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EC2 Image Builder Adds Lambda and Step Functions Integration

🚀 EC2 Image Builder now supports invoking AWS Lambda functions and executing Step Functions state machines directly within image workflows. This native integration lets teams embed custom logic, multi-step orchestration, and validation into image builds without bespoke glue code. It simplifies compliance checks, notifications, and multi-stage security testing while reducing maintenance and error-prone workarounds. The capabilities are available at no additional cost across all AWS regions, including China and GovCloud, and can be used via Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation, or CDK.

Google announces Dhivaru subsea cable and regional hubs

📡 Google announced Dhivaru, a new Trans-Indian Ocean subsea cable linking the Maldives, Christmas Island, and Oman, and will build two new connectivity hubs in the Maldives and Christmas Island. The investment builds on the Australia Connect initiative and aims to improve reach, reliability, and resilience across the Indian Ocean, supporting AI services such as Vertex AI. The hubs will provide cable switching, content caching, and colocation to reduce latency, improve availability, and support local ecosystems.

Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex Available in Mumbai Region

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5× the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations and up to 20% performance gains versus M7i. AWS cites workload-specific improvements — up to 30% faster for PostgreSQL, up to 60% for NGINX web applications, and up to 40% for AI recommendation models. M8i-flex offers common sizes from large to 16xlarge for general-purpose use, while M8i provides 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for large, sustained CPU workloads.

AWS Backup Adds Direct Primary Support for Air-Gapped Vaults

🔐 AWS Backup now lets customers designate a logically air-gapped vault as the primary backup target across backup plans, organization policies, and on-demand jobs. This removes the prior restriction that air-gapped vaults could only hold copies, enabling direct writes to the air-gapped store and reducing duplicate-storage costs. For resource types without full AWS Backup management support, the service still creates a temporary snapshot in a standard vault, copies it into the air-gapped vault, and then removes the temporary snapshot. The capability is available in all Regions that support logically air-gapped vaults and can be selected via the console, API, or CLI.

AWS Backup Enables Cross-Account Management in 4 Regions

🔒AWS Backup now supports cross-account management in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei, Thailand, New Zealand) and Mexico (Central). With this capability you can deploy organization-wide backup policies from your AWS Organizations management account or a delegated administrator, helping to maintain compliance and reduce operational overhead. You can also monitor backup activity across all organizational accounts from a single management account, centralizing visibility and simplifying auditing and troubleshooting.

Amazon VPC IPAM Automates IP Assignments from Infoblox

🔁 AWS announced that Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) can now automatically acquire non‑overlapping IP allocations from Infoblox Universal IPAM, reducing the need for manual ticketing between cloud and on‑prem teams. The integration imports allocated ranges into a top‑level AWS IPAM pool and allows organization into regional pools to prevent address conflicts. The feature is available in all Regions where VPC IPAM is supported, excluding AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US); refer to the IPAM documentation and pricing tab for details.

Amazon EC2 U7i High Memory Instances Arrive in Ohio

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 High Memory U7i instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) available in the US East (Ohio) region as of Nov 17, 2025. These instances deliver 24 TB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They support up to 100 Gbps EBS, up to 200 Gbps networking with ENA Express, and target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. The offering is intended to help customers scale transaction processing throughput in fast-growing data environments.

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Adds 10 Speech Languages

🎙️ Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics beyond English: Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese. BDA can transcribe audio in the detected language, generate GenAI-powered insights, and produce summaries either in the detected language or in English. It also creates multi-lingual transcripts when recordings contain more than one supported language, simplifying analysis of customer calls, meetings, education sessions, clinical discussions, and public safety audio. Support is available in eight AWS Regions.

Amazon RDS for MySQL: New minor versions 8.0.44 & 8.4.7

🔔 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7, matching the latest community releases. Amazon recommends upgrading to these minors to remediate known security vulnerabilities and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades during scheduled maintenance or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, faster updates. Consult the Amazon RDS user guide for upgrade procedures and regional availability.

Amazon MWAA Serverless for Apache Airflow Workflows

🚀 Amazon launched MWAA Serverless, a managed, serverless deployment option for Apache Airflow that eliminates infrastructure management and bills only for actual task compute time. Workflows can be authored as YAML configurations or Python DAGs and leverage over 80 AWS Operators from Airflow v3.0. Each workflow runs in isolation with distinct IAM permissions while the service automatically provisions and scales resources across supported regions.

AWS Marketplace shows estimated tax and invoicing entity

💡 AWS Marketplace now displays estimated tax amounts and the applicable invoicing entity to buyers at the time of purchase. The procurement view shows estimated tax type (such as VAT, GST, or US sales tax), tax rates, and the estimated upfront tax amount derived from a customer's tax and address settings in the AWS Billing console. Buyers can download a PDF summary of the tax and invoicing details to support procurement approvals, budgeting, and issuing purchase orders to the correct invoicing entity. This capability is available today in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is supported.

