AWS Updates - 2025-12-30

AWS What's New

AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

• Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/aws-waf-asia-pacific-new-zealand-region/
• Published: 2025-12-30

Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region.

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. With AWS WAF, you can control access to your content. Based on conditions that you specify, such as the IP addresses that requests originate from or the values of query strings, your protected resource responds to requests either with the requested content, with an HTTP 403 status code (Forbidden), or with a custom response.

To see the full list of regions where AWS WAF is currently available, visit the AWS Region Table. For more information about the service, visit the AWS WAF page. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS WAF Pricing page.

AWS launches simplified import of CloudTrail Lake data in Amazon CloudWatch

• Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/aws-simplified-import-cloudtrail-lake-data-amazon-cloudwatch
• Published: 2025-12-30

Today, AWS launches simplified import of CloudTrail Lake data in Amazon CloudWatch, a data management and analytics service that allows you to unify operational, security, and compliance data across your AWS environment and third-party sources. With this launch, you can now import your historical CloudTrail Lake data into CloudWatch with a few steps enabling you to easily consolidate operational, security, and compliance data in one place. In CloudWatch, you simply specify the CloudTrail Lake event data store (EDS), and the date range to initiate import of your CloudTrail data. Simplified import of CloudTrail Lake data is supported via the AWS console, CLI, and SDK.

While simplified import of CloudTrail Lake data is available at no additional cost, you incur CloudWatch fees based on custom logs pricing. To learn more about simplified import of CloudTrail Lake data and supported AWS regions, visit the Amazon CloudWatch documentation.