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AWS launches M6in and M6idn EC2 instances in Seoul

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made M6in and M6idn EC2 instances available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These sixth‑generation, network‑optimized instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth — double comparable fifth‑generation capacity. Offered in 10 sizes including metal, they provide up to 128 vCPUs, 512 GiB memory, 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS, with EFA support on select sizes and up to 7.6 TB local storage on M6idn.

Amazon DynamoDB Now Supports IPv6 for VPC Endpoints

🌐 Amazon DynamoDB now allows customers to use IPv6 addresses within their Amazon VPC to access tables, streams, and DAX, including via PrivateLink Gateway and Interface endpoints. The feature simplifies network stacks, helps avoid overlapping address spaces, and supports compliance with IPv6-ready policies. It is available today across US commercial and GovCloud Regions and will roll out to remaining global Regions over the coming weeks. See the DynamoDB and DAX guides to check regional availability and connection steps.

ThreatsDay: Teams Abuse, MFA Hijack, $2B Crypto Heist

🛡️ Microsoft and researchers report threat actors abusing Microsoft Teams for extortion, social engineering, and financial theft after hijacking MFA with social engineering resets. Separate campaigns use malicious .LNK files to deliver PowerShell droppers and DLL implants that establish persistent command-and-control. Analysts also link over $2 billion in 2025 crypto thefts to North Korean‑linked groups and identify AI-driven disinformation, IoT flaws, and cloud misconfigurations as multiplying risk. Defenders are urged to harden identity, secure endpoints and apps, patch exposed services, and limit long-lived cloud credentials.

Amazon SageMaker Notebooks Now Support Amazon Linux 2023

🚀 Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now offer Amazon Linux 2023 as a launch option alongside Amazon Linux 2. The update provides a modern rpm-based runtime with a predictable two-year release cycle and five years of long-term support. Enhanced security features include SELinux support and FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules. Use AL2023 to benefit from updated packages and continued OS maintenance.

Kantsu’s Ransomware Crisis: Recovery, Costs, and Lessons

🔒 Kantsu, a midsize Japanese logistics firm, was hit by ransomware on Sept. 12, 2024 that encrypted servers, cut communications, and halted shipping operations for hundreds of clients. The company refused to pay a ransom, shut down networks, replaced PCs, and rebuilt its cloud WMS Cloud Thomas on AWS while using analog processes to maintain critical shipments. Executives prioritized speed, cash availability, and employee welfare during an expensive recovery process that exposed gaps in cyber insurance.

Amazon SageMaker Notebooks Now Support Amazon Linux 2023

🆕 Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support Amazon Linux 2023, giving data scientists and developers access to an updated, rpm-based runtime for managed Jupyter notebooks. AL2023 is the successor to AL2, offering a predictable two-year major release cadence and five years of long-term support. Enhanced security features include SELinux and FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules. New notebook instances can be launched with either AL2023 or AL2.

GitHub Copilot Chat prompt injection exposed secrets

🔐 GitHub Copilot Chat was tricked into leaking secrets from private repositories through hidden comments in pull requests, researchers found. Legit Security researcher Omer Mayraz reported a combined CSP bypass and remote prompt injection that used image rendering to exfiltrate AWS keys. GitHub mitigated the issue in August by disabling image rendering in Copilot Chat, but the case underscores risks when AI assistants access external tools and repository content.

Configure and Verify ACM Certificates with Trust Stores

🔐 This post explains how to configure customer trust stores to accept public certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and clarifies the role of Amazon Trust Services. It warns that ACM issues certificates via dynamically selected intermediates, so trusting only intermediates or pinning end-entity certificates can cause outages. The recommended action is to install five Amazon root CAs in your trust stores and to validate configuration across Windows, Amazon Linux, and Java environments.

Amazon Cognito: Managed vs. Custom Login UI Options

🔒 This post contrasts Amazon Cognito's two primary UI approaches—managed login and a fully custom UI—and outlines feature, security, and operational trade-offs to guide architects and developers. Managed login (offered as a modern branding editor or the Hosted UI classic) offloads hosting, scaling, and maintenance while providing OAuth2 flows, federation with social and OIDC/SAML providers, passwordless options, and CloudTrail action logging. A custom UI gives full control over UX, session management, localization, and supports custom authentication flows via Lambda triggers, but requires development, hosting, and operational responsibility under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.

