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🔆 AWS has added light mode support to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IAM-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light visual themes. The addition improves readability in bright environments and offers a familiar look for customers who prefer lighter interfaces. In Studio, select Profile > customize appearance to switch modes. The setting persists across browsers and devices and complements the existing dark mode to give users full control over their development environment's appearance.

🔒 AWS has completed the 2026 Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) annual certification audit and retained its Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider (CSP) status for the Middle East (UAE) Region. The assessment was validated by independent auditor BSI, and the renewed DESC certificate is available through AWS Artifact, valid to January 22, 2027. AWS added 10 services into scope, bringing the total to 108 services in the region—about a 10% increase.

🚀 AWS has expanded Database Savings Plans to include Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics, enabling up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year usage commitment with no upfront payment. The discount automatically applies to eligible serverless and provisioned instances regardless of engine, instance family, size, deployment option, or Region (China excluded). Coverage is available immediately in all Regions except China, and customers can purchase or analyze Savings Plans via the Billing console or AWS CLI using console recommendations or the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer for customized estimates.

🔍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis that collects recent events, instance health, and logs and sends them to Amazon Bedrock for automated diagnosis. Developers and operations teams can request an analysis from the Elastic Beanstalk console or use the AWS CLI with RequestEnvironmentInfo and RetrieveEnvironmentInfo. The feature returns step-by-step, environment-specific troubleshooting recommendations to help reduce mean time to resolution and is available in Regions where both services exist.

🔔 AWS Shield now surfaces network security director findings in AWS Security Hub, giving centralized visibility into missing or misconfigured network controls across an AWS Organization. The capability detects gaps in services such as AWS WAF, VPC security groups, and VPC network ACLs and provides remediation recommendations. Findings also appear in the Security Hub Inventory, and severity is determined by the misconfiguration combined with the resource's network topology.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new Capacity Optimized deployment option for blue/green updates, allowing domain updates to complete even when full instance capacity is not available. The option attempts a full-capacity swap first and automatically falls back to batched, incremental updates if necessary, reducing the number of extra instances required during the process. This approach can take longer than a full swap but avoids waiting for capacity; customers can choose the strategy in the console or API. AWS recommends Capacity Optimized for clusters with 30 or more nodes.

🩺 Amazon Connect Health is now generally available, delivering purpose-built agentic AI to healthcare organizations to streamline patient engagement and point-of-care workflows. The service launches five prebuilt AI agents — including patient verification and ambient documentation (GA) plus preview features for appointment management, patient insights, and medical coding — to reduce administrative burden and speed access to care. Features are HIPAA-eligible, follow responsible AI best practices, and integrate with Amazon Connect, EHRs, and telehealth systems for rapid deployment.

🩺 AWS announced the AWS HealthLake data transformation agent (preview), an AI-powered feature that converts CCDA clinical documents into FHIR R4-compliant resources. Developers can run synchronous conversions, preview and validate transformed FHIR Bundles in seconds, and use a scalable bulk import workflow that matches patients and logs ingestion details. The console offers AI-assisted natural language template customization plus manual editing before publishing for production.

⚡ AWS announces the new Lambda durable functions Kiro power, bringing durable function development capabilities directly into the Kiro agentic AI environment for local developers. The power provides AI-assisted guidance to build resilient, long-running, multi-step applications faster, covering replay model practices, step-and-wait operations, concurrency patterns, and error-handling strategies. It supports deployment workflows with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and AWS SAM and is available today with one-click installation from the Kiro IDE and Kiro powers page, plus example code and documentation on GitHub and in the AWS developer guide.

🔒 AWS completed its annual recertification audit with no findings, extending its ISO and CSA STAR coverage. The update adds the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region and AWS Deadline Cloud to the scope and reconfirms compliance with standards including ISO 9001, 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, 20000-1, and 22301. These certifications underscore AWS's commitment to robust security, privacy, and service management controls. Customers can view certificates via AWS Artifact or the AWS ISO and CSA STAR Certified page.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides integrated observability for Restricted Instance Groups (RIG), giving teams training foundation models with Nova Forge a unified view of compute resources and training workloads. A pre-configured Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard, backed by Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, aggregates metrics from four exporters to show GPU utilization, NVLink bandwidth, CPU pressure, FSx for Lustre usage, network fabric, Kubernetes state, and curated logs including epoch progress, step-level logs, pipeline errors, and Python tracebacks. Observability is automatically enabled for new RIG clusters and can be turned on for existing clusters via the HyperPod console; it is available in all Regions where SageMaker HyperPod RIG is supported.

