2025-08-28

8/28/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/29/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Q Developer now supports MCP admin control Administrators can now control the Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers installed in Amazon Q Developer client applications directly within the AWS console. This provides organizations with the granular control needed to manage external resources safely and effectively.\n With this launch an admin has the ability to enable or disable the MCP functionality for all the Q Developer clients in that organization....

August 28, 2025

2025-08-21

8/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Verified Permissions now supports Cedar 4.5 Amazon Verified Permissions now supports Cedar 4.5. This enables customers to use the latest Cedar features, including the “is” operator, which allows customers to grant access based on resource types. For example, in a petstore application, you can use the “is” operator to write a policy that only grants administrators permission to view a resource if that resource “is” an invoice....

August 21, 2025

2025-08-15

8/15/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT with Amazon S3 Tables Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) statements with Amazon S3 Tables. Using CTAS statements makes it simple to create a new table and populate it with data using the results of a SELECT query. You can now use CTAS statements in Athena to query existing datasets and create a new table in S3 Tables with the query results, all in a single SQL statement....

August 15, 2025

2025-06-23

6/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances to simplify VDI migrations AWS today announced Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances, simplifying virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) migrations with highly customizable instance configurations. Utilizing EC2 Managed Instances at its foundation, WorkSpaces Core can now provision resources in your AWS account, handling infrastructure lifecycle management for both persistent and non-persistent workloads. Managed Instances complement existing WorkSpaces Core pre-configured bundles by providing greater flexibility for organizations requiring specific compute, memory, or graphics configurations....

June 23, 2025

2025-06-13

6/13/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/16/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS announces open-source AWS API Models AWS announces an official source for AWS API Model definition files and service model packages, providing developers with access to API definitions for all AWS services. We now publish daily updates of these API models to an open-source GitHub repository in Smithy format and also publish these packages to Maven Central.\n AWS public service models enable developers to take advantage of the same service model definitions that AWS uses for live services....

June 13, 2025