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🔒 Administrators can now configure Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser portals to use custom domains, replacing the default portal URL to align browser sessions with organizational branding. After adding the custom domain and routing traffic via a reverse proxy (for example, Amazon CloudFront), Secure Browser redirects users to the configured domain after authentication. Authentication supports AWS Identity Center or a customer IdP with both IdP-initiated and SP-initiated flows, and the feature is available at no extra charge in 10 AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon ECS Managed Instances is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling customers to run EC2-backed container workloads under regional sovereignty controls. As a fully managed compute option, Managed Instances dynamically scales EC2 instances, optimizes task placement, and performs security patching every 14 days while supporting GPU and network-optimized instance families. Enable via Console, the Amazon ECS MCP Server, or infrastructure-as-code; management fees apply in addition to standard EC2 costs.

📌 AWS Config now supports 30 additional AWS resource types across services including Amazon EKS, Amazon Q, and AWS IoT. If you have enabled recording for all resource types, these additions are tracked automatically and are available in Config rules and Config aggregators. The expanded coverage improves visibility for discovery, audit, and automated remediation and includes types such as EKS::Nodegroup, QuickSight::Dashboard, Glue::Crawler, and IoT::TopicRule.

⚠️ Researchers at Sysdig uncovered an attack that fully compromised an AWS environment in under eight minutes by exploiting a cloud misconfiguration and using LLMs to accelerate reconnaissance and exploitation. Attackers reused credentials found in public S3 buckets, modified a Lambda function to escalate privileges, moved laterally across numerous principals, and disabled model-call logging in Amazon Bedrock. Security experts warn that AI-enabled automation compresses attack timelines and reduces defenders' reaction windows.

📈 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now publishes two additional repository metrics in Amazon CloudWatch: RepositoryCount and ImagesPerRepositoryCount. These metrics, available across all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) at no extra cost, provide per-repository visibility into repository creation/deletion trends and image count growth. Customers can detect anomalous behavior, build dashboards, and configure alarms to notify teams as usage approaches service quotas.

🧩 Amazon Connect Cases now supports CSV uploads to define conditional field option mappings, allowing administrators to specify which options appear based on other field values. Rather than manually configuring each dependency — for example, limiting defect type choices by product category — teams can upload a CSV to apply relationships at scale. This reduces onboarding effort and configuration time for complex case templates. The capability integrates with existing case templates and field settings and is available in multiple AWS regions.

🔔 AWS has lowered costs for Network Firewall customers by extending hourly and data-processing discounts for NAT Gateways that are service-chained with both primary and secondary firewall endpoints. The service also removed the additional data-processing surcharge for Advanced Inspection TLS inspection that previously applied in select regions. These pricing improvements are applied automatically across all regions where Network Firewall is offered and require no customer action.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs in the Middle East (UAE) Region. These instances offer up to eight L40S GPUs with 48 GB each, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 1.536 TB system memory, 7.6 TB local NVMe storage, and up to 400 Gbps networking. G6e is optimized for ML workloads including LLMs, diffusion models for image/video/audio generation, and large-scale spatial computing and digital twins. Instances are available across multiple regions and purchasable via On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. These instances support up to eight L40S GPUs (48 GB each), third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 1.536 TB memory, 400 Gbps networking and 7.6 TB NVMe storage. They target machine learning and spatial computing workloads — from deploying large language and diffusion models to building immersive 3D simulations and digital twins. G6e instances are available via On‑Demand, Reserved, Spot and Savings Plans.

🔒AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple, expanding social login options alongside Sign in with Google. Developers and builders can use their Apple Account credentials to access AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, AWS re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro. The integration reduces password management overhead, lowers the risk of forgotten passwords, and streamlines both new user registration and returning sign-ins.

🍎 AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple as a social login provider, expanding existing Sign in with Google options and letting Apple users access AWS applications with their Apple ID. This reduces password management and forgotten credential issues while streamlining new registrations and returning sign‑ins. The integration applies to AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, AWS re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro, offering a more seamless entry point for developers and builders.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces now offers 12 new Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f bundles built on the Amazon EC2 G6 family, available for both Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. The bundles provide diverse vCPU-to-memory configurations and fractional GPU options to support workloads from graphic design and CAD/CAM to 3D rendering, seismic visualization, GIS, and ML training. They support Windows Server 2022 and BYOL for Windows 11 and are available in 13 AWS Regions.

🔗 AWS Glue has launched a native REST-based connector that enables customers to read from any REST-enabled data source and ingest that data directly into AWS Glue ETL jobs without bundling custom JARs or external libraries. This change removes the need to install, update, or manage connector libraries, reducing operational overhead and speeding onboarding of new sources. The connector is available in all AWS commercial regions and can be used via AWS Glue APIs, the CLI, or SDKs.

🔈 Cartesia's Sonic 3 model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, giving AWS customers a turnkey option for advanced streaming text-to-speech. Sonic 3 is a state space model (SSM) offering high naturalness, accurate transcript following, sub-100ms latency, and fine-grained control over volume, speed, and emotion. It supports 42 languages, natural laughter, and voices optimized for agents and expressive characters. Deployments can be launched from SageMaker Studio or via the SageMaker Python SDK.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker now provides Data Lineage for Apache Spark jobs run on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue within IDC-based SageMaker Unified Studio domains. The feature captures schema and column-level transformations from EMR-EC2, EMR-Serverless, EMR-EKS, and Glue, and makes lineage explorable as a visual graph or queryable via APIs. Teams can compare transformation history across Spark jobs to investigate regressions, trace root causes, and assess impact. Spark lineage is available in all existing SageMaker Unified Studio regions.

🔍 AWS is rolling out the Related resources tab for security groups in the Amazon EC2 and VPC consoles, now generally available. The tab consolidates all resources that depend on a specific security group — such as EC2 instances, ENIs, RDS, and ElastiCache — into a single view, reducing the need to check services individually. This streamlines impact assessment before modifying or deleting security groups and is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost.

🤖 Amazon Redshift now extends its autonomics capabilities to multi-cluster environments, enabling automatic optimization across distributed warehouses. Features such as Automatic Table Optimization, Automatic Table Sorting, Auto Vacuum, and Auto Analyze now consider query patterns from all consumer clusters when adjusting table layouts and maintenance. A denylist lets operators exclude specific endpoints or AWS accounts from influencing optimizations. These enhancements are available at no extra cost in all Regions that support Amazon Redshift.

🔁 Amazon now enables replication of DynamoDB global tables across multiple AWS accounts and Regions, allowing automatic, multi-Region, multi-account table synchronization. This supports stronger fault tolerance and higher availability during account-level disruptions while enabling workload isolation and distinct security and governance controls. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and follows existing global tables pricing.

🌍 AWS Marketplace now provides a localized purchasing experience for EMEA customers procuring Professional Services through the AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. Buyers can use local payment methods such as SEPA direct debit and will receive invoices issued by AWS EMEA, removing cross-entity remittance hurdles. The capability simplifies procurement, supports billing consolidation, and is available now for eligible EMEA purchases.

🆕 AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling centralized control of fine-grained data access and secure data sharing within and beyond organizations. The service integrates with the AWS Glue Data Catalog so users can discover and govern datasets. Supported analytics and ML consumers include Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon Athena.