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🤖 Amazon GameLift Servers now offers AI-powered assistance within the AWS Console, leveraging Amazon Q Developer to deliver tailored guidance for game developers. The integrated assistant helps with game server integration, fleet configuration, and performance optimization by surfacing in-console recommendations and troubleshooting steps. It is intended to streamline decision making, reduce troubleshooting time, and improve resource utilization for cost savings and better player experiences. The feature is available in all supported regions except AWS China.

🔖 Amazon Web Services now supports resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups in Amazon RDS and Aurora. You can tag automated backups independently from the parent DB instance or DB cluster using the AWS Management Console, API, or SDK. Use these tags with IAM policies to implement attribute-based access control and to organize, manage, and track backup costs. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔧 IAM Policy Autopilot is an open-source static analysis tool that generates baseline AWS IAM identity-based policies by analyzing application code locally. Available as a CLI and an MCP server, it integrates with MCP-compatible AI coding assistants to produce syntactically correct, dependency-aware policies and to troubleshoot Access Denied errors. The tool favors functionality during initial deployments and recommends reviewing and tightening generated policies to meet least-privilege principles as applications mature.

🔒 AWS announced a suite of AI- and automation-driven security features at re:Invent 2025 designed to shift cloud protection from reactive response to proactive prevention. AWS Security Agent and agentic incident response add continuous code review and automated investigations, while ML enhancements in GuardDuty and near real-time analytics in Security Hub improve multi-stage threat detection. Agent-centric IAM tools, including policy autopilot and private sign-in routes, streamline permissions and enforce granular, zero-trust access for agents and workloads.

📢 Amazon Quick Suite now integrates Quick Research as a step within Quick Flows, enabling automated generation of verified, source-traced research reports as part of multi-step workflows. Teams can schedule or trigger research flows to create reusable, shareable outputs that automatically kick off downstream actions—updating CRM records, creating tickets, or assigning tasks—reducing manual work and scaling proven analysis methods. Pre-configured flows accept creator instructions and optional user inputs to deliver consistent analysis across enterprise data sources.

🗺️ Spatial Data Management on AWS (SDMA) centralizes multimodal spatial assets — 3D, geospatial, behavioral, and temporal data — into a secure, highly available cloud repository. It automates metadata extraction for formats such as .LAZ, .E57, .GLB, and .GLTF, provides REST APIs and customizable connectors, and offers web and desktop interfaces with auto-generated previews to accelerate validation without large downloads. SDMA is designed to simplify integrations, governance, and discoverability to speed operational insights across AWS regions.

📣 Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, enabling proactive, automated messaging for appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations. Administrators can configure WhatsApp campaigns in the existing Amazon Connect interface—define target audiences, personalize message templates, schedule delivery, and apply compliance guardrails alongside SMS, voice, and email. Messages can leverage real-time customer data and include delivery and engagement tracking as well as frequency controls to maintain compliance. This capability is available in all AWS Regions that support Outbound Campaigns.

📢 Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in 10 additional commercial AWS Regions, bringing total coverage to 27 Regions and aligning Mail Manager availability with where SES Outbound is offered. Mail Manager centralizes email routing, governance, and compliance controls for domain-based sending, helping organizations replace legacy relays and streamline integrations with mailbox providers and email security vendors. It also supports onward delivery to WorkMail, built-in archiving with search and export, and console-based third-party security add-ons to simplify operations.

🔒 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports accessing SES API endpoints via Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. Customers can use VPC endpoints to send email and manage SES resource configuration without routing API traffic through an internet gateway, reducing exposure of VPC activity to the public internet. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where SES is offered, simplifying private network architectures.

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), enabling developers to deploy applications that benefit from the latest V8 engine updates, npm 11, and platform-level security and performance improvements. You can create environments via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API. The platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides automatic semantic enrichment for managed domains, extending an earlier capability from OpenSearch Serverless to managed clusters and enabling semantic search with minimal configuration. The feature performs semantic processing automatically so customers do not need to manage ML models. It supports English-only and multilingual variants across 15 languages (including Arabic, French, Hindi, Japanese, and Korean) and is billed based on ingestion usage as OpenSearch Compute Unit (OCU) - Semantic Search. The capability requires OpenSearch 2.19 or later and is currently available for non‑VPC domains in selected AWS Regions; see the OpenSearch Service documentation for setup and configuration details.

