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🚀 AWS has announced the general availability of Elastic Beanstalk in five additional regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand) (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Zurich). The managed application platform automates deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring. This expansion gives developers more regional choices for lower latency and data residency compliance. Customers should verify regional service availability and update deployment configurations as needed.

🔍 AWS Systems Manager Configuration Manager can now automatically test SAP ABAP applications on AWS against best practices defined in the AWS Well-Architected Framework SAP Lens. Customers can schedule assessments or run checks on demand for SAP HANA and ABAP workloads. The service identifies misconfigurations and provides concrete remediation steps. SSM for SAP Configuration Manager is available in Regions where SSMSAP is offered.

🔒 The AWS European Sovereign Cloud introduces the Sovereign Reference Framework (ESC-SRF), an independently validated set of governance, technical, and operational controls to address strict European sovereignty requirements. The ESC-SRF aligns criteria such as governance independence, data residency, and technical isolation to concrete controls and will be available through AWS Artifact. Customers and partners can use the framework as an assurance model or adapt it to design their own sovereignty controls.

🚀 Amazon Aurora DSQL now provisions clusters in seconds, cutting setup time from minutes to near-instant. Developers can immediately use the integrated query editor in the AWS Console to prototype or build without configuring external clients or connecting through the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The change supports both prototyping and production workloads while preserving Aurora DSQL’s scalability, active-active high availability, zero infrastructure management, and pay-for-what-you-use pricing. The enhancement is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is accessible via the AWS Free Tier.

🔒 Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now includes Web Content Filtering, allowing administrators to define granular access policies, block specific URLs or entire domain categories using 25+ predefined categories, and integrate with Session Logger for enhanced monitoring and compliance. While existing Chrome policies remain supported, this category-based approach delivers richer control, improved logging, and centralized policy management. The feature is available at no additional cost in 10 AWS Regions and supports pay-as-you-go pricing, with console enablement and automatic migration of URL blocklists and allowlists.

🤖 Microsoft announced a significant set of Azure Storage updates at Ignite 2025 and KubeCon to accelerate AI workloads, cloud-native applications, and migrations. Azure Blob Storage now targets exabyte-scale capacity and multi-tens of Tbps throughput, while Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS 20 preview) offers 25 PiB namespaces, 512 GBps and HSM with auto-import/export. Additional enhancements — Premium Blob, Smart Tier, Azure Elastic SAN auto-scaling, Ultra Disk latency and cost improvements, Storage Discovery and Copilot, and expanded migration tooling — focus on low-latency inferencing, continuous GPU feeding for training, operational elasticity, and simplified data migrations.

🚀 AWS announces integration of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition with Kiro powers, enabling agent-assisted database development using prepackaged MCP servers, steering files, and hooks. The Aurora PostgreSQL power bundles data plane (queries, schema) and control plane (cluster creation) capabilities with targeted best-practice guidance. Available via Kiro IDE and the Kiro powers catalog for one-click installation across AWS Regions.

🔒Amazon Cognito identity pools now support AWS PrivateLink, enabling private connectivity between your VPC and Cognito to exchange federated identities for temporary AWS credentials. This removes the need to route authentication traffic over the public internet and reduces exposure of auth flows. PrivateLink endpoints are available in all Regions where Cognito identity pools operate except AWS China (Beijing) and AWS GovCloud (US); standard PrivateLink charges apply.

🌐 AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) now supports IPv6 for both service communication and application migrations. Organizations can use dual-stack service endpoints that handle IPv4 and IPv6, replicate data over either protocol, and preserve network connections and security during migration. During testing and cutover you can launch target servers in IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack configurations. This capability is available in Regions that support AWS MGN and Amazon EC2 dual-stack endpoints.

