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⚙️AWS has made the enhanced AWS Security Hub generally available, adding automation features to centralize and accelerate handling of security findings across accounts and Regions. The update integrates Security Hub CSPM into detection engines and provides real-time risk analytics, automated correlation, and enriched context to prioritize critical issues. Automation rules and integrations with EventBridge, Lambda, and ITSM tools like ServiceNow enable remediation, routing, and evidence collection to reduce manual triage and support compliance.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now offers Extended Support minor releases 12.22-rds.20251114 and 11.22-rds.20251114, which include critical security and bug fixes addressing vulnerabilities present in earlier versions. We recommend upgrading to these releases to reduce exposure and maintain supportability after community maintenance ends. Extended Support provides up to three additional years of critical fixes after a major version’s standard support expiry, giving teams more time to plan major upgrades. These updates are available in all commercial and government regions and can be applied automatically via automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance windows.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code named Turin) and deliver the highest maximum CPU frequency in the cloud — 5 GHz. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, X8aedz targets EDA workloads and relational databases that need high single-thread performance and large memory capacity, pairing 5 GHz CPUs with local NVMe for faster memory-intensive processing.

🚀 Amazon has made MSK Connect available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). MSK Connect provides fully managed Kafka Connect clusters to deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK and external systems. The service supports both Amazon MSK-managed and self-managed Kafka clusters, scales automatically, and uses a pay-for-what-you-use model. With this launch, MSK Connect is now available in 38 AWS Regions.

🗣️ Amazon Web Services announced an update to Amazon Lex that adds a neural automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for English locales. The model, trained on data from multiple English-speaking regions, better recognizes conversational speech, non-native speakers, and regional accents, reducing repeated prompts and improving self-service success. Administrators can enable the capability by selecting the "Neural" option in a bot's locale speech recognition settings. The feature is available across all AWS commercial regions that support Amazon Connect and Lex.

🔒 AWS added two services — AWS Security Incident Response and AWS Transform — and the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region to its PCI DSS certification scope. The updated PCI DSS package includes an Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and an AWS Responsibility Summary, both validated by Coalfire. Customers can retrieve the package in AWS Artifact, and AWS also published the PCI report package in NIST OSCAL JSON to enable machine-readable, automated compliance workflows.

🧭 The Amazon SageMaker HyperPod console now validates AWS service quotas for your account before initiating cluster creation. The console automatically compares your requested cluster configuration—instance types, EBS volume sizes, and VPC-related resources—against account-level quotas and presents a clear table of expected utilization, applied quota values, and compliance status. If validation detects potential quota shortfalls, it issues a warning and provides direct links to the Service Quotas console so you can request increases before provisioning begins.

🔊 Amazon Lex now offers three configurable voice activity detection (VAD) sensitivity levels—Default, High, and Maximum—that can be set per bot locale. The Default setting suits typical background noise, High targets consistently moderate noise such as busy offices or retail spaces, and Maximum is designed for very noisy environments like manufacturing floors or outdoor locations. You configure VAD sensitivity when creating or updating a bot locale in the Amazon Connect Conversational AI designer, and the feature is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Connect and Lex operate.

🎥 Amazon Connect now publishes agent screen recording status to CloudWatch via Amazon EventBridge. Customers can subscribe to the Screen Recording Status Changed event to receive near‑real‑time updates on recording success or failure, failure codes and descriptions, client and browser versions, OS, and start/end timestamps. This enables supervisors to correlate recordings with calls, chats, or tasks for coaching and compliance reviews. The feature is available in all Regions where Amazon Connect operates.

🚀 Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, enabling organizations to run and scale analytics without provisioning or managing clusters. The service automatically provisions and scales compute, supports direct queries of open formats like Apache Parquet and Apache Iceberg in Amazon S3, and integrates with Query Editor V2 and common BI tools. Billing is per-second for compute, with unified billing across data sources, and users can restore provisioned snapshots or use data shares to access datasets.

