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🔔 Today AWS Glue Data Catalog preview adds two features: exporting catalog metadata to S3 Tables and enabling semantic search for catalogs encrypted with customer managed AWS KMS keys. Exported metadata — including glossary terms, custom attachments, and descriptions — is written to the managed aws-catalog S3 table bucket in Apache Iceberg format, enabling SQL queries, auditing, and time travel in engines like Amazon Athena and third-party tools. These capabilities are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland); S3 Tables usage follows S3 pricing.

🔒 AWS IAM Identity Center now lets administrators choose whether to enable AWS account access management when creating a new instance. This option permits using Identity Center solely for managing access to AWS applications, without provisioning access to AWS accounts. The setting is available during initial configuration, does not affect existing instances, and can be changed later via instance settings or the UpdateInstance API. The capability is available in all Regions where IAM Identity Center is offered.

🚀 Amazon Aurora Serverless now provides a faster initial scale-up, delivering up to 12 ACUs within one second and continuing to scale up to 256 ACUs as workloads grow. This capability, enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4, is well suited for agentic AI and bursty applications because clusters automatically scale down to zero when idle. Existing clusters on versions 1 and 2 can upgrade to platform version 4 to take advantage of the improvement. Check platform version in the AWS Console or via the RDS API to confirm eligibility.

🔒 AWS reintroduces explicit forward proxy functionality within Network Firewall, allowing customers to use existing firewall policies across both proxy and transparent modes. The feature supports managed rule groups, active threat defense, Geo-IP, URL/category filtering, and container attribute rules for Amazon EKS and ECS. Available in a no-source-preservation deployment during public preview in US East (Ohio), the preview is free and intended for testing and validation.

🛠️ Amazon Connect Customer now allows agents to export cases to CSV directly from the agent workspace. Agents can filter and select cases and choose which case fields to include, while admins manage export access via a security profile permission. The feature is available across multiple AWS regions including US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Africa.

🔎 Amazon Web Search on Amazon Bedrock is now generally available, providing a built-in server-side web search tool that enables OpenAI models to ground responses with current web knowledge while keeping data residency inside AWS and ensuring zero data egress. The feature eliminates the need for third-party search vendors, extra API keys, orchestration, and vendor security reviews by integrating via a single parameter in the existing API call and returning semantic snippets with citations.

🚀 Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions via Spark Connect, enabling data engineers and scientists to develop and debug Spark applications from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or from IDEs like Jupyter and VS Code. Each interactive session runs on a dedicated EMR on EC2 cluster, and users can monitor and debug active and completed sessions through the EMR console. The feature offers persistent Spark contexts across cells, a client-server architecture that decouples clients from the Spark driver, and real-time observability through the Spark UI and History Server.

🔐 AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) now support TLS security policies aligned to RFC 9151 to meet Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) 1.0 requirements. These policies implement NSA-defined cryptographic controls for TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. Customers can apply RFC 9151-compliant or broader interoperability policies to minimize disruption during client transitions. The feature is available across all AWS Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China regions at no extra cost.

🟦 Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Amazon S3 Vectors is purpose-built vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. It offers the elasticity, durability, and availability of Amazon S3 with dedicated APIs to store, access, and query vectors without provisioning infrastructure.

🔒 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces renewal of its Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) and Three Domain Secure (3DS) certifications, adding three AWS services and one AWS Region to the compliance scope. The certification enables customers to use the newly scoped services while maintaining PCI DSS and PCI 3DS compliance. AWS engaged Coalfire as the third-party Qualified Security Assessor (QSA). Customers can retrieve report packages from AWS Artifact to streamline audits and reduce compliance overhead.

📈 Amazon Connect Customer now supports generating capacity plans at 15- or 30-minute intervals, offering workforce planners finer visibility into staffing needs across Voice, Chat, Task, and Email channels. Interval-level plans reflect intra-day demand shifts — such as lunchtime chat surges or end-of-day call changes — enabling precise alignment of agent capacity with real-time demand. Planners can also set shrinkage assumptions and available headcount per interval for greater accuracy, reducing over- and under-staffing and improving service levels and efficiency.

🟦 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Developer Edition is now available in 13 additional AWS Regions, including multiple Asia Pacific locations, Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Mexico (Central). Developer Edition provides the full functionality of Enterprise Edition and is available free of license charges for development and testing. This expansion lets teams build and test closer to users to reduce latency and simplify workflows. Check RDS region and pricing details for specifics.

📣 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports publishing native SQL Server Audit logs to CloudWatch. You can configure audits and audit specifications as on-premises and publish logs to S3, CloudWatch, or both. When both destinations are enabled, publication completes only after successful upload to both services, and CloudWatch enables real-time log analysis. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions where RDS for SQL Server is offered.

🔍 AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available in all Regions that support AWS Transform. It enables engineering teams to analyze and remediate technical debt across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories at scale, with on-demand or scheduled analyses and prioritization across technical debt, security, agentic readiness, modernization readiness, and custom criteria. Users can create remediations that open pull requests or merge requests, run analyses in their AWS account, and maintain control of source code. Additional workflows are supported via the AWS Transform Kiro Power, agent plugins, and CLI for IDE and terminal use, local analysis, and remote execution on Amazon EC2 or AWS Batch.

🚀 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Amazon Bedrock now support 1 million token context windows, allowing full-codebase analysis, long-form document processing, and complete multi-turn histories in a single request. Models provide broader-context reasoning and more coherent outputs without chunking. Prompt caching with explicit cache breakpoints reduces repeated-context billing by 90%, and pricing aligns with OpenAI first-party rates. Availability varies by model across US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) regions, accessible via the Bedrock Console or the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams now supports temporary stream URLs that let recipients open a playable stream session in a supported web browser without an AWS account, credentials, or any software install. You create a stream URL for a stream group and application, set duration and session limit, and share the link; each opener gets an independent session routed to a nearby selected streaming location. Management is available via the console or the new CreateStreamUrl, GetStreamUrl, ListStreamUrls, and RevokeStreamUrl APIs, and there is no extra charge for the URL itself—only for the underlying stream capacity consumed.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 offers up to 4.6x AI inference performance versus G6, with up to 8 GPUs and 700 Gbps EFA-enabled bandwidth to accelerate inference, graphics, and analytics workloads. These instances are available in AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon). Refer to developer guides for JupyterLab and CodeEditor setup and the pricing page for cost details.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows, letting users set maximum execution durations for individual tasks. The new omicsTimeout runtime attribute can be added to any task's runtime section and accepts standard time units (e.g., 90s, 2h, 1d). When a task exceeds the specified duration, HealthOmics stops the task and marks the task and run as failed, helping control costs and enable automated error recovery.

🛠️ AWS Resilience Hub now offers recommended resilience tests to help platform engineering and site reliability teams validate service behavior under known failure scenarios. The feature uses AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to inject controlled faults, evaluate recovery against defined objectives, and produce pass/fail results with detailed reports. Tests cover Availability Zone and Regional impairments and dependency failures, and are available in multiple global regions.

🔍 AWS Organizations customers can now view their maximum account quota and current utilization directly in AWS Service Quotas. This eliminates the need to contact AWS Support or account teams to determine account limits. Administrators can check quotas from the management account via the Service Quotas console or the GetServiceQuota API. The feature is available now in US East (N. Virginia).