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Amazon Aurora ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
Amazon Aurora now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange

Update Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to version 18 or higher and configure the ssl_groups parameter to adopt post-quantum TLS key exchange, enhancing the security posture of your database infrastructure.

2026-10-29
Amazon Bedrock ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now available

Update your development workflows to incorporate Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0, leveraging its improved command structure and resource support to reduce development time and enhance AI agent management.

2026-10-28
Unknown ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Patch Updates

Update Corretto versions to 27.0.1.0.11, 25.0.5.0.10, 21.0.13.0.11, 17.0.21.0.11, 11.0.33.0.10, and 8u512 to address security patches and improve operational stability, reducing potential vulnerabilities and enhancing system performance.

2026-10-27
Amazon SageMaker ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
SageMaker MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16

Update your SageMaker MLflow Apps to MLflow 3.16 to benefit from the redesigned trace explorer and accelerated metric charts, which will streamline your experiment tracking and analysis processes.

2026-10-27
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
How broadcasters are navigating the satellite transition with AWS

For decades, C-band satellite has been the backbone of primary distribution of live linear content to distribution partners and affiliates in the United States. The frequency range offered rain-fade resistance, continental reach from a single transponder, and a cost model that scaled to thousands of receive locations. For national networks, regional affiliates, and cable headends alike, C-band simply worked. However, C-band options are rapidly shrinking to make space for next-generation wireless

2026-10-29
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
High-throughput enterprise-scale document migration on AWS

Migrating hundreds of millions of documents to the cloud is a defining enterprise challenge โ€“ data loss, downtime, or compliance gaps break traditional approaches. Hereโ€™s how we built a system on AWS that migrated 800 million documents with configurable parallelism, self-healing, and integrity validation. When migrating at this scale, traditional approaches quickly break down. Manual [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-28
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
AWS becomes first CSP to complete the Cloud High profile assessment with 172 services and features in scope

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Cloud High (PBHH) security assessment with 172 assessed services and features. Completion of this assessment, effective September 18, 2026, makes AWS the first cloud service provider (CSP) in [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-27
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Using AWS WAF to apply mitigations for PHP2Shell RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

On October 21, 2026, the PHP project released emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the PHP core runtime, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and collectively named PHP2Shell. Both are rated 9.2 (Critical) under CVSS v4.0, and both allow an unauthenticated attacker to run code on a vulnerable server. The fixed [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-22
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

Update PHP runtimes to versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35 to address critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), and apply interim configuration controls if immediate update is not feasible.

2026-10-21
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Dirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernels

Update Amazon Linux kernels to the latest versions and apply the recommended mitigations to address the 'Dirty Frag' vulnerabilities, ensuring your systems are secure against potential attacks.

2026-10-19
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Issues with AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES)

Update RES environments to version 2026.03 and apply patches to mitigate CVE-2026-5707, CVE-2026-5708, and CVE-2026-5709 vulnerabilities, ensuring secure session management and privilege controls.

2026-10-19
Amazon EFS ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
CVE-2026-6437 - Mount Option Injection in Amazon EFS CSI Driver

Update the Amazon EFS CSI Driver to version v3.0.1 to address the mount option injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-6437) and apply Kubernetes RBAC restrictions to limit PersistentVolume and StorageClass creation to trusted administrators.

2026-10-19
Amazon Athena ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Issues with Amazon Athena ODBC Driver

Update the Amazon Athena ODBC driver to version 2.1.0.0 to address multiple security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-5485 through CVE-2026-35562), ensuring system security and compliance with best practices.

2026-10-19
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Issue with AWS Ops Wheel (CVE-2026-6911 and CVE-2026-6912

Update AWS Ops Wheel deployments to the latest version (PR #165) to address critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-6911 and CVE-2026-6912) and restrict network access to API Gateway endpoints as a temporary workaround.

2026-10-19
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
How the NBA future-proofed its digital infrastructure in 6 months

Every July, National Basketball Association (NBA) rookies make their debut at Summer League in Las Vegas. When the basketball universe made its annual pilgrimage to Vegas in 2025, the players weren't the only ones stepping into a new system under pressure.

2026-10-25
Unknown ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Quarterly Updates

Update your Java environments to the latest Corretto versions (27.0.1.0.10, 25.0.5.0.9, 21.0.13.0.10, 17.0.21.0.10, 11.0.33.0.9, 8u512) to apply critical security patches and maintain system stability.

2026-10-23
AWS Transit Gateway ๐Ÿ“‹ PLAN
AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NAT

Configure 1:1 NAT rules on AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN attachments to enable seamless communication between private networks with overlapping IP ranges, eliminating the need for renumbering or deploying NAT appliances, and reducing operational toil.

2026-10-23
Amazon EKS ๐Ÿ“‹ PLAN
Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent

Update your EMR on EKS deployments to leverage the automatic 30% reduction in EMR charges, ensuring cost-efficient operation of your Apache Spark workloads without any additional configuration.

