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🚀 Amazon Athena now supports Capacity Reservations in an expanded set of commercial AWS Regions, providing dedicated serverless capacity for mission-critical queries. With reservations, queries run isolated from other workloads in your account and administrators can control how many queries run concurrently to improve predictability. The expansion spans multiple US, Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, and Mexico regions, enabling more consistent performance closer to where data resides.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now exposes Cluster Insights directly in the AWS Management Console, complementing the existing OpenSearch UI Dashboards. This update makes it easier to review curated performance and resilience recommendations and apply configuration changes without switching tools. Cluster Insights also now emits findings as events to Amazon EventBridge to support automated monitoring and response. The feature is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch versions 2.17 or later.

🔍Data Agent in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor brings natural-language-to-SQL capabilities to your SQL analytics workflow. You can ask questions in plain language and have the agent generate context-aware SQL for Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena, propose step-by-step plans, and use Fix with AI to diagnose and correct failed queries. It preserves query context across follow-ups and is available in IAM domains where SageMaker Unified Studio is supported.

🔐The European Commission has confirmed a cyber-attack affecting cloud infrastructure that hosts the Europa.eu platform and says early findings indicate data were taken. The incident was detected on March 24 and announced on March 27; containment and forensic measures were deployed while internal systems reportedly remained unaffected. Screenshots and claims from ShinyHunters allege a roughly 350GB haul including mail servers, databases, NextCloud content and employee PII, and researchers warn the compromise could expose DKIM keys, SSO directories and other sensitive assets.

📡 AWS Direct Connect now publishes three Amazon CloudWatch metrics for virtual interfaces, giving network teams native visibility into BGP session health and route counts. The new VirtualInterfaceBgpStatus, VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAccepted and VirtualInterfaceBgpPrefixesAdvertised report session state, on-prem prefix intake, and routes advertised by AWS, enabling proactive alarms and validation of configuration changes. These metrics apply to private, public and transit VIFs in all commercial AWS Regions and integrate with CloudWatch alarms, dashboards and Amazon SNS to reduce detection time and simplify hybrid network operations.

🔒 The European Commission has confirmed a data breach after its Europa.eu web platform was compromised in an attack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion group. The intruders reportedly accessed at least one AWS account and exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes, though the Commission says its internal systems were not affected. Authorities have been notified and an investigation is ongoing to determine the full impact.

🔍 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now provides Advanced Metrics that automatically publishes detailed operational metrics from InfluxDB 2 instances to Amazon CloudWatch. The capability supports both Single‑AZ and Multi‑AZ deployments and requires no additional configuration or instrumentation. Teams can use the metrics to monitor resource utilization, query performance, and system health in real time, build custom dashboards, and configure automated alerts based on predefined thresholds. Advanced Metrics is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔒 The European Commission is investigating a cyberattack on its Europa.eu platform after a threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated more than 350GB of data from compromised AWS accounts. The attacker told a security reporter they intend to publish the stolen files rather than extort the Commission. The Commission said public websites remain available, internal systems were unaffected, and containment and mitigation measures were implemented while inquiries continue.

🔒 Amazon Connect now applies tag-based access control (TBAC) to quick response assignments for routing profiles. Administrators can restrict which routing profiles receive specific quick responses based on their TBAC permissions, so agents only see templates relevant to their assigned profiles. This change aligns quick responses with existing Amazon Connect resource access controls and supports compliance and localized disclosure workflows. The update is available in multiple AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA) now supports expanded analytics and data protection capabilities, including OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL query support. These additions let customers run advanced, flexible queries on infrequently accessed logs while keeping data consolidated natively on AWS. Built-in data protection can automatically detect and mask sensitive information in logs, helping organizations meet security and compliance requirements without manual redaction. Logs IA remains a lower-cost ingestion class with existing features like Logs Insights Query Language, S3 export, and encryption, making it suitable for ad-hoc troubleshooting and forensic analysis.

