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Amazon Bedrock Available in Thailand, Malaysia, and Taipei

🚀 Amazon has launched Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions, enabling local customers to build and scale generative AI applications using a range of foundation models and developer tools. The managed service supports deploying agents and productionizing models to shorten the path from experimentation to real-world deployment. Customers can expect improved latency, regional data residency options, and integration with AWS operational and security services.

Amazon Bedrock Now Available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

🚀 Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock is available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region, enabling customers to build and scale generative AI applications with local infrastructure. The managed service connects organizations to a variety of foundation models (FMs) and provides tools to deploy and operate agents, reducing time-to-production. Local availability can lower latency, support regional compliance needs, and help move projects from experimentation to real-world deployment.

AWS Network Firewall Adds Reject and Alert for Domain Rules

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now supports Reject and Alert actions for stateful domain list rule groups via the console, enabling more granular control over domain-based traffic. The Reject action blocks specified domains, while the Alert action logs and monitors traffic without disrupting flows. This feature is available in all Regions and supports TLS inspection configuration through the VPC Console or the Network Firewall API, helping organizations refine policy enforcement and observability.

AWS Backup Launches in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

🔔 AWS Backup is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, offering centrally managed, policy-driven protection for compute, storage, and database resources. The fully managed service supports immutable recovery points and vaults to guard against accidental or malicious deletions and to enable reliable restores after data loss. Customers can set up protection via the console, SDKs, or CLI and assign resources using tags or Resource IDs.

Amazon Bedrock Launches in Middle East (UAE) Region

🚀 Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to build, experiment with, and scale generative AI applications using a broad selection of foundation models (FMs) and integrated developer tools. The managed service provides capabilities to deploy and operate agents and production workloads with built-in controls for security and operational management. Customers in the region can begin using Bedrock today and should consult the documentation for supported models, APIs, and recommended practices.

Amazon Neptune Analytics Launches in Mumbai Region

📍 Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, enabling customers to create and manage analytics graphs locally. Neptune Analytics is a memory-optimized graph engine designed for fast, in-memory processing of large graph datasets, supporting optimized analytic algorithms, low-latency graph queries, and vector search within traversals. It complements Amazon Neptune Database, and you can load data from a Neptune Database, snapshots, or Amazon S3. To get started, create a new Neptune Analytics graph via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI; see the Neptune pricing page for region and cost details.

Planning and Running an AWS Security Hub POC Guide

🔒 This post explains how to plan and implement an AWS Security Hub proof of concept (POC) to evaluate unified cloud security operations. It outlines steps to define success criteria, configure integrations with GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Macie, and Security Hub CSPM, and to prepare, enable, and validate the deployment. The guidance recommends using overlapping trial periods, adopting the OCSF standard for normalized findings, and leveraging automation and ticketing integrations to measure operational impact.

AppStream 2.0 Enables Local File Redirection on Fleets

📁 Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports local file redirection on multi-session fleets, extending a feature previously available only on single-session instances. Users can drag and drop local files directly into streamed applications, reducing manual uploads and improving productivity while preserving controlled access to local resources. This capability is available at no additional cost in all regions and requires the latest AppStream 2.0 agent or managed image updates released on or after September 05, 2025.

AWS Clean Rooms adds incremental ID mapping for sync

🔁 AWS Clean Rooms now supports incremental processing for rule-based ID mapping workflows using AWS Entity Resolution, enabling collaborators to populate ID mapping tables with only new, modified, or deleted records since the last analysis. This reduces the need for full-table reprocessing and enables near-real-time synchronization of matched identifiers across partners while preserving Clean Rooms’ privacy controls. Use cases include measurement providers keeping offline purchase data current with advertisers and publishers to enable always-on campaign measurement, lower costs, and maintain collaborator privacy.

Amazon MSK Connect Expands to Five More AWS Regions

📢 Amazon has expanded MSK Connect availability to five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Mexico (Central), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Spain). MSK Connect provides fully managed Kafka Connect clusters to deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK and external systems without provisioning infrastructure. Connectors scale automatically and are compatible with Kafka Connect, supporting both MSK-managed and self-managed Kafka clusters. Customers can get started from the Amazon MSK console or the AWS CLI and pay only for the resources they use.

AWS Compute Optimizer Adds Support for 99 EC2 Types

🔍Compute Optimizer now supports 99 additional Amazon EC2 instance types, including the latest Compute Optimized (C8gn, C8gd), General Purpose (M8i, M8i-flex, M8gd), Memory Optimized (R8i, R8i-flex, R8gd), and Storage Optimized (I8ge) families. This expansion helps customers identify additional savings and capture improved price-to-performance from newer instances without manual analysis. The update is available in all regions where Compute Optimizer operates except AWS GovCloud (US) and China, and can be accessed via Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK.

