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Amazon Connect adds customer input for outbound calls

📞 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).

Open-Source MCP Server for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

🚀 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.

Google Pixel Phones Added to DoDIN APL for Federal Use

🔒 Google Pixel phones have been added to the DoDIN APL, allowing federal agencies to procure devices that meet Department of Defense network security requirements. Pixel 9 hardware and integrated on-device protections combine with Google Cloud for secure remote management, 5G connectivity, and AI-enabled workflows. Use cases include secure field capture, centralized analytics, and pilots such as TrackInspect for transit infrastructure safety.

Google Cloud Releases Generative Media Models on Vertex AI

🎨Google Cloud announced General Availability and feature updates for its generative media models on Vertex AI, including Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Veo 3, Imagen 4, and Gemini 2.5 TTS. The release emphasizes production readiness and enterprise security while adding multi‑aspect ratio image generation, batch image processing, vertical 9:16 video formats with precise duration controls, and studio‑quality multi‑speaker text‑to‑speech across 70+ languages. These enhancements target teams seeking faster, controlled, and scalable cross‑format media workflows for sight, sound, and motion.

AWS PCS allows dynamic Slurm cluster configuration

🔧 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.

Amazon ECS adds one-click event capture and querying

🔎 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 PCS Expands Slurm Configuration with 60+ Settings

🔧 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 PCS Adds Slurm Node Reboot, Available in All 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.

AWS Clean Rooms Adds Data Access Budgets and Limits

🔒 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 EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint Adds IPv6 Support

🌐 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint now supports IPv6 connectivity. Customers can configure endpoints as dual-stack or IPv6-only to connect to instances with IPv6 addresses and continue using SSH and RDP without public IPv4 addresses. The capability is available in all AWS Commercial Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions and works via the AWS Console, AWS CLI, and standard SSH/RDP clients. It maintains backward compatibility with existing IPv4 deployments.

FortiEDR Earns AV-Comparatives 2025 EPR Certification

🔒 FortiEDR, Fortinet’s prevention-first endpoint detection and response solution, earned AV-Comparatives’ 2025 Endpoint Prevention & Response (EPR) certification following a hands-on evaluation of multi-stage attack chains. The certification highlights FortiEDR’s strong prevention, precise response capabilities, low false-positive rates, and automation that reduces analyst workload. Reviewers also noted the product’s integration across the Fortinet Security Fabric and support for legacy Windows platforms as meaningful differentiators.

FortiEDR Earns AV-Comparatives 2025 EPR Certification

🔒 FortiEDR was certified in the 2025 AV-Comparatives Endpoint Prevention & Response (EPR) test, an independent, hands-on evaluation that mapped 50 multi-stage attack chains to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The certification validates FortiEDR's prevention-first design, strong real-time blocking, automated remediation, and extensive forensic capabilities while maintaining low false positives. AV-Comparatives also ranked FortiEDR favorably for total cost of ownership by combining product pricing with operational workload.

Amazon GameLift Streams Adds IPv6 for Windows Streaming

📡 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.

Microsoft to Force-Install Microsoft 365 Companion Apps

📌 Microsoft will automatically install the Microsoft 365 companion apps on Windows 11 devices that have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, beginning in late October 2025 and completing by the end of December 2025. The suite — People, Files, and Calendar — integrates Copilot for contextual AI assistance from the taskbar. IT admins can opt out via the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center or disable app auto‑launch in each app's Settings.

Amazon MWAA Announces Support for Apache Airflow 3.0

🚀 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow 3.0, enabling easier authoring, scheduling, and monitoring of complex workflows. The release introduces a redesigned UI and an event-driven scheduler that can trigger workflows directly from external events. The new Task SDK and Task Execution API reduce boilerplate, improve isolation, and limit direct metadatabase access. MWAA also adds Python 3.12 support and security fixes to enhance reliability.

Gemini CLI Brings Natural Language to PostgreSQL Workflows

🔎 The Gemini CLI extension for PostgreSQL brings natural-language queries and command-line convenience directly to database tasks. It can detect required tools (for example, pg_trgm for fuzzy search), check whether they are installed and install them automatically, and suggest performance improvements such as creating GIN or GIST indexes. The extension also generates schema-derived code snippets and supports lifecycle actions like creating instances, users, and permissions, streamlining development workflows.

Amazon Connect Adds Agent Time-Off Balance Data to Analytics

🔍 Amazon Connect now surfaces agent time-off balance data in the analytics data lake, enabling managers and analysts to generate reports and insights from both current and historical balances across categories such as paid time-off, sick leave, and leave of absence. The capability includes a chronological transaction log that shows each adjustment and its impact on balances, removing the need for manual reconciliation and improving manager productivity and response to agent inquiries. It is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect scheduling is supported.

Microsoft Agent Framework Brings Multi-Agent Tooling

🤖 The Microsoft Agent Framework is now in public preview inside Azure AI Foundry, offering an open-source SDK and runtime to simplify orchestration of multi-agent systems. Developers can prototype locally and deploy with built-in observability, durability, and compliance while integrating tools via OpenAPI, Agent2Agent (A2A), and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Microsoft also previews stateful multi-agent workflows and has contributed multi-agent tracing standards to OpenTelemetry. Responsible AI controls and a generally available Voice Live API add governance and real-time voice capabilities for enterprise scenarios.

AWS Knowledge MCP Server Now Generally Available Globally

🔎 The AWS Knowledge MCP Server is now generally available, giving AI agents and MCP-compatible clients access to authoritative AWS documentation, blog posts, What's New announcements, and Well-Architected guidance in an LLM-friendly format. The GA release also adds structured knowledge about regional API and CloudFormation resource availability. The server is publicly accessible at no cost and does not require an AWS account, though usage is rate-limited. Configure MCP clients to use the AWS Knowledge MCP Server endpoint to anchor agent responses in trusted AWS context and reduce manual context management.

AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 enables natural API control

🧭 The AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 enables foundation models to interact with AWS APIs via natural language by generating and executing syntactically correct CLI commands. This release reduces startup time and removes local dependencies by converting the suggest_aws_command tool into a remote service, and adds streamable HTTP transport alongside stdio. Security and governance are strengthened with improved secure file system controls, better input validation, configurable denials, and options to require human oversight for mutating actions. Observability is improved through CloudWatch agent log collection, and an experimental get_execution_plan tool (enabled by EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_SCRIPTS) offers prescriptive workflows; the server is available as a container and open-source on the AWS Labs GitHub repository.