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Amazon ECS Managed Daemons can now collect json-file logs from application containers on Amazon ECS Managed Instances

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces json-file log driver support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances and log driver volumes for Amazon ECS Managed Daemons. Together, these features let you collect application logs with the observability agent of your choice and forward them to any destination you choose. With this launch, your application containers on ECS Managed Instances can w…

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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions, adding to the list of available Regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructu…

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports copying option groups during cross-Region snapshot copy

Amazon RDS for Oracle now lets you copy the option group associated with a DB snapshot when you copy that snapshot to another AWS Region. Amazon RDS for Oracle uses option groups to enable and configure features that make it simple to manage your databases. Option groups are specific to the AWS Region where you create them. Previously, customers wanting to replicate RDS backups that had option gro…

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Amazon Connect Customer now shows associated cases in contact records

Amazon Connect Customer now includes case IDs and reference numbers in contact records, helping supervisors and analysts understand which customer issues drive contact volume. Cases track issues, such as refund requests or billing disputes, across interactions and teams. Supervisors can now identify the cases associated with an interaction directly on the Contact Details page without searching ind…

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AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with Equinix

AWS Interconnect - last mile is now available in preview with Equinix. You can connect your infrastructure across Equinix's global network of 282 data centers worldwide to AWS in a few clicks. Interconnect - last mile gives you managed, private, and resilient connections to AWS, so you don't have to order cross-connects or configure routers. To set up in the AWS Management Console, choose an AWS R…

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Amazon S3 Tables now provide a simple, cost-effective path for data lake modernization

Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of your Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg. Iceberg adds ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel to your data lake, but moving off Hive usually means building a migration pipeline for each table, which can take weeks. You can now let S3 Tables manage your migration, resulting in query-ready Iceberg tables that stay optimized as data grows…

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AWS DataSync Enhanced mode supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication for Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage locations. DataSync uses an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to get short-lived credentials from Google Cloud or Microsoft Entra ID and refreshes them automatically so your transfers run without interruption. You can now use DataSync to access your Goo…

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AWS What's New Cloud v26.04

RHEL 10, Rocky 10 and Ubuntu 26.04 Bundles for WorkSpaces

AWS announces new Linux bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, including Rocky Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With these bundles, you can launch WorkSpaces on the latest enterprise Linux operating systems and use newer software packages that are only available in these releases. These new bundles feature modern Wayland display technology, giving you access to the lat…

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Amazon EC2 and VPC now display related resources for all resource types

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and AWS Global View now display related resources for all resource types in their consoles. Previously, only security groups had an option to view related resources. Now you can see relationships for all EC2 and VPC resource types, including EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes, Launch T…

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New features for Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager now offers real-time supportability checks and capacity fulfillment metrics. Real-time supportability checks help customers find capacity by scoring how well each instance type and Availability Zone can support a request, without launching or reserving instances. Capacity fulfillment metrics show how much capacity was delivered against the amount requested. Global enter…

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Amazon Connect Customer lets agents pause and resume emails

Amazon Connect Customer lets agents pause emails while waiting for information or approvals, freeing them to handle higher-priority contacts and resume their work later. For example, an agent waiting for a supervisor to approve a refund can pause the email and take an incoming call. Paused time is tracked separately from active handling time, giving supervisors a more accurate view of the time age…

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Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents now supports Linux and Windows 11 cloud desktops

WorkSpaces for AI agents now supports Linux and Windows 11 cloud desktops, in addition to Windows Server. You can run each AI agent on the operating system that its workflows and applications require. Your agents can then work in the same environments that your workforce already uses, without re-platforming. Linux desktops give agents full root access to the operating system where many developers…

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Amazon Connect Customer prefills the email address for new threads started from cases

Amazon Connect Customer automatically fills in the customer’s email address from the linked customer profile when agents start a new email thread from a case. This saves agents time and reduces manual entry errors by eliminating the need to look up or type the address. Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Eu…

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AWS Config now supports 10 new resource types

AWS Config now supports 10 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon QuickSight. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will au…

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Amazon RDS now supports the latest Cumulative Update and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 CU31+GDR KB5128496 (RDS version 14.00.3560.2.v1), SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR KB5128494 (RDS version 15.00.4500.2.v1), SQL Server 2022 CU27+GDR KB5126934 (RDS…

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Amazon CloudWatch now supports API keys for OpenTelemetry traces

