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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 Operations can use the AWS Health API to integrate lifecycle data into their operational workflows. Customers running applications on AWS need to stay current with software versions to maintain a strong security and operational posture. AWS Health already …

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AWS Transfer Family now automatically approves SFTP connector quota increases up to 1,000

AWS Transfer Family now automatically approves requests to increase your SFTP connector quota up to 1,000 connectors per AWS account in each AWS Region. You can add more connectors as your file transfer needs grow without waiting for manual approval. The default quota remains 100 SFTP connectors per AWS account in each AWS Region, and you continue to request increases in the AWS Service Quotas console. Previously, all quota increases required manual approval. Automatic approval applies to connectors using either service-managed or Amazon VPC Lattice egress. If you need more than 1,000 connectors, submit a higher quota request in the Service …

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AWS Deadline Cloud now supports expressions in job templates

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports flexible expressions and rich parameter types in job templates, giving customers a cleaner, more powerful way to fit the service to existing production pipelines. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive workloads in the cloud for visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming. Customers can now express pipeline logic directly in their job templates. This includes expressions such as arithmetic, conditionals, string and path operations, and list comprehensions, all in a familiar Python-style syntax. Customers can use this to split a frame range into pe…

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Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, is now available in preview

Developed jointly by AWS and OpenAI, Bedrock Managed Agents (BMA) is built on a customized version of OpenAI's Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources. You can now build agents optimized for OpenAI models that run entirely inside AWS with the identities, permissions, and governance controls you already use. BMA manages how the model preserves state, selects and uses tools, executes code, and coordinates work across multiple steps and decisions. Durable sessions retain messages, tool calls, and intermediate results so you can return later, provide new information, and continue from the progress already made. Y…

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Amazon RDS now adds full snapshot size information to the Console and API

Amazon RDS now displays the full snapshot size for RDS Snapshots. With this enhancement, customers can now retrieve full snapshot sizes programmatically through the DescribeDBSnapshots API using the new field, ‘FullSnapshotSizeInBytes’. They can also view this on the console with the ‘Full Snapshot Size’ column. Amazon RDS snapshots are incremental. This means that if you take multiple snapshots of a volume over time, each snapshot only stores the new or modified blocks while maintaining references to unchanged blocks from previous snapshots. The ‘FullSnapshotSizeInBytes’ field shows you the total size of all blocks that make up a snapshot, …

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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications introduces unified graphics images

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces unified graphics images, a single image type that works across all supported graphics instance families, including G4dn, G5, G6, and G7. Previously, each graphics generation required its own dedicated image. Now customers can use one image to create and manage fleets on any supported graphics instance family. Unified graphics images simplify image management and make it easier to adopt newer GPU generations as they become available. When creating a fleet using the unified graphics image, the console displays all compatible instance types, so you can choose the right price and performance for yo…

AWS What’s New · 6 days agoRead →
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Amazon Connect Customer now lets business users manage more reference data to adjust contact center configurations in real time

Amazon Connect Customer now lets administrators store more of the reference data that drives their contact center configurations. Administrators can now use data tables to hold up to 20,000 values per table for defining configurations such as operating hours, escalation rules, AI agent prompts or queue assignments that drive contact flows. Administrators can now also export tables, edit hundreds of records, move tables between Connect Customer instances, or load reference data from external systems using tools and sources such as Excel and DynamoDB. Business teams can keep this data current themselves, adjusting their contact center configur…

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AWS Service Availability Updates

We're announcing availability changes to the following AWS services and features. Services moving to Maintenance Services moving to maintenance will no longer be accessible to new customers starting October 29, 2026. Customers already using these services and features can continue to do so. AWS will continue to operate and support these services and features. We recommend that customers learn about the changes in the product pages and documentation. · Amazon Chime SDK SIP Media Application · Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser Services entering Sunset The following services are entering sunset, and we are announcing the date upon which we will …

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Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to India, South Korea, and Singapore

We're excited to announce the availability of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock in India, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 in South Korea, as well as Claude Sonnet 5 in Singapore. Customers who need to process data within a specific geography, including those in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, can now use these models at scale while keeping inference in-country. In India, the regional endpoint is served through geographic cross-Region inference across the Mumbai and Hyderabad Regions. Customers in India can access these models while processing data in India Regions, in …

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AWS Transform now supports Apache Kafka migration assessments for Amazon MSK

You can now use AWS Transform agentic migration assessments to evaluate the migration of on-premises Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). AWS Transform migration assessments use agentic AI to analyze your workloads, recommend the best-fit AWS services, and generate a total cost of ownership (TCO) business case with pricing options and actionable next steps - all in minutes, through natural-language chat or with AWS Transform MCP server. For Apache Kafka workloads, the assessment agent delivers compatibility checks, right-sized Amazon MSK Express broker recommendations, and projected costs - helping…

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate the volume of log data, in bytes, that a query would scan over your selected log groups and time range - without running the query. This helps you adjust your log group selection, time range, and filters before running the query. In the CloudWatch console, the estimate appears automatically in the query editor when you change the log group selection, time range, or query text. When using the AWS CLI or API, append the estimate command to your query to request it explicitly. Queries that use the estimate command incur no CloudWatch Logs Insights query charges. The estimate command is avail…

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes frequently queried fields

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes the fields you query frequently, speeding up CloudWatch Logs Insights queries without requiring any manual setup. Previously, you had to manually select the fields to index based on your query patterns and usage, requiring extra work for teams whose query patterns change over time. CloudWatch Logs identifies the fields in your queries that you use for filtering with the = and IN operations and indexes them automatically, enabling queries to run faster and scan less data. Fields that are automatically indexed don't count toward your 20-field-per-log-group limit and are retained for 30 days. The…

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AWS Transfer Family now supports downloading multiple files and folders in web apps

AWS Transfer Family now lets web app users download multiple files and folders at once. End users can select any combination of files and folders and download them together in a single action. The download is delivered as a zip archive that preserves the original folder structure when unzipped. You can get started by selecting files and folders in a location and choosing Download from the action menu. Previously, end users could download only one file at a time, and folders could not be downloaded at all. The web app shows the files to be downloaded and real-time progress with a success or failed status for each one. Multiple-file download i…

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