🔧 AWS announced the general availability of Visible services and Visible Regions account settings in the AWS Management Console. Administrators can customize which services and Regions appear for authorized users to simplify navigation and reduce clutter. Configure these options in Console under Unified Settings or programmatically via User Experience Customization (UXC) with the AWS CLI, SDKs, CDK, or CloudFormation; the features are available in AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost.

🔒 The European Commission is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to an Amazon cloud account used to manage Commission infrastructure. The actor claims to have exfiltrated over 350 GB of data, including multiple databases, and provided screenshots as proof while stating they will not extort the Commission but may leak the data later. The Commission's cybersecurity incident response team detected the incident quickly and is investigating; the case follows a January MDM compromise linked to other EU institution attacks.

🔒 The European Commission is investigating a security breach after a threat actor accessed an Amazon cloud account used to manage Commission infrastructure. Sources say the intrusion was quickly detected and that the Commission's cybersecurity incident response team is now probing the incident. The actor claims to have stolen 350 GB of data, including multiple databases, and provided screenshots showing access to employee information and an internal email server. The actor says they will not extort the Commission but may leak the data later.

🔒 AWS HealthImaging now supports fine-grained study- and series-level access control for medical imaging data. Customers can reference DICOM Study Instance UIDs and Series Instance UIDs directly in IAM policies for DICOMweb APIs and create temporary, scoped grants using AWS STS session policies, removing the need to list individual image set ARNs. This reduces PHI exposure by limiting access to specific studies or series and supports workflows such as pathologist case-level access, radiology sharing with external partners, and controlled research distribution. The service is HIPAA-eligible and generally available in key regions.

🤖 AWS Step Functions now supports 28 additional AWS service integrations and over 1,100 new API actions, enabling direct orchestration of a broader set of services without writing custom integration code. New integrations include Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for invoking AI agent runtimes and Amazon S3 Vectors for document ingestion workflows. The update also adds support for AWS Lambda durable execution APIs to enable idempotent durable function invocations and management of durable executions from workflows. These enhancements are generally available in all Regions where Step Functions is offered.

🖼️ Amazon Bedrock now offers Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer, a multimodal 7B-parameter model that interprets and generates text from images via the Bedrock API. Trained on PixMo, a dataset of one million high-quality image-text pairs, the model supports visual question answering, handwritten text extraction, chart interpretation, and image-based comprehension for enterprise workflows. It is available in select AWS Regions to simplify deployment of multimodal applications.

🔗 AWS now enables remote connections from Kiro and Cursor IDEs to Amazon SageMaker Studio. Data scientists, ML engineers, and developers can use their local Kiro/Cursor setups — including spec-driven development, conversational coding, and automated feature generation — while running workloads on SageMaker's scalable cloud compute. Authentication is supported via the AWS Toolkit extension or SageMaker Studio's web UI, preserving Studio security boundaries and reducing context switching.

🔒 Amazon now supports FIPS-compliant operation for Amazon ECS Managed Instances running Graviton-based and GPU-accelerated workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. ECS Managed Instances in GovCloud enable FIPS by default, use FIPS-compliant endpoints and validated cryptographic modules, and boot kernels in FIPS mode. Customers can enable the feature via the Console, ECS MCP Server, ECS Express Mode, or infrastructure-as-code; management charges apply in addition to EC2 costs.

🆕 Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS 2026.03 introduces expanded administrator controls, enhanced filesystem support, and session management improvements. Admins can onboard multiple FSx for ONTAP volumes as RES filesystems, configure DCV token expiration to support longer session files, and add up to three custom login links. The release also enables admins to restart VDIs in error states from the Sessions page and lets users reset VDI schedules to the system default, alongside assorted bug fixes and performance improvements.

🔔 Research and Engineering Studio (RES) 2026.03 introduces administrator controls, expanded filesystem support, and session-management improvements to simplify cloud-based research desktops. Administrators can onboard multiple FSx for ONTAP volumes, configure DCV token expiration for longer session files, and add up to three custom links on the RES login page. The release also enables restarting VDIs in error states from the Sessions page, lets users reset VDI schedules to system defaults with one action, and includes assorted bug fixes and performance improvements across supported AWS Regions.