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🔍 AWS announced enhanced observability for AWS Lambda Kafka event source mappings (ESM), introducing configurable Amazon CloudWatch Logs and metrics to monitor event polling setup, scaling behavior, and processing state. The capability supports both Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka, and offers selectable log levels plus metric groups (EventCount, ErrorCount, KafkaMetrics). Customers can view data on a dedicated ESM monitoring page and enable logs and metrics via the Console, Create/Update ESM APIs, AWS CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, or AWS SAM; standard CloudWatch pricing applies.

📈 Amazon Elastic Container Service now publishes container health status as a new CloudWatch Container Insights metric. When a task defines a container health check, Container Insights emits UnHealthyContainerHealthStatus (0 = HEALTHY, 1 = UNHEALTHY) and includes health-state details in EMF logs during UNKNOWN evaluations. The metric is available at cluster, service, task, and container dimensions, and customers can create CloudWatch alarms to notify teams of unhealthy containers.

📈 AWS announced Partner Revenue Measurement, a capability that gives AWS Partners visibility into how their solutions drive AWS service consumption across partner-managed and customer-managed accounts. Partners tag resources with aws-apn-id and values like pc: to attribute service usage to a Marketplace listing. The feature is generally available in all commercial regions and AWS provides an onboarding guide with implementation and tagging best practices.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams is expanding streaming availability to six additional AWS regions—London (eu-west-2), Stockholm (eu-north-1), São Paulo (sa-east-1), Mumbai (ap-south-1), Seoul (ap-northeast-2), and Sydney (ap-southeast-2). This expansion, effective Jan 30, 2026, supports all stream classes and increases GPU capacity for game streaming. Developers can add these locations to existing or new stream groups by updating Location and capacity configurations via the console or CLI.

🛡️ AWS outlines core concepts and a hands-on walkthrough for implementing security response automation to detect and remediate threats across AWS environments. The post maps automation to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and demonstrates a CloudFormation deployment using EventBridge, Lambda, GuardDuty, and Security Hub to automatically restart CloudTrail and notify operators. It also highlights the Automated Security Response library, testing guidance, and cost and cleanup considerations.

🚀 Amazon EventBridge now supports event payloads up to 1 MB, up from the prior 256 KB limit. This enables developers to send richer JSON, telemetry, and large-language-model prompts in a single event without chunking, compression, or external storage. The feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions, with a small set of regional exceptions. Review regional availability and update event-driven architectures to simplify data flows.

🔧 Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side tools in the Responses API using OpenAI API–compatible service endpoints. With Bedrock invoking tools directly rather than relying on client orchestration, AI applications can perform real-time, multi-step actions—searching the web, executing code, and updating databases—within the governance, compliance, and security boundaries of your AWS accounts. Developers may supply custom Lambda functions or use AWS-provided tools such as notes and tasks. Server-side tool use is available today for OpenAI's GPT OSS 20B and GPT OSS 120B in multiple AWS regions, with broader model and region support coming soon.

🔐 Amazon Cognito introduces inbound federation Lambda triggers that let you transform and customize federated user attributes during authentication. You can modify responses from external SAML and OIDC providers — adding, overriding, or suppressing attributes — before they are stored in your user pool to avoid issues such as Cognito's 2,048-character limit per attribute. The trigger is available via hosted UI (classic) and managed login in all AWS Regions and is configurable through the Console, CLI, SDKs, CDK, or CloudFormation.

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports pre-warming of tables so customers can proactively prepare new and existing tables for anticipated traffic peaks. The capability works for both provisioned and on-demand capacity modes, including multi-Region replicated tables, and is applied during create or update operations. Pre-warming runs non-disruptively and asynchronously, incurs a one-time charge based on the difference from baseline capacity, and is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Keyspaces is offered.

🚀 AWS has introduced deployment Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in the AWS MCP Server preview, enabling AI agents to perform multi-step web application deployments from MCP-compatible IDEs and CLIs using natural language prompts. The SOPs generate AWS CDK infrastructure, deploy CloudFormation stacks, and create CI/CD pipelines following recommended AWS security best practices. Supported frameworks include React, Vue.js, Angular, and Next.js. The preview in US East (N. Virginia) is available at no additional MCP cost; customers pay only for the AWS resources and data transfer they use.

