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Amazon ECS adds Amazon VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies for ECS services using Amazon VPC Lattice. Applications that use VPC Lattice for service-to-service communication across VPCs and AWS accounts can now take advantage of managed traffic shifting natively from Amazon ECS when rolling out updates. With this launch, ECS customers us…

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AWS Health introduces the version catalog for software lifecycle management

Today, AWS Health introduces the version catalog which provides a centralized source of lifecycle information for software versions across AWS services. The version catalog helps customers move from reactive to proactive management of version upgrades and end-of-support risk. It is available in the AWS Health Dashboard, and customers on Business Support Plus, Enterprise Support, or Unified Operati…

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Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports partial indexes

Amazon Aurora DSQL now lets you build an index over a specific subset of a table, storing only qualifying rows rather than every row in the entire table, which improves query performance and lowers index storage cost. Many tables hold a small working set alongside a much larger history, such as open orders among years of completed ones. Add a WHERE clause to CREATE INDEX to index just that working…

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Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37

Kubernetes version 1.37 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.37. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.37 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.37 using the EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through a…

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AWS Brazil automates distribution of non-Brazilian software product licenses to Brazilian customers

AWS Brazil now provides an automated distribution workflow through the AWS Brazil 2P Distribution Program that enables eligible non-Brazilian independent software vendors (ISVs) to distribute their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product licenses to customers in Brazil. AWS Brazil is the seller of record, acquiring the rights to distribute SaaS product licenses to Brazilian customers and invoicing th…

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AgentCore Gateway supports private TLS certificates for VPC endpoints

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports TLS certificates signed by private certificate authorities (CAs) on MCP, OpenAPI, and HTTP proxy targets. This feature enables you to connect securely to gateway targets that use TLS certificates issued by your own private certificate authority. With this feature, you can establish native connections to private endpoints in your VPC without requiring a…

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The AWS MCP Server is now available in six additional AWS Regions

The AWS MCP Server is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and US West (Oregon). The AWS MCP Server, part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, is a managed Model Context Protocol server that gives AI coding agents a single interface to AWS APIs, so agents can discover and call AWS services wi…

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Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoring

Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now publishes OpenTelemetry metrics to Amazon CloudWatch for your node-based clusters, and each metric carries attributes you can filter and aggregate on with Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) expressions. ElastiCache now offers two monitoring modes. Standard monitoring, the existing experience, continues to publish CloudWatch Metrics (Classic) every 60 seconds and n…

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GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan

Today, AWS announces that Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan. Runtime Monitoring inspects operating system, network, and file activity to surface threats such as container escapes, privilege escalation, and cryptomining on Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EKS clusters, and Amazon ECS tasks on AWS Fargate. Security Hub now bills this covera…

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AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview

AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, a AI-powered service that is the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The agent analyzes and optimizes AWS infrastructure across cost, security, performance, and reliability, delivering contextualized recommendations prioritized by business goals. It automatically correlates key metrics and application…

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Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake

Amazon Redshift now supports querying Amazon S3 data lake tables located in a different AWS Region. With enhanced VPC routing, data lake query traffic between Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift stays within your own VPC. Both capabilities are powered by the integrated data lake query engine that runs directly on the compute of RG provisioned and Serverless clusters. These features are aimed at enterpri…

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Amazon DynamoDB introduces filtered export to Amazon S3

Amazon DynamoDB export to Amazon S3 allows you to export your table data for analytics, data sharing, and other offline uses, as either a full export or an incremental export over a time window. Filtered export enables you to specify exactly which items and attributes to export, producing a dataset that contains only the data relevant to your use case. With filtered export, you use a key condition…

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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in additional Regions

Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in 17 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Z…

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Amazon GuardDuty now supports centralized management using AWS Organizations declarative policies

Amazon GuardDuty now supports AWS Organizations declarative policies, enabling you to centrally enable GuardDuty threat detection across every account and Region in your AWS organization. Using an organization policy, you can now apply a centrally managed GuardDuty enablement configuration. The configuration applies to existing accounts and is automatically maintained as new accounts join your org…

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Amazon Corretto 8 September 2026 Patch Updates

On September 30, 2026, Amazon announced a patch update for the following Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) version of OpenJDK: Corretto 8u504 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. This patch includes the tzdata 2026d updates. Visit Corretto home page to download Corretto 27, Corretto 25, Corretto 21, Corretto 17…

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Amazon S3 Object Lock variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 Object Lock support for variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Amazon S3 Object Lock variable retention allows you to apply write-once-read-many (WORM) protection to objects whose required retention period starts with a future event, such as a contract closing or an audit completing. You place an event hold with a retent…

