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Tracking 681 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Marketplace lowers professional services listing fee to 0.5%
AWS Marketplace has reduced the listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%. This change aims to make it more cost-effective for partners to transact services on the platform, retaining procurement and billing benefits. The reduced fee applies automatically to new private offers for partners with existing listings, while customers can discover and procure services alongside software.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Partner Central adds funding for Business Value Realization
AWS Partner Central now supports the Business Value Realization (BVR) motion, offering funding for partners who drive customer adoption and business outcomes with AWS services. This new experience helps partners structure the customer adoption journey across defined stages, with AI agents generating weekly reports to identify risks and opportunities. Funding is automatically disbursed upon completion of stages, and the program is available to consulting, system integrator, and managed services partners with advance or premier tier status and a qualifying competency.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Partner Central agents now guide new partners through onboarding
AWS Partner Central has launched agentic onboarding capabilities for new partners, automating profile setup and guiding them through compliance requirements to become ready-to-sell. This feature aims to simplify the path for partners to start selling on AWS by providing personalized roadmaps, reducing the need for manual research. These capabilities are now generally available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be accessed via the console or programmatically.
feature announcement - AWS What's New complianceaws ·
AWS Partner Central streamlines Foundational Technical Review
AWS Partner Central now validates Foundational Technical Review (FTR) in minutes using AI-powered analysis of SOC 2 Type II or AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) reports. This accelerates partner validation, enabling immediate feedback and faster access to benefits. This streamlined process aligns with industry compliance standards and is available for solutions deployed on AWS.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsdeprecationarchitecthealthcare ·
AWS Amazon Connect Customer Competency Launched
AWS has launched the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization recognizing partners with expertise in customer experience transformations using Amazon Connect. This Competency aims to help customers identify skilled partners for migrating legacy contact centers and implementing AI-native solutions. It replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027, offering customers confidence in validated partners.
deprecation announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Partner Central adds lead enrichment and prospecting
AWS Partner Central now offers lead enrichment and prospecting features for AWS Partners. This allows partners to enrich leads with AWS-generated insights and receive recommendations for program eligibility. The capability is available to all ACE-eligible AWS Partners through the console or API, with the API currently in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
AWS Marketplace Adds AI Assistant for Product Listings
AWS Marketplace now offers an AI-assisted product listing feature within Partner Assistant chat. This capability helps ISVs and Consulting Partners automatically generate and optimize listings using existing digital assets, reducing manual effort and guesswork. It provides field-level recommendations and quality scores to improve discoverability by buyers. The feature is available in Partner Central and AMMP, excluding GovCloud and China Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
AWS Partner Central agents now offer real-time deal qualification and recommendations
AWS Partner Central agents have been enhanced to qualify co-sell opportunities in real time and provide recommendations that accelerate deal progression. This new functionality allows agents to enrich opportunity details conversationally, eliminating manual review delays for partners. The system now matches opportunities to specific co-sell motions and assigns an Opportunity Quality Score to guide AWS engagement, with the enhanced experience available today to AWS Partners globally.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinance ·
AWS Marketplace Storefront GA for Partners
AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, allowing AWS Partners to launch their own branded solution catalogs on their websites. This simplifies cloud marketplace management for channel partners and ISVs, enabling customers to discover and purchase solutions more easily. The storefront offers no-code branding, automated deal workflows, and integrates with existing AWS billing, with availability across all AWS Marketplace regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Transform adds public preview for FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage migration
AWS Transform for migrations now supports migrating block storage workloads to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in public preview. This capability automates storage migration alongside compute and network, reducing the complexity and risk associated with traditional storage migration tools. The feature is designed for application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams moving to AWS, especially those leveraging NetApp ONTAP or other storage appliances.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsmediaaws-bedrock ·
xAI's Grok 4.3 available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers xAI's Grok 4.3 model, expanding choices for generative AI applications. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model designed for consistent multi-step agent behavior and efficient token usage, making it suitable for enterprise workloads like contract review and financial analysis. It runs on Bedrock's new Mantle inference engine, optimized for performance and cost.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawshealthcarefinancegovernmentaws-iam ·
AWS Management Console Private Access enhances VPC connectivity without internet
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows customers to access the AWS Console from VPCs without internet connectivity, improving network security for air-gapped environments. This enhancement, which leverages AWS PrivateLink, is particularly beneficial for regulated industries like finance, government, and healthcare, and enterprises with stringent security needs. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions, with costs based on PrivateLink VPC endpoint usage.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS adds cross-region on-demand data replication
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand data replication to and from AWS opt-in Regions, enhancing disaster recovery and global data access capabilities. This feature allows incremental transfer of volume snapshots to non-default AWS Regions, expanding cross-Region data architectures. It is available in all regions offering FSx for OpenZFS with no additional charge beyond standard data transfer costs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon GameLift Servers offers free network bandwidth for newer instances
Amazon GameLift Servers now includes all inbound and outbound network bandwidth at no extra cost for instance generations 6 and later. This change simplifies pricing by eliminating unpredictable bandwidth costs, which is a significant concern for multiplayer game servers. The benefit is available immediately to existing customers on eligible fleets in most regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineerfinancemediaaws-cloudfront ·
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization for bots
AWS WAF now offers AI traffic monetization, a new capability allowing content owners to set prices, accept payments, and grant access to AI bots accessing their APIs and content. This feature utilizes an HTTP 402 response for machine-to-machine payments, with initial integration via Coinbase and upcoming support for Stripe. It enables differentiated pricing and revenue analytics, and is available at no additional charge for AWS WAF customers.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineermedia ·
Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics Unifies Log Querying, Streaming, and Analysis
Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics is a new unified console experience that integrates Logs Insights for querying, Live Tail for real-time streaming, and Contributor Insights for identifying top contributors. This consolidation aims to streamline log analysis for engineers and architects by providing all these capabilities within a single interface. Log Analytics is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses the same pricing as its constituent services.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory Adds Strictly Consistent Metadata
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now allows developers to directly attach metadata to long-term memory records, ensuring data integrity and enabling precise filtering. This feature improves data organization, facilitates compliance, and supports multi-tenant architectures by guaranteeing metadata values are preserved without LLM inference. Strictly consistent metadata is available in all AWS Regions where AgentCore Memory is supported.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C8i instances expand to Stockholm region
Amazon EC2 C8i instances, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances offer improved performance and memory bandwidth compared to previous generations, making them suitable for memory-intensive workloads. They are available through the AWS Management Console via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot instances.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawspreviewengineeraws-s3 ·
Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall adds Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security (Preview)
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now offers Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security in preview, allowing administrators to enforce threat protections directly within Route 53 rules. This integration simplifies security operations by eliminating the need for separate firewalls and provides unified threat protection across AWS and on-premises environments. Customers can subscribe to PANW threat intelligence through the AWS Marketplace within the Route 53 console. The feature is available in preview across several AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C7i Instances Now Available in Israel (Tel Aviv)
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 C7i instances in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance for compute-intensive workloads and include enhanced features like larger instance sizes and support for Intel accelerators. They are now available to customers for various demanding applications.
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