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AWS Marketplace now offers a more localized experience for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) customers purchasing Professional Service solutions via AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. Customers can now procure Professional Services using localized payment methods and receive invoices from AWS EMEA. This removes previous procurement barriers caused by complex payment remittance processes between different AWS entities, which made it difficult for EMEA customers to purchase Professional Services through AWS Marketplace. Key benefits include support for SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area) payment methods and invoicing consistency from the same AWS entity covering all AWS Marketplace purchases via AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. This capability is ideal for EMEA customers purchasing consulting, implementation, or managed services through AWS Marketplace. It also benefits organizations that prefer local payment methods such as SEPA direct debit, want to consolidate AWS and

Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers to power business-critical applications. With this new capability, you can replicate tables across AWS accounts and Regions to improve resiliency, isolate workloads at the account level, and apply distinct security and governance controls. For multi-account global tables, DynamoDB automatically replicates tables across AWS accounts and Regions. This capability allows you to strengthen fault tolerance and helps ensure applications remain highly available even during account-level disruptions, while allowing customers to align data placement with organizational and security requirements. Multi-account global tables are ideal for customers that adopt multi-account strategies or use AWS Organizations to improve security isolation, enforce data perimeter guardrails

Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience that consolidates and provides all relevant information needed to connect to a database in one place, making it easier to connect to your RDS databases. The new console experience provides ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js and other programming languages as well as tools like the psql command line utility. These code snippets are automatically adjusted based on your database's authentication settings. For example, if your cluster uses IAM authentication, the generated code snippets will use token-based authentication to connect to the database. The console experience also includes integrated CloudShell access, offering the ability to connect to your databases directly from within the RDS console. This feature is available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB database engines across

AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling you to centrally manage and scale fine-grained data access permissions and share data securely within and outside your organization. AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to define where your data resides and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Your users can then access the centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog which describes available data sets and their appropriate usage. Your users can then usethese data sets with their choice of analytics and machine learning services, like Amazon EMR for Apache Spark, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon Athena. To learn more about Lake Formation, visit the documentation. For AWS Lake Formation Region availability, please see the

Amazon Connect now provides an integrated workflow to capture and resolve agent appeals of performance evaluations, enhancing evaluation fairness and agent engagement. When agents disagree with an evaluation, they can appeal the evaluation along with their reasoning directly within the Connect UI. For example, an agent who received a low evaluation score for active listening on a conversation, may appeal their evaluation by citing specific examples where they actively listened and acknowledged the customer’s problem. Designated managers then receive automated email notifications to review and resolve the appeal. Additionally, managers can monitor which evaluations have been appealed, and track their status, ensuring timely resolution of appeals. This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please visit our 

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports index creation on NUMERIC data types. With this enhancement, you can now use NUMERIC columns in both primary keys and secondary indexes, which can improve query performance for workloads that rely on high-precision values such as currency amounts, measurements and statistical data.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of displaying account name in AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. AWS customers now have an easy way to identify their accounts at a glance. Users can now quickly distinguish between accounts visually using the account name that appears in the navigation bar for all authorized users in that account. AWS customers manage multiple accounts to separate their workloads, such as maintaining distinct accounts for development and production environments or for different business units. Previously, users had to rely on account numbers to identify accounts. With this new feature, all authorized users can quickly identify the account using its name on the navigation bar. The account name display feature is available at no additional cost in all public AWS Regions. To get started, make sure your administrator has enabled the feature (visit our

Quick Sight in Amazon Quick Suite now enables authors to resolve or update ambiguous locations directly on map visuals for accurate geographical data visualization. When Quick Suite encounters location names that exist in multiple regions—such as cities like Springfield or Abbeville that appear in multiple U.S. states—users can now explicitly define the correct geographical context through three resolution methods: adding supporting geospatial fields to create location hierarchies, searching for specific locations from Quick Suite's geographical database, or entering exact latitude and longitude coordinates for precise positioning. These enhancements address visualization accuracy needs for organizations working with datasets containing common location names that could refer to multiple places. With location mapping, dashboard authors can ensure their geospatial visuals correctly represent their data

IAM Identity Center helps you configure the single sign-on experience of your workforce to AWS accounts and applications. You can now replicate IAM Identity Center from the primary AWS Region where you first enabled it to additional Regions of your choice. This feature enhances resilience of user access to AWS accounts and helps you deploy AWS applications in the AWS Regions that best align with your business needs such as application data residency and proximity to users. When you enable this feature, IAM Identity Center automatically replicates your identities, entitlements, and other information from the primary Region to additional Regions. If IAM Identity Center is affected by a disruption in the primary Region, IAM Identity Center users continue to have access to their AWS accounts using the already provisioned entitlements in the additional Regions.  AWS application administrators can use the standard application deployment workflow to deploy their applic

Oracle Database@AWS is now available in two additional AWS Regions: CA-Central-1 (Canada Central) and AP-Southeast-2 (Sydney), starting with one Availability Zone (AZ) in each Region. Oracle Database@AWS enables you to access database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers. As a result, customers can easily migrate their on-premises Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) applications to a like-for-like environment on AWS, and also benefit from integrations with AWS services such as AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for data encryption and AWS CloudWatch for monitoring. With expansion to the Canada Central and Sydney Regions, customers with data residency requirements in Canada and Australia can migrate their on-premises Oracle Exadata and RAC applications to AWS. With this expansion, Oracle Database@AWS services are now available in seven Regions: US-East-1 (N. Virginia), US-West-2 (Oregon), US-