Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P4d instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They provide up to 100 Gbps networking throughput with 96 vCPUs, 1.1 TB instance memory, and 8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. You can use P4d instances for interactive model training for use cases such as generative AI foundation model tuning with billions of parameters, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender engines. Visit d…

Today, AWS End User Computing announced new session management capabilities for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This update provides administrators with deeper visibility and monitoring insights for day-to-day service management. Administrators may now access a dashboard view from the AWS Console which displays active and historical sessions over the last 35 days. Using the dashboard, administrators can filter sessions based on user, session ID, portal, or by current status. Administrators can view a session’s start time, current status, and force stop in-progress sessions. Administrators can export session management records from the last 35 days, which can be used …

Amazon SageMaker with MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink, which enables you to transfer critical data from your virtual private cloud (VPC) to MLflow Tracking Servers in a private, secure, and scalable manner. This capability enhances the protection of sensitive information by ensuring that data sent to the MLflow Tracking Servers is transferred within the AWS network, avoiding exposure to the public internet. MLflow is a popular open-source tool that helps data scientists organize, track, and analyze machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) experiments. To accelerate ML and GenAI experimentation, you can set-up and manage MLflow Tracking Servers with a couple …

You can now pick the software and driver versions used by the instances that best fits your needs when deploying models on SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price performance for any use case. Previously, customers had to use preset software and driver versions defined by SageMaker on the managed instances behind an endpoint. Now customers can specify the “InferenceAmiVersion” parameter when configuring endpoints to select the combination of software and driver versions (such as Nvidia driver and CUDA version) that best meets their requirements. This allows you to tai…

AWS customers often look for ways to run their systems within or under budget, avoiding unnecessary costs. This post offers practical advice on designing scalable and cost-efficient three-tier architectures by using serverless technologies within the AWS Free Tier. With AWS, you can start small and scale cost-effectively as your business demand increases. You can begin with minimal investments by using the Free Tier to build a minimum viable product (MVP). Then you can expand resources as your user base grows and your needs evolve, and transition to a full-fledged, large-scale application. In this blog post, you will learn how to build a three-tier architecture that p…

Cross-Region deployments provide increased resilience to maintain business continuity during outages, natural disasters, or other operational interruptions. Many large enterprises, design and deploy special plans for readiness during such situations. They rely on solutions built with AWS services and features to improve their confidence and response times. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service for OpenSearch, a search and analytics engine at scale. OpenSearch Service provides high availability within an AWS Region through its Multi-AZ deployment model and provides Regional resiliency with cross-cluster replication. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a deployment opt…

AWS Resilience Hub has expanded its capabilities to assess applications that include Amazon ElastiCache. Resilience Hub serves as a centralized platform to define, validate, and monitor the resilience of your applications, helping you avoid unnecessary downtime because of software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. For applications using Amazon ElastiCache, including ElastiCache Serverless and Global Datastores, AWS Resilience Hub now provides enhanced resilience recommendations. These include guidelines for Region and multi-region setups, as well as strategies for Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments, resource grouping, and backup. AWS Resilience Hub also…

You can now use silences to suppress alert notifications for Grafana alerts in Amazon Managed Grafana. Grafana alerts enable you to proactively monitor your data and receive notifications about critical issues in real time. Silences allow you to temporarily disable notifications from specific alerts, for a specified duration. Silences reduce alert fatigue during scheduled maintenances, operational events or when dealing with known issues, without disabling the underlying alert rules. You can silence your Grafana alert notifications based on alert labels or by directly silencing notifications for a specific Grafana alert rule. This feature is supported on all Amazon …

AWS Resource Explorer introduced a new search operator that powers the complete discovery of tagged AWS resources across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to discover both tagged and untagged resources for resource types with full Resource Explorer support. Starting today, customers can specifically request to query all of their tagged resources, regardless of whether the resource types are fully supported by Resource Explorer. This feature immediately improves resource discovery coverage for customers by including resources fully supported by Resource Explorer, as well as any tagged resource from any service. To use this new f…

Amazon S3 is beginning to apply a default minimum object size of 128 KB for S3 Lifecycle transition rules to any S3 storage class. This change can help optimize your transition costs for datasets with many kilobyte-sized objects by reducing the number of transition requests. You can override this new default and customize the minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules to any value. Using S3 Lifecycle filters, you can create custom rules to transition objects based on prefix, tags, and object sizes. While the object size filter for your existing S3 Lifecycle rules will not automatically change, this new default behavior will be applied to any new or modified …

Today, AWS End User Computing Services announced that customers can use Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 (FIPS) validated cryptography endpoints with their WorkSpaces Secure Browser portals. FIPS 140-3 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Secure Browser FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or regulated workloads. To use a FIPS-validated connection for your portal, specify a FIPS endpoint when creating a portal using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). You …

