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Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available on Knowledge Bases. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet—the first model in the forthcoming Claude 3.5 model family—has a 200,000 context window (roughly 150,000 words, or around 300 pages of material) and raises the industry bar for intelligence, outperforming other generative AI models on a wide range of evaluations. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is well-suited for tasks that require complex reasoning, q…

Amazon Connect now allows you to configure flows to take actions on callbacks prior their creation and while they are in queue. For example, you can now automate sending a notification to a customer via SMS before calling them back, update callback attributes based on latest customer data for agents to reference, or even terminate the callback if the issue has already been resolved. You can also now run flows to dynamically re-prioritize and transfer callbacks to another queue based on customer information from Customer profiles or third-party applications, or if it’s just taking too long for the callback queue to drain. This feature is available in all AWS regions whe…

Today, AWS CloudFormation announces two new enhancements to the IaC generator, which customers use to create infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from existing resources. Now, after the IaC generator finishes scanning the resources in an account, it presents a graphical summary of the different resource types to help customers more quickly find the resources they want to include in their template. After selecting resources, customers can also preview their template in AWS Application Composer, which visualizes the full application architecture with the resources and their relationships. Customers use the best practice of IaC, where they specify and version infrastructure confi…

The Amazon Q Console now provides administrators with greater visibility into how users are utilizing Amazon Q Developer Pro, Amazon Q Business Pro, and Amazon Q Business Lite subscriptions. This new feature enables administrators to view a list of subscribed users, their subscription status (e.g., active, pending, under free trial, canceled), and their corresponding associations. Associations refer to the applications, accounts, or services that a user has access to through their subscription. Organization administrators will have a view of all subscription associations across applications in various accounts, while member account administrators' visibility will be limit…

This post is co-written with Hemant Aggarwal and Naveen Kambhoji from Kaplan. Kaplan, Inc. provides individuals, educational institutions, and businesses with a broad array of services, supporting our students and partners to meet their diverse and evolving needs throughout their educational and professional journeys. Our Kaplan culture empowers people to achieve their goals. Committed to fostering a learning culture, Kaplan is changing the face of education. Kaplan data engineers empower data analytics using Amazon Redshift and Tableau. The infrastructure provides an analytics experience to hundreds of in-house analysts, data scientists, and student-facing frontend s…

Customers of all sizes and industries use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to host their workloads. Most SaaS solutions take care of maintenance and upgrades of the application for you, and get you up and running in a relatively short timeframe. Why spend time, money, and your precious resources to build and maintain applications when this could be offloaded? However, working with SaaS solutions can introduce new requirements for integration. This blog post shows you how Wesfarmers Health was able to introduce an upstream architecture using serverless technologies in order to work with integration constraints. At the end of the post, you will see the final ar…

Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Cluster Failover, a fully managed experience for performing a cross-region failover to respond to unplanned events such as a regional outage. With Global Cluster Failover, you can convert a secondary region into the new primary region in typically a minute and also maintain the multi-region Global Cluster configuration. An Amazon DocumentDB Global Cluster is a single cluster that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. Combined with Global Cluster Switchover, you can easily promote a secondary region to a primary region for both unplanned and planned events. Gl…

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial AWS Regions. With IAM, you can specify who or what can access services and resources in AWS by creating and managing resources such as IAM roles and policies. You can now establish private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and IAM to manage IAM resources, helping you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements to limit public internet connectivity. By using PrivateLink with IAM and with AWS Security Token Service (STS), which already supports PrivateLink, you can now manage your IAM resources such as IAM roles and request temporary credentials to access your A…

AWS Systems Manager for SAP now supports using SSM Application Manager console to register SAP ABAP applications running on single node EC2 instances. This launch will allow customers to onboard ABAP applications and also use Application Manager console to run application aware stop and start operations. AWS Systems Manager for SAP (SSMSAP) helps AWS services understand SAP specific nuances around landscape topology and discover the components of an SAP landscape, such as the SAP NetWeaver application server, SAP HANA database, and their interdependencies. It provides automation capabilities to help customers manage and operate their SAP applications on AWS more effici…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in US East (N. Virginia) region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications tha…

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS RAM helps you securely share your resources across your organization, with specific organizational units (OUs), or with individual AWS accounts. You can centrally create a resource and then share that resource using AWS RAM to reduce the operational overhead of managing resources in a multi-account environment. For more information, visit the AWS RAM product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information. To get started with using AWS RAM to share resources, visit the AWS Resource Access Manager Console. View the full article

Starting today, you can use Amazon Data Firehose in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases. With Amazon Data Firehose, you don't need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination that you specified. …

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides an audit trail to review the changes made to an agent performance evaluation when it is re-submitted. This launch displays the audit trail, which was previously available within a customer’s S3 bucket, directly in the Amazon Connect UI. When an evaluator submits changes to an existing evaluation form, managers can now view an audit trail of who submitted the original evaluation, who re-submitted the evaluation, and what changes they made. Contact center managers can use this information to perform internal audits and improve consistency across evaluators. This feature is available in all regions where Contact Lens performance ev…

