All news with #product update tag

🔒 Amazon announced GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup, extending malware detection to backups of Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon S3 objects. The capability automatically scans new backups, supports on-demand scans of existing backups, and can identify the last known clean backup to reduce recovery impact. It offers incremental scanning to analyze only changed data between backups, lowering costs versus full rescans, and can be enabled even if GuardDuty foundational data sources are not active. The feature is available in supported Regions and accessible via the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI.

🛠️ AWS Marketplace now supports Agent-to-Agent (A2A) servers and streamlined deployment for third-party AI agents built for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. The update pre-populates required environment variables in the AgentCore console and adds AWS CLI instructions within Marketplace listings so customers can procure and deploy A2A servers directly. AWS Partners can list A2A and MCP servers and containerized AgentCore Runtime products, define vendor launch configurations, and enable flexible pricing (including free API-based SaaS) to accelerate onboarding. These capabilities reduce deployment complexity and add protocol flexibility to meet diverse customer needs.

📞 Amazon Connect now routes calls between instances in the same AWS account over the AWS global backbone, avoiding the Public Switched Telephony Network when both numbers are provisioned or ported into Amazon Connect. Calls between instances, whether within a region or across regions, gain improved audio quality, simplified billing, and preserved call context for transfers. This capability is available in all commercial regions where Amazon Connect is offered except Africa (Cape Town).

🔒 Amazon Route 53 now supports AWS PrivateLink for the route53.amazonaws.com API, enabling private, regional connectivity from VPCs to the Route 53 API without traversing the public internet. This allows workloads to manage hosted zones, records, and health checks over the AWS backbone and simplifies networking by removing the need for complex private connectivity. Support is global except in AWS GovCloud and China, and cross-region interface VPC endpoints enable native multi-region access.

📱 Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports iOS and Android apps, extending real user monitoring beyond web applications. Using the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standard, it captures mobile spans such as application startup time, screen load time, and backend network calls, and records events including crashes and ANRs/AppHangs. Developers and SREs can perform impact analysis for errors or crashes, drill into correlated telemetry, and filter by location, device type, OS, and app version. Mobile telemetry integrates with application metrics, traces, logs, web RUM, and synthetic monitoring in CloudWatch Application Signals, and is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where web monitoring is provided.

🔁 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports scheduled Logs Insights queries that run automatically on a recurring cadence and deliver results to Amazon S3 or Amazon EventBridge. This capability lets teams automate log analysis, track trends, and detect anomalies without manually re-running queries. Administrators can configure schedules via the Console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, or SDKs, and store results for reporting or trigger incident workflows. The feature is available in multiple AWS regions across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America.

🔁 AWS Organizations now supports direct transfers of accounts between organizations, removing the prior need to convert an account to a standalone entity during moves. The simplified transfer preserves governance controls, consolidated billing, and account settings and uses the same console and APIs (invite and accept). This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes Cluster Insights, a unified monitoring dashboard that consolidates logs and metrics to give operators comprehensive operational visibility across nodes, indices, and shards. The feature automates correlation of critical data, highlights performance metrics and top‑N query analysis, and surfaces targeted remediation steps to speed troubleshooting. Built into the OpenSearch UI, Cluster Insights retains monitoring resilience during cluster unavailability and provides account‑level summaries for managing multiple deployments. It is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch 2.17 or later in regions where the OpenSearch UI is offered.

🔒 Amazon S3 now provides a bucket-level default encryption configuration to enforce SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS for all write requests, allowing organizations to standardize server-side encryption types across buckets. The PutBucketEncryption API update lets you disable SSE-C on specific buckets or in CloudFormation templates. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and configurable via Console, SDK, API, or CLI. It helps simplify compliance and reduce misconfiguration risk.

🔐 Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced TLS security policies for REST APIs and custom domain names, giving customers more granular control over encryption, cipher selection, and endpoint access. Policy options include TLS 1.3-only, Perfect Forward Secrecy, FIPS-compliant cipher suites, and Post Quantum Cryptography choices. The update, available in many AWS commercial Regions, aims to simplify compliance with stricter regulations and strengthen cryptographic posture.

