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🔍 Amazon Web Services announced the availability of all-MiniLM-L12-v2 in SageMaker JumpStart, expanding model options for customers. The Sentence Transformers model encodes sentences and short paragraphs into 384-dimensional dense vectors, enabling semantic search, clustering, and similarity tasks. Its compact architecture offers fast inference and strong embedding quality, suitable for production-scale text representation workloads.

🧭 AWS now offers Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, adding a compact multimodal foundation model optimized for edge deployment. The 14B-parameter model supports image analysis, agentic workflows with native function calling and JSON output, and multilingual understanding across dozens of languages. Customers can deploy the model from SageMaker Studio or via the SageMaker Python SDK with a few clicks to build AI assistants, agentic systems, and vision-enabled applications on AWS.

🔍 AWS Compute Optimizer now factors in additional CloudWatch signals—VolumeIOPSExceededCheck and VolumeThroughputExceededCheck—when producing Amazon EBS volume rightsizing recommendations. These metrics indicate when workloads consistently attempted to exceed provisioned IOPS or throughput in a minute. The feature aims to help balance cost and performance for bursty workloads and is available in all Compute Optimizer regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔐 Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress, allowing outbound Kubernetes API server traffic to traverse your Amazon VPC. This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. By routing through your VPC you can manage routing, security groups, and egress paths to meet data perimeter and compliance needs. Enable the feature by setting controlPlaneEgressMode to CUSTOMER_ROUTED and enforce it org-wide with the eks:controlPlaneEgressMode IAM condition key.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has published its Spring 2026 SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports in machine-readable OSCAL (JSON) format alongside the traditional PDFs. The package covers 188 services for the period April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026 and is available via AWS Artifact. AWS is the first major cloud provider to offer SOC reports in NIST's OSCAL, enabling automation to reduce manual compliance processing.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker AI now provides built-in observability for production generative AI inference, delivering real-time visibility into token performance, GPU health, inference component placement, and autoscaling behavior. The new SageMaker AI Insights dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch surfaces metrics like Time to First Token, inter-token latency, queue depth, and tokens per second alongside infrastructure health, with OpenTelemetry native metrics published automatically. Customers using Grafana can connect via a regional PromQL endpoint and import a pre-configured dashboard template for unified monitoring and faster diagnosis.

📣 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports sending SMS from the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, enabling customers to deliver text messages to subscribers across more than 200 countries and territories. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that delivers messages to endpoints such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, mobile devices, and email. With this update, customers can subscribe phone numbers to SNS topics and broadcast SMS via AWS End User Messaging. Additional details include supported countries and guidance on mobile text messaging with SNS.

🔒 Check Point and AWS are collaborating to secure enterprise AI agents by integrating Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Check Point AI Security. This partnership extends AgentCore’s identity, gateway, registry, and policy capabilities with runtime behavioral protections that monitor agent actions across models, tools, data, and applications. The integration enables policy-driven governance, visibility into agent deployments, and prevention of misuse such as prompt injection or unintended data exposure.

🛠️ Amazon GameLift Servers introduces two container fleet improvements to improve flexibility and inter-container communication for game server deployments. You can now customize Linux capabilities in container group definitions to grant specific permissions such as NET_RAW or SYS_PTRACE, and call the new ListContainersNetworkInfo() server SDK action to discover co-located containers' names, IDs, local IPs, and group types. These features are exposed via the console, AWS CLI, SDK, and CloudFormation and supported in server SDK 5.x for Go, C++, and C#, plus Unreal and Unity plugins, available in all GameLift regions except China.

🖥️ AWS now offers Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. The new bundles let customers launch Ubuntu WorkSpaces with updated packages, toolchains, and security improvements from Ubuntu 24.04. It also provides a migration path for Amazon Linux 2 WorkSpaces customers seeking extended upstream maintenance and support.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports larger General Purpose (gp3) volumes, increasing maximum size to 64 TiB, peak IOPS to 80,000, and throughput to 2,000 MiB/s. These enhancements enable larger SQL Server databases and improved performance for I/O-intensive workloads like OLTP and large-scale analytics on a single volume. Customers can also attach up to three gp3 or io2 volumes per DB instance for total capacity up to 256 TiB, with no changes to base pricing.

