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🚀 Amazon Quick is now available in the AWS Europe (London) region (eu-west-2), enabling UK customers to use Amazon Quick with data stored and processed locally to meet regional requirements. The service delivers AI-powered chat, Research, Spaces, Flows, and QuickSight dashboards that act as an agentic teammate, enabling users to get answers and take actions without switching applications. In-region inference is enforced via EU-CRIS, routing requests exclusively within European AWS Regions and supporting regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) up to 4.5 GHz, C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance, and 33% more memory bandwidth versus C7a. Offered in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options and built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target latency-sensitive, compute-intensive workloads and are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🛡️ Amazon Inspector adds agentless Windows EC2 vulnerability scanning, extending detection to Windows OS issues as well as common applications and packages like WordPress, Apache HTTP Server, Python packages, and Ruby gems. Customers receive findings automatically with no configuration changes. Inspector also replaces per‑CVE Windows findings with consolidated Windows Knowledge Base (KB) findings that group CVEs by patch and surface the highest CVSS, EPSS, and exploit availability. These capabilities are available in all AWS Regions.

🔒 AWS Config has added 75 new managed rules to help govern security, durability, and operational best practices across AWS environments. You can discover, enable, and manage these rules directly from AWS Config, and apply them at account or organization scale. The release includes coverage for services such as Amplify, SageMaker, Route 53, and more, and supports grouping via Conformance Packs for streamlined multi-account deployment.

🚀 Amazon Redshift now accelerates new queries by up to 7x, improving response times for low-latency SQL workloads such as BI dashboards, ETL pipelines, near‑real‑time analytics, and autonomous AI agents. The service uses a composition-based compilation optimization that lets queries start immediately while highly optimized, query-specific code is compiled in the background. This enhancement is enabled by default across provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups in commercial AWS Regions, requires no customer action, and is provided at no additional cost.

🔎 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom metadata search filters, enabling teams to narrow catalog results using organization-specific attributes like business region, data classification, or study name. Filters accept string fields with a contains operator and numeric fields (Integer, Long) with equals, greater than, and less than operators. Users can also filter by asset name, description, and date range, combine multiple filters, and retain selections across browser sessions; the feature is available in all AWS Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch 3.5, introducing agentic AI enhancements, improved search relevance tooling, and expanded observability capabilities. The update adds persistent agentic conversation memory to capture multi-turn context and tool reasoning, plus context management that automatically truncates and summarizes inputs to reduce LLM token costs. A redesigned no-code agent interface with MCP integration and expanded search relevance workbench—including LLM-powered evaluation and scheduled experiments—helps teams tune and validate agent-driven search experiences without code.

🗣️ Amazon Connect now supports agentic speech-to-speech voice experiences in the Europe (London) AWS Region and introduces three new voices: Pedro (es-US), Amy (en-GB) and Brian (en-GB). These agentic AI agents can understand, reason and take action across voice and messaging channels, adapting responses to match customer tone and sentiment while preserving natural conversational pacing. The expansion increases regional availability and voice variety to help organizations deliver more personalized, automated customer interactions.

🎥 AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports NDI® as a live video source, enabling broadcasters and production teams to ingest NDI streams and convert them to transport stream outputs such as SRT for downstream distribution. This capability lets teams bridge NDI-based production environments with standards-based cloud distribution workflows without custom transcoding or protocol conversion infrastructure. NDI support is available in most regions where MediaConnect is deployed; consult AWS documentation and pricing for details.

🔒 AWS Security Agent now lets users generate and download customizable penetration testing reports in PDF format. Reports include an executive summary, test scope and methodology, task details, and comprehensive findings with vulnerability data and risk assessments. Users can filter outputs by risk and confidence levels, finding and task status, and risk types to tailor reports for executives, engineers, or auditors. The capability is intended to accelerate on-demand pentesting from weeks to hours and simplify cross-team review and sharing.

🌐 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Connect voice AI agents now support 13 additional languages, bringing the total supported locales to 40. New additions include Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium), English variants for Ireland, New Zealand and Wales, German (Switzerland), Icelandic, Romanian, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, and Welsh. The update extends agentic self-service capabilities to more regions, enabling AI agents to understand, reason, and take action across voice and digital channels to automate routine and complex customer service tasks. See the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide for configuration details and the Amazon Connect website for broader product information.

