5/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/1/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance

Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance, helping organizations plan, route, and track long-running follow-up work. For example, an insurance team managing an auto repair claim can schedule future tasks for an adjuster visit, parts availability check, and repair completion follow-up, with each task routed to the right team at the right time with relevant claim context. You can schedule tasks using the StartTaskContact API, flows, or the agent workspace.\n This feature is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered. To learn more, see our documentation. To learn more about Connect Customer, visit the Amazon Connect Customer website.

AWS Shield Advanced introduces DDoS attack flow logs

AWS Shield Advanced announces distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack flow logs, giving you packet-level visibility into traffic hitting Shield Advanced protected resources during a DDoS attack. The log data is published to Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, or Amazon Data Firehose, for forensic analysis and compliance purposes.\n The DDoS attack flow logs, capture critical packet-level details, including source and destination IP addresses, ports, protocols, packet and byte counts, source country information, and others. The log data is automatically published to your chosen destination at 5-minute intervals during active attacks. Once published, you can retrieve and analyze your flow log data using your preferred analytics tools, enabling post-incident investigation, threat intelligence gathering, and compliance reporting. To enable flow logs, you must protect the resources with Shield Advanced, and configure log delivery based on your destination.

The feature is avaialble in all regions where AWS Shield Advanced is available. To learn more about configuring and using DDoS attack flow logs, visit the AWS Shield Advanced documentation.

AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier

AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds.\n Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. With AWS Interconnect - multicloud, AWS simplified the way cloud services providers (CSPs) offer managed, highly-resilient, private connectivity for customers. The specification that powers Interconnect is open and already adopted by Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (currently in Public Preview), with Microsoft Azure coming later in 2026.

Today we are making it easier for customers to evaluate, test, and operate workloads between AWS and another CSP. The new Free Tier Interconnect gives customers a fully managed, 500 Mbps Interconnect to another CSP at no charge on the AWS side, with the same network path, facility, and device resiliency as our paid offering. The other CSP determines their pricing and charges independently of AWS for their side of the infrastructure. Please review the other CSP’s pricing before creating your Interconnect.

With a 500 Mbps Interconnect, you can transfer approximately 160 TB of data per month, enough to support significant multicloud workloads, data replication, or hybrid application architectures without incurring AWS Interconnect charges. To help customers monitor their network health and performance across clouds, each Free Tier multicloud Interconnect includes an Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor at no extra cost.

The Free Tier is limited to one local (Tier 1) Interconnect per customer, per AWS Region to each CSP that is Generally Available with AWS and is subject to the AWS Service Terms.

To get started, use the AWS Direct Connect Console and select AWS Interconnect from the navigation menu. To learn more, visit the AWS Interconnect User Guide.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2026 Release Update and Supplemental Patch Bundle

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle April 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Supplemental Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We recommend upgrading to the April 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. \n Starting with April 2026 releases, the Oracle Spatial Patch Bundle has been renamed to Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB). The SPB includes additional database patches recommended by Oracle for specific use cases, such as Oracle Spatial, Oracle Data Pump, and Oracle GoldenGate. You can apply the April 2026 RU from the Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. To automatically apply updates to your database instance during your maintenance window, enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade. You can apply the Supplemental Patch Bundle update for new database instances, or upgrade existing instances to engine version ‘19.0.0.0.ru-2026-04.spb-1.r1’ by selecting the “Supplemental Patch Bundle Engine Versions” checkbox in the AWS Console. You can also use AWS Organizations upgrade rollout policy to stagger automatic minor version upgrades for your Amazon RDS database instances. This feature allows you to automatically apply updates to non-production environments, validate the updates, and then automatically apply the same update to production environments. For additional details about using AWS Organizations upgrade rollout policy for automatic minor version upgrades, refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation .

Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions

Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in eight additional AWS Regions: EU-Central-2 (Zurich), EU-South-1 (Milan), EU-South-2 (Spain), EU-West-3 (Paris), AP-Northeast-3 (Osaka), AP-Southeast-1 (Singapore), AP-Southeast-4 (Melbourne) and SA-East-1 (Sao Paulo). Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers. With this launch, customers in Europe, South America, and Asia Pacific with in-region data residency requirements can migrate on-premises Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) applications to AWS.\n With this expansion, Oracle Database@AWS services are now available in twenty Regions: US-East-1 (N. Virginia), US-West-2 (Oregon), US-East-2 (Ohio), CA-Central-1 (Canada Central), SA-East-1 (Sao Paulo), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), EU-West-1 (Dublin), EU-West-2 (London), EU-Central-2 (Zurich), EU-South-1 (Milan), EU-South-2 (Spain), EU-West-3 (Paris), AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo), AP-Northeast-3 (Osaka), AP-Southeast-1 (Singapore), AP-Southeast-2 (Sydney), AP-Southeast-4 (Melbourne), AP-South-1 (Mumbai), AP-South-2 (Hyderabad), and AP-Northeast-2 (Seoul). To use Oracle Database@AWS services, request a private offer from Oracle through the AWS Marketplace, and use AWS Management Console to setup your databases. To learn more, visit Oracle Database@AWS overview and documentation.

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions.\n Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, streamlining tabular data storage at scale. S3 Tables automatically perform continual table maintenance to optimize query efficiency and reduce storage costs as your data lake grows and evolves. Because S3 Tables support the Apache Iceberg standard, your data is easily queryable by both AWS and third-party engines. With the Intelligent-Tiering storage class, S3 Tables automatically manage costs based on access patterns with no performance impact or operational overhead.

For more information about the AWS Regions where S3 Tables are available, see S3 Tables AWS Regions and endpoints.

To learn more, see the following resources:

Amazon S3 Tables

Working with Amazon S3 Tables and table buckets

S3 Tables pricing

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