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DNS64 and NAT64 for Connecting IPv6-only Workloads

🌐 Google Cloud introduces DNS64 and NAT64 for Cross‑Cloud Network to allow IPv6-only workloads to access IPv4-only services without dual‑stack. DNS64 synthesizes AAAA responses by embedding IPv4 addresses into the 64:ff9b::/96 prefix, and NAT64 translates traffic by extracting those addresses and initiating IPv4 connections on behalf of IPv6 clients. The blog post includes step‑by‑step gcloud commands to create VPCs, DNS64 policies, and a NAT64 gateway.

Amazon CloudWatch: Single Alarm for Multiple Metrics

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now supports creating a single alarm that evaluates and acts on multiple individual metrics dynamically. By authoring a Metrics Insights (SQL) query with GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses, the alarm automatically includes matching metrics as resources are created or removed, eliminating manual per-resource alarm management. You can configure these alarms via the CloudWatch console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or CDK; the capability is available in all commercial AWS regions, AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and China Regions, and Metrics Insights query alarm pricing applies.

CloudWatch Metrics Insights: Query Metrics Up to Two Weeks

🕒 Amazon Web Services now enables customers to query CloudWatch metrics up to two weeks in the past using the Metrics Insights query source. Metrics Insights delivers fast, SQL-based metric queries and this enhancement expands the prior ~3-hour visualization window to 14 days for dashboards, alarms, and investigations. The capability is available now in commercial AWS regions and is automatically enabled at no additional charge, though standard pricing still applies for alarms, dashboards, and API usage.

Target modernizes search with hybrid AlloyDB AI platform

🔍 Target rebuilt its on-site search to combine lexical keyword matching with semantic vector retrieval, using AlloyDB AI to power filtered vector queries at scale. The engineering team implemented a multi-index architecture and a multi-channel relevance framework so hybrid queries can apply native SQL filters alongside vector similarity. The overhaul produced measurable gains — ~20% improvement in product discovery relevance, halved "no results" occurrences, and large latency reductions — while consolidating the stack and accelerating development.

Amazon RDS for Oracle Adds Support for Bare Metal Instances

🆕 Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now support a range of bare metal instance types, with pricing at about 25% below equivalent virtualized instances. Supported families include M7i, R7i, X2iedn, X2idn, X2iezn, M6i, M6id, M6in, R6i, R6id, and R6in. Using the Multi-tenant feature you can consolidate multiple databases onto a single bare metal instance to reduce infrastructure cost, and you may also be able to lower commercial Oracle licensing and support fees because bare metal provides full visibility into CPU cores and sockets. Bare metal is available with Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Oracle Enterprise Edition; consult RDS pricing and your licensing partner for region and configuration availability.

AWS Config Adds Five New Resource Types for Monitoring

🔔 AWS Config now supports five additional AWS resource types, expanding its ability to discover, assess, audit, and remediate resources across your accounts. The new types — AWS::CodeArtifact::Domain, AWS::Config::ConformancePack, AWS::Glue::Database, AWS::NetworkManager::TransitGatewayPeering, and AWS::RolesAnywhere::TrustAnchor — are tracked automatically if you record all resource types and are available for Config rules and aggregators. Support applies in all Regions where these resources are available, enabling broader compliance and operational visibility. This update simplifies monitoring and remediation workflows.

Amazon Bedrock: Global Cross-Region Inference for Claude 4

🔁 Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 is now available with Global cross‑Region inference in Amazon Bedrock, allowing inference requests to be routed to any supported commercial AWS Region for processing. The Global profile helps optimize compute resources and distribute traffic to increase model throughput. It supports both on‑demand and batch inference and is intended for use cases that do not require geography‑specific routing.

AWS Clean Rooms: Add Data Providers to Collaborations

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now lets collaboration owners add new data provider members to existing collaborations, enabling partners to contribute data without creating a separate collaboration. New members can be configured to only supply data while inheriting the collaboration’s existing privacy controls and access rules. Invitations and member additions are recorded in the collaboration change history for transparency and auditability. This reduces onboarding time for multi‑party workflows such as publisher–advertiser measurement and third‑party enrichment.

AWS Clean Rooms ML adds redacted error log summaries

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms ML collaborators can now configure a privacy control to send redacted error log summaries to selected collaboration members. Summaries include exception type, error message, and the line in the code where the error occurred. When associating a model with a collaboration, parties decide which members receive summaries and whether detectable PII, numbers, or custom strings will be redacted. This helps teams debug models while protecting sensitive data and intellectual property.

