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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Adds 11 Regions

📢 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available in 11 additional AWS regions, including Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Hyderabad, Osaka, Melbourne, Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), Middle East (Bahrain), and US West (N. California). The fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service makes it easier to collect, store, query, and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metrics to a single workspace and create multiple workspaces per account to partition workloads. See the AWS user guide or product documentation for the full list of supported regions and configuration details.

AlloyDB on Axion C4A Instances Reaches General Availability

🚀 AlloyDB on Axion-powered C4A virtual machines is now generally available. AlloyDB on C4A offers substantial efficiency gains—up to 45% better price-performance versus N‑series VMs and up to 2× higher throughput versus Amazon Aurora on Graviton4—targeting transactional and data‑intensive workloads. C4A supports shapes from 1 to 72 vCPUs (including a new 48‑vCPU option and a cost‑effective 1‑vCPU/8GB shape for dev/sandbox). Deploy or upgrade C4A instances via the AlloyDB console in supported regions.

AWS Direct Connect Adds Support for 4-Byte AS Numbers

🌐 AWS Direct Connect now supports 4-byte Autonomous System (AS) numbers for virtual interfaces, extending the usable ASN range to the full RFC 6793 limit of 4,294,967,294. The change addresses constraints imposed by the legacy 2-byte ASN space (max 65,536), which can complicate complex or multi-tenant network topologies. Support is available in all AWS regions and across all Direct Connect virtual interface types. To provision, use the Direct Connect Console or the updated APIs to specify 4-byte ASNs when creating virtual interfaces.

OpenTelemetry (OTLP) Support Added to Cloud Trace UI

🚀 Cloud Trace now accepts traces via OTLP through telemetry.googleapis.com, enabling vendor-agnostic ingestion and preserving the OpenTelemetry data model. Using OTLP reduces client-side exporter complexity, improves telemetry integrity, and enables easier routing to other backends. The Trace Explorer leverages OpenTelemetry semantic conventions for improved filtering and diagnostics. Google recommends telemetry.googleapis.com as the best practice for new and high-volume trace pipelines and provides a migration guide to help users transition.

AWS EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances now generally available

🚀 Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available, offering up to 20% (M4) and 15% (M4 Pro) improved application build performance versus the M2 families. Powered by the AWS Nitro System, they provide up to 10 Gbps network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth and include a 2 TB instance store per Dedicated Host. M4 models use Apple M4 Mac Mini hardware and support macOS Sequoia 15.6+. Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

Amazon SageMaker Adds EC2 P6-B200 Notebook Instances

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of EC2 P6-B200 instances for SageMaker notebooks. These instances include eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1,440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, offering up to 2x the training performance versus P5en. They enable interactive development and fine-tuning of large foundation models in JupyterLab and CodeEditor, and are available in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon).

SageMaker Unified Studio Connects Remotely to VS Code

🔗 AWS now enables remote connections from local VS Code to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, allowing developers to use their personalized VS Code setups while running workloads on SageMaker-managed compute and accessing cloud-resident data. Authentication is provided via the AWS Toolkit extension for secure, streamlined access. The integration preserves existing development workflows for data processing, SQL analytics, and ML.

AWS GuardDuty S3 Malware Scanning Now Handles Larger Files

🛡️ AWS has expanded GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 scanning limits, raising the maximum file size from 5 GB to 100 GB and increasing archive processing to 10,000 files per archive (previously 1,000). These enhancements are automatically enabled in all supported AWS Regions. Customers gain broader coverage for large objects and dense archives stored in S3, improving pre-ingestion threat detection. This update strengthens protection for workloads and downstream processes.

AWS Adds Deadline Cloud Availability in Seoul and London

🎬 AWS Deadline Cloud is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (London). This fully managed service simplifies render management for teams producing computer-generated graphics and visual effects, enabling them to scale render farms near creative teams. Customers gain improved integration with existing AWS services and creative pipelines, and can now deploy Deadline Cloud across 10 AWS regions worldwide. Bringing the service closer reduces latency and streamlines collaboration across distributed production workflows.

Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams chats

🔔 Microsoft Teams will display warnings on private messages that contain URLs flagged as spam, phishing, or malware for customers using Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and enterprise Teams. The feature enters public preview for desktop, Android, web, and iOS in September 2025 and is slated for general availability in November 2025. Admins can enable the preview via the Teams Admin Center messaging settings; warnings will be enabled by default at GA and can be managed through the Teams Admin Center or PowerShell.

