Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Today, AWS announces support for resubmitting your Deadline Cloud jobs, via API, CLI, and within the Deadline Cloud monitor, so you can easily run jobs again with updated parameters. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, games, and industrial design. Resubmitting jobs makes is easy to run the same job with updated parameters. For example, you can submit a job to render a subset of testing frames, verify their output, then run the job again with the full frame range. Resubmitting jobs is available in all AWS Regions where…

The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now supports configuring distinct AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for individual Kubernetes pods. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. Now, you can use IAM roles for each pod to restrict access to specific buckets or objects, without making changes to your applications. Previously, you could configure an IAM role that the CSI driver used for all pods in your Kubernetes cluster. With this launch, you can further strengthen your a…

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for contact center agents, now recommends personalized guidance to agents using customer data from Amazon Connect and other third-party CRM systems. Amazon Q in Connect detects the customer's intent from the real-time voice or chat conversation and understands customer data to recommend what an agent should say or what action they should take. For example, when a customer contacts a hotel to upgrade their room, Amazon Q in Connect analyzes the real-time conversation, identifies the customer's loyalty tier, and provides the agent with a step-by-step guide of upgrade options and discounts to offer the customer. With …

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has recently introduced a suite of new features and enhancements that enable faster indexing, improved search performance, and expanded analytical capabilities. The updates include the introduction of a flat object data type, which allows for more efficient storage and searching of nested data. OpenSearch Serverless now supports enhanced geospatial features, providing users with the ability to uncover valuable insights from location-based data. OpenSearch Serverless has also expanded its field types, including support for unsigned long, and doc count mapper. The new multi-term aggregation feature enables you to perform complex aggregations,…

Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon VPC Lattice is an application networking service that simplifies connecting, securing, and monitoring service-to-service communication. You can use Amazon VPC Lattice to facilitate cross-account and cross-VPC connectivity, as well as application layer load balancing for your workloads in a consistent way regardless of the underlying compute type – instances, containers, and serverless. With this launch, Amazon VPC Lattice is now generally available in 21 AWS regions: Please visit the AWS region table for more information …

Customers who use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) often need Python dependencies that are hosted in private code repositories. Many customers opt for public network access mode for its ease of use and ability to make outbound Internet requests, all while maintaining secure access. However, private code repositories may not be accessible via the Internet. It’s also a best practice to only install Python dependencies where they are needed. You can use Amazon MWAA startup scripts to selectively install Python dependencies required for running code on workers, while avoiding issues due to web server restrictions. This post demonstrates a method to …

Amazon Q Business now supports the integration with Smartsheet, the modern enterprise work management platform trusted by millions of people at companies across the globe. This connector makes it easy to synchronize data from your Smartsheet instance with your Amazon Q index. When implemented, your employees can use Amazon Q Business to query their intelligent assistant on information about their Smartsheet projects and tasks. Amazon Q Business is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. It empowers employees to be more creative…

AWS Outposts is now supported in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Organizations from startups to enterprises and the public sector in and outside of Spain can now connect their Outposts to this Region. Outposts allows customers to run workloads that need low latency access to on-premises systems locally while connecting back to their home Region for application management. Customers can also use Outposts and AWS services to manage and process data that needs to remain on-premises…

In today’s data-driven landscape, managing and analyzing vast amounts of data, especially logs, is crucial for organizations to derive insights and make informed decisions. However, handling large data while extracting insights is a significant challenge, prompting organizations to seek scalable solutions without the complexity of infrastructure management. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless reduces the burden of manual infrastructure provisioning and scaling while still empowering you to ingest, analyze, and visualize your time-series data, simplifying data management and enabling you to derive actionable insights from data. We recently announced a new capacity level of 30…

AWS Security Hub has released 7 new security controls, increasing the total number of controls offered to 430. Security Hub now supports controls for new resource types, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Multi-Region Access Points and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Connect. Security Hub also released new control for Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring. For the full list of recently released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide. To use the new controls, turn on the standard they belong to. Security Hub will then start evaluating your security posture and monitoring your resources for th…

Today, AWS Partner Central has enhanced the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Pipeline Manager by allowing AWS partners to link an AWS Marketplace private offer to a launched opportunity. This feature gives AWS partners improved visibility into their AWS Marketplace transactions. By linking AWS Marketplace private offers to opportunities, partners can track deals from their co-selling pipeline all the way to customer offers. Additionally, partners can view their agreement information, such as agreement ID and creation date, in ACE Pipeline Manager, connected to the original customer opportunity. Starting today, this feature is available globally for all AWS Partners wh…

Amazon WorkSpaces is launching support for transferring files between a WorkSpaces Personal session and a local computer. This helps customers to manage and share files seamlessly, increasing their productivity. This is supported on personal WorkSpaces that use the DCV streaming protocol when using the Windows, Linux client applications or web access. With this launch, users can streamline their workflows and have easier ways to organize, manage, edit, and share files across their devices and platforms. The files on the WorkSpaces will be saved in a persistent storage folder. Amazon WorkSpaces also offers robust security measures, and administrators can control whether…

