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🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 I7ie instances in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads, I7ie pairs 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors with 3rd‑generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 40% better compute and up to 65% improved real‑time storage performance versus I3en. Instances support up to 120 TB local NVMe density, up to twice the vCPU and memory of prior generations, nine size options, and up to 100 Gbps networking with 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🛡️ AWS has updated the Transfer Family Terraform module to support automated malware scanning workflows for files transferred to S3. The module provisions GuardDuty S3 Protection–based scan pipelines, dynamic routing based on results, and threat notifications in a single deployment. It preserves folder structure, allows granular S3 prefix targeting, and helps ensure only verified clean files reach applications and data lakes.

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports R8gd and M8gd instances for Optimized Reads on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, offering improved price-performance. Optimized Reads uses local NVMe-based SSDs to store ephemeral data (temporary tables and evicted pages) to reduce network I/O and boost read latency and throughput. AWS reports up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% better price-performance on R8gd versus R6g for Aurora PostgreSQL. These instances are available in select US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions and can be enabled via the Console, CLI, or SDK.

🔒 Starting today, AWS Network Firewall enables active threat defense by default in alert mode when you create new firewall policies in the AWS Management Console. The feature provides automated, intelligence-driven visibility into ongoing threat activities and the indicator groups, types, and names you are protected against. You can switch to block mode to automatically prevent suspicious traffic or disable the feature entirely. AWS verifies threat indicators to reduce false positives and the capability is available in all Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔁 Amazon Web Services has expanded MSK Replicator to the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions, enabling customers to replicate streaming data between Amazon MSK clusters. MSK Replicator automates asynchronous replication and preserves Kafka metadata such as topic configurations, ACLs, and consumer offsets, while automatically scaling underlying resources. The feature simplifies failover and regional resilience and is available from the MSK console or CLI.

🔒 AWS is introducing flat-rate pricing plans for CloudFront that bundle global CDN delivery with built-in security (WAF, DDoS protection), Route 53 DNS, CloudWatch Logs ingestion, serverless edge compute, and monthly S3 storage credits. Plans eliminate overage charges so traffic spikes or attacks won’t trigger surprise fees. Tiers include Free, Pro ($15), Business ($200) and Premium ($1,000), and pay-as-you-go remains an option.

📈 Amazon Redshift now supports Just‑In‑Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables, automatically collecting table‑ and column‑level statistics during query execution. The feature uses intelligent heuristics and lightweight sketch data structures to determine when runtime statistics will improve optimizer decisions and to build high‑quality statistics on the fly. JIT ANALYZE is generally available in all AWS regions with Redshift and requires no configuration changes to begin improving query plans and performance.

📦 AWS announced the general availability of Supplementary Packages for Amazon Linux (SPAL), a curated repository offering thousands of pre-built EPEL9-compatible packages for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). SPAL reduces the need to compile software from source, accelerating deployments and lowering operational overhead for developers, system administrators, and DevOps teams. Packages are derived from community EPEL9 sources with AWS applying security patches as they become available upstream. SPAL is available across all AWS Commercial Regions, including GovCloud and China.

🔁 AWS CloudFormation now offers drift-aware change sets to detect and reconcile configuration drift by comparing a new template, the last-deployed template, and the live infrastructure state. The feature lets you preview deployment impacts on drifted resources, avoid unintended overwrites, and revert out-of-band changes. Create a change set in the console as “Drift-aware” or call CreateChangeSet with --deployment-mode REVERT_DRIFT. Available in Regions where CloudFormation is offered.

🔎 AWS CloudFormation now validates change sets for three common template errors—invalid property syntax, resource name conflicts with existing account resources, and S3 bucket emptiness constraints on delete—before provisioning begins. If validation fails, the change set status is marked 'FAILED' and includes detailed failure messages and property paths to pinpoint issues. Runtime failures can still occur during execution, so CloudFormation also groups stack events by a unique operation ID that you can view in the Console or via the describe-operation API to filter and diagnose failures quickly. Together these capabilities are intended to shorten deployment cycles and cut troubleshooting time from minutes to seconds.

