reliability, and upgrade velocity for streaming workloads.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now surfaces Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Glue jobs directly alongside job logs in a single, unified interface. Data engineers can correlate DPU utilization, memory consumption, CPU load, and data movement size with log output to diagnose compute bottlenecks and memory pressure faster. The consolidated view reduces mean time to resolution for ETL pipelines and is available in all Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is generally available. To view metrics, open a Glue job run and select the Metrics tab.

🧭 AWS Organizations API responses now include the complete organizational path for accounts and organizational units, eliminating the need to traverse hierarchies with multiple calls. APIs such as DescribeAccount, ListAccounts and DescribeOrganizationalUnit return the full path (for example: o-{orgId}/r-{rootId}/ou-{ouId}/{accountId}) in a single response. This reduces operational overhead, lowers latency and simplifies troubleshooting, governance and automation workflows. The capability is available in all commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, helping enterprises and regulated customers gain immediate org context.

☁️ AWS Deadline Cloud introduces three new fleet scaling options—worker idle duration, standby worker count, and scale out rate—to give creative teams finer control over render farm capacity and responsiveness. Worker idle duration keeps instances available after jobs complete to reduce cold starts and speed artist iteration. Standby worker count maintains a pool of pre-warmed workers for immediate job starts, while scale out rate lets you control expansion speed up to 500 workers per minute to match infrastructure and budget needs.

🔁 AWS Marketplace now offers sellers a streamlined self-service workflow for refunds and agreement cancellations that removes the need to file support tickets and provides full visibility into request status. Sellers can create requests from the Agreements page or programmatically via the AWS Marketplace Agreement APIs; requests are pre-populated with agreement and invoice data and processed automatically. Buyers can approve cancellations in-console and see refunds reflected on their charge summary, and KYC verification is limited only to invoices that require compliance validation.

📩 AWS announced AWS End User Messaging Notify, a service that lets developers send one-time passcodes (OTPs) within minutes using phone numbers and sender IDs owned by AWS. Developers configure a brand name, enable SMS, voice, or both, and use ready-to-use templates to send messages to over 200 countries. Every API call includes built-in SMS fraud protection via AWS End User Messaging SMS Protect at no extra cost, and spend limits can pause delivery if thresholds are met. Notify is available in all AWS Regions where End User Messaging is offered.

⚠️ AWS announced availability changes across multiple products: some services and features are moving to Maintenance, a set of services are entering Sunset, and one feature has reached End of Support. Starting April 30, 2026, services designated as Maintenance will no longer be accessible to new customers, while existing customers may continue use. Notable items include Amazon ARC Readiness Check, Amazon Comprehend features, AWS App Runner, and Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. AWS is providing migration guides and support to assist affected customers.

🔐 AWS Security Agent is now generally available, offering on-demand, continuous penetration testing across AWS, Azure, GCP, other cloud providers, and on-premises environments. The service deploys autonomous AI agents that combine SAST, DAST, and active exploit attempts to validate findings, reduce false positives, and provide CVSS-scored, reproducible results. Pricing is metered at $50 per task-hour, the product supports authenticated flows via LLM-driven sign-ins, and includes automated remediation suggestions and pull requests to accelerate fixes.

📱 AWS End User Messaging now supports Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Business, enabling brands to deliver verified, branded messages that display company name and logo within native messaging apps. The service lets you create and manage RCS agents in the console or via APIs and includes automated SMS fallback when recipients lack RCS support. Integration uses existing AWS event and messaging pipelines to enable bidirectional, AI-driven conversational experiences.

🔧 AWS announced general availability of AWS DevOps Agent, an autonomous operations assistant that investigates incidents, triages alerts, and recommends fixes across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments. It integrates with observability tools, runbooks, code repositories, and CI/CD pipelines to reduce MTTR from hours to minutes. The release adds Azure and on-prem investigation, custom agent skills, and enterprise reporting and pricing integration with AWS Support credits.

