Supply Chain2 min | September 21, 2026
SAP Announces Autonomous Supply Chain Management at Sapphire 2026
At SAP Sapphire in May 2026, SAP introduced Autonomous Supply Chain Management with new Joule Assistants and Industry AI scenarios.
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AWS Continuum Adds Credential Testing and Domain Suggestions
AWS Continuum for penetration testing now supports credential tests and accessible-domain suggestions before a test runs. Teams can validate login credentials and review in-scope URL suggestions during setup, before a full test cycle begins.
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AWS Releases AgentCore Payments for General Availability in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS announced general availability of AgentCore payments on August 18, 2026. The fully managed service, part of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, lets AI agents autonomously discover and pay for paid APIs, MCP servers, and paywalled content using stablecoin wallets from Coinbase CDP and Stripe Privy.
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AWS Glue 6.0 Is Generally Available With 30% Lower Pricing and Apache Iceberg v3 Support
AWS released Glue 6.0 on August 21, making it generally available across all AWS Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China regions. The release brings a 30% price reduction, Apache Iceberg v3 support built on Iceberg 1.11.0, and a runtime upgrade to Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13.
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Amazon Releases Critical Security Patch for All Supported Corretto Versions
Amazon released a Critical Security Patch Update for Amazon Corretto on August 18, 2026, covering all supported LTS and Feature Release versions. The patched builds are Corretto 26.0.2.11.1, 25.0.4.8.1, 21.0.12.9.1, 17.0.20.10.1, 11.0.32.10.1, and 8u504.
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AWS Billing and Cost Management Adds Five Preconfigured Managed Dashboards
AWS added five preconfigured, read-only Managed Dashboards to its Billing and Cost Management service on August 14. The dashboards cover cost overview, compute, database, reservations, and Savings Plans visibility, and appear automatically in every account with no setup required.
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CISA Adds Zimbra CVE-2026-73570 to KEV Catalog with Three-Day Patch Deadline
CISA added CVE-2026-73570, a CVSS 8.9 OS Command Injection flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite, to its KEV catalog on August 21, 2026. Federal civilian agencies must remediate or discontinue use by August 24 under BOD 26-04. The deadline is not binding on other organizations.
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AWS Client VPN Gets CLI Support, Admin Controls, and Faster Connections in v6.0
AWS has released VPN Client v6.0.x with a new command-line interface that matches the graphical interface, administrative controls for profile management, and a rebuilt connectivity stack using OpenVPN3. The update is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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AWS Certificate Manager to End Email Validation Support by September 2027
AWS Certificate Manager will stop supporting email-validated public certificates by September 30, 2027, ahead of a CA/Browser Forum industry deadline of March 15, 2028. AWS is updating its API to let customers switch affected certificates to DNS validation without changing the certificate ARN.
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Three Specialized AI Models Join SageMaker JumpStart for Visual, Agent, and Multimodal Workloads
AWS added NVIDIA's LocateAnything-3B, Qwen's Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen's Qwen3.5-122B-A10B to SageMaker JumpStart on August 11, giving platform teams deployment-ready access to visual grounding, agent environment simulation, and large-scale multimodal reasoning.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Lands on SageMaker JumpStart for Enterprise Agent Workloads
AWS added NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning to the SageMaker JumpStart catalog on August 11, giving platform teams a fast, open, post-trainable model built for persistent AI agents and high-throughput automation.
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Amazon Bedrock Brings IAM Principal Cost Tracking to the bedrock-mantle Endpoint
AWS extended IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint on August 11, letting teams attribute AI inference spending by user, role, team, or cost center without changing their API calls.
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Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Gets Customer-Controlled Backup and Restore
AWS added on-demand and scheduled backup and restore to Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB on August 7, giving platform and application teams direct control over time-series data protection for the first time.
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AWS Brings EC2 R8i and R8i-flex to Europe (Milan), Opening High-Memory Compute to Italian Region Workloads
AWS made its eighth-generation R8i and R8i-flex memory-optimized instances available in the Europe (Milan) region on August 7, giving teams there access to custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with 20% higher performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than R7i instances.
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AWS Wires Continuum Security Into Claude Code, Codex, and Kiro — While Models Still Do the Writing
AWS has partnered with Anthropic and OpenAI to connect AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities directly into Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Kiro, letting developers trigger security scans, exploit validation, and prioritized remediation without leaving their editor.
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AWS Lambda Raises Network Bandwidth to 3,000 Mbps for Memory-Scaled Functions Outside a VPC
AWS Lambda now offers up to 3,000 Mbps of network bandwidth for functions outside a VPC, scaling proportionally with memory from 625 Mbps at 2 GB to 3,000 Mbps at 10 GB, with no additional charge after a quota request.
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Amazon CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors Remove the Agent Maintenance Burden
Amazon CloudWatch now scrapes Prometheus metrics from EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch automatically, eliminating the self-managed OpenTelemetry Collector infrastructure that platform teams previously had to deploy, scale, and maintain.
