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AWS announced Amazon Connect Customer, enabling managers to query contact-center data in plain language and receive instant insights, evidence, and recommended actions across 150 metrics.
AWS Deadline Cloud Monitor now tracks automatic download status at job and task levels, improving output file verification for render pipelines.
Amazon EKS now allows custom configuration for its Argo CD GitOps capability via a standard ConfigMap, enabling teams to tailor health checks and UI settings for managed clusters.
Amazon SES now allows senders to override open and click tracking settings directly in SendEmail and SendBulkEmail API calls, simplifying consent management without additional configuration sets.
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada, offering low-latency cloud services for compute, storage, and networking to support applications requiring single-digit millisecond response times.
AWS has expanded availability of EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances featuring Graviton4 processors and high-speed local storage to additional regions, targeting compute, balanced, and memory-intensive workloads.
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, expanding high-performance GPU computing options for AI workloads.
Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points, allowing customers to restrict access to designated CloudFront distributions without custom Lambda@Edge functions.
Amazon EKS now offers automated certificate authority (CA) rotation with lifecycle management to maintain secure cluster operations as original CAs near expiration.
AWS now allows partners to access Partner Central agents via OAuth through AWS Sign-In, eliminating the need for additional authentication software or manual proxy setups.
Amazon SageMaker AI Studio now offers Generative AI Inference Recommendations to help users select optimal inference configurations for production workloads with minimal manual effort.
Amazon Redshift now allows long-term retention of system table data by integrating with Amazon S3 Tables, enabling compliance and auditing without custom ETL pipelines.
AWS Direct Connect now allows customers to allocate up to 1,000 IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes per virtual interface, increasing the previous limit of 100 prefixes.
AWS Marketplace partners can now route notifications by category and channel, replacing a single inbox with targeted delivery via email, mobile app, or chat platforms.
AWS has expanded Web Search on Amazon Bedrock to allow direct retrieval of public web content for real-time responses, while maintaining an option to restrict searches to an internal AWS index for sensitive use cases.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore’s Web Search tool now allows domain and published-date filtering, enabling agents to restrict sources and time windows per request, and is expanding to Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
AWS CloudWatch Centralization now propagates log group tags from source to destination accounts, enabling consistent cost tracking, ownership identification, and compliance enforcement across centralized logs.
AWS added three new processors to CloudWatch pipelines to parse RDS logs, XML payloads, and enrich IP addresses with geographic data, improving log queryability without extra cost.
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors third-party foundation models on Amazon Bedrock, including Anthropic Claude, alerting users to unusual spending patterns automatically.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its managed data ingestion service to 19 regions for processing and indexing data into Amazon OpenSearch...
AWS opened a fourth Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region on 14 May 2025, adding new AI and ML capacity and improving fault tolerance for customers in eu-west-2.
AWS has launched a fourth Availability Zone in its Europe (London) Region, expanding cloud capacity and introducing next-generation AI and ML infrastructure for customers.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs expands to five new regions, bringing VM-level isolation and near-instant execution to 10 total regions for secure, stateful code deployment.
AWS Quick introduces deny-by-default for custom AI permissions, automatically restricting new capabilities unless explicitly allowed by administrators.
AWS now offers SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock with cross-region inference, enabling higher throughput and lower costs while supporting US data residency requirements.
Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India with in-country inference, enabling data residency compliance while supporting cross-region scaling.
AWS IAM now supports outbound identity federation in the European Sovereign Cloud Region, enabling secure authentication with external services using short-lived JWTs instead of long-term credentials.
Amazon Web Services released critical security patches for multiple Amazon Corretto OpenJDK versions on August 18, 2026, addressing vulnerabilities in production-ready distributions.
AWS has launched AgentCore payments in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for APIs, MCPs, and content with built-in security and observability.
AWS adds data profiling and anomaly detection to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, enabling automated statistical analysis and drift detection for datasets at rest and in transit.