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📨 AWS Transfer Family now supports receiving Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) asynchronously for messages exchanged over AS2. You can request MDNs over a separate TLS connection so partner systems with extended processing times or high latency can return dispositions independently. Transfer Family continues to support synchronous MDNs, enabling seamless migration of AS2 workflows to AWS while preserving interoperability with existing trading partners. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where Transfer Family is offered.

🚀 AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 is now generally available, adding support for P6-B300 instances and upgrading Slurm to 25.11 with expedited job requeue. The release improves EFA network configuration defaults and introduces network interface customization, plus more reliable cluster updates and better performance for tightly coupled workloads at scale. It also enables non-disruptive cluster tag updates. ParallelCluster remains open-source for provisioning HPC and AI/ML clusters on AWS.

🔄 AWS reports it is actively testing an LTS upgrade in production. The brief notice, posted Mar 24, 2026 and attributed to aws@amazon.com, confirms ongoing activity but does not disclose targeted components or version details. Customers should validate compatibility in staging, confirm third-party support, and prepare rollback and monitoring procedures. Monitor official channels for formal release notes and status updates.

🚀 Amazon has expanded Timestream for InfluxDB to the Mexico (Central), Japan (Osaka), and Brazil (Sao Paulo) regions, enabling locally hosted, fully managed InfluxDB databases for real-time time-series applications. The service supports Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, enhanced durability, and multi-node scaling from single-node setups up to 15-node Enterprise clusters. You can create and manage databases via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, giving developers and DevOps teams flexible deployment and scaling options.

🧬 AWS announced that HealthOmics now supports batch run submission, enabling customers to submit up to 100,000 runs of a workflow in a single request. All runs in a batch share a common configuration with optional per-run overrides for specific sample inputs or parameter values. The batch APIs provide full lifecycle management—including a batch ID for tracking, bulk cancel/delete, and progress monitoring—to simplify orchestration and troubleshooting. The feature is available across all HealthOmics regions and the service is HIPAA-eligible.

🔒 This post explains AWS IAM policy types and how to apply them in a multi-account environment. It describes identity-based and resource-based policies, permissions boundaries, service control policies (SCPs), and resource control policies (RCPs), with ownership guidance for central security and application teams. Using a practical multi-account example, it shows how to combine these controls to enforce least privilege and protect data while enabling team autonomy. It also recommends policy validation and provides sample code.

🏥 AWS HealthImaging is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region, offering a HIPAA-eligible, fully managed service to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. The service provides DICOMWeb APIs for integration with existing clinical systems and AWS-native APIs for cloud-first implementations. AWS states organizations can reduce storage costs by up to 40%, enable faster image access for clinical workflows, and accelerate development of AI-powered diagnostic applications while maintaining strict security controls.

🔊 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports WebRTC for low-latency, bidirectional streaming between clients and agents, enabling real-time audio and video in browser and mobile applications. WebRTC complements existing WebSocket support by providing peer-to-peer, UDP-based media transport optimized for voice agents and other media-intensive experiences. AgentCore Runtime supports managed TURN via Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, third-party providers, or self-hosted TURN, and the capability is available in 14 AWS Regions.

🔊 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of 10 new highly expressive Generative voices in Amazon Polly, covering eight locales including American, British, New Zealand, and Singapore English, plus French, Italian, German, and Swiss German. The Generative engine is now hosted in two additional regions — Europe (London) and Canada (Central) — and introduces a Bidirectional Streaming API. The new streaming capability lets customers send text and receive synthesized audio simultaneously, simplifying low-latency integrations with LLM-based systems for chatbots, game characters, and other real-time speech applications.

📢 AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion with GenAI is now available in nine additional AWS Regions, enabling local processing and helping meet data residency requirements. The feature leverages Amazon Bedrock foundation models — including Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Claude Sonnet 4 — to automate schema and code conversion. It converts schemas and code from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Sybase to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, reducing manual effort and accelerating migrations. DMS Schema Conversion is available at no additional charge and can be accessed through the AWS Management Console or CLI.

