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🛠️ AWS Partner Central agents now support guidance across all AWS Partner funding programs, providing fast, documentation-backed answers on eligibility and application processes. The agents automate the funding lifecycle, validate eligibility against partner and opportunity data, review uploaded documents for compliance, and draft requests with auto-filled fields. Available in all commercial AWS Regions, partners can access recommendations by opening an opportunity in AWS Partner Central or consulting the agents guide.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions, extending access to fully managed bioinformatics pipelines for research, drug discovery, and agricultural science with regional compliance. The HIPAA-eligible service supports domain-specific languages like Nextflow, WDL, and CWL, and includes Git integrations and Amazon ECR container support to simplify migration and maintain data provenance.

📢 AWS now includes standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), enabling FinOps and cloud teams to consistently attribute Bedrock spend. The update exposes attributes like model provider, model name, pricing unit, inference type, and feature, plus a unified product family name, available by default at no extra cost. CUR 2.0 surfaces these fields in the product map and pricing unit column for easy export to S3 and analysis with Athena or data warehouses.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm, Zurich). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. R8i delivers higher performance at large sizes including a new 96xlarge and SAP certification; R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that underutilize compute.

🔒 Amazon Web Services completed an onboarding audit reissued on May 31, 2026, covering ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 20000-1:2018, 22301:2019 and CSA STAR CCM v4.0. EY Certify Point conducted the audit with no findings to add two additional AWS services into the certification scope. These certifications reflect AWS’s ongoing commitment to robust security controls and customer data protection across services. Customers can view full lists and access certificates via the AWS Management Console through AWS Artifact.

🔊 Amazon Connect now offers more natural, human-sounding agentic voice experiences with expanded support across 50+ languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai. The update introduces over 100 new voice options and conversational improvements for smoother, more responsive AI interactions. Enhanced features include seamless response pacing, improved turn-taking to avoid interruptions, and speech controls to adjust speed, volume, and emotion to match brand tone.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). Powered by AWS Graviton4, these storage-optimized instances provide up to 60% better compute performance versus Graviton2 storage instances and use third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for improved storage throughput and latency. I8ge offers up to 120 TB local NVMe storage, up to 180 Gbps network bandwidth, and multiple sizes including metal options to support demanding, low-latency workloads.

📊 Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now show real-time and historical metrics for agent queues, enabling supervisors to monitor performance for agents routed directly through those queues. These metrics help identify issues such as spikes in queued contacts after scheduled callbacks so supervisors can reassign work and reduce wait times. Agent queue metrics are available across all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🚀 Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 2.3, delivering adaptive partition selection to reduce backpressure and smoother operations under uneven load. The release improves CDC pipelines by better handling out-of-order updates and adds new SQL functions to simplify conversion between changelog and standard streams. Flink 2.3 is available across all AWS Regions where the service is offered, and existing applications can use in-place upgrades.

📂 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options for multi-session fleets. Users streaming on shared fleet instances can connect their cloud accounts to access, save, and sync files directly within sessions, alongside the existing S3-backed home folder. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is offered and incurs no extra charge beyond standard streaming usage pricing.

📣 The Athens Local Zone by AWS is now generally available, offering localized infrastructure in Greece to support data residency and low-latency use cases. It provides EC2 C7i/M7i/R7i instances, Amazon S3 (including One Zone-IA), Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and multiple volume types, ECS, EKS, VPC, Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer. Customers can enable the zone (eu-central-1-ath-1a) via AWS Global View or API and use standard AWS pricing models and APIs with no minimum commitment.

🚀 KNFSD File Cache is now available as an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed NFS caching solution on AWS. It mounts exports from on-premises, cross-region, or multicloud NFS servers and re-exports them to NFS clients in AWS, caching frequently read data in memory and local NVMe for low-latency access. Built on standard Linux kernel components and deployed via AMIs and Terraform, it supports NFS v3, v4.1, and v4.2 and targets read-heavy burst compute workloads. The preview is available in all AWS Regions with no licensing fees; customers pay only for consumed AWS resources.

🔧 With Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, teams can now create, share, and reuse custom visual transforms within visual ETL flows. This feature enables data engineers to encapsulate business-specific transformation logic—such as phone number standardization, PII masking, or data-quality checks—into reusable components that non-coders can apply across ETL jobs. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where Unified Studio is offered.

🔐 Amazon GameLift Streams now allows assigning an IAM role to a stream session so streamed applications can securely access AWS resources like Amazon S3 and DynamoDB. By passing a RoleArn when starting a session, applications receive short-lived, auto-refreshing credentials via the standard AWS SDK credential chain with no code changes. The service validates role configuration at session start and the console offers a pre-filled trust policy template for easy setup; the feature is available in all Regions where GameLift Streams runs.

🧭 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports partition-level network topology configuration for Slurm clusters, allowing a single cluster to run different topologies (tree or block) per partition. HyperPod auto-detects topology from instance types—UltraServer types map to block and hierarchical-interconnect types map to tree—while partitions without topology data remain schedulable. The feature is enabled by default for Slurm 25.11+ and is available in all Regions that support HyperPod.

🔐 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports using customer managed AWS KMS keys to encrypt canary environment variables, allowing teams to control encryption for sensitive data such as API keys and tokens. Previously, only an AWS owned key was used; now you can specify a symmetric KMS key for at-rest encryption or perform client-side encryption and decrypt at runtime. This capability meets requirements for key management, auditability, and rotation and is available in all commercial AWS Regions, with multi-location canaries able to use per-replica Region keys.

🛡️ Amazon Managed Grafana is now FedRAMP High authorized in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The fully managed service, built on open-source Grafana, enables federal agencies and public sector organizations to visualize, query, and alert on operational metrics while meeting strict compliance requirements. FedRAMP provides the standardized security assessment and continuous monitoring required for US government cloud services. Customers should consult the GovCloud documentation or their AWS account team for implementation details.

📊 AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) now offers a Cost Efficiency widget for BCM Dashboards, allowing teams to view efficiency trends alongside Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance reports. The widget displays efficiency scores over time by account, region, or overall, with adjustable granularity and links to the Cost Optimization Hub. Widgets support exports, scheduled email reports, CSV/PDF downloads, and cross-account sharing, and are available in all AWS commercial Regions at no extra charge.

🔎 Amazon EC2 now includes the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store parameters linked to public AMIs directly in AMI metadata. When you describe a public AMI, the response returns the associated public SSM parameter, making discovery and reference simpler. This eliminates manual namespace searches and enables using the parameter as an alias to always resolve to the latest AMI version. The feature is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial, China, and GovCloud Regions.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on a fully managed service. PostgreSQL 19 adds parallel autovacuum, REPACK CONCURRENTLY, SQL/PGQ, and enhanced logical replication behavior. Beta 2 includes bug fixes and stability improvements from Beta 1. Preview instances are retained for up to 60 days and follow US East (Ohio) pricing.