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🛠️ Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S) is now available on Oracle Database@AWS through AWS Marketplace with Bring Your Own License and License Included options. ADB-S runs on Exadata infrastructure as a fully managed service that automates patching, tuning, scaling, backups, and high availability. It supports four workload types—AI Transaction Processing, AI Lakehouse, AI JSON Database, and Oracle APEX—with independent compute and storage scaling. Integrations include AWS KMS for encryption, Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, and Amazon EventBridge for events.

🔒 AWS Secrets Manager introduces a secret safety skill in the aws-core plugin for the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI coding agents to use secrets without exposing values to models or session logs. The skill prevents models from requesting raw secret values and prompts developers to clarify intent while constructing commands that reference secrets. A child process resolves secret references at execution time, keeping plaintext secrets out of agent context and logs. The feature is available across supported agent harnesses and Regions where Secrets Manager is offered.

🔍 AWS Security Agent, now part of AWS Continuum, introduces an AI-powered threat modeling capability in public preview that automatically generates threat models from design documents or source code. The agent analyzes application architecture, data flows, and trust boundaries to identify threats across all six STRIDE categories and recommends mitigations. Developers can integrate the agent into IDEs such as Kiro and Claude Code for early design-phase assessments, while security teams can perform pre-deployment reviews. The feature is available in all regions supported by AWS Security Agent at no extra cost during the preview.

🔒 AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) adds support for Kiro and Claude Code, enabling developers to trigger security scans directly from their development environment. The agent now validates code scanner findings by simulating exploits in a sandbox to provide proof of exploit, reducing false positives and improving prioritization. Integrations include GitLab.com, GitLab Self Managed, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, and Confluence, and features are available in all supported regions.

🔍 AWS Transform now provides a model-to-model migration custom transformation that evaluates generative AI workloads and generates a migration plan to Amazon Bedrock. The agent scans codebases to identify AI SDKs and models, collects migration requirements interactively, and maps models to Bedrock equivalents with cost comparisons and production-ready code changes. It preserves application architecture while recommending routing, caching, and Bedrock integrations for secure, consolidated deployment.

🛡️ Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now includes Automated Reasoning checks that use formal verification to mathematically validate AI model outputs. This capability targets hallucinations, policy violations, and ambiguous responses to improve trust and compliance. Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), it complements existing regional availability and is accessible via the Amazon Bedrock console and SDK.

🔍 AWS Transform for mainframe now provides a connected, traceable reimagine workflow that takes organizations from portfolio assessment through code generation. The service identifies discrete business functions in z/OS COBOL and PL/I workloads, generates development-ready requirements, and produces traceable cloud-native code. Integrations with IDEs such as Kiro via MCP enable requirements and code to flow directly into developer environments with full auditability.

🔐 AWS Sign-in now supports resource-based policies and resource control policies (RCPs) for the AWS Management Console. These policies let administrators restrict console sign-in to expected networks and are evaluated during sign-in and when the console session requests new credentials. Resource-based policies target individual AWS accounts while RCPs apply organization-wide via AWS Organizations. Administrators can combine these controls with AWS Management Console Private Access to manage allowed sign-in networks and account access across their environment.

🚀 Amazon Redshift has made RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, generally available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These Graviton-based instances deliver up to 4.2X better price-performance for data warehouse workloads, run up to 2.4x faster than prior RA3 instances, and cost 30% less per vCPU. Customers can provision rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge nodes, upgrade from RA3, and benefit from built-in savings including incremental snapshot metering by unique data blocks and elimination of Redshift Spectrum scanning charges.

🚀 AWS announces the public preview of AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework that provides backend capabilities without requiring developers to learn infrastructure tools. It runs a fully functional local environment with Postgres, authentication, and real-time messaging with no AWS account required, and the same code can be deployed to production AWS services with zero changes. Developers can also drop into AWS CDK at any time for direct resource configuration, and AWS Blocks supports SPA and SSR frameworks at preview.