🔍 Amazon Inspector now supports Java Gradle dependency inventory and vulnerability scanning for Lambda functions and ECR images, using gradle.lockfile content to build Java dependency inventories. The release also adds detection for MySQL, MariaDB, PHP, Jenkins-core, 7zip (Windows), Elasticsearch, and Curl/LibCurl. These enhancements improve detection of packages installed outside package managers, broadening coverage across languages and runtimes and helping teams reduce blind spots. The new capabilities are available today in all AWS Regions where Amazon Inspector is offered.

🆕 Amazon Lightsail now offers two larger managed database bundles with up to 8 vCPUs, 32 GB memory, and 960 GB SSD storage. The new bundles are offered in both standard and high‑availability plans and support managed MySQL and PostgreSQL engines. They target production workloads and data‑intensive applications—such as e‑commerce, content management systems, business intelligence, and SaaS—by delivering increased storage and processing capacity. These sizes are available in all AWS Regions where Lightsail is provided.

🔍 Amazon EMR Serverless now supports job run-level cost allocation, enabling organizations to attribute charges to individual job runs rather than only at the application level. You can filter and analyze costs by job run IDs and cost allocation tags in AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports to get finer-grained visibility. This makes it easier to track costs by domain, run per-job benchmarks, and target cost optimizations more precisely.

🏆 AWS was named a Leader in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens Quadrant report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU). ISG evaluated 19 providers and rated AWS highest on portfolio attractiveness while also assessing strong competitive strength. The report highlights AWS’s sovereign-by-design architecture, data residency controls, granular access restrictions, encryption, and resilience. It emphasizes regional independence and resilience to meet European digital sovereignty and compliance needs.

🔐 CrowdStrike will acquire identity security startup SGNL for $740 million to add real-time, risk-aware authorization that grants or revokes access based on current signals rather than static permissions. The deal, expected to close in CrowdStrike’s fiscal Q1 ending April 30, will be paid mostly in cash with some stock subject to vesting. SGNL’s technology layers with existing identity systems from Okta, Microsoft, and AWS, evaluating contextual signals — user behavior, device posture, and threat intelligence — to enforce continuous authorization and address rising machine-identity and AI-agent risks.

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports certificate-based authentication for RabbitMQ brokers using mutual TLS (mTLS). The new capability lets brokers running RabbitMQ 4.2 and later use the auth_mechanism_ssl plugin, configured via the broker's configuration file. To enable it, create a new RabbitMQ 4.2 broker (M7g instance type) and update the configuration; the feature is available in all regions where Amazon MQ RabbitMQ 4 instances are offered.

🗺️ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region, allowing teams to run document workloads closer to users. The fully managed JSON database provides automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB and supports millions of requests per second with fast scaling to 15 low‑latency read replicas and no application downtime. It integrates with AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda and AWS Backup, and clusters can be created via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK to streamline migration and operations.

🚀 AWS has made Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Hyderabad) and Europe (Paris). These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. Compared with R7i, they offer roughly 20% higher performance with larger gains for specific workloads (up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX, 40% for AI recommendation models). R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes (large to 16xlarge) while R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal SKUs and a new 96xlarge; the family is SAP-certified.

🤖 Amazon Quick now supports invoking third‑party AI agents from Box, Canva, and PagerDuty, enabling chat and automation tasks—such as querying documents, generating presentations, and extracting incident insights—directly within the Quick workspace. Quick has also expanded its built‑in actions to include integrations with GitHub, Notion, Linear, Hugging Face, Monday.com, HubSpot, Intercom, and more, allowing users to create issues, summarize notes, and manage CRM workflows without switching apps. Customers can further connect thousands of additional applications using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and OpenAPI connectors. These features are available in all AWS Regions where Quick is offered.

🤖 Amazon Quick now supports invoking specialized third-party agents (Box, Canva, PagerDuty) and expands its built-in actions library with integrations for GitHub, Notion, Canva, Box, Linear, Hugging Face, Monday.com, HubSpot, and Intercom. Users can run agentic tasks—pull incident insights, generate presentations, or query documents—directly from a single workspace. Quick also continues to support custom MCP and OpenAPI connectors for broader application connectivity. These features are available in all regions where Amazon Quick is offered.