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🔐 AWS Sign-in now supports resource-based policies and resource control policies (RCPs) for the AWS Management Console. These policies let administrators restrict console sign-in to expected networks and are evaluated during sign-in and when the console session requests new credentials. Resource-based policies target individual AWS accounts while RCPs apply organization-wide via AWS Organizations. Administrators can combine these controls with AWS Management Console Private Access to manage allowed sign-in networks and account access across their environment.

🚀 Amazon Redshift has made RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, generally available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These Graviton-based instances deliver up to 4.2X better price-performance for data warehouse workloads, run up to 2.4x faster than prior RA3 instances, and cost 30% less per vCPU. Customers can provision rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge nodes, upgrade from RA3, and benefit from built-in savings including incremental snapshot metering by unique data blocks and elimination of Redshift Spectrum scanning charges.

🚀 AWS announces the public preview of AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework that provides backend capabilities without requiring developers to learn infrastructure tools. It runs a fully functional local environment with Postgres, authentication, and real-time messaging with no AWS account required, and the same code can be deployed to production AWS services with zero changes. Developers can also drop into AWS CDK at any time for direct resource configuration, and AWS Blocks supports SPA and SSR frameworks at preview.

🔗 Amazon Quick now connects to 16 additional tools including Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, Snowflake, and Smartsheet, enabling teams to act on insights without switching context. The new connectors span productivity, design, analytics, financial intelligence, commerce, and communication, so teams can build cross-tool workflows inside Quick. Integrations are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🤖 Starting today, AWS Partner Central agents qualify every co-sell opportunity in real time and make actionable recommendations to accelerate AWS engagement and deal progression. Building on agents released March 16, 2026, the agent can act on the partner's behalf via conversation to enrich opportunity details, removing manual review delays. Each opportunity now receives an Opportunity Quality Score and is matched to a co-sell motion—AWS field-engaged, Agent-engaged, or Partner-led—with the score and motion recalculated in real time as recommendations are applied.

🤖 AWS Marketplace introduces AI-assisted product listing within the Partner Assistant chat to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Consulting Partners create optimized product listings using existing digital assets. The assistant imports content from websites, PDFs, case studies, and documentation, then generates, validates, and formats listing fields to meet AWS Marketplace requirements and improve search discoverability. Field-level recommendations and a quality score help partners align listings with best practices. Available via AWS Partner Central, the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, and programmatically through the Partner Agent MCP server; not available in AWS GovCloud (US) or China Regions.

🔔 AWS Partner Central introduces Business Value Realization (BVR), a new experience and funding motion that helps partners drive customer adoption and measurable business outcomes after deploying strategic AWS services. Partners can self-enroll, nominate customer opportunities, and monitor progress through defined adoption stages with guided activities. AI agents generate weekly adoption reports highlighting progress, risks, and recommendations, while funding is automatically disbursed when stages are completed.

🔔 Partners co-selling with AWS can now automate private offer pricing within co-sell workflows. By predefining pricing rules, discount limits, and eligible products, partners enable AWS sellers to convert opportunities to private offers quickly, shortening what used to be weeks of negotiation into minutes. Customers receive tailored offers based on their specifications, and partners gain visibility and direct follow-up access to assist with acceptance and context.

🔔 AWS Marketplace reduced its listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%, making it more economical for consulting partners, systems integrators, managed service providers and ISVs to transact services. The change applies automatically to new private offers across all AWS Regions, pricing models, and currencies, while existing offers remain on their original terms. Partners can list through AWS Partner Central and customers can discover services via AI-powered features and multi-product solutions.

🚀 AWS announced a public preview that extends AWS Transform for migrations to replicate block storage workloads directly to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. The capability lets application owners and cloud migration teams move block and NFS datastores from on‑premises or other clouds into FSx for ONTAP alongside compute and network migrations. This removes intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools, simplifying workflows and reducing cost and risk. FSx for ONTAP provides a fully managed ONTAP-based destination to preserve enterprise storage features while leveraging AWS scale and resiliency.

