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Amazon EMR and AWS Glue Enforce Lake Formation Write FGAC

🔐 Amazon has extended AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to include write operations for tables registered with Lake Formation when used in Apache Spark jobs on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue. Administrators can now enforce table-, column-, and row-level permissions for DML actions (CREATE, ALTER, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE INTO, DROP) as well as read operations, enabling single-job read/write pipelines. The change reduces the need for separate clusters or applications and centralizes governance. The feature is available in all Regions where EMR, Glue, and Lake Formation are supported.

Amazon S3 Metadata Now Available in 22 More Regions

🔍 Amazon S3 Metadata is expanding to twenty-two additional AWS Regions, bringing automated, queryable object and custom metadata closer to more customers. The feature automatically populates metadata for both new and existing objects in near real-time and supports system-defined details (size, source) and user-defined tags such as product SKUs or transaction IDs. This expansion makes S3 Metadata generally available in 28 Regions and enables faster data discovery, curation, and analytics inside existing S3 workflows.

AWS Network Firewall Proxy Now Available in Preview

🔒 AWS has launched Network Firewall Proxy in public preview, providing centralized controls to block data exfiltration and malware injection across application traffic. In explicit proxy mode you can set up filters in just a few clicks to control outbound requests and the responses your applications receive, protect against domain or SNI spoofing, and restrict access to trusted domains or IPs. The service supports TLS inspection and granular HTTP header filtering, and emits detailed logs to Amazon S3 and AWS CloudWatch. Preview access is free in US East (Ohio).

Manage SageMaker HyperPod Clusters with AI MCP Server

🔧 The Amazon SageMaker AI MCP Server now provides tools to set up and manage HyperPod clusters, allowing AI coding assistants to provision and operate clusters for distributed training, fine‑tuning, and deployment. It automates prerequisites and orchestrates clusters via Amazon EKS or Slurm with CloudFormation templates that optimize networking, storage, and compute. The server also delivers lifecycle operations — scaling, patching, diagnostics — so administrators and data scientists can manage large-scale AI/ML clusters without deep infrastructure expertise.

Amazon Aurora adds PostgreSQL minor versions and DDM

🔒 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports minor PostgreSQL releases 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22. The update introduces Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for versions 16.10 and 17.6, masking column values at query time via role-based policies without changing stored data. It also adds a shared plan cache and delivers improved performance, faster RTO, and better Global Database switchover behavior. These versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US); you can create new clusters or upgrade existing databases through the RDS console.

AWS Glue: Zero-ETL Replication for Self-Managed Databases

🔁AWS Glue now supports zero-ETL for self-managed database sources, enabling no-code replication from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL hosted on-premises or on EC2 to Amazon Redshift. The feature auto-creates ongoing integrations to simplify setup, reduce operational overhead, and eliminate much of the engineering work previously required to build ingestion pipelines. It is available in multiple AWS Regions and aims to save teams weeks of engineering effort.

AWS Lambda Adds Node.js 24 Runtime and Container Base

🆕 AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications with Node.js 24, available as both a managed runtime and a container base image. AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available, and the runtime is offered in all Regions including GovCloud (US) and China. The release emphasizes modern async/await handlers and removes callback-based handlers; Lambda@Edge and Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript) are also supported, and standard AWS deployment tools (Console, CLI, SAM, CDK, CloudFormation) can be used to deploy Node.js 24 functions.

Microsoft adds Teams call handler to speed Windows client

⚡Microsoft will introduce a new Teams call handler, ms-teams_modulehost.exe, that runs as a child process to manage the calling stack separately from the main ms-teams.exe application, improving startup times and in-meeting performance. The change is transparent to end users and requires no retraining. Administrators should allowlist the new process in security and endpoint protection systems and notify helpdesk staff to avoid false positives during the rollout.

SageMaker AI Inference Adds Bidirectional Streaming

🎙️ Amazon SageMaker AI Inference now supports bidirectional streaming, enabling real-time speech-to-text transcription that returns partial transcripts while audio is still being captured. Using the new Bidirectional Stream API, clients open an HTTP/2 connection to the SageMaker AI runtime, which automatically creates a WebSocket to your model container so audio frames and interim transcripts flow continuously. Any container that implements a WebSocket handler per the SageMaker AI contract works out of the box, allowing real-time models such as Deepgram to run without modification. The feature eliminates weeks or months of custom streaming infrastructure work so teams can focus on model accuracy, latency tuning, and agent behavior.

AWS Service Quotas: Automatic Quota Management Launch

🚀 AWS announced general availability of automatic quota management in Service Quotas. The feature sends configurable notifications (email, SMS, Slack) via the Service Quotas console or API when usage approaches allocated limits and can automatically and safely adjust service quota values in response to observed consumption. This reduces operational overhead from tracking and requesting quota increases across accounts and Regions and helps prevent unexpected interruptions. The capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial regions.

Amazon Quick Suite: Scheduling for Quick Flows Automation

🕒 Amazon Quick Flows now supports scheduled execution, allowing teams to automate repetitive workflows at specified times or custom intervals. You can configure flows to run daily, weekly, monthly, or on custom schedules and schedule any flow you can access—whether you created it or it was shared with you. Scheduling is set via the Quick Flows scheduling icon and is available now in IAD, PDX, and DUB. There are no additional charges beyond standard Quick Flows usage, and common use cases include recurring report generation, summarizing open items in external services, and producing daily meeting briefings.

AWS Glue Data Quality Adds Preprocessing Queries Support

🛠️ AWS announces general availability of AWS Glue Data Quality preprocessing queries, enabling transformations before running data quality checks through the Glue Data Catalog APIs. The feature lets you create derived columns, filter datasets, perform calculations, and validate column relationships as part of the quality evaluation. This capability removes separate preprocessing steps, streamlines workflows, and tailors recommendations and rules to specific data subsets across commercial AWS Regions.

AWS Glue Data Quality Adds Rule Labeling for Reporting

🔖 AWS has made AWS Glue Data Quality rule labeling generally available, allowing teams to attach custom key-value labels to data quality rules for better organization and targeted reporting. Labels can represent business context, team ownership, compliance tags, or priority and can be authored in DQDL. Queryable in rule outcomes, row-level results, and APIs, labels enable focused reports and streamlined remediation workflows across all commercial AWS Regions where the service is available.

Amazon SageMaker Adds EAGLE for Faster Inference Throughput

⚡ Amazon SageMaker AI now supports EAGLE (Extrapolation Algorithm for Greater Language-model Efficiency) speculative decoding to boost large language model inference throughput by up to 2.5x. The capability enables models to predict and validate multiple tokens in parallel rather than one at a time, preserving output quality while reducing latency. SageMaker automatically selects between EAGLE 2 and EAGLE 3 depending on model architecture and provides built‑in optimization jobs using curated or customer datasets. Optimized models can be deployed through existing SageMaker inference workflows without infrastructure changes, and the feature is available in select AWS Regions.

Cloudflare Hosts Black Forest Lab FLUX.2 on Workers AI

🖼️ Cloudflare now hosts Black Forest Lab's FLUX.2 image model on the Workers AI inference platform. The licensed dev release builds on the popular FLUX.1 lineage with stronger physical-world grounding, improved fidelity for faces, hands and small objects, and advanced multi-reference editing to preserve character and product consistency. Workers AI exposes FLUX.2 via multipart form-data (up to four 512×512 inputs) and returns images up to 4 megapixels, while supporting JSON prompting, hex color controls, multilingual prompts, and a server-side binding for integration into production pipelines.

Claude Opus 4.5 Brings Agentic AI to Microsoft Foundry

🚀 Claude Opus 4.5 is now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry, aiming to shift models from assistants to agentic collaborators that execute multi-tool workflows and support complex engineering tasks. Anthropic and Microsoft highlight Opus 4.5’s strengthened coding, vision, and reasoning capabilities alongside improved safety and prompt-injection robustness. Foundry adds developer features like Programmatic Tool Calling, Tool Search, Effort Parameter (Beta), and Compaction Control to help teams build deterministic, long-running agents while keeping centralized governance and observability.

Amazon EC2 Introduces Interruptible Capacity Reservations

🔁 Amazon EC2 now offers interruptible On‑Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs), allowing reservation owners to temporarily make unused reserved capacity available to other internal workloads while retaining the ability to reclaim it. Consumers using interruptible ODCRs receive an interruption notice to allow graceful shutdown or checkpointing. The capability targets flexible, fault‑tolerant tasks such as batch processing, data analysis, and machine learning training, is available at no additional cost, and CloudFormation support is coming soon.

AWS IoT Core: Retrieve Thing Registry Data via Rules

🔧 AWS IoT Core now supports dynamic retrieval of thing registry data directly within IoT rules using the new get_registry_data() inline rule function. You can access device attributes, device type, and group membership to filter, enrich, and route messages — for example, routing lifecycle events or enriching gateway messages with sensor thresholds. The feature is available in all AWS regions where AWS IoT Core is present and can be used immediately via the IoT developer guide and API.

AWS OpenSearch Service adds PPL and natural language

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now makes Piped Processing Language (PPL) and natural language the default experience in the OpenSearch UI Observability workspace. The release introduces 35+ new commands for deep analysis, faceted exploration, and natural-language querying, and integrates OpenTelemetry ingestion pipelines to simplify onboarding. Users can run enterprise-grade queries, correlate events, and move directly from query to visualization to reduce mean time to detect and resolve issues.

Amazon CloudFront Adds mutual TLS Authentication Now

🔒 Amazon CloudFront now supports mutual TLS (mTLS), enabling both server and client authentication with X.509 certificates at AWS edge locations. Customers can require trusted client certificates to access distributions, reducing unauthorized access to APIs and applications. Typical uses include secure B2B API integrations and IoT device authentication. mTLS is available at no additional cost and configurable via Console, CLI, SDK, CDK, and CloudFormation.