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Amazon Redshift rg.large instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, now support single-node clusters. Single-node support for rg.large clusters is available on P204 or later patch versions. Customers can now create a single-node rg.large cluster for smaller workloads that do not require high availability, offering a cost-effective option to conduct proofs of concept and tests quickly. RG instances deliver up to 2.4x faster performance running data warehouse and data lake workloads when compared to previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine…
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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), …
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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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We believe the future is a multi-model, multi-harness world. And we think it needs a new trust model. In 1988, Norm Hardy described a problem that had been quietly breaking systems for years: the confused deputy. A program that takes action using its permissions instead of yours. Today, every AI agent is that deputy. It...
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Learn how Docker Sandboxes can make AI evaluation workflows more reproducible with consistent execution, structured artifacts, and runtime evidence.
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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…