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🛠️ AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running jobs using Docker containers from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Linux-based service-managed fleets. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service for compute-intensive workloads like visual effects, simulation, and gaming. Customers can bring their own container images and have Deadline Cloud automatically deploy them at scale. Container support is available in all Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

📣 Administrators can now store up to 20,000 values per data table in Amazon Connect Customer to define contact center configurations such as operating hours, escalation rules, AI prompts, and queue assignments. The update enables export, bulk editing, instance-to-instance table moves, and loading data from sources like Excel and DynamoDB. Business teams can maintain reference data themselves to adjust configurations in real time without relying on technical staff, and the feature is available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers unified graphics images that work across G4dn, G5, G6, and G7 instance families. This single image type replaces generation-specific images, simplifying image management and making it easier to adopt newer GPU generations. The console shows compatible instance types when creating a fleet, and fleets can change instance types across supported families via the console or the UpdateFleet API. Unified graphics images are available in all supported AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, and customers can upgrade existing images or launch builders from a unified base image.

🔔 This update summarizes availability changes across several AWS services, including transitions to Maintenance, announced Sunset schedules, and services that have reached End of Support. Services moving to maintenance will stop accepting new customers after October 29, 2026, while existing customers can continue operation with AWS support. Several services—including Amazon Managed Blockchain, Amazon DevOps Guru, AWS Backint Agent for SAP ASE, and AWS Infrastructure Composer—have sunset timelines through 2027. Amazon Mechanical Turk reached end of support on September 29, 2026. AWS provides migration guides and support resources to help customers plan transitions.

🤖 AWS Transform now provides agentic migration assessments to evaluate migrating on-premises Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK. The agent analyzes workloads, performs compatibility checks, recommends right-sized MSK Express brokers, and projects costs to produce a TCO business case and actionable next steps in minutes. Users can upload a Kafka inventory file or describe clusters in chat and create what-if scenarios to compare Regions, retention, and configurations. Assessments are available in all Regions offering AWS Transform.

📢 AWS Systems Manager now supports sharing Systems Manager Documents (SSM Documents) with an entire AWS organization or specific OUs using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). Previously limited to public or per-account sharing, this update lets you create an AWS RAM resource share, select SSM Documents and target organizations or OUs, and have access automatically kept in sync as accounts change. Sharing uses standard AWS authorization and resource-based policies, and external accounts receive an invitation they must accept. The feature is available in the console, AWS CLI, and SDKs across all Regions where Systems Manager is offered, with no additional charge.

🗂️ AWS Transfer Family web apps now allow users to select and download multiple files and folders in a single action. The selection is packaged as a zip archive that preserves folder structure and shows real-time progress and per-file status. This feature works in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Chromium-based browsers (including Edge) but is not yet supported in Safari. It is available in all Regions where Transfer Family Web Apps are offered.

🔒 AWS DataSync now supports shared Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) enabling agents and transfer tasks to use subnets shared across AWS accounts with AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This lets you transfer data privately over a centrally managed subnet and VPC endpoint instead of provisioning one per account. Shared VPC support reduces IP address consumption and operational overhead and works for both Enhanced and Basic agent modes. The feature is available in all AWS Regions offering DataSync except Secret Regions.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now provides an estimate of the number of bytes a query would scan across selected log groups and a specified time range, without executing the query. The estimate appears automatically in the CloudWatch console when you change log group selection, time range, or query text, and can be requested via the AWS CLI or API by appending the estimate command. Queries using the estimate command do not incur CloudWatch Logs Insights query charges, and the feature is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🛰️ Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes frequently queried fields, removing the need for manual selection and setup. It detects fields used with = and IN filters and indexes them to speed up CloudWatch Logs Insights queries while reducing scanned data. Automatically indexed fields are retained for 30 days and don't count toward the 20-field-per-log-group limit; you can promote fields to a permanent index via console or API. Auto-indexing is available in supported AWS Regions at no extra cost.

