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📊 AWS Data Exports now surfaces granular operation types for Amazon Bedrock in cost reports, replacing generic "Usage" labels with explicit operations such as InvokeModelInference and InvokeModelStreamingInference. These operation values appear in the line_item_operation column for Legacy CUR and CUR 2.0, the x_Operation column in FOCUS exports, and as Operation dimension values in the AWS Cost Explorer API. The change applies to all foundation models on Bedrock and is intended to help FinOps and cost optimization teams analyze and optimize model-driven spend.

📊 AWS Data Exports now surfaces granular Amazon Bedrock operation types in billing outputs, replacing generic "Usage" labels with explicit actions such as InvokeModelInference and InvokeModelStreamingInference. These operation values appear in Legacy CUR and CUR 2.0 via the line_item_operation column, in FOCUS exports via x_Operation, and as Operation dimension values in the Cost Explorer API. The visibility applies across all Bedrock foundation models and is intended to help FinOps and cost optimization teams perform more precise usage tracking and billing analysis.

🟦Amazon has expanded VPC Route Server to 16 additional AWS Regions, bringing total availability to 30 regions worldwide. The service lets virtual appliances advertise routes using BGP and dynamically update VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateways. This expansion broadens deployment choices and helps customers apply consistent dynamic routing across more geographies. It simplifies management of virtual appliances and supports scalable, resilient network architectures.

🌐 Amazon VPC Route Server is now available in 16 additional AWS Regions, bringing total availability to 30 regions. The service simplifies dynamic routing between virtual appliances by letting those appliances advertise routes via BGP and automatically update VPC route tables for subnets and internet gateways. This expansion broadens regional deployment choices for customers using third-party virtual network appliances and streamlines multi-region and hybrid routing architectures.

🔒 AWS Transform custom now supports AWS PrivateLink and is available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region in addition to US East (N. Virginia). The service automates repetitive code transformation tasks—language version upgrades, API migrations, and framework updates—using natural language, documentation, and code samples or AWS-managed transformations for Java, Python, and Node.js. With PrivateLink, customers can invoke Transform custom from an Amazon VPC without routing traffic over the public internet, helping address security and compliance requirements while enabling consistent, repeatable changes across large codebases.

🔒 Amazon VPC IPAM now supports centrally managed IP allocation policies for RDS instances and ALB resources, enabling administrators to enforce public IP assignment rules. The policies cover RDS, Application Load Balancers, NAT Gateways in regional mode, and Elastic IPs and cannot be overridden by application teams, improving compliance. Available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, the capability is offered in both IPAM Free and Advanced tiers; the Advanced tier supports cross-account and cross-region policy application.

📶 AWS IoT Device Management now offers Wi‑Fi Simple Setup (WSS) through its managed integrations feature. Developers can add QR code scanning so end users provision Wi‑Fi devices with a barcode scan, reducing manual configuration and support needs. WSS lets users store credentials in managed integrations; a new device scans a QR code, joins a hidden network broadcast by the IoT hub, and receives credentials securely for near zero‑touch onboarding. The feature is available in Canada (Central) and Europe (Ireland).

🔐 Amazon Bedrock now supports API keys in AWS GovCloud (US), extending the capability first introduced in commercial regions in July 2025. Developers can create short-term API keys (valid for the console session or up to 12 hours) and long-term keys with configurable lifetimes. Long-term keys are manageable through the AWS IAM console, reducing the need to manually configure IAM principals and policies and streamlining generative AI development.

📅 Amazon Connect adds a visual calendar and recurring hours-of-operation overrides to simplify scheduling for holidays, maintenance windows, and promotional periods. Administrators can create weekly, monthly, or every-other-Friday overrides that automatically take effect and revert without manual changes. The feature supports public APIs and AWS CloudFormation and is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🧾 AWS has updated the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console Payments page to provide much faster performance, improved data accuracy, and simplified payment reconciliation. Pages now load in milliseconds rather than minutes, allowing customers with tens of thousands of transactions to access complete histories without timeouts. The enhanced view adds consolidated balance tracking, clear transaction status indicators, advanced filtering, and a Usage Consolidation Account column to help track Billing Transfer activity across accounts.

