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Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference

Amazon SageMaker AI's Flexible Training Plans now support inference endpoints, providing guaranteed GPU capacity for evaluations and production. Customers can reserve specific instances with automatic provisioning.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Amazon S3 Metadata expands to 22 additional AWS Regions

Amazon S3 Metadata expands to 22 additional AWS Regions, now available in 28 total. It automatically catalogs object metadata in near real-time, enabling fast discovery and querying of S3 data for analytics and applications.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
AWS announces support for Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage

AWS now supports Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage across EMR, Glue, SageMaker, and S3 Tables. These features improve data lake performance and change tracking at scale.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Amazon Bedrock introduces Reserved Service tier

Amazon Bedrock launches Reserved tier for predictable performance with guaranteed tokens-per-minute capacity. Offers flexible input/output allocation, auto-overflow to Standard tier, 99.5% uptime, 1-3 month terms.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
AWS Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search

AWS enhances its Knowledge MCP Server with topic-based search across specialized documentation domains (Troubleshooting, Amplify, CDK, CloudFormation). Enables AI agents to retrieve targeted AWS info.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports a new cost effective warm storage tier

AWS launches warm storage tier for Kinesis Video Streams, offering cost-effective long-term media retention with sub-second access. Complements existing hot tier for real-time use cases.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The AWS API MCP Server is now available on AWS Marketplace

AWS launches API MCP Server on Marketplace for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore deployment. Offers managed service with enterprise security, scalability, session isolation, configurable auth (SigV4/JWT), and IAM policies.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports programmatic node reboot and replacement

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod launches APIs for programmatic node rebooting and replacement in ML clusters. BatchRebootClusterNodes and BatchReplaceClusterNodes enable recovery of unresponsive nodes across Slurm and EKS.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22 with new Dynamic Data Masking for sensitive data protection, shared plan cache, and improved performance.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now support audit context support with Lake Formation

Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now support comprehensive audit logging for Lake Formation APIs, enabled by default. CloudTrail logs capture platform details and job IDs for compliance and troubleshooting.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now support write operations with AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access controls

Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now support fine-grained access control for both read and write operations on Lake Formation tables in Spark jobs.
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Introducing AWS Glue 5.1

AWS Glue 5.1 is now available with upgraded engines (Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11), enhanced security, and Apache Iceberg 1.10.0 support including format v3.0 features. It adds Lake Formation write access control and full-table security for Hudi/Delta Lake.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports unused NAT Gateway recommendations

AWS Compute Optimizer now identifies idle NAT Gateways to reduce costs. It analyzes 32 days of CloudWatch metrics and route table associations to find truly unused gateways, showing savings potential and utilization data.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom Kubernetes labels and taints

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom Kubernetes labels and taints for EKS clusters, allowing automated control of pod scheduling on GPU resources. Configure up to 50 labels and 50 taints per instance group via APIs.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
SageMaker HyperPod now supports Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers Managed Tiered KV Cache and Intelligent Routing for LLM inference, delivering up to 40% lower latency, 25% better throughput, and 25% cost savings for long-context prompts.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Announcing AWS Glue zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources

AWS Glue now supports zero-ETL for self-managed databases, enabling no-code replication from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL (on-premises or EC2) to Redshift. Available in 7 regions, it eliminates pipeline complexity.
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amazon Lex now supports LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding

Amazon Lex now uses LLMs to better understand customer intent in voice/chat bots, handling complex requests, errors, and verbose inputs. Bots can ask clarifying questions when needed.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Amazon CloudWatch now supports deletion protection for logs

Amazon CloudWatch now offers deletion protection for log groups, preventing accidental removal of critical logging data like audit trails and compliance records. Once enabled, log groups can't be deleted until protection is disabled.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Improved AWS Health event triage

AWS Health adds two event schema properties: actionability (identifies events needing customer action) and persona (routes events to relevant teams like security/billing). Available via Health API and EventBridge across all AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions.
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level enforcement

Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level control via AWS Organizations, enabling centralized management of public access settings across all accounts through a single policy that propagates automatically.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Amazon Quick Research now includes trusted third-party industry intelligence

Amazon QuickSuite's Quick Research now integrates third-party datasets from S&P Global, FactSet, and IDC, plus USPTO and PubMed data. Users can analyze multiple sources in one workspace, accelerating insights.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Amazon Route 53 announces accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records

Amazon Route 53 launches accelerated recovery for public hosted zones, targeting 60-minute RTO to restore DNS record management if US East (N. Virginia) becomes unavailable. Free globally.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports EAGLE speculative decoding

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports EAGLE speculative decoding, boosting LLM inference throughput up to 2.5x by predicting and validating multiple tokens simultaneously. It automatically selects EAGLE 2 or 3 based on model architecture.
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Introducing AWS Network Firewall Proxy in preview

AWS launches Network Firewall Proxy in public preview. It provides centralized controls against data exfiltration and malware, with TLS inspection, fine-grained access controls, and comprehensive logging to S3/CloudWatch.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Amazon SageMaker AI Inference now supports bidirectional streaming

Amazon SageMaker AI Inference now supports bidirectional streaming for real-time speech-to-text, enabling continuous audio processing with minimal latency for voice agents via HTTP2/WebSocket connections.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM