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🎥 AWS Elemental Inference is now generally available as a fully managed AI service that converts live and on-demand broadcasts into mobile-optimized vertical formats and generates highlight clips in real time. Running alongside encoding, the service offers vertical cropping and advanced metadata analysis using an agentic AI that requires no prompts or human-in-the-loop. In beta, large media companies reported 34% or greater savings on AI-powered live video workflows; the service is available in select AWS Regions.

📌 Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling you to export snapshot data in Apache Parquet format for analytics, retention, and machine learning workflows. The export runs directly on snapshots — including manual, automated system, and AWS Backup snapshots — without impacting database performance. Exported Parquet files can be analyzed with Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, Redshift Spectrum, or big data frameworks like Apache Spark. You can initiate exports from the RDS console, AWS SDK, or CLI with just a few clicks.

⚙️ AWS Deadline Cloud now supports grouping short tasks into executable chunks to improve run-time efficiency and reduce cost. Users can specify a fixed chunk size or set a target run time, and Deadline Cloud will dynamically adjust grouping as the job progresses to meet that target. The feature addresses workloads with many short-duration tasks or environments that have long startup times. It is available in all Regions where AWS Deadline Cloud is supported.

🔍 AWS Elemental MediaConvert introduces the free Probe API, a fast metadata analysis tool that reads file headers to return codec, pixel format, color space, and container information without processing full video content. The Probe API is optimized for efficiency and designed to speed validation and decision-making in media workflows. It supports automation scenarios, including integration with Step Functions, so encoding decisions can be made based on source file characteristics. The feature is available in any region where MediaConvert operates.

🔍 AWS has enhanced Trusted Advisor's unused NAT Gateway detection by leveraging AWS Compute Optimizer data and additional CloudWatch metrics over a 32-day lookback. The check now verifies route table associations to avoid flagging critical backup gateways, reducing false positives. Each recommendation includes estimated monthly cost savings and is accessible in the Trusted Advisor console or via APIs. Organizations must opt in to Cost Optimization Hub and Compute Optimizer to use the enhanced recommendations.

✨Amazon Web Services has made Amazon Q Developer artifacts generally available in the AWS Management Console. The generative AI-based experience renders resource queries as tables and cost queries as interactive charts, and relocates the Q icon to the navigation bar with the chat panel moved to the left for easier access. Users can run prompts from a Prompt Library, open artifacts in a side panel, and expand to full-screen for focused analysis. Artifacts are available in all Regions where Amazon Q Developer is offered.

📺 AWS has made Elemental Media Services available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, enabling local ingestion, transport, transcoding, packaging, and delivery. The expansion includes MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConvert, and MediaTailor. Broadcasters and streaming platforms can now process live and VOD workflows closer to Malaysian audiences to reduce latency and improve video quality while supporting server-side ad insertion and multi-device delivery.

💰 Amazon Web Services now offers 3-year Serverless Reservations for Amazon Redshift Serverless, a discounted commitment option that can save up to 45% and improve cost predictability. Reservations commit a specified number of Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) for a three-year term with a no-upfront payment option, are billed hourly and metered per second, and can be shared across accounts at the payer level. Any usage beyond the committed RPU level is charged at standard on-demand rates.

☁️ Amazon has expanded S3 Tables to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing integrated Apache Iceberg support and automated table maintenance to regulated cloud regions. S3 Tables continuously optimize storage layout and query performance while leveraging Intelligent-Tiering to manage costs based on access patterns without performance impact. The capability enables querying by popular AWS and third-party engines and reduces operational overhead for data lake teams.

🔍 Amazon says a Russian-speaking threat actor used commercial AI services to help breach over 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries during a five-week campaign in early 2026. The attacker did not rely on zero-day exploits but instead scanned internet-facing management ports and used brute-force attempts against weak credentials lacking MFA. After gaining access, the actor extracted device configurations (including SSL‑VPN and administrative credentials) and deployed AI-assisted Python and Go tools to parse settings, map networks, and automate reconnaissance. Amazon urges administrators to remove exposed management interfaces, enable MFA, ensure VPN passwords differ from Active Directory credentials, and harden backup systems.

🔐 Amazon Threat Intelligence observed a Russian-speaking, financially motivated actor using commercial generative AI to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices across 55+ countries from 2026-01-11 to 2026-02-18. The campaign did not exploit FortiGate vulnerabilities; it abused exposed management ports and weak single-factor credentials. The actor used AI-generated plans, scripts, and developer assistance to scale credential-based access and automate post-exploitation tasks.

🚀 Amazon expanded MSK Serverless into Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Taipei), and Canada West (Calgary), increasing the service's regional footprint. MSK Serverless is a managed cluster option for Apache Kafka that provisions and scales compute and storage automatically, removing the need to manage cluster capacity. The launch aims to simplify deployment of event-driven architectures and lower operational overhead for teams using Kafka. See the developer guide to begin using the service in these regions.

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region, expanding the service to 38 AWS Regions globally. The service is the recommended approach for managing workforce access, offering centralized single sign-on and account management by connecting your existing identity source once. IAM Identity Center powers personalized experiences in services such as Amazon Q and enables user-aware access controls and auditing in services like Amazon Redshift. It is offered at no additional cost in supported regions.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 G7e instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e, support up to eight GPUs with 96 GB per GPU, and provide up to 192 vCPUs and 1600 Gbps networking. They include NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFA in EC2 UltraClusters, and are available as On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans.

🔐 Amazon Web Services announced new Aurora DSQL Connectors for Go (pgx), Python (asyncpg), and Node.js (WebSocket for Postgres.js). The connectors serve as transparent authentication layers that automatically generate IAM tokens per connection, removing the need for manual token handling while preserving full compatibility with standard PostgreSQL driver features. The Node.js connector adds WebSocket support for environments where TCP is unavailable. All connectors accept custom IAM credential providers to match customer credential workflows.

📢 Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.19, bringing a set of fixes and improvements over prior ActiveMQ releases. Amazon MQ will automatically manage patch-level upgrades for your brokers and apply compatible security patches during your scheduled maintenance window. If you are using older versions such as 5.18, AWS recommends upgrading via the AWS Management Console. This version is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon MQ is offered.

🚀 Starting in February 2026, Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, powered by AWS-custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). These chips deliver up to 15% better performance than comparable x86 Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance versus M6i, targeting sustained CPU-intensive workloads like gaming servers, CPU-based ML, and video streaming. M7i offers larger sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare-metal options (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) that include built-in Intel accelerators for data streaming, in-memory analytics, and cryptographic offload.

📱 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regions can now send SMS to subscribers across more than 200 countries and territories. Customers in these Regions can send messages via AWS End User Messaging, bringing SMS support to 32 AWS Regions. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub service that delivers to endpoints such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and SMS adds an additional mobile delivery channel. This expansion helps developers extend global notification workflows and manage messaging at scale.

🤖 Amazon Web Services today announced that Amazon Aurora DSQL now integrates with Kiro powers and AI agent skills to accelerate database-backed application development. The integration packages the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with development best practices so AI agents can assist with schema design, performance tuning, and routine database operations out of the box. Kiro powers provides a curated registry of MCP servers, steering files, and agent hooks with one-click installation in the Kiro IDE. The Aurora DSQL skill extends the same guidance to other agent ecosystems via a Skills CLI, allowing agents to dynamically load Postgres-compatible SQL patterns, distributed design advice, and IAM authentication guidance.

🔔 Amazon Connect Cases now integrates with AWS Service Quotas, enabling administrators to view applied limits, monitor utilization, and request quota increases directly from the Service Quotas console. Eligible quota requests can be automatically approved, reducing manual approval bottlenecks. Available in multiple AWS Regions, this update helps teams scale case workloads and avoid unexpected service constraints.