9/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon DataZone is now available in 3 additional commercial regions
Amazon DataZone is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Europe (Zurich) Regions.\n Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. With Amazon DataZone, data producers populate the business data catalog with structured data assets from AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Redshift tables. Data consumers search and subscribe to data assets in the data catalog and share with other collaborators working on the same business use case. Consumers can analyze their subscribed data assets with tools—such as Amazon Redshift or Amazon Athena query editors—that are directly accessed from the Amazon DataZone portal. The integrated publishing and subscription workflow provides access to auditing capabilities across projects. For more information on AWS Regions where Amazon DataZone is available in preview, see supported regions.
Additionally, Amazon DataZone powers governance in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, which simplifies the discovery, governance, and collaboration of data and AI across your lakehouse, AI models, and GenAI applications. With Amazon SageMaker Catalog (built on Amazon DataZone), users can securely discover and access approved data and models using semantic search with generative AI–created metadata, or they could just ask Amazon Q Developer using natural language to find their data. For more information on AWS Regions where the next generation of SageMaker is available, see supported regions. To learn more about the next generation of SageMaker, visit the product webpage.
AWS License Manager now supports shared AWS Managed Active Directory
AWS License Manager announces support for shared AWS Managed Active Directory across multiple AWS accounts, simplifying Microsoft license management on AWS. Customers can now centralize user subscriptions of Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and Remote Desktop Service instances running in their AWS Organization while maintaining clear visibility across AWS accounts.\n With this launch, customers are no longer required to setup a Managed Active Directory instance for each AWS Account, reducing duplicate directories and IT overhead. Customers can now manage licenses through a single admin account where users subscribe once, and their subscriptions will extend to directory consumer accounts. The new feature is available in all commercial regions where License Manager user subscription is supported. To get started, customers can onboard their shared AWS Managed Active Directory through AWS License Manager console. For more information and to begin using this feature, visit the AWS License Manager page or AWS License Manager User Guide.
IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for encrypting workforce identity data, including user and group attributes. While AWS-owned keys are used by default, customer-managed keys (CMKs) provide granular control over identity data access, enhancing security and compliance capabilities. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create, or connect, your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS applications and accounts.\n You create a CMK and manage its lifecycle and usage permissions in AWS KMS. You can configure the CMK in your IAM Identity Center instance either while enabling a new organization instance or on an existing one. You can then use AWS CloudTrail to monitor and audit the usage of your CMK for access to identity data in IAM Identity Center. Support for CMKs in organization instances of IAM Identity Center is now available for access to accounts and select AWS applications in all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is available. Standard AWS KMS charges apply to storing and using CMKs. IAM Identity Center is provided at no additional cost. To learn more about IAM Identity Center, visit the product detail page. To get started with using CMKs, please refer to the IAM Identity Center User Guide.
Amazon RDS announces cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
Amazon RDS now supports cross-Region and cross-account copying of Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora snapshots. This launch allows you to copy snapshots across Regions and accounts directly without performing it sequentially as two separate copies.\n Customers use cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copies for managing the risk of incidents such as ransomware attacks and region outages affecting their production accounts or primary Regions. Previously, customers that copied snapshots cross-Region and cross-account did so in a two step process that involved first copying the snapshot to a different Region and then to a different account or vice versa. Now, by performing this action in a single step, customers eliminate an intermediate snapshot copy, thereby meeting a high recovery point objective (RPO) as well as saving costs associated with the intermediate copy. Additionally, customers that currently use custom scripts or services such as a Lambda for monitoring the status of the intermediate copy, to then trigger the second copy, can simplify these workflows by eliminating this process.
Cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy is available on all Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora engines in all AWS Regions, including the AWS China Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can start using this feature today through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. To get started, refer the Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora documentation.