Google Cloud Professional SecOps Engineer Certification

🔐 Google Cloud has launched the Professional Security Operations Engineer (PSOE) certification to validate hands‑on skills for detecting, investigating, and responding to cloud threats. The exam focuses on practical use of Google Security Operations, Security Command Center, and threat intelligence across domains such as detection engineering, incident response, and threat hunting. Google recommends candidates have ~three years in security with at least one year of Google Cloud security tooling experience, and provides online training, hands‑on labs, and an official exam guide to prepare.

Resilient Networking with Google Cloud Network Connectivity

🛡️ Google Cloud's Network Connectivity Center provides a centralized, hub-and-spoke model to simplify and scale enterprise connectivity across VPCs, on-premises data centers, and other clouds. Architected with distinct management, control, and data planes, it employs a fail-static design so existing traffic continues during control-plane issues. The service supports up to 250 VPC spokes per hub and reduces operational overhead by automating full-mesh connectivity.

Amazon ECS adds Amazon Q Developer task definition AI

🤖 Amazon ECS now offers generative AI assistance from Amazon Q Developer to streamline task definition creation and updates in the AWS Management Console. Developers can use an inline chat to generate, explain, or refactor task definition JSON, inject suggestions at any point, and accept or reject proposed edits. Inline suggestions are enhanced to let Amazon Q Developer autocomplete whole blocks of sample code in addition to property-based hints. The capability is available where Amazon Q Developer is offered and can be enabled or disabled via the console code editor settings or controlled with IAM permissions.

Managed Service for Prometheus: Collector Logs GA Now

🔍The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector — an agentless, fully managed Prometheus metrics collector — now vends logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, improving visibility into target discovery, authentication, scraping, and ingestion. These logs surface details such as timeouts, remote-write failures, and other errors to aid troubleshooting. The feature is generally available in all regions where the service is offered; review CloudWatch logs pricing and the collector monitoring user guide to get started.

Amazon EventBridge API Destinations Reach Melbourne Thailand

🔔 Amazon EventBridge now provides its API destinations capability in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions. API destinations allow event buses to invoke HTTPS endpoints as rule targets and support flexible authentication methods such as API key and OAuth, while storing credentials securely in AWS Secrets Manager. This expansion reduces call latency for local workloads and simplifies secure, managed integrations. To get started, consult the EventBridge documentation for configuration guidance.

Falcon Complete Hub Unifies MDR Visibility and Action

🛡️ Falcon Complete Hub delivers a unified interface inside the Falcon platform that consolidates Falcon Complete Next‑Gen MDR activities, escalations and expert guidance into a single operational view. It prioritizes critical actions, provides step‑by‑step remediation links and centralizes subscription status, announcements and knowledge resources to reduce decision latency. Backed by a 37‑minute mean time to respond and a four‑minute mean time to detect, the Hub converts MDR visibility into clear operational tasks and faster response.

Amazon Athena adds SSO support for JDBC and ODBC drivers

🔐 Amazon Athena now supports single sign-on for its JDBC and ODBC drivers using AWS IAM Identity Center’s trusted identity propagation. With updated drivers (JDBC 3.6.0 and ODBC 2.0.5.0), analysts can connect from third‑party BI tools and SQL clients using corporate credentials while Lake Formation permissions are enforced and actions are logged. This removes the need for embedded credentials, simplifies identity‑based data governance, and streamlines access management across tools.

Microsoft Waives Publishing Fees for Windows Store

🎉 Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers can publish applications to the Microsoft Store without paying registration fees. The policy covers Win32 (including .NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA, .NET MAUI, and Electron apps; Microsoft will host MSIX-packaged binaries, sign apps for free, and pay for distribution so developers don't need their own CDN. Developers of non-gaming apps may also implement their own in-app payment systems and retain all revenue. To publish, creators sign in with a personal Microsoft account and must verify identity with a government ID and a selfie; no credit card is required.

AWS CDK Refactor (Preview) Enables Safe Infra Reorg

🔁 The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) CLI introduces cdk refactor (Preview), a new command that enables safe renaming, moving, and reorganization of constructs while preserving the state of deployed resources. It leverages CloudFormation refactor capabilities and automated mapping computation to prevent unintended resource replacement during code changes. Typical use cases include breaking up monolithic stacks, moving resources between stacks, and upgrading to higher-level constructs. The feature is available in all regions where AWS CDK is supported.

AWS IoT SiteWise adds automated anomaly model retraining

🔁 AWS announced native anomaly detection enhancements for AWS IoT SiteWise, including automated model retraining, flexible promotion modes, and exposed model metrics. Retraining can be scheduled between 30 days and one year to keep models current with changing equipment conditions. Customers can choose automatic service-managed promotion or manual customer-managed promotion using exposed metrics such as precision, recall, and AUC. Multivariate detection is available in N. Virginia, Ireland, and Sydney.