AWS Client VPN now supports MacOS 27 Golden Gate client with versions 6.0+ You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest MacOS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded here. AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects your remote workforce to AWS or on-premises networks. It supports desktop clients for MacOS, Windows x6…
Builders can now sign up for a new simplified experience that makes it faster to turn ideas into running code on AWS. AWS services provide an array of configuration options so that the largest enterprises can customize settings for their distinct needs. Until now, builders with a new project idea had to decide among these options and configure their AWS environment before beginning to build. The n…
Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers import a PDF of an evaluation form from a third-party quality management application, and automatically recreates it in Connect using AI, making it easier to migrate an existing quality program into Connect. Instead of rebuilding an existing form question by question, you upload the PDF and choose the preferred scoring method, either percentage or points-b…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports tag-based access control for custom metrics, so you can govern which users and roles can view, create, or modify each custom metric. As more teams across your organization adopt custom metrics, they end up editing the same shared library. Without controls, one person can change a metric that other teams count on. The usual fix is to give only a handful of peopl…
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core now support Graphics G7 bundles, built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. Graphics G7 delivers up to 2.1x better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation Graphics G6 bundles. Four bundle sizes are available, ranging from 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and one GPU up t…
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional lifecycle hooks for monetization functions: post ad decision server (ADS) response, and pre manifest insertion. MediaTailor is a video service that personalizes and inserts ads into live and on-demand streams. Monetization functions run customer-defined logic at defined points in an ad-personalized playback session, removing the need for a midd…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon S3 Files for tasks running on the Amazon EC2 launch type, enabling customers to connect their containerized applications directly to data in Amazon S3 as a shared file system. With this launch, customers running ECS workloads on EC2 instances can work with their S3 data using standard file system semantics, so file-based application…
Amazon Connect Customer provides a library of standard metrics. Custom metrics let you go further; defining the measurements unique to your business. But managing them across various instances manually means definitions slowly drift until the numbers no longer align. A metric you can't trust is worse than no metric at all, because people still make decisions on it. Now you define a metric once and…
AWS Security Token Service (STS) now enforces a single 4,096-byte size limit on session tokens. Previously, STS enforced separate limits on session token size and passed-in parameters (i.e., inline policies, managed policies, and session tags). STS has removed that separation, providing more flexibility for larger combinations of session policies and session tags. Additionally, STS now returns res…
Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for the Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now review cost anomalies alongside cost and usage, budgets, cost efficiency, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and cost anomalies in a single, tailored dashboard. The Dete…
AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for 10G and 100G dedicated connections AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated network connectivity from on-premises environments to AWS. Customers value the flexibility of AWS Direct Connect's pay-as-you-go pricing, paying only for the port hours and data transfer out (DTO) they use, with no upfront commitment or long-term contracts. For workloads with…
AWS Billing Conductor now lets you define custom rate pricing for AWS services, including defining custom usage tiers to configure rates by the desired usage volume. Customers and Partners using AWS Billing Conductor to model commercial agreements with subsidiaries, affiliates, or end customers can now more easily reflect their negotiated pricing on pro forma billing data. Using SKU-scoped pricing…
AWS Step Functions now automatically adds AWS SDK integrations for new AWS services and capabilities within weeks of their release, starting with AWS Lambda MicroVMs, AWS Lambda Core and others. Now, you can orchestrate the latest AWS services from your workflows without waiting for updates. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 220 AWS services to help cust…
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces instance preference lists for training and processing jobs, making it easier and faster to find compute capacity for your workloads. Many AI training, fine-tuning, and data processing workloads run comparably well on any of several instance types or sizes. However, before now, you had to name only one instance type at the time of job submission and wait for Sag…
AWS CloudTrail, a service that records API activity across your AWS account for security auditing, compliance, and operational troubleshooting, now integrates with Amazon Q Console to help you investigate your AWS account activity using natural language. You can ask Amazon Q Console questions about your CloudTrail configuration, query your logged events for security investigations, and troubleshoo…
Amazon Connect Customer now enables agents to bid on preferred shifts, giving them more control over their work schedules. Schedulers first establish agent ranking either by uploading a CSV file or generating a randomized ranking. Connect Customer then uses forecasted demand and shift profiles to generate available shifts and presents them to agents to rank. For example, in a Monday–Friday 6AM–10P…
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations for Salesforce now capture archived records in your target tables, giving you a complete replica of your Salesforce data for analytics and reporting. Archived records are identified and reflected accurately through the isArchived field, so your analytical data stays fully in sync with your Salesforce source. This is especially valuable for high-volume entities that S…
AWS root user sign-in is now served across US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon), with sign-in traffic distributed across all three Regions. This change reduces reliance on US East (N. Virginia) and improves resiliency during service disruptions. AWS automatically routes your root user sign-in to a supported Region without requiring you to select a Region or change how you si…
NVIDIA's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba's Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning agentic coding with long-context reasoning and lightweight text-to-video generation, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI…
Mistral AI's Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models from the Ministral 3 family bring compact, vision-capable language models purpose-built for edge deployment and resource-constrained environments, enabling customers to deploy hig…
Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA's Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring the flagship Gemma 4 31B dense architecture to enterprise workloads in both full-precision and optimized quantized variants, enabling customers to deploy high-performance,…
BM's granite-speech-4.1-2b, Kakao's kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and the OpenFold Consortium's OpenFold3 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models bring specialized capabilities spanning multilingual speech recognition, bilingual agentic AI, and biomolecular structure prediction, enabling custom…
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations now detect table property conflicts and track integration ownership. When you configure a source table and target catalog, Glue associates the resulting table properties with the owning integration, so two integrations can no longer be pointed at the same target table without your knowledge. This works across Amazon S3 Tables and SageMaker Lakehouse catalogs. Data te…
AWS End User Messaging is advancing its deliverability capabilities in phone pools. Now, customers sending through phone pools automatically benefit from automatic failover to the next best performing number in the pool when SMS delivery is impacted from downstream disruptions. SMS deliverability can be affected by drops or delays when trying to reach the end recipient while it's being routed from…
AWS End User Messaging now supports dynamic WhatsApp flows so you can turn WhatsApp conversations into rich, interactive experiences that end-users complete directly in WhatsApp. Instead of pushing end-users to a website or a separate form to complete an interactive experience, you can instead guide them through an appointment booking, lead generation, sign-up, survey or a transaction directly in…
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Video Aligned Locking, a new feature to synchronize video pipelines without requiring timecode from the source. Previously, achieving frame-accurate locking across video outputs required investing in specialized hardware or managing complex, external synchronization workflows. While timecode is generally standard for highly produced, traditional broadcast conte…
Memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified…
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching, an inference optimization that pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods start in seconds instead of minutes. When running LLM inference at scale for workloads like chat assistants, agentic pipelines, RAG, and document analysis, cold start is a real bottleneck. Deployments and scale-out events spend most of their t…
AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files, letting you configure which storage your functions read from: S3 Files high-performance storage or your S3 bucket. With this launch, you can optimize the throughput and latency of file reads for your Lambda functions based on your application requirements. Customers use S3 Files with Lambda functions to build scalable data proc…
AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content. Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base already supports media search by transcribing audio and video to text and generating text-based embeddings—Marengo 3.0 goes further by encoding visual sc…