Amazon Connect now supports copying of agent schedules across multiple days, making management of agent schedules more efficient. You can now copy multiple days shifts from one agent to another agent or to the same agent, up to 14 days at a time. For example, if a new agent joins the team mid-month, you can quickly provide them with a schedule by copying up to 14 days of shifts from an existing agent’s schedule. Similarly, if an agent has a flexible working arrangement for a few weeks, you can edit their schedule for the first week and then copy it over to remaining weeks. Multi-day copy of agent schedules improves manager productivity by reducing time spent on managing a…

Amazon EC2 now allows customers to modify an instance’s CPU options after launch. You can now modify the number of vCPUs and/or disable the hyperthreading of a stopped EC2 instance to save on vCPU-based licensing costs. In addition, an instance’s CPU options are now maintained when changing its instance type. The Optimize CPUs feature allows customers to disable hyperthreading and reduce the number of vCPUs on an instance, resulting in a high memory to vCPU ratio helping customers save the vCPU-based licensing costs. This is particularly beneficial to customers who Bring-Your-Own-license (BYOL) for commercial database workloads, like Microsoft SQL Server. This featur…

AWS Application Composer is now called AWS Infrastructure Composer. The new name emphasizes our capabilities in building infrastructure architectures. Since launching at re:Invent ’22, customers have told us how Application Composer has helped accelerate their serverless application architecture design with Application Composer’s simple drag-and-drop interface. Since the initial release, we have expanded our support to any CloudFormation resource, empowering customers to build any required resource architecture. The new AWS Infrastructure Composer name reflects our focus to help customers build any infrastructure with CloudFormation. AWS Infrastructure Composer is a…

Amazon Connect can now generate forecasts for smaller workloads, with as little as one contact, making it easier for contact center managers to predict demand. This eliminates the need for you to manually adjust historical data to meet minimum data requirements. By reducing minimum data requirements, you can now enable managers to generate forecasts for smaller volume workloads than were previously possible, making it easier to do capacity planning and staffing. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect agent scheduling, click here. View the full article

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Public sector customers can easily deploy and fine-tune open-weight models through the SageMaker Python SDK. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that offers hundreds of pre-trained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. Customers can discover hundreds of open-weight pre-trained models such as Llama and Mistral stored in the AWS infrastructure, fine-tune with their own data, and deploy for cost effective inferencing using SageMaker Python SDK. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is now Generally Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East…

Starting today, you can provide Server Name Indication (SNI) with Route 53 Resolver endpoints for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), allowing you to specify the target server hostname for DNS query requests from your outbound endpoints to DoH servers that require SNI for TLS validation. DoH on Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints allows you to encrypt DNS queries that pass through the endpoints and improve privacy by minimizing the visibility of the information exchanged through the queries. With this launch, you can now specify the hostname with your outbound endpoint configuration to perform TLS handshakes for your DNS requests from the outbound endpoints to the DoH server. Enablin…

AWS CodePipeline introduces the Commands action that enables you to easily run shell commands as part of your pipeline execution. With the Commands action, you will have access to a secure compute environment backed by CodeBuild to run AWS CLI, third-party tools, or any shell commands. The Commands action runs CodeBuild managed on-demand EC2 compute, and uses an Amazon Linux 2023 standard 5.0 image. Previously, if you wanted to run AWS CLI commands, third-party CLI commands, or simply invoke an API, you had to create a CodeBuild project, configure the project with the appropriate commands, and add a CodeBuild action to your pipeline to run the project. Now, you can sim…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now allows users to save and publish reports and dashboards as read-only. By publishing a report as read-only, only the user who created the report or dashboard can edit the report, while still making it visible for others to view or create a copy. For example, a contact center manager can configure a custom read-only dashboard and share it with the supervisors on their team to ensure they monitor the same metrics, while still allowing the supervisors to customize and save their own versions for further analysis. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about read only reports, see the Amazo…

This post was co-written with Paulo Barbosa, the COO of Banfico. Introduction Banfico is a London-based FinTech company, providing market-leading Open Banking regulatory compliance solutions. Over 185 leading Financial Institutions and FinTech companies use Banfico to streamline their compliance process and deliver the future of banking. Under the EU’s revised PSD2, banks can use application programming interfaces (APIs) to securely share financial data with licensed and approved third-party providers (TPPs), when there is customer consent. For example, this can allow you to track your bank balances across multiple accounts in a single budgeting app. PSD2 requires…

AI is revolutionizing industries and shaping the future, and AWS is leading the charge with the most-awaited AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification. Read through the blog for details on the course curriculum, preparation tips, and launch information for this exciting new certification. The AWS Certified AI Practitioner Launch With Gen AI having significant growing importance in the tech industry, the launch of the AWS Certified AI Practitioner is a new venture for AI Enthusiasts. AWS certification entails its significance in the industry with the new product launch to meet the compounding demand for AI professionals at the forefront of providing scalable and flexib…

Today, AWS IoT Core announces three new capabilities for domain configurations. Devices no longer need to rely on Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) extension to determine authentication type and protocol. Furthermore, developers can add additional X.509 client certificates validation to custom authentication workflow. Previously, devices selected authentication type by connecting to a defined port and providing TLS ALPN with chosen protocol. The new capability to configure authentication type and protocol purely based on the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) extension makes it simpler to connect devices to the cloud without requir…

AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports outbound EDI transformation, enabling you to generate X12 EDI documents from JSON or XML data inputs. This new capability adds to B2B Data Interchange’s existing support for transforming inbound EDI documents and automatically generating EDI acknowledgements. With the ability to transform and generate X12 EDI documents up to 150 MB, you can now automate your bidirectional EDI workflows at scale on AWS. The introduction of outbound EDI transformation establishes B2B Data Interchange as a comprehensive EDI service for conducting end-to-end transactions with your business partners. For example, healthcare payers can now process claims…

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 80 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation compute optimized instances (c7i-flex, c6id, c8g), memory optimized instances (r8g, x8g), storage optimized instances (i4i), and GPU-based instances (g5, g5g, g6, gr6, p4d, p4de, p5). This expands the total EC2 instance types supported by Compute Optimizer to 779. By including support for the latest instance types that have improved price to performance ratios, Compute Optimizer helps customers identify additional savings opportunities and performance improvement opportunities. The newly supported c8…

With this launch, AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Network Manager are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Hyderabad), AWS Europe (Spain, Zurich), AWS Middle East (UAE) Region and AWS Canada West (Calgary) Regions. Additionally, AWS Cloud WAN is available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With AWS Cloud WAN, you can use a central dashboard and network policies to create a global network that spans multiple locations and networks, allowing you to configure and manage different networks using the same technology. You can use your network policies to specify which of your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds, AWS Transit Gateways, and on-premises locations you want to connect to…

Imagine you have some streaming data. It could be from an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor, log data ingestion, or even shopper impression data. Regardless of the source, you have been tasked with acting on the data—alerting or triggering when something occurs. Martin Fowler says: “You can build a simple rules engine yourself. All you need is to create a bunch of objects with conditions and actions, store them in a collection, and run through them to evaluate the conditions and execute the actions.” A business rules engine (or simply rules engine) is a software system that executes many rules based on some input to determine some output. Simplistically, it’s a lot of “if…

Auto Scaling in AWS Glue interactive sessions is now generally available. AWS Glue interactive sessions with Glue versions 3.0 or higher can now dynamically scale resources up and down based on the workload. With Auto Scaling, you no longer need to worry about over-provisioning resources for sessions, spend time optimizing the number of workers, or pay for idle workers. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that allows you to schedule and run data integration and extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs or sessions without managing any computing infrastructure. AWS Glue allows users to configure the number of works and type of workers to utilize. AWS Glue Au…

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports database capacity of up to 256 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs). Aurora Serverless v2 measures capacity in ACUs where each ACU is a combination of approximately 2 gibibytes (GiB) of memory, corresponding CPU, and networking. You specify the capacity range and the database scales within this range to support your application’s needs. With higher maximum capacity, customers can now use Aurora Serverless for even more demanding workloads. Instead of scaling up to 128 ACUs (256 GiB), the database can now scale up to 256 ACUs (512 GiB). You can get started with higher capacity with a new cluster or your existing cluster with just a few c…

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Location Service in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Location Service is a location-based service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, search places and geocodes, plan routes, and enable device tracking and geofencing capabilities into their applications. With Amazon Location Service, developers can start a new location project or migrate from existing mapping service workloads to benefit from cost reduction, privacy protection, and ease of integration with other AWS services. With this launch, Amazon Location Service is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Oh…

Amazon Q Business is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible. Amazon Q Business is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With the Amazon Q Business HIPAA certification, healthcare and life sciences organizations such as health insurance companies and healthcare providers, can now use Amazon Q Business to run sensitive workloads regulated under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). AWS maintains a standards-based risk management program to ensure that the HIPAA-e…

Introduction We are pleased to announce the launch of the Neuron Helm Chart, which streamlines the deployment of AWS Neuron components on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With this new Helm Chart, you can now seamlessly install the necessary Kubernetes artifacts needed to run training and inference workloads on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances. Until now, users needed to download and apply each component of Neuron Kubernetes plugins separately. The Neuron Helm Chart streamlines the deployment of Neuron components by consolidating the necessary components into a single, directly deployable solution. This means you can deploy the individual compon…

This blog highlights how to build a serverless architecture for data stream processing in real-time and also you can learn how to connect AWS Lambda to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream. Real-time data means that data is processed as soon as it is generated, ingested, analyzed, and utilized. Such data is useful in many functions that require real-time action, for example, decision-making, fraud detection, customer targeting, predictive analysis, and others. For developers, who wish to develop their skills in cloud Computing then knowing AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis is important. If you want to learn how to set up a serverless architecture using Lambda and Kinesis Streams then…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is helping enhance the end-user experience by introducing support for local printer redirection and user-selected regional settings on multi-session fleets. While these features were already available on single-session fleets, this launch extends these functionalities to multi-session fleets, helping administrators to leverage the cost benefits of the multi-session model while providing an enhanced end-user experience. By combining these enhancements with the existing advantages of multi-session fleets, AppStream 2.0 offers a comprehensive solution that helps balance cost-efficiency and user satisfaction. With local printer redirection, AppStream 2…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows end users to enable automatic time zone redirection for application and desktop streaming sessions. With this new capability, AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions will automatically adjust to match the time zone setting of the end user's client device. While end users can still manually configure regional preferences like time zone, language and input method based on their location. Automatic time zone redirection eliminates the need to manually configure time zone. By automatically redirecting the time zone, AppStream 2.0 provides an improved localized experience for end users. The streaming applications and desktops will now display the us…

