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🔁 AWS Glue zero-ETL now supports ongoing replication from self-managed Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases into Amazon Redshift in seven additional AWS Regions. The no-code integration automatically creates and manages an ongoing replication pipeline, removing much of the setup and configuration complexity. This capability reduces operational burden and can save weeks of engineering effort for teams migrating or consolidating data into Redshift. Newly added regions include Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, London, São Paulo, and US (Virginia).

🔁 Amazon EC2 now accepts Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) as a parameter in its APIs, enabling creation and management of instances, volumes, subnets and other resources using consistent, static zone identifiers. AZ IDs map to the same physical location across all AWS accounts, removing the need to reconcile per-account AZ names. This capability covers launch templates, fleets, reserved instances, volumes, capacity reservations, VPC endpoints, network interfaces, fast snapshot restore, instance connect and more, and is available in all regions including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL community releases 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. The update combines upstream community bug fixes and product improvements with Aurora-specific optimizations, including faster Blue/Green deployment switchovers and enhancements to Query Plan Management (QPM). These engine versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be deployed or used to upgrade existing clusters via the Amazon RDS console.

🐧 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleet, enabling Independent Software Vendors and central IT to stream Ubuntu desktop applications from an AWS-managed, serverless pool. Elastic fleet removes the need for capacity planning, scaling policies, or image creation. Administrators can enable the feature via the WorkSpaces Applications console and choose supported AWS Regions; pricing is pay-as-you-go.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Spain) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors running up to 4.5 GHz, C8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, plus 33% greater memory bandwidth. Available in 12 sizes (including two bare-metal options), they target high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads and support Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot purchasing.

🔔 Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, enabling customers to run fault-tolerant container workloads on spare capacity at discounts up to 90% versus On‑Demand. The fully managed compute option continues to provision, configure, and operate EC2 instances in your account while AWS handles scaling and placement optimization. You set task requirements and choose capacityOptionType as spot or on-demand in the Managed Instances capacity provider. Spot support is available in all Regions where Managed Instances is offered; management fees apply in addition to Spot instance costs.

🌐 Amazon MSK Connect now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for new connectors on MSK Connect, allowing customers to create connectors that use both protocols. Connectors can be created with dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by setting the Network Type parameter. New connectors default to IPv4-only unless explicitly configured for dual-stack, and existing connectors remain IPv4 and must be deleted and recreated to change. The feature is available in all Regions where MSK Connect is offered and incurs no additional charge.

🌐 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6 for WorkSpaces domains and external endpoints, enabling IPv4/IPv6 dual‑stack connectivity from compatible clients while excluding SAML authentication over IPv6. Dual‑stack reduces the need for address translation hardware, simplifies IP management, and supports PrivateLink VPC endpoints over IPv6 for private access. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud, at no additional cost; administrators must use the latest WorkSpaces clients to enable IPv6.

📦 AWS IoT Core now supports batching multiple device messages into a single HTTP rule action before routing to downstream HTTP endpoints. This reduces per-request overhead and can lower ingress cost and throughput demand for telemetry-heavy IoT workloads. Configure batch parameters on your HTTP rule action and AWS IoT Core will group incoming messages according to those settings. The capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and Amazon China Regions.

📣 AWS Lambda now offers durable functions in 14 additional Regions, enabling developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows closer to users and data. Durable functions add primitives such as "steps" and "waits" to checkpoint progress, recover from failures, and pause execution without incurring compute charges for on-demand functions. Activation is available for new Python (3.13, 3.14) and Node.js (22, 24) functions via the API, Console, SDK, or Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation, SAM, and CDK.

🚀 Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region on engine versions 1.4.5.0 and later. You can create Neptune clusters using a broad set of instance types, including R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3. Neptune is a fully managed graph database that supports Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, and SPARQL, and provides enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation. Clusters can be provisioned via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or CloudFormation.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo). These memory-optimized instances run on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient memory-heavy applications. Instances are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🕒 Amazon ECS now lets you define weekly event windows to control when AWS Fargate retires tasks for platform updates. Enable the account setting fargateEventWindows, create EC2 event windows with time ranges, and associate them to ECS tasks using managed tags like aws:ecs:clusterArn, aws:ecs:serviceArn, or aws:ecs:fargateTask. This allows precise timing (for example, weekend-only retirements) to avoid disruption during peak business hours and is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports change requests for existing collaborations, enabling participants to propose updates such as adding new members, adjusting member abilities, and modifying auto-approval behavior. All members must approve change requests before updates take effect, and every request is recorded in the collaboration change history for member review. This preserves existing privacy controls while reducing onboarding time and speeding time-to-insight—for example, a publisher can add an advertiser’s marketing agency to receive analysis results directly.

📧 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) introduces email validation to help customers reduce bounce rates and protect sender reputation. The capability offers API-based address checks and detailed validation insights such as syntax verification and DNS record analysis. With Auto Validation enabled, SES can automatically review every outbound address at the account or configuration-set level via simple console toggles, requiring no code changes. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is offered and integrates with existing email workflows.

🔁 Amazon ECS now supports defining weekly event windows to control when Fargate task retirements occur. This capability lets teams schedule infrastructure updates and automatic task replacements during off-peak periods, reducing disruption to mission-critical services. To use it, enable the account setting fargateEventWindows, create EC2 event windows with time ranges, and associate them to tasks using Amazon ECS-managed tags.

🔔 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Express Brokers now support Apache Kafka v3.9, introducing KRaft (Kafka Raft) for metadata management. New Express Broker clusters created with Kafka v3.9 will default to KRaft, moving metadata storage and replication into broker-managed topics and removing the dependency on ZooKeeper. The ability to upgrade existing clusters to v3.9 is planned for a future release. Kafka v3.9 for Express Brokers is available in all regions where MSK Express is supported; create a new cluster via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs to get started.

🔒 AWS announces that AWS Control Tower now includes 176 additional AWS Security Hub controls in its Control Catalog. You can search, discover, enable and manage these controls directly from the Control Tower console or via the ListControls, GetControl and EnableControl APIs. The new AWS Config rules are searchable in all Regions where Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US); check each rule's supported-region list before deployment.

🔐 Today, AWS Control Tower adds 176 additional AWS Security Hub controls to the Control Catalog, enabling you to search, discover, enable, and manage them directly from the Control Tower console. You can also call the ListControls, GetControl, and EnableControl APIs to automate governance across multi-account environments. New AWS Config rules are searchable in all Regions where Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US); check each rule's supported regions before deployment.

🧪 AWS Direct Connect now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to run controlled resilience tests that deliberately disrupt Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions on Virtual Interfaces. You can simulate BGP session failures to validate that traffic fails over to redundant Virtual Interfaces and that applications remain operational. This capability helps teams proactively verify failover behavior, observability, and recovery procedures and is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where AWS FIS is offered.