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🚀 Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 across all deployment models, bringing ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types to simplify data pipeline development. The release enables fine-grained access control at row and column level and integrates Apache Iceberg v3 for stronger transaction guarantees and lineage. Enhanced streaming capabilities speed real-time application deployment and Spark 4.0.2 is available in all EMR regions.

🔧 AWS Glue now provides large and memory-optimized workers in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region, enabling customers to run more compute- and memory-intensive ETL workloads locally. The release introduces two general compute workers (G.12X, G.16X) and four memory-optimized workers (R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, R.8X). These options support heavier transforms, aggregations, joins, and caching in Spark jobs and can be chosen in AWS Glue Studio or via the Glue Job APIs.

🤖 Amazon Connect Customer now uses generative AI to automatically evaluate self-service interactions and surface aggregated insights to improve customer experience. Managers can create custom evaluation criteria in natural language within evaluation forms, such as "Were all of the customer issues resolved by the AI agent?", and the generative AI assesses interaction quality with detailed reasoning and reference points from transcripts. Insights are available both in aggregate and per contact, alongside recordings and transcripts for performance improvement. This feature is available in multiple AWS Regions including N. Virginia, Oregon, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Frankfurt.

🚀 AWS announces Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now integrates with Kiro Powers, enabling developers to build Aurora MySQL-backed applications faster using AI agent assistance. The integration bundles curated Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks validated by Kiro partners to provide immediate expertise in Aurora MySQL operations and schema design via natural language. Developers can execute data plane and control plane tasks conversationally, while task-specific guidance prevents information overload. The feature is available via one-click installation from the Kiro IDE and webpage across all Regions that support Aurora MySQL.

🔒 AWS Backup now requires one‑time password (OTP) verification when approvers vote on Multi‑party approval actions for logically air‑gapped vaults. Approvers must enter a six‑digit code sent to their registered email in AWS IAM Identity Center, ensuring only verified approvers can authorize protected vault operations. OTP verification is applied automatically to all existing and new Multi‑party approval sessions in supported Regions at no additional charge, with no setup required.

🔒 Amazon Connect Customer now supports tag-based access controls for the agent login/logout report, allowing administrators to apply granular permissions to meet compliance and regulatory needs. Contact center admins can use resource tags to limit who can view login/logout data for specific agents—for example, tagging agents with Department:Customer Service to allow only that team's manager to view their login/logout details. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🚀 AWS announces general availability of Neuron 2.30.0, delivering NKI 0.4.0 with Trainium3-specific hardware capabilities, 22 new NKI Library kernels, and expanded Neuron Agentic Development skills to aid model porting and validation. The release targets ML developers optimizing training and inference or porting models to AWS Trainium and Inferentia, and it is available in Regions supporting Trn1/Trn2/Trn3 and Inf1/Inf2 instances.

🔒 The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) is a 24/7 global team that helps customers during active security events affecting the customer side of the Shared Responsibility Model. The team analyzes AWS service logs and the control plane using sources like AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and GuardDuty, provides triage and containment guidance, and recommends follow-up actions. AWS also publishes tools, workshops, and the Threat Technique Catalog for AWS (TTC) to help customers prepare and detect recurring tactics and techniques.

🚀 Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express to accelerate cross-AZ replication traffic. ENA Express leverages AWS's Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to deliver up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth, improve congestion control and multi-pathing, and reduce latency variability for synchronous replication. This enhancement increases write throughput and lowers write latencies for write-intensive workloads and is available at no extra charge for several RDS engines across numerous regions. To enable on existing instances, perform a start-stop or scale compute action and consult the user guide for supported instance types.

🔒 This AWS Security blog post outlines best practices for defending against software supply chain attacks, motivated by recent npm incidents like Shai‑Hulud and axios. It emphasizes reducing long‑lived credentials by using temporary credentials (AWS CLI login, IAM Identity Center, OIDC) and centralizing secrets with AWS Secrets Manager or Systems Manager Parameter Store. The article advocates layered defenses including MFA, multi‑approver workflows, artifact signing with AWS Signer, central package repositories using CodeArtifact, image scanning with Amazon Inspector, and provenance attestations for npm packages.