Starting today, Amazon VPC supports two key public IP address management features, Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) and Bring-Your-Own-ASN (BYOASN), in all AWS Local Zones. If your applications use trusted IP addresses and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) that your customers or partners have allowed in their networks, you can run these applications in AWS Local Zones without requiring your partners or customers to change their allow-lists. The reachability of many workloads, including host-managed VPNs, proxies, and telecommunication network functions, depends on an organization’s IP address and ASN. With BYOIP, you can now assign your public IPs to workloads in AWS Local Zon…

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing workspaces. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running and operating their Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting on metrics from compute environments such as Amazon Elast…

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports additional configuration options, providing you with more control over how the engine behaves and communicates with its clients.With today’s launch, Timestream for InfluxDB also introduces a feature that allows you to monitor instance CPU, Memory, and Disk utilization metrics directly from the AWS Management Console. Timestream for InfluxDB offers the full feature set of the 2.7 open-source version of InfluxDB, the most popular open source time-series database engine, in a fully managed service with features like Multi-AZ high-availability and enhanced durability. You can now configure the port to access your InfluxDB instanc…

Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and US East (Ohio) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other FMs from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, as well as Amazon via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI built in.…

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device is now available in three additional regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul). The AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB features storage capacity of 210TB per device and high performance NVMe storage, enabling customers to quickly complete large data migrations. For the majority of data migration workloads, customers should use AWS DataSync as a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services. When bandwidth is limited, or a connection is intermittent, customers can use AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB …

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to end support for Governed Tables, effective December 31, 2024, to focus on open source transactional table formats such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. This decision stems from customer preference for these open source solutions, which offer ACID-compliant transactions, compaction, time travel, and other features previously provided by Governed Tables. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced our support for these formats across various analytics services, including Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce), AWS Glue, and Amazon Redshift, with features that include automatic compac…

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces a new VMware SPI for Managed Services as part of Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) in AWS Partner Central. Eligible AWS Partners who also provide manage services post migration, can now leverage the VMware SPI for Managed Services to accelerate VMware customer migration opportunities. This new VMware SPI for Managed Services is available through the enhanced MAP template in AWS Partner Central which provides better speed to market with fewer AWS approval stages. With this enhancement, the AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP) automatically calculates the eligible VMware SPI for Managed Services improving overall partner p…

Amazon Redshift launches RA3.large, a new smaller size in the RA3 node type with 2 vCPU and 16 GiB memory. You can now benefit from RA3.large as it gives more flexibility in compute options to choose from based on your workload requirements. Amazon Redshift RA3.large offers all the innovation of Redshift Managed Storage (RMS), including scaling and paying for compute and storage independently, data sharing, write operations support for concurrency scaling, Zero-ETL, and Multi-AZ. Along with already available sizes in the RA3 node type, RA3.16xlarge, RA3.4xlarge and RA3.xlplus, now with the introduction of RA3.large, you have even more compute sizing options to choose f…

Amazon Redshift enables you to efficiently query and retrieve structured and semi-structured data from open format files in Amazon S3 data lake without having to load the data into Amazon Redshift tables. Amazon Redshift extends SQL capabilities to your data lake, enabling you to run analytical queries. Amazon Redshift supports a wide variety of tabular data formats like CSV, JSON, Parquet, ORC and open tabular formats like Apache Hudi, Linux foundation Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg. You create Redshift external tables by defining the structure for your files, S3 location of the files and registering them as tables in an external data catalog. The external data catalog …

Today we’re announcing enhancements to Amazon ElastiCache Reserved Nodes that make them flexible and easier to use, helping you get the most out of your reserved nodes discount. Reserved nodes provide you with a significant discount compared to on-demand node prices, enabling you to optimize costs based on your expected usage. Previously, you needed to purchase a reservation for a specified node type (e.g. cache.r7g.xlarge) and would only be eligible for a discount on the given type with no flexibility. With this feature, ElastiCache reserved nodes offer size flexibility within an instance family (or node family) and AWS region. This means that your existing discounted…

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue AWS App Mesh, effective September 30th, 2026. Until this date, existing AWS App Mesh customers will be able to use the service as normal, including creating new resources and onboarding new accounts via the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. Additionally, AWS will continue to provide critical security and availability updates to AWS App Mesh during this period. However, starting from September 24th, 2024, new customers will be unable to onboard to AWS App Mesh. As the adoption of microservice architectures continues to grow, managing the complexity of modern distributed applications has become a challeng…

Today, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is announcing the general availability of the stop ingestion API. This new API offers you greater control over data ingestion workflows by allowing you to stop an ongoing ingestion job that you no longer want to continue. Earlier, you had to wait for the full completion of an ingestion job, even in cases where you no longer desired to ingest from the data source or needed to make other adjustments. With the introduction of the new "StopIngestionJob" API, you can now stop an in-progress ingestion job with a single API call. For example, you can use this feature to quickly stop an ingestion job you accidentally initiated, or if you w…

