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⚙️ AWS Batch now supports quota management with job preemption for SageMaker Training, enabling prioritized GPU allocation and automatic preemption of lower-priority workloads. You can create up to 20 quota shares per job queue and choose resource-sharing strategies, with both cross-share and in-share preemption modes to restore or reallocate borrowed capacity. Capacity utilization is visible at queue, quota share, and job levels, and you can update job priorities after submission and set preemption retry limits. The feature integrates with the SageMaker Python SDK via the aws_batch module and is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Batch is offered; AWS provides an example notebook and user-guide documentation for implementation guidance.

🔐 Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports granular AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions. Administrators can create IAM policies that restrict users to specific operations—associate, disassociate, or update—on resource types such as private hosted zones, Resolver rules, and DNS Firewall rule groups. Permissions may be scoped by resource ARN, hosted zone name, Resolver rule domain name, DNS Firewall rule group priority range, or specific VPC associations to enable precise delegation.

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL introduces an express configuration that creates serverless clusters and enables query execution in seconds. These clusters are provisioned outside a VPC with an internet access gateway that supports the full PostgreSQL wire protocol and multi‑AZ availability. IAM-based passwordless admin authentication is enabled by default, and the tier is available under the AWS Free Tier. Use the RDS Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs to deploy.

🚀 Amazon has added Aurora PostgreSQL serverless to the AWS Free Tier for new accounts. New customers receive $100 in AWS credits at sign-up and can earn an additional $100 by using qualifying services including Amazon RDS. With the Free Plan you can create an Aurora PostgreSQL serverless cluster from the RDS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs using an express configuration to create and query a database in seconds. The Free Tier is available in Regions that support Aurora PostgreSQL serverless.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now offers serverless model customization and reinforcement fine-tuning for 12 additional open‑weight models, enabling SFT, DPO, and advanced RFT techniques such as RLVR and RLAIF without infrastructure management. You can fine‑tune and evaluate these models on a pay‑per‑use basis across multiple regions. This simplifies alignment for complex, domain‑specific tasks and improves accuracy on verifiable tasks like code generation and structured extraction. No cluster setup, capacity planning, or distributed training expertise is required.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of I7ie Amazon EC2 instances to seven additional regions, targeting large storage I/O–intensive workloads. I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors (3.2 GHz all-core turbo), provide up to 120 TB local NVMe storage density and up to twice the vCPUs and memory of prior generations. Using 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, they deliver lower latency and improved real-time storage performance and are offered in nine sizes with up to 100 Gbps networking and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.

📦 AWS Backup now supports Amazon DocumentDB in 12 additional AWS Regions, bringing policy-based data protection and recovery to DocumentDB clusters in those locations. Newly supported Regions include Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Osaka, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Stockholm, Spain, Zurich), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Mexico (Central). To start protecting clusters, add them to existing backup plans or create a new backup plan and attach clusters via the AWS Backup console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

📨 AWS Transfer Family now supports receiving Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) asynchronously for messages exchanged over AS2. You can request MDNs over a separate TLS connection so partner systems with extended processing times or high latency can return dispositions independently. Transfer Family continues to support synchronous MDNs, enabling seamless migration of AS2 workflows to AWS while preserving interoperability with existing trading partners. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where Transfer Family is offered.

🚀 AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 is now generally available, adding support for P6-B300 instances and upgrading Slurm to 25.11 with expedited job requeue. The release improves EFA network configuration defaults and introduces network interface customization, plus more reliable cluster updates and better performance for tightly coupled workloads at scale. It also enables non-disruptive cluster tag updates. ParallelCluster remains open-source for provisioning HPC and AI/ML clusters on AWS.

🔄 AWS reports it is actively testing an LTS upgrade in production. The brief notice, posted Mar 24, 2026 and attributed to aws@amazon.com, confirms ongoing activity but does not disclose targeted components or version details. Customers should validate compatibility in staging, confirm third-party support, and prepare rollback and monitoring procedures. Monitor official channels for formal release notes and status updates.