2026-10-23
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Understanding AWS Savings Plans Recommendations: Management vs. Member Account Views

If you are managing a multi-account AWS Organization, you might have noticed that Savings Plan recommendations differ between management account (also known as payer account) and member account (also known as linked account). Consider this scenario: you are reviewing Savings Plan recommendations in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. At the management account level, you see a recommended commitment of $100 per hour for a one-year no-upfront Compute Savings Plans. However, when you switc

2026-10-25
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
The Self-Improving Supply Chain: What Weโ€™re Learning From Amazon Connect Decisions and AI Agents in Production

Today, supply chain teams are challenged by how long it takes to resolve urgent issues, and disruptions are estimated to cost the industry billions in losses each year. The problem isnโ€™t a lack of trying. Teams are buried in coordination rather than focused on decisions. Legacy tools and processes canโ€™t keep pace with a network [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-23
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
How U.S. Hunger connects leaders and data using Amazon Quick

U.S. Hunger, a nonprofit addressing food insecurity, uses Amazon Quick to connect organizational data with leadership decisions. Leaders explore applicant data directly, share KPI definitions and financial context in Quick Spaces, and investigate policy questions with Quick Research.

2026-10-21
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Build a semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with Denodo and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with the Denodo Platform and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It federates Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and an on-premises PostgreSQL database into a single customer 360 view an agent queries in VQL, with identity propagation and row- and column-level access control enforced at the semantic layer.

2026-10-20
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
How Cornerstone Transformed Its Global Infrastructure

Six data centers. Eleven AWS Regions. 140 million users. Strengthened incident response protocols. Enterprise SaaS providers on aging infrastructure face compounding pressure: escalating costs, mounting technical debt, and a widening gap between customer expectations and what legacy infrastructure can deliver. The question is no longer whether to migrate to the cloud โ€” it is how [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-20
Amazon Athena ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Issues with Amazon Athena ODBC Driver

Update the Amazon Athena ODBC driver to version 2.1.0.0 to address critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-5485, CVE-2026-35558 through CVE-2026-35562) and ensure system security.

2026-10-14
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Issue with AWS Ops Wheel (CVE-2026-6911 and CVE-2026-6912

Update AWS Ops Wheel deployments to the latest version (PR #165) to address critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-6911 and CVE-2026-6912) and ensure network access restrictions as a temporary workaround.

2026-10-14
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Issues with AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES)

Update AWS Research and Engineering Studio to version 2026.03 to address critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-5707, CVE-2026-5708, CVE-2026-5709) and ensure secure cloud-based research environments.

2026-10-14
Unknown ๐Ÿ”ฅ REMEDIATE
Dirty Frag and other issues in Amazon Linux kernels

Update Amazon Linux kernels to the latest versions and apply the recommended mitigations to address the 'Dirty Frag' vulnerabilities, focusing on disabling affected modules and monitoring for anomalous activities to reduce security risks.

2026-10-14
AWS Lambda ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions

Deploy Lambda Web Functions to simplify the deployment of HTTP-based applications, reducing the need for custom adapters and enabling seamless multi-region deployments with minimal configuration changes.

2026-10-12
Unknown ๐Ÿ“‹ PLAN
AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion

Update your migration strategy to include the new AWS Transform feature for converting Azure.NET applications to AWS, focusing on Azure Functions, Blob Storage, and Queue Storage conversions to AWS Lambda, S3, and SQS respectively, to reduce migration toil and accelerate deployment timelines.

2026-10-16
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Strengthening FinOps Culture in the Age of AI

FinOps practitioners used to spend hours on manual cost analysis and reporting. Today, tooling such as the AWS FinOps Agent, AI-powered cost investigations, and Amazon Q Developer cost capabilities can trace costs to a specific resource and surface opportunities in minutes. But without someone providing business context, theyโ€™re just numbers. As AI increases both speed [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-18
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Automating secure container registry management for air-gapped AWS workloads

Organizations in regulated industries run container workloads in air-gapped AWS environments, which means migrating hundreds of Helm charts and images into private Amazon ECR with consistent security controls. This post uses Amazon ECR repository creation templates, Terraform, and a migration tool to make secure-by-default the path of least resistance.

2026-10-16
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Penetration testing every deployment with AWS Continuum

Most security tooling that fits into a CI/CD pipelineโ€”static analysis (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and dynamic scanners (DAST)โ€”flags potential issues from patterns and signatures. A flagged pattern shows you where to look; penetration testing is what confirms whether something is actually exploitable. That confirmation has traditionally come from a periodic, out-of-band engagement that runs [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-14
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Exploring AWS Lambda Web Functions for building web applications

Run a standard Node.js web server on AWS Lambda with Lambda Web Functions, a new type of Lambda function. Deploy it with one command or AWS CloudFormation and get a public HTTPS endpoint with no adapter layer and no servers to manage. See how one execution environment handles many concurrent requests and how active-CPU billing keeps the cost of waiting low.

2026-10-13
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Mixture-of-Experts kernel engineering on Amazon SageMaker AI

AWS engineers share kernel optimizations for fused Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on Amazon SageMaker AI: Swap-AB for WGMMA utilization, Triton backend routing for FP8 quantization, and eliminating Triton JIT recompilation. Together they deliver up to 10% higher throughput and up to 9% faster Time to First Token on H200 GPUs.