🔐 AWS now permits developers to use their existing AWS Management Console sign-in credentials for programmatic access via the AWS CLI, AWS Tools for PowerShell, and AWS SDKs after a brief browser-based authentication flow. The aws login command in AWS CLI v2.32.0 and later obtains automatically rotated, short-lived credentials to reduce reliance on long-term access keys. This capability is available in all commercial AWS regions and aims to streamline local development setup while improving security posture.

🔐 Amazon S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange on regional S3, S3 Tables, and S3 Express One Zone endpoints using the NIST-standardized Module Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM). PQ-TLS key exchange is available at no additional cost across all AWS regions and will be negotiated automatically when clients are configured for ML-KEM. Combined with server-side AES-256 encryption by default, S3 offers quantum-resistant protection for data both in transit and at rest.

🔍 AWS announced aggregated CloudTrail data events to help teams monitor high-volume API activity without processing every individual event. Aggregations consolidate data events into 5-minute summaries that surface trends such as access frequency, error rates, and top actions while preserving access to detailed events when required. You can enable aggregation via the console or CLI and choose from pre-built templates for API activity, resource access, and user activity. Aggregations are billed based on the number of data events analyzed and are available in all commercial Regions.

🔍 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now exposes topic listings and detailed topic views directly in the MSK console and via three new public APIs. You can browse and search topics within a cluster, quickly review replication settings and partition counts, and drill into per-topic configuration and partition-level metrics without installing Kafka admin clients. The new ListTopics, DescribeTopic, and DescribeTopicPartitions APIs are available through the AWS CLI and SDKs; these features require MSK Provisioned clusters running Kafka 3.6+ and appropriate IAM permissions.

🚀 AWS Network Load Balancer now supports weighted target groups, letting you distribute traffic across multiple target groups with configurable weights from 0 to 999. This enables progressive deployment strategies such as Blue-Green and Canary deployments, application migration, and A/B testing while supporting instance, IP address, and ALB targets. The capability is available across AWS commercial and GovCloud regions at no additional charge; standard NLB Capacity Unit (LCU) pricing applies.

💡 Amazon Q Developer now includes enhanced cost management features that let users analyze costs across broader Cloud Financial Management domains with advanced analytics. Users can ask open-ended questions about historical and forecasted costs, optimization recommendations, commitment utilization, anomalies, budgets, free tier usage, and product attributes. Q explores data, forms hypotheses, performs calculations, and shows the API calls and console links used for transparency.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports importing custom weights for gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, allowing customers to bring tuned OpenAI GPT OSS models into a fully managed, serverless environment. This capability eliminates the need to manage infrastructure or model serving while enabling deployment of text-to-text models for reasoning, agentic, and developer tasks. gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production and high-reasoning use cases; gpt-oss-20b targets lower-latency or specialized scenarios. The feature is generally available in US‑East (N. Virginia).

📈 AWS Cost Explorer now extends forecasting to 18 months and uses upgraded machine learning that can analyze up to 36 months of historical data (previously 6 months) to surface seasonal patterns and long-term growth trends. Two of these improvements are generally available, while AI-powered, explainable forecasts are offered in public preview in the console. The 18-month horizon is also exposed via the GetCostForecast API, enabling finance and engineering teams to improve annual budgeting, surface optimization opportunities, and present forecasts with greater stakeholder confidence.

🔒 AWS Directory Service now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to route all Directory Service API and Directory Service Data API traffic through private VPC endpoints. This removes the need for internet gateways or NAT devices and reduces latency by creating requester-managed ENIs in enabled subnets. The feature covers directory management and user operations and is available in all Regions where AWS Directory Service is supported.

🔔 AWS announced general availability of AWS Data Exports supporting the FOCUS 1.2 schema, enabling customers to export standardized cost and usage data to Amazon S3. The release preserves the four-cost-column structure (ListCost, ContractedCost, BilledCost, EffectiveCost) from FOCUS 1.0 while adding fields for broader enterprise use cases. Key capabilities include invoice reconciliation, capacity reservation tracking to find unused reservations, and virtual currency support for multi-cloud and SaaS cost scenarios. The export is available in US East (N. Virginia) and covers all AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China Regions.