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AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2, available through the --v2 flag of the cfn test command in the CloudFormation CLI. Previously, the contract test suite covered only basic scenarios around the CRUD handlers. Contract tests v2 adds deeper test scenarios that exercise your resource type implementation across each handler operation. All new resource types can run contract tests v2 through the test-type API during registry submission, and Java-based resource types can also run them locally with cfn test --v2, requiring only Docker and a built handler package. Contract tests v2 introduces live-state verification that confirms act…
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You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon MemoryDB from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon MemoryDB, you create an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon MemoryDB in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. With an interface VPC endpoint, you can privately access the Amazon MemoryDB APIs from applications inside your Ama…
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We believe the future is a multi-model, multi-harness world. And we think it needs a new trust model. In 1988, Norm Hardy described a problem that had been quietly breaking systems for years: the confused deputy. A program that takes action using its permissions instead of yours. Today, every AI agent is that deputy. It...
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Learn how Docker Sandboxes can make AI evaluation workflows more reproducible with consistent execution, structured artifacts, and runtime evidence.
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AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions. UXC enables account administrators to set a custom account color and control which services and Regions appear in the AWS Management Console. Previously, UXC was available only in US East (N. Virginia), requiring customers who manage these settings programmatically to direct API calls to that single Region. With today's expansion, customers can manage account customizations from any commercial AWS Region using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS CloudFormation — making it easier to configure the console experience alongside existing infrastructure automation. U…
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD expands its open-source deployment toolkit with two new capabilities: (1) an AI agent skill that automates manifest authoring, and (2) native notebook promotion across environments. Together, they help data teams go from project to production faster while maintaining best-practice defaults across stages. AI-assisted manifest generation. The new generate-bundle-manifest agent skill inspects a project's connections, storage, and workflows and produces a ready-to-use deployment manifest. It applies least-privilege IAM guidance, substitutes environment variables in place of hardcoded resource identifiers, an…
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal that eliminates the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party tools and services. Developers using AgentCore Gateway to connect agents with services such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Slack previously had to build, host, and maintain custom OAuth callback infrastructure to complete OAuth 2.0 three-legged authorization (3LO) flows. The new managed consent portal eliminates this undifferentiated heavy lifting for agent developers and platform administrators. Each AgentCore Gateway receives its own managed consent portal with a dedicated…
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AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles, giving teams a simple way to distribute and reuse render job templates without manual file distribution. 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. Job bundles define the jobs you submit to Deadline Cloud, including the job template, parameters, and asset references. Previously, sharing a bundle with teammates meant distributing files through shared drives or manual copying. Now, you can publish a bundle to your queue directly from the submitter or the command…
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to check whether an API request would succeed without executing the operation. Customers can now set the new optional parameter ‘DryRun’ to true in their API requests to validate permissions before interacting with a stream in production. Previously, customers had no safe way to test whether their application had the correct permissions to access a stream. They would often send a request engineered to fail after checking permissions, such as a PutRecord request with a payload deliberately larger than the maximum supported size. This approach was fragile as it depended on current serv…
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AWS Marketplace now offers a 0% listing fee for professional services purchased as part of a qualifying multi-product solution. This builds on the recent reduction of professional services listing fee to 0.5%. It further lowers the cost for any Partner that transacts services through AWS Marketplace, while retaining the billing benefits that come with it. Over the past year, AWS Marketplace has built a set of capabilities purpose-built for discovering and purchasing services. Customers can find the right Partner through AI-powered discovery in Agent Mode, combine software and services in a single transaction through multi-product solutions, …
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Amazon Connect Customer now offers compact mode on the analytics dashboards, increasing data density so supervisors can see more of their operational data without scrolling. Compact mode reduces widget size, font, and minimizes filters to maximize screen space. For example, a supervisor on a 13-inch laptop toggles compact mode, which reduces row height, enabling them to view all team agents on the widget without scrolling and spot non-adherent agents faster. Compact mode on dashboards is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect Customer analytics dashboards, see the Amazon Conn…
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AWS Marketplace now supports auto-renewals for private offers. This capability helps sellers and buyers maintain active software and service subscriptions without re-negotiation or re-purchasing at the end of the term. Negotiated pricing and contract terms carry forward automatically when buyers and sellers agree to renew. This helps reduce procurement overhead and prevent unintended lapses in subscriptions. When creating a private offer, sellers define the renewal terms and choose how pricing carries forward: renewal with no price change, renewal with a fixed price change, or a price change within a defined range. Buyers can opt in or out d…