🛈 Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports tags on IPAM pool allocations, letting customers organize, govern, and control access to individual IP address allocations using existing tagging workflows. Tags can be applied at creation or added to existing allocations and referenced in AWS Identity and Access Management and Service Control Policies for centralized governance. Administrators can enforce environment-based allocation controls and teams can search and filter allocations by tag across accounts. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is supported at no additional cost.

🔧 The AWS Glue Data Catalog Client for Apache Hive Metastore now supports Hive 3 and can discover multiple catalogs in the Glue Data Catalog. This open-source reference implementation enables Hive-compatible clients to list and read multiple catalogs and serves as a foundation for customers and partners to build their own integrations. See the announcement for details on using the client.

🔍 AWS Transform now includes enhanced migration assessment capabilities that support what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, flexible file formats, and expanded TCO assessment features. These updates enable rapid building of migration business cases and faster decision-making. The tool accepts inputs from RVTools, CMDBs, AWS discovery exports, and many third-party discovery tools. New analysis options cover EC2, FSx, S3, SQL Server on EC2, virtual desktops, and additional Cloud Value Framework pillars.

🔐 AWS Security Agent now generates verification scripts for penetration test findings to help teams reproduce and validate discovered vulnerabilities. The tool creates ready-to-run scripts for each confirmed finding that include setup instructions, documented environment variables, and redacted sensitive values. Teams download the script, configure variables, and execute it against targets to streamline triage and speed remediation. Verification scripts are available in all Regions where AWS Security Agent is supported.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams has introduced Generation 6e (G6e) stream classes, delivering enhanced GPU performance for streaming graphically demanding games and applications. The G6e classes use EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs and 3rd gen AMD EPYC processors, offering 2x GPU memory and up to 2.9x faster GPU memory bandwidth versus standard Gen6 classes. Two variants — gen6e_pro and gen6e_pro_win2022 — provide a full dedicated NVIDIA L40S GPU with 48 GB memory, suited for AAA-quality streaming at high resolutions. G6e stream classes are available in select AWS Regions including US East, US West, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

🔄 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports WorkSpace Migration for all Linux operating systems offered by the service, enabling seamless migration between Linux OS versions and distributions. The feature automatically transfers user data from a Linux WorkSpace’s home directory to the new WorkSpace, removing the need for manual data copying. Supported in AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where WorkSpaces Personal is available, the capability helps streamline OS upgrades and migrations without disrupting end users.

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions, enabling customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and keep data within the Region to meet residency requirements. The managed, serverless service offers virtually unlimited throughput and storage while customers pay only for used resources. These Regions provide the same features as other AWS Regions, including point-in-time recovery, Multi-Region replication, CDC streams, and IPv6 support, reducing operational overhead of running Cassandra clusters.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports mutable, fine-grained payment configurations that let collaboration members flexibly assign payment responsibilities. Customers can designate which partners are authorized to pay for specific cost types—such as SQL queries, PySpark jobs, ML training and inference, and synthetic data generation—after a collaboration is created. Authorized payers can be added or removed via change requests that require member approval; SQL and PySpark analyses may have multiple payers and one can be chosen at submission.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language gains 13 new commands and functions to enhance log querying, transformation, and analysis. New features include string and numeric functions like round, startswith, endswith, case, regex_replace, and haversine, encoding/decoding functions such as urlencode, urldecode, base64encode, base64decode, and parse/analysis commands like parse logfmt, expand, and relevantfields. These additions enable prefix filtering, inline Base64 decoding, logfmt parsing, JSON array expansion, geographic distance calculation, and automatic surfacing of relevant fields across high-cardinality groups.

🚀 Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 across all deployment models, adding ANSI SQL and VARIANT data type support to simplify data pipelines. The release enables fine-grained access control (FGAC) for read and write operations on Lake Formation registered tables and adopts Apache Iceberg v3 for stronger transaction guarantees and lineage tracking. Enhanced streaming capabilities improve stateful processing and monitoring for real-time applications.