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. With this launch, you also have the option to enable Route 53 Resolver endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) service. Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints make hybrid cloud configurations easier to manage by enabling seamless DNS query resolution across your entire hybrid cloud. Create Route 53 Resolver endpoints and conditional forwarding rules to allow resolution of DNS namespaces between your on-premises data center and Amazon Virt…

Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Cluster Switchover which enables you to seamlessly change your global cluster’s primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the global cluster. An Amazon DocumentDB Global Cluster is a single cluster that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. With this switchover capability, you can repeatedly change which AWS Region hosts the primary cluster while preserving the physical topology of your Global Cluster and avoiding unnecessary application changes. This feature synchronizes secondary clusters with…

AWS Amplify is launching multiple bucket support for Storage (JavaScript Only). You can now configure more than one storage bucket in your Amplify backend configuration. Amplify storage integrates with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides an intuitive approach to managing cloud-based file storage. With this new feature you can upload and download files from and to multiple storage buckets, providing greater flexibility and control over your storage resources. With multiple bucket support, you can better manage your storage resources by configuring additional storage buckets and applying existing access permissions to different paths within each bucket…

AWS Lambda announces support for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Customer managed keys (CMK) for filter criteria used with event source mappings (ESMs) to filter records from a queue or stream before sending them to a Lambda function. This capability allows you to encrypt the data included under filter criteria using CMK, giving you fine-grained security control over the criteria used to filter your events. Customers building modern event-driven applications on AWS Lambda use event filter criteria to control which records from a stream or queue Lambda sends to their function. If a record from the event source satisfies one or more of the specified event filters, La…

AWS Backup now supports cross-Region and cross-account backup for SAP HANA on EC2, enabling customers to copy snapshot backups across Regions and accounts within their AWS Organizations. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can more easily meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements by storing additional SAP HANA snapshot copies in separate AWS Regions and accounts. Get started with cross-Region and cross-account backup for SAP HANA using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. You can define cross-Region and/or cros…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the CSF Telcohub 1 Data Center near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Kuala Lumpur location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the second AWS Direct Connect location within Malaysia. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing Kuala Lumpur Direct Connect location at the Menara AIMS data center. The…

Last year, we introduced support for batch inference in preview, allowing you to process prompts in batch to get responses for model evaluation, experimentation, and offline processing. Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock supports batch inference in general availability in all supported AWS regions for supported models. Use batch inference to run multiple inference requests asynchronously, and improve the performance of model inference on large datasets. Amazon Bedrock offers select foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and Amazon for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference pricing. Completion time of batch inference depends…

Amazon S3 now includes additional context in HTTP 403 Access Denied errors for requests made to resources within the same AWS account. This new context includes the type of policy that denied access, the reason for denial, and information on the AWS IAM user or role that requested access to the resource. This context helps you to troubleshoot access issues, identity the root cause of access denied errors, and fix incorrect access controls by updating the relevant policies. This additional context is also available in AWS CloudTrail logs. Enhanced access denied error messages are rolling out in the coming weeks in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions…

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a serverless scheduler that allows you to create, trigger, and manage millions of scheduled events and tasks, now has higher default service quotas. The default service quota for number of schedules is now 10 million schedules instead of 1 million in all regions, and the invocation throughput quota is now 1000 invocations per second instead of 500 in most regions. Default API request rate quotas for CreateSchedule, DeleteSchedule, GetSchedule, and UpdateSchedule are now set up to 1000 requests per second instead of 50 in most regions. Quotas can be further increased by making a request through the Service Quotas console. EventBridge Schedu…

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service for Apache Airflow that allows you to orchestrate data pipelines and workflows at scale. With Amazon MWAA, you can design Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) that describe your workflows without managing the operational burden of scaling the infrastructure. In this post, we provide guidance on how you can optimize performance and save cost by following best practices. Amazon MWAA environments include four Airflow components hosted on groups of AWS compute resources: the scheduler that schedules the work, the workers that implement the work, the web server that provides the UI, and the metadata dat…

The current scaling approach of Amazon Redshift Serverless increases your compute capacity based on the query queue time and scales down when the queuing reduces on the data warehouse. However, you might need to automatically scale compute resources based on factors like query complexity and data volume to meet price-performance targets, irrespective of query queuing. To address this requirement, Redshift Serverless launched the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven scaling and optimization feature, which scales the compute not only based on the queuing, but also factoring data volume and query complexity. In this post, we describe how Redshift Serverless utilizes the new…

AWS CloudHSM launched hsm2m.medium with support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 and non-FIPS CloudHSM clusters. The new instance type provides customers with new features, increased performance, and flexibility. hsm2m.medium offers increased key capacity and higher elliptic curve performance compared with the existing hsm1.medium instance type. Backups from CloudHSM clusters based on hsm1.medium are compatible with hsm2m.medium. hsm2m.medium supports Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) for communication from the CloudHSM client SDKs to the CloudHSM cluster. The new hsm2m.medium instance type is available in four regions - United S…

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler in Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports importing data flows from Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic, as well as faster and more flexible data preparation for machine learning (ML). With the latest version of SageMaker Data Wrangler in SageMaker Canvas, you can now import data from S3 more easily with custom delimiters and more sampling options, and prepare data with improved performance. In addition, you can validate transforms faster, and easily iterate on the data recipes. You can also import data flows from SageMaker Studio Classic to take advantage of the latest data preparation features and enhancements in SageMaker Canvas. Aggregating…

