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🛡️ The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has published initial independent assurances including SOC 2 Type 1 and C5 Type 1 attestations plus seven ISO certifications covering 69 services. Announced after general availability in January 2026, these reports validate control design and implementation mapped to the ESC-SRF, with EU-resident operations and strict data residency. Customers can access the reports via AWS Artifact; AWS plans to expand coverage over time.

🔒 Visit AWS at booth S-0466 in South Expo to experience interactive demos, partner integrations, and an AI-powered Humanoid Security Guardian that generates customized well-architected guides via QR code. AWS security specialists will present sessions on privacy-by-design, trusted identity for autonomous agents, container supply-chain protection, and preparing for AI-native incidents. Join hands-on workshops and CTF challenges in Cloud Village, March 23–26, and use a Partner Passport to collect booth stamps, earn swag, and enter daily raffles.

🔐 AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with GitHub and Amazon, expanding social login options beyond Google and Apple. The change enables developers to access AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, and Kiro using existing GitHub or Amazon credentials. This reduces password management overhead, lowers forgotten-password incidents, and streamlines both new user registration and returning sign-ins for builders and students.

🤖 Amazon Connect has enhanced its AI-powered predictive insights to support up to 40 million product catalog items (an 8× increase), integrate recommendations into message templates for trigger-based campaigns, and improve model accuracy by up to 14%. These updates, built on the five recommendation algorithms from re:Invent 2025, reduce training and deployment time so businesses can deliver automated, personalized outreach faster. Public preview is available across multiple AWS regions and Amazon Connect Customer Profiles remains pay-as-you-go.

📧 Amazon Connect now supports conversational analytics for email contacts, enabling automatic categorization, PII redaction, and generated contact summaries to streamline supervision and compliance. Administrators enable the capability by adding a Set recording, analytics and processing behavior block to contact flows and can specify which PII types to redact and whether redactions show specific or generic markers. Teams may store original and redacted versions in separate locations, enable contact summaries, and use analytics to create rules that trigger actions such as assigning categories, creating tasks, or updating cases. The capability is available across multiple AWS regions.

🤖 Amazon Connect introduces a preview AI assistant that enables contact center managers to ask operational questions in natural language and receive answers in seconds. The assistant supports queries across 150+ Connect metrics with historical context, eliminating hours of manual data gathering. It can also diagnose issues—such as queues at risk of missing service levels—and recommend targeted recovery actions. Preview access is limited; customers must request access through their AWS account team.

🔧 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports in-place increases of cluster storage volumes above 3 TiB, removing the previous hard limit that forced blue/green deployments for large expansions. Domains already above 3 TiB still require a blue/green deployment the first time they increase, but subsequent increases will not. Decreases or rapid successive increases continue to require blue/green; use the dry-run option to verify whether your change requires one.

🔒 AWS announced a major expansion of AWS Security Hub, repositioning it as a unified security operations solution that aggregates signals from across the stack and across clouds. The service now consolidates findings from services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Security Hub CSPM, and Amazon Macie into a single pane for prioritized risk analytics. An Extended plan simplifies procurement and partner integrations, with AWS as seller of record and pay-as-you-go billing. AWS says forthcoming multicloud capabilities will add a common data layer, unified policies, expanded vulnerability scanning, and external network exposure checks.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i models. C8i-flex addresses common compute workloads (large–16xlarge), while C8i targets memory-intensive needs with 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge.

🌐 AWS has made Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver generally available, delivering an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that provides secure, reliable DNS resolution for authorized clients worldwide. The service is available across 30 AWS Regions and supports both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS query traffic. It offers DNS query filtering to block malicious, NSFW, and advanced DNS threats like DNS tunneling and DGAs, includes centralized query logging, and now adds protection against Dictionary DGA threats. New customers can explore a 30-day free trial.

📈 Amazon Web Services has increased Amazon CloudWatch Logs query capacity: accounts can now run up to 100 concurrent Logs Insights queries (up from 30) and execute up to 10 StartQuery and GetQueryResults API calls per second per account per region using Logs Insights QL. Customers should see reduced throttling, faster result retrieval, and improved dashboard responsiveness. The update is available across a broad set of AWS regions, enabling larger teams and automated systems to run more parallel queries.

⚙️ Amazon is introducing User Preferences in Amazon Quick Suite, enabling end users to control how Quick looks and behaves. Users can set the Chat panel to open expanded or collapsed and Quick will remember their last state. They can choose a default chat agent and a default knowledge scope for My Assistant, provide a preferred name and area of focus, and view or manage memories to make responses more relevant.

🔔 Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions, offering the full set of features and tiers to implement secure sign-in and access control. The launch enables authentication for human users, AI agents, and microservices with regional endpoints to reduce latency and improve resilience. Customers can review AWS documentation for region listings, developer guidance, product details, and pricing.

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now supports the FIPS 204 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA), a NIST-standardized, quantum-resistant digital signature algorithm. Customers can register ML-DSA-signed CA certificates as IAM Roles Anywhere trust anchors or reference AWS Private Certificate Authority instances, and issue end-entity X.509 certificates bound to ML-DSA keys. The capability is available in all Regions where IAM Roles Anywhere operates, including AWS GovCloud (US), the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), and China Regions.

⚡ Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces data preview v2.0 for Visual ETL, delivering near-instant preview results (about one second) while building and iterating on ETL jobs. The new mode runs an in-browser query engine that fetches and caches source data locally, removing dependence on server-side Spark sessions and avoiding additional compute costs. It supports CSV, Parquet, and JSON from Amazon S3, as well as Amazon Redshift, S3 Tables, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and many third-party sources including Snowflake and common relational databases. A toggle lets users switch back to the original Spark-based preview when needed.

📦 Amazon Redshift now supports reusable templates for the COPY command, allowing teams to store and reuse commonly used COPY parameters across ingestion workflows. Templates standardize formatting and load options, reducing manual configuration and the risk of errors. Changes made to a template apply to future COPY operations, simplifying maintenance and updates. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🧩 Amazon Redshift now supports nine new array functions for the SUPER data type — ARRAY_CONTAINS, ARRAY_DISTINCT, ARRAY_EXCEPT, ARRAY_INTERSECTION, ARRAY_POSITION, ARRAY_POSITIONS, ARRAY_SORT, ARRAY_UNION, and ARRAYS_OVERLAP. These functions enable searching, comparing, sorting, and transforming arrays directly in SQL, reducing the need for custom PartiQL logic. They simplify nested-data analytics and are available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud.

🚀Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these R8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and are optimized for memory‑intensive workloads like databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. R8g offers 12 sizes (including two bare metal options), scales up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory, and provides enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps) and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS also recommends migration support via the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help move workloads to Graviton4.

🔁 Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves datashare permissions when restoring a snapshot to the same producer namespace. This removes the prior need for administrators to manually re-grant permissions and recreate consumer databases after a restore. The change reduces administrative overhead and streamlines disaster recovery and testing workflows. EventBridge notifications report permission drops, revoked consumer access, or public-access changes during restore operations.

🛡️Multi-party approval (MPA) administrators can now run manual test approvals to verify that configured approval teams are reachable, active, and correctly selected. Administrators initiate baseline test sessions through the AWS Organizations console to detect inactive members, confirm notification delivery, and validate approval counts and thresholds. AWS recommends periodic checks (every 90 days) to maintain governance and operational readiness before relying on approvals for sensitive operations. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions.