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🔒 AWS Management Console Private Access now lets customers reach the AWS Console from VPCs without any internet connectivity, enabling management of AWS infrastructure in air-gapped and strictly controlled networks. The feature routes console traffic through VPC endpoints using AWS PrivateLink, letting customers enforce VPC endpoint policies and existing IAM, Service Control, and Resource Control policies. Available in all AWS commercial regions, customers pay only for the underlying VPC endpoint usage and data processing.

🔍 AWS Transform today launched a Preview of continuous modernization that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and remediates technical debt across enterprise software portfolios. The capability brings visibility across thousands of repositories, supports assessments like agentic and modernization readiness, and integrates with AWS Security Agent to find and fix source code vulnerabilities. Customers can connect repositories from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and run analyses via the web console, CLI, Transform Kiro, or coding agents, with job state synchronized across surfaces. The service is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions.

🔁 Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand replication to and from AWS opt-in Regions, enabling incremental point-in-time snapshot transfers beyond default-enabled Regions. This feature simplifies disaster recovery, cross-account replication, and lower-latency global access while leveraging FSx for OpenZFS’s snapshots, cloning, and high throughput. Available wherever FSx for OpenZFS is offered, replication carries no extra FSx charge; standard inter-Region data transfer fees apply.

✅ AWS Partner Central now accepts SOC 2 Type II audit reports or AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) to complete the Foundational Technical Review (FTR) in minutes. The process uses AI-powered validation to provide immediate approval or actionable feedback, accelerating access to the qualified software badge, APN program eligibility, co-selling, and funding benefits. Partners with SOC 2 can submit third-party reports; those without can submit WAFR reports from the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The service provides specific AI-generated remediation steps when issues are found, and FTR is available to all partners for solutions deployed on AWS and with AWS Partner Revenue Measurement enabled.

🛠️ Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics, a unified console that combines CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights for integrated log querying, real-time streaming, and contributor identification. Users can run multiple queries in tabs, leverage patterns, saved queries with parameters, facets, natural language query generation, and visualizations. Live Tail and Contributor Insights are accessible within Log Analytics, which is the default experience, while opt-out users retain separate access to each feature. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses existing pricing for Logs Insights queries, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services announces a preview integration of Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Security teams can now subscribe to PANW protections directly from the DNS Firewall console and apply categories like Command and Control, Malware, and Phishing without deploying separate firewalls. The integration supports hybrid traffic, AWS multi-account management, centralized visibility via AWS Security Hub, and preview availability across multiple regions.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). ECS Express Mode lets developers rapidly launch containerized applications with AWS-managed domains, public or private HTTPS, and automatic scaling. It consolidates up to 25 services behind a single Application Load Balancer with rule-based routing while keeping all resources fully accessible in your account. Deployments can be performed via Console, SDK, CLI, CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform; you pay only for the AWS resources provisioned.

🗂️ Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports the Intelligent-Tiering storage class in 13 additional AWS Regions across Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. The Intelligent-Tiering class provides fully elastic, low-cost Lustre storage optimized for mixed hot/cold workloads by automatically tiering data across Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive tiers, with an optional SSD read cache for active data. It offers up to 34% better price-performance versus on-premises HDD and up to 96% lower costs for rarely accessed data compared to other managed cloud file offerings.

📊 AWS announces Cost Explorer historical data retention for accounts in billing groups. Customers using AWS Billing Conductor and Billing Transfer can map accounts to billing groups and view billing data priced at the payer or Bill-Transfer account's pro forma rates. Previously, billing group mapping restricted access to historical billing data priced at AWS billable rates. Accounts already onboarded will retain access to their historical Cost Explorer data with no additional action required.

🛠️ AWS announces that DevOps Agent now supports custom SRE agents, bring-your-own sub-agents, and headless access via MCP and A2A protocols. These features let teams automate recurring SRE workflows, extend the agent by connecting external sub-agents, and invoke DevOps Agent from familiar tools such as Kiro and Claude. Additional updates include chat enhancements, incident-skip rules, enhanced knowledge with memories and Git-managed skills, human labeling, dashboards for task quality, and availability in five new Regions.

🟢 AWS Partner Central now offers lead enrichment and prospecting, letting AWS Partners enrich AWS-sourced or partner-sourced leads with AWS-generated propensity insights and recommendations for program, funding, and sales motion eligibility. Partners can upload leads in the console or programmatically via the AWS Partner Central API. Each enriched lead returns propensity-to-buy signals, Marketplace purchase likelihood, solution-category alignment, and eligibility for programs like Partner Greenfield Program and Pioneer Credits. The feature is available to ACE-eligible Partners in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. C8i delivers up to 20% higher performance than C7i and provides larger sizes, including a new 96xlarge and two bare metal options. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. C7i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance than C6i, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes with built-in Intel accelerators. They support Intel AMX, and permit up to 128 EBS volumes per instance to scale data-intensive workloads.

📣 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of CloudWatch Metrics Centralization, enabling replication of CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry metrics cross-account and cross-region into a single destination account. Enterprise teams can use AWS Organizations to define centralization rules that automatically replicate metrics for unified querying, alarming, compliance, and governance. The feature supports Metrics Insights, dashboards, alarms, Metric Math, anomaly detection, Metric Streams, and PromQL and is available in multiple global AWS Regions.

🔍 Today AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio, a unified querying and visualization experience inside the CloudWatch console. Query Studio supports PromQL and Metrics Insights to query OpenTelemetry and AWS-vended metrics across accounts and regions from a single workspace. It offers visual query builders, multiple visualization types, dashboard integration, Grafana import, and keyboard shortcuts.

🛰️ Starting today, Amazon GameLift Servers includes free inbound and outbound network bandwidth for all instance types from generation 6 and later, covering On-Demand and Spot instances with no commitment. Customers will only be charged for Amazon GameLift Servers instance hours, simplifying cost predictability for multiplayer game hosting. The change requires no enrollment or configuration and is effective immediately for eligible fleets in supported regions, excluding China. Existing customers receive the benefit automatically.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion delivers lower latency and improved performance for customers in these geographies while supporting local data residency requirements. The new Regions provide access to Lightsail's full feature set, including instances (general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized), managed databases, container services, and load balancers with predictable pricing.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless customization for Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). This open-weight 30B-parameter model can be deployed and adapted to specific domains and workflows directly within SageMaker. Serverless customization handles infrastructure and training orchestration, enabling teams to focus on data and evaluation while paying only for usage. The feature is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland), and can be launched from SageMaker Studio or via the SageMaker Python SDK.

⚙️ AWS has launched Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Europe (Paris) region, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs. These instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% improved price performance versus I4i, with up to 45TB NVMe storage and significant reductions in storage I/O latency and variability. I7i supports torn write prevention up to 16KB and comes in eleven sizes, including bare metal options, with up to 100Gbps network and 60Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🔒 Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads. The service lets customers reserve GPU instances in advance for defined durations, providing assured access to accelerated compute for pre-training, fine-tuning, rapid prototyping, and surge inference. Reservations can be made up to eight weeks ahead for durations up to six months, in clusters of one to 64 instances, and can be shared across accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager.