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⏱️ Amazon Connect now lets administrators configure After Contact Work (ACW) timeouts per channel for chats, tasks, emails, and callbacks. When an agent's ACW timer expires they are automatically returned to a ready state, enforcing time-boxed post-interaction work. Channel-level settings allow tailored behaviors — for example, shorter ACW for emails and longer for voice — to optimize agent time. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect operates.

🔔 Amazon Connect now supports configurable auto-accept for chat, tasks, email, and callback channels, expanding a capability that was previously limited to inbound voice. When enabled, incoming contacts are automatically connected to available agents, reducing manual accept/reject actions and improving response times. Administrators can set auto-accept at the agent and channel level to balance efficiency and agent readiness, for example enabling it for tasks while keeping voice manual.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has added single-Region Amazon Aurora DSQL clusters in Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database that provides virtually unlimited scalability, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. The service emphasizes the fastest distributed SQL reads and writes to support always-available applications. Aurora DSQL is available in multiple other Regions and can be explored under the AWS Free Tier via the product documentation.

🔍 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now provides broker logs for Express brokers at no additional cost. Broker logs help operators troubleshoot client connectivity and availability issues and reveal broker behavior during rebalances and fail‑overs. You can deliver operational telemetry to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3, and enable them via the MSK Console or AWS CLI for new and existing Express brokers. Logs are supported in all regions where Express brokers are available.

📦 AWS announced that AWS Data Transfer Terminal is now available in six additional locations: Seattle and Phoenix (US), London (UK), Paris (France), Sydney (Australia), and Tokyo (Japan), expanding its footprint beyond San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Munich. These secure physical facilities let customers upload large datasets directly to Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and other AWS services over high-throughput connections, accelerating ingestion and enabling immediate analytics and ML processing for media, automotive, financial, and industrial workloads.

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers an official GitHub Action that automates deployments when you push code or configuration changes, simplifying CI/CD for web applications. The action creates applications and environments as needed, packages and uploads artifacts to S3, and manages application versions and environment settings. It supports health checks, deployment validation, configurable exclusions for package contents, intelligent retry logic, and integrates with IAM via OpenID Connect for secure, token-based authentication. The action is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is offered.

⚙️ AWS Lake Formation now supports enhanced cross-account sharing, enabling centralized permission management for catalogs, databases, tables, and columns across multi-account analytics environments. The update removes prior per-resource association limits by using a single AWS Resource Access Manager resource share with wildcard patterns; administrators should upgrade to cross-account version 5 to adopt the new behavior. Existing shares and Lake Formation APIs remain compatible.

🔧 Amazon MSK now exposes three public topic management APIs — CreateTopic, UpdateTopic, and DeleteTopic — enabling programmatic topic lifecycle operations without running Kafka admin clients. You can use AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and CloudFormation or the integrated MSK console to create and update topics with guided defaults and view partition-level details and metrics. These features are available at no extra cost for provisioned clusters running Kafka 3.6 and above; ensure appropriate IAM permissions before use.

📍Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON document database that automatically scales storage up to 128TiB and supports millions of requests per second. It can be scaled out to 15 low-latency read replicas in minutes with no application downtime and integrates with services such as AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda, and Backup. Clusters can be created via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Europe (Zurich) region. The fully managed, JSON-native document database provides automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB and can support millions of requests per second while scaling out to 15 low-latency read replicas with no application downtime. It integrates with AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda and AWS Backup, and clusters can be created via Console, CLI, or SDK. Local availability improves latency and data residency options for Swiss and nearby customers.

🎧 Amazon Connect launches Audio Enhancement to improve voice clarity and reliability by suppressing agent-side background noises and isolating agent voices in busy contact centers. The feature includes two modes: Voice Isolation (removes background speech and noise) and Noise Suppression (targets non-speech noise). Administrators can enable modes via the User Management page, and agents with permissions can adjust settings in the Contact Control Panel. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups, enabling you to share OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) across collections that use different AWS KMS keys. This shared compute model reduces overall OCU costs while preserving collection-level security and access controls. Collection Groups also let you set minimum and maximum OCU allocations, allowing predictable startup capacity and eliminating cold-start latency for latency-sensitive workloads.

☁️This article introduces a pre-built Tines workflow—Investigate AWS issues with CLI data using agents—that brings AWS CLI output directly into cases, removing repetitive console logins and syntax guesswork. A lightweight, read-only agent executes context-aware CLI commands and returns results safely to the workflow. Optional AI-driven formatting or Tines transformations convert dense JSON into concise, human-readable summaries. The template can be imported, connected to an AWS credential, customized, tested, and will append findings into Tines Cases for auditability and team collaboration.

🔕 Amazon CloudWatch now supports Alarm Mute Rules, allowing teams to temporarily silence notifications for planned deployments, maintenance windows, and off-hours while preserving monitoring visibility. Rules can be one-time or recurring and mute up to 100 individual alarms, with actions configurable for OK, ALARM, and INSUFFICIENT_DATA states. When a mute expires, any previously muted actions are automatically triggered if the alarm remains in the same state it was in when muted. The capability reduces alert fatigue and removes dependence on fragile script-based workarounds.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are now available in additional regions including Asia Pacific (Seoul, Melbourne), Canada (Central), Europe (Spain), and AWS GovCloud. These instances offer up to 30% better compute versus Graviton3-based C7gn, use 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Sizes scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory, up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and EFA support on larger sizes to enable lower-latency clusters.

🔔 Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in seven additional AWS Regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), Israel (Tel Aviv), Africa (Cape Town), Canada (Calgary), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Europe (Zurich). Neptune is a serverless graph database that automatically scales graph workloads, reduces operational overhead, and improves AI accuracy and explainability by modeling connected data. It also provides fully managed GraphRAG with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and integrates with the Strands AI Agents SDK and popular agentic memory tools to accelerate graph-powered AI development.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now integrates a Kiro Power and a Kiro IDE extension to accelerate bioinformatics workflow development with AI agent-assisted creation, debugging, and optimization. The IDE extension supports domain-specific languages such as Nextflow and WDL directly in the Kiro interface, offering syntax highlighting, code completion, and troubleshooting guidance. The Kiro Power packages the HealthOmics MCP server alongside steering files and agent hooks to provide domain expertise, automated run analysis, and failure diagnostics for faster, more reliable workflow iteration.

⚙️ Amazon Redshift now lets administrators allocate extra compute specifically for its automatic optimization features, or autonomics, so tasks such as Automatic Table Optimization (ATO), Automatic Table Sorting (ATS), Auto Vacuum, and Auto Analyze can run reliably during peak user activity. This avoids the need to pause or schedule manual maintenance windows. A cost-control setting limits resources for autonomics on provisioned clusters, and the new SYS_AUTOMATIC_OPTIMIZATION system table improves observability for both provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups.

🔍 New analysis by Ontinue details VoidLink, a Linux-based command-and-control framework that generates implant binaries for credential theft, data exfiltration and stealthy persistence across cloud and enterprise hosts. The agent fingerprints AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba and Tencent environments and adapts its behavior, loading modular plugins for container escape and kernel-level stealth. Researchers identified unusual development artefacts — structured "Phase X:" labels, duplicated numbering, verbose debug logs and embedded documentation — that suggest parts of the implant were written or assisted by a large language model coding agent with limited human review.

🚨 Researchers warn of a massive, worm-driven campaign by TeamPCP that began around December 25, 2025, systematically compromising cloud-native environments. The group abused exposed Docker APIs, Kubernetes clusters, Ray dashboards, Redis servers, and a critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) to deploy proxy, scanning, and C2 infrastructure. Compromised hosts are used for persistence, data exfiltration, extortion, crypto-mining, and proxy/C2 relays, with tooling tailored to Kubernetes and AWS/Azure deployments.