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GuardDuty Malware Protection now scans S3 continuous backups
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup now supports S3 continuous backups, allowing users to scan backups for malware and identify clean recovery points. This feature enables full or incremental scans within backup plans and on-demand scans, with a new API to query scan status at any point in time, providing enhanced safety for S3 data restoration.
feature - AWS What's New mlawsengineer ·
SageMaker Studio adds interactive interface for Feature Store management
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers an interactive interface for managing SageMaker Feature Store, reducing the need for coding common tasks. This feature benefits data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts by simplifying feature discovery, creation, modification, and monitoring within a unified environment.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Enhances Domain Management
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers expanded domain management for both Identity Center and IAM-based domains, allowing administrators to manage projects, workforce identity, and networking properties outside the AWS console. This unification simplifies administration for teams working with diverse SageMaker environments, improving consistency and enabling cross-account data sharing.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitect ·
AWS Transform adds agentic migration assessment capabilities
AWS Transform has released new agentic migration assessment capabilities, including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, and enhanced total cost of ownership (TCO) features. These updates accelerate migration decisions by enabling users to quickly build business cases with diverse data inputs and explore various cost modeling scenarios. The improvements are aimed at engineers and architects planning AWS migrations, offering a faster and more comprehensive assessment.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio adds business metadata and governance to IAM domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports business context, metadata, and data governance for IAM-based domains. This enables users to add business names, descriptions, and READMEs to AWS Glue Data Catalog tables, automatically generate metadata using AI, and create business glossaries for consistent terminology. These features enhance data discovery, access control, and collaboration for data engineers, analysts, and scientists within SageMaker environments.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
AWS Security Agent adds pentest finding verification scripts
AWS Security Agent now automatically generates verification scripts for penetration test findings, allowing security teams to reproduce and validate vulnerabilities. This new capability streamlines the triage process by automating the previously manual steps required for verification, accelerating remediation efforts.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerretailmedia ·
Amazon GameLift Streams adds Generation 6e stream classes for demanding game streaming
Amazon GameLift Streams has launched Generation 6e stream classes featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs and AMD EPYC processors. These new classes offer double the GPU memory and significantly increased memory bandwidth, providing enhanced performance for high-fidelity game streaming and GPU-intensive applications. They are targeted at customers requiring maximum GPU power for AAA game streaming experiences.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS WorkSpaces Linux Migration Now Available
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports migrating Linux WorkSpaces between operating systems, automatically moving user data. This simplifies upgrades and OS transitions for users, reducing manual effort and disruption.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon Keyspaces expands to Malaysia and Thailand regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions. This expansion allows APAC customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and meet data residency requirements. The new regions offer the same features as existing ones, enabling scalable, low-latency applications without managing clusters.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcarefinance ·
AWS Clean Rooms: Mutable Payment Configurations for Collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now allows mutable fine-grained payment configurations, giving customers more control over cost responsibilities with partners after a collaboration is established. This new feature enables specifying authorized payers for specific cost types like SQL queries, PySpark jobs, and ML workloads, adding flexibility for joint data analysis use cases. The update is relevant for organizations using AWS Clean Rooms for collaborative data analysis, particularly those with complex financial arrangements like pharmaceutical companies partnering with healthcare providers.
feature - AWS What's New securityawssnowflakeengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager supports Datadog and Snowflake external secrets
AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Datadog keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens. This feature automates the rotation of third-party credentials, enhancing security and operational efficiency for managing sensitive access keys. The update primarily impacts engineers and architects responsible for managing cloud credentials and secrets across multiple services.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 13 new query commands and functions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has introduced 13 new commands and functions, enhancing log analysis capabilities with string manipulation, encoding/decoding, and parsing functionalities. This update allows engineers to derive deeper insights from logs, addressing common needs for transforming and analyzing diverse log formats. The new features are now available in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature - Azure Updates awsazuregaengineer ·
Azure NetApp Files object REST API now generally available
Azure NetApp Files now offers a generally available Object REST API, providing S3 compatibility. This feature bridges file-based storage and cloud services, allowing existing data to be used in new ways.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineermedia ·
EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, M7i instances launch in AWS Hyderabad region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer improved price-performance and enhanced capabilities for various workloads, including general-purpose applications, gaming, ML, and video streaming. They are suitable for engineers and architects seeking better performance and cost efficiency for their compute needs.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet retries
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically provisions AWS Glue connectors across subnets for data pipeline resilience. This enhancement allows critical data pipelines to retry jobs automatically on alternate subnets during failures without manual intervention, reducing unplanned downtime. It primarily affects engineers and architects responsible for data pipelines on SageMaker, simplifying disaster recovery configurations.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineermedia ·
SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, enabling direct integration with tools like OpenAI SDK, LangChain, and Strands Agents by simply changing an endpoint URL. This new feature removes the need for custom integration code or SDK wrappers, allowing users to leverage existing SDK calls and framework integrations with SageMaker endpoints while retaining control over GPU instances, VPC data, and auto-scaling. The update is available in multiple AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Now Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers with community releases and simplifying operations. This update strengthens security defaults, enforces TLS 1.2/1.3, and improves upgrade confidence with prechecks. The release affects users who manage MySQL databases on AWS and require the latest features or LTS support.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisory ·
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for SQL Server 2019 and 2022. These updates include critical security fixes for vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32167 and CVE-2026-32176. Affected users are encouraged to upgrade their instances via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI to enhance security.
security patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed encryption keys
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) via AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This feature enhances security and compliance for organizations by giving them control over their encryption keys and offering detailed audit trails through CloudTrail. The new capability is now generally available in all AWS Regions where QuickSight is offered.
feature - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock adds request-level usage attribution for InvokeModel APIs
Amazon Bedrock now supports request-level usage attribution for InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs. This feature provides granular visibility into model inference usage across an organization, aiding in cost optimization and internal reporting. It extends existing attribution capabilities, offering a consistent tagging mechanism for inference calls.
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