Amazon S3 adds support for conditional writes that can check for the existence of an object before creating it. This capability can help you more easily prevent applications from overwriting any existing objects when uploading data. You can perform conditional writes using PutObject or CompleteMultipartUpload API requests in both general purpose and directory buckets. Using conditional writes, you can simplify how distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data in parallel across shared datasets. Each client can conditionally write objects, making sure that it does not overwrite any objects already written by another client. This means you no lo…

Amazon Connect now provides in-app and web voice and video calling capabilities in Africa (Cape Town) region, making it easier to deliver more personalized voice and video experiences in your websites and mobile applications. These voice and video capabilities allow customers to contact you without having to leave your website or mobile application. You can use these capabilities to pass contextual information to Amazon Connect, enabling you to personalize the customer experience based on attributes such as the customer’s profile, authentication status, or actions previously taken within the app. Using the fully managed communication widget, you can implement these new v…

AWS Lambda now supports function-level configuration which allows you to disable or enable recursive loop detection. Lambda recursive loop detection, which is enabled by default, is a preventative guardrail that automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda and other supported services, preventing runaway workloads. Before, customers running intentionally recursive patterns could only turn off recursive loop detection on a per-account basis through AWS Support. Now customers can disable or enable recursive loop detection on a per-function basis, allowing them to run their intentionally recursive workflows while protecting the remaining functions …

When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service for time-bound data like server logs, service logs, application logs, clickstreams, or event streams, storage cost is one of the primary drivers for the overall cost of your solution. Over the last year, OpenSearch Service has released features that have opened up new possibilities for storing your log data in various tiers, enabling you to trade off data latency, durability, and availability. In October 2023, OpenSearch Service announced support for im4gn data nodes, with NVMe SSD storage of up to 30 TB. In November 2023, OpenSearch Service introduced or1, the OpenSearch-optimized instance family, which delivers up to 30% price-perf…

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a revolutionary technology that promises to bring near-native performance to web applications. However, its potential extends far beyond the browser, enabling developers to run Wasm workloads in various environments, such as cloud-native platforms like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). In this post, you can explore how AWS empowers users to harness the full potential of Wasm by providing a seamless integration with Amazon EKS. Understanding Wasm Wasm is a binary instruction format designed to run alongside JavaScript in web browsers. It offers several benefits, such as improved performance, better security, and the ability to run cod…

Starting today, you can build applications on macOS with AWS CodeBuild. You can build artifacts on managed Apple M2 instances that run on macOS 14 Sonoma. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Building, testing, signing, and distributing applications for Apple systems (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS) requires the use of Xcode which runs exclusively on macOS. You can provision a fleet of managed CodeBuild Mac instances which offer native integration with AWS, including Amazon VPC, AWS Secrets Manager, and IAM. You can use CodeBuild’s prepackaged build …

Amazon S3 has completed a change so unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate are free of charge. With this change, bucket owners will never incur request or bandwidth charges for requests that return an HTTP 403 (Access Denied) error response if initiated from outside their individual AWS account or AWS Organization. To see the full list of error codes that are free of charge, visit Billing for Amazon S3 error responses. This billing change requires no changes to customer applications and applies to all S3 buckets. This change was first announced on May 13, 2024, and was applied to most S3 APIs within several weeks. Now, this change is effective across all…

Amazon Lightsail now extends support for browser-based SSH/RDP connections, also known as Lightsail Connect, to IPv6-only instances. Now, you can connect to your Linux or Windows IPv6-only instance directly from Lightsail Console in browser. Previously, you would need to add a public IPv4 address to your IPv6-only instance to use Lightsail Connect. With the launch of IPv6 support, you can use Lightsail’s browser-based client that provides a quick and convenient way to connect to your instance and does not require any software installation. You can use this feature on the Lightsail Console (accessed from AWS Console) in all AWS Regions supporting Lightsail. To learn …

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a drag-and-drop user interface (UI) for Amazon SageMaker Pipelines. Data scientists and Machine Learning (ML) engineers can now quickly create an end-to-end AI/ML workflow to train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy models without writing code. Customers use Amazon SageMaker Pipelines to automate thousands of ML workflows, such as continuous fine-tuning or experimentation of foundation models that power Generative AI workloads. With this launch, data scientists and ML engineers can accelerate the journey of such ML workflows from prototype to production because they don’t need to write code to author and confi…

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports two new allocation strategies for Instance Fleets - prioritized for On-Demand instances and capacity-optimized-prioritized for Spot instances. Allocation strategies let you determine how EMR selects from your list of specified instance types and Availability Zones to fulfill your desired capacity. These new strategies give you more control and flexibility when provisioning instances for your EMR workloads. With today’s launch, you can use a prioritized list to determine the order in which EMR should attempt to provision your compute capacity. This new feature allows you to specify a priority for each instan…

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to seamlessly integrate and utilize diverse data sources is critical for gaining actionable insights and driving innovation. As organizations increasingly rely on data stored across various platforms, such as Snowflake, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and various software as a service (SaaS) applications, the challenge of bringing these disparate data sources together has never been more pressing. AWS Glue is a robust data integration service that facilitates the consolidation of data from different origins, empowering businesses to use the full potential of their data assets. By using AWS Glue to integrate data from …

Customers across diverse industries rely on Amazon OpenSearch Service for interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, vector database, deriving meaningful insights from data, and visualizing these insights using OpenSearch Dashboards. Additionally, customers often seek out capabilities that enable effortless sharing of visual dashboards and seamless embedding of these dashboards within their applications, further enhancing user experience and streamlining workflows. In this post, we show how to embed a live Amazon Opensearch dashboard in your application, allowing your end customers to access a consolidated, real-time view without ever l…

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 2 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), and Europe (Frankfurt). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation…

Starting today, you can build Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) applications by enabling PropertyGraphIndex and combining knowledge graphs stored in Amazon Neptune with LlamaIndex, a popular open-source framework for building applications with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as those available in Amazon Bedrock. We are excited to introduce the capability to add natural language querying via the TextToCypher Retriever, knowledge graph retrieval via the Cypher Template Retriever and Knowledge Graph Enhanced RAG creation and querying via the supported extractors and retrievers. Customers building Generative AI applications often use Retrieval-Augmented Gen…

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now empowers enterprises to harness the full potential of their data by enabling support of petabyte-scale datasets. Starting today, you can interactively prepare large datasets, create end-to-end data flows and trigger AutoML experiments on petabytes – a substantial leap from the previous 5GB limit. With 50+ connectors, intuitive "chat with data" interface, and petabyte support, Canvas provides a scalable, low-code/no-code ML solution for handling real-world, enterprise use cases. Starting today, Canvas empowers you with new sampling techniques like random and stratified, allowing samples up to 200K rows – a tenfold increase. This makes it easy…

Amazon Bedrock Customers can now leverage Blueprints to jumpstart their use of Agents. Blueprints are a collection of pre-built templates optimized for popular customer use cases. These templates allow Amazon Bedrock customers to quickly experiment with agent-based applications without the need for complex configuration or lengthy development cycles. Agent Blueprints are open-source templates hosted on the AWS QuickStart GitHub repository. The pre-built templates come with sample actions, and Knowledge Bases, making it easy for customers to experiment and learn more about the capabilities of agents. Furthermore, the templates include customized prompts tailored to comm…

If you’re preparing for the AWS Certified Security Specialty Certification, or looking to explore further into the AWS security domain, this guide is designed to help you succeed. In this blog, we will explore the critical areas of focus, provide valuable insights, and outline effective strategies to ensure you are fully prepared for the AWS Security Specialty Certification exam. Let’s get started on your path to certification success. An overview of the AWS Security Specialty certification The AWS certified security specialty certification (SCS-C02 exam) validates your skills to secure AWS products and services and create and implement security solutions in the AWS sol…

Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (São Paulo), and US West (N. California). 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 availa…

Today, AWS announces the launch of the AWS Support Official channel on AWS re:Post. AWS customers now have access to curated content for operating at scale on AWS, authored by AWS Support and AWS Managed Services (AMS) experts. In this new channel, you can find technical solutions for complex problems, operational best practices, and insights into AWS Support and AMS offerings. AWS re:Post provides access to curated knowledge and a vibrant community. With this launch, you now have a dedicated channel in re:Post for specialized AWS Support and AMS knowledge to solve real-world problems, with detailed walkthroughs, deep dives, and industry-specific best practices. You’ll…

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 change set 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 CloudForma…

Amazon QuickSight launches new capability for account administrators to use Customer Managed Keys (CMK) to encrypt and manage their QuickSight data source credentials and OAuth tokens. This feature is an extension to the QuickSight feature here. Amazon QuickSight already has a service and console page in which customers can register CMKs with QuickSight. If a customer registers a default key with QuickSight, for newly created/updated data sources, we will encrypt the sensitive credential information using the customers default CMK. If a customer has not registered a CMK with QuickSight, then our service will continue to encrypt the information using a service owned KMS…

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to G5 instances and up to 20% lower inference costs than P4d instances. Customers can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio. Additionally, the G6e instances will unlock customers’ ability to create larger, more immersive 3D simulations and digital twins for spatial computing workloads. G6e insta…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the digital twin feature for AWS Ground Station, which provides virtualized ground station infrastructure that allows you to perform space-to-ground compatibility testing. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale your operations without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure. With this new feature, you can now more quickly and easily integrate your satellite communication and scheduling workflows with AWS Ground Station. The digital twin feature allows you to verify compatibility between …

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now improves container resiliency by giving you the ability to define a flexible container restart policy for restarting individual containers locally, without requiring a full task relaunch. With local container restarts, Amazon ECS can recover your containers from unexpected failures within a few seconds, enhancing your overall task stability by avoiding unnecessary task relaunches. Amazon ECS now provides automated container restarts in-place to recover your containers from transient failures such as network disruption or cases where your containers stop unexpectedly. For containers for which you want to have some fault…

