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🔧 Amazon MSK now exposes three public topic management APIs — CreateTopic, UpdateTopic, and DeleteTopic — enabling programmatic topic lifecycle operations without running Kafka admin clients. You can use AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and CloudFormation or the integrated MSK console to create and update topics with guided defaults and view partition-level details and metrics. These features are available at no extra cost for provisioned clusters running Kafka 3.6 and above; ensure appropriate IAM permissions before use.

🔁 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community minor versions 10.6.25, 10.11.16, 11.4.10, and 11.8.6. We recommend upgrading to the latest minor releases to remediate known security vulnerabilities and gain bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features contributed by the MariaDB community. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades to apply updates during scheduled maintenance windows or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, lower-risk updates.

🎧 Amazon Connect launches Audio Enhancement to improve voice clarity and reliability by suppressing agent-side background noises and isolating agent voices in busy contact centers. The feature includes two modes: Voice Isolation (removes background speech and noise) and Noise Suppression (targets non-speech noise). Administrators can enable modes via the User Management page, and agents with permissions can adjust settings in the Contact Control Panel. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now accepts customer-provided proxy configurations, allowing organizations to route browser sessions through corporate or regional proxy infrastructure for geo-targeting, compliance, and stable egress addresses. The feature supports both HTTP and HTTPS protocols and integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for secure credential management. It is available in all 14 regions where AgentCore Browser is offered.

🔁 AWS now supports managed minor version upgrades for Aurora Global Database, enabling you to upgrade an entire global topology with minimal downtime. Administrators can initiate upgrades from the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI and have all regional clusters automatically moved to the chosen minor version. This eliminates manual per-cluster upgrades and reduces operational overhead for global cluster management. The capability currently supports Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible engines and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

⚡ Amazon Athena now offers 1-minute Capacity Reservations and lowers the minimum reserved capacity to 4 Data Processing Units (DPUs). The feature provides dedicated serverless compute for workloads requiring query prioritization and concurrency controls, with no long-term commitments. You pay only for the capacity you reserve and there are no data-scanned charges; reservations attach to existing workgroups without SQL or application changes. AWS cites up to 95% cost savings for short-duration query workloads and enables more frequent, fine-grained capacity adjustments to match workload patterns.

🧭 Amazon Bedrock now supports six open-weights models — DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Next. These models span frontier reasoning, agentic intelligence, and autonomous coding while offering lower-cost inference options for enterprise workloads. They run on Project Mantle, a distributed inference engine that delivers serverless, high-performance model serving with OpenAI API compatibility, automated capacity management, quality-of-service controls, and higher default quotas for production deployment.

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups, enabling you to share OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) across collections that use different AWS KMS keys. This shared compute model reduces overall OCU costs while preserving collection-level security and access controls. Collection Groups also let you set minimum and maximum OCU allocations, allowing predictable startup capacity and eliminating cold-start latency for latency-sensitive workloads.

📥 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Auto Mode can now deliver logs via Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs. Customers can configure each managed capability—compute autoscaling, block storage, load balancing, and pod networking—as a vended log source using the CloudWatch APIs or the AWS Console. Logs can be routed to CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This option uses built‑in AWS authentication and authorization and can reduce delivery cost versus standard CloudWatch Logs.

📈 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now publishes two additional repository metrics in Amazon CloudWatch: RepositoryCount and ImagesPerRepositoryCount. These metrics, available across all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) at no extra cost, provide per-repository visibility into repository creation/deletion trends and image count growth. Customers can detect anomalous behavior, build dashboards, and configure alarms to notify teams as usage approaches service quotas.

🧩 Amazon Connect Cases now supports CSV uploads to define conditional field option mappings, allowing administrators to specify which options appear based on other field values. Rather than manually configuring each dependency — for example, limiting defect type choices by product category — teams can upload a CSV to apply relationships at scale. This reduces onboarding effort and configuration time for complex case templates. The capability integrates with existing case templates and field settings and is available in multiple AWS regions.

🔔 AWS has lowered costs for Network Firewall customers by extending hourly and data-processing discounts for NAT Gateways that are service-chained with both primary and secondary firewall endpoints. The service also removed the additional data-processing surcharge for Advanced Inspection TLS inspection that previously applied in select regions. These pricing improvements are applied automatically across all regions where Network Firewall is offered and require no customer action.

🔒AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple, expanding social login options alongside Sign in with Google. Developers and builders can use their Apple Account credentials to access AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, AWS re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro. The integration reduces password management overhead, lowers the risk of forgotten passwords, and streamlines both new user registration and returning sign-ins.

🍎 AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple as a social login provider, expanding existing Sign in with Google options and letting Apple users access AWS applications with their Apple ID. This reduces password management and forgotten credential issues while streamlining new registrations and returning sign‑ins. The integration applies to AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, AWS re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro, offering a more seamless entry point for developers and builders.

🔔 Microsoft will retire the Exchange Web Services (EWS) API for Exchange Online on April 1, 2027, after nearly 20 years. Beginning October 1, 2026, Microsoft will block EWS by default; administrators can temporarily preserve access via tenant application allowlists if configured by the end of August 2026, and Microsoft will pre-populate allowlists for tenants that do not create their own. The retirement applies only to cloud-hosted Exchange; Microsoft recommends migrating integrations to the Microsoft Graph API, which now offers near feature parity for most scenarios.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces now offers 12 new Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f bundles built on the Amazon EC2 G6 family, available for both Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. The bundles provide diverse vCPU-to-memory configurations and fractional GPU options to support workloads from graphic design and CAD/CAM to 3D rendering, seismic visualization, GIS, and ML training. They support Windows Server 2022 and BYOL for Windows 11 and are available in 13 AWS Regions.

🔁 AWS has made cross-account sharing generally available for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, enabling organizations to share reserved GPU capacity across AWS accounts via AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Teams can purchase Capacity Blocks and provision them to multiple accounts at no extra cost, improving utilization and lowering costs. The feature is available in Regions where Capacity Blocks are offered, and administrators enable sharing by creating a RAM Resource Share and adding Capacity Block resources.

🚀 Palo Alto Networks has reworked its NextWave partner program and unified it with a value exchange framework to simplify engagement, reward impact and accelerate growth in 2026. The update emphasizes predictability, repeatability and profitability, expanding enablement, labs, demos, quoting APIs and targeted rebates. Partners gain clearer paths for specialization, delivery and managed services while customers benefit from more consistent, integrated AI-driven security outcomes.

🚀 AWS Batch now supports unmanaged compute environments on Amazon EKS, extending Batch's job scheduling and orchestration to clusters you manage directly. You can create compute environments via the CreateComputeEnvironment API or the AWS Batch console by selecting an existing EKS cluster and specifying a Kubernetes namespace, then associate nodes using kubectl labels. This option preserves customer control over Kubernetes infrastructure for security, compliance, or operational requirements and is available today in all regions where AWS Batch operates.

🔧 Amazon Bedrock now offers structured outputs that return model responses conforming to user-defined JSON schemas, reducing the need for application-level validation. The capability, generally available in February 2026 for Anthropic Claude 4.5 and select open-weight models, supports schema definitions or strict tool definitions. It is available via the Converse and Invoke APIs across commercial AWS Regions where Bedrock is supported.