🔔 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of its High Memory U7i instances to additional regions: Frankfurt now supports the 24TiB u7in-24tb.224xlarge, Mumbai supports the 16TiB u7in-16tb.224xlarge, and Paris supports the 6TiB u7i-6tb.112xlarge. These instances use custom 4th‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, offering up to 896 vCPUs, up to 200Gbps networking, 100Gbps EBS throughput, and ENA Express. They target mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Storage Optimized EC2 I7i instances available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Jakarta) and Europe (Stockholm). Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (3.2 GHz all‑core turbo) and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and over 10% improved price performance versus I4i, plus up to 45 TB NVMe with significant gains in real‑time storage performance and lower latency. The family spans eleven sizes (nine virtual up to 48xlarge, two bare metal), offers up to 100 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and includes a torn write prevention feature supporting 16 KB block sizes.

🔔 Starting today, AWS has made C7i EC2 instances available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. These instances use custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i, with sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare-metal options. Features include Intel AMX support, built-in accelerators and the ability to attach up to 128 EBS volumes to scale and speed compute-intensive workloads.

🔒 AWS reiterates its commitment to raising cybersecurity standards across the European Union, positioning security as a core responsibility across its global operations. The post explains how AWS supports customers in meeting the NIS 2 Directive (EU 2022/2555) and related Implementing Regulation (EU 2024/2690) through services, audited controls, and guidance. It highlights certifications, regional accreditations, and tools—such as AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail—that help entities meet governance, incident reporting, and resilience obligations. The blog also describes AWS collaboration with national authorities and programs that provide templates, training, and operational engagement to improve readiness and compliance.

🔒 Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports the WATCH command for same-slot transactions, allowing applications to make transactions conditional on watched keys remaining unchanged. If applications attempt to watch keys that are not in the same hash slot they receive a CROSSSLOT error; developers can use hash tags to force co-location. Transactions will be aborted when ElastiCache Serverless cannot guarantee the state of watched keys. WATCH support is available now in all regions where ElastiCache Serverless is offered at no additional cost; use your preferred client library to begin creating transactions.

🚀 Amazon CloudWatch's SDK now supports both JSON and Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) protocols as the default communication formats. The change aims to reduce end-to-end processing latency and shrink payload sizes, lowering client CPU and memory usage. Available in all AWS Regions and for all GA SDK language variants; customers should update to the latest SDK and consult AWS developer documentation to enable the benefits.

⚛ Amazon Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0, enabling quantum developers to use the latest Qiskit release with Braket hardware and simulators. The release provides native implementations of Qiskit's Sampler and Estimator primitives that leverage Braket program sets for optimized batching, reducing execution time and costs versus generic wrappers. Service-side handling of parameter sweeps and observable measurements removes manual implementation burdens, while bidirectional circuit conversion permits client-side transpilation with Qiskit's compilation framework. Qiskit 2.0 support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Braket is offered.

🖥️ AWS has added built-in screen sharing to the AWS Support Center Console, enabling customers to request a virtual meeting from an active chat or call and join via a meeting bridge link. During the session, users can share their screen while retaining seamless access to case details. The feature keeps troubleshooting workflows consolidated within the console and aims to streamline diagnostics and communication between customers and support engineers.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in US East (Ohio) and Middle East (UAE). They deliver up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances, include 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and provide up to 600 Gbps of network bandwidth. C8gn supports sizes up to 48xlarge (up to 384 GiB memory), up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on select large sizes to improve cluster latency and throughput.

🚀 These instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region and provide up to 3 TiB of memory with increased memory per vCPU compared to prior Graviton4 instances. X8g targets memory-intensive workloads such as EDA, in-memory and relational databases, real-time analytics, and memory-heavy containerized applications. They offer larger sizes (up to 48xlarge), enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps), EBS bandwidth up to 40 Gbps, and EFA/ENA Express support on larger sizes.

🔍 AWS Partner Central now includes AI-powered deal sizing within APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Opportunities, giving partners estimated monthly recurring revenue (MMR) and recommended AWS services when creating or updating opportunities. Partners can import AWS Pricing Calculator URLs to auto-populate service selections and spend estimates, with enhanced insights such as pricing optimization, cost-savings analysis, MAP eligibility, and modernization pathways. The feature is available worldwide via the console and the AWS Partner Central API for Selling.