Today, we are announcing Node.js support for Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE). GLIDE is an open source client library for Valkey, an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching and message queues. With this launch, GLIDE supports Java, Python, and Node.js. GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it supports all Valkey commands. GLIDE supports Valkey versions 7.2 and 8.0, as well as Redis open-source versions 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2. Valkey GLIDE is designed for reliability, optimized performance, and high-availability, for connecting to a Valkey or Redis OSS datastore. It is pre-c…

AWS Lake Formation’s centralized access control and permission for Amazon Redshift data sharing is now available in 11 additional regions. You can manage permission grants, view access controls, and audit permissions on the tables and views in the Redshift datashares using Lake Formation APIs and the AWS Management Console. Furthermore, Lake Formation supports trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center, allowing you to leverage Lake Formation to manage permissions to datashares for specific users and groups defined in your Identity Provider (IdP). AWS Lake Formation managed data sharing improves the security of your data by enabling data lake administrat…

Welcome to September’s post announcing new training and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our August course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 21 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 7 new digital courses, an exciting new game-based learning exam prep option for AWS Certified AI Practitioner: AWS Escape Room: Exam prep for AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF, and a new generative AI course for AWS Partners: AWS Partner: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) on AWS (Business). New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill …

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue support for 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. At re:Invent 2022, AWS introduced Amazon ECS Service Connect, a new way to connect microservices within Amazon Elastic Container Serv…

Editor’s note: As new AWS generative AI courses and educational resources are released, we will add them to this blog. In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionizing industries and reshaping the way we approach problem-solving. As this technology continues to evolve, it becomes crucial for professionals to stay ahead of the curve and equip themselves with the necessary skills and knowledge. At AWS, we understand the importance of continuous learning and upskilling, which is why we offer a comprehensive suite of training and certification opportunities in the field of generative AI. …

We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports automatically shutting down applications after a period of inactivity. Starting today, administrators can configure idle shutdown time for JupyterLab and CodeEditor applications that use Amazon SageMaker Distribution image version 2.0 or newer. Administrators can set idle shutdown time on SageMaker domain or user profile level, and can optionally grant users flexibility to modify the idle shutdown time based on their specific use case. Once idle shutdown time is configured, SageMaker Studio will automatically detect when applications are idle and shut them down after specified period of inactivity. Th…

AWS Lambda now supports tagging Event Source Mappings (ESM) and Code Signing Config (CSC) resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources to easily organize, search, identify resources, and control access. Previously, customer tagging was limited to Lambda Function resources. With today's launch, customers can now use tag-based controls to manage access to ESM or CSC resources used with their Lambda functions. Customers can manage tags for ESM and CSC resources using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, AWS CDKs, AWS SAM, AWS CloudFormation or AWS Management Console. Lambda support for tagging ESM and CSC resources is available at no addition…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports Internet Protocol Version 6(IPv6). Customers moving to IPv6 can now connect to their instances with a single click or command using EC2 Instance Connect over IPv6. Amazon EC2 Instance Connect provides a single-click and single command Secure shell(SSH) based connectivity to instances. Until today, EC2 Instance Connect, only supported connectivity over IPv4. With this launch, EC2 Instance Connect now supports SSH to instances over both IPv6 and IPv4. Customers can additionally use prefix lists to configure and maintain their security group rules to allow SSH traffic. EC2 Instance Connect is available at no ad…

Amazon WorkSpaces announces support for graphics bundles (G4dn instances) for WorkSpaces Pools. The customers can now run their graphics-intensive and accelerated applications on Windows using AWS G4dn graphics instance with WorkSpaces Pools. The Graphics G4dn bundles offer cost-effective solutions for graphics applications optimized for NVIDIA GPUs using NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN, OptiX, and Video Codec SDK. With WSP, the users will be able to experience a highly responsive remote desktop experience with 4K resolution and support for multiple monitors. G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP are available for Windows Server 2022. Alternatively, customers can bring their…

The Jamba 1.5 Model Family from AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Jamba 1.5 Large and 1.5 Mini are cutting-edge foundation models designed for enterprise applications. With a 256k effective context window, one of the longest on the market, these models enable customers to tackle complex tasks like lengthy document summarization and analysis. The Jamba 1.5 models, purpose-built for speed and efficiency with a hybrid architecture that makes them 2.5x faster than many other models (according to AI21), offer customers improved speed on long contexts, making them among the fastest in their size class. Jamba 1.5 Mini demonstrates exceptional performance, achievin…

You can now use the bandwidth reduction filter in AWS Elemental MediaLive to improve encoding efficiency. The bandwidth reduction filter improves video encoding efficiency by an average of 7%, reducing bandwidth and storage while maintaining comparable video quality. You can save on transmission, content distribution, and storage without compromising the viewing experience. The bandwidth reduction filter is available with Enhanced AVC and HEVC encoding in MediaLive at no additional cost. For more information, visit the MediaLive documentation. AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video stream…