🚀 Amazon has expanded Timestream for InfluxDB to the Mexico (Central), Japan (Osaka), and Brazil (Sao Paulo) regions, enabling locally hosted, fully managed InfluxDB databases for real-time time-series applications. The service supports Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, enhanced durability, and multi-node scaling from single-node setups up to 15-node Enterprise clusters. You can create and manage databases via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, giving developers and DevOps teams flexible deployment and scaling options.

🧬 AWS announced that HealthOmics now supports batch run submission, enabling customers to submit up to 100,000 runs of a workflow in a single request. All runs in a batch share a common configuration with optional per-run overrides for specific sample inputs or parameter values. The batch APIs provide full lifecycle management—including a batch ID for tracking, bulk cancel/delete, and progress monitoring—to simplify orchestration and troubleshooting. The feature is available across all HealthOmics regions and the service is HIPAA-eligible.

🔒 This post explains AWS IAM policy types and how to apply them in a multi-account environment. It describes identity-based and resource-based policies, permissions boundaries, service control policies (SCPs), and resource control policies (RCPs), with ownership guidance for central security and application teams. Using a practical multi-account example, it shows how to combine these controls to enforce least privilege and protect data while enabling team autonomy. It also recommends policy validation and provides sample code.

🏥 AWS HealthImaging is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region, offering a HIPAA-eligible, fully managed service to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. The service provides DICOMWeb APIs for integration with existing clinical systems and AWS-native APIs for cloud-first implementations. AWS states organizations can reduce storage costs by up to 40%, enable faster image access for clinical workflows, and accelerate development of AI-powered diagnostic applications while maintaining strict security controls.

🔊 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports WebRTC for low-latency, bidirectional streaming between clients and agents, enabling real-time audio and video in browser and mobile applications. WebRTC complements existing WebSocket support by providing peer-to-peer, UDP-based media transport optimized for voice agents and other media-intensive experiences. AgentCore Runtime supports managed TURN via Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, third-party providers, or self-hosted TURN, and the capability is available in 14 AWS Regions.

🔊 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of 10 new highly expressive Generative voices in Amazon Polly, covering eight locales including American, British, New Zealand, and Singapore English, plus French, Italian, German, and Swiss German. The Generative engine is now hosted in two additional regions — Europe (London) and Canada (Central) — and introduces a Bidirectional Streaming API. The new streaming capability lets customers send text and receive synthesized audio simultaneously, simplifying low-latency integrations with LLM-based systems for chatbots, game characters, and other real-time speech applications.

📢 AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion with GenAI is now available in nine additional AWS Regions, enabling local processing and helping meet data residency requirements. The feature leverages Amazon Bedrock foundation models — including Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Claude Sonnet 4 — to automate schema and code conversion. It converts schemas and code from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Sybase to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, reducing manual effort and accelerating migrations. DMS Schema Conversion is available at no additional charge and can be accessed through the AWS Management Console or CLI.

🔐 AWS DataSync now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management across all DataSync location types, including HDFS and Amazon FSx variants. Customers can centralize secrets in their account and optionally encrypt them with a customer-managed AWS KMS key to meet governance requirements. DataSync supports providing a secret ARN you manage or having DataSync automatically create and manage secrets. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where DataSync is offered.

🔒 The U.S. Department of Justice announced a court-authorized operation that disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used by multiple IoT Mirai variants, including AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. Authorities from Canada and Germany, assisted by major vendors such as AWS, Cloudflare, and Akamai, helped dismantle networks that collectively enslaved roughly 3 million devices and enabled record-breaking DDoS attacks exceeding 30 Tbps. The action seeks to curb a cybercrime-as-a-service market that sold access to compromised DVRs, webcams, routers, and off-brand Android TVs.

🛡️ AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service centralizes policy management so cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers can protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and maintaining rules. With AWS Firewall Manager, customers can enforce defense-in-depth policies across AWS security services and create and manage AWS WAF security policies at scale. See the product documentation and region table for detailed availability and setup guidance.