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Amazon ECS Managed Instances: Configurable Scale-In Delay

🚀 Amazon ECS Managed Instances now lets you configure a scale-in delay so you can better align instance terminations with workload patterns and business requirements. You can set the scaleInAfter parameter to any value up to 60 minutes, or set it to -1 to disable automatic infrastructure optimization and allow instances to remain until they are patched after 14 days. Configure scaleInAfter when creating or updating an ECS Managed Instances capacity provider via the ECS API, console, SDKs, CDK, or CloudFormation. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and helps teams balance cost optimization against availability.

AWS Network Firewall Adds Managed Rules from AWS Partners

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now supports managed rule groups from AWS Partners, enabling customers to deploy partner-maintained, automatically updated security rules directly into firewall policies. You can subscribe and deploy these pre-configured rule groups via the AWS Network Firewall console or through AWS Marketplace, with consolidated billing and potential long-term pricing benefits. Available sellers include Check Point, Fortinet, Infoblox, Lumen, Rapid7, ThreatSTOP, and Trend Micro in all AWS commercial regions where the services are offered.

AWS Introduces E-Invoice Delivery for Ariba, Coupa

📥 AWS announced general availability of its new E-Invoice delivery capability that lets customers connect their SAP Ariba and Coupa procurement portals to AWS to retrieve purchase orders and deliver PO-matched invoices back on the same day. Customers can onboard via the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and track invoice delivery status in both systems. The feature is available in all AWS Regions except GovCloud (US) and the China regions. This streamlines invoice processing and reduces manual reconciliation.

AWS Cost Optimization Hub Adds Cost Efficiency Metric

📈 AWS has introduced a Cost Efficiency metric in the AWS Cost Optimization Hub to help organizations measure the percentage of cloud spend that can be optimized. The metric divides aggregated estimated monthly savings from rightsizing, idle, and commitment recommendations by optimizable spend and refreshes daily. It surfaces trend data so teams can benchmark performance, set cost-savings goals, and observe improvements or regressions as resources are changed. Cost Efficiency is available in all Regions where the hub is supported and setup guidance is provided in the user guide and accompanying blog.

AWS CloudFormation Language Server Brings IDE Intelligence

🛠️ The new AWS CloudFormation Language Server brings context-aware authoring, validation, and drift-aware deployment views into supported IDEs through the AWS Toolkit. It provides auto-complete, schema validation, policy checks via CloudFormation Guard, and deployment validation directly within the editor. The Language Server flags invalid resource properties, missing IAM permission requirements, and configuration drift so developers can detect syntax, permission, and configuration issues before deployment and move safely from design to production.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Expand Code-Related Protections

🔒 Amazon Web Services expanded Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to cover code-related use cases, enabling detection and prevention of harmful content embedded in code. The update applies content filters, denied topics, and sensitive information filters to code elements such as comments, variable and function names, and string literals. The enhancements also include prompt leakage detection in the standard tier and are available in all supported AWS Regions via the console and APIs.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN: New VPN Concentrator for Multi-site

🔒 AWS Site-to-Site VPN introduces VPN Concentrator, a managed feature that simplifies multi-site connectivity for distributed enterprises. It enables customers to aggregate up to 100 low-bandwidth remote sites (recommended for deployments of 25+ sites, each under 100 Mbps) behind a single attachment to AWS Transit Gateway. The concentrator reduces operational overhead, improves bandwidth utilization, and lowers per-site VPN costs.

AWS PrivateLink Adds Cross-Region Connectivity for Services

🔒 AWS now enables native cross-region connectivity for AWS PrivateLink, allowing Interface VPC endpoints to reach supported AWS services hosted in other Regions within the same partition. Service consumers can access S3, Route 53, ECR and more via private IPs in their VPCs without cross-region peering or traversing the public internet. This simplifies global private networking and supports data residency and security requirements.

Amazon DynamoDB Adds Multi-Attribute Composite Keys to GSIs

🆕 Amazon DynamoDB now supports composite primary keys composed of up to eight attributes in global secondary indexes. Partition and sort keys can each include up to four attributes, removing the need to create synthetic concatenated keys and perform backfills. Multi-attribute keys improve data distribution and uniqueness while enabling left-to-right filtering on sort key attributes. The capability is available at no extra cost across all AWS Regions and can be created via the Console, CLI, SDKs, or API.

Cloudflare Outage Highlights Risks of Single-Vendor Reliance

🔍 An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Nov. 18 briefly disrupted many major websites and forced some customers to pivot DNS and routing to preserve availability. Those provisional workarounds may have exposed origin infrastructure by bypassing edge protections such as WAFs and bot management. Security teams should review OWASP-related logs, emergency DNS changes, and any ad hoc services or devices introduced during the outage. The incident underscores single-vendor risk and the need for formal fallback plans.

