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🔗 Amazon Quick now connects to 16 additional tools including Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, Snowflake, and Smartsheet, enabling teams to act on insights without switching context. The new connectors span productivity, design, analytics, financial intelligence, commerce, and communication, so teams can build cross-tool workflows inside Quick. Integrations are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

📣 Cloudflare has made DMARC Management generally available and free for customers, offering a redesigned dashboard to simplify the path to full DMARC enforcement. The tool unifies visibility into SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI, surfaces sending source IPs, and integrates Cloudflare threat intelligence for investigation. It provides automated record analysis with pass/warning/fail statuses and plain-language recommendations, plus an SPF lookup audit to reveal and resolve the 10-lookup limit. DMARC Management requires Cloudflare DNS and is enabled from Email > DMARC Management in the dashboard.

🔔 Partners co-selling with AWS can now automate private offer pricing within co-sell workflows. By predefining pricing rules, discount limits, and eligible products, partners enable AWS sellers to convert opportunities to private offers quickly, shortening what used to be weeks of negotiation into minutes. Customers receive tailored offers based on their specifications, and partners gain visibility and direct follow-up access to assist with acceptance and context.

🔔 AWS Marketplace reduced its listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%, making it more economical for consulting partners, systems integrators, managed service providers and ISVs to transact services. The change applies automatically to new private offers across all AWS Regions, pricing models, and currencies, while existing offers remain on their original terms. Partners can list through AWS Partner Central and customers can discover services via AI-powered features and multi-product solutions.

📌 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now allows applications to attach metadata values directly to short-term memory events so those values are preserved exactly when converted into long-term memory records. Previously, metadata had to be inferred by the LLM during extraction. Setting a metadata key to STRICTLY_CONSISTENT ensures the provided value is unchanged, prevents merging across different values, and lets you group events for department scoping, compliance boundaries, and multi-tenant isolation. The feature supports up to three strictly consistent STRING keys per strategy and is available in all AWS Regions where AgentCore Memory is supported.

🔍 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now offers MariaDB 12.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the new Long-Term Support release. The preview provides a sandbox to test applications and explore features like Oracle TO_DATE() compatibility, SQL IS JSON validation, a basic XML type, cursor support for prepared statements, and optimizer improvements. Preview instances are retained up to 60 days and snapshots are restricted to the preview environment.

🤝 Amazon Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing teams to query Snowflake data and documents in natural language and automate multi-step workflows within Quick. After configuring Snowflake's managed MCP server with OAuth, users can query structured data with Cortex Analyst and unstructured documents with Cortex Search. The MCP connection is available across Quick features, including Quick Chat and Flows, and the integration is live in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

🎯 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management and adds the pg_roaringbitmap extension for fast, memory-efficient set operations on large integer collections. PostgreSQL 18 also introduces B-tree skip scans, retained optimizer statistics during major upgrades, and parallel streaming of large transactions for logical replication. Aurora 18.3 is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US); upgrade options include RDS Blue/Green, in-place upgrades, or snapshot restores.

🔍 Looker introduces dashboard agents in preview to enable conversational, in-dashboard exploration of BI data. The agent leverages the dashboard’s filters, cross-filters, and curated tiles to provide context-aware answers and can access underlying Explores for additional detail. Analysts can configure the agent with natural-language instructions to align responses with business logic, and the system surfaces intermediate reasoning, cited tiles, and applied filters to build user trust. Admins enable the feature in Looker 26.08.11+ via the Gemini settings.

🔐 AWS Lake Formation now allows reading and writing the underlying Amazon S3 data files for tables registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog, unifying permissions for SQL and direct file access. It issues temporary, scoped credentials tied to Lake Formation table grants—SELECT for read and SUPER for read/write—and is supported in Amazon EMR 7.13+. You can use Spark or Trino with provided APIs or an open source plugin, and all activity is logged in AWS CloudTrail. This capability is available at no extra charge in supported Regions.