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AWS Transfer Family now supports custom CloudWatch log groups for managed workflows

AWS Transfer Family now lets you choose a custom log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs for managed workflow execution logs. You can organize workflow logs to monitor individual workflows separately or bring logs from related workflows together. Previously, every workflow attached to a Transfer Family server sent its execution logs to that server’s CloudWatch log group, so you could not set a separat…

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AWS Security Hub introduces remediation plans to prioritize and fix security exposures

AWS Security Hub now offers remediation plans that group related exposure findings sharing a root cause. Instead of addressing each exposure individually, you can now fix a single underlying resource, such as a misconfigured setting or overly permissive policy, and resolve or reduce the severity of multiple exposures at once. Each remediation plan includes prioritization guidance (Critical, High,…

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AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers

AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage thresholds and alerts you by email when your spending crosses the threshold. AWS Budgets now verifies new email subscribers before sending them budget alerts. When you add an email address to a budget notification, AWS Budgets sends a verification email to that address, and the address begins receiving notifications once the recipient confirms it. Ver…

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Announcing DNS analytics and insights for Route 53 Global Resolver and DNS Firewall

Route 53 Global Resolver and DNS Firewall now provide DNS analytics and insights through native Amazon CloudWatch integration. These new capabilities enable network administrators and security teams to gain full observability into DNS query patterns, monitor DNS Firewall rule effectiveness, detect anomalous activity, and optimize DNS infrastructure performance. DNS analytics and insights is availa…

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AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) tables. With these new capabilities, you can automatically maintain V3 tables, optimize them for query performance, and discover them in Amazon S3. With table optimization, you can compact V3 tables using binpack, sort, or z-order strategies to improve query performance, and remove exp…

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Serverless Storage on Amazon EMR Serverless now supports terabyte-scale shuffle

Amazon EMR Serverless now offers enhanced serverless storage capabilities with support for up to 1TB shuffle operations, raising the previous 200 GB per-job limit. Amazon EMR Serverless makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. This enhancement enables enterprise customers…

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AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to more AWS Regions

IAM Identity Center helps you connect your workforce identities to AWS once and streamline access management to AWS accounts and applications. You can now replicate IAM Identity Center to opt-in AWS Regions, and between Regions within the AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China Regions. Previously, multi-Region support was available in the enabled-by-default commercial AWS Regions. This helps you improve…

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Improve your secrets security posture with actionable recommendations in the AWS Secrets Manager console

​​​AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with the AWS Recommended Actions framework to surface contextual, actionable suggestions for your secrets directly in the Secrets Manager console. ​​ ​​With this launch, you can view tailored recommendations alongside your secrets to improve your security posture and follow best practices without leaving the console. For example, you can identify secrets that…

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Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account

Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account, increased from 10. This allows you to create up to 1 million tables per AWS Region in an AWS account. With a higher table bucket allowance, you can create a separate table bucket for each dataset, workload, or team, and apply table bucket-level settings such as encryption, access policies, and replication to eac…

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Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU

Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports Graphics G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. G7 instances deliver up to 2.1X better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation G6 instances. With Graphics G7, customers can run demanding professional applications such as CAD/CAM, 3D rendering,…

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Apache Iceberg materialized views now support system-managed write protection

Today, AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg. Materialized views let you precompute an expensive query once and reuse the result across engines. Because this result is an open Iceberg table in your data lake, anyone with write access can change it, either through the catalog or by writing to the files in Amazon S3. System-managed materialized views close this gap by on…

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AWS CLI now supports bulk skill updates and version checks for the Agent Toolkit for AWS

Today, AWS expanded the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands for the Agent Toolkit for AWS with two new capabilities that make it easier to keep agent skills up to date. Customers can now run aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates to compare all installed skills against the latest versions available in the registry, and use aws agent-toolkit update-skill --all to update every outdated skill in…

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Amazon S3 Vectors introduces metadata pre-filtering for up to 5x higher recall on filtered search

Amazon S3 Vectors now supports pre-filtering, which evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective. S3 Vectors also adds a prefix match operator ($startsWith) for filtering on values like paths and URLs. Together, these improvements give your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic, and semantic-searc…

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Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating Grafana 13.2 workspaces

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 13.2. This release brings features from open-source Grafana versions 13.0 to 13.2, including Git Sync for dashboards, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL query support in the Amazon CloudWatch data source plugin. With Git Sync, you can treat dashboards as code by linking a workspace to a Git repository, enabling version co…