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AWS Deadline Cloud now surfaces costs related to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) persistent volumes in the Usage Explorer in the Deadline Cloud Monitor app. AWS 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. Customers have historically […]

Amazon Quick announces support for no data message customization, enabling authors to replace the default “No data to display” message with a tailored message when a visual returns no data. Authors can configure a custom title, subtitle, and hyperlink that give readers immediate context about why no data is shown and what steps to take […]

Amazon Quick now offers approval policies, giving administrators governance controls over how assets are shared within their organization. With approval policies, administrators can require designated approvers to review and approve share requests before access is granted, helping organizations ensure that sharing of sensitive assets is deliberate, compliant, and auditable. Administrators can create approval policies scoped […]

Amazon Quick now integrates with Microsoft Purview to enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies across your Quick environment. Organizations need to ensure that sensitive files aren’t shared outside approved channels. With this integration, IT administrators and security teams can apply their existing Purview sensitivity labels to automatically control how files are handled in Quick capabilities […]

Amazon Quick now enables administrators to set per-user limits on index storage and agent hours, giving them direct control over subscription costs. With limits management, administrators can create limit profiles that cap per-user consumption, helping prevent unexpected overage charges and ensuring subscription entitlements are used efficiently across their organization. For example, an organization deploying Quick […]

AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor that you can launch directly from your shell session using a single ‘edit’ command, no setup required. CloudShell provides a browser-based shell environment that uses your existing AWS Management Console credentials, making it a popular choice for developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud administrators managing scripts, infrastructure-as-code, […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service now extends automatic semantic enrichment to VPC-enabled domains, allowing customers with private network configurations to leverage AI-powered semantic search without exposing their domains to the public internet.   Automatic semantic enrichment transforms traditional keyword-only search into context-aware retrieval by understanding the meaning behind queries. For example, a search for “lightweight laptop for […]

Amazon Quick announces the general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. These extensions enable Quick to perform tasks directly within users’ M365 environments, using AI to handle complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, creating presentation-ready decks, and managing Outlook inboxes. The Excel extension helps with complex […]

AWS Network Firewall now provides rule hit counts for stateful rules, giving network administrators and security engineers visibility into how often each stateful rule in the firewall policy matches network traffic. AWS Network Firewall is a managed network firewall service that provides inspection and visibility into your VPC traffic. With rule hit counts, you can […]

Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies enabling supervisors to monitor and optimize how contacts are matched to agents based on agent proficiencies. Managers can filter agents by their assigned proficiencies, group metrics by routing steps, and track new metrics including number of contacts queued in a routing step. […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer […]

You can now easily configure custom domain names on Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters, on either ZooKeeper or KRaft mode for metadata management. This capability helps client applications maintain the same connection endpoints, simplifying cluster migrations, disaster recovery failovers, and scaling operations without reconfiguration. Previously, customers configured custom domain names manually on each broker. Additionally, on […]

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports batch instance termination in a single API call. You can now pass up to 100 instance IDs to the TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup API to terminate them as a batch, reducing the number of API calls needed to scale down your Auto Scaling groups. Batch termination is designed for workloads that need […]

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) has increased the maximum number of replication rules per registry from 10 to 25. Previously, customers with complex multi-region or multi-account architectures were constrained to 10 replication rules per registry, requiring them to consolidate replication configurations to work within that constraint. With this update, customers can define up to […]

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint, with support for the Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs. It also adds support for cross-Region inference, allowing customers to use Global and Geo cross-Region inference to access higher throughput and lower inference costs.   Cross-Region inference automatically routes inference […]