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on Amazon EC2 instances in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and US East (Ohio) regions. Built on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, customers can now access local, GPS-disciplined reference clocks on supported EC2 instances. These clocks can be used to more easily order application events, measure 1-way network latency, increase distributed application transaction speed, and incorporate in-region and cross-region scalability features while also simultaneously simplifying technical designs. This capability is an improvement over many on-premises time solut…

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 runtimes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This includes the following runtimes: Python 3.12, Node.js 20, Java 21, .NET 8, Ruby 3.3, and Amazon Linux 2023 (provided.al2023). Each runtime is available as both a managed runtime and a container base image. We will automatically apply updates to each managed runtime and container base image, as they become available. This release includes the latest version of each programming language supported by Lambda, providing access to the latest programming language features and performance improvements. Built on Amazon Linux 2023, these runtimes provide a significantly smaller deployment f…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now allows you to set up multi-VPC and cross-account private connectivity on Amazon MSK clusters configured with any of the MSK supported authentication mechanisms. Multi-VPC private connectivity (powered by AWS PrivateLink) allows you to easily establish cross-VPC and cross-account connectivity between your Apache Kafka clients and your Amazon MSK cluster, while keeping all traffic within the AWS Network. With a few clicks, you can turn on multi-VPC private connectivity for one or more authentication modes on your cluster. This feature was previously supported only on clusters with client authentication enabled. With thi…

Amazon now adds Content Credentials to images created using Amazon Titan Image Generator v1 and v2 to increase transparency around AI-generated content. Content Credentials are based on an open technical specification developed and maintained by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a cross-industry standards development organization. C2PA metadata, similar to invisible watermarks, is included in images generated by Amazon Titan Image Generator by default. The metadata comprises of the model, the platform, and the task type used to generate the image. This inclusion allows people to easily verify the source and history (or, provenance) of images…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS US East (Dallas) Local Zone. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more about A…

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports the ability to sort on additional columns within step, task, and worker data, and filter tasks by status. This feature enables users to quickly find and organize data about their job submissions to their Deadline Cloud render farm. Customers operating a render farm will often have hundreds of jobs running simultaneously. When users need to identify issues and take action, it is critical to view information related to the steps and tasks within a job quickly and easily. Having the ability to filter and sort step, task, and worker information helps to navigate data efficiently. These sort and filter capabilities are supported in all AWS…

AWS CloudFormation Git sync now allows you to review your stack changes via Pull Request (PR) comments before they are deployed to CloudFormation. With this launch, you get a clear overview of the changes in your deployments within the PR. CloudFormation Git sync will automatically post the change set information as comments to each new PR created or updated in your repository. You are able to review the proposed changes and then deploy the changes by merging the PR. CloudFormation allows you to use a template file to manage the configuration of your resources as a stack. Using Git sync, you can store this template in a remote Git repository and have your CloudFormatio…

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Jordan. 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…

We are excited to announce the public availability of two new capabilities for the AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC feature. Users can now copy data sets in binary format without any conversion. This provides compatibility with modernization tools that require data sets to be processed in their raw mainframe format. It can be used as part of refactoring, replatforming, or augmentation toolchains. We have also introduced performance enhancements that reduce the file transfer task start-up time, enabling users to see data transfers begin in a matter of seconds and allowing for the swift execution of multiple transfer tasks. These new capabilities provide c…

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customers’ experience using snippets of code called canaries, now supports replication of tags created on canaries to the associated AWS Lambda function to help you better identify and organize your AWS resources. You can now also filter canaries by tags on the canaries list page in the CloudWatch Synthetics console. A tag is a custom attribute label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. With this release, tags created on a canary will be replicated to the Lambda function created by the canary when the option is selected in the AWS console or the optional parameter Resour…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Me…

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now supports configuration at the Aurora cluster level. Customers can configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring on all the instances within an Aurora cluster with a single click in the console or through APIs. With this launch, customers no longer need to spend manual effort to configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring individually for all instances within an Aurora cluster. When Aurora Auto Scaling adds new Aurora Replicas, the new instances automatically inherit the cluster-level configuration of Performance Insights and Enhanced Monitoring. This feature allows customers to enforce …

With OpenSearch 2.15, you can now leverage OR1 instances for your existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. You can start using OR1 by simply updating your existing domain configuration, and choosing OR1 instances for data nodes. This will seamlessly move domains running OpenSearch 2.15 to OR1 instances using a blue/green deployment. Please note that changing domain configuration from an OR1 instance type to another instance type will require a snapshot restore. OR1 enables customers to economically and reliab…

Today, AWS announces general availability of new capabilities and usability improvements for the AWS IoT Device Management Software Package Catalog (SPC) and AWS IoT Device Management Jobs. With these new capabilities, you can now: Associate and store industry-standard Software Bill of Material (SBOM) files with package versions to gain granular insights into your software's composition, enabling you to proactively identify and mitigate of potential security risks. Simplify your version deployment workflows through sample deployment instruction sets, referred as recipes. Utilize the new package and version placeholders in Job documents (recipe) to specify destina…

Today, we launched an enhanced monitoring dashboard for your AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) tasks. You can now experience greatly improved monitoring capabilities for the database and analytics workloads DMS is processing as it moves data between different services and locations. These new dashboard improvements make it easier to monitor the health of data workload movements and troubleshoot problems. Using the DMS console, you can now monitor aggregated and customized metrics for multiple DMS tasks, visualize utilization for all tasks on a given replication instance, and quickly identify the root cause of task issues. This new feature is generally availab…

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) region. 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 memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also sup…

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) has launched a new feature through the Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM) Advisor, which aims to increase awareness among customers when their complaint rates approach or exceed levels allowed by best practices. This feature allows customers to monitor the potential impact on their sending reputation they have due to high complaint rates, and identify the specific sending identities that are the source of these complaints. This enhancement is designed to enable customers to take proactive measures before high complaint rates trigger disruptions to their email sending. Previously, customers could use VDM to see complaint rates …

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch domains in AWS to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Understanding OpenSearch service spend per domain is crucial for effective cost management, optimization, and informed decision-making. Amazon OpenSearch Service Pricing is based on three dimensions: instances, storage, and data transfer. Storage pricing depends on the chosen storage type and also the storage tier. Visibility into domain-level charges enables accurate budgeting, efficient resource allocation, fair cost attribution across projects, and over…

Embarking on a cloud career can seem daunting, especially when you’re just starting out. But with the right mindset, resources, and strategy, you can break into this field. We’ve gathered insights from learners who have navigated the path from beginners to cloud professionals. Whether you’re changing careers or searching for your first-ever professional job, learn from them to start your cloud journey. Meet the Learners Based in Ghana, Nana Adjoa Anmin began in a non-technical role in international affairs before transitioning into tech through AWS re/Start, a cohort-based workforce development training program that prepares individuals for careers in the cloud and c…

Starting today, AWS Cost Explorer offers purchase recommendations for Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity. DynamoDB reserved capacity allows you to save up to 77% compared to provisioned capacity pricing in exchange for a usage commitment over a one or three-year term. With these new recommendations, you can make informed purchases of DynamoDB reserved capacity in minutes, making it even easier to optimize your DynamoDB spend. With this launch, AWS Cost Explorer now includes recommendations for 7 reservation models: Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon MemoryDB, and Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity. Cost Explorer automat…

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton4-based instance. They have the best price performance among EC2 X-series instances, and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, in-memory databases (Redis, Memcached), relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time big data analytics, real-time caching servers, and m…

Amazon DocumentDB(with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB is designed to give you the scalability and durability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service(DMS), Amazo…

Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), in addition to the existing Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) regions. This expansion brings the power of Generative Business Intelligence to more customers, enabling them to leverage natural language capabilities of Amazon Q to quickly extract insights from data, make better business decisions, and accelerate the work of business analysts. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, users can generate documents, slide decks, and executive summaries explaining data and providi…

AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, now adds new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on users and groups directly through AWS CLI, APIs, and AWS Management Console. DevOps engineers, developers, and IT administrators can leverage these new APIs to automate synchronization of users and groups from external identity sources and HR systems, using AWS Lambda functions or AWS SDK supported programming languages. You can also react faster to security alerts. For example, you may create automation to remove compromised user accounts…

Amazon DocumentDB is now available in Europe (Spain) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB is designed to give you the scalability and durability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, A…

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation storage optimized instances i4g and i4i. These instances have AWS Nitro SSD storage offering high I/O performance, low latency, and security with always-on encryption. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance versus comparable x86-based storage optimized instances, and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. I4g instances support all OpenSearch versions & Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10. I4i instances offer a new size of 128 vCPUs & 1,024 GiB of memory, which is twice the size of largest i3 instance. To k…

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor versions include: SQL Server 2016 - 13.00.6445.1 SQL Server …

Corretto 23 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto 23 is an OpenJDK 23 Feature Release, which will be supported through April, 2025. OpenJDK 23 introduces enhanced performance with updates to the Z Garbage Collector and Vector API, along with improved JIT compilation for faster code execution. Additionally, it brings expanded pattern matching and switch expression capabilities for more concise and expressive coding. For more information about the features in OpenJDK 23, a detailed description can be found on its Project page. Amazon Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open s…

You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances or upgrade your existing x-86 based based M5 or T3 instances and replace them with AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances with a single click of a button in the Europe (London) AWS Region. AWS Graviton3 processor based M7G instances on Amazon MSK provisioned clusters allows you to achieve up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances. Additionally, these instances lower energy consumption by up to 60% than comparable instances, making your Kafka cluster…

