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Introducing Probe API, a powerful and free metadata analysis tool for AWS Elemental MediaConvert. Optimized for efficiency, Probe API reads header metadata to quickly return essential information about your media files, including codec specifications, pixel formats, color space details, and container information - all without waiting to process the actual video content. This analysis capability makes it an invaluable tool for content creators, developers, and media professionals who need to quickly validate files, automate workflows, or utilize Elementals' Step Functions to make encoding decisions based on source material characteristics. For complete implementation details and usage examples, please visit the MediaConvert API Reference documentation. The Probe API can be

AWS Trusted Advisor has enhanced its detection of unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer detection capabilities. The enhanced detection analyzes additional CloudWatch metrics over a 32-day lookback period and verifies whether NAT Gateways are associated with route tables, reducing false positives by avoiding flagging critical backup resources. This helps cost optimization teams and DevOps engineers confidently identify and remove unused NAT Gateways that incur unnecessary charges. Each recommendation includes estimated monthly cost savings, enabling you to prioritize cleanup based on monetary impact. With these recommendations, you can run regular cost audits to catch idle NAT Gateways before charges accumulate. This simplifies cleaning up resources left behind after workload migrations or decommissions. You can view and act on these recommendations in the Trusted Advisor console alongside your other cost optimization checks, or through Trusted Advisor A

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer artifacts in the AWS Management Console. Amazon Q artifacts is a generative AI-based user experience that enables customers to visualize resource data in tables and cost data in charts. The launch also moves the Q icon to the navigation bar and the chat panel to the left, making Amazon Q easier to use and find. Customers can access Amazon Q artifacts by selecting the Amazon Q icon from the navigation bar in the AWS Management Console. They can ask questions about their AWS resources to understand the state of their resources and costs using Amazon Q artifacts. For example, on asking “List S3 buckets with tag value production", Amazon Q displays the S3 buckets that has a tag value of production in a tabular format. Customers can then select the hyperlinks on the bucket name to view the bucket details in the S3 console. Customers can also visualize cost and billing information with charts. For example, on e

AWS Elemental Media Services are now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, expanding your ability to build cloud-based video workflows closer to your audiences in Southeast Asia. AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConvert, and MediaTailor form a comprehensive suite of services that enable you to ingest, transport, transcode, package, and deliver high-quality video content with lower latency and improved performance for viewers across Malaysia and the broader Southeast Asia region. With this regional expansion, broadcasters, content providers, and streaming platforms in the region can now process video workloads closer to the edge reducing latency and improving video quality for regional audiences. For example, you can use MediaLive or MediaConvert to encode live sports events or VOD assets, respectively, in Kuala Lumpur, package the streams with MediaPackage for multi-device delivery, and

AWS IAM Policy Autopilot, the open source static code analysis tool launched at re:Invent 2025, is now available as a Kiro power to bring policy expertise to agentic AI development. This tool helps developers quickly create baseline AWS IAM policies that can be refined as applications evolve, eliminating the need for manual IAM policy creation. The Kiro power delivers significant benefits through one-click installation directly from the Kiro IDE and web interface, removing the need for manual MCP server configuration. This streamlined workflow enables faster policy creation and integrates seamlessly into AI-assisted development environments. Key use cases include rapid prototyping of AWS applications requiring IAM policies, baseline policy creation for new AWS projects, and enhanced productivity within IDE environments where developers can generate policies without leaving their coding workflow. To learn more about AWS IAM Policy Autopilot and access the integration,

Amazon Redshift now offers 3-year Serverless Reservations for Amazon Redshift Serverless, a new discounted pricing option that provides up to 45% savings and improved cost predictability for your analytics workloads. With Serverless Reservations, you commit to a specific number of Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) for a 3-year term with a no-upfront payment option. Amazon Redshift Serverless allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage clusters with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Serverless Reservations help you further optimize compute costs and improve cost predictability of existing and new workloads on Amazon Redshift Serverless. Managed at the AWS payer account level, Serverless Reservations can be shared between multiple AWS accounts, reducing your compute costs by up to 45% on all Amazon Redshift Serverless workloads in your AWS account. Serverless Reservations are billed hourly and metered per second, offering a consistent billing mode

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, offering optimized tabular data storage at scale. S3 Tables are designed to perform continual table maintenance to automatically optimize query efficiency and storage cost over time, even as your data lake scales and evolves. With S3 Tables support for the Apache Iceberg standard, your tabular data can be easily queried by popular AWS and third-party query engines. Additionally, with the Intelligent-Tiering storage class, S3 Tables automatically manage costs based on access patterns, without performance impact or operational overhead. For a full list of AWS Regions where S3 Tables are available, see S3 Tables AWS Regions and endpoints. To learn more, visit the

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle January 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Spatial Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We recommend upgrading to the January 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. The Spatial Patch Bundle update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality to provide reliable and optimal performance for spatial operations. You can apply the January 2026 RU from the Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. To automatically apply updates to your database instance during your maintenance window, enable Automatic Minor Version Upgrade. You can apply the Spatial Patch Bundle update for new database instances, or upgr

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in 38 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (New Zealand). IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications. It enables you to connect your existing source of workforce identities to AWS once and offer your users single sign on experience across AWS. It powers the personalized experiences offered by AWS applications, such as Amazon Q, and the ability to define and audit user-aware access to data in AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift. It can also help you manage access to multiple AWS accounts from a central place. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these AWS Regions. To learn more about IAM Identity Center, visit the product detail page. To get started, see the 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in  Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs), agentic AI models, multimodal generative AI models, and physical AI models. G7e instances offer the highest performance for spatial computing workloads as well as workloads that require both graphics and AI processing capabilities. G7e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, with 96 GB of memory per GPU, and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors. They support up to 192 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and up to 1600 Gbps of networking bandwidth. G7e instances support NVIDIA GPUDirect Peer to Peer (P2P) that boosts performance for multi-GPU workloads. Multi-GPU G7e instances also support NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with EFA in EC2