AWS EBS gp3 volumes scale to 64 TiB, 80k IOPS, 2,000 MiB/s

🔧 Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) gp3 volumes now support up to 64 TiB, 80,000 IOPS, and 2,000 MiB/s throughput — raising previous limits of 16 TiB, 16,000 IOPS, and 1,000 MiB/s. This change simplifies storage architectures by allowing consolidation of striped volumes into a single gp3 volume, reducing operational complexity for storage-intensive and containerized workloads that struggle with multi-volume striping. Pricing remains based on storage plus any additional provisioned IOPS and throughput; the new limits are available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) regions.

AWS WAF Bot, Fraud & DDoS Rule Group Expands Regions

🔒 AWS WAF's Targeted Bot Control, Fraud, and DDoS Prevention Rule Group are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These managed rule groups deliver detection and mitigations for sophisticated bots, application-layer DDoS, and account-takeover attacks at the web edge. Customers can deploy them to improve application resilience, reduce fraudulent activity, and limit resource consumption during attack campaigns.

Amazon RDS for Db2 Adds Reserved Instances, 47% Off

💰 Amazon RDS for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances with up to 47% cost savings versus On-Demand pricing. The offering is available for all supported instance types and supports both Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Db2 licenses purchased through the AWS Marketplace. Reserved Instances include size flexibility so the discounted rate can automatically apply across sizes within the same instance family (for example, a db.r7i.2xlarge RI applying to two db.r7i.xlarge instances). Reserved Instances can be purchased via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK; consult Amazon RDS for Db2 Pricing for details.

Amazon MSK Expands Express Brokers to 8 Additional Regions

🚀 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Express brokers in eight additional AWS Regions: AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka, Zurich, Tel Aviv, and Hong Kong. Express brokers are a Provisioned broker type that deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% versus standard Apache Kafka brokers. They arrive pre-configured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and maintain low-latency performance so existing client applications require no changes.

Adapting Enterprise Risk Management for Generative AI

🛡️ This post explains how to adapt enterprise risk management frameworks to safely scale cloud-based generative AI, combining governance foundations with practical controls. It emphasizes the cloud as the foundational infrastructure and identifies differences from on‑premises models that change risk profiles and vendor relationships. The guidance maps traditional ERMF elements to AI-specific controls across fairness, explainability, privacy/security, safety, controllability, veracity/robustness, governance, and transparency, and references tools such as Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, SageMaker Clarify, and the ISO/IEC 42001 standard to operationalize those controls.

Enabling Enterprise Risk Management for Generative AI

🔒 This article frames responsible generative AI adoption as a core enterprise concern and urges business leaders, CROs, and CIAs to embed controls across the ERM lifecycle. It highlights unique risks—non‑deterministic outputs, deepfakes, and layered opacity—and maps mitigation approaches using AWS CAF for AI, ISO/IEC 42001, and the NIST AI RMF. The post advocates enterprise‑level governance rather than project‑by‑project fixes to sustain innovation while managing harm.

AgentCore Supports VPC, PrivateLink, CloudFormation

🔒 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, AgentCore Browser, and AgentCore Code Interpreter now support VPC connectivity, AWS PrivateLink, CloudFormation, and resource tagging. These additions let developers deploy AI agents that access private resources such as databases and internal APIs without internet exposure. CloudFormation integration enables infrastructure-as-code provisioning, while tagging provides cost allocation and access-control organization. AgentCore is in preview in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt).

AWS Research and Engineering Studio 2025.09 Update

🧪 Research and Engineering Studio (RES) 2025.09 on AWS delivers fractional GPU support, simplified AMI handling, and greater deployment flexibility for research and engineering teams. The update adds support for Amazon EC2 g6f instances to enable GPU fractionalization, Systems Manager Parameter Alias support for AMI IDs to streamline image management, and optional integration with existing Amazon Cognito user pools to simplify authentication during deployment. Administrators can now customize CIDR ranges in the CloudFormation external resources template, and regional availability expands to Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), and South America (São Paulo).

Amazon EC2 I7i Instances Now in Milan and N. California

🚀 Amazon EC2 I7i instances are now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS US West (N. California). Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors with a 3.2 GHz all-core turbo and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and more than 10% improved price-performance versus I4i. Storage scales to 45 TB of NVMe with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower latency variability, and includes a torn write prevention feature supporting up to 16 KB block sizes. The family offers eleven sizes — nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge plus two bare metal options — with up to 100 Gbps networking and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.