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Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for Aurora Global Database

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support Aurora Global Database, enabling you to create a staging (green) environment that mirrors production (blue) across primary and all secondary regions. Perform a blue/green switchover to switch primary and secondary regions to the green environment with minimal downtime and no application configuration changes. Aurora automatically renames clusters, instances, and endpoints to preserve production connectivity. This capability covers Aurora MySQL‑ and PostgreSQL‑compatible editions in commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and is available via the Console, SDK, and CLI.

Amazon SageMaker Catalog Adds S3 Read/Write Access

📂 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, enabling data scientists and analysts to discover, process, and share unstructured data alongside structured datasets. Data publishers can grant read-only or read/write permissions when approving subscriptions or sharing S3 data, allowing processed outputs to be written back to the original bucket or folder. This feature is available in all Regions that support SageMaker Unified Studio and can be accessed via the studio UI, the Amazon DataZone API, SDK, or AWS CLI.

AWS IoT adds VPC Endpoints and IPv6 Connectivity Support

🔒 AWS has expanded AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender to support VPC endpoints via AWS PrivateLink and IPv6 for both VPC and public endpoints. Developers can route data plane operations, management APIs, and credential requests entirely within VPCs, keeping traffic off the public internet. Configuration is available through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and CloudFormation, and the features are GA in all Regions that offer these services.

AWS Lambda Announces General Availability of Rust Support

🚀 AWS has declared Rust support in AWS Lambda Generally Available, promoting the runtime out of its prior experimental status and making it suitable for production workloads. The GA release is backed by AWS Support and the Lambda SLA and is available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud (US) and China. Rust on Lambda delivers high performance, memory efficiency, and compile-time safety for serverless functions. Developers can now build business-critical serverless applications in Rust while leveraging Lambda's event integrations, fast scaling from zero, automatic patching, and usage-based pricing.

Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 Adds MongoDB 8.0 Compatibility

⚡ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0 adds support for MongoDB API drivers 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 while delivering up to 7x improved query latency and up to 5x better compression. The release introduces Planner Version3, new aggregation stages and operators, dictionary-based Zstandard compression, text index v2, and parallel vector index builds. Upgrades from 5.0 instance-based clusters are supported via AWS Database Migration Service, and DocumentDB 8.0 is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

AWS Network Firewall Now Available in Auckland Region

🔒 AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections across all Amazon VPCs. As a managed firewall service, it automatically scales with traffic volume and delivers high availability without requiring customers to provision or maintain infrastructure. It integrates with AWS Firewall Manager to provide centralized visibility and policy control across multiple AWS accounts, simplifying governance and enforcement.

Amazon EventBridge: Enhanced Visual Rule Builder Console

🔧 Amazon EventBridge introduces an enhanced visual rule builder that integrates a comprehensive event catalog with the EventBridge Schema Registry to simplify building event-driven applications. The schema-aware, console-based drag-and-drop canvas lets developers browse and subscribe to events with sample payloads and schemas, and visually construct filter patterns to reduce syntax errors. The feature is available today in all regions where the Schema Registry is launched and is accessible via the EventBridge console at standard usage charges.

Amazon SQS Adds IPv6 and FIPS 140-3 in GovCloud Regions

🔒 Amazon SQS now supports API requests over IPv6 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with the new endpoints validated under FIPS 140-3. Customers can choose IPv6 or IPv4 when sending requests over dual‑stack public or VPC endpoints. This update brings parity across Regions: Amazon SQS now supports IPv6 in AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions. Refer to the developer guide for configuration details.

Amazon RDS Adds Support for PostgreSQL Major Version 18

🚀 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 18.1, bringing community improvements to managed RDS instances. Key performance updates include skip scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, parallel GIN builds, and better OR/IN handling, while UUIDv7 adds ordered UUIDs for high-throughput systems. Observability and extension support are expanded, and upgrades can use Blue/Green, in-place, or snapshot restore options.

CIO100 & CSO30 ASEAN Awards Celebrate Tech Leadership

🏆 The CIO100 and CSO30 ASEAN and Hong Kong Awards Gala on November 12, 2025 validated the region's maturing technology leadership, drawing winners and teams from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. With a record 243 nominations, the program highlighted artificial intelligence as the defining strategic imperative reshaping operations, innovation and security. Judges prioritized clear, measurable business impact, recognizing cybersecurity leaders and collaborative public–private initiatives. Headline sponsor was AWS.