🤝 Today AWS announced general availability of onboarding agents for AWS Partner Central. The agent serves as an always-available advisor that guides new partners through profile setup, verifications, tax and payment setup, compliance, and preparing listings on Marketplace. Partners can interact with the agent in the AWS Partner Central console or programmatically via Model Context Protocol (MCP). The agent auto-populates partner profiles using company website data and provides a personalized roadmap to accelerate readiness to sell with AWS.

🟢 AWS introduces the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization that validates Services Partners with expertise in transforming contact centers and embedding AI across customer interactions. The competency covers two categories: Contact Center Transformation and AI-Powered Customer Experience, recognizing partners who migrate legacy contact centers and operationalize AI at scale on Amazon Connect. This competency replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027.

🛒 AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, enabling AWS Partners to create and deploy branded catalogs of solutions and services on their own websites or applications in hours. Channel Partners and ISVs can import listings with no code, use AWS Marketplace billing for transactions, and automate deal workflows with private offer templates and CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot. The storefront supports curated catalogs on partners' domains and is available in all AWS Marketplace regions.

🔒 AWS Management Console Private Access now lets customers reach the AWS Console from VPCs without any internet connectivity, enabling management of AWS infrastructure in air-gapped and strictly controlled networks. The feature routes console traffic through VPC endpoints using AWS PrivateLink, letting customers enforce VPC endpoint policies and existing IAM, Service Control, and Resource Control policies. Available in all AWS commercial regions, customers pay only for the underlying VPC endpoint usage and data processing.

🔍 AWS Transform today launched a Preview of continuous modernization that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and remediates technical debt across enterprise software portfolios. The capability brings visibility across thousands of repositories, supports assessments like agentic and modernization readiness, and integrates with AWS Security Agent to find and fix source code vulnerabilities. Customers can connect repositories from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and run analyses via the web console, CLI, Transform Kiro, or coding agents, with job state synchronized across surfaces. The service is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions.

🔁 Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand replication to and from AWS opt-in Regions, enabling incremental point-in-time snapshot transfers beyond default-enabled Regions. This feature simplifies disaster recovery, cross-account replication, and lower-latency global access while leveraging FSx for OpenZFS’s snapshots, cloning, and high throughput. Available wherever FSx for OpenZFS is offered, replication carries no extra FSx charge; standard inter-Region data transfer fees apply.

✅ AWS Partner Central now accepts SOC 2 Type II audit reports or AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) to complete the Foundational Technical Review (FTR) in minutes. The process uses AI-powered validation to provide immediate approval or actionable feedback, accelerating access to the qualified software badge, APN program eligibility, co-selling, and funding benefits. Partners with SOC 2 can submit third-party reports; those without can submit WAFR reports from the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The service provides specific AI-generated remediation steps when issues are found, and FTR is available to all partners for solutions deployed on AWS and with AWS Partner Revenue Measurement enabled.

🛠️ Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics, a unified console that combines CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights for integrated log querying, real-time streaming, and contributor identification. Users can run multiple queries in tabs, leverage patterns, saved queries with parameters, facets, natural language query generation, and visualizations. Live Tail and Contributor Insights are accessible within Log Analytics, which is the default experience, while opt-out users retain separate access to each feature. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses existing pricing for Logs Insights queries, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services announces a preview integration of Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Security teams can now subscribe to PANW protections directly from the DNS Firewall console and apply categories like Command and Control, Malware, and Phishing without deploying separate firewalls. The integration supports hybrid traffic, AWS multi-account management, centralized visibility via AWS Security Hub, and preview availability across multiple regions.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). ECS Express Mode lets developers rapidly launch containerized applications with AWS-managed domains, public or private HTTPS, and automatic scaling. It consolidates up to 25 services behind a single Application Load Balancer with rule-based routing while keeping all resources fully accessible in your account. Deployments can be performed via Console, SDK, CLI, CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform; you pay only for the AWS resources provisioned.