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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports interface VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink, providing private connectivity from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Traffic between your VPC and Kinesis Video Streams stays on the AWS network and is not exposed to the public internet, across the control plane and the video ingestion and playback data planes. Customers with strict security, compliance, or network-isolation requirements can now ingest, store, and play back video without internet gateways, NAT devices, or public IP addresses. For example, connected-camera or IoT video workloads in a private subnet can send media to K…
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Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. An upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6.1 Sol delivers exceptionally strong performance on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work. According to OpenAI, it approaches GPT-6 Astra across demanding evaluations at roughly one-fifth of the cost, giving developers more room to build and run capable agents at scale. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine delivers the performance, security, and reliability required for production workloads. Use GPT-6.1 Sol to build features, debug issues, iterate on solutions, carry out multistep workflows, and investigate c…
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, which include bug fixes from the PostgreSQL community and Aurora-specific enhancements. We recommend upgrading to the latest minor versions to benefit from these improvements and address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), as detailed in the release notes. You can upgrade your databases during scheduled maintenance windows using automatic minor version upgrades. To simplify operations at scale, enable automatic minor version upgrades and use the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy to orchestrate multiple upgrades i…
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514, and 11.22-rds.20260514. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of fixes for critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and bugs beyond a major version's end of standard support date, giving you more time to upgrade to a new major version. You can upgrade your database using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments, in-place upgrade, or restore from a snapshot. Learn more about performing version upgrades in the Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL User Guide. Amazon RDS for Pos…
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​​Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall support for Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Advanced DNS Security is now generally available across 32 AWS Regions, allowing security teams to detect and block malicious DNS traffic directly from their VPCs using PANW Advanced DNS Security rules without deploying separate firewalls or modifying VPC configurations.​ ​​Previewed at AWS Summit New York City, the feature enables security administrators to enforce DNS threat protections (Command and Control, Malware, Phishing, Newly Registered Domains, etc.) from Palo Alto Networks directly using Route 53 DNS Firewall rules to inspect and block malicious DNS quer…
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) discovery APIs. You can now access the OIDC discovery metadata and JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) verification key endpoints from within your VPC using AWS PrivateLink, without requiring traffic to traverse the public internet. IAM outbound identity federation eliminates the need to use long-lived credentials when your AWS workloads access external services. Instead, your workloads request short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) from AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). External services verify th…
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Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. RDS for PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher support modification of the ssl_groups parameter. You can select cryptographic groups from the RDS for PostgreSQL allow list to align with your organization's security standards. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS Command Line I…
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of fixes for critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and bugs beyond a major version's end of standard support date, giving you more time to upgrade to a new major version. You can upgrade your database using Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments, in-place upgrade, or restore from a snapshot. Learn more about performing version upgrades in the Amazon RDS for MySQL User Guide. You can also migrate to MySQL 8.4 from external…
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Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Network Security Manager, a comprehensive network security management solution designed to simplify security policy deployment and enforcement at scale. Network Security Manager supports AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced, with support for AWS Network Firewall soon to follow. AWS Network Security Manager enables security teams to consistently enforce firewall and DDoS protection configurations across their entire AWS organization. Network Security Manager features always-on security deployment automation that applies AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced security protection to Internet facing asset…
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Meet the partners and customers bringing practical AI, security, and development sessions to the Docker Pavilion at WeAreDevelopers. The post explains why a strong ecosystem matters to developers, announces the sessions and speakers, and invites attendees to connect with the teams building and using these technologies.
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Amazon EMR introduces Long Term Support (LTS) releases, starting with emr-spark-8.1.0 and Apache Spark 4.1. With LTS, designated versions of the AWS runtime for Apache Spark receive 36 months of support. Amazon EMR provides LTS releases with fixes for critical and high severity security, bug, and data-corruption issues, subject to availability. LTS helps you run production Spark workloads on one release longer and upgrade on your own schedule, at no additional cost. This release adds full support for Apache Iceberg v3, bringing new geospatial, high-precision timestamp, and schema-evolution capabilities to your tables. Spark SQL queries can r…
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AWS Security Hub AI Inventory now supports discovering and cataloging AI assets running on self-hosted instances in Microsoft Azure. This expansion extends Security Hub's existing self-hosted discovery capabilities beyond AWS, enabling central security teams to gain a continuously updated, organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture across multi-cloud environments. Security Hub leverages the software bill of materials (SBOM) analysis from Amazon Inspector, which has been enhanced to identify inference endpoints, models, and AI agents installed on Azure virtual machines, including frameworks such as Ollama, vLLM, Hugging Fa…
