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AWS Client VPN now supports Linux desktop client with Ubuntu versions 26.04 LTS. You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest Ubuntu OS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded here. AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects your remote workforce to AWS or on-premises networks. It supports desktop clients for MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu-Linux. With this release, CVPN now supports the latest version of Ubuntu client - 26.04 LTS, along with 22.04 and 24.04. It already support Mac OS version Sonoma 14.0,, Sequoia 15.0, and Tahoe 26.0, and Windows 11. Client also supports ARM64 for MacOS and Windows. This client version is available in all regions where AWS Client VPN is generally available with no additional cost. To learn more about Client VPN: Visit the AWS Client VPN

Amazon Connect now supports Default Guides for After Contact Work (ACW), enabling contact center administrators to automatically launch a Step-by-Step Guide when an agent enters the ACW state without any manual work.  This capability helps contact centers standardize post-contact workflows and reduce handle time by ensuring agents are automatically guided through required wrap-up tasks, such as logging disposition codes, updating cases, or completing follow-up actions. By eliminating the need for agents to manually navigate to the correct application during ACW, organizations can improve consistency, reduce errors, and accelerate agent productivity across their contact center operations.  To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect webpage and documentation

Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now lets you add and remove AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution, giving you flexible control over where your DNS queries are resolved. This allows you to easily expand Global Resolver coverage as your organization grows or adjust regional deployment to meet compliance requirements. Global Resolver provides anycast DNS resolution for public internet domains and private Route 53 hosted zones from any location, along with DNS query filtering and centralized logging. With this update, you can dynamically adjust which AWS Regions participate in anycast resolution without recreating your Global Resolver configuration. This capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where Route 53 Global Resolver is supported. To get started, see the Route 53 Global Resolver documentation. For regional availability

AWS Service Catalog is now available to customers in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary). AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and distribute a catalog of approved Infrastructure as Code (IaC) products for deployment on AWS. Administrators define products using AWS CloudFormation or other IaC tools such as Terraform. A product is a set of AWS resources that can range from a single compute instance to a fully configured multi-tier application. Customers can share portfolios of approved products across AWS accounts and organizational units through AWS Organizations, giving engineers, database administrators, data scientists, and other end-users consistent self-service access to governed AWS resources across their organization. With AWS Service Catalog, organizations can apply launch and template constraints to govern how products are provisioned, manage product versions as they evolve, and control acces

IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Java applications and Terraform-aware policy generation, expanding its language coverage and its ability to generate less permissive IAM policies from code. IAM Policy Autopilot is an open-source tool launched at re:Invent 2025 that helps builders quickly and deterministically create baseline IAM policies on AWS that you can refine as your application evolves, reducing the time you spend writing IAM policies and troubleshooting access issues. Java has been one of the most requested languages from IAM Policy Autopilot users. With this release, Java developers can now analyze their application source code to generate AWS IAM policies, joining Python, TypeScript, and Go as supported languages. In addition, IAM Policy Autopilot can now cross-reference Terraform resource definitions with SDK calls in your application code to resolve actual resource ARNs for each IAM action. For example, a policy generated for an application that calls S3 GetObjec

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS64 on inbound endpoints and IPv6 forwarding through the internet gateway (IGW) on outbound endpoints, making it easier to manage hybrid DNS across IPv4 and IPv6 networks. With DNS64 enabled on inbound endpoints, you can synthesize AAAA (IPv6) responses for domains that only have A (IPv4) records, allowing IPv6-only clients on-premises to reach IPv4 services on AWS without changes to those services. You can also configure outbound endpoints to forward DNS queries to public IPv6 name servers through the IGW. Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints simplify hybrid cloud DNS by enabling seamless query resolution between on-premises networks and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). As you transition workloads to IPv6, these capabilities help your IPv6 resources on VPCs and on-premises networks communicate with both IPv4 and IPv6 destinations without additional workarounds. These capabilities are available at no addition

AWS Marketplace launches a new Tax management portal that provides sellers a streamlined self-service process to view and download invoices, eliminating the need to request invoices through support channels. Tax management portal integrates the invoice management directly into the AWS Partner Central console, providing centralized access to both seller listing fee invoices and invoices issued to buyers in applicable regions. The portal streamlines invoice retrieval and record-keeping for sellers and partner finance teams managing AWS Marketplace operations. Sellers can now access the new experience through AWS Partner Central or AWS Marketplace Management portal, enabling advanced search and filtering capabilities, allowing you to search listing fee invoices by invoice ID, date range, or invoicing entity. Sellers can also access these invoices programmatically through the

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning (ML) use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization. G6 instances are also well-suited for graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. In addition to AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), Amazon EC2 G6 instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (O

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances. X8i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Compared to X2i instances, X8i instances offer up to 50% higher SAPS performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, 88% faster Memcached performance, and 46% faster AI inference performance. X8i instances come in 14 sizes, from large to 96xlarge, including two bare metal options. To get sta

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio announces new administration features that give administrators more control over identity configuration and user management for both IAM and Identity Center domain types. In SageMaker IAM domains, administrators can now onboard users through single sign-on by configuring AWS IAM Identity Center. After configuration, administrators can add IAM roles, IAM users, IAM Identity Center users, and IAM Identity Center groups as project members. Teams can collaborate on project data and resources regardless of how individual members authenticate. Administrators can set up IAM Identity Center integration in the SageMaker Unified Studio admin portal. A new domain user management page for SageMaker IAM domains gives administrators a consolidated view of all users active in the domain, where they can manage access and update permissions from a single screen. In SageMaker Identity Center domains, users can now access the SageMaker Unified Studio p