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Building on the Hooks Invocation Summary launched in September 2025, AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports granular invocation details. Hook authors can supplement their Hook evaluation responses with detailed findings, finding severity, and remediation advice. The Hooks console now displays these details at the individual control level within each invocation, enabling developers to quickly identify and resolve specific Hook failures. Customers can easily drill down from the invocation summary to see exactly which controls passed, failed, or were skipped, along with specific remediation guidance for each failure. This granular visibility eliminates guesswork when debugging Hook failures, allowing teams to pinpoint the exact control that blocked a deployment and understand how to fix it. The detailed findings accelerate troubleshooting and streamline compliance reporting by providing actionable insights at the individual control level. The Hooks invocation summary p

AWS Transform for VMware now allows customers to automatically generate network configurations that can be directly imported into the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution (LZA). Building on AWS Transform's existing support for infrastructure-as-code generation in AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform formats, this new capability enables automatic transformation of VMware network environments into LZA-compatible network configuration YAML files. The YAML files can be deployed through LZA's deployment pipeline, streamlining the process of setting up cloud infrastructure. AWS Transform for VMware is an agentic AI service that automates the discovery, planning, and migration of VMware workloads, accelerating infrastructure modernization with increased speed and confidence. Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution (LZA) automates the setup of a secure, multi-account AWS e

Amazon Connect now provides metrics that measure completion of agent performance evaluations, improving manager productivity and evaluation consistency. Businesses can monitor if the required number of evaluations for their agents have been completed, ensuring compliance with internal policies (e.g., complete 5 evaluations per agent per month), regulatory requirements, and labor union agreements. Additionally, businesses can analyze evaluation scoring patterns across different managers, to identify opportunities to improve evaluation consistency and accuracy. These insights are available in real-time through analytics dashboards in the Connect UI, and APIs. This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please visit our

AWS IoT Core Device Location announces location resolution capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to Amazon Sidewalk network, enabling developers to build asset tracking and geo-fencing applications more efficiently by eliminating the need for GPS hardware in low-power devices. Amazon Sidewalk provides a secure community network through Amazon Sidewalk Gateways (compatible Amazon Echo and Ring devices) to deliver cloud connectivity for IoT devices. AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk facilitates connectivity and message transmission between Amazon Sidewalk-connected IoT devices and AWS cloud services. The integration of Amazon Sidewalk with AWS IoT Core, enables you to easily provision, onboard, and monitor your Amazon Sidewalk devi

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. I8g instances offer the best compute performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4g instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional, real-time

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in AWS Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances are ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). I7i instances support torn write prevention feature with up to 16KB block sizes, enabling customers to eli

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. This release includes the new pgcollection extension for RDS PostgreSQL versions 15.15 and above (16.11 and 17.7). This extension enhances database performance by providing an efficient way to store and manage key-value pairs within PostgreSQL functions. Collections maintain the order of entries and can store various types of PostgreSQL data, making them useful for applications that need fast, in-memory data processing. The release also includes updates to extensions, with pg_tle upgraded to version 1.5.2 and H3_PG upgraded to version 4.2.3. You can use automatic mino

Customers using Amazon EventBridge can now setup rules for AWS Health events with multi-region redundancy, or choose a simplified path by creating a single rule to capture all Health events. With this enhancement, Health sends all events simultaneously to US West (Oregon) as well as the individual region of impact. For more information customers can go to Creating EventBridge rules for AWS Region coverage. Sending Health events to two regions gives customers an option to increase the resilience of their integration by creating a backup rule. US West (Oregon) is the backup for all regions in commercial partition, while US East (N. Virginia) is the backup for US West (Oregon). Plus, this change also enables a simplified integration path, where customers can now setup a single rule in US West (Oregon) to capture all Health events from across commercial partition, as opposed to nee

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6f instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. G6f instances can be used for a wide range of graphics workloads. G6f instances offer GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory giving customers the flexibility to right size their instances and drive significant cost savings compared to EC2 G6 instances with a single GPU. Customers can use G6f instances to provision remote workstations for Media & Entertainment, Computer-Aided Engineering, for ML research, and for spatial visualization. G6f instances are available in 5 instance sizes with half, quarter, and one-eighth of a GPU per instance size, paired with third generation AMD EPYC processors offering up to 12 GB of GPU memory and 16 vCPUs. Amazon EC2 G6f instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Stockholm

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode, enabling low-latency forwarding of QUIC traffic while preserving session stickiness through QUIC Connection ID. This enhancement helps customers maintain consistent connections for mobile applications, even when client IP addresses change during network roaming. With QUIC support, customers can reduce application latency by up to 30% through fewer packet round trips and ensure seamless user experiences across varying network conditions. This is especially useful for mobile applications that require users to move between cellular towers or switch from WiFi to cellular networks, without losing connection state. You can enable QUIC support on your existing or new Network Load Balancers through the AWS Management Console, CLI, or APIs. Once enabled, NLB forwards QUIC traffic to targets by using the QUIC Connection ID to maintain session stickiness even when a client roams. QUIC support is a