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✨ AWS is previewing new features in Amazon Quick that let non-developers create custom web applications in minutes by describing their needs in natural language. These apps can connect to live data sources, orchestrate complex workflows, and embed AI-powered features without writing code. Built-in publishing and sharing let teams distribute internal tools with one click, and a guided onboarding experience claims value in under five minutes.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Connect Decisions, an agentic AI planning and intelligence solution that helps supply chain teams shift from firefighting to proactive operations. The service combines 30 years of Amazon operational science with 25+ specialized supply chain tools so persistent AI teammates can adapt to business rules, learn from human decisions, and continuously improve. These agents harmonize demand signals into consensus forecasts, generate constraint-aware supply plans, and run 24/7 monitoring that detects variances, performs automated root-cause analysis, and triages exceptions, surfacing only prioritized, actionable recommendations to help prevent stockouts and reduce working capital waste.

🔍 Microsoft has expanded Microsoft Sentinel UEBA to ingest and enrich AWS CloudTrail alongside other cloud and identity sources, enabling behavioral anomaly detection across hybrid environments from a single pane. The solution delivers precomputed binary behavioral features and machine‑driven anomalies into the BehaviorAnalytics and Anomalies tables, letting analysts stack simple true/false signals such as first‑time geography, uncommon ISP, unusual action, and high operation volume. By shifting baseline management to UEBA, teams reduce heavy KQL baselines, accelerate triage, and surface low‑and‑slow or blended attacker behavior.

📝 Amazon Quick now supports integrated document and visual creation directly within chat conversations, enabling users to produce polished Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel files without leaving the interface. The capability also generates images, infographics, charts, and other visuals that can be embedded or exported as standalone files. Visual creation is currently in preview in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), while document creation is available across supported Regions. Users can sign up for free without an AWS account or credit card.

🔗 Amazon Quick now provides 13 new built-in action connectors that let business users take direct actions across Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable, QuickBooks, Dropbox, and Microsoft Teams without leaving the assistant. Each connector supports managed authentication, enabling secure account connections in a few clicks without manual credential handling. The connectors handle authorization flows on behalf of users and are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🖥️ Amazon Quick is now available as a native desktop preview for macOS and Windows, extending the assistant beyond the browser to leverage local files, OS-level notifications, and native desktop controls. The desktop app can read and work with files on the machine without uploading them, surface action-item, calendar, and message alerts, and automate both browser-based and desktop workflows. Memory, knowledge graph, and agents are shared with the web experience, and the preview supports local Model Context Protocol (MCP) connections for coding agents.

🚀 Amazon has introduced new Free and Plus pricing plans for Amazon Quick, enabling sign-up in minutes using a personal email or existing Google, Apple, GitHub, or Amazon credentials—no AWS account required. A guided onboarding helps users get value in under five minutes with role-specific workflows for sales, marketing, finance, operations, and more. Quick connects to applications and data to turn questions into actions—scheduling meetings, sending emails, following up on items—and builds a personal knowledge graph that learns preferences and priorities. Professional and Enterprise plans add agentic business intelligence, governance, and expanded user support.

🤖 Amazon Redshift Serverless now enables AI-driven scaling and optimization by default for all new workgroups, using machine learning to predict compute needs and automatically adjust resources before queries queue. The update expands support to workloads with a Base RPU range of 8–512 RPU, lowering the entry cost. Use the price-performance slider to prioritize cost, performance, or a balance; Amazon Redshift also applies automatic materialized views and table design optimizations. Configure targets via the AWS Management Console or the Amazon Redshift API; settings can be modified after workgroup creation and are available in all Regions where Serverless is offered.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch RUM now provides an improved App Monitors overview that surfaces fleet-wide health, SLO breaches, and distributed tracing coverage on a single page. The new view groups monitors into four summary cards — Needs attention, Trending worse, Setup and coverage, and SLOs and Alarms — and offers quick filters, per-row SLI and tracing links, and a selectable side panel for deeper context. The enhancement is available in all AWS commercial Regions where CloudWatch RUM is offered at no additional cost.

🚀 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now supports the i7i.metal-24xl Amazon EC2 bare-metal instance, providing a lower-core-count option with a 5th-generation Intel Xeon processor. This delivers improved cost-performance and scaling flexibility for VMware-based workloads on EVS. Customers can expect up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% better price performance versus i4i for x86 storage-optimized use cases. The release is available in Regions that offer both Amazon EVS and EC2 i7i.

