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Amazon MQ is now available in a new region, Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 37 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for open-source Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon MQ reduces your your operational responsibilities by managing the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers for you. Because Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols, you can more easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. For more information, please visit the Amazon MQ product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Custom Instructions for Q&A topics in Amazon Q in QuickSight. Custom Instructions enables Author Pros to curate Amazon Q's responses to questions by adding domain-specific knowledge that can’t be captured through a topic’s metadata settings, such as synonyms or semantic types. By providing these metadata descriptions or custom instructions, Authors can guide Amazon Q to align its responses with distinct definitions, preferences, and expert knowledge—ensuring more accurate, relevant, and tailored answers that are better suited for their business needs. Custom Instructions are available to Amazon Q in QuickSight Pro Author and Pro Admin users in all supported regions. To learn more, visit Amazon Q in QuickSight and explore the

Today, AWS announces the release of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AWS Price List, now available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository. The MCP server provides AI agents with real-time access to AWS product data, availability information and pricing details, including on-demand, reserved, and savings plans. With this launch, you can leverage AI assistants, including Amazon Q Developer CLI, and Claude Desktop, to retrieve AWS product and pricing information, compare pricing options across regions, and make data-driven decisions about AWS service selections - all through natural language conversations. You can download and integrate the open-source server with your preferred MCP-compatible AI assistant. The

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Global Clusters now supports adding up to 10 secondary Regions, further enhancing scalability and availability for globally distributed applications. Amazon DocumentDB Global Clusters spans multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. This launch increases the number of secondary Regions that can be added to a global cluster from the previously supported limit of up to 5 secondary Regions to up to 10 secondary Regions, providing a larger global footprint for operating your applications. See documentation to learn more about global clusters. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virt

The AWS Price List Query API now supports four new filter types, giving you more precise ways to search product data. With the new filters, you can now search products by exactly matching attributes, using sub-string matches, or creating include/exclude lists for more targeted results. These new filters simplify product discovery, enabling more efficient data retrieval. You can now easily find specific groups of products—such as all m5 EC2 instance types—with a single, streamlined filter instead of creating multiple complex queries. The new filter capabilities are available in all regions where the AWS Price List API is supported. Visit the userguide to learn more.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cumulative Update 19 (CU19 - 16.0.4185.3) for SQL Server 2022. This CU includes performance improvements and bug fixes, and is available for SQL Server Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU19 for details. We recommend that you upgrade to this latest CU to benefit from the performance improvements and bug fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. This CU is available in all

You can now view a global summary of policies that grant external access to buckets across your AWS account, directly from the Amazon S3 console. This summary lets you identify S3 buckets in any AWS Region that allow public access or access from other AWS accounts, without needing to inspect policies in each AWS Region individually. The External access summary is powered by AWS IAM Access Analyzer and is available at no additional cost in the S3 console in all AWS Regions. Visit the S3 User Guide to learn more.

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region to build real-time stream processing applications. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications and integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors. You can learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink here. For Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink region availability, refer to

AWS announces the release of AWS IoT Greengrass v2.15, introducing significant updates to both nucleus and nucleus lite core components. AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software at the edge. The latest release, version 2.15, strengthens core capabilities with enhanced secret and log management, advancing both security posture and troubleshooting efficiency for IoT applications running at the edge. The new release also offers updates for AWS IoT Greengrass nucleus lite, a lightweight, open-source edge runtime, specifically designed for resource-constrained devices with minimal footprint (5MB RAM). The new nucleus lite release introduces Docker containers management, expanding capabilities of lightweight IoT deployments and delivering containerized applications support in resource-constrained environments. AWS IoT Greengrass v2.15 is available in all AWS Regions whe

AWS is pleased to announce a significant enhancement to the AWS Specialization Programs Badge, which is available now. This enhancement will enable AWS Specialization Partners to showcase badges that display both their specific specialization and its corresponding category, addressing frequent feedback from our partners and customers. In today's competitive cloud marketplace, AWS Specializations have become instrumental in partner selection. According to recent Canalys research, 87% of customers consider AWS Specializations among their top three selection criteria, with 60% citing it as their primary factor when choosing an AWS Partner. The enhanced badges will be prominently featured in partners' marketing materials, event displays, social media presence, and customer-facing collateral. This update provides several key benefits: Improved visibility of specialized expertise Enhanced differentiation in the marketplace Stron