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AWS Outposts expand to Canada (Central) and N California

📢 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Canada (Central) and US West (N. California) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers or colocation spaces, providing a consistent hybrid experience. Customers can order racks connected to these Regions to optimize for latency and data residency, run low-latency workloads locally, and maintain centralized management in their home Region.

Stability AI Image Services Now Available in Amazon Bedrock

🖼️ Amazon Bedrock now includes Stability AI Image Services, a suite of nine specialized image-editing tools available via the Bedrock API. The offering splits into Edit tools (Remove Background, Erase Object, Search and Replace, Search and Recolor, Inpaint) and Control tools (Structure, Sketch, Style Guide, Style Transfer). It is currently supported in US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), and US East (Ohio), and is intended to accelerate professional creative workflows with granular edit control.

Step Functions: Data Sources and Metrics for Distributed Map

⚙️ AWS Step Functions now expands Distributed Map input sources and adds visibility metrics. Distributed Map can now iterate S3 objects via S3ListObjectsV2, read AWS Athena data manifests and Parquet files directly, and extract arrays from JSON stored in S3 or passed as state input. New observability metrics — Approximate Open Map Runs Count, Open Map Run Limit, and Approximate Map Runs Backlog Size — provide operational insight. These features are available in all commercial AWS Regions; enable Distributed Map mode in the Step Functions console and consult the developer guide for examples.

Amazon Lex: confirmation and currency slots in 10 languages

🤖 Amazon Lex now supports built-in confirmation and currency slot types in 10 additional languages: Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. These built-in slots normalize varied user phrasing—mapping acknowledgements to 'Yes', 'No', 'Don't know', or 'Maybe' and converting currency expressions into structured formats such as 'USD 1.00'—to simplify multi-lingual conversational flows. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates and can improve chatbots and contact-center interactions.

OpenAI Open-Weight Models Now in Eight More AWS Regions

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of OpenAI open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to eight additional regions. The update adds US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), and Europe (Milan) to the previously supported US West (Oregon). This broader regional coverage reduces network latency, helps meet data residency preferences, and makes it easier for customers to deploy AI-powered applications closer to their users. Customers can access the models through the Amazon Bedrock console and supporting documentation to get started.

DeepSeek-V3.1 Available as Fully Managed in Bedrock

🔍 DeepSeek-V3.1 is now available as a fully managed foundation model in Amazon Bedrock, offering an open-weight option designed for enterprise deployment. The model supports a selectable 'thinking' mode for step-by-step analysis and a faster non-thinking mode for quicker replies, with improved multilingual accuracy and reduced hallucinations. Enhanced tool-calling, transparent reasoning, and strong coding and analytical performance make it well suited for building AI agents, automating workflows, and tackling complex technical tasks. DeepSeek-V3.1 is available in US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), and Europe (London, Stockholm).

AWS Bedrock Adds OpenAI Open‑Weight Models in Eight Regions

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of OpenAI open weight models on AWS Bedrock to eight additional AWS Regions worldwide. The update brings the models to US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm, Ireland, London, Milan) and South America (São Paulo), alongside existing US West (Oregon) support. This broader footprint aims to lower latency, improve model performance and help customers meet data residency requirements. To get started, use the Amazon Bedrock console or consult the documentation.

Amazon Bedrock Adds Four Qwen3 Open-Weight Models Now

🤖 Amazon Web Services added four Qwen3 open-weight foundation models to Amazon Bedrock as fully managed, serverless offerings. The lineup—Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B—covers both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures. The coder variants specialize in agentic coding, function calling, and tool use, while the 235B and 32B models provide general reasoning and efficient dense computation. These models are available now across multiple AWS regions, enabling developers to build advanced AI applications without managing infrastructure.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Adds Disk-Optimized Vectors

🔍 Amazon has added disk-optimized vector storage to OpenSearch Serverless, offering a lower-cost alternative to memory-optimized vectors while maintaining equivalent accuracy and recall. The disk-optimized option may introduce slightly higher latency, so it is best suited for semantic search, recommendation systems, and other AI search scenarios that do not require sub-millisecond responses. As a fully managed service, OpenSearch Serverless continues to automatically scale compute capacity (measured in OCUs) to match workload demands.

Amazon EVS Adds HCX Migration Over Public Internet

🌐 Amazon EVS now supports VMware HCX migrations over the public internet using Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs) to provide stable endpoints and faster setup. This option supplements existing private connectivity methods such as AWS Direct Connect and VPN, enabling secure layer‑2 network stretch and workload migration when private links are unavailable. Public HCX connectivity is available in all AWS Regions where EVS is offered and can be a cost‑effective alternative for workloads that do not require private connection performance.