🚀 Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. The serverless offering removes the need to provision or manage clusters by automatically provisioning and scaling compute for analytics workloads. Users can query data directly in S3 in open formats (Parquet, Iceberg), access data shares, restore snapshots, and use Query Editor V2 or existing BI tools, with per-second compute billing and unified query cost reporting.

📎 Amazon Connect now supports attachment file sizes up to 100 MB for chat, cases, and tasks, increased from the previous 20 MB limit. Administrators can enable the higher limits and configure custom file extensions for attachments across chat, email, cases, and tasks via the Amazon Connect admin website or APIs. This reduces back-and-forth by allowing customers to upload diagnostic bundles, log archives, signed contracts, and other larger documents directly during interactions; the feature is available in multiple AWS Regions.

💳 AWS Billing Conductor now supports the new Passthrough Pricing Plan for Billing Transfer users. Customers can select this AWS-managed plan when configuring a new transfer in the Billing Transfer page or apply it to existing billing groups via the AWS Billing Conductor console. Under the plan, accounts in a billing group see billable data that reflects the AWS invoice value in both My View and Showback/Chargeback views. The feature is available in US East (N. Virginia) and is offered free of charge for qualifying Direct Customers and Channel Partners.

📣 You can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ (HA) file systems in 17 additional AWS Regions across South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and AWS GovCloud (US). FSx for OpenZFS delivers sub-millisecond latencies, multi-GB/s throughput, and ZFS capabilities such as snapshots, data cloning, and compression. The Single-AZ (HA) option is a cost-effective choice for workloads that require high availability within a single AZ but do not need cross-AZ storage redundancy.

🐧 AWS now offers new Amazon WorkSpaces Personal bundles featuring Rocky Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Ubuntu 24.04, enabling customers to launch managed WorkSpaces with the latest enterprise-grade Linux distributions. These bundles provide access to modern package ecosystems, improved security postures, and extended long-term support lifecycles, and they offer a migration path ahead of Amazon Linux 2 end of life in June 2026. The new options are available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces is offered; select a bundle when creating a Linux WorkSpace and review pricing on the Amazon WorkSpaces pricing page.

🚀 AWS Lambda now offers Provisioned Mode for event source mappings that consume Apache Kafka in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and both AWS GovCloud (US‑East) and GovCloud (US‑West) Regions. Provisioned Mode lets you provision and auto-scale a configured minimum and maximum number of event pollers so polling capacity is ready to handle sudden traffic spikes and reduce processing delays. It supports Amazon MSK and self‑managed Kafka and can be enabled via the ESM API, Console, CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation. Usage of event pollers is billed by Event Poller Units (EPUs).

🔗 Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier, via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling HR, finance, and operations leaders to access governed workforce intelligence directly inside the Quick workspace. After connecting to Visier’s remote MCP server, users can ask natural-language questions about headcount, attrition, tenure, and open requisitions and receive answers grounded in Visier’s governed data model. Vee can also be invoked from automated Quick Flows to run recurring reviews or draft documents, and Quick augments responses with enterprise knowledge from Quick Spaces—such as budgets, policies, and plans—so answers reflect the broader organizational context. The Visier integration is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🔒 Amazon announced VPC egress support for AgentCore Gateway targets and AgentCore Identity, available in managed and self‑managed configurations. The capability lets Gateways invoke private resources inside a customer VPC (for example, EKS-hosted MCP servers) and allows Identity to validate tokens from and fetch tokens for private IdPs. The release also adds private DNS resolution for managed egress resources and is available in fourteen AWS Regions.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now prefers hybrid post-quantum TLS (ML‑KEM) for supported clients to reduce harvest-now, decrypt-later risk. Customers using the listed clients and SDK versions can get ML‑KEM key exchange without code changes; secrets at rest remain encrypted with AWS KMS and symmetric algorithms are considered quantum-resistant. Verify client negotiation via CloudTrail tlsDetails.keyExchange == X25519MLKEM768 and check SDK/OpenSSL requirements (for example, OpenSSL 3.5+ for Python). CRYSTALS‑Kyber support is being phased out in 2026, so upgrades are recommended to avoid fallback to traditional TLS.

🔒 Amazon Connect now records agent activity status changes made through analytics dashboards in CloudTrail, capturing the supervisor identity, timestamp, and the specific status transition. This enhancement provides contact centers with clearer audit trails and operational visibility for actions such as switching an agent from "Available" to "Break." The capability is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered; ensure CloudTrail logging is enabled to see the events automatically.