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AWS – Amazon Corretto October 2025 Quarterly Updates
On October 21, 2025 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.1, 21.0.9, 17.0.17, 11.0.29, 8u472 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. This release of Corretto JDK binaries for Generic Linux, Alpine and macOS will include […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds IP observability for Dedicated IP addresses (managed)
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) added visibility into the IP addresses used by Dedicated IP Addresses – Managed (DIP-M) pools. Customers can now find out the exact addresses in use when sending emails through DIP-M pools to mailbox providers. Customers can also see Microsoft Smart Network Data Services (SNDS) metrics for these IP addresses, […]
GCP – Pro-Russia Information Operations Leverage Russian Drone Incursions into Polish Airspace
Written by: Alden Wahlstrom, David Mainor Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed multiple instances of pro-Russia information operations (IO) actors promoting narratives related to the reported incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace that occurred on Sept. 9-10, 2025. The identified IO activity, which mobilized in response to this event and the ensuing political […]
AWS – Amazon Nova now supports the customization of content moderation settings
Amazon Nova models now support the customization of content moderation settings for approved business use cases that require processing or generating sensitive content. Organizations with approved business use cases can adjust content moderation settings across four domains: safety, sensitive content, fairness, and security. These settings allow customers to adjust specific settings relevant to their business […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports additional formats for video and faster processing for images
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports AVI, MKV, and WEBM file formats along with the AV1 and MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2) codecs, enabling you to generate structured insights across a broader range of video content. Additionally, BDA delivers up to 50% faster image processing. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports automated follow-up evaluations triggered by initial evaluation results
Amazon Connect can now automatically initiate follow-up evaluations to analyze specific situations identified during initial evaluations. For example, when an initial customer service evaluation detects customer interest in a product, Amazon Connect can automatically trigger a follow-up evaluation focused on the agent’s sales performance. This enables managers to maintain consistent evaluation standards across agent cohorts […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to the RDS for SQL Server database engine. CloudWatch Database Insights is a monitoring and diagnostics solution that helps database administrators and developers optimize database performance by providing comprehensive visibility into database metrics, query analysis, and resource utilization patterns. This feature leverages machine […]
AWS – Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (London) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Europe (London) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now publishes AWS CloudTrail data events for insight into API activities
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports AWS CloudTrail data events, providing detailed visibility into Amazon ECS Agent API activities. This new capability enables customers to monitor, audit, and troubleshoot container instance operations. With CloudTrail data event support, security and operations teams can now maintain comprehensive audit trails of ECS Agent API activities, detect […]
GCP – G4 VMs under the hood: A custom, high-performance P2P fabric for multi-GPU workloads
Today, we announced the general availability of the G4 VM family based on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Thanks to unique platform optimizations only available in Google Cloud, G4 VMs deliver the best performance of any commercially available NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU offering for inference and fine-tuning on a wide […]