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🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i‑flex instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, these instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x higher memory bandwidth compared with prior Intel-based instances. AWS reports up to 20% higher general performance versus the C7i family, with workload-specific gains — up to 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i‑flex targets common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient compute, while C8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal and a new 96xlarge for memory‑intensive or continuous high‑CPU workloads.

📊 AWS announced collection visibility in AWS Marketplace Seller Reporting, adding up-to-date payment collection status to the Billed Revenue Dashboard and Billing Event Data Feed. The update lets sellers distinguish invoiced, collected, and disbursed amounts to close the gap between invoice creation and disbursement. Available in all Regions where Seller Reporting is offered; access via the Marketplace Management Portal → Insights → Finance Operations.

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports delegating RabbitMQ authentication and authorization to an HTTP endpoint. The capability is provided as a plugin for RabbitMQ 4.2 and later on Amazon MQ and is enabled by updating the broker configuration file. When provisioning, choose RabbitMQ 4.2 with the m7g instance type via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs, then edit the configuration to enable the plugin. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon MQ RabbitMQ 4 instances are offered.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 21 additional AWS resource types across services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon S3 Tables, enabling broader visibility into resource state and drift. If you have recording enabled for all resource types, these additions are tracked automatically and are available to use in Config rules and Config aggregators. The change helps teams discover, assess, and remediate resources more comprehensively.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region to support graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads. These instances scale to eight A10G GPUs with 2nd-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking and 7.6 TB of NVMe local storage across eight size options. Customers can tune performance with NVIDIA drivers for compute, gaming, or workstation workloads and purchase capacity as On-Demand or Reserved Instances to meet cost and operational needs.

🔍 AWS Resource Explorer is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This rollout lets customers search for and discover AWS resources across Regions and accounts using the console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or the unified search bar in the Management Console. Administrators can enable the service in the AWS Resource Explorer console to centralize asset discovery and streamline operations across their organization. AWS also provides documentation and region availability guidance to assist setup and adoption.

📢 AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand), providing fully managed, production-ready file transfer endpoints for Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS. It supports SFTP, FTP, FTPS and AS2, and enables event-driven automation for common managed file transfer (MFT) workflows. Customers can modernize business-to-business transfers, reduce operational overhead, and address latency and data residency requirements.

📊 AWS has added Spot interruption metrics to EC2 Capacity Manager, giving cloud teams clearer visibility into Spot instance behavior across accounts, regions, and availability zones. The feature introduces three metrics—Spot Usage Total Count, Spot Total Interruptions, and Spot Interruption Rate—showing how many Spot instances or vCPUs ran, how many were interrupted, and the interruption percentage. This capability is enabled by default in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost.

🔒 A Qualys survey and analysis of roughly 44 million public-cloud VMs highlights widespread misconfiguration: 45% of AWS, 63% of GCP and 70% of Azure instances showed issues. Respondents reported breaches and identified misconfigured services as a leading cloud risk. Experts cite neglected logging, monitoring and MFA, rushed M&A integrations and understaffed small firms as common causes. The piece recommends concrete controls — from Infrastructure as Code and continuous scanning to private networking and least-privilege — to reduce exposure.

🔍 AWS Clean Rooms now publishes detailed SQL query metrics to CloudWatch for collaborations. Collaboration creators, analysis runners, or configured payors can enable detailed monitoring to capture query performance and resource utilization. This capability improves operational observability for workloads at scale and helps teams identify performance issues and optimize costs. For example, advertisers can monitor campaign lift analysis queries to tune performance and control spend.

🔁 Amazon Connect now supports storing and referencing nested JSON objects and lists directly within contact flows, enabling developers to save complete records and target specific elements such as an individual order. Flows can automatically iterate through arrays and maintain loop position, making it easy to present item-level details in sequence. Use cases include guiding callers through itineraries or recent transactions without repeated backend calls. These features are documented in the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and available across all AWS regions where the service is offered.

📊 Amazon Connect dashboards now support filtering metrics by custom business dimensions such as business divisions, product lines, and customer segments. Using predefined attributes, administrators can create business dimensions to tailor dashboard views and compare key metrics across segments. This enables focused analysis of handle times, service levels, and other KPIs to identify training or staffing needs. Dashboards are available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch UI now supports AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs) and increases metadata size limits. You can create new OpenSearch UI applications with metadata encrypted using your own CMKs, helping meet regulatory and compliance requirements. The larger metadata limit enables richer, more complex queries, extensive visualizations, and large-scale dashboards. Both features are available in all regions that OpenSearch UI supports.

📣 Amazon Connect now automates agent performance evaluations in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish using generative AI. Managers can define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated assessments with justifications in their preferred language. The feature also supports cross-language evaluation, producing English assessments from non-English conversations, and is available in eight AWS regions.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, NVIDIA's efficient hybrid Mixture-of-Experts language model with a 256k token context window and native tool-calling support. The model delivers higher throughput for agentic, coding, and complex reasoning workloads while preserving the depth of larger models through advanced reinforcement learning and multi-environment post-training. Powered by Project Mantle, Bedrock provides serverless distributed inference, QoS controls, automated capacity management and OpenAI API compatibility across multiple AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) redirection, enabling users to authenticate to websites from within remote browser sessions using local FIDO2 security keys, passkeys, and platform authenticators like Windows Hello or Touch ID. This capability works with Chromium‑based local browsers such as Google Chrome 136+ and Microsoft Edge 137+, but not with Safari or Firefox. Administrators must enable WebAuthn redirection in the Secure Browser portal and configure the WebAuthenticationRemoteDesktopAllowedOrigins policy on local browsers to allow secure token forwarding. The feature is available at no additional cost in all supported regions.

🔔 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. Customers can create provisioned clusters with either Standard or new Express brokers, with Express delivering significantly higher throughput, faster scaling, and quicker recovery. Create clusters via the Amazon MSK console or the AWS CLI and refer to the Amazon MSK Developer Guide to get started.

🔁 AWS Transform now automates network conversion for hybrid data center migrations, removing the need for manual VLAN and IP range mapping across VMware and non‑VMware environments. The service analyzes exported inventories and maps network elements to AWS constructs like VPCs, subnets, route tables, and security groups. It also ingests application mapping outputs such as modelizeIT to generate Infrastructure as Code and provision networking in target Regions.

🎨 Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports branding customization so administrators can deliver a consistent, branded sign-in and session experience. Admins can upload a favicon, logo, and wallpaper, select color themes, and customize welcome text, browser tab titles, and other copy in all 11 supported languages. The feature lets you change the "Contact Us" link and require acknowledgement of a Terms of Service page; customization meets WCAG AA accessibility and contrast guidelines. It is available at no extra cost in 10 AWS Regions and uses the existing pay-as-you-go pricing model.

🤖 AWS End User Messaging now offers a Generative AI Registration Reviewer (preview) to help customers validate phone number registrations before submitting to mobile carriers. The reviewer checks message samples, opt-in descriptions, declared use-cases, and help/stop texts, providing feedback and suggested corrections to improve completeness and accuracy. Available in all Regions where AWS End User Messaging is offered, the preview aims to reduce carrier rejections and speed the registration process.