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Announcing the Apache Spark upgrade agent for Amazon EMR

AWS announces the Apache Spark upgrade agent, a new capability that accelerates Apache Spark version upgrades for Amazon EMR on EC2 and EMR Serverless. The agent converts complex upgrade processes that typically take months into projects spanning weeks through automated code analysis and transformation. Organizations invest substantial engineering resources analyzing API changes, resolving conflicts, and validating applications during Spark upgrades. The agent introduces conversational interfaces where engineers express upgrade requirements in natural language, while maintaining full control over code modifications. The Apache Spark upgrade agent automatically identifies API changes and behavioral modifications across PySpark and Scala applications. Engineers can initiate upgrades directly from SageMaker Unified Studio, Kiro CLI or IDE of their choice with the help of MCP (Model Context Protocol) compatibility. During the upgrade process, the agent analyzes existing code and suggests specific changes, and engineers can review and approve before implementation. The agent validates functional correctness through data quality validations. The agent currently supports upgrades from Spark 2.4 to 3.5 and maintains data processing accuracy throughout the upgrade process. The Apache Spark upgrade agent is now available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is available. To start using the agent, visit SageMaker Unified Studio and select IDE Spaces or install the Kiro CLI. For detailed implementation guidance, reference documentation, and migration examples, visit the documentation.
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Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview)

Starting today, new general purpose high-frequency high-network Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8azn instances are available for preview. These instances are powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC (formerly code named Turin) processors, offering the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. The M8azn instances offer up to 2x compute performance versus previous generation M5zn instances. These instances also deliver 24% higher performance than M8a instances. M8azn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of hardware and software innovations designed by AWS. The AWS Nitro System enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multitenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. These instances are ideal for applications such as gaming, high-performance computing, high-frequency trading (HFT), CI/CD, and simulation modeling for the automotive, aerospace, energy, and telecommunication industries. To learn more or request access to the M8azn instances preview, visit the Amazon EC2 M8a page.
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AWS Transform for mainframe delivers new testing automation capabilities

AWS Transform for mainframe now offers test planning and automation features to accelerate mainframe modernization projects. New capabilities include automated test plan generation, test data collection scripts, and test case automation scripts, alongside functional test environment tools for continuous delivery and regression testing, helping accelerate and de-risk testing and validation during mainframe modernization projects. The new capabilities address key testing challenges across the modernization lifecycle, reducing the time and effort required for mainframe modernization testing, which typically consumes over 50% of project duration. Automated test plan generation helps teams reduce upfront planning efforts and align on critical functional tests needed to mitigate risk and ensure modernization success, while test data collection scripts accelerate the error-prone, complex process of capturing mainframe data. Test automation scripts then enable scalable execution of test cases by automating test environment staging, test case execution, and results validation against expected outcomes. By automating complex testing tasks and reducing dependency on scarce mainframe expertise, organizations can now modernize their applications with greater confidence while improving accuracy through consistent, automated processes. The new testing capabilities in AWS Transform for mainframe are available today in US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) Regions. To learn more about automated testing in AWS Transform for mainframe, and how it can help your organization accelerate modernization, read the AWS News Blog, visit the AWS Transform for mainframe product page, or explore the AWS Transform User Guide.
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AWS launches AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization

AWS Transform custom is now generally available, accelerating organization-specific code and application modernization at scale using agentic AI. AWS Transform is the first agentic AI service to accelerate the transformation of Windows, mainframe, VMware, and more—reducing technical debt and making your tech stack AI-ready. Technical debt accumulates when organizations maintain legacy systems and outdated code, requiring them to allocate 20-30% of their software development resources to repeatable, cross-codebase transformation tasks that must be performed manually. AWS Transform can automate repeatable transformations of version upgrades, runtime migrations, framework transitions, and language translations at scale, reducing execution time by over 80% in many cases while eliminating the need for specialized automation expertise.
The custom transformation agent in AWS Transform provides both pre-built and custom solutions. It includes out-of-the-box transformations for common scenarios, such as Python and Node.js runtime upgrades, Lambda function modernization, AWS SDK updates across multiple languages, and Java 8 to 17 upgrades (supporting any build system including Gradle and Maven). For organization-specific needs, teams can define custom transformations using natural language, reference documents, and code samples. Users can trigger autonomous transformations with a simple one-line CLI command, which can be scripted or embedded into any existing pipeline or workflow. Within your organization, the agent continually learns from developer feedback and execution results, improving transformation accuracy and tightly aligning the agent’s performance with your organization’s preferences. This approach enables organizations to systematically address technical debt at scale, with the agent continually improving while developers can focus on innovation and high-impact tasks.
AWS Transform custom is now available in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region.
To learn more, visit the user guide, overview page, and pricing page.
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AWS Transform expands .NET transformation capabilities and enhances developer experience

