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Amazon MWAA Enables In-place Downgrades of Airflow

🔄 You can now perform in-place minor Apache Airflow version downgrades on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). This feature lets administrators revert an MWAA environment to any other supported minor Airflow version without needing to recreate the environment. You can also launch new Airflow environments in all currently supported MWAA regions via the AWS Management Console with a few clicks. For details, see the Amazon MWAA documentation.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now in Thailand, Malaysia, Spain

📢 AWS announced general availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Europe (Spain). The service automates application deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring so developers can focus on writing code. These region additions provide local access that can reduce latency, help address data-residency and compliance requirements, and broaden deployment options for customers in Southeast Asia and Spain. Customers can follow the Elastic Beanstalk developer guidance to begin deploying applications in the new regions.

Amazon RDS for Oracle: Redo Transport Compression Now

⚙️ Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Redo Transport Compression, which compresses redo data before it is transmitted to standby databases to reduce network traffic and improve redo transport performance. Because transport is faster, customers can achieve a lower Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Compression and decompression consume CPU on both primary and standby instances, so ensure adequate CPU capacity before enabling. Enable the feature by setting the redo_compression parameter in the instance Parameter Group; it supports mounted and read replicas and requires Oracle Enterprise Edition with Oracle Advanced Compression licensing.

Aurora DSQL Adds FIS Integration for Resilience Testing

🔧 Amazon announces that Aurora DSQL now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to enable controlled resilience testing for applications that depend on Aurora DSQL. Customers can simulate regional connectivity disruptions and full inaccessibility to validate failover, reconnection, and recovery behaviours across single-Region and multi-Region deployments. Experiment templates can be included in CI pipelines and FIS generates detailed reports that can be stored in Amazon S3 for auditing and compliance. The capability is available in multiple AWS Regions.

AWS Deadline Cloud Adds Cinema 4D and Redshift on Linux

🎬 Starting today, AWS Deadline Cloud supports running Maxon Cinema 4D and Redshift render jobs on Linux service-managed fleets. Previously limited to Windows-only service-managed fleets, the new Linux option reduces worker compute costs and lets teams provision and elastically scale rendering capacity automatically. Service-managed fleets can be configured in minutes and the feature is available in all regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

AWS Transform for .NET Adds Azure DevOps Repos Support

🔗 AWS Transform for .NET now supports Azure DevOps repositories alongside GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. You can connect Azure DevOps repos directly to AWS Transform to discover, assess, and transform hundreds of repositories in parallel and run unit tests as part of the modernization workflow. Dependencies hosted in Azure Artifacts (NuGet) are resolved automatically during transformation, simplifying migration of .NET Framework applications to Linux-ready, cross-platform .NET while preserving Azure DevOps workflows.

Amazon Polly adds seven expressive generative voices

🔊 Amazon Polly announces general availability of seven new highly expressive generative voices in English, French, Polish, and Dutch. The release introduces one male-sounding voice (Canadian French - Liam) and six female-sounding voices, including US English - Salli and Polish - Ola and Ewa, bringing the Generative TTS roster to 27 voices. These generative voices are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt), and leverage Polly’s GenAI-based polyglot capability to preserve a consistent vocal identity across languages.

AWS B2B Data Interchange Adds Custom X12 Validation

📄 AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports custom validation rules for X12 EDI documents, allowing organizations to expand or modify the X12 ANSI standard to reflect trading-partner agreements. You can enforce element presence, length constraints, and allowed values while combining standard and custom checks. Validation results generate functional acknowledgments (997/999), emit EventBridge events, and include human-readable explanations stored with output files to support remediation workflows.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens: External Voice in Five Regions

📣 Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice in five additional AWS Regions — Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London). The service integrates with other voice systems for real-time and post-call analytics, offering call recordings, contact transcripts, generative AI post-contact summaries, sensitive data redaction, contact categorization, theme detection, sentiment analysis, and real-time alerts. Customers can extend Contact Lens analytics across existing voice platforms, access interaction data streams and a data lake, or start with Contact Lens to evaluate performance before migrating agents.

Amazon EC2 G6 Instances with NVIDIA L4 Now in UAE Region

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs in the Middle East (UAE) Region, expanding cloud GPU capacity for graphics and ML workloads. G6 instances offer up to 8 L4 GPUs with 24 GB per GPU, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking, and up to 7.52 TB local NVMe storage. They are available via On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans and can be managed through the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs.

