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🔍 AWS has announced general availability of multimodal retrieval in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, enabling unified search across text, images, audio, and video. The managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow provides developers full control over ingestion, parsing, chunking, embedding (including Amazon Nova multimodal), and vector storage. Users can submit text or image queries and receive relevant text, image, audio, and video segments back, which can be combined with the LLM of their choice to generate richer, lower-latency responses. Region availability varies by feature set and is documented by AWS.

🔗 AWS has opened a preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud, a new service to create private, resilient, high-speed links between Amazon VPCs and other cloud providers. The preview launches with Google Cloud as the initial partner and a planned expansion to Microsoft Azure in 2026. It integrates with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Cloud WAN, and Amazon VPC, and is available in five AWS Regions via the AWS Management Console. CSPs can adopt the capability through a published open API package on GitHub.

🔌 AWS Interconnect - last mile is a fully managed connectivity service launched in a gated preview with Lumen, letting customers connect branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS in a few clicks. Users enter a location, select bandwidth (1–100 Gbps), and pick an AWS Region while AWS automates BGP peering, VLAN configuration, and ASN assignment, supporting dynamic scaling and zero‑downtime maintenance. The service is architected for high availability, backed by SLAs, and enables MACsec encryption by default; it is available in the US through Lumen.

🛡️ AWS and CrowdStrike have launched an automated integration experience for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM in AWS Marketplace that streamlines cloud-native security monitoring. The guided wizard automates connector configuration and provisions least-privilege IAM roles, Amazon SQS queues, EventBridge rules, and SNS topics. Security teams can quickly enable agentic AI-assisted investigation, advanced correlation, and automated response across their AWS Organization, and subscribe via new pay-as-you-go pricing.

🔧 The AWS MCP Server is now in preview and offers a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface that consolidates the prior AWS API MCP and AWS Knowledge servers into a single endpoint. It enables AI agents and AI-native IDEs to access AWS documentation, generate and execute calls to over 15,000 APIs, and follow pre-built Agent SOPs to perform multi-step tasks. Authentication and authorization use AWS IAM, and audit logging is provided via CloudTrail; the service is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia), with customers paying only for resources and data transfer.

🔧 AWS has expanded its Resilience Competency to include Technology Partners, enabling customers to identify validated software for high availability and recovery. The program evaluates solutions across Design, Recovery, and Operate categories through expert technical validation to meet strict performance and operational requirements. Qualified partners and solutions are discoverable via the AWS Resilience Competency and purchasable through AWS Marketplace, aligning with AWS's shared responsibility model. This aims to help organizations build always-on applications with lower cost and higher availability than on-premises alternatives.

🔒 AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) to scale revocation handling up to 100 million certificates per CA. Partitioning breaks revocation data into ~1 MB CRL partitions and binds certificates to partitions using a critical Issuer Distribution Point (IDP) extension, allowing validators to match CDP and IDP URIs for accurate checks. The feature is backward compatible, RFC5280-compliant, configurable in the console (including S3 setup), and carries no charge beyond AWS Private CA and Amazon S3 usage.

📦 AWS announced a new warm storage tier for Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, offering lower-cost storage for extended media retention while preserving sub-second access latency. The existing standard tier is now designated the hot tier and remains optimized for real-time, short-term use. Developers can configure fragment sizes to trade latency for ingestion cost, and both tiers integrate with Amazon Rekognition Video and Amazon SageMaker for continuous video analytics. The warm tier is available in all supported regions except AWS GovCloud (US).

🔔 AWS announced that AWS Compute Optimizer now provides idle resource recommendations for NAT Gateways, helping identify unused NAT Gateways and realize potential cost savings. The feature flags NAT Gateways that show no traffic over a 32-day analysis period by evaluating CloudWatch metrics such as active connection count and incoming packet metrics. Compute Optimizer also checks Route Table associations to avoid recommending critical backup resources and surfaces estimated savings and utilization details for validation before remediation.

🔔 AWS Health introduced two new event schema properties — actionability and persona — to help customers identify and prioritize operational notifications. Delivered via the AWS Health API and Health EventBridge, these fields let organizations programmatically flag events that require customer action and route them to relevant teams such as security or billing. Available across all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, the change streamlines integrations with monitoring, ticketing, and automation systems to improve triage and remediation workflows.