2026-10-13
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Quantum-resistant signing on AWS, Part 2: Enforce your ML-DSA algorithm policy with SCPs and IAM

You want to set a cryptographic algorithm policy and stop non-compliant choices from being made in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. This post shows you how. As you adopt post-quantum cryptography, one of the first decisions you face is which algorithms and parameter sets fit your business needs, balancing security against signature size, key [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-12
AWS Client VPN ๐Ÿ” AUDIT
AWS Client VPN now supports device posture assessment

Update your Client VPN configuration to integrate with device posture providers like CrowdStrike, Jamf, or JumpCloud, ensuring only compliant devices connect, and use the provided Test Policy tool to validate Cedar policies.

2026-10-05
Unknown ๐Ÿ“‹ PLAN
AWS Private CA now provides detailed certificate issuance logs

Update your monitoring and auditing processes to incorporate the new IssueCertificateDetails events from AWS CloudTrail for AWS Private CA, ensuring you capture complete certificate content and issuance details for both successful and failed issuances.

2026-10-05
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Reducing cross-AZ latency with the AWS Lambda metadata endpoint

AWS Lambda now exposes Availability Zone metadata through an endpoint in the execution environment, so your function can discover its AZ ID with an HTTP request. Use it to prefer same-AZ endpoints for services like ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, and MemoryDB, reduce cross-AZ latency and data transfer costs, and build AZ-aware resilience patterns.

2026-10-09
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Discover and migrate Microsoft Hyper-V workloads with AWS Transform

Introduction For organizations running Microsoft Hyper-V on premises, migrating workloads to AWS offers a path to reduce infrastructure costs, eliminate licensing complexity, and unlock cloud-native capabilities. Yet the first weeks of a migration effort are rarely spent migrating. In any environment that has grown over years, whatever the platform, systems inventory and architectural documentation lags [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-07
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock

Enterprise RAG unlocks insights from knowledge sources like SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence, but those sources carry complex permissions. Learn how Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases enforce document-level access controls in real time, verifying permissions directly with authoritative sources at query time.

2026-10-07
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Control investigation costs before they start with AWS DevOps Agent

Introduction Before an AWS DevOps Agent investigation runs its first billable query, you can see what it will cost and decide whether to proceed. The Investigation Cost Guardrail skill brings cost awareness to AWS DevOps Agent, giving your team visibility and control over scope before the investigation begins. This post introduces the Investigation Cost Guardrail, [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-06
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Improving SPIRE security and resiliency with AWS managed services

In cloud-centered environments, establishing trust between workloads is fundamental to securing machine-to-machine communication. Traditional approaches such as API keys, shared secrets, and static service account credentials werenโ€™t designed for the scale and ephemeral nature of cloud workloads. This drives an organizational need to shift from long-term, static credentials to short-lived cryptographic workload identities. Organizations are [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-06
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Powering predictable costs with AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricing

In a traditional on-premises network, predictable costs have always been central to network connectivity budgets. Organizations relied on leased lines, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) links, and dedicated cross-connects. No matter how much data they moved, the bill stayed the same. As they rebuilt their architecture in the cloud, they gained the flexibility of pay-as-you-go pricing. [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-05
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
How Snap optimizes AI storage with Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering

At Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, cost is an important factor in every infrastructure decision. With research scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers working across a wide gamut of projects, from large language models to computer vision to video generation, the AI/ML platform team faces a constant balancing act: deliver the high-performance storage that [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-05
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
AWS Continuum sets a new standard in autonomous code security

As AI models become more capable, they uncover more security vulnerabilities and identify increasingly sophisticated paths to exploit them, raising the bar for how quickly defenders must respond. Security teams now face more potential vulnerabilities than their existing processes were designed to handle โ€” each requiring investigation, reproduction, and a repair that must be tested [โ€ฆ]

2026-10-05
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
New agent skill: Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference for your coding agent

Amazon SageMaker optimized generative AI inference introduces the aws-ai-ml skill through the Agent Toolkit for AWS, giving coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, and Codex deep expertise in inference optimization and benchmarking. Describe what you want, and your agent generates executable SageMaker Python SDK v3 code to benchmark, recommend, and compare deployments.

2026-10-05
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI

Fine-tuning teaches a small search agent your tools and environment, giving it the reliability of a frontier model at lower latency and cost. In this post, we fine-tune an LLM-powered search agent with multi-turn reinforcement learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI and share the gains we measured in retrieval quality and reliability.

2026-10-02
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock is limited to the model's knowledge cutoff without web search. In this post, we walk through connecting Claude Desktop to Web Search using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, with JWT-based inbound authentication through AWS IAM Identity Center and Amazon Cognito.

2026-10-02
AWS Blog ๐Ÿ‘€ OBSERVE
Continuous AI security with F5 AI Guardrails and AWS Bedrock

F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team deliver continuous adaptive security for AI applications on AWS Bedrock. This post introduces three capabilities for enterprise AI security: pre-deployment model evaluation, adversarial testing at scale, and adaptive runtime protection. Learn how these capabilities compress the gap between threat discovery and defense deployment from weeks to minutes.

2026-10-01

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