This post was co-written with Amy Flanagan, Vice President of Architecture and leader of the Virtual Architecture Team (VAT) at athenahealth, and Anusha Dharmalingam, Executive Director and Senior Architect at athenahealth. athenahealth has embarked on an ambitious journey to modernize its technology stack by leveraging AWS’s hybrid cloud solutions. This transformation aims to enhance scalability, performance, and developer productivity, ultimately improving the quality of care provided to its patients. athenahealth’s core products, including revenue cycle management, electronic health records, and patient engagement portals, have been built and refined over 25 years.…

Solution overview When you create your applications and want to expose internal API endpoints, you can build your microservices using different compute options such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Then, you can deploy your applications across multiple AWS accounts and multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), at which point you need a secure way to connect them. Amazon VPC Lattice enables east-west traffic across accounts, offers service discovery, traffic management, and access controls. When working on Amazon EKS, Amazon VPC Lattice comes with the AWS Gateway API Controller that implements …

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitLab self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab CI/CD job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. This feature allows GitLab jobs to integrate natively with AWS, providing security and convenience through features such as IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon VPC. Customers can access all compute platforms that CodeBuild offers, including Lambda, GPU-enhanced and Arm-based instances. CodeBuild's integration …

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) using customer managed keys. By default, S3 Express One Zone encrypts all objects with server-side encryption using S3 managed keys (SSE-S3). With S3 Express One Zone support for customer managed keys, you have more options to encrypt and manage the security of your data. S3 Bucket Keys are always enabled when you use SSE-KMS with S3 Express One Zone, at no additional cost. With customer managed keys, you can set key policies that govern which IAM roles can decrypt your data and see a full accounting in AWS CloudTrail of the specific keys used to encrypt and decrypt…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS SDK for Swift, the official AWS solution for accessing Amazon Web Services from applications built with the Swift programming language. Customers can now use AWS SDK for Swift for production workloads. AWS SDK for Swift provides a modern, user-friendly, and native Swift interface for accessing Amazon Web Services from Apple platforms, AWS Lambda, and Linux-based Swift on Server applications. Swift is the modern language of choice for developing natively on Apple devices, and is also widely used on Linux for server and utility purposes. AWS SDK for Swift fully embraces modern Swift language features and provides a…

Today, AWS launched volume discount pricing for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, providing customers with on-demand pricing which scales down as usage of the service goes up. Volume discount pricing takes effect during the September, 2024 billing cycle. With on-demand volume discount pricing, you can save up to 75% off list prices based on your monthly usage. During each monthly billing cycle, your usage will automatically flow through increasingly discounted rates which correspond to usage thresholds of MediaConvert. Basic Tier and Pro Tier usage accrue separately to meet volume discount thresholds each month per region, and each billing cycle restarts the accumulation of …

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.20, introducing Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) (beta), a programming interface for AWS Trainium and Inferentia, enabling developers to build optimized compute kernels for new functionalities, optimizations, and science innovations. Additionally, this release introduces NxD Training (beta), a PyTorch-based library enabling efficient distributed training, with a user-friendly interface compatible with NeMo. This release also introduces support for the JAX framework (beta). AWS Neuron is the SDK for AWS Inferentia and Trainium based instances purpose-built for generative AI. Neuron integrates with popular ML frameworks like PyTo…

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports recovery to AWS Local Zones. This feature allows you to set your recovery target to be within an AWS Local Zone. AWS DRS minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery. With this release, customers can launch recovered instances in a geography closer to their end users and data sources, which means lower latency and maintenance of data residency. This new capability adds support for all AWS Local Zones that are available in AWS Regions where AWS DRS is available. See the AWS Regional Ser…

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add columns to existing multi-Region tables. With this launch, you can modify the schema of your existing multi-Region tables to add new columns. You only have to modify the schema of a multi-Region table in one of its replica regions and Keyspaces will replicate the new schema to the other regions where the table exists. Adding columns to multi-Region tables gives you the flexibility to update your data model seamlessly as your business and a…

AWS Amplify now supports asynchronous AWS Lambda invocations from your AWS AppSync API. This new feature allows you to invoke Lambda functions asynchronously, enabling your API to handle more complex, long-running processes without blocking the response to the client. With asynchronous Lambda invocations, developers can initiate operations like generative AI model inferences, batch processing jobs, or message queuing without blocking the GraphQL API response. This improves application responsiveness and scalability, especially for scenarios where immediate responses are not required or where long-running tasks need to be offloaded. The asynchronous Lambda invocation…

AWS Transfer Family announces higher performance limits for SFTP connectors, with maximum supported file size increased to 150 GB and maximum throughput increased to 100 files per second. SFTP connectors provide fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. With today’s enhancements, customers can use connectors to easily scale workflows such as media files processing and database migrations that involve transferring large volume of files or larger file sizes over SFTP. Additionally, customers can achieve higher performance using SFTP connectors with remote SFTP servers that support concurrent sessions Increased limit…