Amazon Nova Act extension: Build and test AI agents within your IDE
We’re excited today to announce the Amazon Nova Act extension - a tool that transforms how you build with Nova Act by bringing the entire agent development experience directly into IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Kiro, and Cursor. The Nova Act extension consolidates natural language based script creation, granular scripting precision, and robust browser testing into a single, unified user interface, eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools across development, validation, and iteration.\n The Nova Act extension is built on top of the Nova Act SDK, available in research preview since March 2025. The Nova Act extension addresses feedback we have received from developers and consolidates the agent development lifecycle, from ideation to production, into one unified user interface within your IDE. The Nova Act extension is available today from your IDE’s extension marketplace. The Nova Act GitHub repository includes documentation and examples to get started. Learn more about the Nova Act extension and see the Nova Act extension in action at our blog post.
AWS announces EC2 instance attestation
AWS announces the general availability of EC2 instance attestation to make it easier for customers to validate that only trusted software is running on their EC2 instances, including instances with AI chips and GPUs.\n Before this, customers could configure their EC2 instances to remove operator access from their own administrators and users, but there was no way for customers to verify that a target EC2 instance had that configuration. With EC2 instance attestation, customers can cryptographically verify that their EC2 instances are running trusted configurations and software. EC2 instance attestation is powered by Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM) and Attestable Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Customers can build an AMI that includes a cryptographic measurement representing all the contents of that AMI. Using NitroTPM, customers can then verify whether a target EC2 instance has the same measurement as the reference measurement generated by the AMI. EC2 instance attestation integrates with AWS Key Management Service (KMS), allowing customers to restrict key operations to instances that pass specific attestation conditions. EC2 instance attestation is available in all AWS Commercial Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started with EC2 instance attestation, see this user guide. To build an Amazon Linux 2023 Attested AMI, see this user guide.
Amazon EC2 R8gb instances are now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. At up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, these instances offer higher EBS performance compared to same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances. Take advantage of the higher block storage performance offered by these new EBS optimized EC2 instances to scale the performance and throughput of workloads such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases, while optimizing the cost of running your workloads.\n For increased scalability, these instances offer instance sizes up to 24xlarge, including one metal size, up to 768 GiB of memory, up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, up to 200 Gbps of networking bandwidth. These instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on the 16xlarge, 24xlarge, and metal-24xl sizes, which enables lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters.
The new R8gb instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Metal sizes are only available in US East (N. Virginia) region.
To learn more, see Amazon R8gb Instances. To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page. To get started, see AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.
Amazon Connect now supports you to associate custom attributes with interaction segments
Amazon Connect now supports you to associate custom attributes with interaction segments, ensuring reporting and analytics always reflect the true customer journey. Attributes such as business unit name, account type, or contact reason can be centrally managed with predetermined values and applied to contact records through flows or the UpdateContact API. This approach preserves accurate business context throughout customer journeys, particularly during transfers and multi-party communications. For example, a customer engagement that originates in the Support business unit and transitions to Sales: each distinct interaction segment maintains its precise business unit name, creating an accurate and comprehensive record of the customer journey.\n This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about using predefined attributes as contact segment attributes, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific(Taipei) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications.\n With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can get started with querying data using the Query Editor V2 or your tool of choice with Amazon Redshift Serverless. There is no need to choose node types, node count, workload management, scaling, and other manual configurations. You can create databases, schemas, and tables, and load your own data from Amazon S3, access data using Amazon Redshift data shares, or restore an existing Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster snapshot. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, you can directly query data in open formats, such as Apache Parquet, in Amazon S3 data lakes. Amazon Redshift Serverless provides unified billing for queries on any of these data sources, helping you efficiently monitor and manage costs. To get started, see the Amazon Redshift Serverless feature page, user documentation, and API Reference.
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AWS Database Blog
- Raising the bar on Amazon DynamoDB data modeling
- Long-term storage and analysis of Amazon RDS events with Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena
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AWS for Industries
- Unlocking the value of unstructured data with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
- Deploying a High Performance Computing solution for accurate weather and renewable energy production predictions
Artificial Intelligence
- Running deep research AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- Integrate tokenization with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for secure data handling
AWS Messaging Blog
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- Optimize security operations with AWS Security Incident Response
- Minimize risk through defense in depth: Building a comprehensive AWS control framework