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Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds durability support
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports data durability, enabling workloads sensitive to data loss to leverage its microsecond read latency. This feature stores data across multiple Availability Zones using a transactional log, offering synchronous or asynchronous write options to balance data safety and latency. This expands ElastiCache's applicability to use cases like AI memory, knowledge bases, and financial transactions where data integrity is critical.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 integrates with Athena and Redshift
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now integrates with Athena and Redshift, allowing customers to analyze CUR 2.0 data in S3 using SQL. This brings feature parity with CUR 1.0 integrations, automatically exporting data in optimal formats and reflecting updates without manual ETL. This feature benefits engineers and architects managing AWS costs by simplifying data analysis and reducing setup time.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineerhealthcare ·
AWS HealthOmics Adds Support for Nextflow 26.04
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04, introducing features like record types and a strict syntax parser. These enhancements improve workflow readability, reduce errors, and potentially lower compute costs by enabling earlier detection of pipeline issues. The update benefits healthcare and life sciences customers using AWS HealthOmics for bioinformatics.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerhealthcare ·
AWS HealthOmics adds Nextflow version pinning for run-time control
AWS HealthOmics now supports specifying a Nextflow engine version at run time via the StartRun API. This feature allows customers to pin workflow runs to specific Nextflow versions, enabling controlled migration and testing across different engine versions without modifying source code. This is particularly beneficial for healthcare and life sciences organizations in regulated environments requiring pipeline validation.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed keys for encryption
Amazon QuickSight now allows encryption using customer-managed keys (CMK) via AWS KMS. This feature enhances security and compliance by giving organizations control over their encryption keys and providing detailed audit capabilities through CloudTrail. It affects users needing granular control over sensitive data encryption within QuickSight.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon Quick adds VPC connectivity for private MCP servers
Amazon Quick now supports connecting to privately hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers via VPC. This allows organizations to securely integrate their proprietary applications and custom data sources with Quick's AI workflows without exposing servers to the public internet. The feature is now available in all regions where Quick is offered.
feature - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawsengineer ·
SageMaker Studio supports custom IAM permissions boundaries for SCP compliance
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries for roles provisioned during project creation. This allows organizations to enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) requiring permissions boundaries, simplifying adoption without compromising security posture. Administrators can now set these boundaries at the blueprint level, ensuring all new projects automatically adhere to organizational security requirements.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineerfinanceenergyautomotive ·
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances now available in Europe (Ireland)
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, featuring fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Europe (Ireland) region. These general-purpose instances offer significantly improved compute, memory bandwidth, and networking performance compared to previous generations, benefiting latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads. They are suitable for applications like financial analytics, HPC, and simulations across various industries.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 M8i instances available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. These instances offer improved performance and memory bandwidth over previous generations, suitable for a range of general-purpose workloads, including databases, web applications, and AI models. Engineers and architects deploying or managing workloads in this region can leverage these new instance types for better price-performance.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity supports BYO secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now allows referencing existing AWS Secrets Manager secrets, giving customers full control over secret creation, governance, and compliance. Previously, secrets were service-managed, limiting customization like CMK encryption and tagging. This enhancement supports organizations with strict governance requirements by enabling them to manage secrets according to their policies.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod adds EFA-only network interfaces
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports EFA-only network interfaces, allowing dedicated Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) devices without traditional Elastic Network Adapters (ENA). This change enables larger AI/ML clusters by preventing IP address exhaustion in VPCs, which is crucial for large-scale distributed training workloads.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds troubleshooting for AI coding assistants
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now includes troubleshooting skills that integrate with AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro. These skills automate cluster diagnostics for large-scale AI/ML infrastructure, reducing the complexity and time required for troubleshooting distributed training and inference issues. This feature benefits AI/ML engineers and architects managing complex distributed clusters by providing faster resolution times and actionable recommendations.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
AWS Direct Connect adds VIF Rate Limiters to manage network congestion
AWS Direct Connect now supports Virtual Interface (VIF) Rate Limiters for dedicated connections. This feature allows users to set maximum bandwidth allocations for VIFs, preventing network congestion from traffic spikes and ensuring fair bandwidth distribution. The update benefits network engineers and architects managing Direct Connect deployments by providing better control and visibility through new CloudWatch metrics.
feature - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock adds CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI/Anthropic APIs
Amazon Bedrock now provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics for its bedrock-mantle endpoint, which supports OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. This enables customers to monitor inference traffic, set alarms, and plan capacity for their generative AI applications, similar to how they monitor other AWS services. The metrics are published under the AWS/BedrockMantle namespace and include counts, token totals, and error rates, with granularity down to model and project levels.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 for production workloads and Codex for AI-powered software development. This integration offers OpenAI's most capable models with AWS's security and operational controls, while Codex is accessible via multiple integrations and can run inference through Bedrock. The models are priced at OpenAI's first-party rates and count towards AWS commitments, with regional availability details provided.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineergovernment ·
Amazon SES adds tenant-level suppression lists
Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression lists, isolating bounces and complaints per tenant instead of a shared account-wide list. This prevents one tenant's issues from affecting others, benefiting SaaS providers, enterprises, and agencies managing distinct email streams.
feature - OpenAI News aiawsgaengineer ·
OpenAI models available on AWS
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS. This integration allows enterprises to build with OpenAI using existing AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows, enabling faster deployment from evaluation to production.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineerretail ·
Amazon Inspector Enhances EC2 Agent-Based Scanning
Amazon Inspector has launched an improved agent-based EC2 scanning feature, the Inspector VM Scanner, which expands vulnerability detection coverage and reduces CPU utilization. This update benefits security teams by providing more comprehensive vulnerability findings across a wider range of software and applications on EC2 instances with minimal impact on production workloads. The new scanner replaces the previous engine, bringing agent-based scanning to parity with agentless coverage and is available at no additional cost.
feature patch - Google Cloud release notes securityawsazuregcpengineergovernment ·
Google SecOps updates supported default parsers
Google SecOps has updated its list of supported default parsers, adding new parsers and log types. These updates enhance security monitoring capabilities by integrating data from a wider range of security products. The changes will be reflected across regions within one to four days.
patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon SES adds inbox placement and blocklist monitoring
Amazon SES now offers inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring to provide customers with more insight into their email deliverability. This feature helps users understand how many emails reach the inbox versus the spam folder, and alerts them to potential reputation issues caused by blocklist activity. The new capabilities enable customers to optimize their sending content for better engagement and maintain a positive sender reputation.
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