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Amazon RDS for Db2 Adds Native Database-Level Backups

💾 Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports native database-level backups that let customers back up individual databases within a multi-database instance. This enables selective migration of specific databases to other RDS instances or on-premises environments, and lets teams create isolated copies for development, testing, or compliance. By targeting single databases rather than full instance snapshots, customers can reduce storage costs and streamline operations. The feature is available in all Regions where Amazon RDS for Db2 is offered; see the service documentation and pricing pages for configuration and cost details.

VPC Lattice Enables Configurable IPs for Resource Gateways

🔧 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon VPC Lattice now lets you configure the number of IPv4 addresses assigned to resource gateway ENIs. The selected IPv4 count is immutable after creation and directly affects network address translation capacity and the maximum concurrent IPv4 connections to backend resources. By default VPC Lattice assigns 16 IPv4 addresses per ENI; for IPv6 it always assigns a /80 CIDR per ENI. This capability is available at no additional cost in all Regions where VPC Lattice is offered.

AWS Releases Whitepaper: Security Overview of EKS Auto Mode

🛡️ AWS has published a new whitepaper titled Security Overview of Amazon EKS Auto Mode that explains the service’s architecture, core security principles, and built-in protections. The guidance highlights a new approach to node management that leverages Amazon EC2 managed instances to let customers delegate operational control to AWS. Intended for cloud architects, security professionals, and Kubernetes practitioners, the document helps teams understand how EKS Auto Mode reduces infrastructure complexity while maintaining secure operations.

AWS Marketplace Adds Japan Consumption Tax Support for CPPOs

🧾 Starting today, AWS Marketplace expands Japan consumption tax (JCT) support to Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPOs), improving tax handling for Japan ISVs and Channel Partners. AWS Japan will collect the 10% JCT on the first leg between ISVs and Channel Partners, issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) to Channel Partners, and disburse the JCT to ISVs. AWS Japan will continue to collect the 10% JCT and issue a TQI on the second leg to buyers, unifying compliance for transactions via the AWS Japan Marketplace Operator.

AWS Marketplace Adds EUR, GBP, AUD, JPY for Private Offers

🌍 AWS Marketplace now supports usage-based private offers priced in four additional local currencies—EUR, GBP, AUD, and JPY. Sellers and Channel Partners can create private offers and receive disbursements in the offer currency for consumption-based and contract pricing, simplifying cash flow and reducing foreign-exchange exposure. For Channel Partner Private Offers, the seller, partner, and buyer must transact in the same currency; public offers remain in USD only.

AWS Service Quotas Launches Automatic Quota Alerts

🔔 AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Service Quotas automatic quota management, a capability that monitors quota usage and notifies customers before they exhaust allocated limits. Customers can configure preferred notification channels such as email, SMS, or Slack via the Service Quotas console or API. Notifications are also surfaced in AWS Health, and related AWS CloudTrail events can be subscribed to for automation. This capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial regions.

Amazon EC2 Im4gn Instances Now in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 Im4gn instances in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Built on the AWS Nitro System and powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, Im4gn provides up to 30 TB of 2nd Generation Nitro SSD instance storage and up to 100 Gbps networking. These instances are optimized for I/O-intensive workloads—relational and NoSQL databases, search engines, and data analytics—and support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for high inter-node communication. Users can provision Im4gn via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

AWS Marketplace expands pricing dimensions for sellers

🧾 AWS Marketplace has expanded pricing dimension capabilities, raising the per-listing limit from 24 to 200 dimensions for both contract and usage-based pricing. Sellers can immediately use newly added SaaS usage dimensions in public offers, enabling instant access to newly launched features. AWS also removed the 90-day price update restriction for dimensions that have no active subscriptions, and these updates are available in all supported AWS Regions.

Amazon Redshift Serverless Lowers Base Capacity to 8 RPUs

⚙️ Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers a reduced minimum base capacity of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) regions. Each RPU provides 16 GB of memory and billing remains per-second for RPU-hours; the prior minimum was 32 RPUs. Capacity can be adjusted in 8-RPU increments, making Redshift Serverless more cost-effective and flexible for small production, test, and development workloads.

Amazon EKS and EKS Distro Add Kubernetes 1.34 Support

🚀 AWS announced that Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.34. Starting today, you can create new clusters or upgrade existing clusters via the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools, with EKS Distro images available in ECR Public Gallery and GitHub. Kubernetes 1.34 introduces projected service account tokens for kubelet image credential providers, Pod-level resource requests and limits for simpler multi-container resource management, and Dynamic Resource Allocation prioritized alternatives to improve device scheduling and workload placement. AWS recommends using EKS Cluster Insights and consulting EKS version lifecycle guidance before upgrading.