🧭 AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now supports Apache Spark Connect, enabling development and execution of Spark applications from managed notebooks like Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or IDEs such as Jupyter and VS Code while running on AWS Glue's serverless infrastructure. The thin client architecture decouples client dependencies from the server-side Spark runtime, enabling ad hoc exploration, iterative debugging, and incremental PySpark development. Observability includes real-time Spark UI monitoring, History Server tracking, and session management via the AWS Glue API, CLI, or SDK. This capability is available across multiple AWS regions.

📡 AWS HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time, enabling customers to monitor workflow execution progress as it happens. This HIPAA-eligible service helps healthcare and life sciences teams accelerate bioinformatics workflows with immediate access to orchestration events, task scheduling details, import/export activity, and full stack traces on errors. Streamed logs support CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and integration with observability tooling for faster debugging and iterative development.

🛡️ AWS announces Continuum for code vulnerabilities in gated preview, designed to manage the full lifecycle of code vulnerabilities at machine speed. The service reasons over structured AWS data and unstructured organizational context, is model‑agnostic, and operates in continuous phases from discovery to remediation. It begins in a human‑in‑the‑loop learn mode and can be graduated to enforce mode for automated remediation, and incorporates pen testing, code scanning, and threat modeling capabilities.

🛠️ AWS DevOps Agent now includes a release management capability in preview that reviews code changes for release readiness and runs autonomous release testing to improve production deployments. The feature evaluates drift from internal standards, dependency impacts, and access controls, and maps cross-repository dependencies to surface breaking changes. It also generates and executes test plans for web and API applications in customer environments to catch regressions and integration issues. The preview is available in US East (N. Virginia) at no additional cost.

🔔 Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for MySQL now offer RDS Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, extending the previous end date of February 28, 2027. This extension covers Aurora MySQL version 2 (MySQL 5.7 compatibility) and RDS for MySQL 5.7, providing critical security patches, high-severity CVE fixes, operational bug patches, and AWS Support under existing SLAs. There is no price increase; customers remain on Year 3 pricing through June 30, 2029. AWS recommends upgrading to MySQL 8.0 or 8.4-compatible versions and provides upgrade paths including Blue/Green Deployments, in-place upgrades, or snapshot restore.

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports M9g DB instances powered by AWS Graviton5 for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. These Graviton5-based instances deliver up to a 30% performance boost and up to a 23% improvement in price/performance versus Graviton4 equivalents, varying by engine, version, and workload. New 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes provide up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps enhanced networking, and 72 Gbps EBS bandwidth. Availability begins in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt); consult RDS documentation and pricing for engine support and regional details.

🚀 AWS now supports bmn-cx3a instances on second-generation Outposts racks, introducing AMD-based instances with accelerated networking. These instances use 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs to deliver up to 800 Gbps of bare-metal network bandwidth. Offered in two sizes with up to 256 cores, 1.5 TB memory, and dual 8 TB NVMe storage, they include L2 multicast and hardware PTP for low-latency, high-throughput workloads. Availability aligns with regions that support second-generation Outposts racks.

🤖 Amazon Quick receives major updates including autonomous agents, multi-dataset analytics, and a redesigned activity feed. Quick connects to common business apps and learns workflows to automate recurring tasks and reduce manual notifications. The multi-dataset analytics lets users query across sources like Snowflake and relational databases using natural language while inheriting semantics from catalogs such as AWS Glue and Databricks Unity Catalog. The updated activity feed provides a conversational, personalized workspace for approvals, messaging, and sharing Quick applications externally.

🔍 AWS announces new AgentCore optimization capabilities that turn production traces into continuous agent improvements. The features surface failure, intent, and trajectory insights across sessions to reveal silent and recurring failures, then generate data-grounded recommendations for prompts and tool descriptions. Batch evaluation and A/B testing validate fixes against defined metrics before rollout, and capabilities work across AgentCore runtime, Lambda, EKS, and non-AWS environments.