🤖 Amazon Lightsail now lets you deploy OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant, on your own cloud infrastructure with simple, secure defaults. Each Lightsail OpenClaw instance includes built-in security controls—sandboxed agent sessions, one-click HTTPS for TLS, device-pairing authentication, and automatic snapshots—reducing manual configuration and operational risk. Amazon Bedrock is the default model provider, and users can swap models or connect to Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord as needed.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a sink, enabling fully managed, end-to-end metrics ingestion without custom forwarding infrastructure. Teams can route logs and traces to Amazon OpenSearch Service while directing metrics to Prometheus, and apply built-in transformation and enrichment to improve data quality before delivery. Metrics become queryable with Prometheus Query Language and visualizable via Amazon Managed Grafana. The sink is available in all regions where OpenSearch Ingestion is offered and can be configured through the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now offers a unified ingestion endpoint that accepts all three OpenTelemetry signals—logs, metrics, and traces—through a single pipeline. Customers no longer need to create and operate separate pipelines per signal, simplifying architecture and reducing operational overhead, administrative complexity, and infrastructure cost. The unified OpenTelemetry source is available in all regions where OpenSearch Ingestion is offered and can be configured via the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI, enabling teams to adopt OpenTelemetry incrementally without pipeline reconfiguration.

🔼 Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now increases the default service quota for the CreateSchedule API to 5,000 requests per second in 11 AWS Regions. The change helps customers with high‑throughput schedule creation workloads onboard and scale with less friction, because many can now operate at larger scale without requesting an initial quota increase. Scheduler will scale automatically to the new default, and customers can request additional increases through the Service Quotas console.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services announced Amazon GameLift Servers DDoS Protection, a new capability that provides proactive UDP-based defense for session-based multiplayer games using GameLift Servers. The feature co-locates a relay network to authenticate client traffic with access tokens and enforce per-player traffic limits, helping prevent both targeted and volumetric DoS/DDoS disruptions while adding negligible latency. It is available at no additional cost to GameLift Servers customers and includes console and API integration with sample code for Unreal Engine and native C++.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now synchronizes catalog metadata and context with Atlan, Collibra, and Alation, aligning projects, assets, descriptions, glossary terms, and hierarchies across platforms. Collibra supports bidirectional synchronization and can manage SageMaker Unified Studio data access requests, while Atlan and Alation ingest metadata from SageMaker with additional enhancements planned. The Collibra integration is provided as an open-source solution on GitHub, and setup is performed by establishing connections from each partner to SageMaker Unified Studio.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS Glue 5.1 for Visual ETL, notebook, and code-based data processing jobs. With Glue 5.1 you can run on Apache Spark 3.5.6 with Python 3.11 and Scala 2.12.18, and use updated open table formats including Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, Apache Hudi 1.0.2, and Delta Lake 3.3.2. Select Glue 5.1 from the job version dropdown to apply the runtime across Visual ETL, notebooks, and code jobs.

🔗 AWS now enables Kiro IDE to connect remotely to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, allowing data scientists, ML engineers, and developers to use their local Kiro setup — including spec-driven development, conversational coding, and automated feature generation — while running workloads on SageMaker’s scalable compute. The integration uses the AWS Toolkit extension for secure IAM-based authentication and preserves local specs, steering files, and hooks. This reduces context switching and keeps agentic development workflows within a single environment across AWS analytics and ML services. The capability is available in all Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered.

🔒 AWS announced the issuance of the Swiss FINMA ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report covering 183 services for the period 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. The independent attestation maps AWS controls against FINMA circulars including outsourcing, operational risks and resilience, and proposed BCM minimum standards. AWS added five services to the FINMA scope: Amazon Verified Permissions, AWS B2B Data Interchange, AWS Resource Explorer, AWS Security Incident Response, and AWS Transform. The report is available via AWS Artifact and customers are reminded that security is shared between AWS and the customer.