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🔔 AWS has made new Amazon EC2 instance families (M8in, M8idn, M8ib, M8idb) available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor–based instances deliver up to 43% higher performance and include the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards. M8in/M8idn provide up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth for network-intensive workloads, while M8ib/M8idb offer up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for storage-heavy applications. The instances are available across multiple regions and purchasing options including Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔒 AWS IAM Identity Center has achieved FedRAMP Class C authorization and is now in scope for the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. This allows organizations to use the service to enable workforce access to AWS accounts and applications that require FedRAMP Class C compliance. The announcement reiterates that the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) standardizes security assessment and continuous monitoring for cloud services and that IAM Identity Center is the recommended AWS service for managing workforce access. Additional compliance and product guidance is available in the AWS documentation and user guides.

📣 Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns (SMS, WhatsApp, email) are now supported in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. Businesses can create targeted, personalized outreach for service updates, promotions, reminders, and product tips using the Connect Customer admin console and Outbound Campaigns APIs. Built-in analytics measure engagement and event-based triggers automate campaign start based on customer actions.

🛠️ Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now includes AI Agent Skills that provide expert, up-to-date guidance for building and operating Flink applications. The skills cover common tasks like creating applications, troubleshooting, scaling, monitoring, networking configuration, and cost optimization. Customers can use these skills with existing AI coding agents such as Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor by configuring the Agent Toolkit for AWS via the AWS CLI. The feature aims to speed development, simplify upgrades to versions like Flink 2.2, and help maintain healthy, performant streaming applications.

🛡️ AWS Security Hub now offers an AI inventory that gives central security teams a continuously updated, organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture. It automatically discovers AI workloads via managed-service integration, SBOM analysis for self-hosted workloads, and GuardDuty DNS telemetry for external API endpoints. Discovered assets are mapped to underlying infrastructure and correlated with security findings to help prioritize remediation. The feature is included with Security Hub Essentials at no additional cost and is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Security Hub is offered.

🔄 Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now offers automated rollback and support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces from PCoIP to the Amazon DCV streaming protocol. The update extends the console-based migration workflow and checkpoint snapshot support, enabling administrators to run large-scale migrations without manually starting stopped instances. These features are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where WorkSpaces Personal is supported.

🚀 Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available for single-Region clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region. Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency, designed for virtually unlimited scalability and zero infrastructure management. The service is now available in multiple AWS Regions and can be tried via the AWS Free Tier.

🗂️ AWS Storage Gateway now supports copying file shares across gateways directly from the console. The feature reads the source share configuration and creates a new, compatible file share on the destination gateway, preserving settings where possible. A guided workflow highlights any configurations that need attention before creation, simplifying migrations such as upgrades to AL2023. This capability is available in commercial AWS Regions and can be started from the Storage Gateway console's file shares view.

📝 You can now write custom data directly into CloudFront access logs using a new helper method available from within CloudFront Functions. These lightweight JavaScript functions run at the edge for tasks like URL rewrites, header manipulation, and request routing. Use cf.logCustomData() from viewer request or response functions to embed values such as A/B test variants, authentication outcomes, or routing decisions into the access log record. The feature works with both real-time and standard (v2) logging, and there is no additional charge for using cf.logCustomData().

🛠️ Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service is fully managed and Prometheus-compatible, enabling scalable monitoring and alerting on operational metrics. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metric series to a single workspace and create multiple workspaces per account. Availability in New Zealand expands regional coverage for customers using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.

🛠️ The new Amazon DocumentDB skill in the Agent Toolkit enables AI coding agents to provision, manage, migrate, optimize, and troubleshoot DocumentDB clusters using guided, best-practice workflows. The skill supports seven workflows including provisioning, schema design, MongoDB compatibility assessment, DMS migration with change data capture, performance tuning, a 41-check well-architected review, and major version upgrades. When used with the AWS MCP Server, agents can execute AWS CLI commands and diagnostic queries with IAM guardrails, CloudTrail logging, and sandboxed execution. The skill is also available standalone via the AWS CLI and is provided at no additional charge as part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS.

🆕 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports 46 additional MongoDB aggregation operators and cursor methods in minor version 8.0.1. This expansion covers accumulators, trigonometry, bitwise aggregation, arithmetic, data size and type checks, timestamp functions, and new stages and cursor methods. The new operators are available in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB is offered and aim to simplify MongoDB workload migration without application code changes.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has added OpenAI’s privacy-filter to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering a bidirectional token-classification model for PII detection and masking. The model is designed for fast, context-aware, tunable, high-throughput data sanitization workflows that can run on-premises. It detects PII spans like account numbers, addresses, emails, names, phones, URLs, dates, and secrets, labeling inputs in a single forward pass. Customers can deploy the model via the SageMaker Studio Models section or the SageMaker Python SDK.

🎙️ AWS added Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a multilingual, low-latency speech-transcription model from Mistral AI. The model offers natively streaming architecture for real-time transcription across 13 languages and configurable delay/accuracy trade-offs. Customers can deploy it via the SageMaker Studio Models section or the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid integration into speech applications.

🔍 AWS added Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling modular search and retrieval pipelines. The embedding model creates multimodal vectors from text, images, screenshots, and video across 30+ languages, while the reranker scores query–document pairs across 100+ languages. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK with a few clicks.

📰 Amazon Web Services has added gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal instruction-tuned foundation model from Google DeepMind, to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The model supports text, image, audio inputs and text outputs with a built-in stepwise reasoning mode and broad capabilities including image and video understanding, OCR, function calling, and multilingual code assistance. Customers can deploy it from the SageMaker Studio Models section or via the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid integration into AWS AI workflows.

🔄 Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations automatically when restoring a namespace from a snapshot or recovery point to the same serverless namespace. Previously, restores marked integrations as failed and required manual recreation, causing reconfiguration delays and potential ingestion gaps. With this improvement, integrations resume operating after restore completion, simplifying disaster recovery and testing workflows and reducing administrative overhead. This behavior applies only to restores within the same serverless namespace and is available in all regions where Redshift Serverless is offered.

🛡️ This post announces a new AWS compliance implementation guide: HITRUST i1 Compliance on AWS: Customer Implementation Guidance with an Illustrative Healthcare Platform. The guidance helps healthcare organizations bridge requirements and practical implementation on AWS, covering 11 HITRUST i1 technical domains. It uses a realistic example platform deployed on AWS Landing Zone Accelerator to make control mapping concrete while noting scoping remains organization-specific.

🔒 At AWS and other large vendors, AI is compressing months of security work into minutes by automating red-team findings, generating detections, and accelerating remediation. Experts debate whether this will widen an existing security class divide—where large organizations have talent, data, and infrastructure while smaller ones struggle—or democratize advanced capabilities. Key concerns include costs, privacy tradeoffs, token pricing, and the operational depth needed to safely run AI in production.

🔔 Amazon EC2 R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). Powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors exclusive to AWS and the latest sixth‑generation AWS Nitro cards, these instances provide up to 43% better compute per vCPU versus R6i predecessors. They offer leading network and EBS bandwidth, support EFA on large sizes, and are offered via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, and Spot.