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Amazon GameLift Servers Adds Built-in Telemetry Metrics

📊 Amazon GameLift Servers now includes built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins, powered by OpenTelemetry, to generate, collect, and export client-side metrics for game-specific insights. The feature can be configured to collect and publish telemetry from game servers running on managed Amazon EC2 and container fleets, supporting both pre-defined and custom metrics and exporting to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus or Amazon CloudWatch. Visualizations are available via Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to help optimize resources, improve player experience, and surface operational issues. Telemetry is available in all supported regions except AWS China; see the GameLift Servers documentation for details.

AWS announces EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of the Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API, providing a hierarchical, per-account view of the relative location of capacity reservations for AI/ML and HPC workloads. The API represents reservations as a network node set so customers can assess proximity without launching instances. Paired with the Instance Topology API, it enables consistent job scheduling, capacity planning, and node ranking across distributed parallel workloads and is available in most major AWS regions.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Amazon Corretto 25 on AL2023

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Amazon Corretto 25 on the Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform, enabling developers to build and deploy applications with the newest Java 25 runtime and language features. The update brings improvements such as compact object headers, ahead-of-time (AOT) caching, and structured concurrency to Beanstalk-managed environments. Developers can provision Corretto 25 instances via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API, with general availability in commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS Step Functions introduces unified metrics dashboard

🔍 AWS Step Functions now provides a unified metrics dashboard in the console that centralizes usage and billing metrics for both account and state-machine levels. The dashboard covers standard and express workflows and surfaces existing metrics such as ApproximateOpenMapRunCount. It is available in all Regions where the service operates and can be opened from the Step Functions console.

AWS Backup: Single-step Cross-Region Snapshot Copy

🔁 AWS Backup now supports a single-action copy of database snapshots across AWS Regions and accounts for Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB. This eliminates the previous two-step process and removes the need for intermediate copies, custom scripts, or Lambda automation. The change reduces operational complexity and helps achieve faster RPOs while removing costs associated with intermediate snapshot storage. You can use the feature today via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

AWS Cloud Map Adds Cross-Account Support in GovCloud

🔁 AWS Cloud Map now supports cross-account service discovery in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions through integration with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). By sharing namespaces, you can allow individual accounts, Organizational Units, or an entire AWS Organization to discover resources such as Amazon ECS tasks, EC2 instances, and DynamoDB tables across accounts. The capability is available now in GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West) via Console, API, SDK, CLI, and CloudFormation.

AWS Serverless MCP Server Adds ESM Tools for Lambda

🔧 The AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server now includes specialized tools to configure and manage AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESM), combining AI assistance with ESM expertise. The new toolset—comprising the ESM guidance tool, the ESM optimization tool, and an ESM Kafka troubleshooting tool—translates high-level throughput, latency, and reliability requirements into concrete ESM configurations and generates optimized AWS SAM templates. It also validates VPC network topology for VPC-based event sources and diagnoses common ESM issues to streamline setup, tuning, and troubleshooting workflows.

AWS releases AI agent context pack for Greengrass developers

🤖 AWS announced an open-source AI agent context package for AWS IoT Greengrass that provides ready-to-use instructions, examples, and templates to accelerate edge device application development. The package is published on GitHub under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license and is designed to integrate with generative AI tools such as Amazon Q. Developers can clone the repository to jumpstart creation, testing, and fleet-wide deployment workflows across supported Regions.

Amazon OCSF Ready Specialization for AWS Partners Program

🔒 Amazon today introduced the Amazon OCSF Ready Specialization to recognize AWS Partners that have technically validated their software to integrate with OCSF-compatible Amazon services and demonstrated customer success in production. The designation helps customers find pre-validated partner solutions that send or receive logs and security events in the OCSF schema, reducing integration complexity. Partners earn AWS Specialization Program benefits and signature support, including private strategy sessions and AWS guest speaker assistance. The specialization replaces and expands the prior Amazon Security Lake Specialization to broaden standardized security data interoperability.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Adds Anomaly Detection

🔍 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now includes anomaly detection using the Random Cut Forest (RCF) algorithm to continuously analyze time series and surface unexpected metric behavior with minimal user intervention. When you create an anomaly detector in an AMP workspace, it generates four derived time series that represent detected anomalies and their confidence values. Those derived series can be used to build dynamic alerting rules in the AMP Alertmanager and visualized alongside input metrics in self‑managed Grafana or Amazon Managed Grafana. The feature is available in all regions where AMP is generally available and is configurable via the AWS CLI, SDKs, or APIs.

