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🛈 AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg that lock write access to view data and definitions to AWS Glue. These views let you precompute expensive queries and store results as standard Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 while preventing other writers from altering the computed outcome. You define the view with SQL and an optional refresh schedule; AWS Glue computes and maintains the results in the Glue Data Catalog. The feature is available in all supported regions, providing governed, consistent datasets readable by Iceberg-compatible engines.

🔔 AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg in AWS Glue. These views precompute queries and store results as standard Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 while preventing any writer other than AWS Glue from modifying the data or view definition. You define the view with SQL and an optional refresh schedule; AWS Glue computes, stores, and maintains the result so any Iceberg-compatible engine can read it reliably. The feature is available in regions that support Iceberg materialized views.

🛠️ The AWS Command Line Interface now includes two new Agent Toolkit commands to simplify skill maintenance. Customers can run aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates to compare installed skills with registry versions and aws agent-toolkit update-skill --all to update all outdated skills at once. These options reduce manual per-skill checks and streamline keeping agent skills current across domains like storage, networking, and analytics. Ensure you have AWS CLI v2.37.0+ and note availability of the AWS MCP Server in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

🔎 Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering to evaluate filters before similarity search, returning up to 5x more matching vectors when filters are selective. It also introduces a $startsWith prefix-match operator for filtering on paths and URLs. New indexes in vector buckets enable pre-filtering by default; existing indexes can be updated with the UpdateIndexMode API. The feature is available at no extra cost across commercial and China AWS Regions and will be deployed in the coming days.

🔔 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 13.2, bringing features from Grafana 13.0–13.2 such as Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL support in the Amazon CloudWatch plugin. Git Sync enables treating dashboards as code by linking a workspace to a Git repository for version control. Dynamic dashboards allow responsive layouts driven by data and variables. The CloudWatch data source plugin now accepts PromQL queries for metrics ingested via OTLP. Grafana 13.2 is available in all AWS regions where the service is generally available.

📘 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now emits scaling logs that record state transitions for individual compute nodes, such as launches, registrations, scale-downs, and failures. These logs help troubleshoot scaling issues by showing why groups didn’t reach target sizes, which launches failed for capacity reasons, and when nodes started or stopped. Delivery is opt-in and can be configured to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose.

🛈 Amazon Web Services now offers in-region support for Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock in the UK (London) Region. Customers in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector can perform inference while keeping data processing confined to the eu-west-2 Region. Calls to the bedrock-runtime endpoint ensure requests and processing remain within the Region. See the Bedrock User Guide for current regional model availability and the Bedrock console to get started.

🔒 AWS Continuum for Penetration Testing (AWS Security Agent) is now available in six additional Regions, enabling localized penetration testing for web applications and APIs. The expansion covers Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Montreal), Europe (London), US East (Columbus), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm). Organizations can run testing closer to production to meet data residency and compliance needs while preserving existing Region support.

🚀 Starting today, Aurora PostgreSQL can directly query operational data alongside data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools. You can create PostgreSQL foreign tables that reference data in Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Tables, or AWS Glue Data Catalog, and queries against those foreign tables use DuckDB’s high-performance engine embedded in PostgreSQL. The capability supports external Iceberg REST Catalog–compatible catalogs federated via AWS Glue Data Catalog, and data can be materialized into native Aurora tables for low-latency workloads. It is generally available on Aurora PostgreSQL versions 17.11, 18.6 and higher across AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions at no extra charge.

📊 Amazon Quick adds a new Hierarchy Filter control that consolidates multiple stacked filters into a single, guided dropdown for drilling through related dimensions like Region, Country, and City. The filter supports up to five levels arranged from broadest to most detailed, allowing readers to expand each level, narrow selections progressively, and auto-select parent relationships. Authors enable it by adding a filter, choosing Hierarchy filter type, and ordering fields parent-to-child. The feature is available today in all AWS Regions supporting Amazon Quick.

