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Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-simplifies-iam-role-creation-and-setup/

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier to create and configure IAM roles directly within service workflows, allowing you to customize role permissions without switching between browser tabs. Now, when you are performing console tasks that involve role configuration, a new panel will appear to set the permissions required.

IAM roles enable secure AWS cross-service connections using temporary credentials, eliminating the need for hardcoded access keys. This launch integrates role creation capabilities with custom permissions directly into service workflows, allowing you to configure roles and permissions without navigating to the IAM console. You can use default policies or the simplified statement builder to customize your permissions, streamlining your resource setup while maintaining the full functionality of IAM role management.

This feature is available when working with Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, AWS Glue, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon Relational Database Service, and AWS IoT Core in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. The feature will gradually become available across additional AWS services and regions.

To learn more, refer to individual service User Guide or IAM documentation.

Published: 2026-03-04 20:50:00+00:00

Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-sagemaker-unified-studio-aws-glue-5-1/

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS Glue 5.1 for Visual ETL, notebook, and code-based data processing jobs. With AWS Glue 5.1 in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, data engineers and data scientists can run jobs on Apache Spark 3.5.6 with Python 3.11 and Scala 2.12.18, and use updated open table format libraries including Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, Apache Hudi 1.0.2, and Delta Lake 3.3.2.

You can use AWS Glue 5.1 in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio when creating data processing jobs by selecting Glue 5.1 from the version dropdown in job settings. This applies to Visual ETL jobs, notebook jobs, and code-based jobs, so you can take advantage of the latest Spark runtime and open table format libraries across all your data processing workflows.

AWS Glue 5.1 in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available in all the regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio documentation. For details on what's included in AWS Glue 5.1, including updated open table format support and access control capabilities, see the AWS Glue documentation.

Published: 2026-03-03 23:00:00+00:00

Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-sagemaker-unified-studio-kiro-ide/

Today, AWS announces the ability to remotely connect from Kiro IDE to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. This new capability allows data scientists, ML engineers, and developers to leverage their Kiro setup - including its spec-driven development, conversational coding, and automated feature generation capabilities - while accessing the scalable compute resources of Amazon SageMaker. By connecting Kiro to SageMaker Unified Studio using the AWS toolkit extension, you can eliminate context switching between your local IDE and cloud infrastructure, maintaining your existing agentic development workflows within a single environment for all your AWS analytics and AI/ML services.

SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, offers a broad set of fully managed cloud interactive development environments (IDE), including JupyterLab and Code Editor based on Code-OSS (Open-Source Software). Starting today, you can also use your customized local Kiro setup - complete with specs, steering files, and hooks - while accessing your compute resources and data on Amazon SageMaker. Since Kiro is built on Code-OSS, authentication is secure via IAM through the AWS Toolkit extension, giving you access to all your SageMaker Unified Studio domains and projects. This integration provides a convenient path from your local AI-powered development environment to scalable infrastructure for running workloads across data processing, SQL analytics services like Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena, and ML workflows - all with enterprise-grade security including customer-managed encryption keys and AWS IAM integration.

This feature is available in all Regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available. To learn more, refer to the SageMaker user guide.

Published: 2026-03-03 19:39:00+00:00

Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-clean-rooms-remote-iceberg-catalogs

AWS Clean Rooms now supports catalog federation for remote Iceberg catalogs. This capability simplifies clean room setup by providing direct, secure access to Iceberg tables stored in Amazon S3 and cataloged in remote catalogs—without requiring table metadata replication. Organizations can now use AWS Glue catalog federation to provide direct access to their existing Iceberg REST catalog in a Clean Rooms collaboration. For example, a media publisher with data cataloged in the AWS Glue Data Catalog and an advertiser with data cataloged in a remote Iceberg catalog can analyze their collective datasets to evaluate advertising spend—without having to build ETL data pipelines or share underlying data with one another.

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners easily analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without revealing or copying one another’s underlying data. For more information about the AWS Regions where AWS Clean Rooms is available, see the AWS Regions table. To learn more about collaborating with AWS Clean Rooms, visit AWS Clean Rooms.

Published: 2026-02-18 12:00:00+00:00