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🚀 AWS Lambda increases the maximum event pollers for Provisioned Mode SQS event source mappings from 2,000 to 10,000, enabling up to 100,000 concurrent invocations per ESM. This change helps developers build highly responsive, large-scale event-driven applications for use cases like real-time order processing, financial pipelines, IoT telemetry ingestion, and fan-out workloads. The feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions and is configurable via the ESM API, Console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, and SAM. Billing for pollers continues to use the Event Poller Unit (EPU) pricing model.

🚀 AWS has launched Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and >10% improved price performance over I4i. These instances offer up to 45TB NVMe, reduced storage latency and variability, torn write prevention for up to 16KB blocks, and up to 100Gbps network bandwidth across multiple sizes.

🔥 Amazon SageMaker now supports serverless full fine-tuning for more than 25 open-source models, including families such as gpt-oss, Gemma, Llama, Nemotron, and Qwen. In addition to parameter-efficient methods like LoRA, SageMaker customers can update all model parameters to achieve deeper domain adaptation when needed. The service manages infrastructure provisioning and training orchestration, and billing is usage-based.

🆕 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports image layers up to 200 GB for images pushed via Docker push. This removes the need to split large assets across multiple layers or rely on external storage for many workloads, simplifying packaging for use cases such as embedding large language models, genomics datasets, or bulky binary dependencies. Note that uploads via the AWS SDK or CLI (UploadLayerPartAPI) remain capped at 50 GB, and the feature is available in most AWS Regions except Bahrain and UAE.

🛠️ AWS announced general availability of offline source transformation in AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization, allowing customers to convert Microsoft SQL Server schemas and stored procedures to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL without a live database connection. The service accepts uploaded SQL Server DDL files, assesses complexity, generates transformation plans, converts storage and code objects, and deploys converted schemas. It also offers workflows to update .NET applications for PostgreSQL compatibility, validate equivalence, iterate in the console or an IDE via the MCP server, and populate test data for end-to-end validation. This capability is available in US East (N. Virginia).

🛡️ AWS WAF now supports two new partner-managed rule groups from Miggo Security available via AWS Marketplace: Miggo Rules for AWS WAF – High Emerging Application Threats and Miggo Rules for AWS WAF – AI/ML Application Protection. These rule groups provide continuously updated protection against actively exploited vulnerabilities, public proof-of-concept exploits, and items listed in the CISA KEV catalog without custom rule maintenance. Subscriptions can be added directly to a web ACL in the AWS WAF console with no extra configuration; Miggo manages versioning and pricing in AWS Marketplace.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 15 additional AWS resource types across services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon SageMaker. If recording for all resource types is enabled, AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The new types are also available for use with Config rules and Config aggregators, improving discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation coverage across Regions where the resources exist.

🔗 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Teradata Vantage as a data source, enabling users to query and analyze enterprise data warehouse assets alongside other data in a single governed environment. This integration lets you combine Teradata data with sources such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and relational databases to correlate analytical and operational workloads. Data engineers and analysts can query Teradata data in the data explorer, use the query editor and notebooks, or include it in visual ETL jobs without leaving the studio.

🔒 This new guidance helps covered entities and business associates implement and evidence compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule Technical Safeguards (45 CFR §164.312) when building healthcare workloads on AWS. It explains the five standards and nine implementation specifications for access control, audit controls, integrity, authentication, and transmission security. The document also addresses proposed 2025 NPRM changes—such as mandatory encryption, MFA, and new network and configuration controls—and recommends treating all specifications as required for new workloads.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Aurora DSQL supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. Each multi-Region cluster exposes writable endpoints in both peered Regions and provides a single logical database that stays available if one Region becomes unavailable.

🚀 Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances, delivering up to 53% savings versus On-Demand pricing. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering improved performance and memory bandwidth over prior Intel-based instances. Reserved Instance benefits apply across Multi-AZ and Single-AZ configurations and include size flexibility for BYOL licensing. Purchase options are available via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK in supported regions.

🛠️ AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as managed runtimes and container base images. These AL2023-based runtimes let customers migrate from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) without having to upgrade their Java version immediately. AL2 reached end of life on June 30, 2026; AL2-based Java runtimes will receive critical and selected important patches until June 30, 2027 to assist migration.

📍Amazon Location Service now supports proximity-based point of interest discovery using GrabMaps data in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Regions. Developers can call SearchNearby to return places within a specified radius and rank results by distance, with optional category filters such as fuel stations, hospitals, or restaurants. This enables localized discovery use cases for delivery, ride-hailing, and travel apps using hyperlocal data validated by millions of daily Grab journeys.

🧭 Amazon CloudWatch now offers fully managed Prometheus collectors that gather metrics from AWS services such as Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. You supply a scrape configuration and connections to your resources while CloudWatch provisions, scales, and collects metrics automatically. Collected metrics are delivered in OpenTelemetry format and can be queried with PromQL alongside AWS-vended metrics for unified dashboards, alarms, and cross-service correlation. The feature supports multiple discovery methods and is available in all Regions with the CloudWatch OTLP endpoint except Asia Pacific (New Zealand); standard ingestion and hourly managed collector charges apply.

🚀 AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). The fully managed deployment service automates application rollouts to Amazon EC2, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS, enabling lower latency and helping meet data residency needs for customers in these regions. CodeDeploy now operates across 34 commercial regions plus AWS GovCloud (US) and the AWS China Regions.

🧭 Today, AWS released the open source Context Ontology Accelerator to help organizations build machine-readable ontologies of products, customers, policies, and operational rules for more explainable and auditable AI agents. The accelerator connects to structured and unstructured data, uses AI to draft ontologies for domain experts to review, and stores the approved model in a knowledge graph using W3C standards. It includes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so any standards-based agent can consume the ontology.

🔍 AWS Direct Connect now provides visibility into Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes exchanged between AWS and your on-premises routers for private, transit, and public virtual interfaces (VIFs). You can view accepted and advertised routes, including prefix, address family, AS path, community values, and installation timestamp, via the Direct Connect console or the ListVirtualInterfaceRoutes API. Filters let you narrow results by prefix, AS path, community, or address family, helping troubleshoot routing, validate BGP policies, and monitor hybrid connectivity. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS China Regions.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now offers Graviton-based rg.large and rg.12xlarge instances on the trailing maintenance track starting with patch P202. The trailing track targets customers prioritizing stability by running versions validated in the leading track. RG instances deliver up to 2.4x faster query performance than RA3 at ~30% lower price per vCPU. Customers can provision or resize clusters to these instance types via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs in all regions where RG is generally available.

🛠️ AWS has updated the IAM Policy Simulator with three key changes: it is now integrated into the IAM console, it supports testing of service control policies (SCPs), and it offers greater modeling flexibility for realistic scenarios. The simulator replaces the standalone site and lets you include SCPs to evaluate interactions with identity and resource policies. New options allow excluding specific policies to model removal scenarios, and cross-account simulations report per-policy decisions with matched statements shown for denials. These enhancements aid automation of policy unit tests, detection of over-permissive access, and validation of guardrails across regions where the simulator is available.

📰 On July 30, OpenAI updated pricing for GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, with GPT-5.6 Sol unchanged. Terra targets balanced production workloads with GPT-5.5-level performance at lower cost, while Luna is optimized for high-volume, low-latency inference and cost per token. Pricing on Amazon Bedrock now matches OpenAI first-party rates and usage counts toward existing AWS commitments.