🔔 Amazon Neptune now supports Graviton3-based R7g and Graviton4-based R8g instances in new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Singapore), Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). R7g introduces the first DDR5-equipped AWS database instances with up to 30 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 20 Gbps to Amazon EBS, while R8g offers larger sizes (up to 48xlarge) and an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. Graviton4 delivers up to 40% faster database performance versus Graviton3, and both families are priced about 16% lower than R6g. Customers can launch or upgrade via the AWS Management Console or CLI for Neptune engine versions 1.4.5 and above.

⚙️AWS has made the enhanced AWS Security Hub generally available, adding automation features to centralize and accelerate handling of security findings across accounts and Regions. The update integrates Security Hub CSPM into detection engines and provides real-time risk analytics, automated correlation, and enriched context to prioritize critical issues. Automation rules and integrations with EventBridge, Lambda, and ITSM tools like ServiceNow enable remediation, routing, and evidence collection to reduce manual triage and support compliance.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now offers Extended Support minor releases 12.22-rds.20251114 and 11.22-rds.20251114, which include critical security and bug fixes addressing vulnerabilities present in earlier versions. We recommend upgrading to these releases to reduce exposure and maintain supportability after community maintenance ends. Extended Support provides up to three additional years of critical fixes after a major version’s standard support expiry, giving teams more time to plan major upgrades. These updates are available in all commercial and government regions and can be applied automatically via automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance windows.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code named Turin) and deliver the highest maximum CPU frequency in the cloud — 5 GHz. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, X8aedz targets EDA workloads and relational databases that need high single-thread performance and large memory capacity, pairing 5 GHz CPUs with local NVMe for faster memory-intensive processing.

🚀 Amazon has made MSK Connect available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). MSK Connect provides fully managed Kafka Connect clusters to deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK and external systems. The service supports both Amazon MSK-managed and self-managed Kafka clusters, scales automatically, and uses a pay-for-what-you-use model. With this launch, MSK Connect is now available in 38 AWS Regions.

🗣️ Amazon Web Services announced an update to Amazon Lex that adds a neural automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for English locales. The model, trained on data from multiple English-speaking regions, better recognizes conversational speech, non-native speakers, and regional accents, reducing repeated prompts and improving self-service success. Administrators can enable the capability by selecting the "Neural" option in a bot's locale speech recognition settings. The feature is available across all AWS commercial regions that support Amazon Connect and Lex.

🔒 AWS added two services — AWS Security Incident Response and AWS Transform — and the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region to its PCI DSS certification scope. The updated PCI DSS package includes an Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and an AWS Responsibility Summary, both validated by Coalfire. Customers can retrieve the package in AWS Artifact, and AWS also published the PCI report package in NIST OSCAL JSON to enable machine-readable, automated compliance workflows.

🧭 The Amazon SageMaker HyperPod console now validates AWS service quotas for your account before initiating cluster creation. The console automatically compares your requested cluster configuration—instance types, EBS volume sizes, and VPC-related resources—against account-level quotas and presents a clear table of expected utilization, applied quota values, and compliance status. If validation detects potential quota shortfalls, it issues a warning and provides direct links to the Service Quotas console so you can request increases before provisioning begins.

🔊 Amazon Lex now offers three configurable voice activity detection (VAD) sensitivity levels—Default, High, and Maximum—that can be set per bot locale. The Default setting suits typical background noise, High targets consistently moderate noise such as busy offices or retail spaces, and Maximum is designed for very noisy environments like manufacturing floors or outdoor locations. You configure VAD sensitivity when creating or updating a bot locale in the Amazon Connect Conversational AI designer, and the feature is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Connect and Lex operate.

🎥 Amazon Connect now publishes agent screen recording status to CloudWatch via Amazon EventBridge. Customers can subscribe to the Screen Recording Status Changed event to receive near‑real‑time updates on recording success or failure, failure codes and descriptions, client and browser versions, OS, and start/end timestamps. This enables supervisors to correlate recordings with calls, chats, or tasks for coaching and compliance reviews. The feature is available in all Regions where Amazon Connect operates.