Crimson Collective Targets AWS Cloud Instances for Theft

🔒 Researchers report the 'Crimson Collective' has been targeting long-term AWS credentials and IAM accounts to steal data and extort companies. Using open-source tools like TruffleHog, the attackers locate exposed AWS keys, create new IAM users and access keys, then escalate privileges by attaching AdministratorAccess. They snapshot RDS and EBS volumes, export data to S3, and send extortion notices via AWS SES. Rapid7 urges organisations to audit keys, enforce least privilege, and scan for exposed secrets.

AWS launches general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances

🚀 AWS announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 M8a general-purpose instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin), with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz and up to 30% higher performance over M7a. M8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth and notable benchmark improvements—60% faster on GroovyJVM and up to 39% faster on Cassandra. They are SAP-certified, come in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, and are available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain). Customers can purchase M8a via On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans.

AWS Launches General Purpose EC2 M8a Instances with AMD EPYC

🚀 AWS announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 M8a instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz. M8a offers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance, and 45% more memory bandwidth vs M7a, with strong gains on JVM and Cassandra benchmarks. The family includes 12 sizes (two bare-metal), is SAP-certified, built on the AWS Nitro System, and is initially available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Spain).

Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances Now in AWS São Paulo Region

⚙️ AWS has made Amazon EC2 I7ie instances available in the South America (São Paulo) region. Designed for high-density, storage-optimized workloads, I7ie uses 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, offering up to 120 TB of local NVMe and up to twice the vCPUs and memory of the prior generation. AWS reports up to 40% better compute, up to 65% better storage performance, and lower I/O latency and variability versus I3en, with up to 100 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS throughput.

Amazon EC2 M8gd Instances Expand to Additional Regions

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage are now available in Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia), and Canada (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4, they deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based instances, up to 40% higher I/O performance for databases, and up to 20% faster real-time analytics queries. Instances come in 12 sizes, offer up to 50 Gbps networking and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, support EFA on large sizes, and allow ±25% adjustment of network and EBS bandwidth via EC2 instance bandwidth weighting.

Amazon EC2 R8gd Instances Expand to Additional Regions

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4, they deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based instances and include up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD for low-latency storage. Instances offer up to 50 Gbps networking, EFA on larger sizes, and adjustable network/EBS bandwidth weighting to better optimize workloads.

Amazon Q Developer Gains Service Pricing and Estimates

🔍 Amazon Q Developer now offers integrated pricing and cost estimation, enabling developers and architects to query product attributes, regional availability, and service pricing in natural language. The assistant retrieves data from the AWS Price List APIs to provide workload cost estimates and side-by-side comparisons, so teams can evaluate cost/performance tradeoffs without manually consulting multiple pricing pages. Access the feature via the Amazon Q chat panel in the AWS Management Console.

Amazon EC2 C7gd Instances Now in Europe (Zurich) Region

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD block storage and DDR5 memory on the AWS Nitro System. These Graviton3-based instances deliver up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance versus comparable Graviton2 instances and use up to 60% less energy for equivalent performance. They suit workloads needing high-speed, low-latency temporary storage such as scratch space, caches, and temp files, and AWS provides migration tools like the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor.

Amazon EC2 C8gd Instances: Up to 11.4 TB NVMe in Regions

⚡ Amazon EC2 C8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, they deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3 and accelerate I/O-intensive database and real-time analytics workloads. Built on the AWS Nitro System, C8gd offers 12 sizes, up to 50 Gbps network and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, with configurable bandwidth weighting (+25%) and EFA on select large sizes.

Amazon Location Service Updates Vietnam Boundaries

🗺️ Amazon Location Service updated Vietnam mapping data to reflect the nationwide administrative reorganization that took effect on July 1, 2025. The refresh consolidates provincial-level units from 63 to 34 (28 provinces and 6 centrally managed cities) and reduces commune-level units from 10,310 to 3,321 while preserving street-level address accuracy. Place names and administrative components in POI records were updated, and the revised data is automatically available to customers querying Vietnam addresses. The update supports logistics, e-commerce, and public-service use cases such as delivery zone planning, service-area management, and address validation.

Amazon DocumentDB Expands to New Asia Pacific and Mexico

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Mexico (Central). The fully managed, native JSON document database supports mission‑critical MongoDB workloads and can scale to millions of requests per second with up to 15 low‑latency read replicas and automatic storage up to 128 TiB. With Serverless, capacity scales automatically in fine increments and AWS cites up to 90% cost savings versus peak provisioning. Amazon DocumentDB also integrates with AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda and AWS Backup, and clusters can be created via the Console, CLI or SDK.