🔊 Amazon Connect now offers generative text-to-speech voices in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). The service adds nine new voices across US English, UK English, European French, German, and Italian, including Tiffany, Amy, Brian, Ambre, Florian, Tina, Lennart, Beatrice, and Lorenzo. These voices support Amazon Connect’s agentic self-service capabilities, enabling more natural, sentiment-aware voice interactions across voice and messaging channels. Organizations can deploy these voices to deliver human-like conversational experiences to a broader set of customers and locales.

🔒 AWS announced completion of its second GDV community audit, conducted with 36 German insurers representing over 63% of the market by premiums. The pooled audit evaluated AWS controls against the BSI C5 framework and covered services including Amazon EC2 and the Europe (Frankfurt) Region (eu-central-1). Remote fieldwork used videoconferencing, a secure audit portal, SME sessions, and evidence inspection; results are available to participating members and their regulators to support compliance and cloud adoption.

🛠️ AWS has integrated Blu Insights into AWS Transform, enabling customers to launch mainframe refactoring projects directly from the AWS Transform console. The release unifies the three modernization patterns—refactor, replatform, and reimagine—and replaces the lines-of-code pricing model with free code transformation. A prior mandatory three-level certification to access the Transformation Center has been removed to reduce friction; self-paced training remains available. The refactor capability is available in 18 AWS Regions, with access via the AWS Mainframe Modernization console where Transform is not yet offered.

🚀 You can now create provisioned Amazon MSK clusters with Express brokers in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei). Express brokers deliver up to 3× more throughput per broker, scale up to 20× faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. They are pre-configured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and preserve low-latency behavior so existing client applications require no changes. To get started, create a new cluster with Express brokers via the Amazon MSK console or the AWS CLI and consult the Amazon MSK Developer Guide for details.

📢 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Developer Edition now supports Additional Storage Volumes, Resource Governor, and SQL Server 2019 (CU32 GDR - 15.0.4455.2). Additional Storage Volumes raise capacity up to 256 TiB—4× more storage—while Resource Governor enables definition of resource pools and workload groups to control CPU and memory for more realistic performance testing. The Developer Edition includes Enterprise functionality and is free for development and test systems (not production). For region availability and pricing, consult AWS documentation and Amazon RDS for SQL Server pricing.

🔐 AWS announced IAM-based authorization in the AWS Glue Data Catalog for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg materialized views. The change allows administrators to consolidate storage, catalog, and query engine permissions into a single IAM policy, simplifying access management for analytics services. Customers can still opt into AWS Lake Formation for fine-grained controls and manage access via Console, CLI, API, or CloudFormation.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling customers to build and scale generative AI applications using a single API and a choice of foundation models. The managed service emphasizes built-in security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities to support enterprise deployments. Models now available in New Zealand include Anthropic (Sonnet 4.5, 4.6; Opus 4.5, 4.6; Haiku 4.5) and Amazon’s Nova 2 Lite with cross-region inference support.

📈 Amazon CloudWatch now supports organization-wide automatic enablement of EC2 detailed monitoring. With CloudWatch Ingestion enablement rules, administrators can automatically enable EC2 detailed monitoring at 1-minute intervals for existing and newly launched instances across an entire AWS Organization, specific accounts, or tag-based resource scopes. The capability ensures consistent telemetry collection to help Auto Scaling and operational alarms react more quickly, is available in all AWS commercial regions, and will be billed according to CloudWatch pricing.

📥 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports HTTP-based ingestion via a new HTTP Log Collector (HLC) and dedicated endpoints for ND-JSON, Structured JSON, and OpenTelemetry formats. This enables customers to send logs where AWS SDK integration isn't feasible, such as third-party or packaged software. Generate API keys in CloudWatch Settings—AWS creates the service-specific IAM user and credentials—and configure API key expirations (1, 5, 30, 90, or 365 days). To prevent unintended ingestion, enable bearer token authentication on each log group and consider service control policies to block creation of service-specific credentials.