Architecting on AWS — Module 1

1. What's New 22 items

AWS Well-Architected Framework

• New AWS Well-Architected Lenses for AI and ML workloads | Blog
• Announcing the updated AWS Well-Architected Machine Learning Lens (Nov 19, 2025)
• Announcing the updated AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens (Nov 19, 2025)
• Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Responsible AI Lens (Nov 19, 2025)

AWS Outposts

• Introducing self-service lifecycle management capabilities for AWS Outposts | Blog (Jun 22, 2026)
• New: Enhanced AssetState dimension for AWS Outposts capacity metrics on Amazon CloudWatch (Jul 15, 2026)

AWS Local Zones

• Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece | Blog
• Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam
• AWS Management Console now displays AWS Local Zones in the Region Selector
• Spot Placement Score now includes Local Zones

AWS Global Infrastructure

• AWS Launches AWS European Sovereign Cloud and Announces Expansion Across Europe (new independent sovereign cloud region GA, Jan 15, 2026; plus planned Local Zones in Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal)

Amazon Route 53

• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview) (Nov 2025, re:Invent preview)
• Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available (Mar 9, 2026)
• Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Adds Threat and Content Domain Categories (May 11, 2026)
• Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health

Amazon CloudFront

• Amazon CloudFront announces 3 new CloudFront Functions capabilities (Nov 20, 2025 — edge metadata, raw query string, advanced origin overrides)
• Amazon CloudFront now supports BYOIP for IPv6 through VPC IPAM integration (Mar 31, 2026)
• Amazon CloudFront now supports mTLS authentication to origins
• Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate pricing plan now supports higher, configurable usage allowances

AWS Management Console

• AWS Management Console Private Access now ensures all console traffic flows through VPC endpoints (Jun 15, 2026)
• AWS Management Console now displays AWS Local Zones in the Region Selector

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

• The AWS CLI now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS (Jun 5, 2026 — aws configure agent-toolkit installs MCP server/skills into Kiro, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
• Announcing new output formats in AWS CLI v2 (Feb 27, 2026 — structured error output, "off" output format)
• AWS Client VPN now supports CLI, administration controls, and faster connections

Amazon S3

• Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with 40 times the scale of preview | Blog (Dec 2, 2025)
• Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB (Dec 2, 2025)
• Announcing Amazon S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems (Apr 7, 2026 — built on Amazon EFS)
• Amazon S3 adds annotations to provide AI agents and analytics tools with context for data discovery (Jun 16, 2026)

2. Amazon News 2 items

• AWS Launches AWS European Sovereign Cloud and Announces Expansion Across Europe (Jan 15, 2026 — GA of a new independent EU-only sovereign cloud physically/logically separate from other AWS Regions, plus planned Local Zones in Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal; €7.8B+ investment in Germany)
• AWS Brings Compute, Storage, and AI Services to Athens with New Local Zone, Available July 2026 (Jun 16, 2026 — new Local Zone announced for Athens, Greece, live July 2026)

3. Lifecycle Changes 3 items

• CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Announcement (Jan 15, 2026 — AWS CLI v1 enters maintenance mode Jul 15, 2026, reaches end-of-support Jul 15, 2027; no new features/services/regions after maintenance mode begins — directly relevant since Module 1's Lab 1 covers the AWS CLI)
• AWS Management Console myApplications availability change (myApplications closes to new customers Jul 30, 2026)
• AWS Outposts servers (1U and 2U) discontinued for sales (1U/2U server sales discontinued; customers directed to Outposts racks)

4. Security Bulletins 2 items

• CVE-2025-55182: RCE in React Server Components (Dec 3, 2025 — RCE affecting React Server Flight protocol in React 19.0/19.1/19.2 and Next.js 15.x/16.x App Router)
• CVE-2026-31431 (Linux kernel / "Dirty Frag") (May 6, 2026 — local privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel affecting Amazon Linux)