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🔊 Amazon Connect now offers generative text-to-speech voices in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). The service adds nine new voices across US English, UK English, European French, German, and Italian, including Tiffany, Amy, Brian, Ambre, Florian, Tina, Lennart, Beatrice, and Lorenzo. These voices support Amazon Connect’s agentic self-service capabilities, enabling more natural, sentiment-aware voice interactions across voice and messaging channels. Organizations can deploy these voices to deliver human-like conversational experiences to a broader set of customers and locales.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers an aggregated lineage view that shows all jobs contributing to a dataset across multiple levels of the lineage graph. The aggregated view is the default for IdC-based domains, while the previous event-timestamp snapshot can be restored via a "display in event timestamp order" toggle. A new QueryGraph API returns lineage node graphs with metadata and augmented business context; the capability is available in all SageMaker Unified Studio regions, with documentation and API references provided.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides an aggregated view of data lineage that consolidates all jobs contributing to a dataset. The aggregated view displays multi-level transformations and dependencies to help you identify upstream sources and downstream consumers across the full lineage graph. It is the default for IdC-based domains, with an option to revert to the previous event-timestamp-ordered view, and the new QueryGraph API exposes node graphs with metadata and augmented business context.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Training Plans can now be extended to cover AI training runs that take longer than originally scheduled. Extensions are available in 1-day increments up to 14 days, or 7-day increments up to 182 days, and can be purchased through the SageMaker console or via API. Once an extension is purchased the reserved GPU capacity (clusters up to 64 instances) continues to run without interruption, and SageMaker automatically provisions infrastructure so workloads keep running without reconfiguration. The feature helps teams maintain cost-efficient training schedules and reduce operational disruptions.

🛠️ AWS has integrated Blu Insights into AWS Transform, enabling customers to launch mainframe refactoring projects directly from the AWS Transform console. The release unifies the three modernization patterns—refactor, replatform, and reimagine—and replaces the lines-of-code pricing model with free code transformation. A prior mandatory three-level certification to access the Transformation Center has been removed to reduce friction; self-paced training remains available. The refactor capability is available in 18 AWS Regions, with access via the AWS Mainframe Modernization console where Transform is not yet offered.

🚀 You can now create provisioned Amazon MSK clusters with Express brokers in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei). Express brokers deliver up to 3× more throughput per broker, scale up to 20× faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. They are pre-configured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and preserve low-latency behavior so existing client applications require no changes. To get started, create a new cluster with Express brokers via the Amazon MSK console or the AWS CLI and consult the Amazon MSK Developer Guide for details.

⚙️ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports InvokeAgentRuntimeCommand, an API that runs shell commands directly inside a running AgentCore Runtime session. The API streams stdout/stderr in real time over HTTP/2 and returns an exit code, removing the need for custom in-container command orchestration. Commands execute in the same container, filesystem, and environment as the agent session and can run concurrently with agent invocations. This capability is available in 14 AWS Regions.

🔔 Microsoft has halted the planned automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside the EEA. The rollout, announced earlier and scheduled for December, is temporarily disabled; existing installs are unchanged and administrators can still deploy the app manually. Microsoft offered no reason in its Microsoft 365 message center update and asked admins to await further information. EEA customers remain excluded from the change.

⚠️ Microsoft warns that enabling the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in can render the classic Outlook desktop client unusable for affected users, according to an admin center notice (EX1254044). The company says the problem is tied to a previous Outlook build and is working with customers to ensure the latest version is deployed. As a temporary fix, impacted users should update Outlook or run an Online Repair for click-to-run installs, which reinstalls Office apps.

📢 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Developer Edition now supports Additional Storage Volumes, Resource Governor, and SQL Server 2019 (CU32 GDR - 15.0.4455.2). Additional Storage Volumes raise capacity up to 256 TiB—4× more storage—while Resource Governor enables definition of resource pools and workload groups to control CPU and memory for more realistic performance testing. The Developer Edition includes Enterprise functionality and is free for development and test systems (not production). For region availability and pricing, consult AWS documentation and Amazon RDS for SQL Server pricing.