AWS CodeBuild now supports configuring multiple access tokens for each source provider. You can store your OAuth or personal access tokens in AWS Secrets Manager, and specify them in CodeBuild projects. This feature is available for your GitHub, GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket source repositories. With multiple access tokens, you can use different tokens with scoped down permissions for each of your projects. Configuring tokens in Secrets Manager enables you to audit the token access using CloudTrail logs, and set IAM roles and resource policies to limit who can access these tokens. This feature is available in all regions where CodeBuild is offered. For more inform…

AWS Control Tower customers can now select from a set of versions when performing a landing zone update, reset, or upgrade operation. Starting with landing zone version 3.1 and above, customers can update or reset in-place their landing zone on their current version, or upgrade to a version of their choice. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment based on security and compliance best practices. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, and account structure. With landing zone version selection, customers have more flexibility to plan for version upgrad…

AWS CodeBuild now integrates with GitHub Apps as the authentication method to access your repositories. A GitHub App connection can be set as the default authentication method for all projects, or can be specified for an individual project source. With GitHub Apps, you can use short-lived tokens with fine-grained permissions, and have control over which repositories the app can access. In a CodeBuild project, GitHub App connections are established via AWS CodeConnections, where you can further limit the access to the connections by using IAM roles and resource policies. The new feature is available in all regions where AWS CodeBuild is supported except in China (Bei…

Unlocking the true value of data often gets impeded by siloed information. Traditional data management—wherein each business unit ingests raw data in separate data lakes or warehouses—hinders visibility and cross-functional analysis. A data mesh framework empowers business units with data ownership and facilitates seamless sharing. However, integrating datasets from different business units can present several challenges. Each business unit exposes data assets with varying formats and granularity levels, and applies different data validation checks. Unifying these necessitates additional data processing, requiring each business unit to provision and maintain a separate …

Data quality is crucial in data pipelines because it directly impacts the validity of the business insights derived from the data. Today, many organizations use AWS Glue Data Quality to define and enforce data quality rules on their data at rest and in transit. However, one of the most pressing challenges faced by organizations is providing users with visibility into the health and reliability of their data assets. This is particularly crucial in the context of business data catalogs using Amazon DataZone, where users rely on the trustworthiness of the data for informed decision-making. As the data gets updated and refreshed, there is a risk of quality degradation due to …

Today, Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity, a new feature that simplifies how cluster administrators can configure Kubernetes applications to obtain AWS IAM permissions in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These permissions can now be easily configured with fewer steps directly through EKS console, APIs, and CLI. EKS Pod Identity makes it easy to use an IAM role across multiple clusters and simplifies policy management by enabling the reuse of permission policies across IAM roles. EKS Pod Identity offers cluster administrators a simplified workflow for authenticating applications to all AWS resources such as Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and more. As a res…

Today, with the release of Karpenter version 1.0.0, Karpenter’s APIs graduate out of beta. Karpenter is a flexible, efficient, and high-performance Kubernetes compute management solution that helps improve application availability, reduce operational overhead, and increase cluster compute utilization. This release also includes three new features which provide customers greater control over how and when Karpenter disrupts Kubernetes applications. Customers can use Karpenter with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or any conformant Kubernetes cluster. Like other Kubernetes open-source projects, Karpenter’s APIs follow a maturity progression from alpha to beta then …

Introduction In November 2021, AWS announced the launch of v0.5 of Karpenter, “a new open source Kubernetes cluster auto scaling project.” Originally conceived as a flexible, dynamic, and high-performance alternative to the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler, in the nearly three years since then Karpenter has evolved substantially into a fully featured, Kubernetes native node lifecycle manager. The project has been adopted for mission-critical use cases by industry leaders. It has added key features such as workload consolidation, which is designed to automatically improve utilization, and disruption controls to allow users to specify how and when Karpenter performs node li…

As part of the re:Invent 2023 keynote, Dr. Werner Vogels introduced the Frugal Architect mindset. This mindset emphasizes the importance of continuous learning, curiosity, and regular revision of architectural choices with a focus on cost and sustainability. Cost and sustainability should be treated as critical non-functional requirements, alongside factors like security, compliance, and performance. The Frugal Architect approach involves measuring and optimizing cost at every stage of the development process, which allows for innovation in parallel with promoting responsible resource usage. In the rapidly-evolving technology landscape, builders should adopt the Frugal Ar…

Amazon Redshift announces support for the query import feature in Query Editor V2, enabling you to bring your existing SQL queries into the editor. This functionality streamlines workflows for data analysts, engineers, and developers working with Amazon Redshift by allowing them to upload one or more SQL files on their desktop to the query editor. The query import feature eliminates the need for manual and error prone copy-pasting or rewriting queries, allowing you to upload your existing SQL queries directly into the Query Editor. You can import single files, multiple files, or entire folders and easily migrate your SQL queries from your desktop, another tool, or data…

Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), Canada (Central), in addition to the existing 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 providing recommendations tai…

Today, we are introducing new capabilities for managing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations which enable you to split your Capacity Reservations, move capacity between Capacity Reservations, and modify your Capacity Reservation’s instance eligibility attribute. On-Demand Capacity Reservations help you to reserve compute capacity for your workloads in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. When your workload requirements change, these new features provide you the flexibility to resize and reconfigure your reservations. To get started, you can specify any reservation and split its available capacity into a new reservation. Similarly, you can specify any re…