Amazon announces DCV version 2024.0. In this latest release, NICE DCV has been renamed to Amazon DCV. The new DCV version introduces several enhancements, including support for Ubuntu 24.04 and enabling the QUIC UDP protocol by default. Amazon DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Amazon DCV version 2024.0 introduces the following updates, features, and improvements: Renames to Amazon DCV. NICE DCV is now renamed as Amazon DCV. Additionally, Amazon has consolidated the WorkSpaces Streaming P…

Starting today, AWS Incident Detection and Response supports incident engagement in Japanese language. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management for critical workloads. With AWS Incident Detection and Response, AWS Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) are available 24/7 to detect incidents and engage with you within five minutes of an alarm from your workloads, providing guidance for mitigation and recovery. This feature allows AWS Enterprise Support customers to interact with Japanese-speaking Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) who will provide proactive engagement and incident management…

You can now manage your Amazon S3 general purpose bucket quotas in Service Quotas. Using Service Quotas, you can view the total number of buckets in an AWS account, compare that number to your bucket quota, and request a service quota increase. You can get started using the Amazon S3 page on the Service Quotas console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. Service Quotas support for S3 is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and China (Beijing) AWS Regions. To learn more about using Service Quotas with S3 buckets, visit the S3 User Guide. View the full article

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce job run admission control on Amazon EMR Serverless with support for job run concurrency and queuing controls. Job run concurrency and queuing enables you to configure the maximum number of concurrent job runs for an application and automatically queues all other submitted job runs. This prevents job run failures caused when API limits are exceeded due to a spike in job run submissions or when resources are e…

AWS announces general availability of AWS Organizations support in AWS Chatbot. AWS customers can now centrally govern access to their accounts from Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Organizations. This launch introduces chatbot management policy type in AWS Organizations to control access to your organization's accounts from chat channels. Using Service Control Policies (SCPs), customers can also globally enforce permission limits on CLI commands originating from chat channels. With this launch, customers can use chatbot policies and multi-account management services in AWS Organizations to determine which permissions models, chat applications, and chat workspaces…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your Apache Kafka clients and your Amazon MSK provisioned clusters is private, and your data never traverses the internet. With this launch, clients can also invoke MSK APIs via a private endpoint. This allows client applications with strict security requirements to perform MSK specific actions, such as fetching bootstrap connection strings or describing cluster details, without needing to communicate over…

Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) can now deliver data streams into Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3. Firehose enables customers to acquire, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, Snowflake, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, Firehose integrates with Apache Iceberg, so customers can deliver data streams directly into Apache Iceberg tables in their Amazon S3 data lake. Firehose can acquire data streams from Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon MSK, or Direct PUT API, and is also integrated to acquire streams from AWS Services such as AWS WAF web ACL logs, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, AW…

Amazon Connect now supports the ability to initiate outbound SMS contacts, enabling you to help increase customer satisfaction by engaging your customers on their preferred communication channel. You can now deliver proactive SMS experiences for scenarios such as post-contact surveys, appointment reminders, and service updates, allowing customers to respond at their convenience. Additionally you can offer customers the option to switch to SMS while waiting in a call queue, eliminating their hold time. To get started, add the new Send message block to a contact flow or use the new StartOutboundChatContact API to initiate outbound SMS contacts. This feature is available …

AWS re:Post launches re:Post Agent, a generative AI-powered assistant that's designed to enhance customer interactions by offering intelligent and near real-time responses on re:Post. re:Post Agent provides the first response to questions in the re:Post community. Cloud developers can now get general technical guidance faster to successfully build and operate their cloud workloads. With re:Post Agent, you have a generative AI companion augmented by the community that expands the available AWS knowledge. Community experts can earn points to build their reputation status by reviewing answers from re:Post Agent. Visit AWS re:Post to collaborate with re:Post Agent and exp…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 has expanded the default size limit for application settings persistence from 1GB to 5GB. This increase allows end users to store more application data and settings with no manual intervention and without impacting the performance or session setup time. Application settings persistence allows users' customizations and configurations to persist across sessions. When enabled, AppStream 2.0 automatically saves changes to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) stored in an S3 bucket unique to your account and AWS Region. This helps in enhancing the user experience by enabling users to resume work where they left off. With expanded default storage size and performan…

Introduction In August 2022, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced the availability of an Amazon EKS-optimized bundle of Kubecost for cluster cost visibility. The bundle is available to Amazon EKS users free of charge and enables users to gain deeper cost insights into Kubernetes resources, such as namespace, cluster, pod, and organizational concepts (for example by team or application). Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon EKS users can benefit from new features as part of the Kubecost 2.0 announcement, at no cost. This post shows key new features and how users can get started with each of them. Network Monitoring Kubecost’s Network M…

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now provides an end-to-end event delivery latency metric in Amazon CloudWatch that tracks the duration between event ingestion and successful delivery to the targets on your Event Bus. This new IngestionToInvocationSuccessLatency allows you to now detect and respond to event processing delays caused by under-performing, under-scaled, or unresponsive targets. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event router that enables you to create highly scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. You can set up rules to determine where to send your eve…

By adding your Network Load Balancer (NLB) to a monitor, you can gain improved visibility into your application's internet performance and availability using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can now create or associate a monitor for an NLB directly when you create an NLB in the AWS Management console. You can create a monitor for the load balancer, or add the load balancer to an existing monitor, directly from the Integrations tab on the console. With a monitor, you can get detailed metrics about your application's internet traffic that goes through a load balancer, with the ability to drill down into specific locations and internet service providers (ISPs). You…