Amazon Inspector: 150,000 npm Packages in Token Farming

🔍 Amazon Inspector researchers identified and reported over 150,000 npm packages tied to a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign that automatically generated and published packages to harvest blockchain rewards. The team combined rule-based detection with AI and worked directly with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) to assign MAL‑IDs and submit packages for removal. The campaign caused registry pollution and reveals a new reward-driven supply chain abuse vector that can obscure legitimate software and consume infrastructure resources.

AWS Lambda Supports Java 25 for Serverless Applications

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports Java 25, using the latest long‑term support distribution from Amazon Corretto. The runtime is available as a managed runtime and as a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to each as they are released. The release introduces new language features and performance improvements, including Ahead‑of‑Time caches and adjusted tiered compilation defaults. Lambda Snap Start and Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java) support Java 25, and the runtime is available in all Regions, including GovCloud (US) and China.

AWS CloudFormation Hooks Add Granular Invocation Details

🔍 AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports granular invocation details, allowing hook authors to attach per-control findings, severity levels, and remediation guidance to their evaluation responses. The Hooks console displays these details at the individual control level within each invocation so developers can drill down from the summary to see which controls passed, failed, or were skipped. Available in all commercial and GovCloud (US) regions, this follow-up to the September 2025 Hooks Invocation Summary accelerates troubleshooting and streamlines compliance reporting with actionable, control-level insights.

Amazon EC2 I7i Instances Expand to Additional Regions

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 I7i Storage Optimized instances to AWS Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong). Powered by 5th‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd‑generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and notable storage-performance and latency improvements versus I4i. Available in eleven sizes, including bare metal, these instances are aimed at I/O‑intensive, latency‑sensitive workloads that require very high random IOPS and multi‑TB dataset access.

AWS Health Adds Multi-Region EventBridge Resilience

🔁 AWS Health now sends events simultaneously to the impacted AWS Region and US West (Oregon), enabling customers to create multi-region, redundant Amazon EventBridge rules or a simplified single-rule path that captures all commercial-partition Health events. US West (Oregon) serves as the backup for all commercial regions, with US East (N. Virginia) as the backup for US West. In China and AWS GovCloud the service delivers events to their respective paired regions. The update is available in all AWS regions.

Amazon EC2 I8g storage-optimized instances expand to EU/Asia

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon EC2 I8g storage-optimized instances generally available in Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Built on the AWS Nitro System and using third-generation Nitro SSDs, I8g delivers up to 65% better storage performance per TB, plus lower I/O latency and reduced latency variability versus I4g. The family spans up to 48xlarge and one metal size with up to 1.5 TiB memory, 45 TB local NVMe storage, and up to 100 Gbps network performance, targeting transactional databases, NoSQL, real-time analytics, and LLM pre-processing workloads.

Amazon Connect adds completion metrics for agent evaluations

📊 Amazon Connect now provides metrics that track completion of agent performance evaluations, helping managers verify that required reviews (for example, five per agent per month) are finished. The capability displays real-time analytics in the Connect UI and exposes the same signals via APIs for integration with reporting workflows. Teams can also compare scoring patterns across managers to identify evaluation consistency and accuracy improvements.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: New Minor Versions Available

🐘 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23; AWS recommends upgrading to address known security vulnerabilities and receive community bug fixes. The release adds the pgcollection extension for RDS PostgreSQL 15.15 and above (including 16.11 and 17.7), providing an ordered, efficient key-value collection type usable inside PostgreSQL functions to speed in-memory data processing. Extension updates include pg_tle 1.5.2 and H3_PG 4.2.3, and operators can use automatic minor version upgrades or Blue/Green deployments to minimize disruption during upgrades.

AWS IoT Core Adds Location Resolution for Sidewalk Devices

📡 AWS IoT Core Device Location now resolves approximate positions for Amazon Sidewalk-enabled devices using inputs such as WiFi access points, GNSS, and Bluetooth Low Energy. The service converts those inputs into geo-coordinates and delivers them to AWS IoT rules or MQTT topics to support asset tracking and geo-fencing without GPS hardware. To get started, install Sidewalk SDK v1.19 or later, provision devices in AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk, and enable location during provisioning. This capability is available in the AWS US-East (N. Virginia) Region; the Amazon Sidewalk network is available only in the United States.

AWS Transform Generates LZA Network Configurations

🔁 AWS now enables AWS Transform for VMware to automatically generate network configuration YAML files that are directly compatible with the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA). Building on Transform’s existing infrastructure-as-code outputs for AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform, the capability converts VMware network environments into LZA-ready YAML that can be imported into LZA’s deployment pipeline. The feature is available in all AWS Transform target Regions and is intended to reduce manual effort and deployment time while improving consistency across multi-account environments.