Amazon ECS Service Connect Adds Envoy Access Logs Support

🔍 Amazon ECS Service Connect now captures per-request telemetry with Envoy access logs to improve visibility into service-to-service traffic for tracing, debugging, and compliance. Access logging is enabled via the ServiceConnectConfiguration and emits Envoy logs to STDOUT alongside application logs, flowing through the existing ECS log pipeline without extra infrastructure. Query strings are redacted by default and the feature supports HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and TCP protocols. The capability is available in all regions where Service Connect is supported.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Adds Web Bot Auth Preview

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now previews Web Bot Auth, a draft IETF protocol that cryptographically identifies AI agents to websites. The feature automatically generates credentials, signs HTTP requests with private keys, and registers verified agent identities to reduce CAPTCHA interruptions and human intervention in automated workflows. It streamlines verification across major providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, and HUMAN Security, and is available in nine AWS Regions on a consumption-based pricing model with no upfront costs.

TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 Now on Amazon Bedrock Platform

🎥 TwelveLabs' Marengo Embed 3.0 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, providing a unified video-native multimodal embedding that represents video, images, audio, and text in a single vector space. The release doubles processing capacity—up to 4 hours and 6 GB per file—expands language support to 36 languages, and improves sports analysis and multimodal search precision. It supports synchronous low-latency text and image inference and asynchronous processing for video, audio, and large files.

Stability AI Image Tools Expanded in Amazon Bedrock

🖼 Amazon Bedrock now offers four new image-editing tools in Stability AI Image Services: Outpaint, Fast Upscale, Conservative Upscale, and Creative Upscale. These additions expand the platform's Edit, Upscale, and Control capabilities, enabling creators to perform targeted edits and resolution enhancements with greater precision. The tools are accessible via the Bedrock API and are initially supported in US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), and US East (Ohio).

Spike in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP, IoT

🔍 Cybersecurity researchers warn of a sharp rise in automated botnet campaigns targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways. The Qualys Threat Research Unit says Mirai, Gafgyt, Mozi and similar botnets are exploiting known CVEs, misconfigurations and exposed secrets to recruit vulnerable systems. Attackers leverage active debug interfaces (for example using '/?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=phpstorm'), scan from cloud providers to mask origin, and turn compromised routers and DVRs into residential proxies. Recommended mitigations include prompt patching, removing development tools from production, securing secrets with AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, and restricting public cloud access.

Amazon S3 Adds Conditional Copy Support for Writes

🔐 Amazon S3 now supports conditional copy operations via the CopyObject API, enabling verification of an object's existence or content in the destination bucket before copying. You can supply the HTTP If-None-Match header to ensure the destination object does not exist, or If-Match with an ETag to validate content prior to copy. Administrators can enforce these checks using s3:if-match and s3:if-none-match bucket policy condition keys. This capability is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions and removes the need for additional client-side coordination or pre-copy validation calls.

Amazon EBS adds per-minute avg IOPS and throughput metrics

📈 Amazon EBS now emits two new per-volume CloudWatch metrics—VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput—providing one-minute average I/O and throughput visibility. These metrics are enabled by default at no extra charge for all EBS volumes attached to EC2 Nitro instances in Commercial Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China. Use them to monitor trends, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, tune provisioned performance, and build dashboards or alarms to automate responses.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Corretto 25 with Tomcat 11 on AL2023

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports building and deploying Tomcat 11 applications using Amazon Corretto 25 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). The platform enables developers to leverage Java 25 and Jakarta EE 11 features such as compact object headers, ahead‑of‑time (AOT) caching, and structured concurrency while benefiting from AL2023’s security and performance improvements. Environments can be created through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API and are generally available in commercial and GovCloud regions.

Amazon EC2 High-Memory U7i-8tb Instances in London

🚀 AWS has launched Amazon EC2 U7i-8tb (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) instances in the Europe (London) region, offering 8 TiB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs for memory-intensive workloads. Powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), these 7th-generation instances deliver up to 135% more compute than prior U-1 instances and support up to 100 Gbps for EBS and networking with ENA Express. They are aimed at mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Rise in Attacks on PHP Servers, IoT and Cloud Gateways

🔒 Qualys' Threat Research Unit reports a sharp rise in attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices and cloud gateways, driven by botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt and Mozi exploiting known CVEs and misconfigurations. Researchers highlight active exploitation of flaws like CVE-2022-47945 (ThinkPHP RCE), CVE-2021-3129 (Laravel Ignition) and aging test/debug artifacts such as CVE-2017-9841, while attackers also harvest exposed AWS credentials. Qualys urges continuous visibility, timely patching, removal of debugging tools in production and managed secret stores to reduce risk.