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Cloud platform and pipeline changes that affect how teams build and ship.
AWS raised the Amazon ECR replication rule limit to 25 per registry on 17 August 2026. The quota table shows ap-east-2 still capped at 10, and the 25 unique-destination ceiling is unchanged.
Manu Shukla 
AWS IAM role manager reached general availability on 12 August 2026 across six service consoles. Four of them attach PowerUserAccess by default, and AWS's published lockdown SCP denies an action role reuse needs.
Manu Shukla 
AWS Secrets Manager now rotates Jenkins and SonarQube tokens with no Lambda code. The user guide adds a condition the 11 August 2026 announcement omits: the controller must answer on the public internet.
Manu Shukla 