Poor data quality can lead to a variety of problems, including pipeline failures, incorrect reporting, and poor business decisions. For example, if data ingested from one of the systems contains a high number of duplicates, it can result in skewed data in the reporting system. To prevent such issues, data quality checks are integrated into data pipelines, which assess the accuracy and reliability of the data. These checks in the data pipelines send alerts if the data quality standards are not met, enabling data engineers and data stewards to take appropriate actions. Example of these checks include counting records, detecting duplicate data, and checking for null values. …

“Everything fails all the time” – Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon Although customers always take precautionary measures when they build applications, application code and configuration errors can still happen, causing application downtime. To mitigate this, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink has built a new layer of resilience by allowing customers to opt for the system-rollback feature that will seamlessly revert the application to a previous running version, thereby improving application stability and high availability. Apache Flink is an open source distributed processing engine that offers powerful programming interfaces for stream and batch processing. It also off…

The cloud computing world has rapidly advanced, with top platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) leading the way by providing a wide range of tools for developers. In this blog, we will explore the key differences between AWS vs Azure vs GCP with a particular focus on their developer tools, certifications, and overall benefits. This comparison will help you make an informed decision about which platform best aligns with your technical needs and career goals. An Overview of AWS AWS is one of the widely preferred and largest cloud platforms. It offers various services and features, including storage, networking, computing, and analytics. Companies of al…

For IT and cloud development professionals who want to transition to a cloud career, the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam serves as the ideal springboard. This exam checks your knowledge in developing, testing, deploying, and debugging AWS cloud-based applications. It’s an introductory-level exam without any formal technical prerequisites; however, your ability to recognize the core features of AWS services and how they interact will help you prepare better and pass the exam. As of 2024, AWS offers over 200 fully featured services. AWS Certification does not officially publish the services and features covered in a certification exam. However, the AWS Certified Dev…

We are excited to announce that AWS HealthOmics now supports the ability to specify Domain Specific Language (DSL) and Nextflow version when creating private workflows. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. With this release, customers can now define the DSL version used and Nextflow version preference when executing their private workflows. HealthOmics will automatically identify and execute the appropriate Nextflow version based on the DSL specified in the workflow defin…

Today, Amazon DataZone announced a set of new data governance capabilities called domain units and authorization policies that enable customers to create business unit/team level organization and manage policies per their business needs. With the addition of domain units, users can organize, create, search, and find data assets and projects associated with business units or teams. With authorization policies, those domain unit users can set access policies for creating projects, glossaries, and using compute resources within Amazon DataZone. As an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can now create domain units (e.g Sales, Marketing) under the top-level domain and assign…

Amazon DataZone has announced a set of new data governance capabilities—domain units and authorization policies—that enable you to create business unit-level or team-level organization and manage policies according to your business needs. With the addition of domain units, users can organize, create, search, and find data assets and projects associated with business units or teams. With authorization policies, those domain unit users can set access policies for creating projects and glossaries, and using compute resources within Amazon DataZone. As an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can now create domain units (such as Sales or Marketing) under the top-level domain a…

Amazon Connect now supports outbound campaign calling to Mexico in the US East (Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions, making it easier to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Communication capabilities include features such as point-of-dial checks, calling controls for time of day, time zone, number of attempts per contact, and predictive dialing with integrated voicemail detection. A list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user contact experiences. Outbound campaigns c…

Amazon Lightsail now offers a larger Windows instance bundle with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB memory. The new Windows instance bundle is available with Windows Server operating system (OS) and SQL Server blueprints, for both IPv6-only and dual-stack networking types. You can use the new bundle to run new Windows workloads, or to scale up your existing Windows workloads by creating new instances from snapshots. The new larger Windows instance bundle enables you to run compute- and memory-intensive Windows workloads. This higher performance instance bundle is ideal for general purpose workloads that require ability to handle large spikes in load. You can run web servers, large da…

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports openCypher queries over RDF graphs! This enhancement aims to bridge the gap between RDF graphs and labeled property graphs (LPGs), allowing organizations to harness the best of both worlds without being constrained by the limitations of traditional technology choices. When building graph-based applications, developers often face a significant decision: choosing between RDF graphs, which use SPARQL, and LPGs, which utilize Gremlin and openCypher. This choice can be challenging for newcomers and a source of frustration for experienced users who wonder why they can’t leverage openCypher with RDF.…

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is the industry-leading cloud big data solution for data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning, designed to run open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hive and Trino efficiently on AWS. We are excited to announce that the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now supported on all EMR deployment models - EMR on EC2, EMR on EKS, and EMR Serverless, for Spark, Trino, Flink, Hive and HBase workloads. Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent, single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and late…

By: Satabdi Das, CJ Taylor Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how we live, work, and innovate. From creating new images, videos, and text to developing self-driving cars, AI is fundamentally altering our world. As AI capabilities explode, a burning question arises: are you equipped with the right skills to thrive in this new era? According to an AWS study, 75% of employers who consider AI skills a priority, have difficulty finding qualified candidates. Recognizing this talent gap, AWS has launched two new AWS Certifications (beta versions) and exam prep resources to empower professionals with the knowledge to drive AI adoption responsibly and build cutt…

