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📅 Amazon Connect now surfaces agent time-off requests directly in draft schedules, so schedulers can see why an agent wasn't assigned on specific days or shifts. This makes it easier to identify coverage gaps before publishing schedules to agents. The addition reduces the need to inspect published schedules or troubleshoot configuration to explain absences. The feature is available in all Regions where agent scheduling is supported.

📈 Amazon now emits resource count metrics from EventBridge Scheduler to CloudWatch, enabling teams to track the approximate number of schedules and schedule groups in an account. The metrics surface usage trends and indicate when you are approaching service quota limits so you can request increases before capacity is exhausted. These metrics are available at no extra cost in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud.

📝 Amazon Connect Cases now supports larger, expandable multi-line text fields on case templates, enabling agents to capture detailed free-form notes and structured data directly within cases. The fields expand vertically to accommodate multiple paragraphs, simplifying documentation of root cause analysis, transaction details, investigation findings, and customer-facing updates. This enhancement is available in multiple AWS regions.

🚀Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) regions. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors at up to 4.5 GHz, C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a. The family offers 33% more memory bandwidth, up to 57% faster GroovyJVM performance, and 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, making it well suited for latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads.

🌐 Amazon MSK now supports dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity for existing MSK Provisioned and MSK Serverless clusters. Customers can enable dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by changing the cluster Network Type; MSK provisions IPv6-enabled interfaces while preserving IPv4 to avoid service disruption. For Provisioned clusters, use the GetBootstrapBrokers API to retrieve new IPv6 bootstrap broker strings. Dual-stack is available in all Regions where MSK is offered and incurs no additional cost.

📈 AWS HealthImaging now provides additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor storage at both the account and individual data store levels. Customers can track storage volume, the number of image sets, and counts of DICOM studies, series, and instances to understand growth trends. These granular metrics support management of single-tenant and multi-tenant workloads at petabyte scale and are available in select AWS Regions.

🚀Amazon Web Services announced the new Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, a next-generation offering optimized for high performance computing and powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors. Hpc8a delivers up to 40% higher compute performance, up to 25% better price performance, and up to 42% higher memory bandwidth versus Hpc7a, with 192 cores, 768 GiB RAM and 300 Gbps EFA networking. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, these instances target tightly coupled, latency-sensitive HPC workloads and are available today in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Stockholm).

🛡️ This article presents a layered, AI-enhanced defense-in-depth architecture for protecting serverless microservices on AWS. It outlines seven security layers—from edge DDoS and WAF protections to identity, API gateway controls, network isolation, compute hardening, secrets management, and data encryption—integrating GuardDuty, Cognito, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, and DynamoDB. The guidance emphasizes continuous monitoring, automated incident response using Amazon Bedrock and EventBridge, and operational practices that balance security, compliance, and developer velocity.

🔔 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers Long-Term Support on DocumentDB 5.0, delivering security and stability patches without feature changes. To adopt LTS, create a new cluster using engine version 5.0.0 or patch an existing 5.0.0 cluster during your maintenance window. Verify your Engine Patch Version with db.runCommand({getEngineVersion: 1}) and ensure it is 3.0.17983 or later. LTS is available in all AWS regions where DocumentDB is offered.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports AWS PrivateLink for SAP HANA systems running on Amazon EC2. This lets customers route backup traffic over private VPC endpoints instead of the public internet, helping meet security and compliance requirements for regulated workloads. Organizations subject to HIPAA, PCI DSS and privacy frameworks can maintain end-to-end private connectivity for both application and backup data. The feature is available in all AWS Regions that support SAP HANA on EC2; to enable it, update the Backint agent and add the backup-storage VPCE to your VPC.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M7i instances powered by AWS-custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. These AWS‑exclusive processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance compared to M6i. M7i offers sizes up to 48xlarge plus bare-metal options (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) with built-in Intel accelerators — suitable for gaming servers, CPU-based ML, and high-throughput video streaming.

🚀 AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in eighteen additional AWS Regions, bringing the service to thirty-three Regions worldwide. The release upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, and refreshes support for open table formats including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. It introduces Iceberg format v3.0 features, deletion vectors, multi-argument transforms, and row lineage tracking, and extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to write operations as well as full-table access control for Hudi and Delta tables. Customers can begin using the update via APIs, CLI, SDKs, Glue Studio, or SageMaker Unified Studio and should consult the documentation for migration and configuration guidance.

🔒 Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling agentic AI development for compliance-sensitive workloads. The platform combines an integrated development environment (IDE) and a command-line interface (CLI) to support spec-driven workflows that turn prompts into specs, working code, documentation, and tests. Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support lets Kiro connect to documentation, databases, APIs, and other enterprise resources while integrating with AWS IAM Identity Center for enterprise authentication.

🔒 Amazon Aurora now automatically applies server-side encryption by default to all new database clusters created without custom encryption settings, using AWS-owned keys. This fully managed encryption is transparent to users and incurs no cost or performance impact. Existing clusters are unaffected; you can still select customer-managed or AWS-managed KMS keys during creation. Available in all AWS Regions including GovCloud.

🔍 AWS Batch now exposes queue and share utilization metrics to show how compute capacity is used across FIFO and fair-share job queues. Job queue snapshots now include queue utilization and per-allocation capacity consumption, and the ListServiceJobs API returns a scheduledAt timestamp for service jobs. Access the data via the GetJobQueueSnapshot, ListJobs, and ListServiceJobs APIs or the new Share Utilization tab in the AWS Batch console. This feature is available today in all AWS Regions where AWS Batch is offered.

🔔 Amazon Connect now delivers persistent in‑app notifications in the workspace header, visible from any page with a badge indicating unread messages. Click the icon to view messages, follow embedded links, and mark items read or unread without leaving your current task. New public APIs and AWS CloudFormation support enable programmatic, targeted messaging to specific audiences and will also be used for system updates and important announcements across all regions where the service is available.

🤖 Amazon Connect now provides AI-powered Task overviews that summarize prior activities and surface recommended next steps so agents can process work items faster and more consistently. Administrators enable the capability by adding the Connect assistant flow block to flows before Task assignment and can tune guidance with knowledge bases. The feature is available in all AWS regions that support Amazon Connect real-time agent assistance.

🤖 Amazon Connect now provides AI-powered Task overviews and suggested next actions so agents can understand work items faster and resolve them more quickly. The feature uses generative AI to summarize prior activity—such as order verification, return eligibility checks, or payment confirmation—and to surface recommended next steps for completing a task. To enable it, add the Connect assistant flow block to your flows and optionally guide outputs with knowledge bases; it is available in all AWS regions where real-time agent assistance is offered.

🔁 Amazon RDS and Aurora now allow viewing and modifying backup retention periods and preferred backup windows before and during snapshot restores. Previously, restored instances and clusters inherited backup settings from snapshot metadata and required post-restore changes. The update exposes these backup configuration values on automated backups and snapshots and lets you set or change them as part of the restore workflow. This capability is available across all supported engines and regions via the Console, AWS CLI, and SDKs at no additional cost.

🔢 Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports identity columns and sequence objects, enabling auto-incrementing, integer-based IDs to be generated directly in the database. This simplifies migrations from PostgreSQL and reduces the need for application-layer ID generation. The capability is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is provided and supports compact, human-readable identifiers such as order numbers and account IDs.