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🔔 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.

💧Customers can now view annual water withdrawals data associated with their AWS workloads in the AWS Sustainability service, alongside existing carbon emissions metrics. Data is available by AWS Region, service, and account on an annual basis via the console and API, reflecting total volume withdrawn for data center operations and showing efficiency improvements as reduced withdrawals. The feature is provided at no extra charge in Regions where the service is available.

🔔 You can now transition objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (One Zone-IA) immediately after creation, removing the previous 30-day minimum in S3 Standard. These classes provide up to 40% lower storage costs than S3 Standard with millisecond access, suitable for backups, log analytics, and compliance data that becomes cold quickly. Configure new S3 Lifecycle rules with 0-day transitions via the S3 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs, available in all Regions where the storage classes are offered.

🛡️ AWS Backup restore testing is now available in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). The capability automates periodic restore tests for supported storage, compute, and database resources, letting you create plans that select recovery points, run scheduled restores, and measure completion against recovery time objectives. This helps organisations evaluate recovery readiness and meet regulatory and business continuity requirements. To start, use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs and consult the documentation for supported Regions and pricing.

🔒 AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). These vaults provide immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. You can back up directly to these vaults, copy backups across accounts and Regions, share via AWS Resource Access Manager, and use Multi-party approval to protect access during account compromise. Use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs to get started and consult the documentation for region and feature details.

🔧 AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) can now automatically re-apply an account's customizations when the account is moved to a different Organizational Unit (OU). Previously, moving an enrolled account required a manual trigger, increasing operational overhead and risk of configuration drift. You can opt in by setting aft_customization_triggers = ["account_move"], and exclude specific accounts with account_skip_customization_triggers = "true". The re-application run skips bootstrap and provisioning phases for faster execution and includes additional improvements such as custom Terraform Cloud/Enterprise workspace naming, tighter logging bucket access controls, and better scaling for Enterprise Support enrollment.

🚀 Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. This designation enables customers to build and run applications subject to FedRAMP Moderate compliance using Aurora DSQL. Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database offering active-active high availability, multi-Region strong consistency, and virtually unlimited scale.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now supports 25 new commands and functions to enhance log querying, transformation, correlation, and analysis. The additions include type conversion and encoding, date/time, string, JSON inspection, statistical, sessionization, sequencing, null-handling, comparison, join, and lookup enrichment capabilities. These features are available today in all commercial AWS Regions and extend common tasks such as outlier detection, time-window comparisons, enrichment with lookup data, and handling of nulls in time-series analysis. See the CloudWatch Logs documentation for details.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers intelligent storage tiering across three tiers — Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access — automatically classifying log data based on access patterns. This feature lets you retain high-volume verbose logs natively in CloudWatch at lower cost without operational overhead, while preserving the same query experience regardless of tier. Data not accessed for 30 days moves to Infrequent Access and for 90 days to Archive Instant Access; accessing older data promotes it back to Standard for 30 days. Intelligent-tiering is available in all AWS commercial regions except Bahrain and UAE and can be enabled at the account level via Console, SDKs, or CLI.

📣 Amazon MQ now lets you configure EBS Disk storage size for RabbitMQ brokers independently of instance type. This applies to RabbitMQ M7g brokers on version 4.2+ using cluster deployments, with storage selectable in 5 GB increments from the M7g default to the instance-specific maximum. You can set storage via the AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK; changes take effect after a broker reboot and follow standard Amazon MQ storage pricing.

🚀 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Express Brokers now supports Apache Kafka version 4.2. This update brings Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) enhancements for improved leader election correctness, a new consumer rebalance protocol for faster group rebalances, and a Streams Rebalance Protocol to extend broker coordination to Kafka Streams. MSK Express delivers up to three times more throughput per broker, faster scaling, and reduced recovery time; version 4.2 is available today and can be selected when creating or upgrading clusters via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs.

⚙️ AWS has expanded availability of Graviton4-based R8g instances for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB across multiple regions, and added M8g support in additional regions. These instances offer up to 40% better performance and up to 29% improved price/performance versus Graviton3 equivalents, with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes providing up to 192 vCPUs, DDR5 memory at an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, and enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth. R8g and M8g instances can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI; engine version, pricing, and regional details are available in the Aurora/RDS documentation and pricing pages.

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports R8gd instances in 12 additional regions and M8gd instances in 6 more regions, offering Optimized Reads for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB. These R8gd and M8gd instances provide up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% improved price-performance over R6g for Aurora PostgreSQL by using local NVMe SSDs for ephemeral data and extended caching. Customers can enable Optimized Reads via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK by creating or modifying databases to use these instance types. Regional availability lists and engine version compatibility are provided in the Aurora and RDS documentation.

🔐 Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes in CSV imports, allowing migrated users to sign in immediately with existing credentials. Administrators specify the source system's hashing algorithm during import, and Cognito verifies passwords against the imported hash on first sign-in. Supported algorithms include bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2id, and PBKDF2 with SHA-256; all imported hashes receive additional cryptographic protection before storage. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where Cognito is offered and can be used via the Console, CLI, or SDKs.

🛡️ AWS Glue now offers the SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). These integrations support Amazon DynamoDB, Salesforce, and SAP OData as sources and let regulated customers replicate data into Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, or other destinations without custom pipelines. The fully managed zero-ETL option reduces operational overhead and engineering effort by providing a no-code interface to set up continuous data replication and maintain up-to-date replicas for analytics.

🛠️ Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI coding agents like Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor to build, manage, and query OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections. The integration uses the AWS MCP server to execute API calls and the curated amazon-opensearch-service skill to translate natural-language requests into capabilities. It supports migration, operations, search, log analytics, and trace analytics across managed domains and serverless collections with no infrastructure changes and no additional charge.

🛈 Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). The service simplifies setup, operation, and scaling of Db2 databases with automated configuration and optional Multi-AZ synchronous replication for high availability. Licensing options include hourly pay-as-you-go from the AWS Marketplace, Bring Your Own License (BYOL), and the Db2 Community Edition for development and test use. Documentation and pricing pages provide further details.

🚀 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now recovers AWS-based workloads faster by skipping unnecessary preparation steps for source servers running on Amazon EC2. This optimization can reduce recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and up to 40% for Linux, while still automatically applying networking, drivers, and licensing. Administrators can enable faster recovery across an account or on a per-server basis and change settings as needed. The feature is available in all Regions offering AWS DRS at no additional cost.

🔧 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports the Amazon EBS volume initialization rate to accelerate restored volume performance during drills and recoveries. When DRS creates volumes from snapshots, data loads from Amazon S3 in the background and uninitialized blocks can show slower I/O; setting a volume initialization rate on your DRS-managed EC2 launch template lets DRS apply that rate automatically at recovery. This preserves performance for I/O-intensive workloads and is retained across template updates; if the rate cannot be applied, DRS still completes the recovery to avoid blocking operations. Support is available in all Regions where the EBS initialization rate is offered, and charges apply per GB based on snapshot size and your chosen rate.

📌 Amazon CloudWatch now offers a lookup processor that enriches log events by matching log fields against uploaded CSV lookup tables within CloudWatch Pipelines. You can map reference data—such as IP-to-team, user IDs, or product codes—to automatically add metadata at ingestion, improving queries, dashboards, and alarms without external processing. The feature is available in all commercial AWS regions that support CloudWatch Pipelines and is configurable via the Console, CLI, or SDKs.