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AWS announces the Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, enabling developers to easily build, deploy, troubleshoot, and manage serverless applications using AI coding assistants like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor. Agent plugins extend AI coding assistants with structured, reusable capabilities by packaging skills, sub-agents, hooks, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers into a single modular unit. The Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless dynamically loads relevant guidance and expertise required throughout the development lifecycle for building production-ready serverless applications on AWS. You can create AWS Lambda functions that integrate with popular event sources like Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Step Functions, while following built-in best practices for observability, performance optimization, and troubleshooting. As you adopt Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you can streaml

AWS Firewall Manager announces that it is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Firewall Manager helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and managing rules. Working with AWS Firewall Manager, customers can provide defense in depth policies to address the full range of AWS security services for customers hosting their applications and workloads in AWS Taipei. Customers wishing to establish secured assets using AWS WAF can create and maintain security policies with AWS Firewall Manager. To learn more about how AWS Firewall Manager works, see the AWS Firewall Manager documentation for more details and the AWS Region Table for the list of regions where AWS Fir

AWS Batch now provides enhanced visibility into your compute environments with two new capabilities that help you maintain operational best practices. When you describe a compute environment, you can now see the status of your Batch-provided default Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), indicating when updates are available. Additionally, AWS Batch now publishes AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events to help you prepare for and track changes affecting your batch computing resources. The AMI status indicator shows whether you're using the latest AMI (LATEST) or if an update is available (UPDATE_AVAILABLE), helping you identify compute environments that may be running outdated AMIs. AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events provide advance notification of upcoming changes, such as AMI deprecations, help you monitor migration status of your affected compute environments, and automate responses using Amazon EventBridge. AMI status indicator and AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events are a

Today, AWS announces remote connection from Cursor IDE to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio via the AWS Toolkit extension. This new capability allows data scientists, ML engineers, and developers to leverage their Cursor setup - including its AI-powered code completion, natural language editing, and multi-file editing capabilities - while accessing the scalable compute resources of Amazon SageMaker. By connecting Cursor to SageMaker Unified Studio using the AWS Toolkit extension, you can eliminate context switching between your local IDE and cloud infrastructure, maintaining your existing AI-assisted development workflows within a single environment for all your AWS analytics and AI/ML services. SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, offers a broad set of fully managed cloud interactive development environments (IDE), including JupyterLab and Code Editor based on Code-OSS (Open-Source Software). Starting today, you can also use your customiz

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now enables customers to configure Chrome Enterprise policies for AgentCore Browser and specify custom root Certificate Authority (CA) certificates for both AgentCore Browser and Code Interpreter. These enhancements help ensure enterprise requirements are met when allowing AI agents to operate within organizations that have strict security policies and internal infrastructure using custom certificates. With Chrome policies, you can leverage over 100+ configurable policies for managing browser behavior across security, URL filtering, content settings, and more to enforce organizational compliance requirements. For example, restrict agents to specific URLs for kiosk-mode operations, disable password managers and downloads for data-entry tasks, or implement URL blocklists for regulatory compliance. Custom root CA support enables agents to seamlessly connect to internal services like Artifactory, Jira, and finance portals that use SSL certificates signe

AWS Batch now supports quota management with job preemption for SageMaker Training jobs, enabling you to efficiently allocate and share compute resources across your teams and projects. If you're using GPU capacity in SageMaker Training jobs, you can now intelligently allocate compute resources, prioritize your business-critical training jobs, and automatically preempt lower-priority workloads when your urgent experiments arrive. With quota management, you can create up to 20 quota shares per job queue that function as virtual queues with dedicated capacity limits and configurable resource sharing strategies. The service automatically uses cross-share preemption to restore borrowed capacity when the original owner submits jobs, and supports in-share preemption to allow high-priority jobs to preempt lower-priority jobs within the same quota share. You can monitor capacity utilization at the queue, quota share, and job-level granularity, update job priorities after submission

Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports granular AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions, allowing you to control which users can manage specific resource types and VPC associations within your Profiles. With this launch, you can create IAM policies that restrict users to specific operations (associate, disassociate, or update) on individual resource types such as private hosted zones, Resolver rules, or DNS Firewall rule groups. You can also define permissions based on resource ARNs, hosted zone names, Resolver rule domain names, DNS Firewall rule group priority ranges, or specific VPC associations. Route 53 Profiles enable you to define a standard DNS configuration that includes private hosted zone associations, Resolver rules, and DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this configuration to multiple VPCs in your account or share with AWS accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This new capability provides administrators with fine-grained control over Pr

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now offers a new experience to create a cluster with express configuration, enabling you to create and query an Aurora serverless database in seconds. With pre-configured settings, the new experience accelerates initial setup and reduces time to first query. You have the flexibility to modify certain settings during creation and most other settings afterward. Aurora clusters created using express configuration reside outside a virtual private cloud (VPC) network and include an internet access gateway for secure connections from your favorite development tools - no VPN, or AWS Direct Connect required. The internet access gateway supports the full PostgreSQL wire protocol, enabling connectivity from a broad range of development tools and clients. It is distributed across multiple Availability Zones, providing the same level of high availability as your Aurora cluster. It also sets up AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication for your admi

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is now available on the AWS Free Tier, which offers new customers $100 in AWS credits upon sign-up and the ability to earn an additional $100 in credits by using services including Amazon RDS. With a Free Plan account, you can create an Aurora PostgreSQL serverless cluster from the Amazon RDS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs using express configuration, which enables you to create and query an Aurora PostgreSQL database in seconds. To get started, select the Free Plan during new AWS account sign-up. AWS Free Tier is available in all AWS Regions where Aurora PostgreSQL serverless is supported. For more details, see the

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization and reinforcement fine-tuning for 12 additional open-weight models, enabling you to fine-tune and evaluate them without provisioning or managing infrastructure. The newly supported models are: gpt-oss-120b, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B, Qwen3 14B, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B, Qwen2.5 14B Instruct, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B, Qwen3 4B, Meta Llama 3.2 3B Instruct, Qwen3 1.7B, and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B. With this expansion, you can customize these models using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), direct preference optimization (DPO), and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) techniques including RLVR and RLAIF, and only pay for what you use. Reinforcement fine-tuning enables you to align models to complex, domain-specific reasoning tasks where techniques such as traditional SFT alone fall short. With RLVR, you can improve model accuracy on verifiable tasks such as