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AWS Backup Adds Direct Primary Support for Air-Gapped Vaults

🔐 AWS Backup now lets customers designate a logically air-gapped vault as the primary backup target across backup plans, organization policies, and on-demand jobs. This removes the prior restriction that air-gapped vaults could only hold copies, enabling direct writes to the air-gapped store and reducing duplicate-storage costs. For resource types without full AWS Backup management support, the service still creates a temporary snapshot in a standard vault, copies it into the air-gapped vault, and then removes the temporary snapshot. The capability is available in all Regions that support logically air-gapped vaults and can be selected via the console, API, or CLI.

AWS Backup Adds Delegated Admin Support in 17 Regions

🔔 AWS Backup now supports delegated administrators in 17 additional AWS Regions, allowing designated accounts to manage backup operations and administrative tasks across member accounts. The expansion includes regions in Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Israel, Mexico, and the Middle East. AWS Backup Audit Manager also supports cross-Region and cross-account delegated admin reports for jobs and backup plan compliance. Visit the AWS Backup console to get started.

AWS Transform auto-generates Landing Zone network YAML

☁️ AWS Transform for VMware can now automatically convert VMware network environments into Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)-compatible YAML network configurations that can be directly imported and deployed via LZA. Building on existing IaC output formats such as CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform, this capability reduces manual re-creation of network settings, lowers the risk of configuration errors, and accelerates migration timelines while aligning deployments with enterprise security and compliance standards.

European Digital Sovereignty Summit Shifts Priorities

🔒 European leaders, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Emmanuel Macron, will attend a Berlin summit of digital ministers and IT experts expected to draw about 900 participants. The conference highlights concerns that US laws such as CLOUD Act and FISA 702 can compel US cloud providers to disclose data held in Europe, driving calls to reduce dependencies on non‑European vendors. Officials and industry leaders emphasise technological controls — notably strong encryption and customer-held keys — and the need for scalable European cloud alternatives while addressing regulatory and startup barriers.

Amazon MWAA Serverless for Apache Airflow Workflows

🚀 Amazon launched MWAA Serverless, a managed, serverless deployment option for Apache Airflow that eliminates infrastructure management and bills only for actual task compute time. Workflows can be authored as YAML configurations or Python DAGs and leverage over 80 AWS Operators from Airflow v3.0. Each workflow runs in isolation with distinct IAM permissions while the service automatically provisions and scales resources across supported regions.

AWS Backup Enables Cross-Account Management in 4 Regions

🔒AWS Backup now supports cross-account management in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei, Thailand, New Zealand) and Mexico (Central). With this capability you can deploy organization-wide backup policies from your AWS Organizations management account or a delegated administrator, helping to maintain compliance and reduce operational overhead. You can also monitor backup activity across all organizational accounts from a single management account, centralizing visibility and simplifying auditing and troubleshooting.

Amazon Aurora MySQL v3.11 Adds MySQL 8.0.43 Support

🆕 Amazon is releasing Aurora MySQL - Compatible Edition 3 updated to v3.11 with support for MySQL 8.0.43. The update delivers multiple security enhancements and bug fixes, addresses additional group replication errors, and introduces the mysql client commands option to enable or disable most client commands. You can upgrade manually by modifying a DB cluster or enable the Auto minor version upgrade option; the release is available in all AWS regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.

Amazon RDS for MySQL: New minor versions 8.0.44 & 8.4.7

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7, matching the latest community releases. Amazon recommends upgrading to these minors to remediate known security vulnerabilities and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, faster updates. Consult the Amazon RDS user guide for upgrade procedures and regional availability.

Amazon ECR Adds PrivateLink Support for FIPS Endpoints

🔒 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon ECR now supports PrivateLink endpoints validated under FIPS 140-3. This allows customers with security and compliance requirements to use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules while keeping traffic private within their Amazon VPCs. The enhancement helps organizations meet regulatory obligations without exposing container registry traffic to the public internet. Availability includes several commercial and AWS GovCloud regions.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds 10 Speech Languages

🎙️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics beyond English: Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese. BDA can transcribe audio in the detected language, generate GenAI-powered insights, and produce summaries either in the detected language or in English. It also creates multi-lingual transcripts when recordings contain more than one supported language, simplifying analysis of customer calls, meetings, education sessions, clinical discussions, and public safety audio. Support is available in eight AWS Regions.

