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Amazon Connect now offers the ability to maintain an open communication channel between your agents and Amazon Connect, helping reduce the time it takes to establish a connection with a customer. Contact center administrators can configure an agent’s user profile to maintain a persistent connection after a conversation ends, allowing for subsequent calls to connect faster. Amazon Connect persistent agent connection makes it easier to support compliance requirements with telemarketing laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for outbound campaigns’ calling by reducing the time it takes for a customer to connect with your agents. Amazon Connect persistent connection is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered, and there is no additional charge beyond standard pricing for the Amazon Connect service usage and associated telephony char

AWS Organizations Tag Policies announces Reporting for Required Tags, a new validation check that proactively ensures your CloudFormation, Terraform, and Pulumi deployments include the required tags critical to your business. Your infrastructure-as-code (IaC) operations can now be automatically validated against tag policies to ensure tagging consistency across your AWS environments. With this, you can ensure compliance for your IaC deployments in two simple steps: 1) define your tag policy, and 2) enable validation in each IaC tool. Tag Policies enables you to enforce consistent tagging across your AWS accounts with proactive compliance, governance, and control. With this launch, you can specify mandatory tag keys in your tag policies, and enforce guardrails for your IaC deployments. For example, you can define a tag policy that all EC2 instances in your IaC templates must have “Environment”, “Owner”, and “Application” as required tag keys. You can start valida

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion is a fully managed feature of DMS that automatically assesses and converts database schemas to formats compatible with AWS target database services. Today, we're excited to announce that Schema Conversion now supports conversions from SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database (formerly known as Sybase) to Amazon RDS PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, powered by Generative AI capability. Using Schema Conversion, you can automatically convert database objects from your SAP (Sybase) ASE source to an to Amazon RDS PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL target. The integrated generative AI capability intelligently handles complex code conversions that typically require manual effort, such as stored procedures, functions, and triggers. Schema Conversion also provides detailed assessmen

Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS, which helps you recover accidentally deleted snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs, now supports EBS Volumes. If you accidentally delete a volume, you can now recover it directly from Recycle Bin instead of restoring from a snapshot, reducing your recovery point objective with no data loss between the last snapshot and deletion. Your recovered volume can immediately achieve the full performance without waiting for data to download from snapshots. To use Recycle Bin, you can set a retention period for deleted volumes, and you can recover any volume within that period. Recovered volumes are immediately available and will retain all attributes—tags, permissions, and encryption status. Volumes not recovered are deleted permanently when the retention period expires. You create retention rules to enable Recycle Bin for all volumes or specific volumes, using tags to target which volumes to protect. EBS Volumes in Recycle Bin are billed at the same pr

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure and private connectivity to management console. With AWS PrivateLink, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to create, manage, and configure your OpenSearch Serverless resources without using the public internet. By enabling private network connectivity, this enhancement eliminates the need to use public IP addresses or relying solely on firewall rules to access OpenSearch Serverless. With this feature release the OpenSearch Serverless management and data operations can be securely accessed through PrivateLinks. Data ingestion and query operations on collections still requires OpenSearch Serverless provided VPC endpoint configuration for private connectivity as described in the OpenSearch Serverless VPC developer guide.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ deployment for SQL Server Web Edition. SQL Server Web Edition is specifically designed to support public and internet-accessible web pages, websites, web applications, and web services, and is used by web hosters and web value-added providers (VAPs). These applications need high availability, and automated failover to recover from hardware and database failures. Now customers can use SQL Server Web Edition with Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment option, which provides a high availability solution. The new feature eliminates the need for customers to use more expensive options for high availability, such as using SQL Server Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition. To use the feature, customers simply configure their Amazon RDS for SQL Server Web Edition instance with Multi-AZ deployment option. Amazon RDS automatically provisions

AWS announces the general availability of Cloud WAN Routing Policy providing customers fine-grained controls to optimize route management, control traffic patterns, and customize network behavior across their global wide-area networks. AWS Cloud WAN allows you to build, monitor, and manage a unified global network that interconnects your resources in the AWS cloud and your on-premises environments. Using the new Routing Policy feature, customers can perform advanced routing techniques such as route filtering and summarization to have better control on routes exchanged between AWS Cloud WAN and external networks. This feature enables customers to build controlled routing environments to minimize route reachability blast radius, prevent sub-optimal or asymmetric connectivity patterns, and avoid over-running of route-tables due to propagation of unnecessary routes in global networks. In addition, this feature allows customers to set advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attri

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2 which introduces native support for the AMQP 1.0 protocol, a new Raft based metadata store named Khepri, local shovels, and message priorities for quorum queues. RabbitMQ 4.2 also includes various bug fixes and performance improvements for throughput and memory management. A key highlight of RabbitMQ 4.2 is the support of AMQP 1.0 as a core protocol offering enhanced features like modified outcome which allow consumers to modify message annotations before requeueing or dead lettering, and granular flow control, which offers benefits including letting a client application dynamically adjust how many messages it wants to receive from a specific queue. Amazon MQ has also introduced configurable resource limits for RabbitMQ 4.2 brokers which you can modify based on your application requirements. Starting from RabbitMQ 4.0, mirroring of classic queues is no longer supported. Non-replicated classic queues are still supported. Quorum que

Starting today, customers can run Apple macOS Tahoe (version 26) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Tahoe is the latest major macOS version, and introduces multiple new features and performance improvements over prior macOS versions including running Xcode version 26.0 or later (which includes the latest SDKs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS). Backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), EC2 macOS AMIs are AWS-supported images that are designed to provide a stable, secure, and high-performance environment for developer workloads running on EC2 Mac instances. EC2 macOS AMIs include the AWS Command Line Interface, Command Line Tools for Xcode, Amazon SSM Agent, and Homebrew. The AWS Homebrew Tap includes the latest versions of AWS packages included in the AMIs. Apple macOS Tahoe AMIs are available for Apple silicon EC2 Mac instances and are published to all AWS r

Amazon Braket now supports spending limits, enabling customers to set spending caps on quantum processing units (QPUs) to manage costs. With spending limits, customers can define maximum spending thresholds on a per-device basis, and Amazon Braket automatically validates each task submission doesn't exceed the pre-configured limits. Tasks that would exceed remaining budgets are rejected before creation. For comprehensive cost management across all of Amazon Web Services, customers should continue to use the AWS Budgets feature as part of AWS Cost Management. Spending limits are particularly valuable for research institutions managing quantum computing budgets across multiple users, for educational environments preventing accidental overspending during coursework, and for development teams experimenting with quantum algorithms. Customers can update or delete