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AWS Brazil now provides an automated distribution workflow through the AWS Brazil 2P Distribution Program. Eligible non-Brazilian independent software vendors (ISVs) grant AWS Brazil the right to distribute their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product licenses, and AWS Brazil distributes them to customers in Brazil. AWS Brazil is the seller of record, invoicing Brazilian customers in Brazilian Reais (BRL) with applicable Brazilian taxes. The distribution authorizations, seller disbursements, withholding tax calculation, invoicing, and seller reporting are automated. Eligible ISVs agree to the applicable Brazil 2P distribution terms to grant AW…
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The AWS MCP Server is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and US West (Oregon). The AWS MCP Server, part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, is a managed Model Context Protocol server that gives AI coding agents a single interface to AWS APIs, so agents can discover and call AWS services without building and maintaining per-service integrations. With this expansion, customers in these Regions can run the AWS MCP Server closer to their developers with lower latency, and keep request data within the Region to meet data residency require…
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Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now publishes OpenTelemetry metrics to Amazon CloudWatch for your node-based clusters, and each metric carries attributes you can filter and aggregate on with Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) expressions. ElastiCache now offers two monitoring modes. Standard monitoring, the existing experience, continues to publish CloudWatch Metrics (Classic) every 60 seconds and now also publishes a core set of OpenTelemetry metrics at the same interval at no additional charge. Detailed monitoring, the new mode, lets you select from the full set of OpenTelemetry metrics and publish them every 15 seconds. With OpenTelemetry m…
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Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) in 17 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). DAX is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for Amazon DynamoDB that delivers up to 10 times performance improvement—from single-digit mil…
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Amazon GuardDuty now supports AWS Organizations declarative policies, enabling you to centrally enable GuardDuty threat detection across every account and Region in your AWS organization. Using an organization policy, you can now apply a centrally managed GuardDuty enablement configuration. The configuration applies to existing accounts and is automatically maintained as new accounts join your organization. Enabling GuardDuty across all relevant accounts and Regions helps ensure comprehensive threat detection coverage. Previously, keeping enablement aligned across a large multi-account, multi-Region environment meant configuring GuardDuty's …
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AWS Transfer Family now lets you choose a custom log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs for managed workflow execution logs. You can organize workflow logs to monitor individual workflows separately or bring logs from related workflows together. Previously, every workflow attached to a Transfer Family server sent its execution logs to that server’s CloudWatch log group, so you could not set a separate log destination for each workflow. When creating a workflow through the AWS Transfer Family console or API, you can now select a workflow-level log group that is separate from the server’s log group. Transfer Family delivers workflow logs only to …
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AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage thresholds and alerts you by email when your spending crosses the threshold. AWS Budgets now verifies new email subscribers before sending them budget alerts. When you add an email address to a budget notification, AWS Budgets sends a verification email to that address, and the address begins receiving notifications once the recipient confirms it. Verification applies to email addresses added from 9/30/26 onward. Addresses already subscribed on existing budgets are unaffected and need no action. For a new address, the recipient confirms it by following the link in the verification email, which o…
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Amazon EMR Serverless now offers enhanced serverless storage capabilities with support for up to 1TB shuffle operations, raising the previous 200 GB per-job limit. Amazon EMR Serverless makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. This enhancement enables enterprise customers to run production-scale Apache Spark workloads that require processing large volumes of shuffle data during complex operations such as joins, aggregations, and sorting. Enterprise data teams can now confidently migrate production workloads that rout…
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IAM Identity Center helps you connect your workforce identities to AWS once and streamline access management to AWS accounts and applications. You can now replicate IAM Identity Center to opt-in AWS Regions, and between Regions within the AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China Regions. Previously, multi-Region support was available in the enabled-by-default commercial AWS Regions. This helps you improve the resilience of user access to AWS accounts and deploy AWS applications in the AWS Regions that best align with your business needs. When you enable multi-Region support, IAM Identity Center automatically replicates your identities, entitlements, …
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Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports Graphics G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. G7 instances deliver up to 2.1X better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation G6 instances. With Graphics G7, customers can run 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 2.67X faster memory bandwidth, enabling larger, more complex 3D scenes and model…
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Today, AWS expanded the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands for the Agent Toolkit for AWS with two new capabilities that make it easier to keep agent skills up to date. Customers can now run aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates to compare all installed skills against the latest versions available in the registry, and use aws agent-toolkit update-skill --all to update every outdated skill in a single command. The Agent Toolkit for AWS consists of the AWS MCP Server (which provides a secure, auditable agent interface to 15,000+ AWS APIs), agent skills (which give agents expert guidance across storage, networking, analytics, and more), a…
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Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a real difference in helping developers and organizations succeed with AWS. This month, we welcome […]
