AWS — Volume 341, Issue 4

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Volume 341, Issue 4 · 15 articles from 4 issues

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AWS Security Hub MCP App Brings Exposure Findings Into Your AI-Assisted Workflow (Preview) (AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026)

AWS previews a local MCP server that pulls Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop for investigation. Read more

Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 Extensions Are Now Generally Available (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Amazon Quick's extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook reach general availability, running AI tasks inside M365. Read more

Amazon CloudWatch Announces Managed Prometheus Collectors (AWS, Friday, July 31st, 2026)

CloudWatch can now scrape Prometheus metrics from EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch without customer-managed agents. Read more

Amazon EC2 Enables AMI Creation With Local Snapshots From Instances on Outposts (AWS, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026)

EC2 can now build AMIs with snapshots stored locally on an Outpost, helping customers meet data residency requirements. Read more

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and More (August 10, 2026) (AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026)

AWS weekly roundup covers the AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood and Kiro Crew. Read more

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 Now Supports Direct Access to Backup Data (AWS, Thursday, August 6th, 2026)

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 adds direct read-only access to backup data without a restore. Read more

AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit (InfoQ, Thursday, July 30th, 2026)

AWS Lambda now supports self-managed S3 code storage, removing account quotas but keeping per-function size limits. Read more

ARC Region Switch Adds Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica Execution Block (AWS, Thursday, August 20th, 2026)

ARC Region switch automates failover orchestration for Amazon RDS databases running Oracle Data Guard across Regions. Read more

Amazon Connect Customer Now Lets Managers Chat With Their Data (AWS, Friday, August 21st, 2026)

Amazon Connect Customer adds a plain-language interface that answers questions across 150+ contact centre metrics. Read more

AWS Partner Central Agents MCP Server Now Supports OAuth With AWS Sign-In (AWS, Thursday, August 20th, 2026)

Partners can reach AWS Partner Central agents from tools like Amazon Quick and Kiro using OAuth through AWS Sign-In. Read more

AWS Console-to-Code Adds 26 Services and Cross-Region Recording (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Console-to-Code expands from 6 to 32 supported services and adds cross-Region and cross-tab action recording. Read more

AWS Security Agent Now Supports Email-Based MFA for Penetration Testing (AWS, Thursday, August 6th, 2026)

AWS Security Agent extends automated penetration testing to applications using email-based MFA. Read more

Amazon RDS for MariaDB Now Supports MariaDB 12.3 (AWS, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026)

Amazon RDS for MariaDB adds support for MariaDB 12.3, the community's latest long-term support release. Read more

Amazon CloudWatch Pipelines Adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML Processors (AWS, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026)

CloudWatch pipelines gains three ingest-time processors: an RDS log parser, an XML parser and GeoIP enrichment. Read more

Amazon Location Service Now Supports POI Category and Density Filtering in Map Styles (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Amazon Location Service adds server-side control over which point-of-interest categories and how many appear on a map. Read more

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