AWS Incident Detection and Response Now in GovCloud

🛡️ AWS Incident Detection and Response is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East) Regions for eligible AWS Enterprise Support customers. The service provides proactive incident engagement and collaborative access to AWS expertise to detect issues earlier and reduce impact. Customers work with AWS to develop customized runbooks and response plans for each onboarded workload. The capability is intended to lower failure risk and accelerate recovery for critical workloads operating in GovCloud.

Amazon Connect introduces case-linking and search APIs

🔗 Amazon Connect now exposes new APIs within Amazon Connect Cases that let developers link related cases, attach custom related items, and search across those relationships programmatically. Agents get consolidated context to resolve issues faster and coordinate responses. Typical uses include airlines grouping flight-related tickets and retailers attaching order or shipment records to refund cases. The capability is available in multiple AWS regions.

AWS launches compute-optimized EC2 C8i and C8i-flex

🚀 AWS announced general availability of C8i and C8i-flex compute-optimized EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. The new families deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher CPU performance compared with C7i. AWS cites up to 60% faster performance for NGINX, ~40% for deep-learning recommendation models, and ~35% for Memcached. C8i-flex covers common sizes (large–16xlarge) for cost-efficient use; C8i provides 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge. Instances are initially available in N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, and Spain and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

AI in Today's Cybersecurity: Detection, Hunting, Response

🤖 Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats. The article explains how AI reduces alert noise, prioritizes vulnerabilities, and supports behavioral analysis, UEBA, and NLP-driven phishing detection. It highlights Wazuh's integrations with models such as Claude 3.5, Llama 3, and ChatGPT to provide conversational insights, automated hunting, and contextual remediation guidance.

Amazon Connect adds configurable service level calculations

📞 Amazon Connect now lets supervisors and managers customize how service level is calculated directly from the analytics dashboards. Administrators can define time thresholds that determine when a contact meets service level and choose which outcomes to include, such as counting callbacks, excluding contacts transferred out while waiting, or omitting short abandons via a configurable threshold. The feature is accessible in the metric configuration section and is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex Instances Generally Available

🚀 AWS has announced the general availability of new Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex compute-optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. AWS cites up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance compared with C7i families, with specific gains as high as 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i-flex targets common sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that don’t fully use all vCPUs, while C8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest scale. These instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

AWS Glue Adds Write Support for Four Application Connectors

🔁 AWS Glue now supports write operations for SAP OData, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot connectors, allowing ETL jobs to create and update records directly in those applications. Announced Oct 3, 2025, the enhancement lets teams sync leads and CRM records, update subscribers and campaign data, and manage contacts, companies, and deals without custom scripts or intermediate systems. This capability simplifies end-to-end ETL pipelines and reduces integration complexity and latency. The feature is available in all Regions where AWS Glue is offered; consult the AWS Glue documentation for supported entities.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Adds Batch AI Inference Support

🧠 You can now run asynchronous batch AI inference inside Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines to enrich and ingest very large datasets for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. The same AI connectors previously used for real-time calls to Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and third parties now support high-throughput, offline jobs. Batch inference is intended for offline enrichment scenarios—generating up to billions of vector embeddings—with improved performance and cost efficiency versus streaming inference. The feature is available in regions that support OpenSearch Ingestion on domains running 2.17+.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Adds IPv6 Dual-Stack Support

📡 AWS now supports IPv6 addressing for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, providing dual-stack endpoints that accept both IPv4 and IPv6 clients for video streaming at scale. Existing IPv4 implementations continue to work unchanged, while organizations can adopt IPv6 to address private IPv4 exhaustion, eliminate reliance on NAT translation, and simplify long-term network transitions. IPv6 support is available in all commercial Regions where KVS runs except ap-southeast-1 and GovCloud.

Amazon Connect launches generative AI for email support

📧 Amazon Connect now provides generative AI-powered email conversation overviews, suggested actions, and draft responses to help agents resolve customer emails faster and more consistently. Administrators enable the capability by adding the Amazon Q in Connect block to contact flows before an email is assigned to an agent. Outputs can be customized with knowledge bases and tailored prompts to align responses with company tone and policies. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Q in Connect is offered.