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🔍 Amazon WorkSpaces Advisor is an AI-powered troubleshooting assistant for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal. It analyzes WorkSpace configurations, identifies problems, and provides actionable recommendations to restore service and optimize performance. Administrators can use its generative AI insights to streamline investigations, reduce downtime, and proactively maintain virtual desktop infrastructure. The feature is now available in all AWS commercial regions via the WorkSpaces console.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports i8ge storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4. i8ge delivers up to 60% better compute performance versus prior Graviton2-based Im4gn instances and uses third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for up to 55% higher real-time storage throughput per TB, with substantially lower I/O latency and variability. Instances scale to 18xlarge (up to 45 TB) and offer up to 112.5 Gbps networking, and they support all OpenSearch versions plus Elasticsearch 7.9 and 7.10. Availability spans multiple US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions; consult regional pricing and product pages for details.

🚀 Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in five additional AWS Regions — EU-West-1 (Dublin), EU-West-2 (London), AP-South-1 (Mumbai), AP-South-2 (Hyderabad), and AP-Northeast-2 (Seoul) — expanding coverage to twelve Regions. The service enables AWS customers to access OCI-managed Oracle Exadata systems from within AWS data centers, supporting in-region data residency and migrations of on-prem Exadata and RAC workloads. Dublin, Mumbai, and Hyderabad offer two Availability Zones while London and Seoul currently provide one; CA-Central-1 and AP-Southeast-2 now support two AZs for enhanced production availability. To consume the service, request a private offer from Oracle via the AWS Marketplace and provision databases through the AWS Management Console.

🔎 Unit 42 found that Amazon's AgentCore Code Interpreter sandbox permitted recursive DNS resolution, enabling covert DNS tunneling that can exfiltrate and receive data despite advertised isolation. They also identified a regression in the microVM Metadata Service where MMDSv1 accepted unauthenticated HTTP GETs without session-token enforcement, exposing credentials and pre-signed S3 artifacts. AWS was notified and implemented mitigations including documentation updates, setting MMDSv2 as the default for new runtimes, and providing APIs to disable v1 on legacy agents.

🛡️ At AWS, decades of scaled security operations combine with new AI collaborations to proactively harden critical systems. Through Project Glasswing and Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, AWS runs continuous AI-driven code reviews and provides gated research previews via Amazon Bedrock. Complementary offerings include AWS Security Agent for autonomous penetration testing and Bedrock guardrails and Automated Reasoning to enforce enterprise controls and reduce risk.

🚀 Amazon Lightsail is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, bringing Lightsail's simplified cloud compute and networking to customers in Malaysia and neighboring countries. The launch offers lower latency, improved performance and helps meet local data residency requirements. Customers gain access to instances (general purpose, compute- and memory-optimized), managed databases, containers, load balancers and predictable pricing via the Lightsail Console, AWS CLI and SDKs.

⚙️ Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Serverless Workflows in Identity Center domains, allowing customers to orchestrate data-processing tasks with Apache Airflow (via Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow) without provisioning Airflow infrastructure. Serverless Workflows auto-provision compute during runs and release it afterward, so you pay only for actual run time. Each workflow runs with its own execution role and isolated worker to ensure workflow-level security and prevent cross-workflow interference. The Visual Workflow experience supports around 200 operators and built-in integrations with services such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon SageMaker AI.

📁 S3 Files provides a shared, high-performance file system that lets any AWS compute resource access data directly in Amazon S3 with full file-system semantics and low-latency performance, without moving objects out of S3. Built on Amazon EFS, it maintains a live view of bucket objects and translates file operations into efficient S3 requests so applications and agents run unchanged. It caches active data for fast reads, delivers multi-terabytes-per-second aggregate throughput, and is generally available in 34 AWS Regions.

⚡ Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i 8th‑generation instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. These instance types deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and up to 2.5× more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, targeting memory‑intensive and latency‑sensitive Oracle workloads. Support is offered in a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2, and you can modify existing RDS instances or create new ones through the RDS Management Console, AWS SDKs, or CLI.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to Rigetti's Cepheus-1-108Q, the first 100+ qubit superconducting QPU available on the service. The device uses a modular 3×4 array of twelve 9‑qubit chiplets with tunable and intermodule couplers and introduces CZ gates with an adiabatic implementation to reduce phase and leakage errors. Customers can run deeper circuits for chemical simulation, combinatorial optimization, and machine learning via the Braket SDK or frameworks such as Qiskit, CUDA‑Q, and Pennylane, and researchers can use pulse‑level control. Cepheus-1-108Q is available in the US West (N. California) Region.

