AWS News Blog
AWS Weekly Roundup: How to join AWS re:Invent 2025, plus Kiro GA, and lots of launches (Nov 24, 2025)
Next week, don’t miss AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, 2025, for the latest AWS news, expert insights, and global cloud community connections! Our News Blog team is finalizing posts to introduce the most exciting launches from our service teams. If you’re joining us in person in Las Vegas, review the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides […]
New one-click onboarding and notebooks with a built-in AI agent in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces new one-click onboarding experiences and serverless notebooks with a built-in AI agent without any manual set up or provisioning of your domain or compute resources. You can launch SageMaker Unified Studio directly from Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3 Tables console pages, giving a fast path to analytics and AI workloads.
Build production-ready applications without infrastructure complexity using Amazon ECS Express Mode
Amazon ECS Express Mode simplifies containerized application deployment by automating infrastructure setup through a single command, allowing developers to focus on building applications while following AWS best practices.
Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region
AWS announces VPC encryption controls, a new capability that helps organizations audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region, simplifying compliance with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP through automated monitoring and enforcement modes.
Introducing attribute-based access control for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets
AWS introduces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for S3 general purpose buckets, enabling administrators to automatically manage permissions through tag-based policies that match tags between users, roles, and buckets—eliminating the need to constantly update IAM policies as organizations scale.
Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation
AWS IAM now enables outbound identity federation, allowing developers to securely authenticate AWS workloads with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens instead of storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords.
Accelerate workflow development with enhanced local testing in AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions’ enhanced TestState API now enables local unit testing with mocking support, comprehensive state type validation, and individual state testing capabilities without requiring AWS deployment or IAM permissions.
Streamlined multi-tenant application development with tenant isolation mode in AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda introduces tenant isolation mode, enabling separate execution environments for each tenant within a single function to meet strict security requirements without managing dedicated per-tenant infrastructure.