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AWS HealthOmics adds Nextflow version pinning for run-time control
AWS HealthOmics now supports specifying a Nextflow engine version at run time via the StartRun API. This feature allows customers to pin workflow runs to specific Nextflow versions, enabling controlled migration and testing across different engine versions without modifying source code. This is particularly beneficial for healthcare and life sciences organizations in regulated environments requiring pipeline validation.
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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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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity supports BYO secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now allows referencing existing AWS Secrets Manager secrets, giving customers full control over secret creation, governance, and compliance. Previously, secrets were service-managed, limiting customization like CMK encryption and tagging. This enhancement supports organizations with strict governance requirements by enabling them to manage secrets according to their policies.
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OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 for production workloads and Codex for AI-powered software development. This integration offers OpenAI's most capable models with AWS's security and operational controls, while Codex is accessible via multiple integrations and can run inference through Bedrock. The models are priced at OpenAI's first-party rates and count towards AWS commitments, with regional availability details provided.
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Amazon Connect allows scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance
Amazon Connect now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance, enabling better planning and routing of long-running follow-up work. This feature helps organizations manage complex workflows, such as insurance claims, by ensuring tasks reach the correct teams with necessary context. The functionality can be utilized via the StartTaskContact API, flows, or the agent workspace.
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AWS Interconnect offers free 500 Mbps tier for multicloud connections
AWS has launched a free 500 Mbps tier for its Interconnect service, enabling easier private connections between AWS and other public clouds. This offering simplifies multicloud adoption and testing, providing a fully managed, resilient connection at no charge from the AWS side. It benefits customers evaluating or operating workloads across multiple cloud providers, with a free CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor included.
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Oracle Database@AWS Expands to Twenty Regions
Oracle Database@AWS is now available in eight new AWS regions, bringing the total to twenty. This expansion allows customers in Europe, South America, and Asia Pacific to leverage Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers, enabling migration of on-premises Oracle applications with in-region data residency.
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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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Claude Opus 4.8 available on AWS
AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model, bringing significant improvements in coding, knowledge work, and autonomous tasks. This model offers enhanced reasoning, consistency, and error recovery, making it suitable for production AI applications. Developers and enterprises can access Claude Opus 4.8 via Amazon Bedrock for AWS-integrated data security or the Claude Platform on AWS for a native Anthropic experience with AWS billing and authentication.
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Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Next Generation Generally Available
AWS announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, featuring auto-scaling up to 20x faster and resource provisioning in seconds. This release decouples compute and storage, offers scale-to-zero pricing for cost savings, and simplifies network connectivity with new endpoints, making it ideal for agentic workflows and AI development platforms.
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AWS Partner Central adds Total Contract Value (TCV) for deal sizing
AWS Partner Central now supports estimating deal sizing using Total Contract Value (TCV). This enhancement enables partners to quickly convert TCV to forecasted monthly recurring revenue (MRR), improving forecast accuracy and accelerating deal velocity. The feature is available globally in AWS Partner Central and via API, affecting partners managing customer opportunities.
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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Gain NVIDIA H100 GPU Instances in Tokyo
Amazon EC2 P5.48xl instances, featuring NVIDIA H100 GPUs, are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 4x performance improvement and a 40% cost reduction for training ML models, benefiting users working with LLMs and generative AI applications.
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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Add NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Instances
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in US East (N. Virginia). These instances offer up to 2x performance improvement for AI training, enabling efficient development and fine-tuning of large foundation models, including LLMs, for generative AI applications.
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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Expand P4de Instance Support to Tokyo Region
Amazon EC2 P4de instances, featuring 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB HBM2e memory each, are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 60% better ML training performance and 20% lower cost compared to P4d instances, benefiting workloads with large, high-resolution datasets and accelerating time to market for ML models. This expansion is relevant for ML engineers and data scientists training large models.
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SageMaker Notebook Instances Gain P5.4xl GPU Instance Support
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P5.4xl instances, featuring NVIDIA H100 GPUs. This offers up to 4x performance improvement and 40% cost reduction for training large language and generative AI models, benefiting ML engineers and data scientists working on complex AI applications.
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SageMaker Notebook Instances add P5en.48xl instance types with H200 GPUs
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P5en.48xl instances, which feature H200 GPUs offering increased memory and bandwidth over H100 GPUs. This enhancement significantly boosts AI training and inference performance, especially for distributed workloads, and is available in select AWS regions. The new instances are suitable for developers and architects working with deep learning, generative AI, and HPC applications.
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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 Connect uses generative AI for automated interaction evaluation
Amazon Connect now offers generative AI capabilities allowing managers to automatically evaluate self-service interactions based on custom natural language criteria. This feature provides aggregated insights and detailed reasoning to help improve AI agent performance and customer experience. Managers can use these evaluations alongside recordings and transcripts to identify areas for improvement.
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AWS Backup adds OTP verification for logically air-gapped vaults
AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification for Multi-party approval actions on logically air-gapped vaults, adding an extra security layer. Approvers must enter a code sent to their IAM Identity Center registered email to authorize protected vault operations. This feature is automatically applied to all existing and new Multi-party approval sessions for these vaults at no extra charge.
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