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🔒 AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that let administrators programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. The APIs automate critical workflows — including user lifecycle management, network creation and deletion, retention and federation policy pushes, and security group placement based on directory attributes — and integrate with identity systems, policy frameworks, and automation pipelines. They are available today in all supported AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-West), via AWS SDKs, the AWS CLI, or direct REST calls.

🔒 AWS Private CA now supports OCSP in China (Beijing, Ningxia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. The managed OCSP responder enables real-time, per-certificate revocation checks that typically use only a few hundred bytes per query instead of downloading large Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), reducing bandwidth and latency. Enable OCSP through the console, AWS CLI, or API; the responder is highly available and fully managed, removing the need to operate OCSP servers, and pricing details are available in the service documentation.

🔁 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch now introduces three new capabilities: general availability in AWS GovCloud (US‑East and US‑West), automatic plan execution reports saved to an Amazon S3 bucket, and support for Amazon DocumentDB global cluster execution blocks. Execution reports include a detailed timeline, resources in scope, alarm states, and RTO calculations to simplify compliance and audit evidence. The DocumentDB execution blocks enable automated multi‑Region failover and switchover operations within Region switch plans. Build and run plans from the ARC console, API, or CLI to begin using these features.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025, enabling customers to launch streaming instances powered by the newest server OS. The update delivers improved security, performance, and modern platform capabilities, and allows administrators to provide a Windows 11-style desktop experience to end users. Images are available as AWS public images or can be customized with Image Builder, and support is generally available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔁 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now provides a restart API for both InfluxDB 2 and InfluxDB 3, enabling customers to trigger instance restarts via the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI. The capability supports resilience testing and direct remediation of health-related issues without requiring support intervention. It is designed to give DevOps teams greater operational flexibility for mission-critical time-series workloads and is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔖 AWS now supports using AWS Organizations account tags across its cost management products. Account tags applied at the organization level automatically flow to all metered usage in tagged accounts, removing the need to maintain separate account lists in Cost Explorer, CUR 2.0/FOCUS, AWS Budgets, and Cost Categories. This also enables allocation for untaggable items like refunds, credits, and certain service charges. To enable, add tags in the AWS Organizations console and activate them on the Cost Allocation Tags page in Billing. The feature is generally available in all Regions except GovCloud (US) and China (Beijing/Ningxia).

🔁 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) can now automatically create repositories when images are pushed, removing the need to pre-create repositories before a push. Repository creation follows organization-defined repository creation templates, enabling consistent naming and default settings at creation. The create-on-push capability is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🖥️ Amazon Redshift's ODBC 2.x driver now provides native support for Apple macOS, enabling developers and analysts to connect to Redshift clusters from macOS using third-party SQL clients and applications. The native driver exposes Redshift capabilities such as data sharing write and Amazon IAM Identity Center integration that are available only through Redshift drivers. This update streamlines integration with ETL and BI tools on macOS, and Amazon recommends upgrading to the latest ODBC 2.x driver and consulting the driver documentation for installation and system requirements.

🔍 AWS IoT now supports event-based logging to help developers reduce Amazon CloudWatch costs and streamline log management. The feature enables targeted, per-event logging with customizable log levels and configurable Amazon CloudWatch log group destinations, allowing teams to retain verbose logs only for high-value events. Event-level settings are configurable via the console, CLI, and API and are available in all Regions where AWS IoT is supported.

🔁 AWS Glue zero-ETL now supports ongoing replication from self-managed Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases into Amazon Redshift in seven additional AWS Regions. The no-code integration automatically creates and manages an ongoing replication pipeline, removing much of the setup and configuration complexity. This capability reduces operational burden and can save weeks of engineering effort for teams migrating or consolidating data into Redshift. Newly added regions include Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, London, São Paulo, and US (Virginia).

🔁 Amazon EC2 now accepts Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) as a parameter in its APIs, enabling creation and management of instances, volumes, subnets and other resources using consistent, static zone identifiers. AZ IDs map to the same physical location across all AWS accounts, removing the need to reconcile per-account AZ names. This capability covers launch templates, fleets, reserved instances, volumes, capacity reservations, VPC endpoints, network interfaces, fast snapshot restore, instance connect and more, and is available in all regions including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL community releases 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. The update combines upstream community bug fixes and product improvements with Aurora-specific optimizations, including faster Blue/Green deployment switchovers and enhancements to Query Plan Management (QPM). These engine versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be deployed or used to upgrade existing clusters via the Amazon RDS console.

🐧 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleet, enabling Independent Software Vendors and central IT to stream Ubuntu desktop applications from an AWS-managed, serverless pool. Elastic fleet removes the need for capacity planning, scaling policies, or image creation. Administrators can enable the feature via the WorkSpaces Applications console and choose supported AWS Regions; pricing is pay-as-you-go.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Spain) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors running up to 4.5 GHz, C8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, plus 33% greater memory bandwidth. Available in 12 sizes (including two bare-metal options), they target high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads and support Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot purchasing.

🔔 Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, enabling customers to run fault-tolerant container workloads on spare capacity at discounts up to 90% versus On‑Demand. The fully managed compute option continues to provision, configure, and operate EC2 instances in your account while AWS handles scaling and placement optimization. You set task requirements and choose capacityOptionType as spot or on-demand in the Managed Instances capacity provider. Spot support is available in all Regions where Managed Instances is offered; management fees apply in addition to Spot instance costs.

🌐 Amazon MSK Connect now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for new connectors on MSK Connect, allowing customers to create connectors that use both protocols. Connectors can be created with dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by setting the Network Type parameter. New connectors default to IPv4-only unless explicitly configured for dual-stack, and existing connectors remain IPv4 and must be deleted and recreated to change. The feature is available in all Regions where MSK Connect is offered and incurs no additional charge.

🌐 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6 for WorkSpaces domains and external endpoints, enabling IPv4/IPv6 dual‑stack connectivity from compatible clients while excluding SAML authentication over IPv6. Dual‑stack reduces the need for address translation hardware, simplifies IP management, and supports PrivateLink VPC endpoints over IPv6 for private access. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud, at no additional cost; administrators must use the latest WorkSpaces clients to enable IPv6.

📦 AWS IoT Core now supports batching multiple device messages into a single HTTP rule action before routing to downstream HTTP endpoints. This reduces per-request overhead and can lower ingress cost and throughput demand for telemetry-heavy IoT workloads. Configure batch parameters on your HTTP rule action and AWS IoT Core will group incoming messages according to those settings. The capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and Amazon China Regions.

📣 AWS Lambda now offers durable functions in 14 additional Regions, enabling developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows closer to users and data. Durable functions add primitives such as "steps" and "waits" to checkpoint progress, recover from failures, and pause execution without incurring compute charges for on-demand functions. Activation is available for new Python (3.13, 3.14) and Node.js (22, 24) functions via the API, Console, SDK, or Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation, SAM, and CDK.

🚀 Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region on engine versions 1.4.5.0 and later. You can create Neptune clusters using a broad set of instance types, including R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3. Neptune is a fully managed graph database that supports Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, and SPARQL, and provides enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation. Clusters can be provisioned via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or CloudFormation.