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🔧 AWS Transform now supports landing zone creation directly within migration workflows, enabling automated deployment of a secure, multi-account AWS environment tailored to migration requirements. By consolidating orchestration previously handled across AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, and AWS IAM, the feature accelerates migration readiness and removes a separate target-environment workstream. Customers can customize OU hierarchies, accounts, and SCPs, choose agent-managed deployment, or download Infrastructure as Code templates in CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Landing Zone Accelerator formats. The capability is available across supported target regions.

🔒 AWS has automatically upgraded all AWS Managed Microsoft AD directories to the Windows functional level 2016, effective Apr 20, 2026. The update delivers enhanced authentication and improved privileged access management and enables built-in LAPS to generate unique, complex local administrator passwords stored securely in Active Directory. The upgrade is applied in all Regions where the service is available, except Middle East (UAE) and Middle East (Bahrain). See the AWS Directory Service Administration Guide for details.

🔒 AWS Managed Microsoft AD can now forward Kerberos Encryption audit event logs (Event IDs 201–209) to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. These logs provide visibility into whether clients and services negotiate RC4 or AES encryption, helping you decide whether to upgrade clients for stronger protection or retain compatibility. Enable log forwarding from the directory's Network and Security tab in the Directory Service console. This feature is available in all AWS Regions offering the service except UAE and Bahrain.

🚀 AWS has launched EC2 High Memory U7i instances — u7i-8tb.112xlarge and u7i-12tb.224xlarge — in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. These 7th-generation instances use custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and provide 8TiB or 12TiB of DDR5 memory with 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively. They support up to 100 Gbps for Amazon EBS and network bandwidth and include ENA Express, targeting mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🆕 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports flexible instance groups, allowing multiple instance types and multiple subnets within a single instance group. Using a new InstanceRequirements parameter, HyperPod provisions the highest-priority instance type first and automatically falls back to lower-priority types when capacity is unavailable. The feature integrates with Karpenter autoscaling and can be created via the CreateCluster/UpdateCluster APIs, AWS CLI, or the Management Console.

🚀 AWS released Neuron SDK 2.29.0, promoting the Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) to Stable (v0.3.0) and adding a Standard Library plus a CPU Simulator for local kernel development. The update introduces ISA-level features, DMA priority controls, and variable-length collectives, along with seven new experimental kernels and improvements to existing ones. NxD Inference and the vLLM Neuron Plugin receive vision-language optimizations. Neuron Explorer moves to Stable and is available on the VS Code marketplace.

🔁 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now automatically discovers and caches OCI referrers — including image signatures, SBOMs, and attestations — from upstream registries for repositories configured with pull through cache. Previously, referrers had to be listed and fetched manually because ECR would not return or sync them for cached repositories. With this change, referrers API requests reach upstream and automatically cache related artifacts, enabling end-to-end signature verification, SBOM discovery, and attestation retrieval without client-side workarounds. The feature is available today in all Regions where Amazon ECR pull through cache is supported.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports on-demand deep health checks for Amazon EKS and Slurm-orchestrated clusters. Administrators can run comprehensive GPU stress and connectivity tests on entire instance groups or specific instances, with progress and results visible at both group and instance levels via the SageMaker console and APIs. Instances under test are isolated from scheduling and are returned to service upon passing or, when paired with automatic node recovery, rebooted or replaced if they fail.

🔎 AWS Deadline Cloud now includes an AI-powered troubleshooting assistant that analyzes failed render jobs to diagnose root causes and recommend fixes. The assistant examines logs and metrics for issues like missing assets, software errors, configuration mismatches, and resource constraints, drawing on a pre-trained knowledge base covering Deadline Cloud and popular DCC apps. It runs inside your AWS account via Amazon Bedrock and is available in all regions that support Deadline Cloud.

