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YOLO Mode: Agent Autonomy Without the Guardrails
YOLO mode lets an AI agent run without asking permission. Learn what it is, why it's risky, and how to run it safely.
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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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Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans
Starting today, customers can subscribe and manage flat-rate pricing plans programmatically using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API. CloudFront flat-rate plans give you one monthly price covering global content delivery, WAF, DDoS, DNS, logging, and edge compute, with no usage-based overage charges regardless of traffic spikes or attacks. Previously, customers could only subscribe to flat-rate pricing plans using the console, which required manual steps when using the API or infrastructure as code (IaC) like CloudFormation to create and manage distributions. Now, customers can programmatically subscrib…
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Introducing Amazon Quick Max: 5x the usage for power users who want the most out of Quick
Amazon Quick now offers Quick Max, a new plan for power users who want to get the absolute most out of Quick. With 5x the usage and 5x the storage of Plus, Max gives you the room to do more: more agents, more workflows, more of whatever makes Quick yours. With Max, you can run large, concurrent workloads without interruption—all month long. It delivers more value per dollar the more you use it and is available with both monthly and annual billing options. New to Amazon Quick? You can sign up for free in minutes. Already on Plus? Click your name at the bottom of the left navigation bar, then select "Upgrade plan" to switch to Max. To compare …
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Graphics G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable (6th Gen) processors. G7 instances deliver up to 2.1× better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation G6 instances. With Graphics G7, customers can stream demanding professional applications such as CAD/CAM, 3D rendering, scientific visualization, video editing, and AI-assisted design workflows at higher fidelity and frame rates. G7 instances feature 32 GB of GDDR7 GPU memory per GPU and 2.67× faster memory bandwidth, enabling streaming of larger, more comp…
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AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports TCP Reset for faster failure recovery
AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) now supports sending TCP Reset (RST) packets when a target becomes unhealthy, is deregistered, or when a flow's idle timeout expires. This feature helps reduce traffic interruptions from minutes to seconds by enabling TCP endpoints to quickly detect failed connections and establish new TCP flows through healthy targets. Previously, when a GWLB target failed, existing TCP connections would continue to be forwarded to the unhealthy target (aka fail-open behavior). Client and server applications could experience interruptions lasting several minutes due to TCP retry and exponential back-off mechanisms built in t…
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Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters
Amazon Redshift rg.large instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, now support single-node clusters. Single-node support for rg.large clusters is available on P204 or later patch versions. Customers can now create a single-node rg.large cluster for smaller workloads that do not require high availability, offering a cost-effective option to conduct proofs of concept and tests quickly. RG instances deliver up to 2.4x faster performance running data warehouse and data lake workloads when compared to previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine…
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Amazon MWAA adds built-in monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now includes a built-in monitoring experience on the environment detail page in the AWS Management Console. A new metrics dashboard displays key Amazon CloudWatch metrics for your environment in one place, and each graph includes an optional toggle to overlay suggested warning ranges, helping you quickly identify conditions that may affect your environment's health and performance. The environment detail page also now shows an alarms table that lists all Amazon CloudWatch alarms associated with your MWAA environment. You can use the one-click Create Recommended Alarms action to provision a c…
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows support Python and Bash operators
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator, enabling you to run custom Python functions and shell commands directly in your serverless workflows without provisioning separate compute resources. This eliminates the need to offload custom logic to Lambda or ECS for tasks like data transformations or shell script execution. To get started, open a serverless visual workflow in your SageMaker Unified Studio project, search for PythonOperator or BashOperator in the task panel, and drag the node onto your canvas. Provide your Python or shell script files through the workflow settings, then point each oper…
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Amazon SES now supports S/MIME email signing
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) signing, giving you a way to help recipients verify your emails are authentic. An S/MIME signature lets recipients confirm that a message was sent by the holder of the From address and that its content was not altered in transit. Previously, senders who needed S/MIME had to sign each message themselves before submitting it to SES, adding complexity to their sending. With this feature, you store your signing certificate in AWS Certificate Manager and enable S/MIME signing for your sender identity. SES then signs your messages automatically as …
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Amazon Connect Customer expands automated performance evaluations to Malay
Amazon Connect Customer now automates evaluations of human and AI agents in Malay using generative AI. Managers define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications in their preferred language. Performance evaluations also supports cross-language evaluation and can complete assessments in English, even when the conversation is in Malay. This enables multilingual contact centers to use a standardized evaluation framework across languages. This feature is supported in 8 AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), …
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Amazon Quick adds new tool settings and Model Context Protocol (MCP) sync support for connectors
Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are deployed and kept up to date. Connector owners and admins can now selectively enable or disable individual tools within a connector to ensure only approved tools are available to end users. Additionally, new tool permission settings let connector owners decide which tools require consent be…
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Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Organizations from startups to enterprises and the public sector can now order their Outposts racks connected to the new supported regions, optimizing for their latency and data residency needs. Outposts allows customers to run workloads that need low latency access to on-premises systems locally while connecting back to their home Region for applicat…