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⚙️ Amazon is introducing User Preferences in Amazon Quick Suite, enabling end users to control how Quick looks and behaves. Users can set the Chat panel to open expanded or collapsed and Quick will remember their last state. They can choose a default chat agent and a default knowledge scope for My Assistant, provide a preferred name and area of focus, and view or manage memories to make responses more relevant.

🔔 Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions, offering the full set of features and tiers to implement secure sign-in and access control. The launch enables authentication for human users, AI agents, and microservices with regional endpoints to reduce latency and improve resilience. Customers can review AWS documentation for region listings, developer guidance, product details, and pricing.

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now supports the FIPS 204 Module-Lattice Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA), a NIST-standardized, quantum-resistant digital signature algorithm. Customers can register ML-DSA-signed CA certificates as IAM Roles Anywhere trust anchors or reference AWS Private Certificate Authority instances, and issue end-entity X.509 certificates bound to ML-DSA keys. The capability is available in all Regions where IAM Roles Anywhere operates, including AWS GovCloud (US), the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), and China Regions.

⚡ Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces data preview v2.0 for Visual ETL, delivering near-instant preview results (about one second) while building and iterating on ETL jobs. The new mode runs an in-browser query engine that fetches and caches source data locally, removing dependence on server-side Spark sessions and avoiding additional compute costs. It supports CSV, Parquet, and JSON from Amazon S3, as well as Amazon Redshift, S3 Tables, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and many third-party sources including Snowflake and common relational databases. A toggle lets users switch back to the original Spark-based preview when needed.

📦 Amazon Redshift now supports reusable templates for the COPY command, allowing teams to store and reuse commonly used COPY parameters across ingestion workflows. Templates standardize formatting and load options, reducing manual configuration and the risk of errors. Changes made to a template apply to future COPY operations, simplifying maintenance and updates. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🧩 Amazon Redshift now supports nine new array functions for the SUPER data type — ARRAY_CONTAINS, ARRAY_DISTINCT, ARRAY_EXCEPT, ARRAY_INTERSECTION, ARRAY_POSITION, ARRAY_POSITIONS, ARRAY_SORT, ARRAY_UNION, and ARRAYS_OVERLAP. These functions enable searching, comparing, sorting, and transforming arrays directly in SQL, reducing the need for custom PartiQL logic. They simplify nested-data analytics and are available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud.

🚀Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these R8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and are optimized for memory‑intensive workloads like databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. R8g offers 12 sizes (including two bare metal options), scales up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory, and provides enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps) and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS also recommends migration support via the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help move workloads to Graviton4.

🔁 Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves datashare permissions when restoring a snapshot to the same producer namespace. This removes the prior need for administrators to manually re-grant permissions and recreate consumer databases after a restore. The change reduces administrative overhead and streamlines disaster recovery and testing workflows. EventBridge notifications report permission drops, revoked consumer access, or public-access changes during restore operations.

🛡️Multi-party approval (MPA) administrators can now run manual test approvals to verify that configured approval teams are reachable, active, and correctly selected. Administrators initiate baseline test sessions through the AWS Organizations console to detect inactive members, confirm notification delivery, and validate approval counts and thresholds. AWS recommends periodic checks (every 90 days) to maintain governance and operational readiness before relying on approvals for sensitive operations. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🔆 AWS has added light mode support to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IAM-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light visual themes. The addition improves readability in bright environments and offers a familiar look for customers who prefer lighter interfaces. In Studio, select Profile > customize appearance to switch modes. The setting persists across browsers and devices and complements the existing dark mode to give users full control over their development environment's appearance.

🔒 AWS has completed the 2026 Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) annual certification audit and retained its Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider (CSP) status for the Middle East (UAE) Region. The assessment was validated by independent auditor BSI, and the renewed DESC certificate is available through AWS Artifact, valid to January 22, 2027. AWS added 10 services into scope, bringing the total to 108 services in the region—about a 10% increase.