💬 Amazon Connect now offers a click-to-run chat simulation capability that lets teams validate self-service and agent chat workflows with minimal setup. Tests can be configured with channel, customer attributes, intent or reason, expected responses and business conditions such as after-hours or full queues. Results present pass/fail status, the interaction path and detailed logs to speed diagnosis, and multiple tests can run concurrently. Integrated analytics surface common failure patterns so organizations can deploy and iterate with greater confidence.

🔧 AWS Direct Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling infrastructure-as-code provisioning of Direct Connect resources. You can define your entire Direct Connect topology in CloudFormation templates and automate creation and management of connections, virtual interfaces, Direct Connect gateways, LAGs, and BGP peering. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and supports repeatable, version-controlled deployments with drift detection.

🔒 AWS announced general availability of AWS Security Agent for on-demand penetration testing in six AWS Regions. The service runs autonomous, persistent AI agents that discover, validate, and report vulnerabilities using sophisticated multi-step attack scenarios tailored to each application, producing CVSS scores, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance. Previewed at re:Invent 2025, it aims to convert periodic manual testing into a continuous, scalable capability and supports multicloud and on-premises environments. New customers can try a 2-month free trial and review pricing and documentation to get started.

🔔 AWS announced that AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now publishes CA utilization metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing visibility into certificate issuance counts and the number of CAs per Region. The metrics track certificates issued by each CA and total CAs in a Region, enabling CloudWatch alarms and automation to replace or transition CAs approaching quota limits. This capability helps prevent quota-related service disruptions for services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS Service Connect, and Amazon WorkSpaces.

📍 Amazon Location Service now supports GrabMaps, offering simplified APIs that remove the need for upfront resource creation and accelerate integration for maps, places, and routing across Southeast Asia. GrabMaps delivers region-specific, frequently refreshed geospatial data informed by Grab's regional operations. The capability is available in ap-southeast-1 and ap-southeast-5 and covers eight countries, enabling faster development of logistics, ride-hailing, and consumer location services.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces a new lookup command that lets you enrich log query results by joining log fields with external CSV-based reference tables. Upload a CSV file via CloudWatch → Settings → Logs and reference the table in Logs Insights queries to translate opaque IDs, IPs, or internal resource identifiers into human-readable values at query time. The CSV data does not count toward CloudWatch Logs Insights per-GB scanned query charges, and the capability is available today in all commercial AWS Regions.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hyderabad, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town). This expansion enables policy-based data protection and recovery for Redshift Serverless data warehouses in those Regions. Administrators can add resources to existing backup plans or create new plans and attach Redshift Serverless resources, using the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs to get started.

🔍 AWS announces general availability of AWS Transform custom's comprehensive codebase analysis transformation, delivering up-front deep static analysis that documents architecture, technical debt, code metrics, and migration plans to preserve institutional knowledge and reduce documentation overhead. The transformation supports any language — including Python, Java (Maven and Gradle), Node.js, and .NET — and scales to codebases exceeding one million lines. Behavior analysis is available in early access. To run it locally, install the AWS Transform CLI and execute: atx custom def exec -n AWS/comprehensive-codebase-analysis -p. The service is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

🛠️ AWS announced seven new AWS-managed transformations for Transform custom, designed to accelerate code modernization across multiple languages and frameworks. General availability includes a comprehensive codebase analysis that produces hierarchical, cross-referenced documentation and a Node.js version upgrade with full dependency modernization. Early access transformations target Java performance tuning, Log4j to SLF4J migration, Angular to React conversion, and Angular and Vue version upgrades. All AWS-managed transformations are validated, customizable, and benefit from continual learning; the service is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

☁️ Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region, enabling customers to deploy, operate, and scale Db2 databases in the cloud within minutes. RDS provisions automatically configured parameters to optimize performance and supports Multi‑AZ synchronous replication to a standby instance for high availability. Licensing options include hourly pay‑as‑you‑go purchases from the AWS Marketplace or Bring Your Own License (BYOL), available in both Standard and Advanced Editions. Usage may be eligible for the Database Savings Plan.