🔒 Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints, enabling direct connections from laptops, serverless functions, or external applications without VPNs or bastion hosts. A public endpoint creates a managed, internet-reachable cache with no VPC configuration and can be provisioned in under a minute. Connections use IAM authentication over TLS 1.3, eliminating stored passwords; clients use Valkey GLIDE 2.2+ or the Developer Toolkit for token management. Public endpoints are available in all commercial and China AWS Regions with standard pricing.

🔒 Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now supports Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security and is generally available across 32 AWS Regions. The integration lets security teams detect and block malicious DNS traffic from VPCs and hybrid environments using PANW threat rules without deploying separate firewalls or changing VPC setups. Administrators can subscribe via the Route 53 DNS Firewall console, share licenses with AWS License Manager, and associate rule groups using RAM, Route 53 Profiles, or AWS Firewall Manager.

🔍 Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness now provides Feedback Codes in the GetFaceLivenessSessionResults response to explain why a liveness check scored low and how users can retry successfully. The codes identify specific issues such as poor lighting, face obstruction, closed eyes, or low video quality, and a single session can return multiple codes to guide comprehensive corrections. This update targets identity verification, re-authentication, and accessibility use cases.

🛡️ The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will run an exercise on October 24, 2026, demonstrating it can operate without using the AWS Global Network backbone or any non-EU infrastructure. The EU-based operational team will execute the test using only in-EU hardware and software, routing traffic over European ISPs and disabling dedicated global systems to validate independent operation. Customers should expect brief convergence-related connectivity interruptions, but no service availability impact within the sovereign cloud or other AWS Regions.

🚀 AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that advances coding and knowledge work at lower cost per task and faster speeds. The model is an upgrade from Sonnet 5, improving coding assistance for feature development, verification, and well-scoped tasks while producing ready-to-share knowledge outputs like summaries, diagrams, and edits. Customers can access Sonnet 5.5 through Amazon Bedrock for AWS-resident data and managed features, or via Claude Platform on AWS for the native Anthropic experience with unified billing and authentication.

🤖 AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient model that improves coding and knowledge-work performance at lower cost per task and faster speeds. Sonnet 5.5 is an upgrade from Sonnet 5, better suited for coding workflows like building, fixing, and verifying features, and for producing shareable outputs such as 1‑pagers, diagrams, slides, document edits, and spreadsheet cleanup. Available via Amazon Bedrock, Sonnet 5.5 keeps data within AWS infrastructure, supports regional data residency, and is accessed through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases.

🛡️ Amazon released September 25, 2026 patch updates for Corretto LTS and Feature Release builds, including Corretto 25.0.4.10.1, 21.0.12.11.1, 17.0.20.12.1, and 11.0.32.12.1. These Corretto distributions are no-cost, production-ready builds of OpenJDK. The update incorporates the tzdata 2026d timezone data refresh. Users can download releases or configure Apt, Yum, or Apk repositories to receive the updates and provide feedback.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in logically air-gapped vaults, enabling immutable, encrypted backups that can be shared across accounts and Regions. These vaults lock backups by default and support AWS-owned or customer-managed keys for encryption. Administrators can target FSx ONTAP backups to an air-gapped vault via the console, CLI, or SDKs, and share access using AWS RAM or Multi-party approval for secure recovery. Direct restores from the sharing account are supported once available, reducing recovery overhead.

🛠️ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports retryable writes beginning with engine version 8.0.2. This feature lets supported MongoDB drivers automatically retry certain write operations once on transient errors like network interruptions or primary failovers, improving application resilience. Retryable writes are enabled by default in most drivers and are supported for all write commands except updateMany and deleteMany, as well as for transaction commit and abort commands. The capability is available on instance-based and serverless clusters in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 is offered; earlier engine versions must disable retryable writes.

🔔 Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB-compatible) 8.0.2 adds retryable writes, five new aggregation stages, change stream improvements, and query planner optimizations to boost migration compatibility and performance. The release supports automatic retry of insert/update/delete on transient network failures, introduces $setWindowFields, $bucketAuto, $facet, $graphLookup, and correlated $lookup, and enhances change streams to split large events and surface createCollection/createIndex events. Indexing and query execution gains include index-only scans, index scans on $expr, incremental sort, faster count operations, and reIndex support for partial indexes. These features are available in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB is offered.