Amazon EMR Serverless now supports live configuration updates without application restarts

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports updates to key application configurations such as maximum capacity, and custom image settings — without stopping and restarting the application. New workloads submitted after the update automatically use the new settings, while existing workloads continue uninterrupted with their original configuration.
Previously, modifying these settings required stopping your EMR Serverless application, making the change, and restarting it — forcing you to coordinate maintenance windows and temporarily block job submissions. Now you can adjust scaling boundaries or deploy updated custom images at any time without disrupting running jobs. This reduces operational overhead and lets you respond to changing workload demands or deploy image updates immediately. 
This feature is available on all Amazon EMR releases and in all AWS Regions where Amazon EMR Serverless is available. To learn more, visit the EMR Serverless User Guide.
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Amazon Cognito now supports customer managed key for encryption at rest

Amazon Cognito now supports customer managed keys in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for encrypting user pool data at rest. While AWS owned keys are used by default to protect your data, customer managed keys give you full control over the encryption keys, helping you achieve your organization’s data governance objectives. 
 
With customer managed keys, you can define organizational policies and revoke access to encrypted data by disabling or deleting your key. You create and manage the customer managed key lifecycle and usage permissions in AWS KMS. You can configure a customer managed key when creating a new user pool or update an existing user pool to use one. You can also use AWS CloudTrail to monitor and audit all usage of your customer managed keys, giving you visibility into when and how your identity data is accessed.
 
Customer managed keys are available in user pools in Essentials and Plus tiers at no additional costs. Standard AWS KMS charges apply. To get started, configure your customer managed keys using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Visit the developer guide for instructions.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs supports managed syslog ingestion

Amazon CloudWatch Logs supports managed syslog ingestion, enabling customers to send syslog messages from firewalls, routers, switches, and Linux servers directly into CloudWatch Logs. With today’s launch, customers can configure their network devices and servers to send syslog messages over TCP, TCP+TLS, or UDP to a VPC endpoint in their account – without installing or managing any agents. Amazon CloudWatch Logs supports RFC 5424, RFC 3164, and Cisco FTD/ASA syslog formats, making it compatible with a wide range of infrastructure. Amazon CloudWatch Logs automatically parses incoming syslog messages and extracts structured fields such as facility, severity, hostname, and application name, thereby eliminating the need for custom parsing pipelines. For example, customers can ingest syslog from their network firewalls and immediately query by severity or hostname using Logs Analytics to investigate security events or troubleshoot connectivity issues. This feature helps teams centralize infrastructure log visibility, simplify operational workflows, and reduce the overhead of deploying and maintaining log collection agents across distributed environments. Available in all commercial AWS Regions except Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), and Israel (Tel Aviv). To get started, see the Amazon CloudWatch Logs documentation.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers AI-assisted migrations

Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes an AI-assisted experience that simplifies moving your self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments to OpenSearch Serverless or Managed Clusters. With the new assistant, you can use your preferred AI tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and others to plan a migration, deploy necessary infrastructure, and execute both historical and live traffic migration.
Migrations are often complex and require weeks of planning before any data movement can begin and even then, the process can be error-prone. We launched Migration Assistant in December 2023 to simplify migrating existing and live data from self-managed clusters to Amazon OpenSearch Service by automating manual migration tasks. The new AI-assisted experience takes this further: it provides an agent-guided workflow that helps you structure, execute, and validate your data migration faster and more reliably. Additionally, Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports live traffic capture and replay for Solr. To get started, see Migration Assistant documentation.
Migration Assistant supports migrations to OpenSearch Serverless and Managed Clusters from various Solr, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch versions. For more details about the versions supported, see the documentation. Migration Assistant is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon OpenSearch Service is available.
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Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails add new policy refinement workflows

Today, AWS announces new automated refinement workflows for Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. Automated Reasoning checks use formal logic to mathematically validate the accuracy of generative AI responses against a policy you define, helping detect hallucinations and provide verifiable explanations. The quality of validation results depends on how well a policy is defined. The new workflows help customers improve their policies with less manual effort, leading to more reliable Guardrail validation results.
The launch introduces two refinement workflows. With the iterative policy improvement workflow, customers who have created natural language tests for a policy can start an iterative refinement run, letting the system deduce the changes needed for the policy to pass those tests. With the ambiguity reduction workflow, customers who frequently encounter ambiguous translation results can run the resolve policy ambiguities workflow to automatically refine variable descriptions and type definitions, reducing how often ambiguous translations occur. Both workflows are available through the Amazon Bedrock APIs and in the AWS Management Console, where customers can start a workflow by choosing Refine policy on the policy page.
These workflows are available in all AWS Regions where Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails are available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails product page and the Automated Reasoning checks User Guide.
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AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflows

AWS HealthOmics adds ephemeral storage for private workflows, giving bioinformatics workloads dedicated scratch space that delivers more consistent run performance and lower costs. Each workflow task now receives a dedicated local volume mounted at /tmp, and workflows that generate significant scratch data, such as genomic sequence alignment, BAM sorting, and variant calling, can experience faster run times. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed bioinformatics workflows.
With this launch, workflow tasks can write temporary data to their own local volume, keeping scratch I/O isolated from shared run storage that hosts the working directory. By default, each task includes 16 GiB of ephemeral storage at no additional charge. You can increase the amount of ephemeral storage allocated to individual tasks, up to a maximum of 3,072 GiB per task, using the appropriate directive in your WDL, Nextflow, or CWL workflow definition. You can enable ephemeral storage at runtime with the StartRun API. All ephemeral storage volumes are encrypted and deleted when a task terminates.
You can use ephemeral storage in all AWS Regions where AWS HealthOmics is available: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Seoul). To learn more about ephemeral storage, visit the AWS HealthOmics User Guide. For more information on pricing, visit AWS HealthOmics pricing.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports cross-account access

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now enables cross-account access, allowing you to build multi-account architectures where memory resources and consuming agents span multiple AWS accounts. You can grant principals in one account permission to call memory data plane APIs against resources in another account using resource-based policies, and configure memory delivery destinations (Amazon S3, Amazon SNS, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams) that reside in a separate account.
Cross-account access is configured by attaching a resource-based policy to your memory resource. Once configured, principals in the consuming account can create events, write memory records, retrieve records, and perform semantic search by referencing the full memory ARN. Cross-account delivery destinations allow your memory resource to deliver payloads and stream events to S3 buckets, SNS topics, and Kinesis Data Streams in other accounts.
To get started, see Cross-account memory access in the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Developer Guide. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory cross-account access is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory is supported.    
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SageMaker Notebook Instances now support G6e instance types

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker notebook instances.
Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 G5 instances. Customers can use G6e instances to interactively test model deployment and for interactive model training use cases such as generative AI fine-tuning. You can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio.
Amazon EC2 G6e instances are available on SageMaker notebook instances in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Middle East (Dubai) and Europe (Frankfurt, Sweden, Spain) regions.
Visit developer guides for instructions on setting up and using JupyterLab and CodeEditor applications on SageMaker Studio and SageMaker notebook instances.
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AWS introduces Lambda MicroVMs for isolated execution of user and AI-generated code

AWS introduces Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that provides VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation for executing user or AI-generated code. You can now give each user or job their own compute environment to securely run code without managing virtualization infrastructure or choosing between isolation, speed, and state retention.
Developers are increasingly building multi-tenant applications that execute code supplied by end users or AI for use cases such as interactive coding environments, data analytics platforms, coding assistants, and vulnerability scanning platforms. For these applications, developers need to allocate a separate, isolated execution environment per user or session to limit the impact of incorrect or malicious code on other concurrently running users or jobs. Previously, developers needed to choose between strong isolation, fast launch times, and state retention when building these applications. Starting today, Lambda MicroVMs provides you these capabilities without any trade-offs. You get VM-level isolation, near-instant launch speeds, and the ability to suspend and resume execution for up to 8 hours. Lambda MicroVMs is built on Firecracker virtualization, the technology powering more than 15 trillion monthly Lambda Function invocations. 
To get started, create a MicroVM image from your Dockerfile, then launch MicroVMs from that image. Give each user or job their own MicroVM with a dedicated HTTPS URL that supports popular connectivity protocols such as HTTP/2, gRPC, and WebSockets. 
Lambda MicroVMs is available today in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland). To learn more, visit the AWS Lambda MicroVMs developer guide and the launch blog post. Get started with MicroVMs through the AWS Lambda console, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit, or use the Agent Toolkit for AWS with your preferred Agentic development tools. You pay for baseline compute resources while your MicroVM is running, and only for the active duration of additional resources consumed when your workload exceeds the baseline. To learn more about pricing, see Lambda MicroVMs pricing.
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AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles, enabling customers to activate predefined execution settings at run time. Nextflow profiles allow customers to define reusable settings and select them at the point of execution, making it easy to switch between execution settings without modifying workflow source code. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs at scale with fully managed bioinformatics workflows.
With Nextflow profiles, you can cleanly separate platform-specific settings such as resource limits or execution options from core workflow logic. You can switch between development and production settings without creating separate workflow definitions. This reduces errors from manual edits, accelerates workflow portability, and saves time when scaling from development to production. If you use nf-core workflows, you can now activate the built-in and institutional profiles those pipelines already ship with.
You can now specify one or more Nextflow profiles in your workflow runs in all AWS HealthOmics Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Seoul). To learn more, visit the Nextflow Profiles section on HealthOmics Nextflow engine settings documentation.
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