🚀 Amazon GameLift Servers now supports automatic scaling to and from zero instances, enabling game developers to eliminate charges for idle compute during inactive periods. This removes the need to keep instances running solely to preserve Fleet autoscaling, reducing infrastructure costs for titles with variable or unpredictable traffic. The capability is available in all supported regions and scales up automatically when game sessions are requested, simplifying operations and improving cost-efficiency.

🚀 Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes 1.35, enabling creation of new clusters and upgrades of existing clusters via the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools. Kubernetes 1.35 introduces In-Place Pod Resource Updates to adjust CPU and memory without restarting pods, PreferSameNode traffic distribution to favor local endpoints, Node Topology Labels via the Downward API for region/zone awareness, and Image Volumes for delivering data artifacts such as AI models. EKS 1.35 is available in all AWS Regions where EKS is offered, including AWS GovCloud (US), and EKS Distro builds are published to the ECR Public Gallery and GitHub. Refer to the EKS documentation for available versions, upgrade guidance, lifecycle policies, and use EKS Cluster Insights to surface issues that could affect upgrades.

⚡ Amazon Web Services has made R7gd EC2 instances available in the Europe (Paris) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block storage. Powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory and built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics. They provide high-speed, low-latency local storage suitable for scratch space, temporary files, and caches, and can be launched via the AWS Management Console.

🔁 Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling replication of streaming data across Amazon MSK clusters with a few clicks. The managed feature provides automatic asynchronous replication, scales underlying resources, and replicates Kafka metadata including topic configurations, ACLs, and consumer group offsets. You can orchestrate replication from the console or CLI and use cross‑region failover to resume processing during regional disruptions.

🔁 Amazon DynamoDB multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) global tables now integrate with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), enabling teams to run controlled experiments that pause regional replication to observe application behavior. You can create realistic regional-failure scenarios to validate monitoring, recovery, and resiliency mechanisms. This capability helps tune alarms, failover logic, and operational runbooks before real outages occur. Support is available in multiple AWS Regions and documentation outlines how to get started.

🔧 AWS now lets you edit job names and descriptions in AWS Deadline Cloud after submission, making it easier to organize and identify render and compute jobs. Previously immutable metadata can now be corrected or augmented post-submission to reflect shot numbers, sequence IDs, or internal tracking. Edits are available via the AWS SDK, the Deadline client, and Deadline Monitor, enabling both manual updates and scripted automation for pipeline workflows.

🔍 AWS Network Firewall now provides web category–based filtering and visibility into generative AI (GenAI) application traffic. Administrators can reference pre-defined URL categories—such as GenAI services, social media, and streaming—to allow, block, or log traffic via stateful rule groups. When combined with TLS inspection, the service can inspect full URL paths for granular control. The feature is available across AWS commercial regions.

🔒 This post demonstrates a serverless file integrity monitoring (FIM) pattern using AWS Systems Manager Inventory, Amazon S3, Lambda, and Amazon Security Lake. It collects file metadata from EC2 instances, exports versioned inventory objects to S3, and uses S3 Put events to trigger a Lambda that compares current and previous inventory versions to detect created, modified, or deleted files. When unauthorized changes are found, the function generates ASFF findings in AWS Security Hub, which Security Lake ingests and normalizes for query and visualization via Athena, QuickSight, or OpenSearch.

🖨️ AWS announced advanced printer redirection for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, enabling Windows users to access full device-specific printing features—double-sided printing, paper tray selection, finishing (stapling, hole-punching) and color management—directly from their virtual desktops. The feature supports configurable driver validation modes (exact, partial, or name-only) so administrators can balance compatibility and capability, and it automatically falls back to basic printing when matching drivers are not found. Available in all Regions offering WorkSpaces Personal, it requires WorkSpaces Agent 2.2.0.2116+ and Windows client 5.31+, with matching printer drivers installed on both the WorkSpace and client device.

🔧 AWS Marketplace now supports a self-service listing flow for sellers publishing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products that include FPGA images. Sellers can create and manage up to 15 Amazon FPGA images via a new UI or programmatically through the AWS Marketplace Catalog API, with inline validation and step-by-step guidance. The change removes the prior Product Load Form dependency and speeds time-to-market for FPGA-based accelerators on supported Amazon F2 instance types.