🔔 Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) now supports multi‑Partner Resource Tagging so multiple AWS Partners can receive revenue attribution for the same AWS resource. Previously, a single aws-apn-id tag limited attribution to one Partner. The new tag format, aws-apn-id-, lets each contributing Partner tag resources they work on, enabling shared attribution while keeping the legacy tag functional. This capability is available today in all commercial AWS regions and appears under the “Resource Tagging” method in the Attributed Revenue Dashboard.

🚀 AWS Transfer Family now auto-approves SFTP connector quota increase requests up to 1,000 connectors per AWS account in each Region. The default remains 100 connectors, and you can still request higher limits via the AWS Service Quotas console. Automatic approval covers connectors using service-managed egress or Amazon VPC Lattice egress. If you require more than 1,000 connectors, submit a higher quota request manually.

📱 AWS Accounts now support phone number verification using SMS one-time passcodes for primary contact numbers. Customers can initiate verification via the AWS Management Console or the new SendPhoneNumberVerification API, and confirm with VerifyPhoneNumber. Verification status is exposed in GetContactInformation and changes via PutContactInformation require re-verification. Organizations can inherit verified numbers from the management account for member accounts.

🔒 AWS IAM Identity Center's Identity Store APIs now accept ARNs for users, groups, group memberships, and identity stores wherever resource IDs were previously required. This additive change means existing integrations keep working while allowing callers to supply either resource IDs or full ARNs directly. Responses still return resource IDs and malformed or wrong-type ARNs result in a ValidationException. The feature is available in all Regions where IAM Identity Center is offered at no extra cost.

🔐 Amazon Redshift introduces a new DEBUG permission to let data owners grant select identities access to unredacted secure logging records across federated warehouses. With federated permissions, Redshift enforces FGAC across warehouses while secure logging redacts sensitive system table values; DEBUG lets authorized identities view full records for their queries or for account administration. Grants use the standard GRANT command for IAM users, roles, or Identity Center principals and remain effective when exporting system table data to Amazon S3 Tables.

🔒 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports interface VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink, enabling private connectivity from your Amazon VPC. Traffic between your VPC and Kinesis Video Streams remains on the AWS network for control plane, ingestion, and playback data planes, avoiding the public internet. Customers can ingest, store, and play back video from private subnets without internet gateways, NAT, or public IPs, and can create endpoints via the console, AWS CLI, or SDKs with endpoint policies to control access.

🆕 Amazon S3 Tables now support the Apache Iceberg Version 3 data types including geometry, geography, unknown, and nanosecond-precision timestamps, plus column default values. These additions let you store geospatial coordinates and nanosecond event times natively, reducing the need to encode values as strings or integers and improving efficiency and query performance. S3 Tables continue to provide automatic maintenance and compaction for Iceberg tables and are available in all Regions where S3 Tables are offered.

🆕 AWS Deadline Cloud introduces flexible expressions and richer parameter types for job templates, enabling teams to embed pipeline logic directly in templates. The update supports Python-style expressions (arithmetic, conditionals, string/path ops, list comprehensions) and new boolean, list, and frame-range parameters. Expressions are type-checked at submission and evaluate deterministically. The capability is provided via the EXPR extension to Open Job Description and is available in supported AWS Regions.

🤖 Developed jointly by AWS and OpenAI, Bedrock Managed Agents (BMA) is an AWS-native implementation of OpenAI's Agents API that runs entirely inside AWS. BMA maintains state through durable sessions, manages tool selection and execution, and allows reusable skills and MCP-connected tools. Each agent uses its own IAM role, supports human approvals for consequential actions, and logs supported API activity to AWS CloudTrail. The preview is available in select US regions with no additional BMA charge beyond consumed AWS resources.

🔍 Amazon RDS now reports the full snapshot size for RDS Snapshots through a new FullSnapshotSizeInBytes field in the DescribeDBSnapshots API and a console column labeled 'Full Snapshot Size'. This value represents the total size of all blocks that constitute a snapshot, including referenced blocks from prior incremental snapshots, and differs from the incremental snapshot size that only counts newly stored blocks. The feature is available for all Amazon RDS instances in all commercial AWS Regions and can be used via the console, CLI, or SDKs starting today.