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Amazon Corretto October 2025 LTS Security Updates Released

🔔 Amazon released quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto LTS builds on October 21, 2025, providing new binaries for Corretto 25.0.1, 21.0.9, 17.0.17, 11.0.29 and 8u472. The distributions for Generic Linux, Alpine and macOS now include Async-Profiler, a low‑overhead sampling profiler that captures CPU, heap and native allocations, contention and hardware/software counters. Downloads are available from the Corretto home page or via Apt, Yum and Apk repositories, and contributors can provide feedback on the Corretto GitHub.

Amazon SES adds IP observability for DIP-M pools capability

📬 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now exposes the exact IP addresses used by Dedicated IP Addresses - Managed (DIP-M) pools. Customers can view these IPs via the console, CLI, or SES API and access Microsoft SNDS metrics for each address. SES also creates CloudWatch metrics for SNDS data to aid reputation monitoring. This gives customers greater transparency into sending activity and helps diagnose deliverability and reputation issues with mailbox providers.

Amazon EC2 U7i-6TB High Memory Instances in London

🚀 AWS has launched the U7i-6tb High Memory instance in the Europe (London) Region, offering 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs for large in-memory workloads. Powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, these 7th-generation instances support up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network and include ENA Express for lower latency. They are aimed at mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling higher transaction throughput and faster data loading and backups.

Amazon Connect Adds Automated Triggered Evaluations

🔔 Amazon Connect can now automatically initiate follow-up evaluations when specific conditions are detected during initial Contact Lens reviews. For example, if the first evaluation surfaces customer interest in a product, Connect can trigger a targeted follow-up focused on the agent's sales performance. Managers gain consistent standards across cohorts and capture deeper insights into sales opportunities, escalations, and other critical interaction moments. The capability is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds Video, Faster Images

🎞️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports AVI, MKV, and WEBM video formats and the AV1 and MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) codecs, expanding coverage for archival, multi-track, and web-based videos. The service also delivers up to 50% faster image processing to accelerate extraction of visual insights. BDA is available in eight AWS Regions, enabling organizations to process native formats and streamline GenAI workflows.

Amazon Nova adds customizable content moderation settings

🔒 Amazon announced that Amazon Nova models now support customizable content moderation settings for approved business use cases that require processing or generating sensitive content. Organizations can adjust controls across four domains—safety, sensitive content, fairness, and security—while Amazon enforces essential, non-configurable safeguards to protect children and preserve privacy. Customization is available for Amazon Nova Lite and Amazon Nova Pro in the US East (N. Virginia) region; customers should contact their AWS Account Manager to confirm eligibility.

CloudWatch Database Insights: On-Demand Analysis for RDS

📊 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now offers on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server, extending automated diagnostics to that engine. The feature uses machine learning to compare a selected time period against baseline performance, surface anomalies, and provide tailored remediation advice. Administrators can enable this in Advanced mode via the RDS console, APIs, SDKs, or CloudFormation to reduce mean-time-to-diagnosis from hours to minutes.

Amazon ECS Adds CloudTrail Data Events for Agent API

🔍 Amazon ECS now emits AWS CloudTrail data events for ECS Agent API activities, giving teams detailed visibility into container instance operations. Customers can opt in to the new data event resource type AWS::ECS::ContainerInstance to capture actions such as ecs:Poll, ecs:StartTelemetrySession, and ecs:PutSystemLogEvents. The capability is available for ECS on EC2 across all AWS Regions and for ECS Managed Instances in select regions. Standard CloudTrail data event charges apply.

Major AWS Outage Disrupts Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite

⚠️ AWS experienced a widespread outage affecting multiple services in the US-EAST-1 region, causing elevated error rates and latencies across key APIs. The disruption, tied to a DNS resolution issue for the DynamoDB API endpoint and subsequent network load balancer problems, interrupted login and content services for platforms such as Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite, Canva and Perplexity. AWS reported mitigation steps and later declared services restored after extended recovery efforts.

AWS US-EAST-1 Outage Disrupts Major Sites and Apps

🚨 An AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread disruptions across multiple consumer services, producing elevated error rates and higher latencies. Major platforms including Amazon, PrimeVideo, Fortnite, Perplexity, and Canva reported failures ranging from login and chat outages to impaired editing functionality. AWS acknowledged the incident on its Health page and said engineers were investigating and mitigating the issue. After roughly 45 minutes some services began recovering, though many users still experienced intermittent problems.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Adds Support for Slurm v25.05

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05, enabling PCS clusters to run the latest Slurm capabilities. The release introduces enhanced multi-cluster sackd configuration so login nodes can manage multiple clusters without requiring sackd reconfiguration or restarts, allowing administrators to preconfigure user access across clusters. It also implements improved requeue behavior that automatically retries failed instance launches during capacity shortages, increasing scheduling resilience and overall cluster reliability.

