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🧪 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to simulate Kinesis API errors and validate application error handling, retry logic, and monitoring. Customers can induce throttling, internal errors, service unavailable, and expired iterator exceptions—covering 500, 503, and 400 responses for GET and PUT operations—to test resilience and CloudWatch alarms. FIS experiments support templates, CI integration, and automatic stop thresholds to keep tests controlled, and are generally available in all Regions where FIS is offered, including AWS GovCloud (US).

⚡ Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift in eight additional AWS Regions, enabling near real-time analytics and ML on transactional data without building ETL pipelines. Data written to an RDS for Oracle instance is replicated to Redshift within seconds. Administrators can configure integrations via Console, API, CLI, or CloudFormation, select specific PDBs and tables, and must use Oracle Database 19c.

⚡Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift in eight additional regions. Data written to RDS is replicated to Redshift within seconds, enabling near real-time analytics and ML on transactional datasets. You can create multiple integrations per database, apply per-integration filtering to include or exclude specific databases and tables, and automate deployment with AWS CloudFormation.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity centralizes and secures identities and credentials for AI agents, integrating with existing identity providers such as Amazon Cognito to avoid user migration and rework of authentication flows. It provides a token vault encrypted with AWS KMS, native AWS Secrets Manager support, and orchestrates OAuth 2.0 flows (2LO and 3LO). Declarative SDK annotations and built-in error handling simplify credential injection and refresh workflows, helping teams deploy agentic workloads securely at scale.

🧾 Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers license-included Microsoft Office, Visio, and Project (2021/2024) in Standard and Professional editions, available in both 32‑bit and 64‑bit for On‑Demand and Always‑On fleets. Administrators can add or remove these applications from images and fleets to control availability, and end users access fully integrated Microsoft apps within AppStream sessions. Deployments require an AppStream Image Builder agent released on or after October 2, 2025, or managed image updates dated October 3, 2025 or later. Billing remains hourly for streaming and per-user per-month (non-prorated) for Microsoft apps.

⚡ Amazon Web Services has launched general availability of Amazon EBS Volume Clones, enabling instant, point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone. Cloned volumes are immediately accessible with single-digit millisecond latency and support all EBS volume types. The capability integrates with the EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver and is available via Console, CLI, SDKs, and CloudFormation across AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions.

🚀 AWS for Fluent Bit 3.0.0, based on Fluent Bit 4.1.1 and built on Amazon Linux 2023, is now available for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS customers. The release introduces native OpenTelemetry (OTel) support to ingest and forward OTLP logs, metrics, and traces with AWS SigV4 authentication, removing the need for additional sidecars. It delivers faster JSON parsing and higher log throughput per vCPU with lower latency, plus configurable TLS minimum versions and cipher controls to strengthen output security. Upgrade by pulling the 3.0.0 image from the Amazon ECR Public Gallery, updating your ECS FireLens task definition, or updating the DaemonSet/Helm release on EKS.

🚀 AWS for Fluent Bit 3.0.0, based on Fluent Bit 4.1.0 and Amazon Linux 2023, delivers faster, more secure container logging for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. It adds native OpenTelemetry (OTel) support for OTLP logs, metrics, and traces with SigV4 authentication and faster JSON parsing for higher throughput and lower latency. TLS minimum version and cipher controls enforce stronger output security. The image is available in the Amazon ECR Public Gallery and Amazon ECR, and source code and guidance are provided on GitHub.

🔒 Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing customers to access and manage their Profiles privately over the Amazon network instead of the public internet. When accessed via PrivateLink, management operations such as creating, editing, listing, and deleting Profiles occur over private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on‑premises applications. This capability reduces control‑plane exposure and supports hybrid and regulated deployments.

🚀 AWS announced that Amazon EC2 M8g instances, powered by Graviton4 processors, are now available in Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and the Middle East (Bahrain). The M8g family delivers up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3-based instances and offers larger sizes with up to 3× more vCPUs and memory. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances provide enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth for general-purpose workloads such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, and caching fleets.

