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CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Multilocation Canary Support
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows running canaries across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point. This feature reduces operational overhead and configuration drift compared to managing separate canaries per region. It ensures consistent user experience, identifies region-specific issues, and enhances alert confidence by requiring multi-location failures. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions supporting CloudWatch Synthetics, and existing canaries can be upgraded.
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AWS Partner Central adds funding for Business Value Realization
AWS Partner Central now supports the Business Value Realization (BVR) motion, offering funding for partners who drive customer adoption and business outcomes with AWS services. This new experience helps partners structure the customer adoption journey across defined stages, with AI agents generating weekly reports to identify risks and opportunities. Funding is automatically disbursed upon completion of stages, and the program is available to consulting, system integrator, and managed services partners with advance or premier tier status and a qualifying competency.
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AWS Partner Central agents now guide new partners through onboarding
AWS Partner Central has launched agentic onboarding capabilities for new partners, automating profile setup and guiding them through compliance requirements to become ready-to-sell. This feature aims to simplify the path for partners to start selling on AWS by providing personalized roadmaps, reducing the need for manual research. These capabilities are now generally available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be accessed via the console or programmatically.
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AWS Marketplace Storefront GA for Partners
AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, allowing AWS Partners to launch their own branded solution catalogs on their websites. This simplifies cloud marketplace management for channel partners and ISVs, enabling customers to discover and purchase solutions more easily. The storefront offers no-code branding, automated deal workflows, and integrates with existing AWS billing, with availability across all AWS Marketplace regions.
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AWS Management Console Private Access enhances VPC connectivity without internet
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows customers to access the AWS Console from VPCs without internet connectivity, improving network security for air-gapped environments. This enhancement, which leverages AWS PrivateLink, is particularly beneficial for regulated industries like finance, government, and healthcare, and enterprises with stringent security needs. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions, with costs based on PrivateLink VPC endpoint usage.
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AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization for bots
AWS WAF now offers AI traffic monetization, a new capability allowing content owners to set prices, accept payments, and grant access to AI bots accessing their APIs and content. This feature utilizes an HTTP 402 response for machine-to-machine payments, with initial integration via Coinbase and upcoming support for Stripe. It enables differentiated pricing and revenue analytics, and is available at no additional charge for AWS WAF customers.
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AWS Transform adds TCO assessment for SQL Server migrations to RDS
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now integrates TCO assessment into AWS Transform, allowing users to estimate migration costs from on-premises SQL Server to RDS for SQL Server. The service uses AI to analyze existing environments, recommend optimal instances, and evaluate cost-saving options like Database Savings Plans and the AWS Migration Acceleration Program. Assessments support various data inputs and can be combined with analyses for other AWS services.
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SageMaker Data Agent integrates business context from SageMaker Catalog
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now integrates with SageMaker Catalog's business context and metadata, allowing data practitioners to use business terms for data discovery and code generation. This feature leverages curated business context from sources like Collibra and Atlan to improve accuracy and efficiency. It supports natural language queries for data retrieval and code generation, respecting data governance policies. This integration is available in SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks and Query Editor across supported AWS Regions.
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AWS Databases on Vercel Expand to More Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora DSQL, and DynamoDB serverless databases are now available on Vercel Marketplace and v0 in additional AWS Regions, providing more flexibility for developers. This integration allows users to describe ideas in natural language via v0, which automatically generates designs, deploys code and infrastructure, and stores data in selected AWS databases with no hands-on coding. New AWS accounts created from Vercel include $100 in credits and access to all three database types, usable for up to six months.
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Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds durability support
AWS has announced durability support for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, allowing workloads requiring low latency and high availability to prevent data loss. Customers can choose between synchronous or asynchronous writes to meet different data loss tolerance and latency requirements. This enhancement expands ElastiCache's applicability to critical use cases like AI agent memory and payment processing, and is available globally starting with Valkey 9.0.
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Amazon EC2 M8azn instances now available in Europe (Ireland)
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Europe (Ireland) Region. These general purpose instances offer significant performance improvements in CPU frequency, memory bandwidth, network throughput, and cache size compared to previous generations, making them suitable for latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads. They are ideal for industries like finance, automotive, and energy, and are available in 9 sizes including bare metal options.
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AWS Partner Central adds Total Contract Value (TCV) for deal sizing
AWS Partner Central now allows partners to estimate deal sizes using Total Contract Value (TCV), converting it to forecasted Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). This enhancement aims to accelerate opportunity submission and improve forecast accuracy for partners by eliminating manual MRR estimations. The feature is available globally via the Partner Central console and API, benefiting partner sales teams and improving pipeline accuracy.
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AWS Clean Rooms adds mutable payment configurations for collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now allows mutable fine-grained payment configurations for collaboration members, offering greater flexibility and control over cost responsibilities. Customers can specify which partners pay for specific cost types like queries, PySpark jobs, and ML training after a collaboration is established. This enhancement, available through change requests requiring member approval, particularly benefits scenarios like pharmaceutical research collaborating with healthcare organizations where different payment responsibilities can be assigned.
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