AWS Updates - 2025-12-16

AWS What's New

AWS IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads

• Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/aws-iot-device-management-commands-dynamic-payload/
• Published: 2025-12-16

AWS IoT Device Management commands now supports dynamic payload functionality, enabling developers to create reusable command templates with placeholders that can be replaced with different values during command execution. The enhancement also includes parameter validation rules to verify that parameter values conform to specified criteria before execution. With this update, developers can now set parameters for the command during runtime, making it easier for them to re-use a command.

This feature is ideal for scenarios where you need to send similar commands with different parameter values to your Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, instead of creating separate commands to set different temperature values of a thermostat, you can now create one template with a temperature placeholder and specify the actual value during runtime. This template-based approach helps streamline command management for applications, such as adjusting device configurations or controlling smart home devices with variable settings. 

AWS IoT Device Management commands with dynamic payload support is available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Device Management is currently available. To learn more about dynamic payloads and payload templates, visit AWS IoT Device Management Commands Developer Guide.

AWS Security Blog

GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection uncovers cryptomining campaign on Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS

• Link: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/cryptomining-campaign-targeting-amazon-ec2-and-amazon-ecs/
• Published: 2025-12-16

Amazon GuardDuty and our automated security monitoring systems identified an ongoing cryptocurrency (crypto) mining campaign beginning on November 2, 2025. The operation uses compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to target Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection was able to correlate signals […]