Amazon CloudWatch now supports bearer token authentication, using API keys (bearer tokens), as an additional option for sending OpenTelemetry traces to the AWS X-Ray OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) traces endpoint. Any OTLP/HTTP client that can set an Authorization header, including the OpenTelemetry Collector and OpenTelemetry SDK exporters, can now authenticate with a bearer token instead of signi…

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AWS Transform for mainframe improves the reimagine modernization workflow

AWS Transform for mainframe now discovers business functions with field-level precision and generates a new requirements coverage report in the assess and reimagine workflow. Previously, business functions that used the same table or file were grouped together, and you had to build your own traceability reporting from AWS Transform artifacts. With this launch, you can start modernizing z/OS COBOL…

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Amazon EKS Capabilities now supports Argo CD Notifications

The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capability for Argo CD now supports Argo CD Notifications, providing notifications when your applications sync, fail, or change health. You define triggers and message templates in your cluster and subscribe individual Applications with an annotation, the same way you do in upstream Argo CD. With this launch, you can deliver notifications to 16 no…

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances in additional AWS Regions. Both M8i and R8i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary), and R8i instances are now available in Europe (Milan, Stockholm, and Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv). These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only…

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AWS What's New Cloud v5.5

Haiku 5.5 now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)

A new Anthropic model is now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Haiku 5.5, all three Claude 5.5 models are now available in Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Claude Haiku 5.5 is the fastest model in the Claude 5.5 family. It's a clear step up from Claude Haiku 4.5, built for work that runs in large volumes and needs quick responses. Developers can use it to summariz…

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Amazon RDS now supports per snapshot billing

Starting today, Amazon RDS supports per snapshot billing for Amazon RDS snapshots. Per snapshot billing allows you to get the cost of each individual snapshot. Previously, RDS snapshot charges were aggregated at the database instance level on the Cost and Usage report as well as the Cost Explorer. This meant that while understanding the snapshot charges, you could only see the aggregate view at th…

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Amazon Quick on desktop now uses your organization's existing Amazon Quick sign-in

For organizations that use Amazon Quick, the desktop application now signs users in with the same sign-in method the organization already uses for Quick on the web. Administrators no longer need to register an OIDC application in their identity provider or set up separate desktop sign-in before users can get started. If a user can sign in to Quick on the web, that user can sign in to the desktop a…

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AWS Lambda now supports queues for Apache Kafka in self-managed Kafka event sources

AWS Lambda now supports queues for Apache Kafka in self-managed Kafka event source mappings (ESM), for Kafka clusters that customers run themselves and for managed offerings such as Confluent Cloud. Customers can now scale processing for Kafka workloads beyond the partition count of a topic, increasing throughput during traffic spikes and improving processing resilience. Customers building event-d…

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AWS What's New Cloud v8.4.10

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.10 is now generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 supports MySQL 8.4.10. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to accept fixes for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 8.4 and MySQL 8.4.10 re…

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AWS What's New Cloud v3.14

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.46) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.46, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. In addition to operational improvements, Aurora MySQL 3.14 introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. For detai…

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Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block

Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block, giving you more control over how your customer experience flows react to real-time data changes. In addition to waiting for a Lambda function to complete, you can now wait until a Connect Case field meets a specified condition or an External Tool invocation completes. This enables you to wait for critical inform…

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Amazon Connect Customer now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools in flows

Amazon Connect Customer now enables you to invoke Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools in customer experience flows through the new 'External Tool' block. With this launch, you can connect flows to third-party applications through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and reuse the same tools used by your agentic experiences to retrieve data or trigger actions, without writing custom Lambda functions. Fo…

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AWS What's New Cloud v3.0.0

Announcing AWS for Fluent Bit 3.0.0 based on Fluent Bit 4.1.1

AWS for Fluent Bit announces version 3.0.0, based on Fluent Bit version 4.1.1 and Amazon Linux 2023. Container logging using AWS for Fluent Bit is now more performant and more feature-rich for AWS customers, including those using Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). AWS for Fluent Bit enables Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS customers to colle…

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Announcing an updated text detection model for Amazon Textract

Amazon Textract now provides an updated text detection model that improves accuracy, expands language support, and enhances multilingual table extraction. The updated model applies to the DetectDocumentText and AnalyzeDocument APIs and requires no changes to your Amazon Textract API requests or response schema. Your applications are served by the updated model automatically, so you can continue ca…

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Amazon Textract now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Zurich)

Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents, going beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify and extract text and structured data. At launch in these Regions, Amazon Textract supports text detection and docume…