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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD expands its open-source deployment toolkit with two new capabilities: (1) an AI agent skill that automates manifest authoring, and (2) native notebook promotion across environments. Together, they help data teams go from project to production faster while maintaining best-practice defaults across stages. AI-assisted manifest generation. The new generate-bundle-manifest agent skill inspects a project's connections, storage, and workflows and produces a ready-to-use deployment manifest. It applies least-privilege IAM guidance, substitutes environment variables in place of hardcoded resource identifiers, an…
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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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Amazon CloudWatch now lets you configure a warm-up period for metric alarms and log alarms, delaying alarm evaluation for a set time after the alarm is created. This reduces noise from missing data while a new resource or service starts up and begins publishing metrics. For example, a team that provisions a new microservice and its alarms together through a CI/CD pipeline can attach a warm-up period so alarms do not page the on-call engineer while the service is still starting up and has not yet published metrics. Previously, when you created an alarm before the underlying metric was reporting data, CloudWatch evaluated the alarm right away …
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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…
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now includes an analytics dashboard built directly into the AWS Management Console, giving publishers a global and multi-region view of ad monetization and streaming performance — with the ability to compare across regions and drill into individual playback configurations. The dashboard surfaces key business metrics including fill rate, ad impression rate, video completion rate, and impression recovery data — showing publishers exactly how many billable impressions they are recovering through MediaTailor's server-side beacon retry logic. The analytics dashboard is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Elemental Med…
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Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization's AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick. AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, users can enable it with a few clicks. Connection details are already populated from the registry. Once enabled, these resources can be shared with teams for use across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. This integration bridges the gap between technical teams who build agents with…
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Amazon Connect Global Resiliency now supports cross-region routing of contacts to agents across two linked AWS regions. For example, a contact arriving in US East (N. Virginia) is offered to the longest-available matching agent whether that agent is in US East (N. Virginia) or US West (Oregon), while managers view analytics and search contacts across both regions as a unified contact center. Because both regions now carry live traffic at all times, neither sits idle as an untested standby. Your full configuration and any integrations are exercised continuously in both regions, providing confidence that either environment is ready to absorb t…