In today’s data-driven world, seamless integration and transformation of data across diverse sources into actionable insights is paramount. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that helps analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. With AWS Glue, you can discover and connect to hundreds of diverse data sources and manage your data in a centralized data catalog. It enables you to visually create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into your data lakes. In this blog post, we explore how to use the SFTP Connector f…

AWS Batch now supports cancellation of jobs while they are waiting in the queue. This allows you to cancel jobs before they are executed. Also, if you are using the fair-share scheduling feature, you can cancel jobs with an outdated priority to make room for jobs submitted by other users to the same queue to progress. Jobs canceled while waiting in queue will be moved to the FAILED state. View the full article

AWS announces the general availability of support for Cost Allocation tags for the AWS Transit Gateway. With this capability, administrators can tag their AWS Transit Gateway resource and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate costs by team, department or application. Until now, customers were able to only categorize their Attachment Hours costs by tagging attachments. Customers will now, also be able to categorize their data processing and data transfer charges by tagging AWS Transit Gateway as a resource. Support for Cost Allocation tags is available in all regions. You can enable this feature by tagging your AWS Transit Gateway resource using the…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions, providing managers with generative AI-powered recommendations for answers to questions in agent evaluation forms. Managers now receive additional agent behavioral insights (e.g., did the agent show empathy while delivering bad news?), and get context and justification for the recommended answers (i.e., reference points from the transcript that were used to provide answers), enabling them to perform evaluations faster and mo…

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that enables you to analyze your data at scale. Amazon Redshift now allows you to programmatically access Amazon Redshift Advisor recommendations through an API, enabling you to integrate recommendations about how to improve your provisioned cluster performance into your own applications. Amazon Redshift Advisor offers recommendations about optimizing your Redshift cluster performance and helps you save on operating costs. Advisor develops its customized recommendations by analyzing performance and usage metrics for your cluster and displays recommendations that should have a significant…

Overview As businesses increasingly embrace cloud computing, many organizations are seeking to migrate their existing .NET applications from on-premises data centers to AWS. However, the transition of these workloads can often be complex and time-consuming. To simplify this process, AWS App2Container(A2C) is a robust command-line tool that assists users in lifting and shifting their on-premises or virtual machine (VM)-based applications into containerized environments managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). With A2C, organizations can efficiently package their .NET applications into containers, facilitat…

Yleisradio is a Finnish broadcasting company running most of its online and mobile services – which roughly 2.1 million Finns use every day – on AWS. Like many organizations, they use IP Address Management (IPAM) systems to allocate IP addresses across their AWS environment to make sure routing works, even between AWS and their on-premises network. Although a /16 IPv4 CIDR range includes over 65,000 addresses, it was quickly consumed when allocating subnets for AWS Regions, teams, and environments. Combined with containerized workloads consisting of many small services and agents, each requiring an IP address, they faced a shortage of routable IPv4 addresses. Yleisrad…

Introduction Getir is the pioneer of ultrafast grocery delivery. Getir was founded in 2015 and revolutionized last-mile delivery with its grocery in-minutes delivery proposition. Today, Getir is a conglomerate incorporating nine verticals under the same brand. Challenge Getir uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to host applications on AWS. One of the foremost challenges faced by Getir was the necessity to respond to dynamic scenarios faster and to scale up as quickly as possible in Kubernetes. Getir’s workload was spiky, as the demand instantly increased due to campaigns or events in different geographic locations. Furthermore, these rapid demand incre…

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor has launched an updated console experience, including new features for visualizing configuration changes that can help you reduce latency for your application. With the refreshed dashboard, the Internet Monitor console now lets you easily find and take advantage of Internet Monitor’s breadth of capabilities. The Overview page summarizes statistics for all monitored traffic, while the Health events page shows details of internet health events across the globe that impact your end user traffic. You can use the Analyze page to view top client locations (by traffic volume) as well as historical trends for your application’s internet health s…

AWS Wickr now allows you to establish a network in the Europe (Zurich) Region to help you meet data residency requirements, and other obligations. AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing with end-to-end encryption. Customers have full administrative control over data, which includes addressing information governance polices, configuring ephemeral messaging options, and deleting credentials for lost or stolen de…

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 GDR - 13.0.6441.1, SQL Ser…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.39 in the Amazon RDS user guide. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App can now access 16 additional AWS services including AWS Systems Manager, AWS Developer Tools, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, in accordance with their permissions via an integrated mobile web browser experience in the AWS Console Mobile App. Now, AWS customers who are on-the-go can use the AWS Console Mobile App exclusively to access a select set of both native and non-natively supported services. Customers benefit from the AWS Console Mobile App's biometric authentication (sign-in), and mobile opt…

Today, AWS Config expands support for 124 resource types across 29 AWS Regions. If you have enabled AWS Config recording for these resource types, you will benefit from more comprehensive coverage across additional AWS Regions. This expansion provides you greater consistency across AWS Regions for multiple AWS Config use cases including resource inventory, resource configuration change tracking, resource compliance and security monitoring, auditing, and remediation. To view a complete list of all supported types across AWS Regions, see Resource Coverage by Region Availability page. View the full article