Today, AWS announces the general availability of expanded .NET transformation capabilities and an enhanced developer experience in AWS Transform. Customers can now modernize .NET Framework and .NET code to .NET 10 or .NET Standard. New transformation capabilities include UI porting of ASP.NET Web Forms to Blazor on ASP.NET Core and porting Entity Framework ORM code. The new developer experience, available with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2026 or 2022, is customizable, interactive, and iterative. It includes an editable transformation plan, estimated transformation time, real-time updates during transformation, the ability to repeat transformations with a revised plan, and next steps markdown for easy handoff to AI code companions. With these enhancements, AWS Transform provides a path to modern .NET for more project types, supports the latest releases of .NET and Visual Studio, and gives developers oversight and control of transformations.
Developers can now streamline their .NET modernization through an enhanced IDE experience. The process begins with automated code analysis that produces a customizable transformation plan. Developers can customize the transformation plan, such as fine-tuning package updates. Throughout the transformation, they benefit from transparent progress tracking and detailed activity logs. Upon completion, developers receive a Next Steps document that outlines remaining tasks, including Linux readiness requirements, which they can address through additional AWS Transform iterations or by leveraging AI code companion tools such as Kiro.
AWS Transform is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London).
To get started with AWS Transform, refer to the AWS Transform documentation.
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AWS Transform for mainframe now supports application reimagining

AWS Transform for mainframe delivers new data and activity analysis capabilities to extract comprehensive insights to drive the reimagining of mainframe applications. These insights can be combined with business logic extraction to inform decomposition of legacy applications into logical business domains. Together, these form the basis of a comprehensive specification for coding agents like Kiro to reimagine applications into cloud-native architectures. The new capabilities empower organizations to reimagine legacy workloads, providing a comprehensive reverse engineering workflow that includes automated code and data structure analysis, activity analysis, technical documentation generation, business logic extraction, and intelligent code decomposition. Through in-depth data and activity analysis, AWS Transform helps identify application components with high utilization or business value, allowing teams to optimize their modernization efforts and make data-informed architectural decisions. In the AI-powered chat interface, users can customize their modernization approach through flexible job plans that allow them to select predefined comprehensive workflows—full modernization, analysis focus, or business logic focus—or create their own combination of capabilities based on specific objectives. The reimagine capabilities in AWS Transform for mainframe are available today in US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) Regions. To learn more about reimagining mainframe applications with AWS Transform for mainframe, read the AWS News Blog post or visit the AWS Transform product page. 
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AWS Transform launches an AI agent for full-stack Windows modernization

AWS Transform is expanding its capability from the .NET modernization agent to now include the full-stack Windows modernization agent that handles both .NET applications and their associated databases. The new agent automates the transformation of .NET applications and Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and deploys them to containers on Amazon ECS or Amazon EC2 Linux. AWS Transform accelerates full-stack Windows modernization by 5x across application and database layers, while reducing operating costs by up to 70%. With AWS Transform, customers can accelerate their full-stack modernization journey through automated discovery, transformation, and deployment. The full-stack Windows modernization agent scans Microsoft SQL Server databases in Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS instances, and it scans .NET application code from source repositories (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos) to create customized, editable modernization plans. It automatically transforms SQL Server schemas to Aurora PostgreSQL and migrates databases to new or existing Aurora PostgreSQL target clusters. For .NET application transformation, the agent updates database connections in the source code and modifies database access code written in Entity Framework and ADO.NET to be compatible with Aurora PostgreSQL—all in a unified workflow with human supervision. All the transformed code is committed to a new repository branch. Finally, the transformed application along with the databases can be deployed into a new or existing environment to validate the transformed applications and databases. Customers can monitor transformation progress through worklog updates and interactive chat, and they can use the detailed transformation summaries for next steps recommendations and for easy handoff to AI code companions. AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization is available in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. To learn more, visit the overview page and AWS Transform documentation.
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Amazon Connect now streams messages for AI-powered interactions

Amazon Connect now supports message streaming for AI-powered chat interactions. This new capability shows Connect AI agent responses as they’re being generated, which reduces perceived wait times and improves the customer experience. When using Amazon Connect AI agents, customers see status updates like “One moment while I review your account” during processing, and watch responses appear progressively. This experience gives customers confidence their request is actively being worked on while AI agents reason, invoke tools, and craft comprehensive solutions. Message streaming for AI-powered interactions is now available in the following regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London) and Africa (Cape Town). To learn more, visit the Amazon Connect documentation.
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Amazon Connect now simplifies linking related contacts to cases using flows

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to link related contacts such as email replies, call transfers, persistent chats, and queued callbacks to the same case so agents can view the complete customer journey and resolve issues faster. You can use flows to link a follow-up contact to an existing case, eliminating the need for custom logic or manual linking. Amazon Connect Cases is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS regions. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect Cases webpage and documentation.
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Amazon Connect launches AI-powered predictive insights (Preview)

Today, Amazon Connect is launching AI-powered predictive insights that transform how businesses understand and serve their customers. This new feature set builds upon Connect’s existing customer profiles, introducing five recommendation algorithms that leverage AI to analyze customer behavior patterns and interaction history. These AI-powered insights are available for both self-service and agent interactions, enabling businesses to transform all customer touchpoints – from suggesting complementary products during service calls to providing smart product discovery through intelligent chat experiences by leveraging their existing customer data within Connect Customer Profiles. Businesses can also leverage these AI-powered insights to build their Connect AI agent for specialized for sales. The five recommendation algorithms are as follows: “Recommended for You” provides tailored suggestions based on individual user interactions patterns with any catalog; “Similar Items” uses generative AI to suggest alternative products or services; “Frequently Paired Items” powers cross-selling by identifying complementary product or service combinations, “Popular Items” surfaces top-performing product recommendations, and “Trending Now” captures real-time customer interest for timely engagement. With Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, you only pay-as-you-go for utilized profiles. Public preview for AI-powered predictive insights is available in Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central). To learn more, visit our webpages for Customer Profiles.
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