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🌐 AWS Directory Service now supports IPv6 connectivity for both Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector, allowing deployments in IPv4-only, IPv6-only, or dual-stack configurations. This capability is available in all Directory Service regions and accessible via the Console, CLI, and API. Customers can upgrade existing IPv4-only directories to dual-stack by enabling IPv6 in VPC subnets and adding IPv6 support through the Directory Service Management Console. The update helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, including U.S. federal IPv6 transition mandates, while reducing operational complexity associated with maintaining dual protocol stacks.

🔁 AWS now lets customers upgrade Managed Microsoft AD from Standard to Enterprise Edition programmatically using the UpdateDirectorySetup API. The self-service workflow removes the need to open support tickets and automates pre-upgrade snapshots and sequential domain controller upgrades to preserve availability. Edition upgrades are available via the AWS SDK in all Directory Service regions and can be integrated with existing automation and infrastructure-as-code pipelines for on-demand scaling.

🎥 Amazon Connect now supports agent screen recording for ChromeOS devices, enabling supervisors and quality teams to capture agents' on-screen activity while handling voice calls, chats, and tasks. The capability complements audio recordings and chat transcripts to surface coaching opportunities and identify process non‑compliance. Screen recording is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect operates. Refer to documentation and the pricing page for technical and billing details.

🔒 In September, attackers used stolen maintainer credentials to inject malicious payloads into widely used npm packages such as chalk and debug, followed by the self‑propagating Shai‑Hulud worm that harvested npm tokens, GitHub PATs, and cloud credentials. The compromised packages and postinstall scripts allowed silent interception of cryptocurrency activity and automated propagation across developer environments. AWS recommends immediate actions: audit dependencies, rotate secrets, inspect CI/CD pipelines for unauthorized workflows or injected scripts, and use Amazon Inspector to detect malicious packages and share validated intelligence with OpenSSF.

🔒 AWS has expanded AWS Direct Connect capacity at the ePLDT data center near Makati City, Philippines, adding 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections with MACsec encryption. Customers at this Direct Connect location can establish private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. The update delivers higher throughput and enhanced in‑flight protection for hybrid and colocated workloads, improving performance and security compared with internet-based connectivity.

📞 Amazon Connect now supports Get Customer Input and Store Customer Input flow blocks for outbound voice whisper flows. The Get Customer Input block plays a prompt after a customer answers but before the agent connects, capturing responses via DTMF or an Amazon Lex bot. Use cases include obtaining consent for call recording and triggering Contact Lens recording and analytics. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

🔒 Amazon Cognito now lets customers configure terms of use and privacy policy document URLs directly in Managed Login pages so legal notices are presented during user registration without custom coding. You can assign URLs per app client and provide language-specific links tied to the lang query-parameter for localized experiences. This simplifies implementation, reduces development effort, and is available to Essentials and Plus tier customers, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔐 AWS now lets individuals create an AWS Builder ID using Sign in with Google, enabling one-click access to AWS applications such as Kiro, AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, re:Post, and AWS Startups. This personal profile remains separate from AWS account credentials and persists across a user's education and career. The integration simplifies registration, reduces password friction, and streamlines returning-user sign-in.

🔍 Today, Amazon GameLift Servers added console capabilities to view and connect to individual fleet instances directly from the EC2 and Container Fleet Detail pages. A new Instances tab lists associated hosts and each instance has a details page presenting human-readable metadata (also available via GameLift Server APIs). From the list or detail view you can press a Connect button to open a modal and launch AWS CloudShell to start an SSM session into the instance, enabling hands-on inspection, log retrieval, and faster diagnosis of network and health issues.

🚀 The open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server is now available for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a standardized interface that enables developers to analyze, transform, and deploy production-ready AI agents within their preferred development environments. The release includes one-click installation and integrates with agentic IDEs like Kiro and AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, and the Amazon Q Developer CLI. Developers can use natural language to iteratively build agents, convert agent logic to the AgentCore SDK, and deploy into development accounts. Documentation and installation instructions are published in the MCP Server GitHub repository, with additional implementation guidance and pricing details available in the AgentCore documentation and pricing resources.

🚀 Amazon Neptune now integrates with GraphStorm, enabling developers to deploy graph neural network models for real-time inference directly against transactional graph data. Trained GNNs can query Neptune for subgraph neighborhoods on demand and return predictions such as node classification or link prediction in sub-second timeframes. This supports use cases like fraud detection, dynamic recommendations, and continuous risk scoring while combining inference with analytics.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink with all Secrets Manager Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints available in commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch you can establish a private connection between your VPC and Secrets Manager FIPS endpoints instead of connecting over the public internet. This capability helps organizations meet compliance and regulatory requirements that limit public internet connectivity.

🔔 AWS has expanded AWS Config advanced queries and configuration aggregators to the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. Advanced queries provide a single query endpoint and a query language to retrieve current resource configuration and compliance state without issuing service-specific describe API calls. Aggregators enable centralized visibility by collecting configuration and compliance data from multiple accounts and Regions or across an AWS Organization. These capabilities are accessible from the AWS Console and AWS CLI and, with this expansion, are now available in all supported regions.

🔧 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports over 60 additional Slurm configuration parameters, giving administrators finer control of job scheduling, resource allocation, access permissions, and job lifecycle behavior. New options include queue-specific priority policies, preemption rules, custom time and resource limits, and account-level access controls. Per-job execution behaviors and QoS tuning help run multi-team production HPC environments more efficiently. The expanded settings are available in all AWS PCS regions.

🔁 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports rebooting compute nodes using Slurm commands without triggering instance replacement. You can use the scontrol reboot command with options for immediate or deferred reboots to troubleshoot, perform resource cleanup, or recover from degraded states. This capability is available in all PCS-supported AWS Regions and helps teams maintain cluster health more efficiently while reducing costs associated with unnecessary instance replacements.

🔎 The Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) console now offers one-click event capture and an integrated event history query interface. With a single click the console configures underlying EventBridge rules and CloudWatch log groups and provides pre-built query templates and filters for time range, task ID, deployment ID, stop codes, and exit codes. Available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔧 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now lets you change key Slurm workload manager settings on live clusters without rebuilding them. Administrators can update accounting and workload management parameters via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. This change reduces operational disruption and enables faster adaptation to evolving HPC requirements. Changes are available in all regions where AWS PCS is offered.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports data access budgets for tables in a collaboration, letting data owners limit how often their data can be analyzed for custom ML training, inference, SQL queries, or PySpark jobs. Administrators can set daily, weekly, or monthly refresh budgets, lifetime caps, or both; once a budget is exhausted the system blocks further analyses until the budget refreshes. Budgets may be edited or reset at any time to suit changing needs. This privacy control reduces unintended data exposure while maintaining collaborative analysis.

📡 Amazon GameLift Streams now supports IPv6 for streaming applications hosted on Windows-based stream groups, enabling dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for streamed Windows applications. This enhancement gives customers additional addressing options and helps meet IPv6 compliance requirements while preserving compatibility with existing IPv4 deployments. Note that Linux runtime applications will continue to require IPv4 for streaming; the capability is available in all AWS Regions where GameLift Streams is offered.

🌐 Amazon Keyspaces now supports IPv6 through new dual-stack endpoints that accept both IPv6 and IPv4 connections, expanding available address space while preserving compatibility with existing IPv4 applications. The enhancement enables gradual migration strategies for critical database services and reduces disruption during transition. IPv6 access is also supported via PrivateLink interface VPC endpoints for private connectivity without traversing the public internet. This capability is available now in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Keyspaces is offered, at no additional cost.