Amazon SageMaker Catalog Adds Column-Level Metadata

📣 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports custom column-level metadata forms and markdown-enabled rich text descriptions so data stewards can attach business-specific key-value metadata and formatted documentation directly to individual columns. Form values and rich text are indexed in real time and become immediately searchable alongside column names, descriptions, and glossary terms. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker is supported.

AWS IAM Temporary Delegation for Partner Product Integration

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduces temporary delegation, enabling time-limited, delegated access to Amazon and AWS Partner products for tasks like initial deployments, ad-hoc maintenance, and feature upgrades. The capability eliminates the need for persistent IAM roles, improves auditability, and reduces setup and operational burden. It is available in all AWS commercial Regions and is being adopted by partners such as Archera, Aviatrix, Databricks, HashiCorp, Qumulo, Rapid7 and others.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Adds Cluster Insights Dashboard

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes Cluster Insights, a unified monitoring dashboard that consolidates logs and metrics to give operators comprehensive operational visibility across nodes, indices, and shards. The feature automates correlation of critical data, highlights performance metrics and top‑N query analysis, and surfaces targeted remediation steps to speed troubleshooting. Built into the OpenSearch UI, Cluster Insights retains monitoring resilience during cluster unavailability and provides account‑level summaries for managing multiple deployments. It is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch 2.17 or later in regions where the OpenSearch UI is offered.

AWS launches Billing Transfer for multi-organization billing

🔁 AWS introduces Billing Transfer, enabling a single management account to centrally collect invoices, process payments, and run detailed cost analysis across multiple AWS Organizations while preserving each management account’s security autonomy. The feature integrates with AWS Billing Conductor to protect proprietary pricing and support advanced cost allocation strategies. AWS offers a free trial through May 31, 2026; starting June 1, 2026 organizations using a Customer managed pricing plan will incur a $50 per-organization fee. Billing Transfer is available in all public AWS Regions except GovCloud and China (Beijing, Ningxia).

Amazon ECR adds Archive storage class and lifecycle rules

📦 Amazon Web Services announced a new Amazon ECR Archive storage class to lower costs for large volumes of rarely accessed container images. Lifecycle policies can now archive images by last pull time, age, or count, and archived images are excluded from repository image limits. Archived images are inaccessible for pulls but can be restored via Console, CLI, or API within about 20 minutes, and all operations are logged to CloudTrail; the feature is available in AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS enables console sign-in credentials for CLI and SDK

🔐 AWS now permits developers to use their existing AWS Management Console sign-in credentials for programmatic access via the AWS CLI, AWS Tools for PowerShell, and AWS SDKs after a brief browser-based authentication flow. The aws login command in AWS CLI v2.32.0 and later obtains automatically rotated, short-lived credentials to reduce reliance on long-term access keys. This capability is available in all commercial AWS regions and aims to streamline local development setup while improving security posture.

AWS IAM Adds aws:SourceVpcArn for Region Controls Support

🔒 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduces the global condition key aws:SourceVpcArn, which returns the ARN of the VPC where a VPC endpoint is attached. Administrators can apply this key in IAM policies to enforce region-based controls for resources accessed via AWS PrivateLink, restricting access to VPC endpoints in specified regions. The new condition key helps meet data residency and compliance requirements and is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

Amazon Route 53 Adds AWS PrivateLink for API Access

🔒 Amazon Route 53 now supports AWS PrivateLink for the route53.amazonaws.com API, enabling private, regional connectivity from VPCs to the Route 53 API without traversing the public internet. This allows workloads to manage hosted zones, records, and health checks over the AWS backbone and simplifies networking by removing the need for complex private connectivity. Support is global except in AWS GovCloud and China, and cross-region interface VPC endpoints enable native multi-region access.

AWS VPC IPAM Policies Enforce Public IPv4 Allocation

🛡️ AWS now lets administrators enforce a centralized IP allocation strategy using VPC IPAM policies, ensuring public IPv4 addresses for resources like NAT Gateways and Elastic IPs are allocated from specified IPAM pools. The centrally defined policy cannot be overridden by individual teams, improving compliance and simplifying network and security management. Available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, this feature works with both Free and Advanced IPAM tiers and enables cross-account, cross-region policy control when using the Advanced tier.

Amazon S3 Adds Post-Quantum TLS Key Exchange Support

🔐 Amazon S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange on regional S3, S3 Tables, and S3 Express One Zone endpoints using the NIST-standardized Module Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM). PQ-TLS key exchange is available at no additional cost across all AWS regions and will be negotiated automatically when clients are configured for ML-KEM. Combined with server-side AES-256 encryption by default, S3 offers quantum-resistant protection for data both in transit and at rest.