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Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed keys for encryption
Amazon QuickSight now allows encryption using customer-managed keys (CMK) via AWS KMS. This feature enhances security and compliance by giving organizations control over their encryption keys and providing detailed audit capabilities through CloudTrail. It affects users needing granular control over sensitive data encryption within QuickSight.
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Redshift Serverless Minimum Capacity Reduced to 4 RPU in 7 Regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports a minimum capacity of 4 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in seven additional AWS regions. This lower entry point makes the service more accessible for development and production workloads requiring minimal compute and memory resources. The change enables users to start with a lower hourly cost and pay only for active compute consumption.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle adds April 2026 RU and Supplemental Patch Bundle
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2026 Release Update (RU) and its Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB). This update includes important security patches and is recommended for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. Users can apply these updates via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI, with options for automatic updates and staggered rollouts using AWS Organizations.
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Amazon S3 Tables Now Available in Two Additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables, offering native Apache Iceberg support for object storage, has expanded to the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regions. This feature streamlines tabular data storage, optimizes query efficiency, and reduces costs, while remaining compatible with various query engines. The expansion allows more users to leverage these benefits for their data lakes.
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Amazon EMR Adds General Availability Support for Apache Spark 4.0.2
Amazon EMR now offers general availability support for Apache Spark 4.0.2, enhancing data pipeline development. This update introduces ANSI SQL, VARIANT data types for flexible data handling, row/column-level access control via AWS Lake Formation, and improved streaming for real-time applications. These features benefit data engineers, analysts, and developers working with complex data and compliance requirements on EMR.
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AWS Glue adds large and memory-optimized workers in Spain
AWS Glue has introduced large and memory-optimized worker types in the Europe (Spain) region. These new options, including G.12X, G.16X, R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X, provide enhanced compute and memory capabilities to handle more complex and data-intensive processing workloads. Customers can select these workers via AWS Glue Studio, notebooks, Visual ETL, or the Glue Job APIs.
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Amazon Keyspaces expands to Malaysia and Thailand regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions. This expansion allows APAC customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and meet data residency requirements. The new regions offer the same features as existing ones, enabling scalable, low-latency applications without managing clusters.
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AWS Clean Rooms: Mutable Payment Configurations for Collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now allows mutable fine-grained payment configurations, giving customers more control over cost responsibilities with partners after a collaboration is established. This new feature enables specifying authorized payers for specific cost types like SQL queries, PySpark jobs, and ML workloads, adding flexibility for joint data analysis use cases. The update is relevant for organizations using AWS Clean Rooms for collaborative data analysis, particularly those with complex financial arrangements like pharmaceutical companies partnering with healthcare providers.
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SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet retries
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically provisions AWS Glue connectors across subnets for data pipeline resilience. This enhancement allows critical data pipelines to retry jobs automatically on alternate subnets during failures without manual intervention, reducing unplanned downtime. It primarily affects engineers and architects responsible for data pipelines on SageMaker, simplifying disaster recovery configurations.
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Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Now Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers with community releases and simplifying operations. This update strengthens security defaults, enforces TLS 1.2/1.3, and improves upgrade confidence with prechecks. The release affects users who manage MySQL databases on AWS and require the latest features or LTS support.
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Amazon DocumentDB Serverless now on version 8.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on version 8.0, offering auto-scaling and significant cost savings. Version 8.0 enhances query latency, compression, and introduces improved vector search and expanded MongoDB API compatibility. This benefits developers and architects managing scalable, cost-effective MongoDB-compatible workloads on AWS.
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SageMaker Studio adds data quality rule authoring and evaluation
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now integrates AWS Glue Data Quality, enabling users to author and evaluate data quality rules directly within the studio. This feature helps catch data issues early in pipelines, benefiting data engineers, analysts, and data scientists by ensuring data integrity for downstream workloads.
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AWS open sources ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter
AWS announced version 0.1 of ExtendDB, an open source project that allows developers to use the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. This enables running DynamoDB-compatible workloads locally, on-premises, or at the edge without rewriting application code, benefiting developers and architects for local development, testing, and hybrid deployments.
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Amazon MWAA adds support for Apache Airflow 3.2
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow 3.2, introducing features like data-aware scheduling and enhanced Human-in-the-Loop capabilities. This upgrade offers data engineering teams more precise control over data pipelines and improves developer productivity. Users can launch new environments or upgrade existing ones on MWAA to leverage these advancements.
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AWS Glue zero-ETL now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations have expanded to the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, simplifying data pipelines and reducing latency for analytics and ML workloads. This feature provides managed integrations for common ingestion and replication use cases, eliminating the need for customers to build and maintain complex ETL pipelines.
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Amazon Redshift adds ALTER TABLE and writes for Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift now supports writing directly to Apache Iceberg tables via AWS Glue Data Catalog and can modify Iceberg table schemas using ALTER TABLE DDL statements. This streamlines data pipelines by enabling in-place schema modifications, reducing complexity and latency previously associated with updating Iceberg table structures. The new capabilities benefit engineers and architects working with federated data lakes, particularly those using Iceberg tables with AWS Lake Formation.
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