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🚀 Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. C7i delivers up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86-based Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance over C6i. Instances scale to 48xlarge and provide two bare-metal sizes with Intel accelerators, support Intel AMX, and allow up to 128 EBS volumes to better handle compute-intensive workloads.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, enabling dynamic provisioning and lifecycle management of persistent EBS volumes for machine learning workloads on HyperPod EKS clusters. Through standard Kubernetes persistent volume claims and storage classes, teams can create, attach, resize, snapshot, and encrypt volumes (including customer-managed KMS keys), and volumes persist across pod restarts and node replacements. Install the EBS CSI driver as an EKS add-on to get started; the capability is available in all regions where HyperPod EKS clusters are supported.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Custom Metrics, enabling developers and operators to define and visualize application-specific telemetry alongside standard health metrics such as fault rates, errors, and latency. You can ingest metrics directly with OpenTelemetry Metrics or derive them from spans using the OpenTelemetry Traces SDK and Metrics Filters. The Application Signals console offers correlated views in the Related Metrics tab, interactive visualization, and quick navigation to correlated spans, top contributors, and related logs. Custom Metrics support is available in all regions where Application Signals is offered; see documentation and CloudWatch pricing for details.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs now supports the new EC2 P5 instance size with a single NVIDIA H100 GPU, offering the P5.4xlarge configuration for cost‑effective ML and HPC workloads. The instance enables fine-grained scaling so customers can begin with smaller configurations and expand incrementally, improving cost management and infrastructure flexibility. P5.4xlarge is available via SageMaker Flexible Training Plans and in select regions through On‑Demand and Spot.

🌐 AWS App Runner now supports IPv6 for both inbound and outbound traffic on public and private service endpoints. This removes the need for IPv4/IPv6 address translation and helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements. You enable the capability by selecting the dual-stack option in the networking configuration for new or existing services. IPv6 support is available in all Regions where App Runner is offered.

🎨 Today AWS announced general availability of account color settings in the AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. Account administrators can assign a persistent color (for example, red for production or yellow for testing) that appears in the Console navigation bar for all authorized users, enabling quick visual identification of accounts. The default color is grey; viewing the color requires AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess or the custom permission uxc:getaccountcolor.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers a local device emulator to test verbatim circuits with device-specific constraints and realistic noise models before running on quantum hardware. The emulator validates qubit connectivity, native gate sets, and topology while applying depolarizing channels to one- and two-qubit gates using device calibration data and local density-matrix simulation. It supports both real-time and historical calibration snapshots and can be instantiated from AWS quantum devices or custom device properties via the Amazon Braket SDK, integrating into existing workflows so developers can catch compatibility and performance issues early without incurring hardware costs.

🔒 AWS Client VPN now supports secure remote access to IPv6-enabled VPC resources, allowing administrators to connect remote users and devices directly to IPv6 workloads. Administrators can deploy IPv6-only or dual-stack Client VPN endpoints to preserve end-to-end IPv6 connectivity and simplify network design for organizations adopting IPv6. This capability expands prior IPv4-only support and helps meet IPv6 adoption and compliance goals. The feature is generally available in all Client VPN regions except Middle East (Bahrain) and is provided at no additional cost, with IPv6 and dual-stack endpoints billed at the existing per-hour endpoint rate.

🚀 Amazon GameLift Streams now gives developers finer control over default applications for stream groups. You can create stream groups without assigning a default, change which linked application serves as the default, or unlink a default without deleting the group. The service console and APIs — including UpdateStreamGroup, AssociateApplications, and DisassociateApplications — have been updated to manage default application configurations.

🔒 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports an ECC384 Certificate Authority and two new ECDSA cipher suites for SSL and OEM Agent options on Oracle Database 19c and 21c. The added cipher suites — TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 — offer security comparable to RSA with shorter keys and lower CPU usage. To enable them, select rds-ca-ecc384-g1 as the CA for your DB instances and follow the documented steps to add SSL or modify OEM Agent settings.

🔄 You can now perform in-place minor Apache Airflow version downgrades on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). This feature lets administrators revert an MWAA environment to any other supported minor Airflow version without needing to recreate the environment. You can also launch new Airflow environments in all currently supported MWAA regions via the AWS Management Console with a few clicks. For details, see the Amazon MWAA documentation.

📢 AWS announced general availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Europe (Spain). The service automates application deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring so developers can focus on writing code. These region additions provide local access that can reduce latency, help address data-residency and compliance requirements, and broaden deployment options for customers in Southeast Asia and Spain. Customers can follow the Elastic Beanstalk developer guidance to begin deploying applications in the new regions.

🔊 Amazon Polly announces general availability of seven new highly expressive generative voices in English, French, Polish, and Dutch. The release introduces one male-sounding voice (Canadian French - Liam) and six female-sounding voices, including US English - Salli and Polish - Ola and Ewa, bringing the Generative TTS roster to 27 voices. These generative voices are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt), and leverage Polly’s GenAI-based polyglot capability to preserve a consistent vocal identity across languages.

🔗 AWS Transform for .NET now supports Azure DevOps repositories alongside GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. You can connect Azure DevOps repos directly to AWS Transform to discover, assess, and transform hundreds of repositories in parallel and run unit tests as part of the modernization workflow. Dependencies hosted in Azure Artifacts (NuGet) are resolved automatically during transformation, simplifying migration of .NET Framework applications to Linux-ready, cross-platform .NET while preserving Azure DevOps workflows.

🎬 Starting today, AWS Deadline Cloud supports running Maxon Cinema 4D and Redshift render jobs on Linux service-managed fleets. Previously limited to Windows-only service-managed fleets, the new Linux option reduces worker compute costs and lets teams provision and elastically scale rendering capacity automatically. Service-managed fleets can be configured in minutes and the feature is available in all regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

🔧 Amazon announces that Aurora DSQL now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to enable controlled resilience testing for applications that depend on Aurora DSQL. Customers can simulate regional connectivity disruptions and full inaccessibility to validate failover, reconnection, and recovery behaviours across single-Region and multi-Region deployments. Experiment templates can be included in CI pipelines and FIS generates detailed reports that can be stored in Amazon S3 for auditing and compliance. The capability is available in multiple AWS Regions.

📄 AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports custom validation rules for X12 EDI documents, allowing organizations to expand or modify the X12 ANSI standard to reflect trading-partner agreements. You can enforce element presence, length constraints, and allowed values while combining standard and custom checks. Validation results generate functional acknowledgments (997/999), emit EventBridge events, and include human-readable explanations stored with output files to support remediation workflows.

📣 Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice in five additional AWS Regions — Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London). The service integrates with other voice systems for real-time and post-call analytics, offering call recordings, contact transcripts, generative AI post-contact summaries, sensitive data redaction, contact categorization, theme detection, sentiment analysis, and real-time alerts. Customers can extend Contact Lens analytics across existing voice platforms, access interaction data streams and a data lake, or start with Contact Lens to evaluate performance before migrating agents.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs in the Middle East (UAE) Region, expanding cloud GPU capacity for graphics and ML workloads. G6 instances offer up to 8 L4 GPUs with 24 GB per GPU, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking, and up to 7.52 TB local NVMe storage. They are available via On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans and can be managed through the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs.

🔍 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Bring Your Own Knowledge Graph (BYOKG) support for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using the open-source GraphRAG Toolkit. Developers can now connect domain-specific graphs stored in Amazon Neptune (Database or Analytics) directly to LLM workflows, combining graph queries with vector search. This reduces hallucinations and improves multi-hop and temporal reasoning, easing operationalization of graph-aware generative AI.