AWS Parallel Computing Service Achieves HIPAA Eligibility

🔒 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is now HIPAA eligible, enabling organizations with a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) to run protected health data workloads. AWS PCS is a managed High Performance Computing service that uses the Slurm workload manager for cluster orchestration and targets compute-intensive tasks such as genomic sequencing, medical imaging analysis, and clinical research simulations. AWS says it maintains a standards-based risk management program to support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and that eligibility applies in all AWS Regions where PCS is offered.

AWS HealthImaging Adds Native JPEG 2000 Lossless Support

🩺 AWS HealthImaging now supports JPEG 2000 Lossless as a native transfer syntax for storing and retrieving lossless DICOM images, making it easier to integrate HealthImaging with applications that require JPEG 2000 encoded data. Customers can choose between JPEG 2000 Lossless (UID 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.90) and High-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) for lossless storage. Enabling JPEG 2000 Lossless reduces retrieval latency by eliminating the need to transcode images at access time. This capability is available in all regions where HealthImaging is generally available.

Amazon Aurora MySQL v3.11 Adds MySQL 8.0.43 Support

🆕 Amazon is releasing Aurora MySQL - Compatible Edition 3 updated to v3.11 with support for MySQL 8.0.43. The update delivers multiple security enhancements and bug fixes, addresses additional group replication errors, and introduces the mysql client commands option to enable or disable most client commands. You can upgrade manually by modifying a DB cluster or enable the Auto minor version upgrade option; the release is available in all AWS regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.

Amazon ECS improves service availability for rolling deploys

🔁 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now replaces unhealthy or terminated tasks with healthy tasks from the same service revision during rolling deployments instead of prioritizing the new revision. This prevents service availability drops when new task versions fail health checks or cannot start. Application Auto Scaling scale-outs are applied across both revisions so the running version can handle increased load. These changes respect maximumPercent and minimumHealthyPercent and are enabled by default in all Regions.

AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for SQS Event-Source Mappings

🔔 AWS Lambda now offers Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source mappings (ESMs), letting you provision persistent event pollers to handle sudden traffic spikes. Provisioned ESMs scale up to 3x faster (up to 1,000 concurrent executions/min) and support up to 16x higher concurrency (up to 20,000 concurrent executions), reducing latency for bursty workloads. The feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions and is configurable via the Console, API, CLI, SDK, CloudFormation, and SAM; billing is by Event Poller Units (EPU).

Google Cloud: Cloud-Native HPC Innovations for SC25

🚀 Google Cloud previewed its HPC and AI innovations for SC25, emphasizing a shift to cloud-native HPC that lets researchers and engineers provision purpose-built clusters in minutes. Key highlights include H4D and A4X VMs with low-latency Cloud RDMA, plus the Dynamic Workload Scheduler with Flex Start to enable flexible, cost-effective access to high-demand compute. The Cluster Toolkit and Google Managed Lustre simplify cluster deployment and high-throughput storage, while the latest TPUs and AI tools accelerate scientific workflows. Attendees are invited to booth #3724 for demos, talks, and community events.

Protective ReRoute: Host-based Network Resilience for Cloud

🛡️ Protective ReRoute (PRR) shifts rapid failure recovery from the network core to endpoints, enabling hosts to detect packet loss or high latency and re-steer traffic onto alternate pre-existing paths. Implemented in Linux (4.20+) and supported in Google Cloud via hypervisor and guest modes, PRR alters packet headers (IPv6 flow-label or overlay outer headers) to request multipath forwarding. In production for five years, it prevents up to 84% of slow-convergence outages and typically restores service in a single-digit multiple of RTT.

Advancing Text-to-SQL: Gemini's BIRD Benchmark Breakthrough

🚀 Google Cloud reports a new state-of-the-art Single Trained Model Track score on the BIRD benchmark, achieving 76.13 with a fine-tuned Gemini 2.5-pro. The team credits rigorous data filtering, multitask supervised fine-tuning, and test-time self-consistency selection for the gains. These improvements bolster NL2SQL features in AlloyDB AI and BigQuery, and enhance developer tooling such as Gemini Code Assist for reliable SQL generation.

From Detection to Response: Confidence and Visibility

🔦 Network visibility is the critical lens that turns detection into decisive action. ESG research cited in the article shows 98% of organizations say visibility helps them move from detection to response faster and with greater confidence. Detection raises the alarm; packet-level investigation reveals scope, lateral movement, and exfiltration so analysts can validate alerts and act precisely. The piece positions NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Intelligence as a scalable DPI capability that unifies SecOps and NetOps across hybrid and multicloud environments to eliminate blind spots and enable targeted response.