Amazon Connect now provides an API to update the routing criteria on a contact while it is currently in queue. Routing criteria allow you to target a contact to a specific preferred agent or to a set of agents based on their attributes, such as their proficiency level in a particular language. With this API, you can now update the routing criteria on a queued contact directly from an external system. For example, you could build a dashboard that allows agents to pick contacts from a queue to be routed next, based on attributes such as customer name, and send those routing instructions to Connect with this new API. To learn more about the UpdateContactRoutingData API, see …

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) has achieved FedRAMP High approval in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage Amazon DocumentDB to store and query their JSON-based document workloads. In addition to achieving FedRAMP High approval in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions, Amazon DocumentDB is in scope for numerous compliance programs and standards, including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard), ISO (International Organiza…

This is a guest post by Valdiney Gomes, Hélio Leal, Flávia Lima, and Fernando Saga from Dafiti. As businesses strive to make informed decisions, the amount of data being generated and required for analysis is growing exponentially. This trend is no exception for Dafiti, an ecommerce company that recognizes the importance of using data to drive strategic decision-making processes. With the ever-increasing volume of data available, Dafiti faces the challenge of effectively managing and extracting valuable insights from this vast pool of information to gain a competitive edge and make data-driven decisions that align with company business objectives. Amazon Redshift is w…

Are you preparing to take your machine learning certification exam? Two popular options in the industry for ML certifications are AWS Machine Learning Specialty vs Google ML Engineer Certification. Both certifications provide a clear learning path and improve your ML skills, but they are for different needs and backgrounds Choosing the right ML certification for your career upskilling can help you advance in your field. This AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty Certification certification is for those who want to create and deploy machine learning models using AWS services and this certification will test your ability to use AWS tools like SageMaker and Rekognit…

Overview Cordial is a cross-channel marketing platform that offers tools to fully automate marketing strategies. By automating marketing execution, Cordial liberates technology teams to focus on their core strengths: building and creativity. It empowers technology teams to delegate data access and management to marketers, using Cordial’s robust platform to migrate, transform, and deliver complex data solutions. Designed with a customer-centric approach, Cordial offers a fast, flexible, and interconnected suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools and services that use data to bolster creativity, boost efficiency, cut costs, and drive profitable growth. Since i…

Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to detect additional risk factors and cover custom authentication flows. ASF now identifies risks such as impossible travel, where a user signs in from two different locations in a time period implausible for travel between them. Additionally, ASF now detects risks in custom authentication flows. Customers can improve the security of applications that use custom authentication factors by enabling risk detection and adaptive authentication. Amazon Cognito simplifies the process of adding authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service provides authentication for applicat…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in US West (Oregon) region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don…

AWS announces the general availability of private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). On AWS, private IPv6 addresses can take the form of Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (ULA) and Global Unicast Addresses (GUA), and can only be used for private access. These IPv6 addresses are not and cannot be advertised to the internet by AWS. Within IPAM, customers can configure private IPv6 addresses in a private scope, provision ULA and GUA, and use them to create VPCs and subnets for private access. Customers want private IPv6 address for the innate security boost it offers as resources using private IPv6 address cannot access the i…

AWS today announced support for Amazon WorkSpaces Pools on Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client. With this launch, Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client customers have the flexibility to choose between Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, a fully persistent virtual desktop, and WorkSpaces Pools, a cost-effective, non-persistent virtual desktop, with support for existing Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise licenses to help reduce cost and optimize agility. WorkSpaces Pools also simplifies management across a customer’s WorkSpaces environments by providing a single cloud-based tool set to manage the various desktop hardware configurations, storage, and applications for the user, including the abi…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports loading data from Amazon S3 into Db2 databases. With Amazon RDS for Db2, you can use a Db2 client to load data into your Db2 databases using locally stored files on the client machine. However, the load cannot be performed if the locally stored data file includes large data objects such as Binary Long Objects (BLOBs), Character Large Objects (CLOBs), Extended Markup Language (XML), or Javascript Object Notation (JSON) greater than 32 KB. With this launch, you can now transfer such data files with large data objects to an S3 bucket and load it directly into Db2 databases on RDS. Refer RDS for Db2 do…

This post is co-written with Nofar Diamant and Matan Safri from AppsFlyer. AppsFlyer develops a leading measurement solution focused on privacy, which enables marketers to gauge the effectiveness of their marketing activities and integrates them with the broader marketing world, managing a vast volume of 100 billion events every day. AppsFlyer empowers digital marketers to precisely identify and allocate credit to the various consumer interactions that lead up to an app installation, utilizing in-depth analytics. Part of AppsFlyer’s offering is the Audiences Segmentation product, which allows app owners to precisely target and reengage users based on their behavior a…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces the launch of the Agreements data feed for the Seller Delivery Data Feed Service(SDDS). The Agreement data feed provides Sellers the ability to programmatically create the granular data from the Seller Insight dashboards in a Seller preferred business intelligence tool to track subscriptions, revenue and renewals. For AWS Marketplace sellers leveraging the Seller Delivery Data Feed Service (SDDS), the updated agreement data can be accessed through a new data feed: AgreementFeed_V1. Data can be extracted, transformed and loaded from a seller’s Amazon S3 Bucket to a preferred data warehouse or relational database. In addition,…