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Amazon Lex: confirmation and currency slots in 10 languages

🤖 Amazon Lex now supports built-in confirmation and currency slot types in 10 additional languages: Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. These built-in slots normalize varied user phrasing—mapping acknowledgements to 'Yes', 'No', 'Don't know', or 'Maybe' and converting currency expressions into structured formats such as 'USD 1.00'—to simplify multi-lingual conversational flows. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates and can improve chatbots and contact-center interactions.

Route Cloudflare Tunnel Traffic by Hostname, Not IP

🔒 Cloudflare now lets administrators route traffic to a Cloudflare Tunnel by hostname or domain, removing the need to track changing IP addresses. By binding hostnames or wildcard domains to tunnels and writing Access or Gateway policies, teams can enforce per-resource zero-trust rules and secure egress without touching IP lists. Gateway uses synthetic initial IPs to tag hostname intent at Layer 4, map traffic back to private IPs, and forward it through the correct tunnel.

Amazon Bedrock Adds Four Qwen3 Open-Weight Models Now

🤖 Amazon Web Services added four Qwen3 open-weight foundation models to Amazon Bedrock as fully managed, serverless offerings. The lineup—Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, and Qwen3-32B—covers both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures. The coder variants specialize in agentic coding, function calling, and tool use, while the 235B and 32B models provide general reasoning and efficient dense computation. These models are available now across multiple AWS regions, enabling developers to build advanced AI applications without managing infrastructure.

Notepad Adds Free AI Writing Tools on Copilot+ Windows 11

📝 Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text features to Notepad on Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, rolling out now to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels on Notepad version 11.2508.28.0. The new Summarize, Write, and Rewrite tools were previously part of Microsoft 365 subscriptions but are available without an extra subscription on Copilot+ devices. Features support English only; subscribers can switch between local and cloud models while unsigned users use the local model. Users may disable the AI options in settings or uninstall the updated Notepad to use classic notepad.exe. Paint and Snipping Tool also received recent updates.

Where CISOs Should See Splunk Go Next: AI & Resilience

🔍 At .Conf in Boston, Splunk and parent company Cisco positioned machine data as central to next‑generation AI incident response, arguing telemetry represents roughly 55% of global data growth. They stressed tighter integration of security and observability, a federated data model with new support for Snowflake, and standards work such as OpenTelemetry and the Open Cybersecurity Framework (OCSF). Splunk also previewed enhanced security operations capabilities — a premier Enterprise Security bundle, Detection Studio, and agentic AI features — while acknowledging customer concerns about costs, legacy positioning, and support.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Adds Disk-Optimized Vectors

🔍 Amazon has added disk-optimized vector storage to OpenSearch Serverless, offering a lower-cost alternative to memory-optimized vectors while maintaining equivalent accuracy and recall. The disk-optimized option may introduce slightly higher latency, so it is best suited for semantic search, recommendation systems, and other AI search scenarios that do not require sub-millisecond responses. As a fully managed service, OpenSearch Serverless continues to automatically scale compute capacity (measured in OCUs) to match workload demands.

CrowdStrike Enhances GenAI Data Protection Across Platforms

🔒 CrowdStrike announces four new innovations in Falcon Data Protection to help organizations prevent GenAI-driven data leaks across endpoints, cloud, SaaS and AI tools. The updates include real-time GenAI protections that span browsers, local apps and shadow AI services, unified out-of-the-box detections, AI-powered classifications, and a consolidated Insider Risk dashboard. Beta and general availability windows span late 2025 through mid-2026, with cloud features prioritized earlier.

AWS Network Firewall: SNI Session Holding for TLS Guide

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now offers SNI session holding to strengthen TLS inspection by validating the TLS SNI before initiating an outbound TCP connection. When enabled, the firewall holds TCP/TLS establishment until it receives the ClientHello SNI and evaluates it against Suricata-based TLS inspection rules, preventing any contact with disallowed endpoints. Administrators can enable this option in a TLS inspection configuration via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK; it’s available in Regions including GovCloud and China and is billed as part of TLS advanced inspection.

Amazon Corretto 25 LTS Released with OpenJDK 25 Enhancements

🚀 Amazon Corretto 25 is now generally available as a Long Term Support release, providing a production-ready distribution of OpenJDK 25 for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The release promotes experimental JDK 24 features to production-ready status — notably Compact Object Headers and Generational Shenandoah GC — and introduces AOT caching, language refinements, expanded observability, Structured Concurrency, Vector API improvements, and reduced virtual-thread pinning. Amazon will support Corretto 25 through October 2032.

Amazon Connect introduces agent hierarchy filters for search

🔍 Amazon Connect now offers agent hierarchy filters on the contact search page in the UI, enabling contact center leaders and teams to drill into specific sites, departments, or teams to locate interactions. This capability helps quality management, regulatory compliance, and workforce optimization teams efficiently find and review contacts for assessment and auditing. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered, simplifying targeted reviews and reducing time-to-insight for investigations and performance evaluations.

