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🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB serverless databases are now accessible directly from v0 by Vercel, letting developers build full-stack applications and connect to AWS databases using natural language prompts. v0 provides an end-to-end setup experience to create or link AWS accounts, with new accounts receiving access to all three databases and $100 USD in credits. Serverless options scale to zero and are available in seven AWS Regions, reducing operational overhead for prototypes and production AI-driven applications.

🔔 Amazon Connect now delivers agent scheduling metrics directly into the Connect analytics data lake, making interval-level (15- or 30-minute) schedule data available for analysis. You can access forecasted headcount, scheduled headcount, and projected service level aggregated by forecast groups or broken down by demand groups. The data can be visualized in Amazon QuickSight or other BI tools to identify over- and under-staffing and reduce manual schedule reviews.

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, a new family of memory-optimized instances built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. X8i offers up to 43% higher overall performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6 TB) and 3.4x greater memory bandwidth compared to prior X2i instances. Designed for SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA, X8i is SAP-certified and available in 14 sizes including two bare-metal options. Instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Frankfurt) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand or Spot.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server GDR updates for 2016 SP3, 2017 CU31, 2019 CU32 and 2022 CU22 (RDS versions 13.00.6475.1.v1, 14.00.3515.1.v1, 15.00.4455.2.1.v1, 16.00.4225.2.1.v1). These GDRs address vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2025-59499. We recommend upgrading instances via the Amazon RDS Console, SDK, or CLI and consult the RDS SQL Server upgrade guide to plan and apply the updates.

🔁 AWS Lambda now supports cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams event-source mappings, enabling streams in one account to trigger Lambda functions in another. By attaching a resource-based policy to a DynamoDB stream, owners can grant functions in other accounts permission to consume change events without replicating data. The capability is generally available across AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and can be configured via the Console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, or APIs. This reduces operational overhead and simplifies multi-account event-driven architectures.

⚠️ A critical CodeBuild misconfiguration discovered by Wiz Research allowed untrusted pull requests to run privileged builds, enabling potential injection of malicious code into core AWS repositories—including the AWS SDK for JavaScript that underpins the AWS Console. The flaw was an unanchored regex in an ACTOR_ID webhook filter that let attacker-controlled GitHub IDs bypass restrictions and access credentials stored in build memory. AWS patched the issue within 48 hours, revoked exposed credentials, added protections to block memory-based credential theft and introduced a Pull Request Comment Approval build gate. Wiz advises blocking untrusted PRs, using fine‑grained tokens and anchoring webhook regexes.

🔒 Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates, enabling SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR (KB5068404) and SQL Server 2022 CU21+GDR (KB5068406) on managed instances. These releases correspond to RDS builds 15.00.4455.2.1.v1 and 16.00.4222.2.1.v1 and address vulnerabilities referenced by CVE-2025-59499. We recommend that you upgrade affected RDS Custom instances using the Amazon RDS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI and consult the Amazon RDS Custom User Guide for upgrade procedures. Before applying updates in production, review release notes and test the patches in non-production environments to validate application compatibility and backups.

🔧 Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces queue-based query resource management. You can create dedicated query queues with customized monitoring rules and metrics-based predicates to control workload behavior, including automated responses such as aborting long-running or resource-heavy queries. Queues are assignable to user roles and query groups and operate independently, replacing prior workgroup-wide QMR. The feature is available in all regions that support Redshift Serverless and can be managed via the AWS Console and Redshift APIs.

📦 Amazon EBS now permits up to four Elastic Volumes modifications per volume within a rolling 24-hour window. Elastic Volumes lets you increase size, change volume type, and adjust performance without detaching volumes or restarting instances, and you may start a new modification immediately after the previous one completes so long as fewer than four modifications were initiated in the prior 24 hours. This capability is automatically enabled in all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and China Regions.

📊 AWS Data Exports now surfaces granular operation types for Amazon Bedrock in cost reports, replacing generic "Usage" labels with explicit operations such as InvokeModelInference and InvokeModelStreamingInference. These operation values appear in the line_item_operation column for Legacy CUR and CUR 2.0, the x_Operation column in FOCUS exports, and as Operation dimension values in the AWS Cost Explorer API. The change applies to all foundation models on Bedrock and is intended to help FinOps and cost optimization teams analyze and optimize model-driven spend.

📊 AWS Data Exports now surfaces granular Amazon Bedrock operation types in billing outputs, replacing generic "Usage" labels with explicit actions such as InvokeModelInference and InvokeModelStreamingInference. These operation values appear in Legacy CUR and CUR 2.0 via the line_item_operation column, in FOCUS exports via x_Operation, and as Operation dimension values in the Cost Explorer API. The visibility applies across all Bedrock foundation models and is intended to help FinOps and cost optimization teams perform more precise usage tracking and billing analysis.

🟦Amazon has expanded VPC Route Server to 16 additional AWS Regions, bringing total availability to 30 regions worldwide. The service lets virtual appliances advertise routes using BGP and dynamically update VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateways. This expansion broadens deployment choices and helps customers apply consistent dynamic routing across more geographies. It simplifies management of virtual appliances and supports scalable, resilient network architectures.

🌐 Amazon VPC Route Server is now available in 16 additional AWS Regions, bringing total availability to 30 regions. The service simplifies dynamic routing between virtual appliances by letting those appliances advertise routes via BGP and automatically update VPC route tables for subnets and internet gateways. This expansion broadens regional deployment choices for customers using third-party virtual network appliances and streamlines multi-region and hybrid routing architectures.

🔒 AWS Transform custom now supports AWS PrivateLink and is available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region in addition to US East (N. Virginia). The service automates repetitive code transformation tasks—language version upgrades, API migrations, and framework updates—using natural language, documentation, and code samples or AWS-managed transformations for Java, Python, and Node.js. With PrivateLink, customers can invoke Transform custom from an Amazon VPC without routing traffic over the public internet, helping address security and compliance requirements while enabling consistent, repeatable changes across large codebases.

🔒 Amazon VPC IPAM now supports centrally managed IP allocation policies for RDS instances and ALB resources, enabling administrators to enforce public IP assignment rules. The policies cover RDS, Application Load Balancers, NAT Gateways in regional mode, and Elastic IPs and cannot be overridden by application teams, improving compliance. Available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, the capability is offered in both IPAM Free and Advanced tiers; the Advanced tier supports cross-account and cross-region policy application.

📶 AWS IoT Device Management now offers Wi‑Fi Simple Setup (WSS) through its managed integrations feature. Developers can add QR code scanning so end users provision Wi‑Fi devices with a barcode scan, reducing manual configuration and support needs. WSS lets users store credentials in managed integrations; a new device scans a QR code, joins a hidden network broadcast by the IoT hub, and receives credentials securely for near zero‑touch onboarding. The feature is available in Canada (Central) and Europe (Ireland).

🔐 Amazon Bedrock now supports API keys in AWS GovCloud (US), extending the capability first introduced in commercial regions in July 2025. Developers can create short-term API keys (valid for the console session or up to 12 hours) and long-term keys with configurable lifetimes. Long-term keys are manageable through the AWS IAM console, reducing the need to manually configure IAM principals and policies and streamlining generative AI development.

📅 Amazon Connect adds a visual calendar and recurring hours-of-operation overrides to simplify scheduling for holidays, maintenance windows, and promotional periods. Administrators can create weekly, monthly, or every-other-Friday overrides that automatically take effect and revert without manual changes. The feature supports public APIs and AWS CloudFormation and is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🧾 AWS has updated the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console Payments page to provide much faster performance, improved data accuracy, and simplified payment reconciliation. Pages now load in milliseconds rather than minutes, allowing customers with tens of thousands of transactions to access complete histories without timeouts. The enhanced view adds consolidated balance tracking, clear transaction status indicators, advanced filtering, and a Usage Consolidation Account column to help track Billing Transfer activity across accounts.

🔔 Amazon Neptune now supports Graviton3-based R7g and Graviton4-based R8g instances in new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Singapore), Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). R7g introduces the first DDR5-equipped AWS database instances with up to 30 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 20 Gbps to Amazon EBS, while R8g offers larger sizes (up to 48xlarge) and an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. Graviton4 delivers up to 40% faster database performance versus Graviton3, and both families are priced about 16% lower than R6g. Customers can launch or upgrade via the AWS Management Console or CLI for Neptune engine versions 1.4.5 and above.