🌐 AWS announced IPv6 support for AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors, AS2 connectors, and Transfer Family web apps. The change enables connectors to reach IPv6-native remote servers and trading partners while letting end users access web apps from IPv6 networks and devices. Dual-stack support lets customers communicate with both IPv4 and IPv6 systems during migration. The feature is available in most regions where Transfer Family is offered.

🔍 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now provides a console search bar and a new SearchCertificates API to locate certificates by domain name, certificate ARN, or validity range. Administrators managing large certificate inventories can combine parameters to quickly find certificates that are expiring soon or match specific criteria. The capability supports both ad hoc console queries and scripted automation via the API. This feature is available in Public AWS, AWS China, and AWS GovCloud regions.

🤖 AWS Cost Explorer now integrates Amazon Q generative AI so you can query your AWS cost and usage data using natural language. Suggested prompts and a new 'Ask Question' button let users pose common or custom questions while Cost Explorer automatically updates charts, filters, and groupings to match the query. When Amazon Q uses additional datasets like pricing or anomaly detection, visual outputs appear in an artifacts panel. The conversation remains contextual for follow-up analysis without switching tools.

📝 Amazon has added import/export capabilities to SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks to simplify migration from JupyterLab and other platforms. The feature supports .ipynb, .json, and .py formats while preserving cell types, outputs, execution history, and metadata. Exports are available in four package types (.zip with requirements, .ipynb, .py, and native .json). The release also introduces developer productivity features including cell reordering, keyboard shortcuts, cell renaming, and multi-line SQL with tabbed results.

🔑 AWS has added support for policy store aliases along with named policies and policy templates in Amazon Verified Permissions. Developers can now assign human-readable aliases to tenant policy stores and reference policies by meaningful names instead of system-generated IDs. This removes the need for separate mapping tables and simplifies multi-tenant deployments and everyday policy management. These capabilities are available in all Regions where the service operates.

🔒 Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now assigns globally unique, publicly resolvable DNS names to each AWS PrivateLink interface VPC endpoint. This change eliminates DNS name collisions across VPCs and accounts, enabling enterprises to deploy WorkSpaces Personal directories in multiple VPCs without conflict. The AWS-managed names resolve to private IP addresses reachable only within the respective VPC, require no additional Route 53 or custom DNS configuration, and remain backward compatible. The feature is available in all regions where PrivateLink supports WorkSpaces.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of Smithy-Java, an open-source Java framework that generates type-safe clients and standalone types from Smithy models. Built on Java 21 virtual threads, it offers a simpler blocking-style API while remaining competitive with complex async alternatives. The GA release includes a Java client code generator, support for AWS SigV4 and major protocols, a dynamic client that requires no codegen step, standalone type generation for reuse, schema-driven serialization to reduce SDK size, and binary decision diagrams for faster endpoint resolution.

🔔 Amazon Web Services now lets customers create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. The fully managed service delivers low-latency, high-throughput shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system with features like snapshots, data cloning, and compression. Designed for demanding workloads, it offers sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput while simplifying deployment and scaling. Check the AWS Region Table and product page for availability and details.

🚀 The new AWS IoT Greengrass Component SDK delivers a compact, high-performance runtime for edge devices, reducing component memory footprints to under 0.5MB compared with roughly 30MB. It provides native C, C++, and Rust bindings while maintaining compatibility with both the Greengrass nucleus and nucleus lite. Targeted at resource-constrained industries such as automotive, industrial IoT, robotics, and smart buildings, the SDK enables more complex AI/ML workloads at the edge and is available in all AWS Regions where Greengrass is offered.

🔐 Amazon S3 is rolling out a new default bucket security setting that will automatically disable server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C) for all new general purpose buckets. For existing buckets in accounts without any SSE-C-encrypted objects, S3 will also block SSE-C for new write requests. AWS will not change buckets in accounts that already use SSE-C. The rollout covers 37 regions, including AWS China and GovCloud, over the next few weeks.