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🚀 Amazon announces that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports running Spark and Flink workloads on IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters. This enables teams to use the larger IPv6 address space to scale high-executor analytics jobs without IPv4 workarounds. Support starts with EMR releases emr-7.14.0 and emr-spark-8.0.0 and is available in regions where IPv6 EKS clusters are offered.

🔐 AWS supports the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Multi-factor authentication: Switch it on campaign and urges all customers to enable MFA. The post highlights that passwords alone are insufficient against phishing and credential-stuffing attacks and notes MFA blocks over 99% of password-based compromises. AWS describes its phased enforcement of MFA for root users across all account types and promotes phishing-resistant options like FIDO2 passkeys and security keys.

🤖 AWS announced general availability of the AWS Marketplace metering agent skill, an AI-guided assistant that helps sellers build, deploy, and validate usage-based SaaS metering integrations from within their AI coding assistant. The skill collects product details, recommends APIs, generates integration code and a tailored CloudFormation stack, and runs end-to-end tests against AWS Marketplace. It supports validation, guardrails, a serverless metering pipeline, Concurrent Agreements, and debugging tools, and is available via the AWS MCP Server to MCP-compatible AI coding assistants with no plugin installation required.

🔔 Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) are now available in five additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). This expands MRSC support to 15 Regions and allows creation of three-Region configurations with either three replicas or two replicas plus a witness Region. MRSC provides zero RPO and supports strongly consistent reads across geographies, helping build highly available, globally consistent applications.

🧭 Amazon announces general availability of CloudWatch Omni, an AI-driven observability platform organized around teams and applications. Omni integrates OpenTelemetry interoperability with CloudWatch scale, offering a standalone web console with SSO and local IDE extensions for hands-on agent work. It auto-discovers services, maps dependencies, and surfaces golden metrics across AWS accounts, Regions, and other clouds to streamline troubleshooting.

🛠️ Auto-Billing Transfer Billing Group Creation lets AWS Distributors automatically create billing groups when an end customer accepts a billing transfer from a downstream seller Partner. This one-time preference per inbound transfer relationship removes manual configuration in two-level billing transfer setups and can assign an AWS Billing Conductor pricing plan to created billing groups. The preference is available via new API operations and the AWS Management Console billing transfer details page.

🔔 AWS announces general availability of GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock, expanding the GPT‑6 family to balance intelligence, speed, and cost. Sol targets complex, recurring tasks and software development with improved factuality, while Luna is optimized for high‑volume focused tasks like summarization and extraction. Both support up to 1M tokens of context and run on the Amazon Bedrock inference engine with established AWS controls.

🔔 Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. The model improves efficiency over Opus 5 by using fewer tokens at lower cost, with additional savings from cheaper cache reads. It’s designed for long-running coding and knowledge work and reports clearly on actions, findings, and next steps. Customers can choose Bedrock for zero data retention and regional residency, or Claude Platform for Anthropic’s native experience with AWS billing.

🚀 AWS GovCloud (US) now provides access to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, the most capable Opus model to date, optimized for long-running coding and knowledge work. Claude Opus 5.5 completes tasks using fewer tokens than its predecessor, lowering costs with cheaper cache reads and improved efficiency. Available via Amazon Bedrock, the model is offered with zero data retention by default and benefits from AWS-managed features like Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, and regional data residency.

🔍 AWS Glue Data Quality now generates context-aware data quality rules in seconds using an Advanced mode that applies generative AI to infer business intent. The feature produces a ready-to-use ruleset with coverage across every column in your AWS Glue Data Catalog tables, enabling faster transition from raw to trusted data. Users can review, adjust, and save the suggested rules to begin monitoring immediately, and Advanced mode is available in multiple global AWS Regions.

🖧 Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now generally available on second-generation AWS Outposts, offering local managed recursive DNS resolution directly on your Outpost. DNS queries are resolved locally to reduce latency and avoid traversing the Service Link to the parent AWS Region. Resolver maintains cached records during Service Link disconnections to ensure continuity, and runs on AWS-managed infrastructure without customer compute requirements.

🚀 Amazon EMR launches Long Term Support (LTS) starting with emr-spark-8.1.0, which includes Apache Spark 4.1 and offers 36 months of support for designated AWS Spark runtimes. The release adds full support for Apache Iceberg v3, expanded fine-grained access control for Iceberg and Delta VACUUM operations, and Spark SQL improvements for catalog discovery and cross-account catalogs. emr-spark-8.1.0 is available across Amazon EMR on EC2, EKS, and Serverless in all regions.

🚀 Amazon EMR 7.14 adds platform-wide enhancements across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, and upgrades key components including Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1. Iceberg materialized views refresh faster by using change data capture to limit file reads. EMR on EKS supports Spark Connect endpoints with token-based authentication and IPv6 clusters, while EMR Serverless increases Spark job storage from 200 GiB to 1 TiB. The release is available in all Regions where Amazon EMR is offered.

🤝 Amazon Connect Customer now enables agent-to-agent collaboration, allowing enterprises to bring specialized AI agents into live interactions to resolve customer requests. Connect Customer supports collaboration over the open agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol via text and bidirectional voice, letting AI agents delegate tasks and maintain session continuity. Administrators receive a unified contact record with observability, guardrails, and escalation controls captured for analytics and quality management.

🛈 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C across all US Regions. FedRAMP provides a standardized security assessment and continuous monitoring process for cloud services used by US federal agencies. Amazon EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation directly in an Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances, enabling rapid VCF environment deployment and workload migration. This helps organizations reduce legacy infrastructure risks and meet data center exit timelines.

🛡️ This post shows how to capture AWS Bedrock Guardrails intervention events from model invocation logs, transform them into OCSF Detection Finding records, and ingest them into the CloudWatch unified data store for centralized analysis. It explains why guardrail interventions are security-relevant, the limitations of ingestion-time processors, and the need for a dedicated transform step to split and normalize assessments. The end-to-end pipeline uses an AWS Lambda to map fields, assigns severity based on policy type, and writes results to a log group associated with AWS S3 Tables so analysts can query with Athena or CloudWatch Logs Insights.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors unique to AWS and are SAP-certified, offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus X2i. They target memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and EDA, and are offered in 14 sizes including bare metal options.

🔒 AWS Continuum for penetration testing introduces a frontier agent that performs on-demand, customized penetration tests with real exploitability checks. The new capability authenticates using provided login credentials before a full test, capturing and suggesting all accessible domains reached during login to help define accurate network scope. Accessible domains are surfaced whether credential attempts succeed, fail, or time out, reducing misconfiguration and wasted test cycles.

🐧 Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode now supports specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture for services, enabling deployment of ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute with up to 40% better price-performance versus x86. ECS Express Mode orchestrates networking, load balancing, autoscaling and deployments, providing an auto-generated URL while simplifying launches of web apps and APIs. Users can set the CPU architecture for new and existing services via the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, or IaC tools, and the feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

🔧 AWS Resilience Hub introduces three capabilities: EKS labels as service input sources, generative AI-powered dependency insights, and resilience policy sharing via AWS Organizations. EKS labels let teams scope discovery using Kubernetes labeling conventions. Dependency insights analyze discovered dependencies to surface new links, cross-Region dependencies, and unusual patterns. Policy sharing enables centralized policy distribution and organization-wide observability.