📚 AWS Builder Center now hosts the Workshops Catalog, offering step-by-step, expert-authored tutorials that guide users through deploying and using AWS services in their own accounts. The catalog includes hundreds of workshops across categories like Machine Learning, Security, and Serverless, with filters for service, complexity (100–400), and duration. Content is localized to the Builder Center language preference and accessible with a free Builder ID for hands-on learning.

🧩 Amazon Redshift now supports the SUPER data type in databases configured with case-insensitive collation, enabling analytics on semi-structured and nested data alongside structured SQL types. Using PartiQL, users can query JSON and mixed data without additional normalization. The COLLATE function lets you explicitly control case sensitivity for SUPER columns. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 AWS Backup introduces a low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups that can cut storage costs by up to 30%. After S3 backup data resides in a vault for 60 days (configurable to a longer period), you can automatically move it to the new tier while preserving the same performance and features, including ransomware protection, recovery, and auditing. Automatic tiering can be enabled at the account, vault, or bucket level and is available in all Regions where AWS Backup for S3 is offered; a one-time transition fee applies.

🚀 Amazon FSx for Lustre now delivers up to 5× faster directory listing performance, reducing the time it takes to run ls and inspect file system contents. The improvement benefits interactive use cases such as home directories and source code repositories commonly used by ML researchers, data scientists, and developers. These gains are provided via the Lustre 2.15 client in all FSx regions; upgrade to 2.15 and apply the recommended client tunings to realize the speedups.

🔐 AWS announced support for post-quantum ML-DSA code signing in AWS Private CA, integrated with AWS KMS. The integration lets customers create ML-DSA X.509 certificate chains and generate KMS-held ML-DSA key pairs to sign binaries, enabling quantum-resistant code-signing, device authentication, and private-PKI workflows such as mTLS or IKEv2/IPsec. A provided Java Runner demonstrates CA creation, CSR issuance, CMS detached signing with SHAKE256, and signature verification against customer-managed roots.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services has added Dictionary-based DGA detection to Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced, enabling real-time monitoring and blocking of domain queries that use word-based DGA techniques designed to mimic legitimate names. Administrators can create DNS Firewall Advanced rule(s) targeting Dictionary DGA and add them to rule groups to enforce protections on VPCs directly or through AWS Firewall Manager, RAM, CloudFormation, or Route 53 Profiles. The capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US). See the Route 53 documentation for setup and pricing details.

🌍 Amazon Web Services has added Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Israel (Tel Aviv) to the regional footprint for Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. The fully managed, secure application streaming service lets organizations stream desktops and apps to users without local installs while AWS manages hosting, scaling, and on‑demand access. Deploying applications closer to end users reduces latency and improves responsiveness. Administrators can enable the service from the WorkSpaces Applications console; pricing follows a pay‑as‑you‑go model.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now supports write operations to Apache Iceberg tables in general availability, enabling SQL DDL and DML including CREATE, SHOW, DROP, and INSERT for append-only workloads. Customers can execute concurrent read and write queries against Iceberg tables cataloged in AWS Glue Data Catalog while benefiting from transactional consistency and schema and partition evolution support. The capability is available in all regions where Amazon Redshift is offered.

🚀 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers expanded compute and storage flexibility, adding 100+ instance types across general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, and accelerated families. Customers can configure storage volumes from 200GB to 500GB and import custom EC2 AMIs, including Windows Server 2022, for image creation and customization. These enhancements are generally available in all supported AWS Regions and follow the standard pay-as-you-go pricing for the service.

🔔 AWS Backup now supports delegated administrators in 17 additional AWS Regions, allowing designated accounts to manage backup operations and administrative tasks across member accounts. The expansion includes regions in Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Israel, Mexico, and the Middle East. AWS Backup Audit Manager also supports cross-Region and cross-account delegated admin reports for jobs and backup plan compliance. Visit the AWS Backup console to get started.