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AWS announces user-managed setup (3LO) for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base. Previously, configuring these data sources required generating 2LO credentials on the third-party side, which could be time-consuming and inaccessible for users who lack admin-level access to those systems. With user-managed setup, you simply sign in with your existing third-party credentials, and Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base handles authentication—allowing you to complete data source setup in just a few minutes. This streamlined experience lowers the barrier to getting started with managed knowledge…
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Amazon GuardDuty now offers Custom Detection Rules, a library of 35 prebuilt, opt-in rules for CloudTrail management events that let you extend threat detection coverage to match your environment. Custom Detection Rules produces 26 unique finding types mapped to 10 MITRE ATT&CK® tactics, without the heavy lifting of log ingestion, normalization, or storage. Some threat techniques, such as sharing an AMI externally, disabling flow logs, or signing in without MFA, could be meaningful indicators of compromise in some accounts but routine in others. Custom Detection Rules lets you enable these detections only where the activity is unexpected — e…
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Today, AWS Model Context Protocol Server (AWS MCP Server) added a serverless capability so that coding agents such as Claude Code and Kiro can efficiently diagnose issues with your Lambda functions. The serverless capability helps you troubleshoot your running Lambda functions and their connected resources. The AWS MCP Server, available through the Agent Toolkit for AWS or as a standalone installation, is a managed service that gives AI coding agents secure access to AWS services. With the new serverless capability in the AWS MCP Server, your coding agent inspects your Lambda function and its connected resources across Amazon API Gateway, Am…
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AWS Transfer Family SFTP Connectors now continue running file transfers while you rotate the credentials used to authenticate with remote SFTP servers. You no longer need to update the connector to point to a new secret version each time a credential rotates, removing a manual step and helping avoid failed transfers during the rotation window. Connectors can now retrieve credentials from an ordered list of AWS Secrets Manager version stages, such as the current and previous versions, during authentication. The connector automatically tries each version in the order you specify and proceeds with the first that succeeds, so transfers continue …
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Starting today, customers can subscribe and manage flat-rate pricing plans programmatically using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API. CloudFront flat-rate plans give you one monthly price covering global content delivery, WAF, DDoS, DNS, logging, and edge compute, with no usage-based overage charges regardless of traffic spikes or attacks. Previously, customers could only subscribe to flat-rate pricing plans using the console, which required manual steps when using the API or infrastructure as code (IaC) like CloudFormation to create and manage distributions. Now, customers can programmatically subscrib…
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Amazon Quick now offers Quick Max, a new plan for power users who want to get the absolute most out of Quick. With 5x the usage and 5x the storage of Plus, Max gives you the room to do more: more agents, more workflows, more of whatever makes Quick yours. With Max, you can run large, concurrent workloads without interruption—all month long. It delivers more value per dollar the more you use it and is available with both monthly and annual billing options. New to Amazon Quick? You can sign up for free in minutes. Already on Plus? Click your name at the bottom of the left navigation bar, then select "Upgrade plan" to switch to Max. To compare …
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Graphics G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable (6th Gen) processors. G7 instances deliver up to 2.1× better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation G6 instances. With Graphics G7, customers can stream demanding professional applications such as CAD/CAM, 3D rendering, scientific visualization, video editing, and AI-assisted design workflows at higher fidelity and frame rates. G7 instances feature 32 GB of GDDR7 GPU memory per GPU and 2.67× faster memory bandwidth, enabling streaming of larger, more comp…
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AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) now supports sending TCP Reset (RST) packets when a target becomes unhealthy, is deregistered, or when a flow's idle timeout expires. This feature helps reduce traffic interruptions from minutes to seconds by enabling TCP endpoints to quickly detect failed connections and establish new TCP flows through healthy targets. Previously, when a GWLB target failed, existing TCP connections would continue to be forwarded to the unhealthy target (aka fail-open behavior). Client and server applications could experience interruptions lasting several minutes due to TCP retry and exponential back-off mechanisms built in t…
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Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now includes a built-in monitoring experience on the environment detail page in the AWS Management Console. A new metrics dashboard displays key Amazon CloudWatch metrics for your environment in one place, and each graph includes an optional toggle to overlay suggested warning ranges, helping you quickly identify conditions that may affect your environment's health and performance. The environment detail page also now shows an alarms table that lists all Amazon CloudWatch alarms associated with your MWAA environment. You can use the one-click Create Recommended Alarms action to provision a c…
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator, enabling you to run custom Python functions and shell commands directly in your serverless workflows without provisioning separate compute resources. This eliminates the need to offload custom logic to Lambda or ECS for tasks like data transformations or shell script execution. To get started, open a serverless visual workflow in your SageMaker Unified Studio project, search for PythonOperator or BashOperator in the task panel, and drag the node onto your canvas. Provide your Python or shell script files through the workflow settings, then point each oper…
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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) signing, giving you a way to help recipients verify your emails are authentic. An S/MIME signature lets recipients confirm that a message was sent by the holder of the From address and that its content was not altered in transit. Previously, senders who needed S/MIME had to sign each message themselves before submitting it to SES, adding complexity to their sending. With this feature, you store your signing certificate in AWS Certificate Manager and enable S/MIME signing for your sender identity. SES then signs your messages automatically as …
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Amazon Connect Customer now automates evaluations of human and AI agents in Malay using generative AI. Managers define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications in their preferred language. Performance evaluations also supports cross-language evaluation and can complete assessments in English, even when the conversation is in Malay. This enables multilingual contact centers to use a standardized evaluation framework across languages. This feature is supported in 8 AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), …