🔒 AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors can now route connections through your Amazon VPC, enabling secure file transfers between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers whether privately or publicly hosted. Connectors can present VPC CIDR IP addresses for compatibility with IP allowlists and leverage NAT Gateway bandwidth for higher-throughput internet transfers. All traffic is routed through existing VPC networking and security controls, including Transit Gateway and centralized firewalls to help meet data security mandates.

📈 Amazon Connect now supports configurable thresholds for schedule adherence, enabling contact center managers to set allowable early and late windows for shift starts, shift ends, and individual activities. Administrators can apply defaults and customize thresholds at the team level—for example, allowing a 5-minute early start, a 10-minute late end, or a 3-minute late break—so minor timing differences don’t hurt adherence scores. This reduces false violations, helps managers focus on real adherence issues, and improves agent satisfaction and productivity.

🚀 Amazon MSK Connect is now available in ten additional AWS Regions — Jakarta, Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne, Milan, Zurich, Bahrain, UAE, Cape Town, and Tel Aviv. MSK Connect provides fully managed Kafka Connect clusters for deploying, monitoring, and scaling connectors to move data between Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK and external systems without provisioning infrastructure. The service supports both managed and self-managed Kafka clusters and is accessible via the MSK console and CLI.

🛡️Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) and Cumulative Update packages for Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL Server 2016 SP3+GDR (KB5065226), 2017 CU31+GDR (KB5065225), 2019 CU32+GDR (KB5065222) and 2022 CU21 (KB5065865). These updates address multiple security vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-47997, CVE-2025-55227 and CVE-2024-21907. AWS recommends that customers upgrade their RDS SQL Server instances using the Amazon RDS Management Console, AWS SDKs or the AWS CLI and follow the RDS SQL Server upgrade guidance.

🔤 Amazon QuickSight now extends font customization to data labels and axes across supported charts, complementing existing controls for titles, subtitles, legends, and table headers. Authors can set font family, pixel size, color, and styling such as bold, italics, and underline for analyses, dashboards, reports, and embedded scenarios. The update improves branding alignment and readability on large displays and is available in all supported regions.

🔍 AWS Resource Explorer now provides immediate access to resource search within each AWS Region without requiring prior activation. To start searching you need, at minimum, permissions granted by the AWS Resource Explorer Read Only Access or AWS Read Only Access managed policies, and you can discover resources via the Resource Explorer console, Unified Search, or AWS CLI/SDKs. To index the full inventory, including historical backfill and automatic updates, complete Resource Explorer setup so it can create a service-linked role. You can also enable cross-Region search with a single console click or the new CreateResourceExplorerSetup API, and the feature is available at no additional cost in supported Regions.

📢 AWS is updating the availability status of a range of services and features across three lifecycle categories: moving to Maintenance, entering Sunset, and reaching End of Support. Services moving to maintenance will stop accepting new customers on Nov 7, 2025, while current customers can continue using them as they evaluate alternatives. Several services, including Amazon FinSpace, AWS IoT Greengrass v1, and AWS Proton, are entering sunset with documented timelines (typically ~12 months). AWS Mainframe Modernization App Testing has reached end of support as of Oct 7, 2025. AWS provides migration guides and support resources to help customers transition.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch is generally available with Generative AI Observability, providing end-to-end telemetry for AI applications and AgentCore-managed agents. It expands monitoring beyond model runtime to include Built-in Tools, Gateways, Memory, and Identity, surfacing latency, token usage, errors, and performance across components. The capability integrates with orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and Strands Agents, and works with existing CloudWatch features and pricing for underlying telemetry.

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now offers vector search generally available with Valkey 8.2, enabling indexing, searching, and updating billions of high-dimensional embeddings from providers such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with microsecond latency and up to 99% recall. Key use cases include semantic caching for LLMs, multi-turn conversational agents, and RAG-enabled agentic systems to reduce latency and cost. Vector search runs on node-based clusters in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and existing Valkey or Redis OSS clusters can be upgraded to Valkey 8.2 with no downtime.

📣 AWS Config now supports three additional resource types—AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Integration, AWS::CloudTrail::EventDataStore, and AWS::Config::StoredQuery—providing broader visibility across AWS environments. If you have recording enabled for all resource types, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these new types. They are available for use in Config rules and Config aggregators in all Regions where the resources exist. This expansion enhances your ability to discover, assess, audit, and remediate a wider range of resources.