Amazon RDS Supports MariaDB 11.8 with Vector Engine

🚀 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.8 (minor 11.8.3), the community's latest long-term maintenance release. The update introduces MariaDB Vector, enabling storage of vector embeddings and use of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) directly in the managed database. It also adds controls to limit maximum temporary file and table sizes to better manage storage. You can upgrade manually, via snapshot restore, or with Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments; 11.8 is available in all regions where RDS MariaDB is offered.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds Five Document Languages

📄 Amazon Web Services' Bedrock Data Automation now supports five additional document languages — Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, and German — expanding multilingual document processing beyond English. Customers can build blueprints, prompts, and instructions in these languages using BDA Custom Output, while BDA Standard Output will produce summaries and figure captions in the detected document language. This update is generally available across multiple AWS commercial and GovCloud regions and aims to accelerate multilingual document workflows for intelligent document processing and multimodal automation.

Amazon Neptune Adds BYOKG RAG Support via GraphRAG

🔍 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Bring Your Own Knowledge Graph (BYOKG) support for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using the open-source GraphRAG Toolkit. Developers can now connect domain-specific graphs stored in Amazon Neptune (Database or Analytics) directly to LLM workflows, combining graph queries with vector search. This reduces hallucinations and improves multi-hop and temporal reasoning, easing operationalization of graph-aware generative AI.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Now in GovCloud (US-West)

🚀 Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. BDA automates extraction of actionable insights from unstructured multimodal content—documents, images, video, and audio—helping developers accelerate GenAI-based applications like intelligent document processing and media analysis. It can run standalone or as a parser in Amazon Knowledge Bases RAG workflows and is now offered in eight AWS Regions.

Amazon EKS adds namespace configuration for add-ons

🔧 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to select a custom Kubernetes namespace when installing both AWS and Community add-ons, giving operators finer control over object organization and isolation within clusters. You can install add-ons into a chosen namespace via the AWS Console, EKS APIs, AWS CLI, or infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation. Note that to move an installed add-on to a different namespace you must remove and recreate it. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Adds Delayed Read Replicas

🕒 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports delayed read replicas, allowing you to specify a minimum time period for a replica to intentionally lag behind its source. This configurable time buffer helps protect against human errors such as accidental table drops or unwanted data modifications by preserving a recoverable replica state. In recovery workflows you can pause replication before problematic changes are applied, resume replication to a specific log position, and promote the replica as the new primary to achieve faster recovery than lengthy point-in-time restores.

Amazon EC2 R7g Graviton3 Instances Launch in Cape Town

🚀 Amazon EC2 R7g instances powered by Graviton3 processors are now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town). These instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton2 and can use up to 60% less energy for comparable performance, helping reduce cloud carbon footprint. They come in nine sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking and 20 Gbps EBS bandwidth, running on the AWS Nitro System for secure, high‑performance isolation.

Amazon RDS for Db2 Adds Support for Read Replicas Now

🔁 Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports read replicas, allowing customers to add up to three replicas per instance to offload read-only workloads and reduce load on the primary database. Replicas can be created in the same Region or across Regions and use asynchronous replication so read queries do not impact the writer. You can promote a replica for disaster recovery to enable read/write operations. Note that IBM Db2 licenses are required for all replica vCPUs; customers may use On‑Demand licenses from the AWS Marketplace or BYOL.

AWS releases MCP server for Billing and Cost Management

🧾 AWS has published an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Billing and Cost Management, available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository. The server exposes AWS service APIs and a dedicated SQL-based calculation engine to produce reliable, reproducible cost calculations across large volumes of usage data. It integrates with any MCP-compatible AI assistant or agent — including Q Developer CLI, the Kiro IDE, Visual Studio Code, and Claude Desktop — enabling customers to analyze historical spend, find optimization opportunities, and estimate costs for new workloads with minimal configuration.

Count Tokens API Adds Claude Model Support in Bedrock

🧮 The Count Tokens API is now available in Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to determine token counts for a prompt or input prior to performing inference. Anthropic’s Claude models are supported at launch and the feature is available in all regions where those models run. This improves cost projection, gives more control over token limits, and reduces the risk of unexpected throttling. It also helps ensure inputs fit within a model's context length for more efficient prompt optimization.