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🆕 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in eight additional AWS Regions including Cape Town, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Melbourne, Seoul, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. Timestream for InfluxDB provides fully managed InfluxDB databases with Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, enhanced durability, and multi-node scaling to support real-time time-series applications. You can deploy and manage databases via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now generally available, targeting memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, real-time analytics, and containerized applications. R9gd adds local NVMe SSD storage for block-level needs. These instances claim up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton4-based R8g/R8gd and offer enhanced cache and memory speeds. They run on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System with the new Nitro Isolation Engine to improve workload isolation and are available in multiple US and EU regions.

🔎 AWS Agent Registry is now generally available, offering a private, governed catalog and discovery layer for agents, skills, tools, MCP servers, and custom resources across organizations. It provides semantic and keyword search, a browse experience, and access via the console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDK. Registry integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Quick, and Kiro IDE, and exposes an MCP server interface for IDE queries. New enterprise features include infrastructure-as-code support, tagging, AWS RAM sharing, auto-discovery of AgentCore runtimes, and a Quick Connectors integration.

🔗 AWS has announced the public preview of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, enabling managed private connections between AWS and Microsoft Azure. The preview expands the multicloud interoperability framework first introduced at re:Invent 2025, which includes an open specification for network interoperability. Azure adoption of the specification provides a single managed experience for customers connecting workloads across AWS and Azure in selected regions.

📧 Brave 1.94 adds an Email Aliases feature that generates disposable addresses for signups, keeping users' real emails hidden while forwarding messages. The feature requires a free Brave Account and stores primary and alias addresses encrypted; forwarded messages are delivered then deleted from Brave servers within seconds. Up to five aliases are free, with a paid Premium tier planned, and forwarded mail may initially hit spam folders.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances and include 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. C8gn supports sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 384 GiB memory, EFA on select sizes, and up to 120 Gbps EBS bandwidth for network-intensive workloads.

🛡️ This post introduces BotBase for Operators, a new Cloudflare dashboard experience that gives bot operators visibility and control over their submissions. Operators can now find the submission form under Protect & Connect → Application Security → BotBase, view submission history and statuses, edit or cancel entries, and filter "My bots." The intake form asks operators to declare what the bot does, how it uses content, and who runs it, aligning with the Content Signals model. Automated checks speed up reviews by validating identifiers, IP lists, reverse DNS, or Web Bot Auth, routing only ambiguous cases to human reviewers. The goal is better transparency and ongoing operator participation in the bot ecosystem.

🔧 Microsoft released PowerToys 0.101.2362.0, introducing a new utility called Window Hopper that lets users cycle through windows of the currently focused app using a configurable Alt + backtick shortcut. The update also brings a compact Command Palette mode, PowerDisplay linked control support for shortcuts, DemoMirror for ZoomIt, and a Mouse Highlighter ripple mode. PowerToys remains open source on GitHub with a detailed changelog.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances are available in Canada West (Calgary). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver higher performance and memory bandwidth, offering up to 15% better price-performance and significant workload-specific boosts versus previous generations. M8i‑flex targets common general-purpose sizes, while M8i supports larger, SAP‑certified sizes including a new 96xlarge.

🛠️ AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 is now generally available and introduces pcluster-diag, an on-node diagnostics tool included in ParallelCluster AMIs that produces structured reports to simplify issue identification. The release also improves cluster lifecycle resilience with more robust creation, updates, and image builds. The HPC and AI/ML software stack receives updates to NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, EFA installer, and Slurm.

🛡️ Cloudflare introduces Bot Preference Sync to align zone-level AI bot settings with a site's robots.txt, available to all customers from Free to Enterprise. The feature prepends generated directives to any existing robots.txt so owners' Search, Agent, and Training preferences match edge-enforced rules and managed blocks. Bot Preference Sync is on by default for new customers and can be disabled by those who need custom, fine-grained policies.

🔔 Starting today, Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling secure ingestion into Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters and serverless collections. OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed data ingestion tier that offers a no-code experience to filter, transform, redact, and route data. It automatically provisions and scales resources to handle variable workloads and is now generally available across 19 AWS regions.

🛠️ Customers can now deploy eligible AWS Marketplace AMIs directly on Amazon Lightsail. Lightsail offers simple, predictable pricing with instance bundles that include compute, storage, and data transfer at a fixed monthly rate. When subscribing to supported products — such as Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server Express, Ubuntu, cPanel & WHM, and Plesk — users may choose Amazon Lightsail in addition to Amazon EC2. The "Launch on Lightsail" option opens the Lightsail console with the AMI and region pre-configured for fast deployment.

🆕 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i instances are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel cloud processors. R8i provides up to 15% better price-performance, 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations, and up to 20% higher performance than R7i for general workloads.

🔔 Amazon Quick has made Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook generally available. These extensions let Quick operate directly inside users' M365 environments to handle complex local tasks, including document redlining, financial model building, presentation creation, and inbox management. Each extension is tailored: Excel for data analysis and cleaning, PowerPoint for template-driven decks, Word for formatted drafting and track changes, and Outlook for prioritizing, organizing, and drafting emails. The extensions are available in multiple AWS regions globally.

🛡️ Today AWS announces the general availability of Role Manager, a capability in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) that automatically creates or reuses IAM roles required by supported AWS service consoles. Role Manager can be enabled or disabled at any time and exposes the AWS-managed templates it deploys. At launch it supports six service consoles, including AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge, and is available in all Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

🔔 Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-small-decoder and Google's gemma-4-12B-it, expanding foundation model options for AWS customers. FLUX.2-small-decoder offers faster image decoding with lower VRAM use, while gemma-4-12B-it provides unified multimodal understanding across text, image, and audio. Customers can deploy these models via the SageMaker console or the SageMaker Python SDK for scalable AI solutions.

🔍 Redis's langcache-embed-v3-small, JetBrains' Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOn's LightOnOCR-2-1B are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. These models support semantic caching, code-focused reasoning, and end-to-end document OCR respectively, enabling scalable deployment on AWS. Customers can deploy them via the SageMaker JumpStart catalog or the SageMaker Python SDK with minimal effort.

🔷 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) instances are now available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) region. These U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors. They provide 24 TiB DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 200 Gbps networking and 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🆕 Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers three foundation models: Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA’s Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, and Z.ai’s GLM-OCR. These models cover long-horizon agentic engineering, efficient hybrid reasoning, and advanced document understanding, enabling customers to deploy high-performance AI on AWS with minimal setup. Each model is optimized for specific enterprise workflows and can be deployed via the SageMaker console or SDK.