Amazon Q in QuickSight announces personalization in data stories. A capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight, data stories helps users generate visually compelling documents and presentations that provide insights, highlight key findings, and recommend actionable next steps. With the addition of personalization to data stories, the generated narratives are tailored to the user and leverage employee location and job role to provide commentary that is more specific to the user’s organization. Amazon Q in QuickSight brings the power of Generative Business Intelligence to customers, enabling them to leverage natural language capabilities of Amazon Q to quickly extract insights…

We are excited to announce that AWS HealthOmics variant stores are now optimized to improve sample based queries saving time and query costs for customers. AWS HealthOmics helps customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs by providing a fully managed service designed to handle bioinformatics and drug discovery workflows and storage at any scale. With this release, any new variant stores customer create will be automatically partitioned by the sample. This feature automatically partitions data loaded into a variant store by the sample information. Because of this partitioning, any analysis that includes sample level filtering no longer needs to scan the full set of da…

Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion already supports Amazon IAM authentication and with this announcement, we are now extending authentication methods with the addition of mutual transport layer security (mTLS) authentication between Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster or serverless workgroup and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) cluster or serverless. mTLS is an industry standard for authentication that provides the means for a server to authenticate a client it's sending information to, and for the client to authenticate the server. The benefit of using mTLS is to provide a trusted authentication method that relies on each party (client & server) ex…

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports HTTPS for tracking open and click events when using custom domains. Using HTTPS helps meet security compliance requirements and reduces the chances of email delivery issues with mailbox providers that reject non-secure links. The new feature provides the flexibility to configure HTTPS as mandatory for both open and click tracking, or make it optional based on the protocol of the links in your email. Previously, HTTPS was only available for click event tracking with custom domains. If you required HTTPS for tracking both open and clicks events, you were limited to the default tracking approach where the links in your emails…

Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Model evaluation provides built-in curated datasets or you can bring your own datasets. Amazon Bedrock’s interactive interface guides you through model evaluation. You simply choose automatic evaluation, select the task type and metrics, and upload your prompt dataset. Amazon Bedrock then runs evaluations and generates a report, so you can easily understand…

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific security and feature improvements. These releases also contain new Babelfish’s features and improvements. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 end of standard support is February 29, 2025. You can either upgrade to a newer major version or continue to run Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 past the end of standard support date with RDS Extended Support. These releases are available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions,…

AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support, improved environment start times, and support for Docker environments in all commercial Regions where CloudShell is live. Previously, these features were only available in a limited set of CloudShell’s live commercial Regions. These features increase the productivity of CloudShell customers and enable a consistent experience across all CloudShell commercial Regions. CloudShell VPC support allows you to create CloudShell environments in a VPC, which enables you to use CloudShell securely within the same subnet as other resources in your VPC without the need for additional network configuration. Star…

Today, Amazon Inspector announced an upgrade to the engine powering its Lambda standard scanning. This upgrade will provide you with a more comprehensive view of the vulnerabilities in the third-party dependencies used in your Lambda functions and associated Lambda layers in your environment. With the launch of this enhanced scanning engine, you will benefit from these capabilities without any disruption to your existing workflows. Existing customers can expect to see some findings closed as the new engine re-evaluates your existing resources to better assess risks, while also surfacing new vulnerabilities. Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service that co…

In this blog, we will guide you through the process on how to Create Secure User Authentication with AWS Cognito for cloud applications. From setting up a Cognito User Pool to integrating it into your app, we’ll cover essential steps like managing user sign-ins, session handling, and password recovery. Having an AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification significantly enhances your ability to implement these solutions effectively, as it equips you with deep knowledge of AWS services and best practices for building secure, scalable applications. By leveraging AWS Amplify, we will simplify the integration process, ensuring a seamless experience for developers/applic…

Amazon EMR Serverless allows you to run open source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without managing clusters and servers. With EMR Serverless, you can run analytics workloads at any scale with automatic scaling that resizes resources in seconds to meet changing data volumes and processing requirements. We have launched job worker metrics in Amazon CloudWatch for EMR Serverless. This feature allows you to monitor vCPUs, memory, ephemeral storage, and disk I/O allocation and usage metrics at an aggregate worker level for your Spark and Hive jobs. This post is part of a series about EMR Serverless observability. In this post, we discuss how to u…

AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces pipeline variable check as a new rule that customers can use in their stage level condition to gate a pipeline execution. You can use this rule with any condition that is evaluated before entering the stage, before exiting a stage - when all actions in the stage have completed successfully, or when any action in the stage has failed. With the variable check rule, you can evaluate a pipeline parameter or an output variable from a prior action in the pipeline against a threshold, to determine if the condition will succeed or fail. For example, you can check if an output variable from a CodeBuild action is a certain value to dete…

You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE) and Europe (Spain) AWS regions. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. Timestream for InfluxDB offers the full feature set available in the InfluxDB 2.7 release of the open-source version, and adds deployment options with Multi-AZ high availability and enhanced durability. For high availability, Timestream for InfluxDB allows you to automatically create a primary database instance and synchronously replicate …

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kuwait. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. Outposts can also help meet data residency requirements. Outposts is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers to 42U Outposts racks, and multiple rack deployments…

Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Redis OSS-compatible database for in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. Customers in Europe (Spain) can now use MemoryDB as a primary database for use cases that require ultra-fast performance and durable storage, such as payment card analytics, message streaming between microservices, and IoT events processing. With Amazon MemoryDB, all of your data is stored in memory, which enables you to achieve microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latency and high throughput. Amazon MemoryDB also stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using a Multi-AZ transactional log to enable fast failover, database …

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises across regulated industries face a critical challenge as they navigate their digital transformation journeys: effectively managing and governing data from legacy systems that are being phased out or replaced. This historical data, often containing valuable insights and subject to stringent regulatory requirements, must be preserved and made accessible to authorized users throughout the organization. Failure to address this issue can lead to significant consequences, including data loss, operational inefficiencies, and potential compliance violations. Moreover, organizations are seeking solutions that not only sa…

Today, we are excited to announce that the Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector now runs on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). AL2023 offers long-term support with access to the latest Linux security updates. The Agentless Collector is deployed as a virtual appliance within an on-premises data center, allowing one install to monitor hundreds of servers. With the Agentless Collector, configure the discovery tool in a matter of minutes. The data can then be used in AWS Migration Hub to explore recommended Amazon EC2 instances or AWS Database Migration Service to explore recommended Amazon RDS instances. The Agentless Collector on AL2023 (version 2) is now genera…

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now allows customers to monitor queries run through the RDS Data API for Aurora PostgreSQL clusters. The RDS Data API provides an HTTP endpoint to run SQL statements on an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. With this launch, customers are now able to use Performance Insights to monitor the impact of the queries run through the RDS Data API on their database performance. Additionally, customers can identify these queries and their related statistics by slicing the database load metric using the host name dimension, and filtering for 'RDS Data API'. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning an…

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) version 13.5.0.0.v2 for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c Release 5. OEM 13c offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information. Customers running OMS version 13.5 update 23 can now manage databases by installing OMA 13.5.0.0.v2 To enable the version 13.5.0.0.v2 of OMA for OEM 13cR5, navigate to "Option Groups" in the AWS Management Console and add the "OEM_AGENT" option to a new or existing option group and set AGENT_VERSION to “13.5.0.0.v2”. …

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications offer a transformative solution for businesses worldwide, delivering on-demand software solutions to a global audience. However, building a successful SaaS platform demands on meticulous architectural planning, especially given the inherent challenges of multi-tenancy. It’s also essential to ensure that each tenant’s data remains isolated and protected from unauthorized access and that multi-tenant systems are cost-optimized and can sustain the scaling of the SaaS business provider. In this blog post, we will explore some of the key elements and best practices for designing and deploying secure and efficient SaaS systems on AWS.…

AWS ParallelCluster 3.11 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for NICE DCV and custom action scripts on Login nodes. Use custom action scripts to automate the setup and configuration of Login Nodes to meet your specific organization's needs such as installing additional software, configuring settings, or custom commands. Add custom action scripts by uploading them to an S3 bucket and specifying their paths in the ParallelCluster YAML configuration file. Other important features in this release include: Support for pyxis and enroot for simplified container image management and the efficient execution of container-based HPC and ML/AI…

You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.10 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.10 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Apache Airflow 2.10 introduces several notable enhancements, such as a new Dark Mode for improved user experience, especially in low-light environments; dynamic dataset scheduling for flexible workflow management; and new task-level metrics for enhanced visibility into r…

Kubernetes version 1.31 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.31. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.31 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.31 using the EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool. Kubernetes version 1.31 introduces several key improvements, including stable support for AppArmor security modules, storing timestamps for persistent volume phase transitions, and the beta VolumeAttributeClass API for modifying mutable propertie…

Starting today, AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java functions is generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java delivers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost, making it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda without having to provision resources or spend time and effort implementing complex performance optimizations. For latency sensitive applications where you want to support unpredictable bursts of traffic, high and outlier startup latencies—known as cold starts—can cause delays in your users’ experience. Lambda SnapStart offers improved startup times by initia…

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a redesigned RDS Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned database instances. You can now access these Aurora clusters via a secure HTTP endpoint and run SQL statements without the use of database drivers and without managing connections. This follows the launch of Data API for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned database instances last year. Data API was originally only available for single instance Aurora Serverless v1 clusters with a 1,000 request per second (RPS) rate limit. Based on customer feedback, Data API has now been redesigned for incr…

Amazon CloudWatch announces the general availability of natural language query generation powered by generative AI for Logs Insights and Metrics Insights in 7 additional regions including Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Stockholm), US East (Ohio). This feature enables you to quickly generate queries in the context of your logs and metrics data using plain language so that you can accelerate gathering insights from your observability data without needing extensive knowledge of the query language. Query Generator simplifies your CloudWatch Logs and Metrics Insights experience through …

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.0 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17.0 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL 17 includes updates to vacuuming that reduces memory usage, improves time to finish vacuuming, and shows progress of vacuuming indexes. With PostgreSQL 17, you no longer need to drop logical replication slots when performing a major version upgrade. PostgreSQL 17 continues to build on the SQL/JSON standard, adding support for `JSON_TABLE` features tha…

