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Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are deployed and kept up to date. Connector owners and admins can now selectively enable or disable individual tools within a connector to ensure only approved tools are available to end users. Additionally, new tool permission settings let connector owners decide which tools require consent be…
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Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Organizations from startups to enterprises and the public sector can now order their Outposts racks connected to the new supported regions, optimizing for their latency and data residency needs. Outposts allows customers to run workloads that need low latency access to on-premises systems locally while connecting back to their home Region for applicat…
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AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2, available through the --v2 flag of the cfn test command in the CloudFormation CLI. Previously, the contract test suite covered only basic scenarios around the CRUD handlers. Contract tests v2 adds deeper test scenarios that exercise your resource type implementation across each handler operation. All new resource types can run contract tests v2 through the test-type API during registry submission, and Java-based resource types can also run them locally with cfn test --v2, requiring only Docker and a built handler package. Contract tests v2 introduces live-state verification that confirms act…
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You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon MemoryDB from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon MemoryDB, you create an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon MemoryDB in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. With an interface VPC endpoint, you can privately access the Amazon MemoryDB APIs from applications inside your Ama…
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AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions. UXC enables account administrators to set a custom account color and control which services and Regions appear in the AWS Management Console. Previously, UXC was available only in US East (N. Virginia), requiring customers who manage these settings programmatically to direct API calls to that single Region. With today's expansion, customers can manage account customizations from any commercial AWS Region using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS CloudFormation — making it easier to configure the console experience alongside existing infrastructure automation. U…
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal that eliminates the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party tools and services. Developers using AgentCore Gateway to connect agents with services such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Slack previously had to build, host, and maintain custom OAuth callback infrastructure to complete OAuth 2.0 three-legged authorization (3LO) flows. The new managed consent portal eliminates this undifferentiated heavy lifting for agent developers and platform administrators. Each AgentCore Gateway receives its own managed consent portal with a dedicated…
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AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles, giving teams a simple way to distribute and reuse render job templates without manual file distribution. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive workloads in the cloud for visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming. Job bundles define the jobs you submit to Deadline Cloud, including the job template, parameters, and asset references. Previously, sharing a bundle with teammates meant distributing files through shared drives or manual copying. Now, you can publish a bundle to your queue directly from the submitter or the command…
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to check whether an API request would succeed without executing the operation. Customers can now set the new optional parameter ‘DryRun’ to true in their API requests to validate permissions before interacting with a stream in production. Previously, customers had no safe way to test whether their application had the correct permissions to access a stream. They would often send a request engineered to fail after checking permissions, such as a PutRecord request with a payload deliberately larger than the maximum supported size. This approach was fragile as it depended on current serv…
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AWS Marketplace now offers a 0% listing fee for professional services purchased as part of a qualifying multi-product solution. This builds on the recent reduction of professional services listing fee to 0.5%. It further lowers the cost for any Partner that transacts services through AWS Marketplace, while retaining the billing benefits that come with it. Over the past year, AWS Marketplace has built a set of capabilities purpose-built for discovering and purchasing services. Customers can find the right Partner through AI-powered discovery in Agent Mode, combine software and services in a single transaction through multi-product solutions, …
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Amazon Connect Customer now offers compact mode on the analytics dashboards, increasing data density so supervisors can see more of their operational data without scrolling. Compact mode reduces widget size, font, and minimizes filters to maximize screen space. For example, a supervisor on a 13-inch laptop toggles compact mode, which reduces row height, enabling them to view all team agents on the widget without scrolling and spot non-adherent agents faster. Compact mode on dashboards is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect Customer analytics dashboards, see the Amazon Conn…
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AWS Marketplace now supports auto-renewals for private offers. This capability helps sellers and buyers maintain active software and service subscriptions without re-negotiation or re-purchasing at the end of the term. Negotiated pricing and contract terms carry forward automatically when buyers and sellers agree to renew. This helps reduce procurement overhead and prevent unintended lapses in subscriptions. When creating a private offer, sellers define the renewal terms and choose how pricing carries forward: renewal with no price change, renewal with a fixed price change, or a price change within a defined range. Buyers can opt in or out d…
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Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string now supports additional AWS services. Partner Revenue Measurement allows Partners to better understand their AWS revenue impact and product consumption patterns. Previously, the User Agent string capability measured AWS service consumption across select services. With this expansion, Partners can now measure attributed revenue across additional applicable AWS services that log control plane activity in AWS CloudTrail, significantly increasing the visibility Partners have into the revenue their solutions drive. Partners who have already embedded a user agent (format APN_1.1/pc_$) in their applicat…