🔧 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports out-of-order sample ingestion and a workspace-level rule query offset. By default, workspaces accept late-arriving samples within a 1-minute window, adjustable or disableable. A global rule query offset delays rule evaluations so late samples can be included, improving alerting accuracy. Two new CloudWatch vended metrics provide visibility to tune these settings.

🔔 Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations now support cancellation, allowing customers to secure capacity up to 120 days in advance and cancel if plans change. Depending on timing, a cancellation charge may apply; when it does, EC2 provides a quoted charge for review and acceptance before cancellation completes. Cancellation charges are reportable in the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) 2.0 under a new Capacity Reservation Status value. The feature is available to all Future-dated Capacity Reservation customers, with regional availability listed on the AWS Capabilities by Region site and further details in the Capacity Reservation user guide.

🔧 Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication by adding pidMode and ipcMode settings. These allow daemons to share process and IPC namespaces with application containers when set to "shared", while the default "none" keeps them isolated. Daemons run once per instance and start before applications, enabling independent deployment of agents like tracing, profiling, and security tools. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no extra cost.

⚡ Google Cloud has announced general availability of Lightning Engine for Managed Service for Apache Spark, available in both serverless and managed cluster modes. Built on Gluten and Velox with Google-engineered enhancements, the engine compiles Spark physical plans into native C++ to accelerate vectorized operations, window functions, and sorting. It also optimizes connectors for Cloud Storage and BigQuery and adds cost-based optimizations like hash table caching, aggregation pushdown, and adaptive shuffle partitioning.

🚀 Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports the Intelligent‑Tiering storage class in eight additional AWS Regions across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. The Intelligent‑Tiering class automatically moves data among Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, and Archive tiers based on usage patterns and can include an optional SSD read cache for active data. This provides high performance for active workloads and lower-cost storage for less-active data, with up to 85% savings versus FSx SSD and up to 20% versus on‑premises HDD NAS.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support Amazon EMR Serverless with Apache Spark Connect, enabling PySpark and Spark SQL execution on EMR Serverless Spark Applications directly from notebook cells. Users can choose their Spark runtime from the Notebook side panel, with the selection applying to both Python and SQL cells. The feature integrates with SageMaker Data Agent to generate code and execution plans from natural language prompts and offers pre-initialized capacity, unified Spark UI monitoring, and VPC connectivity for isolated workloads. It is available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered and supports both Unified Studio notebooks and JupyterLab IDEs.

🧭 The post explains how technology and finance leaders can demonstrate the business value of generative AI to secure funding and drive adoption. It highlights the DORA: ROI of AI-assisted software development report and its findings, including the common J-curve of early adoption, causes of temporary productivity decline, and the need to budget for a learning phase. The article also describes an interactive ROI calculator and resources to build a defensible AI investment case.

🚀 Amazon CloudWatch now accepts metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and supports Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) for querying. You are billed per GB ingested, with 15 months of storage included. Custom OTel metrics and AWS-vended metrics across 70+ services are queryable together, and a Prometheus-compatible API enables integration with Grafana and other tools. EKS customers can enable Container Insights with OpenTelemetry from the console or via CloudFormation, CDK, or Helm.

🔍 AWS Cost Explorer introduces Analyze with Amazon Q, enabling one-click, contextual cost explanations for any configured report. Amazon Q Developer provides analysis of cost trends, top drivers, anomalies, and optimization suggestions using your exact filters and time period. The feature adapts explanations to historical, forecast, or mixed-date views and supports follow-up questions while preserving conversation context. It is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge.

🔒 Apple announced at WWDC 2026 an Apple Intelligence-powered capability that can automatically detect and update weak, duplicate, or compromised passwords in Safari and the built-in Passwords app. The feature, arriving with iOS 27, uses on-device and Private Cloud Compute foundation models co-developed with Google to perform agentic actions that update eligible accounts to strong credentials. Apple emphasizes privacy-first design, saying personal data handled in the cloud is not stored or accessible to Apple.