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AWS DataSync now supports shared Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). You can create DataSync agents and run transfer tasks using subnets shared across AWS accounts with AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). It allows you to transfer data privately over a shared subnet and VPC endpoint managed in a central account, rather than one per account. Customers that centralize their networking previously had to create a separate DataSync VPC endpoint in every account that connected privately through AWS PrivateLink. Each endpoint consumed IP addresses and added operational overhead to maintain across accounts. With shared VPC support, a single endpoint in th…
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AWS Systems Manager now lets you share your Systems Manager Documents (SSM Documents) with an entire AWS organization or with specific organizational units (OUs) using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). Previously, you could only share a document publicly or with a list of individual account IDs. You can now easily share a document with your organization or OUs, and Systems Manager automatically keeps that sharing up to date as accounts are added to or removed from your organization or OU, so you no longer need to track and update accounts manually. To share a document, you create an AWS RAM resource share, add the SSM Documents you want…
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Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints, letting you connect to your cache directly from a laptop, a serverless function, or any application running outside AWS, without setting up a VPN, a bastion host, or an SSH tunnel. With a public endpoint, ElastiCache Serverless gives you a fully managed cache reachable over the internet, with no VPC to configure and no infrastructure to provision, and you can create one in under a minute. Use it to rapidly prototype, connect AI coding tools and agents straight to your cache, or add caching to workloads that can't reach a VPC. Every connection uses IAM authentication over…
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Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness now returns Feedback Codes that help customers understand why a liveness check received a low score and how users could retry successfully. The codes are returned in the GetFaceLivenessSessionResults API response, and they identify the specific conditions that contributed to the low score, such as poor lighting, face obstruction, closed eyes, or low video quality. Customers can surface these codes to their end users who can then make targeted corrections and retry with confidence. A single session can return multiple Feedback Codes at once, allowing users to resolve all contributing issues in one retry. This …
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Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, with US Geo and Global cross-Region inference. Grok 4.7 builds on Grok 4.6 with better mixed-document handling, more dependable repo-scale coding with planning and error recovery, and enhanced browser-use agents for form fills and portal navigation. Get started with Grok 4.7 in the Amazon Bedrock console or programmatically through supported Amazon Bedrock APIs. For information about supported AWS Regions, endpoints, APIs, features, inference profiles and pricing, see the Amazon Bedrock documentation. To learn more, read the l…
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If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Amazon Bedrock over the past few days: GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 […]
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AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work ag faster speed. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet. It's stronger for coding, completing well-scoped tasks as part of a larger coding strategy such as building and fixing features with Claude in the same session or verifying output against requirements. And it produces ready-to-share knowledge work, from 1-pagers, diagrams, and summary slide…
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AWS now offers Claude Sonnet 5.5, a smarter and more efficient Sonnet that delivers a clear leap forward on coding and knowledge work with at a lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet and a step up from Sonnet 5, making it a natural upgrade for teams already building on Sonnet. It's stronger for coding, completing well-scoped tasks as part of a larger coding strategy such as building and fixing features with Claude in the same session or verifying output against requirements. And it produces ready-to-share knowledge work, from 1-pagers, diagrams, and summary slides to document …
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports two new connection capabilities: (1) Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections for external Apache Iceberg catalogs, and (2) IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB. Together, they let data teams connect to a broader set of governed data sources and use credential-less authentication across projects. Iceberg REST Catalog connections. SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections, letting customers connect to external Apache Iceberg catalogs that follow the Iceberg REST specification. Supported catalog types include Snowflake Open Catalog (Polaris), Databricks Unity Cat…
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AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Logically air-gapped vaults are a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and AWS Organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. You can now protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes in logically air-gapped vaults. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backups that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys or customer-managed keys. You can store your FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups in a logically air-gapped vault in the same account or acros…
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Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now you can supply your own symmetric AWS KMS key when you create or update these resources, so the artifacts Transcribe stores on your behalf are encrypted under a key in your account. If you do not provide a key, your resources continue to be encrypted with an AWS owned key—no action is required unless you opt in. With a customer-managed key, you control key permissions and d…
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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. You can now protect and recover your Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS experience you already use for x86 workloads. As more workloads move to Graviton for its price-performance benefits, they need the same disaster recovery coverage as the rest of your environment. DRS now automatically detects arm64 source servers and recovers them onto Graviton instances, preserving your workload's architecture end to end. Recovery works the same way it does for your other servers, with nothing extra to configure. This …