🔐 AWS DataSync now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management across all DataSync location types, including HDFS and Amazon FSx variants. Customers can centralize secrets in their account and optionally encrypt them with a customer-managed AWS KMS key to meet governance requirements. DataSync supports providing a secret ARN you manage or having DataSync automatically create and manage secrets. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where DataSync is offered.

🔒 The U.S. Department of Justice announced a court-authorized operation that disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used by multiple IoT Mirai variants, including AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. Authorities from Canada and Germany, assisted by major vendors such as AWS, Cloudflare, and Akamai, helped dismantle networks that collectively enslaved roughly 3 million devices and enabled record-breaking DDoS attacks exceeding 30 Tbps. The action seeks to curb a cybercrime-as-a-service market that sold access to compromised DVRs, webcams, routers, and off-brand Android TVs.

🛡️ AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service centralizes policy management so cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers can protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and maintaining rules. With AWS Firewall Manager, customers can enforce defense-in-depth policies across AWS security services and create and manage AWS WAF security policies at scale. See the product documentation and region table for detailed availability and setup guidance.

📈 The AWS MCP Server (Preview) now publishes operational metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and adds semantic similarity search for Agent SOP discovery. Metric publishing under the AWS-MCP namespace tracks invocation counts, success rates, client and server errors, and throttling for tools such as call_aws and retrieve_agent_sop, enabling alarms and visibility into agent-driven activity. The documentation search (search_documentation) now returns relevant Agent SOPs alongside AWS docs, helping AI assistants find the correct workflows.

🔁 AWS now allows customers to use EC2 Fleet to consume interruptible Capacity Reservations by specifying reservation IDs across Launch Templates in a single Fleet call. When On‑Demand Capacity Reservations are idle, owners can make them temporarily available to accounts within an AWS Organization as interruptible reservations. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions and aims to improve utilization and lower costs.

🔐 Amazon Redshift now supports federated permissions with AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC) across multiple AWS Regions, letting you extend IdC from a primary Region to additional Regions for improved proximity-based performance and resilience. In those Regions you can create Redshift and Lake Formation Identity Center applications without replicating identities, so existing workforce identities can query warehouses while row-, column-level and masking controls continue to apply automatically. Users benefit from single sign-on access via Amazon QuickSight, the Redshift Query Editor, or third-party SQL tools, simplifying access and compliance across regions.

📡 AWS has opened a new AWS Direct Connect location at Equinix SY5 in Sydney, Australia. From this site you can establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. The location supports dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections and offers MACsec encryption. This is the fourth Direct Connect site in Sydney and the tenth in Australia, providing a more consistent private networking option than the public internet.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) pull through cache now supports Chainguard as an upstream registry, enabling customers to cache private Chainguard images within ECR. This feature synchronizes frequently with Chainguard's registry so images stay up to date without extra tooling. Cached images can be managed with ECR capabilities like image scanning and lifecycle policies, and the pull through cache is available in all AWS Regions where ECR supports it. By centralizing Chainguard images in ECR, customers gain improved availability, manageability, and security posture.

📍 Amazon has launched Amazon Quick in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region (ap-northeast-1), enabling Japan-based customers to use its agentic AI capabilities while addressing local and regional data sovereignty requirements. The service delivers AI-powered chat, Research, Spaces, Flows, and QuickSight dashboards. The announcement states customer data will be stored and processed locally within the London region and supports in-region inference through JP-CRIS, routing inference requests exclusively within Japanese AWS Regions. Regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector are specifically called out as beneficiaries.

🇩🇪 Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region (eu-central-1). This launch lets customers in Germany use Amazon Quick capabilities—AI-powered chat, Research, Spaces, Flows, and QuickSight dashboards—with data stored and processed locally within the Frankfurt region. The expansion includes in-region inference via EU-CRIS, ensuring inference traffic stays inside European AWS Regions. Regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector can meet GDPR and local data sovereignty requirements.