AWS Step Functions Adds IPv6 Dual-Stack Endpoint Support

🌐 AWS Step Functions now supports IPv6 via new dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 endpoints, enabling customers to send IPv6 traffic directly to the service. The enhancement preserves backwards compatibility with existing IPv4 endpoints and enables PrivateLink interface VPC endpoint connectivity so workloads can access Step Functions privately without traversing the public internet. IPv6 support is generally available in several US commercial and GovCloud regions.

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Adds Managed Karpenter Autoscaling

🛠️ Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports managed node autoscaling using Karpenter, enabling automated cluster scaling for both inference and training workloads. This managed capability removes the operational burden of installing and maintaining autoscaling infrastructure while providing integrated resilience and fault tolerance. Customers gain just-in-time GPU provisioning, scale-to-zero during low demand, workload-aware instance selection, and cost reductions through intelligent consolidation.

AWS Network Firewall: SNI Session Holding for TLS Guide

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now offers SNI session holding to strengthen TLS inspection by validating the TLS SNI before initiating an outbound TCP connection. When enabled, the firewall holds TCP/TLS establishment until it receives the ClientHello SNI and evaluates it against Suricata-based TLS inspection rules, preventing any contact with disallowed endpoints. Administrators can enable this option in a TLS inspection configuration via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK; it’s available in Regions including GovCloud and China and is billed as part of TLS advanced inspection.

How AWS Built a Flywheel to Improve Amazon RDS Security

🔒 As AWS implemented support for PL/Rust on Amazon RDS, engineers created a telemetry-driven 'flywheel' built around SELinux, monitoring, and incident response to safely enable compiled Rust functions. They developed mandatory access control policies, routed denials into telemetry with automated ticketing, and ran quarterly red/blue game days to refine playbooks and reduce noise. An October SELinux denial triggered an investigation that validated the controls and led to collaboration with Varonis Threat Labs.

AWS Lambda: Cross-Account Container Images in GovCloud

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports creating or updating functions using container images stored in an Amazon ECR repository in a different AWS account within GovCloud Regions. This removes the previous need to copy images into a local ECR repo and streamlines centralized image management and CI/CD workflows. Administrators must grant the Lambda resource and the Lambda service principal the necessary cross-account permissions.

Amazon EC2 I8ge Storage-Optimized Instances in Frankfurt

🚀 Amazon EC2 I8ge storage-optimized instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, I8ge delivers up to 60% better compute performance versus prior Graviton2-based storage-optimized instances and uses third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB with substantially lower latency and variability. Instances scale to 48xlarge (including metal), provide up to 1,536 GiB RAM, 120 TB local NVMe, and up to 300 Gbps networking, making them well suited for relational and non-relational databases, streaming databases, search and data analytics.

Amazon Connect introduces agent hierarchy filters for search

🔍 Amazon Connect now offers agent hierarchy filters on the contact search page in the UI, enabling contact center leaders and teams to drill into specific sites, departments, or teams to locate interactions. This capability helps quality management, regulatory compliance, and workforce optimization teams efficiently find and review contacts for assessment and auditing. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered, simplifying targeted reviews and reducing time-to-insight for investigations and performance evaluations.

AWS Expands Second-Generation Outposts Racks Globally

🌍 AWS now ships second-generation Outposts racks to a broad list of countries, enabling customers to deploy AWS infrastructure and services directly in on‑premises data centers and colocation sites. These racks support the latest x86 Amazon EC2 families — C7i, M7i, and R7i — delivering up to 40% better performance versus prior racks, simplified network scaling, and a new class of accelerated networking instances for ultra-low latency and high throughput. They also help address local data residency and low-latency processing requirements while remaining connected to the nearest AWS Region for management.

AWS Expands ISO and CSA STAR Scope with Two Services

🔒 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that EY CertifyPoint completed an onboarding audit and reissued ISO and CSA STAR certificates on August 13, 2025, with no findings. The audit expanded the certified scope to include AWS Resource Explorer and AWS Security Incident Response alongside the other services covered under multiple ISO standards and CSA STAR CCM v4.0. Customers can retrieve certificates through AWS Artifact and view the full certified service list on the AWS ISO and CSA STAR Certified page.

CloudWatch Cross-Account Cross-Region Log Centralization

🔁 Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account, cross-region log centralization, allowing customers to copy log data from multiple AWS accounts and regions into a single destination account and integrate with AWS Organizations. Copied log events are enriched with new system fields (@aws.account and @aws.region) to preserve source context, and administrators can scope rules to the entire organization, selected OUs, or specific accounts. The feature supports selective log-group copying, automatic merging of same-named groups, optional backup-region copies, and includes one free centralized copy with additional copies billed at $0.05/GB.