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AWS Network Firewall now supports flexible cost allocation through AWS Transit Gateway native attachments in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to automatically distribute data processing costs across different AWS accounts. Customers can create metering policies to apply data processing charges based on their organization's chargeback requirements instead of consolidating all expenses in the firewall owner account. This capability helps security and network teams better manage centralized firewall costs by distributing charges to application teams based on actual usage. Organizations can now maintain centralized security controls while automatically allocating inspection costs to the appropriate business units or application owners, eliminating the need for custom cost management solutions. Flexible cos

Amazon Connect now offers APIs to configure and run tests that simulate contact center experiences, making it easy to validate workflows, self-service voice interactions, and their outcomes. With these APIs, you can programmatically configure test parameters, including the caller's phone number or customer profile, the reason for the call (such as "I need to check my order status"), the expected responses (such as "Your request has been processed"), and business conditions like after-hours scenarios or full call queues. With this launch, you can also integrate testing directly into CI/CD pipelines, run multiple tests simultaneously to validate workflows at scale, and enable automated regression testing as part of your deployment cycles. These capabilities allow you to rapidly validate changes to your workflows and confidently deploy new customer experiences to production. To learn more about these features, see the

AWS HealthImaging now supports storing and retrieving lossy compressed medical images in the JPEG XL transfer syntax (1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.112). It is now simpler than ever to integrate HealthImaging with applications that require JPEG XL encoded DICOM data, such as digital pathology whole slide imaging systems. With this launch, HealthImaging stores your JPEG XL Lossy image data without transcoding, which maintains the fidelity of your data and reduces your storage costs. Further, you can retrieve stored image frames in the JPEG XL format without the latency of transcoding at retrieval time.

Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs, in addition to the existing IPv6 support for public endpoints. This allows you to configure dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity to access RDS Service APIs directly from within your VPC without internet traversal. IPv6 provides an expanded address space, enabling you to scale your application on AWS beyond the limitations of IPv4 addresses. With IPv6, you can assign easy to manage contiguous IP ranges to micro-services and can get virtually unlimited scale for your applications. Moreover, with support for both IPv4 and IPv6, you can gradually transition applications from IPv4 to IPv6, enabling safer migration. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US) regions. Get started with

Amazon Connect now delivers improved estimated wait time metrics for queues and enqueued contacts, empowering organizations. This allows contact centers to set accurate customer expectations, provide convenient options such as callbacks when hold times are extended, and balance workloads effectively across multiple queues. By leveraging the improved estimated wait time metrics, contact centers can make more strategic routing choices across queues while gaining enhanced visibility for better resource planning. For example, a customer calling about billing during peak hours with a 15-minute wait is seamlessly transferred to a cross-trained team with 2-minute availability, getting help faster without repeating their issue. The metric works seamlessly with routing criteria and agent proficiency configurations. 

Today, Amazon SageMaker announced a new capability allowing you to establish connectivity between your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio without customer data traffic going through the public internet. Customers needing to go beyond the standard data transfer protocol (HTTPS/TLS2) can choose to configure their VPC so data transfer stays within the AWS network. Through AWS PrivateLink, Network Administrators can now onboard AWS service endpoints to their VPC used by Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. With the endpoints are onboarded, IAM policies used by Amazon SageMaker will enforce that customer data stay within the AWS network. Amazon SageMaker private access using AWS PrivateLink is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Stu

AWS Lambda launches enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings (ESM) that provides Amazon CloudWatch Logs and metrics to monitor event polling setup, scaling, and processing state of Kafka events. This capability allows customers to quickly diagnose setup issues and take timely corrective actions to operate resilient data streaming workloads. This capability is available for both Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka (SMK) event source mappings. Customers use Kafka event source mappings (ESM) with their Lambda functions to build mission-critical applications. However, the lack of visibility into event polling setup, scaling, and processing state for events slows down troubleshooting for issues resulting from faulty permissions, misconfiguration, or function errors, which increases mean time to resolution and adds operational overhead. With this launch, customers can enable CloudWatch Logs an

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now publishes container health status as a new metric in CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability. Customers can now track the operational health of their containers through a dedicated CloudWatch metric and create alarms to respond proactively to unhealthy containers. When customers configure a container health check in the container definition of an ECS task definition, Container Insights now publishes the UnHealthyContainerHealthStatus metric in the ECS/ContainerInsights namespace. The metric reports 0 for HEALTHY and 1 for UNHEALTHY. Container health state information is also available in embedded metric format (EMF) logs, providing additional context while health checks are being evaluated during the UNKNOWN state. The metric is available across cluster, service, task, and container-level dimensions, enabling customers to monitor health at their pref

Today, AWS announces the launch of Partner Revenue Measurement, a new capability that gives AWS Partners visibility into how their solutions impact AWS service consumption across partner-managed and customer-managed accounts. Partner Revenue Measurement allows Partners to better understand their AWS revenue impact and product consumption patterns. Partners can now tag AWS resources using the product code from their AWS Marketplace listing with tag key: aws-apn-id and tag value: pc:<AWS Marketplace product-code> to quantify and measure the AWS revenue impact of that solution. Partner Revenue Measurement is generally available in all commercial regions. To learn more about implementing Partner Revenue Measurement, review the onboarding guide for more information.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes. With additional storage volumes, customers can add up to three storage volumes, each with up to 64 TiB, in addition to the primary storage volume for their database instance. As a result, customers get flexibility to add or remove storage with evolving workload demands, without incurring application downtime, and set up their database instance with up to 256 TiB storage. Now, with support for cross-Region replicas, customers that set up database instances with cross-Region replicas for business-critical applications also get the benefit of using additional storage volumes for storage flexibility. When you create a cross-Region replica for a database instance that is set up with additional storage volumes, Amazon RDS for Oracle automatically configures the same storage layout on the replica. Subsequently, you can apply changes to addition