Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy…

AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source-mappings (ESMs) that subscribe to Amazon SQS, a feature that allows you to optimize the throughput of your SQS ESM by provisioning event polling resources that remain ready to handle sudden spikes in…

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…

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…

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…

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers the ability to stream real-time audio and video to multiple concurrent viewers via WebRTC, while also recording video and audio from the session to the cloud for storage, playback, and analytical processing. With this…