Managed Prometheus collectors now support Amazon MSK consumer-group metrics
Managed Prometheus collectors now automatically discover and collect Kafka exporter and consumer-group lag metrics from Amazon MSK clusters. This enables monitoring of streaming application health and performance.
Also shipped Oct 30, 2026AWS in October 2026 →
Microsoft Graph Logs connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Graph Logs connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of security alerts from Microsoft security products.
Hybrid table support for Google Cloud (Preview)
Snowflake hybrid tables are now supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions in preview.
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available, allowing authentication via external identity providers.
Spanner supports equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values
Spanner now allows equality and ordering comparisons on JSONB and JSON values directly in GROUP_BY and ORDER BY clauses. It also supports implicit type coercion and search indexes for JSON equality operations.
[In preview] Public Preview: Support database-level managed identity (including FIC) in Create Database Scoped Credential T-SQL
Users can now assign a user-assigned managed identity to individual databases in Azure SQL Database. This enables secure access to files in Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2 via external tables and OPENROWSET.
Inference request metadata logging (GA)
Inference request metadata logging is now generally available for Gemini and Claude models. It records model usage, latency, and error codes without capturing prompt or response content.
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Amazon MSK now supports TLS 1.3 for data in transit
Amazon MSK now supports TLS 1.3 for data in transit in provisioned clusters. This update improves encryption security and helps meet compliance requirements.
Amazon MSK Connect now supports updating connector plugins and worker configurations
Amazon MSK Connect now allows in-place updates for custom connector plugins and worker configurations. This eliminates the need to delete and recreate connectors, preserving committed offsets during updates.
Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors
Amazon MSK Connect now allows users to pause and resume connectors in place, preserving configuration and offsets without needing to delete and recreate them.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports interface VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink , providing private connectivity from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
AWS Transform now supports Apache Kafka migration assessments for Amazon MSK
You can now use AWS Transform agentic migration assessments to evaluate the migration of on-premises Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) .
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data.