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Aurora DSQL Multi-Region Clusters Now Reach Europe and Asia Pacific
AWS expanded Amazon Aurora DSQL multi-Region cluster support to four new Regions on July 31, giving teams in Europe and Asia Pacific a live option for active-active database resilience with strong consistency across Region pairs.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle Adds Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i, Cutting Costs Up to 53%
AWS now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instance classes on Amazon RDS for Oracle, giving teams running Oracle workloads a path to up to 53% savings over On-Demand pricing.
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AWS DataSync Enhanced Mode Adds HDFS, Azure Blob, Self-Managed Object Storage, and Hyper-V Support
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports transfers with HDFS, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage, and agents can now run on Microsoft Hyper-V; note that transfers between Azure Blob and Amazon S3 using Enhanced mode do not require an agent.
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Amazon Links axios, debug, chalk, and typo-crypto NPM Compromises to DPRK Group SAPPHIRE SLEET
Amazon Threat Intelligence assesses with medium confidence that four NPM package compromises are attributable to one DPRK-linked threat actor tracked as SAPPHIRE SLEET, with debug, chalk, and typo-crypto newly connected to the group and axios previously attributed individually.
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EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh Is Now a Native CloudFormation Update Policy
AWS added AutoScalingInstanceRefresh as a native CloudFormation update policy on July 29, letting teams trigger instance refreshes directly from stack changes.
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AWS Interconnect Multicloud with OCI Reaches GA, Replacing DIY Cross-Cloud Networking
AWS Interconnect – multicloud reached general availability with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on July 29, giving platform teams a managed, private path between AWS VPCs and OCI without manual BGP configuration or physical cross-connects.
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Amazon S3 Tables Now Accept Semi-Structured Data Without a Fixed Schema
AWS added Variant data type support to Amazon S3 Tables on July 28, letting teams write JSON without a predefined schema and still get efficient analytical query performance through Apache Iceberg V3 features like file pruning and automatic compaction.
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Amazon Redshift Data API Adds Long Polling, Session Visibility, and Independent Batch Commits
AWS made three Redshift Data API capabilities generally available on July 29, cutting polling overhead, exposing active sessions, and letting batch SQL statements commit independently so one failure no longer rolls back an entire job.
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Google Cloud Run Sandboxes Enter Public Preview for AI Agent Code Execution
Google Cloud Run sandboxes are now in public preview, letting serverless services run untrusted AI-generated code in isolated environments that block credentials and outbound network by default.
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ECS Service Connect Gets Zone-Aware Routing, Cutting Cross-AZ Costs Without a Resilience Trade-off
Amazon ECS Service Connect now routes service-to-service traffic within the same availability zone by default, reducing cross-AZ data transfer charges and latency while preserving automatic failover across zones.
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AWS Network Load Balancer Gets Listener Rules, Ending the IPv4/IPv6 Split-Stack Tradeoff
AWS added listener rules to Network Load Balancer on July 22, letting a single dual-stack NLB route IPv4 and IPv6 clients to same-family targets without protocol translation, eliminating the need for parallel load balancers or Proxy Protocol workarounds.
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AWS Releases CSA Compliance Guide Mapping 207 CCM v4.1 Controls to Services and Evidence
AWS Security Assurance Services published a guide mapping all 207 Cloud Controls Matrix v4.1 controls to AWS services, implementation practices, and audit evidence, giving GRC teams a structured starting point for CSA STAR certification work.
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AWS Glue REST API Connector Gets VPC Access, Filter Pushdown, and Partition Support
AWS Glue added VPC connectivity, filter pushdown, and parallel partition reads to its REST API connector on July 29, letting ETL pipelines reach private endpoints and pull only the records they need without custom code.
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AWS Glue Data Quality Adds Catalog Anomaly Detection and SQL-Queryable Result Storage
AWS extended Glue Data Quality on July 27 to run ML-powered anomaly detection on Data Catalog tables and write evaluation results to Apache Iceberg tables queryable via standard SQL.
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AWS Publishes Head-to-Head Guide on KMS vs. CloudHSM Key Management
AWS released a detailed comparison of AWS KMS and AWS CloudHSM in July 2026, giving cloud platform owners a structured decision framework across cost, compliance, performance, and integration requirements.
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AWS Security Hub MCP App Brings Exposure Findings Into AI-Assisted Investigations
AWS launched a preview of the Security Hub MCP App on July 27, a local server that lets security teams query exposure findings in natural language inside Claude Desktop.
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AWS Shield Advanced Adopts the Anti-DDoS Managed Rule Group: What Changes and When
AWS is replacing Shield Advanced automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation with the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group across five phases, ending January 1, 2027.
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Unifies Agent Telemetry Into a Single CloudWatch Log Group
AWS consolidated AgentCore trace spans and event logs into one per-agent CloudWatch log group on July 20, closing a debugging gap that forced teams to search across multiple destinations and blocked agent-level encryption.
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CISA's Latest KEV Update Puts WordPress and Langflow at the Front of the Patch Queue
CISA added actively exploited WordPress, Langflow, and DD-WRT flaws to KEV. The exact versions and remediation path are different for each product.
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Meta's AWS Executive Hire Signals Serious Cloud Infrastructure Push
Meta is recruiting longtime AWS executive David Brown as it expands AI infrastructure and explores a cloud-computing business.
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