AWS News - 2026-09-08

AWS Builder ID, your personal profile for accessing AWS applications including AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, Amazon Quick and Kiro, now offers new ways to protect and recover your profile. You can add a recovery email and use new self-service options to regain access if you're locked out. You can also register multi-factor authentication (MFA) devices for any sign-in method, including third-party logins such as Google or Apple.

With these enhancements, you have more self-service options to recover your AWS Builder ID. Adding a recovery email provides a second verification factor that makes self-service recovery possible for more scenarios without the need to contact AWS Support. You can reset a forgotten password using a link sent to your primary or recovery email. If you lose access to your MFA device, you can regain access by verifying both your primary and recovery emails. If you use Google, Apple, GitHub or Amazon to sign in to Builder ID, you can now register MFA devices directly in AWS Builder ID, bringing the same strong account protection previously available to email and password users, and you can permanently switch your sign-in method to an email address and password if you lose access to the third-party account.

To learn more about AWS Builder ID and how to set up account recovery and MFA, visit the AWS Builder ID documentation.

Version 1.0 of the Nx Plugin for AWS, an open source toolkit for scaffolding full-stack applications on AWS, is now available. AI assistants can stand up an application on AWS in minutes, but rarely get security, observability, and type-safety right in one pass. The plugin extends Nx, an open source, language-agnostic build system for monorepos, with generators that each build one part of an application on request, alongside the infrastructure to run it.

Generators cover AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, plus APIs, websites, and databases, built on proven open source frameworks in TypeScript and Python. Each writes out a working, deployable piece of your application, defining infrastructure as either AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) constructs or Terraform modules, with recommended practices in place such as AWS WAF protection, access logging to Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS X-Ray tracing. The connection generator wires projects together with type-safe clients, so a breaking API change becomes a build error instead of a failed request in production.

Each generator produces the same result every time, making it a dependable foundation for an AI assistant to build on. The generated code belongs to you, with no runtime dependency on the plugin, and Nx migrations bring later improvements to workspaces you have customized.

The plugin is available under the Apache 2.0 license at no additional charge; you pay only for the AWS resources your applications use. To learn more, see the launch blog post and documentation.

Amazon EMR now gives you more time, at no additional cost, to migrate off older releases before they reach end of support. If you are actively migrating, your workloads on eligible releases keep receiving support while you move to a current release, with no opt-in and at no charge.

To give you more time to plan and migrate, Amazon EMR provides critical security fixes for releases 5.36 and 6.6 through 6.15 on a best-effort basis through June 30, 2027, and extended Standard Support for 7.0 through 7.10 releases through August 31, 2027. To receive an extension, contact AWS Support with your migration plan and any help you need with the upgrade.

This applies to all deployment models of Amazon EMR (EMR on EC2, EMR on EKS, and EMR Serverless), in all AWS Regions where Amazon EMR is available. For the full list of releases and their support dates, see the Amazon EMR standard support policy. To get the extended support, contact AWS Support with your migration plan, or use the Apache Spark Upgrade Agent to move your applications to a current release.

Today, AWS announced four new features for Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (DIT). Customers can now use enhanced smart cropping with custom label detection and advanced composition controls that preserve products, text, logos, and custom objects within cropped images. In addition, customers benefit from enhanced automatic image optimization that delivers appropriately sized images across every browser and device type, from phones and tablets to smart TVs, using CloudFront's multi-tier device detection to maximize optimization reach regardless of how users access content. DIT also introduces an interactive image transformation playground for testing and validating transformations, and achieves full feature parity between it's ECS and Lambda architectures.

DIT's expanded smart cropping enables customers to combine multiple detection methods including faces, labels, text, logos, and custom Amazon Rekognition models, in a single request with configurable aspect ratios, padding, and gravity constraints prioritized by business need. Enhanced automatic optimization now uses a tiered detection approach, layering CloudFront's device classification headers and configurable fallbacks behind Client Hints, to eliminate the browser-support gap that left ~30% of traffic previously served unoptimized and extend right-sized image delivery beyond browsers to all device types. The image transformation playground displays transformed images with extended metrics including original and output dimensions, format, file size, compression ratios, and processing time, enabling customers to validate the performance of their transformation policies.

Kubernetes 上で動作する Agones は専用ゲームサーバーのホスティングによく使われますが、グローバル規模になると運用が複雑になります。本記事では、運用面とコスト面から Agones ベースのソリューションと Amazon GameLift Servers の違いを比較し、Agones から Amazon GameLift Servers へ移行する手順を解説します。

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