📈 Amazon CloudWatch now supports organization-wide automatic enablement of EC2 detailed monitoring. With CloudWatch Ingestion enablement rules, administrators can automatically enable EC2 detailed monitoring at 1-minute intervals for existing and newly launched instances across an entire AWS Organization, specific accounts, or tag-based resource scopes. The capability ensures consistent telemetry collection to help Auto Scaling and operational alarms react more quickly, is available in all AWS commercial regions, and will be billed according to CloudWatch pricing.

📥 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports HTTP-based ingestion via a new HTTP Log Collector (HLC) and dedicated endpoints for ND-JSON, Structured JSON, and OpenTelemetry formats. This enables customers to send logs where AWS SDK integration isn't feasible, such as third-party or packaged software. Generate API keys in CloudWatch Settings—AWS creates the service-specific IAM user and credentials—and configure API key expirations (1, 5, 30, 90, or 365 days). To prevent unintended ingestion, enable bearer token authentication on each log group and consider service control policies to block creation of service-specific credentials.

🚀 Microsoft and NVIDIA announced deeper integration at NVIDIA GTC, extending Microsoft Foundry to support NVIDIA Nemotron models and to simplify building production agents. New Azure AI infrastructure optimized for inference and reasoning will bring Vera Rubin NVL72 into liquid‑cooled datacenters and add initial support on Azure Local. Foundry Agent Service, Control Plane observability and a Voice Live API preview aim to accelerate prototype‑to‑production paths, while Fabric–Omniverse links and a public Physical AI Toolchain support simulation‑to‑operations workflows.

⚙️Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports dynamic idle resource sharing, letting teams borrow unallocated compute capacity beyond their guaranteed quotas. Administrators can set both percentage-based and absolute borrow limits for resource types such as accelerators, vCPU, and memory to ensure fair distribution. HyperPod automatically recalculates borrowable resources as instances and quota policies change, and eligible ready, schedulable instances—including partitioned GPU configurations—contribute to the borrowable pool. This capability is available for EKS-based HyperPod clusters across multiple AWS Regions.

🔗 Amazon Neptune now supports reading S3 data directly from openCypher via the new neptune.read() procedure. This lets users federate S3-resident datasets into queries without preloading them into the graph. The feature handles standard and Neptune-specific formats (geometry, datetime), uses the caller's IAM credentials for access, and is available in all regions where Neptune runs.

🚀 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise now supports expanded multi-node clusters up to 15 nodes, enabling 1–4 combined writer/reader nodes, 0–13 dedicated reader-only nodes, plus a dedicated compactor node for long-term storage. Multi-node deployments distribute nodes across Availability Zones for improved fault tolerance and availability. You can add and remove nodes on Enterprise clusters, upgrade from Core to Enterprise, and configure custom topologies via the console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.

🚀 Microsoft outlines how moving from legacy on-prem Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the new Azure HorizonDB can reduce costs, boost performance, and improve agility. The post highlights an Apollo Hospitals migration that cut operational costs by 60%, improved uptime to 99.95%, and delivered a 3x performance gain. It also describes an AI-assisted Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tool integrated into VS Code that automates schema and application conversion, testing, and validation to reduce risk and accelerate adoption.

📤 Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data directly to Amazon S3 in standard JSON format. Exports run in the background with no impact on database performance and support cross-region and cross-account targets, multiple encryption options, and flexible S3 bucket configuration. The capability is available in all SimpleDB regions and is accessed via three new APIs — StartDomainExport, GetExport, and ListExports — with built-in rate limits; there is no additional charge for the tool, though standard data transfer fees apply.

🔍 The new Gemini-powered assistant in BigQuery Studio makes the agent context-aware by integrating active query tabs with the chat interface, eliminating copy-paste and context-switching. It generates advanced SQL, including AI operators and federated queries, to support more complex analyses from simple prompts. Built-in job analysis examines job history to diagnose long-running queries, failures, and cost drivers while respecting access permissions.

📧 Amazon Connect now lets agents forward email contacts to external email addresses and distribution lists directly from the Agent workspace and Contact Center Panel. When forwarded, agents retain ownership and the complete communication trail of the original contact, keeping a single point of contact for customers. This streamlines collaboration with back-office teams, subject matter experts, partners, and stakeholders. Email forwarding is available in multiple AWS regions.