Organizations are collecting and storing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data like reports, whitepapers, and research documents. By consolidating this information, analysts can discover and integrate data from across the organization, creating valuable data products based on a unified dataset. For many organizations, this centralized data store follows a data lake architecture. Although data lakes provide a centralized repository, making sense of this data and extracting valuable insights can be challenging. End-users often struggle to find relevant information buried within extensive documents housed in data lakes, leading to inefficiencies and missed opport…

You’ve probably heard a lot of conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI. According to a study by AWS, hiring AI-skilled talent is a priority among 73% of employers—but three out of four who consider it a priority can’t find the AI talent they need. And AI skills aren’t just for techies; having a grasp of cloud and AI fundamentals can help you future-proof careers in business roles, such as marketing, program management, and customer support. Showcasing your understanding of AI concepts can give you an edge in the global job market. According to AWS’s study, organizations are willing to pay a premium for professionals with AI skills. This include…

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now provides additional performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and an enhanced monitoring dashboard with performance insights and recommendations. You can use the new Amazon Cloudwatch metrics and dashboard to right-size your file systems and optimize performance and costs. Previously, you could use performance metrics to monitor the file system storage capacity, throughput and IOPS delivered by the storage system, the primary performance characteristics for most workloads. Now, using additional performance met…

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces support for attribute-based access control (ABAC) using stream tags, enabling customers to enhance their overall security postures with a scalable access control solution. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that enables customers to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources, such as IAM users and roles, and to AWS resources for fine-grained access control. ABAC support for Kinesis Data Streams makes it simple for you to give granular access to developers without requirin…

The Llama 3.2 collection of models are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 3.2 represents Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs). Llama 3.2 models are offered in various sizes, from small and medium-sized multimodal models, 11B and 90B parameter models, capable of sophisticated reasoning tasks including multimodal support for high resolution images to lightweight text-only 1B and 3B parameter models suitable for edge devices. Llama 3.2 is the first Llama model to support vision tasks, with a new model architecture that integrates image encoder representations into the language model. In addition to the existing text capable Llama 3.1 8B, 70B, and …

AWS announces the general availability for Security Group Referencing across VPCs connected by the AWS Transit Gateway. With this capability, customers can simplify management of Security Groups and gain a better security posture for their TGW based networks. Customers can configure Security Groups by specifying a list of rules that allow network traffic based on criteria such as IP CIDRs, Prefix-Lists, Ports and SG references. Until now, customers were not able to use SG references for controlling traffic between VPCs connected via TGW. Security Group Referencing allows customers to specify other SGs as references, or matching criterion in inbound security rules to al…

With the launch of AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, you now have additional visibility into AWS API activity that traverses your VPC endpoints, enabling you to strengthen your data perimeter and implement better detective controls. At preview launch, you can enable network activity events for VPC endpoints for four AWS Services: Amazon EC2, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS CloudTrail. With network activity events for VPC endpoints, you can view details of who is accessing resources within your network giving you greater ability to identify and respond to malicious or unauthorized actions in your data perimeter. For ex…

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Resources widget on the myApplications dashboard, providing a view of the resources in your applications on AWS. Using the new Resources widget, you can quickly search and discover application resources in the myApplications dashboard. Start by searching for your application in the Applications widget on Console Home and click to open the application dashboard. From the dashboard you can view the Resources widget to see the list of resources that power your application. You can also query keywords to further focus on your application’s resources. To access the Resources widget, make sure you have AWS Resource E…

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances and Amazon EC2 M8g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. C8g instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning inference, and ad serving. M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on…

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Frankfurt, London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Malaysia ), and Canada (Central) regions. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization as well as graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of me…

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) announces integration with AWS End User Messaging for the delivery of SMS messages. Starting today, SNS customers can start using new features like SMS resource management, two-way messaging, granular resource permissions, country block rules, and centralized billing for all AWS SMS messaging without making any changes to configurations or the global AWS SMS network used by SNS. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub service that provides one-to-many message delivery to various endpoints, including AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Data Firehose, mobile devices via AWS End User Messaging and mobile push, as well as email. AWS End Us…

AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLink to connect to AWS Serverless Application Repository through an interface VPC endpoint. You can now connect directly to the AWS Serverless Application Repository using AWS PrivateLink in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. When you use an AWS PrivateLink, communication between your VPC and AWS Serverless Application Repository is conducted entirely within the AWS network, which can provide greater security and protect your sensitive information. An AWS PrivateLink endpoint connects your VPC directly to AWS Serverless Application Repository. The instances in your VPC …

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) to share the following SMS resources: phone numbers, sender IDs, phone pools, and opt-out lists in AWS End User Messaging SMS, also referred to as sms-voice. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. AWS RAM is a service that enables AWS customers securely share resources across AWS accounts. With AWS RAM, you can also share resources within organizational units (OUs) in AWS Organizations. Sharing SMS resources in End User Messaging SMS can help you reduce the number of phone numbers y…

The most efficient, performant, and capable Llama models to date, Llama 3.2, are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3.2 models—90B, 11B, 3B, 1B, and Llama Guard 3 11B Vision—with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. You can also easily fine-tune Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models with SageMaker JumpStart today. Llama 3.2 models are offered in various sizes, from small and medium-sized multimodal models, 11B and 90B parameter models, capable of sophisticated reasoning t…