🔗 Amazon Quick now connects to 16 additional tools including Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, Snowflake, and Smartsheet, enabling teams to act on insights without switching context. The new connectors span productivity, design, analytics, financial intelligence, commerce, and communication, so teams can build cross-tool workflows inside Quick. Integrations are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🤖 Starting today, AWS Partner Central agents qualify every co-sell opportunity in real time and make actionable recommendations to accelerate AWS engagement and deal progression. Building on agents released March 16, 2026, the agent can act on the partner's behalf via conversation to enrich opportunity details, removing manual review delays. Each opportunity now receives an Opportunity Quality Score and is matched to a co-sell motion—AWS field-engaged, Agent-engaged, or Partner-led—with the score and motion recalculated in real time as recommendations are applied.

🤖 AWS Marketplace introduces AI-assisted product listing within the Partner Assistant chat to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Consulting Partners create optimized product listings using existing digital assets. The assistant imports content from websites, PDFs, case studies, and documentation, then generates, validates, and formats listing fields to meet AWS Marketplace requirements and improve search discoverability. Field-level recommendations and a quality score help partners align listings with best practices. Available via AWS Partner Central, the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, and programmatically through the Partner Agent MCP server; not available in AWS GovCloud (US) or China Regions.

🔔 AWS Partner Central introduces Business Value Realization (BVR), a new experience and funding motion that helps partners drive customer adoption and measurable business outcomes after deploying strategic AWS services. Partners can self-enroll, nominate customer opportunities, and monitor progress through defined adoption stages with guided activities. AI agents generate weekly adoption reports highlighting progress, risks, and recommendations, while funding is automatically disbursed when stages are completed.

🔔 Partners co-selling with AWS can now automate private offer pricing within co-sell workflows. By predefining pricing rules, discount limits, and eligible products, partners enable AWS sellers to convert opportunities to private offers quickly, shortening what used to be weeks of negotiation into minutes. Customers receive tailored offers based on their specifications, and partners gain visibility and direct follow-up access to assist with acceptance and context.

🔔 AWS Marketplace reduced its listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%, making it more economical for consulting partners, systems integrators, managed service providers and ISVs to transact services. The change applies automatically to new private offers across all AWS Regions, pricing models, and currencies, while existing offers remain on their original terms. Partners can list through AWS Partner Central and customers can discover services via AI-powered features and multi-product solutions.

🚀 AWS announced a public preview that extends AWS Transform for migrations to replicate block storage workloads directly to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. The capability lets application owners and cloud migration teams move block and NFS datastores from on‑premises or other clouds into FSx for ONTAP alongside compute and network migrations. This removes intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools, simplifying workflows and reducing cost and risk. FSx for ONTAP provides a fully managed ONTAP-based destination to preserve enterprise storage features while leveraging AWS scale and resiliency.

🤝 Today AWS announced general availability of onboarding agents for AWS Partner Central. The agent serves as an always-available advisor that guides new partners through profile setup, verifications, tax and payment setup, compliance, and preparing listings on Marketplace. Partners can interact with the agent in the AWS Partner Central console or programmatically via Model Context Protocol (MCP). The agent auto-populates partner profiles using company website data and provides a personalized roadmap to accelerate readiness to sell with AWS.

🟢 AWS introduces the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization that validates Services Partners with expertise in transforming contact centers and embedding AI across customer interactions. The competency covers two categories: Contact Center Transformation and AI-Powered Customer Experience, recognizing partners who migrate legacy contact centers and operationalize AI at scale on Amazon Connect. This competency replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027.

🛒 AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, enabling AWS Partners to create and deploy branded catalogs of solutions and services on their own websites or applications in hours. Channel Partners and ISVs can import listings with no code, use AWS Marketplace billing for transactions, and automate deal workflows with private offer templates and CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot. The storefront supports curated catalogs on partners' domains and is available in all AWS Marketplace regions.