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Amazon Connect Contact Lens: External Voice in Five Regions

📣 Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports external voice in five additional AWS Regions — Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London). The service integrates with other voice systems for real-time and post-call analytics, offering call recordings, contact transcripts, generative AI post-contact summaries, sensitive data redaction, contact categorization, theme detection, sentiment analysis, and real-time alerts. Customers can extend Contact Lens analytics across existing voice platforms, access interaction data streams and a data lake, or start with Contact Lens to evaluate performance before migrating agents.

AWS B2B Data Interchange Adds Custom X12 Validation

📄 AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports custom validation rules for X12 EDI documents, allowing organizations to expand or modify the X12 ANSI standard to reflect trading-partner agreements. You can enforce element presence, length constraints, and allowed values while combining standard and custom checks. Validation results generate functional acknowledgments (997/999), emit EventBridge events, and include human-readable explanations stored with output files to support remediation workflows.

Amazon EC2 G6 Instances with NVIDIA L4 Now in UAE Region

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs in the Middle East (UAE) Region, expanding cloud GPU capacity for graphics and ML workloads. G6 instances offer up to 8 L4 GPUs with 24 GB per GPU, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking, and up to 7.52 TB local NVMe storage. They are available via On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans and can be managed through the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs.

YARA-X 1.0.0 Stable Release: Faster, Safer YARA Now

🚀YARA-X 1.0.0 is now stable, delivering a Rust-based, memory-safe engine while preserving broad compatibility with existing YARA rules. YARA-X runs heavy regular expressions and deep loops roughly 5–10× faster than the legacy YARA 4.x engine and returns clearer, line-accurate error messages. The CLI adds colored output, JSON/YAML dumps, shell completions and a built-in formatter to improve tooling and developer workflows. VirusTotal reports stable, production use in Livehunt and Retrohunt at scale and encourages users to test and provide feedback.

Google Conversational Analytics API Brings Chat to Your Data

💬 The Conversational Analytics API lets developers embed natural‑language data queries and chat‑driven analysis directly into custom applications, internal tools, and workflows. It combines Google's AI, Looker’s semantic layer, and BigQuery context engineering to deliver data, chart, and text answers with trusted access controls. Features include agentic orchestration, a Python Code Interpreter, RAG‑assisted context engineering, and both stateful and stateless conversation modes. Enterprise controls such as RBAC, row‑ and column‑level access, and query limits are built in.

Earth Engine in BigQuery: Raster Analytics & Map Visuals

🌍 BigQuery now integrates Earth Engine, enabling analysts to run raster analytics and join satellite-derived imagery with vector data using familiar SQL workflows. Initial capabilities include the ST_RegionStats() geography function plus a curated set of ~20 Earth Engine raster datasets for land cover, weather and climate analysis. With general availability, Google Cloud adds EU regional deployment, an Image Details tab for enhanced metadata visibility, usage and quota controls, and a preview map visualization in BigQuery Studio to render GEOGRAPHY query results on Google Maps for interactive exploration and stakeholder-ready outputs.

Hybrid Mesh Firewall: Unified Security for Hybrid Networks

🔒 Today’s distributed, cloud-first enterprises face complex security gaps across on-premises, cloud and edge environments. The article introduces the Hybrid Mesh Firewall (HMF) model and positions Palo Alto Networks as delivering a complete platform that unifies hardware, virtual, container and FWaaS firewalls under Strata Cloud Manager. It emphasizes Precision AI for continuous, real-time threat prevention and cites integrated security services to simplify operations and reduce blind spots.

Amazon RDS Supports MariaDB 11.8 with Vector Engine

🚀 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 11.8 (minor 11.8.3), the community's latest long-term maintenance release. The update introduces MariaDB Vector, enabling storage of vector embeddings and use of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) directly in the managed database. It also adds controls to limit maximum temporary file and table sizes to better manage storage. You can upgrade manually, via snapshot restore, or with Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments; 11.8 is available in all regions where RDS MariaDB is offered.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds Five Document Languages

📄 Amazon Web Services' Bedrock Data Automation now supports five additional document languages — Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, and German — expanding multilingual document processing beyond English. Customers can build blueprints, prompts, and instructions in these languages using BDA Custom Output, while BDA Standard Output will produce summaries and figure captions in the detected document language. This update is generally available across multiple AWS commercial and GovCloud regions and aims to accelerate multilingual document workflows for intelligent document processing and multimodal automation.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Now in GovCloud (US-West)

🚀 Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. BDA automates extraction of actionable insights from unstructured multimodal content—documents, images, video, and audio—helping developers accelerate GenAI-based applications like intelligent document processing and media analysis. It can run standalone or as a parser in Amazon Knowledge Bases RAG workflows and is now offered in eight AWS Regions.