Amazon EC2 I8ge Storage-Optimized Instances in Frankfurt

🚀 Amazon EC2 I8ge storage-optimized instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, I8ge delivers up to 60% better compute performance versus prior Graviton2-based storage-optimized instances and uses third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB with substantially lower latency and variability. Instances scale to 48xlarge (including metal), provide up to 1,536 GiB RAM, 120 TB local NVMe, and up to 300 Gbps networking, making them well suited for relational and non-relational databases, streaming databases, search and data analytics.

AWS Expands Second-Generation Outposts Racks Globally

🌍 AWS now ships second-generation Outposts racks to a broad list of countries, enabling customers to deploy AWS infrastructure and services directly in on‑premises data centers and colocation sites. These racks support the latest x86 Amazon EC2 families — C7i, M7i, and R7i — delivering up to 40% better performance versus prior racks, simplified network scaling, and a new class of accelerated networking instances for ultra-low latency and high throughput. They also help address local data residency and low-latency processing requirements while remaining connected to the nearest AWS Region for management.

MCP Toolbox Adds Firestore Tools for AI-Assisted Dev

🧰 MCP Toolbox now includes comprehensive Firestore tools that let AI assistants connect directly to Firestore from environments like Gemini CLI and other MCP-compatible interfaces. Built on the Model Context Protocol, these pre-built tools support document reads, collection queries, targeted updates, and security-rules validation to accelerate debugging, testing, and maintenance for NoSQL applications. Developers can perform complex queries and targeted updates in natural language, validate security rules before deployment, and reduce context switching between consoles and emulators. The release is accompanied by docs, quick start guides, a GitHub repo, and community channels to help teams adopt the features quickly.

BigQuery scalability and reliability upgrades for Gen AI

🚀 Google Cloud announced BigQuery performance and usability enhancements to accelerate generative AI inference. Improvements include >100x throughput for first-party text generation and >30x for embeddings, plus support for Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput and dynamic token batching to pack many rows per request. New reliability features—partial-failure mode, adaptive traffic control, and robust retries—prevent individual row failures from failing whole queries and simplify large-scale LLM workflows.

AWS Expands ISO and CSA STAR Scope with Two Services

🔒 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that EY CertifyPoint completed an onboarding audit and reissued ISO and CSA STAR certificates on August 13, 2025, with no findings. The audit expanded the certified scope to include AWS Resource Explorer and AWS Security Incident Response alongside the other services covered under multiple ISO standards and CSA STAR CCM v4.0. Customers can retrieve certificates through AWS Artifact and view the full certified service list on the AWS ISO and CSA STAR Certified page.

AWS Budgets Adds Custom Time Periods for Project Funding

📊 AWS Budgets now supports custom time periods, letting teams define flexible start and end dates for a budget rather than relying on calendar-based cycles. This enables single-budget tracking for time-bound projects (for example, a three-month development sprint starting mid-month) and triggers alerts as spend approaches thresholds. The feature is available today in all AWS commercial Regions except the AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

Why a Cisco Talos Incident Response Retainer Matters

🔒 A Cisco Talos Incident Response (IR) Retainer provides organizations with prioritized access to Talos' global threat intelligence and incident response specialists, combining proactive preparedness with rapid 24/7 mobilization. The retainer includes tailored IR plans, playbooks, readiness assessments, and tabletop exercises, plus proactive threat hunting using the PEAK Framework. Clients receive vendor-agnostic integration guidance, optional Cisco technology deployment, coordinated legal and PR support, and detailed post-incident reviews to reduce downtime and reputational harm.

AWS Network Firewall Enhances Console Monitoring and TLS

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now delivers expanded console monitoring and enhanced TLS inspection capabilities to improve outbound security. The monitoring dashboard adds visibility into traffic to AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Backup, including traffic sent over PrivateLink, and surfaces top source and destination IPs by packets and bytes. Customers can filter views by IP and protocol for targeted analysis. A new session holding feature for TLS Inspection prevents TCP/TLS establishment from reaching servers until SNI-based rules are evaluated, strengthening controls against malicious endpoints.

AWS End User Messaging: CloudFormation Support for SMS

📩 AWS End User Messaging SMS now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling customers to deploy and manage SMS resources using templates. Phone numbers, sender IDs, configuration sets, protection configurations, opt-out lists, resource policies, and phone pools can be provisioned and managed declaratively alongside other AWS resources. This support is available in all Regions where End User Messaging is offered, simplifying deployments and delivery pipelines.

AWS PCS Supports EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Workloads

🔧 Amazon Web Services has added native support for EC2 Capacity Blocks in the Parallel Computing Service (PCS), enabling use of reserved EC2 instances directly within PCS Slurm clusters. This integration lets Capacity Blocks be associated with PCS compute node groups via an EC2 Launch Template, simplifying capacity planning for GPU‑based ML workloads. The feature is available in all Regions where both services are offered and aims to improve availability and predictability for cutting‑edge GPU jobs.