Amazon EC2 U7i High Memory Instances Arrive in Ohio

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) available in the US East (Ohio) region as of Nov 17, 2025. These instances deliver 24 TB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They support up to 100 Gbps EBS, up to 200 Gbps networking with ENA Express, and target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. The offering is intended to help customers scale transaction processing throughput in fast-growing data environments.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Achieves HIPAA Eligibility

🔒 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is now HIPAA eligible, enabling organizations with a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) to run protected health data workloads. AWS PCS is a managed High Performance Computing service that uses the Slurm workload manager for cluster orchestration and targets compute-intensive tasks such as genomic sequencing, medical imaging analysis, and clinical research simulations. AWS says it maintains a standards-based risk management program to support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and that eligibility applies in all AWS Regions where PCS is offered.

AWS HealthImaging Adds Native JPEG 2000 Lossless Support

🩺 AWS HealthImaging now supports JPEG 2000 Lossless as a native transfer syntax for storing and retrieving lossless DICOM images, making it easier to integrate HealthImaging with applications that require JPEG 2000 encoded data. Customers can choose between JPEG 2000 Lossless (UID 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.90) and High-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) for lossless storage. Enabling JPEG 2000 Lossless reduces retrieval latency by eliminating the need to transcode images at access time. This capability is available in all regions where HealthImaging is generally available.

AWS Marketplace shows estimated tax and invoicing entity

💡 AWS Marketplace now displays estimated tax amounts and the applicable invoicing entity to buyers at the time of purchase. The procurement view shows estimated tax type (such as VAT, GST, or US sales tax), tax rates, and the estimated upfront tax amount derived from a customer's tax and address settings in the AWS Billing console. Buyers can download a PDF summary of the tax and invoicing details to support procurement approvals, budgeting, and issuing purchase orders to the correct invoicing entity. This capability is available today in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is supported.

Amazon VPC IPAM Automates IP Assignments from Infoblox

🔁 AWS announced that Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) can now automatically acquire non‑overlapping IP allocations from Infoblox Universal IPAM, reducing the need for manual ticketing between cloud and on‑prem teams. The integration imports allocated ranges into a top‑level AWS IPAM pool and allows organization into regional pools to prevent address conflicts. The feature is available in all Regions where VPC IPAM is supported, excluding AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US); refer to the IPAM documentation and pricing tab for details.

Amazon MQ Adds LDAP Authentication to RabbitMQ Brokers

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ brokers in all AWS regions, allowing brokers to authenticate and authorize users against LDAP identity providers. Administrators can manage users and assign permissions to topics and queues using credentials stored in their LDAP server. LDAP support can be enabled when creating or updating brokers via the AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK, and remains compatible with standard RabbitMQ LDAP implementations.

AWS re:Invent 2025 — Security Sessions & Themes Overview

🔒 AWS re:Invent 2025 highlights an expanded Security and Identity track featuring more than 80 sessions across breakouts, workshops, chalk talks, and hands-on builders’ sessions. The program groups content into four practical themes — Securing and Leveraging AI, Architecting Security and Identity at scale, Building and scaling a Culture of Security, and Innovations in AWS Security — with real-world guidance and demos. Attendees can meet experts at the Security and AI Security kiosks in the expo hall and are encouraged to reserve limited-capacity hands-on sessions early to secure seats.

AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for SQS Event-Source Mappings

🔔 AWS Lambda now offers Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source mappings (ESMs), letting you provision persistent event pollers to handle sudden traffic spikes. Provisioned ESMs scale up to 3x faster (up to 1,000 concurrent executions/min) and support up to 16x higher concurrency (up to 20,000 concurrent executions), reducing latency for bursty workloads. The feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions and is configurable via the Console, API, CLI, SDK, CloudFormation, and SAM; billing is by Event Poller Units (EPU).

Amazon ECS improves service availability for rolling deploys

🔁 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now replaces unhealthy or terminated tasks with healthy tasks from the same service revision during rolling deployments instead of prioritizing the new revision. This prevents service availability drops when new task versions fail health checks or cannot start. Application Auto Scaling scale-outs are applied across both revisions so the running version can handle increased load. These changes respect maximumPercent and minimumHealthyPercent and are enabled by default in all Regions.

AWS IoT adds VPC Endpoints and IPv6 Connectivity Support

🔒 AWS has expanded AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender to support VPC endpoints via AWS PrivateLink and IPv6 for both VPC and public endpoints. Developers can route data plane operations, management APIs, and credential requests entirely within VPCs, keeping traffic off the public internet. Configuration is available through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and CloudFormation, and the features are GA in all Regions that offer these services.