Amazon EKS adds namespace configuration for add-ons

🔧 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to select a custom Kubernetes namespace when installing both AWS and Community add-ons, giving operators finer control over object organization and isolation within clusters. You can install add-ons into a chosen namespace via the AWS Console, EKS APIs, AWS CLI, or infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation. Note that to move an installed add-on to a different namespace you must remove and recreate it. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Adds Delayed Read Replicas

🕒 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports delayed read replicas, allowing you to specify a minimum time period for a replica to intentionally lag behind its source. This configurable time buffer helps protect against human errors such as accidental table drops or unwanted data modifications by preserving a recoverable replica state. In recovery workflows you can pause replication before problematic changes are applied, resume replication to a specific log position, and promote the replica as the new primary to achieve faster recovery than lengthy point-in-time restores.

Amazon EC2 R7g Graviton3 Instances Launch in Cape Town

🚀 Amazon EC2 R7g instances powered by Graviton3 processors are now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town). These instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton2 and can use up to 60% less energy for comparable performance, helping reduce cloud carbon footprint. They come in nine sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking and 20 Gbps EBS bandwidth, running on the AWS Nitro System for secure, high‑performance isolation.

MoQ: A unified, low-latency media relay on QUIC at scale

🔁 Cloudflare announces the first Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay network, built on a modern transport to unify ingest and delivery for real-time media. MoQ — an open IETF protocol developed alongside vendors like Meta, Google, and Cisco — treats media as named, subscribable tracks and forwards immutable wire Objects via relays without transcoding. The design leverages QUIC features such as no head-of-line blocking, connection migration, and 0-RTT resumption to deliver sub-second latency at broadcast scale, while simplifying architectures that previously required many disparate protocols.

AWS releases MCP server for Billing and Cost Management

🧾 AWS has published an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Billing and Cost Management, available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository. The server exposes AWS service APIs and a dedicated SQL-based calculation engine to produce reliable, reproducible cost calculations across large volumes of usage data. It integrates with any MCP-compatible AI assistant or agent — including Q Developer CLI, the Kiro IDE, Visual Studio Code, and Claude Desktop — enabling customers to analyze historical spend, find optimization opportunities, and estimate costs for new workloads with minimal configuration.

Count Tokens API Adds Claude Model Support in Bedrock

🧮 The Count Tokens API is now available in Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to determine token counts for a prompt or input prior to performing inference. Anthropic’s Claude models are supported at launch and the feature is available in all regions where those models run. This improves cost projection, gives more control over token limits, and reduces the risk of unexpected throttling. It also helps ensure inputs fit within a model's context length for more efficient prompt optimization.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds S3 file sharing option

📂 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers a simplified S3-based file storage option for project collaboration. Customers can choose between Git integrations (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud) or Amazon S3 buckets, with S3 set as the default while Git remains fully supported. The S3 option gives a consistent view of files across Studio tools, uses a last-write-wins model, and supports basic versioning when administrators enable it.

Amazon Verified Permissions adds Cedar 4.5 support

🔒 Amazon Verified Permissions now supports Cedar 4.5, introducing the new is operator to enable type-based access checks. Developers can write policies that grant or deny access based on a resource’s declared type—for example, allowing administrators to view a resource only when it is an invoice in a petstore app. The update enhances Cedar’s type system, helps catch type-related errors earlier in policy development, and is available in all AWS Regions where the service runs; new and backward-compatible accounts have been automatically upgraded.

AWS Neuron SDK 2.25: Inference and Monitoring Enhancements

🚀 AWS has released Neuron SDK 2.25.0, now generally available for Inferentia and Trainium instances, adding context and data parallelism support plus chunked attention to accelerate long-sequence inference. The update enhances neuron-ls and neuron-monitor APIs to show node affinities and device utilization, and introduces automatic aliasing (Beta) and disaggregated serving improvements (Beta). Upgraded AMIs and Deep Learning Containers are provided for inference and training.

AWS VPC IPAM Console Adds CloudWatch Alarm Management

🔔 Amazon Web Services has enhanced Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) with deeper Amazon CloudWatch alarm integration, bringing alarm visibility and management directly into the IPAM console. Alarms are now visible across IPAM pages and a new resource-level Alarms tab lists alerts associated with specific IPAM resources. You can create alarms from the console (which redirects to CloudWatch with relevant fields pre-populated) and receive proactive monitoring suggestions for resources without alarms. The feature is available in all Regions where IPAM is supported, including AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US).