🔁 The AWS Professional Services team provides a configuration-driven ETL accelerator that converts custom security logs into OCSF v1.1 and writes OCSF-compliant Parquet files partitioned for use with Amazon Security Lake or other data lakes. The serverless-first solution uses S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions and either AWS Glue or EMR Serverless, and ingests mapping and metadata CSVs to drive transformations. An open-source GitHub repository includes deployment artifacts, example mappings, and instructions to validate outputs and run historical loads.

🔁 Amazon Connect now supports using flow modules across all flow types, enabling reuse of common logic beyond inbound customer experiences. You can embed modules within other modules to build layered, maintainable processes—examples include sharing recent-transaction data in an agent whisper flow or composing credit-eligibility workflows that invoke score, income, and payment-history checks. This modular approach simplifies development and scaling. The capability is available in all AWS regions offering Amazon Connect.

📈 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating workspaces with Grafana 12.4. The release includes features from Grafana 11.0–12.4 such as queryless Drilldown apps, the Scenes rendering engine for improved dashboard performance, variables in transformations, a rebuilt table visualization with CSS cell styling and Actions buttons, and trendline transformations. Amazon CloudWatch plugin updates add PPL/SQL log querying, cross-account Metrics Insights, and log anomaly detection. Create workspaces via the AWS Console, SDK, or CLI.

⚙️ AWS Clean Rooms now supports configurable Spark properties for PySpark analyses, allowing customers to tune memory overhead, task concurrency, and network timeouts on a per-job basis. This capability helps teams adapt resource allocation to specific performance and scale requirements, improving throughput and cost efficiency. For example, pharmaceutical researchers collaborating with healthcare partners can set tailored memory and concurrency settings for large real-world clinical datasets to optimize runtime and expenses.

🚀 SageMaker JumpStart now offers optimized deployments for foundation models, providing pre-configured, task-aware settings tailored to specific use cases and performance goals. Customers can choose cost-, throughput-, latency-optimized, or balanced configurations and preview P50 latency, time-to-first-token, and throughput metrics before deployment. Supported models include variants from Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Qwen, Google, and TII, and deployments target SageMaker AI Managed Inference endpoints or HyperPod clusters. The feature leverages VPC deployment capabilities and is available in all regions where JumpStart is supported.

🌍 Amazon has expanded CloudWatch RUM to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling customers subject to strict data residency and sovereignty rules to collect client-side performance data within the sovereign boundary. The feature captures page load times, JavaScript errors, HTTP failures, and mobile signals to help teams triage issues faster. It is intended for enterprises, public sector organizations, and regulated industries operating in Europe.

📡 Amazon CloudWatch now lets customers audit and enable telemetry from AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and AWS CloudTrail across multiple Regions from a single region. Administrators can create organization-wide enablement rules scoped to specific regions or all supported regions, and rules targeting all regions automatically expand to include newly launched regions. The feature is available in all AWS commercial regions and standard CloudWatch ingestion pricing applies.

🛡️ AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). It enables organizations with data sovereignty requirements to protect mission-critical workloads and supports recovery from physical infrastructure, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, and cloud environments. AWS DRS delivers point-in-time recovery with RPOs measured in seconds and RTOs typically in minutes, and provides a unified process for testing, recovery, and failback.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia), allowing organizations to provision virtual desktops closer to users for improved responsiveness and potential in‑country data residency. In Ohio, the availability also supports disaster recovery implementations and regional compliance requirements. Administrators can begin by selecting the new Regions in the WorkSpaces management console.

🚀 Amazon has expanded FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 to four more Regions—Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta), Europe (Zurich), and South America (São Paulo). These file systems run on AWS Graviton processors and deliver up to 1 GB/s per terabyte throughput with a lower cost of throughput than previous generations. The change helps accelerate machine learning, high-performance computing, media & entertainment, and financial simulation workloads while reducing storage costs. To get started, create a file system through the AWS Management Console.

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% higher performance versus the prior C6in generation and scale up to 384 vCPUs. C8in provides up to 600 Gbps networking for network-intensive workloads, while C8ib offers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for high-performance databases and file systems. Both families are available in select regions and via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.