AWS Chatbot now enables customers to interact with Amazon Bedrock agents from Slack and Microsoft Teams chat channels. Prior to today, customers had to implement their own ad-hoc ways to integrate their Bedrock agents with their Microsoft Teams and Slack. They needed to develop custom chat applications and integrate it with Bedrock agents. Now with this launch, they can invoke their Bedrock agents from chat channels by connecting the Bedrock agent alias with an AWS Chatbot channel configuration. Once connected, channel members can start using the agent by tagging the agent such as “@aws ask connectorname ...”. AWS Chatbot support for Amazon Bedrock agents in chat ap…

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) launches General Availability of the Connector for SCEP, which lets you use a managed and secure cloud certificate authority (CA) to enroll mobile devices securely and at scale. Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) is a protocol widely adopted by mobile device management (MDM) solutions to obtain digital identity certificates from a CA and enroll corporate-issued and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mobile devices. The Connector for SCEP helps you to reduce your PKI operational costs by using AWS Private CA with SCEP-compatible MDM solutions including, but not limited to, Microsoft Intune and Jamf Pro. The Connect…

Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications and break down data silos in your organization, making it simpler to analyze data from different operational databases. Amazon Redshift zero-ETL integrations now support Redshift clusters and Serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). When you use Amazon Redshift enhanced VPC routing, Amazon Redshift forces all COPY and UNLOAD traffic between your warehouse and data repositories through your virtual private cloud (VPC) based on the Amazon VPC service. To learn more and get started with zero-ETL integration, visit the getting started guides for Amazon Redshift. To lea…

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Amazon Redshift. Amazon Q generative SQL simplifies query authoring and increases productivity by allowing you to express queries in natural language and receive SQL code recommendations. Furthermore, it enables you to get insights faster without extensive knowledge of your organization’s complex database schema and metadata. Amazon Q generative SQL uses generative AI to analyze user intent, query patterns, and schema metadata to identify common SQL query patterns directly within Amazon Redshift, accelerating the quer…

AWS announces Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Optimized Reads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, a new price-performance capability available on new r6gd and r6id instances that delivers up to 8x improved query latency and up to 30% cost savings compared to instances without it, for applications with large datasets that exceed the memory capacity of a database instance. Optimized Reads uses the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage available on r6gd and r6id instances to store ephemeral data, reducing the data accesses to/from network-based storage offering improved read latency and throughput. These instances host temporary tables on the local storage (instead of network-b…

I’ve always loved the problem of search. At its core, search is about receiving a question, understanding that question, and then retrieving the best answer for it. A long time ago, I did an AI robotics project for my PhD that married a library of plan fragments to a real-world situation, through search. I’ve worked on and built a commercial search engine from the ground up in a prior job. And in my career at AWS, I’ve worked as a solutions architect, helping our customers adopt our search services in all their incarnations. Like many developers, I share a passion for open source. This stems partly from my academic background, where scholars work for the greater good, b…

This post discusses Bottlerocket, a Linux-based open source operating system (OS) that is purpose-built for running containers. We walk through fleet management at scale and how users can benefit from it. We also share how the product roadmap of Bottlerocket is driven based on community and user feedback. The challenges of fleet management with General-Purpose host Operating Systems General-Purpose Operating Systems (GPOS) are designed to accommodate a wide range of applications and use cases, providing a versatile environment for diverse computing needs. However, this inclusivity presents challenges in terms of optimization and fleet management. In environments with a…

Amazon Connect now provides AWS CloudFormation for configuring agent hierarchy structures. You can use CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect hierarchy levels in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the risk of human error from manual configuration. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed. CloudFormation support for agent hierarchies is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon…

AWS WAF introduces a new version of Bot Control Managed Rule Group with enhanced features to help customers better manage and protect their web applications from bot activity. This includes: Token reuse detection: Identifies the reuse of WAF tokens across autonomous system numbers (ASNs) and geographic locations, in addition to existing IP-based detection. Customizable sensitivity levels – High, Medium, and Low – enable you to take mitigation actions based on your use cases. For example, customers with mobile users who frequently change IPs may allow higher token reuse, while those with more static applications can enforce stricter controls at lower thresholds. Exp…

Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of Direct Query feature for its Google BigQuery data source. This launch is an extension of the feature here wherein QuickSight launched BigQuery connector support through SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine). Direct Query mode allows customers to perform near real-time querying of their BigQuery data. The feature doesn’t have a limitation on the number of rows or the data size that could be imported for a dataset. Direct queries also enable customers to extract data directly from BigQuery instead of having to cache it in SPICE. Google BigQuery Direct Query functionality in QuickSi…

AWS customers often process petabytes of data using Amazon EMR on EKS. In enterprise environments with diverse workloads or varying operational requirements, customers frequently choose a multi-cluster setup due to the following advantages: Better resiliency and no single point of failure – If one cluster fails, other clusters can continue processing critical workloads, maintaining business continuity Better security and isolation – Increased isolation between jobs enhances security and simplifies compliance Better scalability – Distributing workloads across clusters enables horizontal scaling to handle peak demands Performance benefits – Minimizing Kubernetes …

