Release & Changelog Watcher — September 25, 2026

Findings

1. [1] 2026-09-25 Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources

   Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now you can supply your own symmetric AWS KMS key when you create or update these resources, so the…

2. [2] 2026-09-25 Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

   With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

3. [3] 2026-09-25 AWS IAM outbound identity federation now supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery

   AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) discovery APIs. You can now access the OIDC discovery metadata and JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) verification key endpoints from within your VPC using AWS PrivateLink, without requiring traffic to traverse the public internet. IAM outbound identity federation…

4. [4] 2026-09-25 AWS DataSync launches a monitoring dashboard for tracking task executions across your account

   AWS DataSync now provides a monitoring dashboard in the DataSync console that gives you visibility into your data transfers across your account. For each task execution, you can see its status, data and file transfer rates, duration, and the total data and files transferred. You can filter executions by status, task, task mode, execution ID, or start time to focus on…

5. [5] 2026-09-25 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Graviton-based source servers

   AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. You can now protect and recover your Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS experience you already use for x86 workloads. As more workloads move to Graviton for its price-performance benefits, they need the same disaster recovery coverage as the rest of your…

6. [6] 2026-09-25 AWS End User Messaging now supports voice calling on WhatsApp

   AWS End User Messaging now lets businesses place and receive voice calls with their customers directly inside WhatsApp, using the same verified business identity they already use for messaging. With WhatsApp voice calling, a conversation can move seamlessly from a chat thread to a voice call without switching to a separate channel or application, so context is never lost and…

Sources

1. [1] Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources
2. [2] Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
3. [3] AWS IAM outbound identity federation now supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery
4. [4] AWS DataSync launches a monitoring dashboard for tracking task executions across your account
5. [5] AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Graviton-based source servers
6. [6] AWS End User Messaging now supports voice calling on WhatsApp