🚀 AWS has expanded Database Savings Plans to include Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics, enabling up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year usage commitment with no upfront payment. The discount automatically applies to eligible serverless and provisioned instances regardless of engine, instance family, size, deployment option, or Region (China excluded). Coverage is available immediately in all Regions except China, and customers can purchase or analyze Savings Plans via the Billing console or AWS CLI using console recommendations or the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer for customized estimates.

🔍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis that collects recent events, instance health, and logs and sends them to Amazon Bedrock for automated diagnosis. Developers and operations teams can request an analysis from the Elastic Beanstalk console or use the AWS CLI with RequestEnvironmentInfo and RetrieveEnvironmentInfo. The feature returns step-by-step, environment-specific troubleshooting recommendations to help reduce mean time to resolution and is available in Regions where both services exist.

🔔 AWS Shield now surfaces network security director findings in AWS Security Hub, giving centralized visibility into missing or misconfigured network controls across an AWS Organization. The capability detects gaps in services such as AWS WAF, VPC security groups, and VPC network ACLs and provides remediation recommendations. Findings also appear in the Security Hub Inventory, and severity is determined by the misconfiguration combined with the resource's network topology.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new Capacity Optimized deployment option for blue/green updates, allowing domain updates to complete even when full instance capacity is not available. The option attempts a full-capacity swap first and automatically falls back to batched, incremental updates if necessary, reducing the number of extra instances required during the process. This approach can take longer than a full swap but avoids waiting for capacity; customers can choose the strategy in the console or API. AWS recommends Capacity Optimized for clusters with 30 or more nodes.

🩺 Amazon Connect Health is now generally available, delivering purpose-built agentic AI to healthcare organizations to streamline patient engagement and point-of-care workflows. The service launches five prebuilt AI agents — including patient verification and ambient documentation (GA) plus preview features for appointment management, patient insights, and medical coding — to reduce administrative burden and speed access to care. Features are HIPAA-eligible, follow responsible AI best practices, and integrate with Amazon Connect, EHRs, and telehealth systems for rapid deployment.

🩺 AWS announced the AWS HealthLake data transformation agent (preview), an AI-powered feature that converts CCDA clinical documents into FHIR R4-compliant resources. Developers can run synchronous conversions, preview and validate transformed FHIR Bundles in seconds, and use a scalable bulk import workflow that matches patients and logs ingestion details. The console offers AI-assisted natural language template customization plus manual editing before publishing for production.

⚡ AWS announces the new Lambda durable functions Kiro power, bringing durable function development capabilities directly into the Kiro agentic AI environment for local developers. The power provides AI-assisted guidance to build resilient, long-running, multi-step applications faster, covering replay model practices, step-and-wait operations, concurrency patterns, and error-handling strategies. It supports deployment workflows with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and AWS SAM and is available today with one-click installation from the Kiro IDE and Kiro powers page, plus example code and documentation on GitHub and in the AWS developer guide.

🔒 AWS completed its annual recertification audit with no findings, extending its ISO and CSA STAR coverage. The update adds the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region and AWS Deadline Cloud to the scope and reconfirms compliance with standards including ISO 9001, 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, 20000-1, and 22301. These certifications underscore AWS's commitment to robust security, privacy, and service management controls. Customers can view certificates via AWS Artifact or the AWS ISO and CSA STAR Certified page.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides integrated observability for Restricted Instance Groups (RIG), giving teams training foundation models with Nova Forge a unified view of compute resources and training workloads. A pre-configured Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard, backed by Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, aggregates metrics from four exporters to show GPU utilization, NVLink bandwidth, CPU pressure, FSx for Lustre usage, network fabric, Kubernetes state, and curated logs including epoch progress, step-level logs, pipeline errors, and Python tracebacks. Observability is automatically enabled for new RIG clusters and can be turned on for existing clusters via the HyperPod console; it is available in all Regions where SageMaker HyperPod RIG is supported.