Securing Amazon Bedrock API Keys: Best Practices Guidance

🔐 AWS details practical guidance for implementing and managing Amazon Bedrock API keys, the service-specific credentials that provide bearer-token access to Bedrock. It recommends STS temporary credentials when possible and defines two API key types: short-term (client-generated, auto-expiring) and long-term (IAM-user associated). Protection advice includes using SCPs, iam and bedrock condition keys, and storing long-term keys in secure vaults. Detection and monitoring use CloudTrail, EventBridge rules, and an AWS Config rule, and response steps show CLI commands to deactivate and delete compromised keys.

CloudWatch Database Insights Adds Tag-Based Access Control

🔐 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports tag-based access control for database-level and per-query metrics powered by RDS Performance Insights. Instance tags defined on RDS and Aurora are now automatically evaluated to authorize Performance Insights metrics, enabling IAM policies to use tag-based access conditions across logical groups of databases. This reduces manual, resource-level permission management and improves governance and security consistency. The feature is available in all AWS regions where Database Insights is offered.

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: Centralized Capacity View

📊 Amazon today announced general availability of Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a console and API capability that centralizes monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity across accounts and Regions. The tool provides dashboards and drilldowns for On-Demand, Spot, and Capacity Reservations, historical trends, optimization recommendations, and exportable data for integration. Available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost.

OpenSearch Service Adds Graviton4 EC2 Instance Support

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4-based EC2 instance families — compute-optimized C8g, general-purpose M8g, and memory-optimized R8g/R8gd — across multiple regions. Graviton4 processors deliver up to 30% better performance compared with Graviton3 and are supported on all OpenSearch versions as well as Elasticsearch 7.9 and 7.10. The change is intended to improve price-performance for compute-, general-, and memory-intensive search and analytics workloads.

Amazon EC2 C8g Instances Expand to More AWS Regions

🚀 Amazon has made EC2 C8g instances available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne). These Graviton4-powered instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based instances and are optimized for compute-intensive workloads such as HPC, batch processing, gaming, video encoding, distributed analytics, CPU-based ML inference, and ad serving. Built on the AWS Nitro System, C8g instances provide larger instance sizes (including bare metal), up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking, and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth to improve both performance and security.

AWS Bedrock Guardrails: Customer-Managed KMS Keys Support

🔐 AWS now supports customer-managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks. Customers can encrypt policy content and test artifacts with their own keys instead of the default key, retaining control over lifecycle and access. This capability helps regulated organizations meet compliance requirements and is available in all Bedrock Guardrails regions. Refer to AWS documentation and the Bedrock console to get started.

AWS Systems Manager: Windows Security Update Alerts

🛡️ AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now notifies when Windows security updates are available but not approved by a customer's patch baseline. The feature adds a new patch state, AvailableSecurityUpdate, and by default surfaces these instances as Non-Compliant, helping administrators spot missing security patches even when using long ApprovalDelay windows. Organizations can preserve existing reporting by configuring patch baseline behavior. The capability is available in all Regions and incurs no additional charges; administrators can enable it from the Patch Manager console or documentation.

AWS Marketplace Adds Purchase Order Line Number Support

🧾 AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order (PO) line numbers for Marketplace transactions, allowing customers to associate charges with a specific PO line during procurement and for future charges post-procurement in the AWS Marketplace console. Invoices show the related purchase order and PO line number in the Billing and Cost Management console, helping teams accurately match invoices to POs. This capability is available today in all supported AWS Regions.

Amazon Timestream Now Adds Managed InfluxDB 3 Support

🚀 Amazon Timestream now offers managed support for InfluxDB 3, enabling developers and DevOps teams to run InfluxDB 3 databases as a managed service. InfluxDB 3 introduces a new architecture built on Apache Arrow for in-memory processing, Apache DataFusion for query execution, and columnar Parquet storage with persistence to Amazon S3 to improve query performance and scale for high-cardinality workloads. The service is available in two editions—Core (open source, near real-time) and Enterprise (multi-node, HA, compaction for long-term storage)—with Enterprise supporting initial multi-node clusters up to three nodes. Available in all Regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is offered; see the console, documentation, and pricing to get started.