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for agent status, in addition to other resources used to configure a contact center like routing profiles, queues, Amazon S3 buckets, and AWS Lambda. You can use CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect agent statuses in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, allowing you to ensure consistent configurations. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed. CloudFormation support for agent status is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To lea…

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor versions include: SQL Server 2019 CU28 - 15.0.4385.2 SQL Server 2022 CU14…

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2idn, T3, and T4 instance types in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service that makes it easy to build and run applications work with highly connected datasets. You can build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or openCypher on the Property Graph model, or using the SPARQL query language on W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF). Neptune also offers enterprise features such as high availabili…

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2idn, T3, and T4 instance types in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service that makes it easy to build and run applications work with highly connected datasets. You can build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or openCypher on the Property Graph model, or using the SPARQL query language on W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF). Neptune also offers enterprise features such as high availability, automated ba…

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables developers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions. By using cross-region inference, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base customers using RetrieveAndGenerate API will be able to get higher throughput limits and enhanced resilience during periods of peak demand. By opting in, developers no longer have to spend time and effort predicting demand fluctuations. Instead, cross-region inference dynamically routes traffic across multiple regions, ensuring optimal availability for each request and smoother performance during high-u…

Amazon Cognito has expanded multi-factor authentication (MFA) functionality to include email as an additional factor. You now have a choice of delivering one-time passwords (OTP) using email, in addition to the preexisting support for text messages (SMS) and time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). You can enable email MFA either as part of the sign in process or as a challenge for adaptive authentication. With Amazon Cognito, it's easier to integrate authentication, authorization, and user management into your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito provides authentication for applications with millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as App…

Amazon Redshift Serverless now allows you to set a higher data warehouse base capacity configuration up to 1024 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs). Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the highest base capacity was 512 RPUs. With the new higher base capacity of 1024 RPUs, you now have even more flexibility to support workloads of large complexity, processing terabytes or petabytes in size to accelerate data loading and querying based on your price performance requirements. You now have a base capacity range from 8 to 1024 RPUs. The large base…

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data. With this launch, you can create multiple zero-ETL integrations from a single Amazon RDS database, and you can apply data filtering for each integration to include or exclude specific databases and tables, tailoring replication to your needs. You can also use AWS CloudFormation to automate the configuration and deployment of resources needed for zero-ETL integration. Zero-ETL integrations make it simpler to analyze data from Amazon RDS to Amazon Reds…

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity witho…

In the era of digital transformation and data-driven decision making, organizations must rapidly harness insights from their data to deliver exceptional customer experiences and gain competitive advantage. Salesforce and Amazon have collaborated to help customers unlock value from unified data and accelerate time to insights with bidirectional Zero Copy data sharing between Salesforce Data Cloud and Amazon Redshift. In the Part 1 of this series, we discussed how to configure data sharing between Salesforce Data Cloud and customers’ AWS accounts in the same AWS Region. In this post, we discuss the architecture and implementation details of cross-Region data sharing betwe…

The AWS Glue Data Catalog now enhances managed table optimization of Apache Iceberg tables by automatically removing data files that are no longer needed. Along with the Glue Data Catalog’s automated compaction feature, these storage optimizations can help you reduce metadata overhead, control storage costs, and improve query performance. Iceberg creates a new version called a snapshot for every change to the data in the table. Iceberg has features like time travel and rollback that allow you to query data lake snapshots or roll back to previous versions. As more table changes are made, more data files are created. In addition, any failures during writing to Iceberg tab…

Today, we are announcing the availability of sticky session routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference which helps customers improve the performance and user experience of their generative AI applications by leveraging their previously processed information. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price performance for any use case. By enabling sticky sessions, all requests for the same session will be routed to the same instance, allowing your ML application to reuse previously processed information to reduce latency and improve user experience. This is particularly valuable when customer…

AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink. Customers can now access and manage their Network Firewalls privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely over the Amazon network. When AWS PrivateLink is used with AWS Network Firewall, all management and control traffic between clients and Network Firewall flows over a private network. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon VPCs. Customers can use AWS PrivateLink with Network Firewall in regions where AWS Net…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth, and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use R6in and R6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached, Redis), in-memory databas…

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports storage optimization of Apache Iceberg tables by automatically removing data files that are no longer needed. Each write to an Iceberg table creates a new snapshot, or version, of a table. In addition, any failures during writing to Iceberg tables will create data files that aren't referenced in snapshots known as “orphan” files that further increases storage costs. AWS Glue catalog’s new storage optimizations along with automated compaction will help you reduce metadata overhead, control storage costs and improve query performance. With this launch, you can enable AWS Glue catalog table optimization to include snapshot and orphan dat…

