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Monday, November 9, 2026

AWS STS Now Bridges Partitions Without Long-Term Credentials

AWS Security Token Service now lets your workloads swap IAM identities across partitions (like commercial AWS and GovCloud) using short-lived tokens instead of risky long-term access keys. This cross-partition federation is live everywhere—all commercial regions, GovCloud, China, and the EU Sovereign Cloud—at no extra cost, making multi-partition setups way more secure.

source: [aws/whats-new]