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🆕 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Developer Edition is a free, full-featured, non-production license that mirrors Enterprise capabilities, helping teams reduce licensing costs for development, testing, and demonstrations. Amazon RDS-managed features — automated backups, automated software updates, monitoring, and encryption — are supported for SQL Server 2019 and SQL Server 2022 instances.

🚀 Amazon CloudFront now supports bringing your own IPv6 addresses (BYOIP) for Anycast Static IPs using VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Administrators can create unified IPAM pools for IPv4 (/24) and IPv6 (/48) and assign dual‑stack Anycast Static IP lists, preserving existing allow‑lists and branding when migrating to CloudFront. The feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions with a few regional exceptions.

📈 Amazon S3 Express One Zone now publishes request metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing minute-level visibility into request counts, data transfer volumes, error rates, and latency for latency-sensitive applications. These request metrics complement existing storage metrics and are accessible via the CloudWatch console, S3 console, S3 API, and AWS CLI across all Regions where the storage class is available. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies.

🔁 Amazon CloudWatch centralization now supports selecting logs by data source name and type in addition to log group names. Customers can target AWS service logs (automatically discovered) and application logs (via log group tags) to copy telemetry from multiple accounts and regions into a single destination account. Rules can focus on types like VPC Flow Logs, EKS Audit Logs, and CloudTrail Logs to simplify security and operational monitoring. Create or modify centralization rules in the console, AWS CLI, or SDKs; standard CloudWatch Logs pricing applies for ingestion, storage, and data transfer.

📡 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) now supports WebRTC in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling real-time, two-way media streaming with sub-second latency for security-sensitive workloads. This extends KVS's secure ingest, storage, and processing capabilities to mission-critical use cases such as live surveillance, body-worn camera streaming, drone feeds, and IoT monitoring while preserving data residency and compliance. The feature is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West).

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now supports VPC-connected workflows, allowing bioinformatics pipelines to access AWS resources across regions and public internet resources through a customer VPC. New Configuration APIs let teams specify VPCs and manage public internet dependencies at a per-run level without changing workflow code. This capability is HIPAA-eligible and available in all HealthOmics regions.

📣 AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region. MediaTailor provides personalized ad insertion and channel assembly via server-side ad insertion (SSAI) and Server Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI) for live and on-demand streams, delivering broadcast-quality playback without buffering or client-side ad blockers. This expansion places ad decisioning and stitching closer to Northern European viewers, reducing latency, improving ad fill rates, and offering additional redundancy and capacity alongside the Europe (Ireland) region.

🚀 Amazon Athena now supports Capacity Reservations in an expanded set of commercial AWS Regions, providing dedicated serverless capacity for mission-critical queries. With reservations, queries run isolated from other workloads in your account and administrators can control how many queries run concurrently to improve predictability. The expansion spans multiple US, Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, and Mexico regions, enabling more consistent performance closer to where data resides.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now exposes Cluster Insights directly in the AWS Management Console, complementing the existing OpenSearch UI Dashboards. This update makes it easier to review curated performance and resilience recommendations and apply configuration changes without switching tools. Cluster Insights also now emits findings as events to Amazon EventBridge to support automated monitoring and response. The feature is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch versions 2.17 or later.

🔍Data Agent in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor brings natural-language-to-SQL capabilities to your SQL analytics workflow. You can ask questions in plain language and have the agent generate context-aware SQL for Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena, propose step-by-step plans, and use Fix with AI to diagnose and correct failed queries. It preserves query context across follow-ups and is available in IAM domains where SageMaker Unified Studio is supported.

🔐The European Commission has confirmed a cyber-attack affecting cloud infrastructure that hosts the Europa.eu platform and says early findings indicate data were taken. The incident was detected on March 24 and announced on March 27; containment and forensic measures were deployed while internal systems reportedly remained unaffected. Screenshots and claims from ShinyHunters allege a roughly 350GB haul including mail servers, databases, NextCloud content and employee PII, and researchers warn the compromise could expose DKIM keys, SSO directories and other sensitive assets.

📡 AWS Direct Connect now publishes three Amazon CloudWatch metrics for virtual interfaces, giving network teams native visibility into BGP session health and route counts. The new VirtualInterfaceBgpStatus, VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAccepted and VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAdvertised report session state, on-prem prefix intake, and routes advertised by AWS, enabling proactive alarms and validation of configuration changes. These metrics apply to private, public and transit VIFs in all commercial AWS Regions and integrate with CloudWatch alarms, dashboards and Amazon SNS to reduce detection time and simplify hybrid network operations.

🔒 The European Commission has confirmed a data breach after its Europa.eu web platform was compromised in an attack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion group. The intruders reportedly accessed at least one AWS account and exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes, though the Commission says its internal systems were not affected. Authorities have been notified and an investigation is ongoing to determine the full impact.

🔍 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now provides Advanced Metrics that automatically publishes detailed operational metrics from InfluxDB 2 instances to Amazon CloudWatch. The capability supports both Single‑AZ and Multi‑AZ deployments and requires no additional configuration or instrumentation. Teams can use the metrics to monitor resource utilization, query performance, and system health in real time, build custom dashboards, and configure automated alerts based on predefined thresholds. Advanced Metrics is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔒 The European Commission is investigating a cyberattack on its Europa.eu platform after a threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated more than 350GB of data from compromised AWS accounts. The attacker told a security reporter they intend to publish the stolen files rather than extort the Commission. The Commission said public websites remain available, internal systems were unaffected, and containment and mitigation measures were implemented while inquiries continue.

🔒 Amazon Connect now applies tag-based access control (TBAC) to quick response assignments for routing profiles. Administrators can restrict which routing profiles receive specific quick responses based on their TBAC permissions, so agents only see templates relevant to their assigned profiles. This change aligns quick responses with existing Amazon Connect resource access controls and supports compliance and localized disclosure workflows. The update is available in multiple AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA) now supports expanded analytics and data protection capabilities, including OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL query support. These additions let customers run advanced, flexible queries on infrequently accessed logs while keeping data consolidated natively on AWS. Built-in data protection can automatically detect and mask sensitive information in logs, helping organizations meet security and compliance requirements without manual redaction. Logs IA remains a lower-cost ingestion class with existing features like Logs Insights Query Language, S3 export, and encryption, making it suitable for ad-hoc troubleshooting and forensic analysis.

🔧 AWS announced the general availability of Visible services and Visible Regions account settings in the AWS Management Console. Administrators can customize which services and Regions appear for authorized users to simplify navigation and reduce clutter. Configure these options in Console under Unified Settings or programmatically via User Experience Customization (UXC) with the AWS CLI, SDKs, CDK, or CloudFormation; the features are available in AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost.

🔒 The European Commission is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to an Amazon cloud account used to manage Commission infrastructure. The actor claims to have exfiltrated over 350 GB of data, including multiple databases, and provided screenshots as proof while stating they will not extort the Commission but may leak the data later. The Commission's cybersecurity incident response team detected the incident quickly and is investigating; the case follows a January MDM compromise linked to other EU institution attacks.

🔒 The European Commission is investigating a security breach after a threat actor accessed an Amazon cloud account used to manage Commission infrastructure. Sources say the intrusion was quickly detected and that the Commission's cybersecurity incident response team is now probing the incident. The actor claims to have stolen 350 GB of data, including multiple databases, and provided screenshots showing access to employee information and an internal email server. The actor says they will not extort the Commission but may leak the data later.