Today, AWS Backup announces a new AWS Backup Audit Manager control, allowing you to audit and check if a resource's backup data is in a logically air-gapped vault. With this launch, you can assess if a backup was copied inside a logically air-gapped within a specified time frame, and evaluate whether it meets your business or compliance requirements. To use the new AWS Backup Audit Manager control, resources are inside a logically air-gapped vault, simply enable it in your existing AWS Backup Audit Manager frameworks or create a new framework. Once you enable this control, AWS Backup Audit Manager automatically runs it on a daily basis, monitoring if a backup was succ…

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports dual-layer server-side encryption in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This capability allows you to apply two independent layers of server-side encryption to images stored in Amazon ECR. Dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS) enables you to meet stronger compliance and regulatory requirements of applying multiple layers of encryption to your container images. ECR supports server-side encryption of ECR images using either Amazon S3-managed encryption keys or keys stored in Amazon Key Management Service (KMS). This often meets your security requirements as it protects …

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere, which allows you to run live video transcoding on your on-premises hardware. MediaLive Anywhere brings the cloud control and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS Elemental MediaLive to compute resources you manage. With MediaLive Anywhere, you can take advantage of MediaLive's centralized configuration, control, and monitoring capabilities while processing live video on premises close to video sources and outputs. With MediaLive Anywhere, you deploy the same broadcast-grade video encoding engine used in AWS Elemental MediaLive on your hardware. MediaLive Anywhere supports a wide range of hardwar…

The AV1 video codec is now supported in the AWS Elemental Media Services. You can use AV1 in AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor, and MediaConvert to produce both live and on-demand streams with ad insertion. This launch enables live streaming and packaging of AV1 encoded content, preparation of AV1 VOD assets and ads, and ad insertion into AV1 encoded videos. AV1 provides a lower bitrate with a similar viewing experience when compared to HEVC and AVC, reducing both the bandwidth required to deliver live events and CDN costs. AV1 can also deliver better video quality for viewing on mobile devices and in network constrained environments. AWS Media Serv…

Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing the Trend Micro Vision One Server & Workload Protection Agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the agent to support your security needs. Application Migration Service minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS. It also helps simplify modernization of your migrated applications by allowing you to select preconfigured and custom optimization options during migration. This feature is now available in all of the Commercial regio…

While the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly under evaluation, organizations are at different stages in defining their generative AI vision. In many organizations, the focus is on large language models (LLMs), and foundation models (FMs) more broadly. This is just the tip of the iceberg, because what enables you to obtain differential value from generative AI is your data. Generative AI applications are still applications, so you need the following: Operational databases to support the user experience for interaction steps outside of invoking generative AI models Data lakes to store your domain-specific data, and analytics to exp…

In this blog post, we will highlight how ZS Associates used multiple AWS services to build a highly scalable, highly performant, clinical document search platform. This platform is an advanced information retrieval system engineered to assist healthcare professionals and researchers in navigating vast repositories of medical documents, medical literature, research articles, clinical guidelines, protocol documents, activity logs, and more. The goal of this search platform is to locate specific information efficiently and accurately to support clinical decision-making, research, and other healthcare-related activities by combining queries across all the different types of c…

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys, allowing you to encrypt Pipes filter patterns, enrichment parameters, and target parameters with your own keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that you create, own, and manage can satisfy your organization’s security and governance requirements. Amazon EventBridge lets you use events to connect application components, making it easier to build scalable event-driven applications. EventBridge Pipes provides a simple, consistent, and cost-effective way to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers. Pipes enables you to send data from on…

Amazon Redshift now lets you alter sort keys of tables replicated through zero-ETL integration. Sort keys play a crucial role in determining the physical sorting order of rows within a table, and optimizing them can significantly enhance query performance, especially for queries using range-bound filters on sort key columns. Amazon Redshift's zero-ETL integration helps you derive holistic insights across many applications and break down data silos in your organization, making it simpler to analyze data from different operational databases. You can now modify the sort keys of your tables replicated through the zero-ETL integration, and achieve faster and more efficient …

The AWS access portal provides AWS IAM Identity Center users with single sign-on access to all their assigned AWS applications and AWS accounts. Today, AWS IAM Identity Center added support for user preferences on language and visual mode in the AWS access portal. When customers need to access AWS applications and resources through the AWS access portal, having the ability to work with their preferred language and visual mode improves their efficiency and comfort. AWS access portal now supports 12 different language options, allowing users to work in their most natural and comfortable language. Users can now switch the visual mode of their AWS access portal to dark mod…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run Kafka clusters on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When working with Amazon MSK, developers are interested in accessing the service locally. This allows developers to test their application with a Kafka cluster that has the same configuration as production and provides an identical infrastructure to the actual environment without needing to run Kafka locally. An Amazon MSK Serverless private DNS endpoint is only accessible from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) connections that have been configured to connect. It isn’t directly resolvable from your loc…