🔍 Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now offers Beta segmentation powered by Spark SQL, enabling analysts to build sophisticated customer segments from both custom and standard profile objects. You can join objects, apply statistical functions such as percentiles, and standardize date fields for complex temporal analysis, or use the Segment AI assistant to translate natural language into Spark SQL. AI-generated queries include plain-language explanations and automatic membership estimates so you can review and validate results before deployment. These capabilities work alongside existing segmentation features and integrate with segment membership calls, Flow blocks, and Outbound Campaigns, and are available in all AWS regions where Customer Profiles is offered.

🐍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023, allowing developers to build and deploy applications that take advantage of the latest interpreter features, improved error messages, and updated security and API behavior. The platform update also enhances the interactive interpreter experience and aligns runtime behavior with modern Python improvements. Environments can be provisioned via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API, and are available in all commercial AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔍 Amazon Q now analyzes email sending in Amazon SES, enabling customers to ask natural-language questions about SES resource configuration, usage patterns, and deliverability issues. Q evaluates usage data and resource settings to surface optimization opportunities and troubleshooting steps, reducing the need for deep email-sending expertise. Support is available in all Regions where SES and Q are offered.

🔔 AWS now enables centralized collection of CloudTrail events in Amazon CloudWatch, allowing organizations to consolidate telemetry alongside VPC Flow Logs and EKS Control Plane Logs. The integration leverages service-linked channels (SLCs) to receive events without requiring trails and adds safety checks plus termination protection. Customers will incur CloudTrail event delivery charges and CloudWatch Logs ingestion fees based on custom logs pricing; consult the CloudWatch documentation for supported regions and enablement steps.

📢 AWS has announced that AWS Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector are now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Managed Microsoft AD is built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and helps reduce the operational burden of running AD infrastructure in AWS while enabling domain join for EC2, containers, and Kubernetes. AD Connector acts as a proxy to let AWS services use existing on-premises AD identities and group policies without provisioning AD in the cloud.

🚀 AWS has announced TypeScript support in preview for the Strands Agents SDK, giving developers a choice between Python and TypeScript for building model-driven AI agents. The TypeScript implementation provides idiomatic, type-safe APIs with async/await and modern JavaScript/TypeScript patterns, and is designed to run in browsers, client applications, and server runtimes such as AWS Lambda and Bedrock AgentCore. AWS also introduced three SDK updates: edge device support is now GA, Strands steering is available experimentally, and Strands evaluations is in preview to help validate agent behavior.

🔒 Fortinet announced expanded integrations with AWS at re:Invent, including Fortinet Managed IPS Rules for AWS Network Firewall, FortiSASE on AWS Marketplace, and participation in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. These offerings combine AI-driven FortiGuard threat intelligence, simplified procurement and Euro-denominated options for EU customers. The goal is to reduce operational burden, accelerate compliance with standards like PCI-DSS and HIPAA, and enable rapid deployment and scaling across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

🚀 Starting today, AWS is previewing new general-purpose high-frequency Amazon EC2 M8azn instances powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors that deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. These instances offer up to 2× the compute performance of M5zn and about 24% higher performance than M8a, and are built on the AWS Nitro System for secure, high-performance cloud delivery. They target workloads such as gaming, HFT, HPC, CI/CD, and simulation modeling; customers can request preview access.

🛠️ AWS announced the Apache Spark upgrade agent, a capability that automates and accelerates Spark version upgrades for Amazon EMR on EC2 and EMR Serverless. The agent performs automated code analysis across PySpark and Scala, identifies API and behavioral changes for Spark 2.4→3.5, and suggests precise code transformations. Engineers can invoke the agent from SageMaker Unified Studio, the Kiro CLI, or any MCP-compatible IDE, interact via natural-language prompts, review proposed edits, and approve implementations. Functional correctness is validated through data quality checks to help maintain processing accuracy during migration.