Amazon SageMaker Adds Restricted Classification Terms

🔒 Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports governed classification using Restricted Classification Terms, enabling catalog administrators to mark sensitive glossary terms so only authorized users or projects can apply them to assets. Administrators grant usage through explicit policies and group membership, allowing centralized governance teams to control labels like Seller-MCF or PII. The capability is available in all regions that support SageMaker Unified Studio; consult the user guide to get started.

Amazon Bedrock Now Available in Asia Pacific Jakarta

🚀 Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific Jakarta region, enabling customers to build and scale generative AI applications closer to end users. The fully managed service exposes a selection of high-performing foundation models via a single API and includes capabilities such as Guardrails and Model customization. These features are designed to help organizations incorporate security, privacy, and responsible AI into production workflows while accelerating development and deployment.

Manage Access to AWS Regions and Local Zones from Console

🔒 Today, AWS announced the ability to manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones from a single location in the AWS Management Console. The new AWS Global View Regions and Zones page lets customers view infrastructure location details, opt-in status, and parent Region relationships across multiple Regions. This centralizes monitoring and access control and is available in all AWS commercial Regions.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Firefox Browser Tests

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Firefox in addition to Chrome, enabling cross-browser canary tests. You can run the same canary script across Chrome and Firefox for Playwright-based and Puppeteer-based canaries. CloudWatch Synthetics collects browser-specific performance metrics, success rates, and visual monitoring while maintaining an aggregate health view to help teams detect and resolve browser compatibility issues. Multi-browser support is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

Amazon Connect: Manual Assignment for Tasks, Email, Chat

📥 Agents can now manually prioritize and assign the next important task, email, or chat in their queue within Amazon Connect, enabling frontline staff to claim related customer work discovered during calls and resolve issues immediately. Supervisors and managers enable manual assignment by updating agent configuration in routing and security profiles. Agents then use the new worklist application in their agent workspace to claim items. This capability is available in all commercial regions.

Amazon RDS for Oracle SE2 Now in Thailand and Mexico

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) License Included R7i and M7i instances in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. These License Included instances let customers run Oracle databases without separate license purchases or support fees; instances can be launched via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs. Review AWS blog guidance and RDS for Oracle pricing for regional availability and cost details.

AWS releases open-source, scenario-focused CLI scripts

🔧 AWS has published an open-source collection of scenario-focused AWS CLI scripts and tutorials that demonstrate end-to-end shell workflows across more than 60 AWS services. Each example is tested and includes patterns for error handling, resource tracking, and automated cleanup to reduce mistakes and resource leakage. The project also provides guidance to generate and contribute new scripts using generative AI tools like the Amazon Q Developer CLI, enabling an iterative test-and-improve workflow that can produce working scripts rapidly for well-documented use cases.

AWS Split Cost Allocation Adds GPU and Accelerator Cost Tracking

🔍 Split Cost Allocation Data now supports accelerator-based workloads running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), allowing customers to track costs for Trainium, Inferentia, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs alongside CPU and memory. Cost details are included in the AWS Cost and Usage Report (including CUR 2.0) and can be visualized using the Containers Cost Allocation dashboard in Amazon QuickSight or queried with Amazon Athena. New customers can enable the feature in the Billing and Cost Management console; it is automatically enabled for existing Split Cost Allocation Data customers.

AWS Resource Explorer Arrives in Asia Pacific (Taipei)

🔎 AWS Resource Explorer is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) AWS Region. With AWS Resource Explorer you can search and discover resources across AWS Regions and accounts using the console, the AWS CLI, the AWS SDKs, or the Management Console's unified search bar. Enable the feature via the AWS Resource Explorer console and follow the product documentation to configure indexing and permissions. This expansion improves operational visibility, asset inventorying, and governance for resources hosted in Taipei.

Amazon Neptune Integrates with Zep for Long-Term Memory

🧠 Amazon Web Services announced integration of Amazon Neptune with Zep, an open-source memory server for LLM applications, enabling persistent long-term memory and contextual history. Developers can use Neptune Database or Neptune Analytics as the graph store and Amazon OpenSearch as the text-search layer within Zep’s memory system. The integration enables graph-powered retrieval, multi-hop reasoning, and hybrid search across graph, vector, and keyword modalities, simplifying the creation of personalized, context-aware LLM agents.

AWS Deadline Cloud automates job output downloads at scale

🔁 The AWS Deadline Cloud client now includes a command to automatically download outputs for completed jobs from a specified queue. The command detects output files that Deadline Cloud has stored in Amazon S3 and restores them to the local paths defined during job creation. It can be scheduled with cron or Task Scheduler to run periodically, enabling unattended retrieval for final review and delivery.