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🔐 AWS Backup now lets customers designate a logically air-gapped vault as the primary backup target across backup plans, organization policies, and on-demand jobs. This removes the prior restriction that air-gapped vaults could only hold copies, enabling direct writes to the air-gapped store and reducing duplicate-storage costs. For resource types without full AWS Backup management support, the service still creates a temporary snapshot in a standard vault, copies it into the air-gapped vault, and then removes the temporary snapshot. The capability is available in all Regions that support logically air-gapped vaults and can be selected via the console, API, or CLI.

🛡️ AWS announced support for Resolver query logging configurations in Amazon Route 53 Profiles, allowing centralized management of Resolver query logging across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts. The enhancement eliminates the need to manually associate logging configurations with each VPC and helps produce consistent DNS query logs for compliance and auditing. The feature is available now in supported AWS Regions via the console or AWS CLI.

🔔 AWS announced on Nov 17, 2025 a new capability that lets customers designate Amazon EC2 instances running license-included Microsoft SQL Server as part of a High-Availability (HA) cluster to reduce licensing costs with a few clicks. The enhancement targets mission-critical deployments using Always On Availability Groups and Always On failover cluster instances, with AWS citing savings up to 40% in example configurations. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 High Memory U7i-12tb.224xlarge instances in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region. These 7th-generation instances offer 12TB DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 100Gbps EBS and network bandwidth, and ENA Express support. They target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Availability aims to accelerate transaction processing and large-scale in-memory workloads.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5× the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations and up to 20% performance gains versus M7i. AWS cites workload-specific improvements — up to 30% faster for PostgreSQL, up to 60% for NGINX web applications, and up to 40% for AI recommendation models. M8i-flex offers common sizes from large to 16xlarge for general-purpose use, while M8i provides 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for large, sustained CPU workloads.

🚀 EC2 Image Builder now supports invoking AWS Lambda functions and executing Step Functions state machines directly within image workflows. This native integration lets teams embed custom logic, multi-step orchestration, and validation into image builds without bespoke glue code. It simplifies compliance checks, notifications, and multi-stage security testing while reducing maintenance and error-prone workarounds. The capabilities are available at no additional cost across all AWS regions, including China and GovCloud, and can be used via Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation, or CDK.

☁️ AWS Transform for VMware can now automatically convert VMware network environments into Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)-compatible YAML network configurations that can be directly imported and deployed via LZA. Building on existing IaC output formats such as CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform, this capability reduces manual re-creation of network settings, lowers the risk of configuration errors, and accelerates migration timelines while aligning deployments with enterprise security and compliance standards.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) available in the US East (Ohio) region as of Nov 17, 2025. These instances deliver 24 TB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They support up to 100 Gbps EBS, up to 200 Gbps networking with ENA Express, and target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. The offering is intended to help customers scale transaction processing throughput in fast-growing data environments.

🎙️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics beyond English: Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese. BDA can transcribe audio in the detected language, generate GenAI-powered insights, and produce summaries either in the detected language or in English. It also creates multi-lingual transcripts when recordings contain more than one supported language, simplifying analysis of customer calls, meetings, education sessions, clinical discussions, and public safety audio. Support is available in eight AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon launched MWAA Serverless, a managed, serverless deployment option for Apache Airflow that eliminates infrastructure management and bills only for actual task compute time. Workflows can be authored as YAML configurations or Python DAGs and leverage over 80 AWS Operators from Airflow v3.0. Each workflow runs in isolation with distinct IAM permissions while the service automatically provisions and scales resources across supported regions.

🩺 AWS HealthImaging now supports JPEG 2000 Lossless as a native transfer syntax for storing and retrieving lossless DICOM images, making it easier to integrate HealthImaging with applications that require JPEG 2000 encoded data. Customers can choose between JPEG 2000 Lossless (UID 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.90) and High-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) for lossless storage. Enabling JPEG 2000 Lossless reduces retrieval latency by eliminating the need to transcode images at access time. This capability is available in all regions where HealthImaging is generally available.

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7, matching the latest community releases. Amazon recommends upgrading to these minors to remediate known security vulnerabilities and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, faster updates. Consult the Amazon RDS user guide for upgrade procedures and regional availability.

🔒AWS Backup now supports cross-account management in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei, Thailand, New Zealand) and Mexico (Central). With this capability you can deploy organization-wide backup policies from your AWS Organizations management account or a delegated administrator, helping to maintain compliance and reduce operational overhead. You can also monitor backup activity across all organizational accounts from a single management account, centralizing visibility and simplifying auditing and troubleshooting.

🔒 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon ECR now supports PrivateLink endpoints validated under FIPS 140-3. This allows customers with security and compliance requirements to use FIPS-validated cryptographic modules while keeping traffic private within their Amazon VPCs. The enhancement helps organizations meet regulatory obligations without exposing container registry traffic to the public internet. Availability includes several commercial and AWS GovCloud regions.

🔒 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is now HIPAA eligible, enabling organizations with a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) to run protected health data workloads. AWS PCS is a managed High Performance Computing service that uses the Slurm workload manager for cluster orchestration and targets compute-intensive tasks such as genomic sequencing, medical imaging analysis, and clinical research simulations. AWS says it maintains a standards-based risk management program to support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and that eligibility applies in all AWS Regions where PCS is offered.

🆕 Amazon is releasing Aurora MySQL - Compatible Edition 3 updated to v3.11 with support for MySQL 8.0.43. The update delivers multiple security enhancements and bug fixes, addresses additional group replication errors, and introduces the mysql client commands option to enable or disable most client commands. You can upgrade manually by modifying a DB cluster or enable the Auto minor version upgrade option; the release is available in all AWS regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.

💡 AWS Marketplace now displays estimated tax amounts and the applicable invoicing entity to buyers at the time of purchase. The procurement view shows estimated tax type (such as VAT, GST, or US sales tax), tax rates, and the estimated upfront tax amount derived from a customer's tax and address settings in the AWS Billing console. Buyers can download a PDF summary of the tax and invoicing details to support procurement approvals, budgeting, and issuing purchase orders to the correct invoicing entity. This capability is available today in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is supported.

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ brokers in all AWS regions, allowing brokers to authenticate and authorize users against LDAP identity providers. Administrators can manage users and assign permissions to topics and queues using credentials stored in their LDAP server. LDAP support can be enabled when creating or updating brokers via the AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK, and remains compatible with standard RabbitMQ LDAP implementations.

🔁 AWS announced that Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) can now automatically acquire non‑overlapping IP allocations from Infoblox Universal IPAM, reducing the need for manual ticketing between cloud and on‑prem teams. The integration imports allocated ranges into a top‑level AWS IPAM pool and allows organization into regional pools to prevent address conflicts. The feature is available in all Regions where VPC IPAM is supported, excluding AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US); refer to the IPAM documentation and pricing tab for details.

🔒 AWS re:Invent 2025 highlights an expanded Security and Identity track featuring more than 80 sessions across breakouts, workshops, chalk talks, and hands-on builders’ sessions. The program groups content into four practical themes — Securing and Leveraging AI, Architecting Security and Identity at scale, Building and scaling a Culture of Security, and Innovations in AWS Security — with real-world guidance and demos. Attendees can meet experts at the Security and AI Security kiosks in the expo hall and are encouraged to reserve limited-capacity hands-on sessions early to secure seats.