🔔 AWS now supports Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage across key analytics services. These features — available in Amazon EMR 7.12, AWS Glue, SageMaker notebooks, Amazon S3 Tables, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog — accelerate data modifications and make it simpler to identify changed records. Enable V3 by setting the table property 'format-version = 3' in CREATE TABLE or by updating table metadata; supported AWS query engines will automatically use deletion vectors and row lineage.

🔒 Amazon CloudWatch now lets you enable deletion protection on log groups to prevent accidental or unintended removals. Once enabled, a log group cannot be deleted until protection is explicitly turned off, helping preserve audit, compliance, and operational logs. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions and can be configured during creation or applied to existing groups via the Console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, and AWS SDKs.

🔐 The AWS API MCP Server is now available on AWS Marketplace, enabling customers to deploy the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as a managed offering. The marketplace deployment provides built-in authentication (SigV4 or JWT), session isolation, and simplified container management while enabling configurable IAM roles and network settings to meet enterprise security requirements. Customers also benefit from AgentCore's logging and monitoring capabilities and regional availability where Bedrock AgentCore is supported.

⚡ Enabling the accelerated recovery option for Amazon Route 53 public hosted zones gives customers a predictable 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) to regain the ability to modify public DNS records if AWS services in US East (N. Virginia) are temporarily unavailable. The feature is available globally except in GovCloud and China, and there is no additional charge. It supports faster DNS change operations for banking, FinTech, and SaaS customers to meet continuity and disaster recovery objectives.

🔍 Amazon S3 Metadata is expanding to twenty-two additional AWS Regions, bringing automated, queryable object and custom metadata closer to more customers. The feature automatically populates metadata for both new and existing objects in near real-time and supports system-defined details (size, source) and user-defined tags such as product SKUs or transaction IDs. This expansion makes S3 Metadata generally available in 28 Regions and enables faster data discovery, curation, and analytics inside existing S3 workflows.

🔐 Amazon has extended AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to include write operations for tables registered with Lake Formation when used in Apache Spark jobs on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue. Administrators can now enforce table-, column-, and row-level permissions for DML actions (CREATE, ALTER, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE INTO, DROP) as well as read operations, enabling single-job read/write pipelines. The change reduces the need for separate clusters or applications and centralizes governance. The feature is available in all Regions where EMR, Glue, and Lake Formation are supported.

🔍 Amazon Quick Research now integrates specialized third-party industry datasets from S&P Global, FactSet, and IDC, alongside public patent and PubMed collections. Users with existing subscriptions can combine these authoritative sources with enterprise data and real-time web search inside a unified AI workspace. The capability compresses weeks of data discovery and analysis into minutes and helps teams move more quickly from insight to action. The integration is available in select AWS Regions.

⚡ AWS Glue 5.1 is now generally available, upgrading core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18 to deliver performance and security improvements. The release refreshes open table format support (Apache Hudi 1.0.2, Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, Delta Lake 3.3.2) and adds Apache Iceberg format 3.0 features such as default column values and deletion vectors. AWS Lake Formation now enforces fine‑grained write control for Spark DDL/DML, and Glue adds full‑table access control for Hudi and Delta tables in Spark.

🔒 Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now include comprehensive audit context support for AWS Lake Formation credential vending APIs and AWS Glue Data Catalog GetTable and GetTables calls. Enabled by default, the feature logs platform type and identifiers (Cluster ID, Step ID, Job Run ID, Virtual Cluster ID) to AWS CloudTrail for enhanced security auditing and troubleshooting. It supports EMR 7.12+ and AWS Glue 5.1+ across all Regions that offer EMR, AWS Glue, and Lake Formation.

🤖 Amazon Lex now lets developers use Large Language Models (LLMs) as the primary natural language understanding option for voice and chat bots. Using LLMs improves handling of complex or misspelled utterances, extracts key details from verbose inputs, and enables intelligent follow‑up questions when customer intent is unclear. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex operate, helping teams build more accurate, conversational self‑service experiences.