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Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue Data Catalog views for Athena and Redshift. AWS Glue Data Catalog views are a new capability that allows customers to create, grant permissions on, and query multi-engine SQL views in AWS Glue Data Catalog from Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift. With AWS Glue Data Catalog views you can create, share, and query views across AWS regions, accounts, and organizations. AWS Glue Data Catalog views allow customers to create views that can be queried from multiple engines without requiring consumers to have access to the tables referenced in the view. Administrators can use AWS Glue Data Catalog views to represent data …

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports pgvector 0.7.0, an open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing vector embeddings in your database. pgvector provides vector similarity search capabilities enabling Aurora usage for semantic search and retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) in generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. pgvector 0.7.0 adds parallelism to improve the Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) index build time in Aurora. pgvector 0.7.0 adds two new vector data types: halfvec for storing dimensions as 2-byte floats, and sparsevec for storing up to 1,000 nonzero dimensions, and now supports indexing binary vectors using …

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. Databases now startup faster after upgrades and restarts. Version 16.3 with IO-Optimized configuration includes performance enhancements that improve write throughput for 8xl and larger instances. These releases also contain Babelfish’s new features and improvements such as support for group AD, logical replication, Blue/Green Deployments, and LIKE operator for AI collations. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 support end…

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 Beta 3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL 17 includes updates to vacuuming that reduces memory usage, improves time to finish vacuuming, and shows progress of vacuuming indexes. With PostgreSQL 17, you no longer need to drop logical replication slots when performing a major version upgrade. PostgreSQL 17 continues to build on the SQL/JSON standard, adding support for `JSON_TABLE` fe…

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device now offers a 100TB pricing option for data migration. With this offering, the AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device supports two pricing options for data migration: less than 100TB, and from 100TB to 210TB pricing. In addition, the AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210 device is now available in the following additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), and Europe (Milan). For the majority of data migration workloads, customers should use AWS DataSync as a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Sto…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, and 12.20. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes updates for PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector 0.7.3, hypopg 1.4.1, and others. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. You are able to leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance window. Learn more about upgrading your database instanc…

Today, we are excited to announce that the Amazon EMR 7.2 release is now generally available and includes Apache Spark 3.5.1, Trino 436, and PrestoDB 0.285, Apache Iceberg 1.5.0 and Delta 3.1. Furthermore, with Amazon EMR 7.2, you can view additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics for enhanced monitoring in the Amazon EMR console, which provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities, allowing you to track the performance and health of your cluster more effectively. You can configure the Amazon CloudWatch Agent to publish metrics for Apache Hadoop, YARN, and Apache HBase applications running on your Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters, and track the metrics of each cluster within the…

AWS Glue announces general availability of a new AWS Glue Data Quality(Glue DQ) capability that uses ML-powered anomaly detection algorithms to detect hard-to-find data quality issues and anomalies. This helps customers proactively identify and fix data quality issues. Data engineers and analysts use rules in Glue DQ to measure and monitor their data. While Glue DQ's existing rule-based approach works well for known data patterns, it may miss unexpected anomalies . Now, data engineers and analysts can use Glue DQ's Anomaly Detection capability to easily detect unanticipated data quality issues. To use this feature, customers can write rules or analyzers and then turn o…

Modern business applications rely on timely and accurate data with increasing demand for real-time analytics. There is a growing need for efficient and scalable data storage solutions. Data at times is stored in different datasets and needs to be consolidated before meaningful and complete insights can be drawn from the datasets. This is where replication tools help move the data from its source to the target systems in real time and transform it as necessary to help businesses with consolidation. In this post, we provide a step-by-step guide for installing and configuring Oracle GoldenGate for streaming data from relational databases to Amazon Simple Storage Service (A…

Today’s data lakes are expanding across lines of business operating in diverse landscapes and using various engines to process and analyze data. Traditionally, SQL views have been used to define and share filtered data sets that meet the requirements of these lines of business for easier consumption. However, with customers using different processing engines in their data lakes, each with its own version of views, they’re creating separate views per engine, adding to maintenance overhead. Furthermore, accessing these engine-defined views requires customers to have elevated access levels, granting them access to both the SQL view itself and the underlying databases and tab…

Thousands of organizations build data integration pipelines to extract and transform data. They establish data quality rules to ensure the extracted data is of high quality for accurate business decisions. These rules commonly assess the data based on fixed criteria reflecting the current business state. However, when the business environment changes, data properties shift, rendering these fixed criteria outdated and causing poor data quality. For example, a data engineer at a retail company established a rule that validates daily sales must exceed a 1-million-dollar threshold. After a few months, daily sales surpassed 2 million dollars, rendering the threshold obsolete…

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to troubleshoot errors and slow performance in generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers foundation models (FMs) built by leading AI companies, such as Anthropic, Meta, and Amazon along with other tools for building generative AI applications. For users with generative AI applications relying on Bedrock FMs, this enhancement provides a deeper understanding of how failures such as model validation exceptions or how latency in different models impact end user experience. Application Signals, provides out-of-the-box dashboards to correlate telemetry ac…

Amazon OpenSearch Service securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. In this post, we examine the OR1 instance type, an OpenSearch optimized instance introduced on November 29, 2023. OR1 is an instance type for Amazon OpenSearch Service that provides a cost-effective way to store large amounts of data. A domain with OR1 instances uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes for primary storage, with data copied synchronously to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as it arrives. OR1 instances provide increased inde…

In today’s landscape, data streams continuously from countless sources such as social media interactions to Internet of Things (IoT) device readings. This torrent of real-time information presents both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. To harness the power of this data effectively, organizations need robust systems for ingesting, processing, and analyzing streaming data at scale. Enter Apache Kafka: a distributed streaming platform that has revolutionized how companies handle real-time data pipelines and build responsive, event-driven applications. AWS Glue is used to process and analyze large volumes of real-time data and perform complex transformations on t…

Today, AWS Backup announces the general availability of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. You can get started with logically air-gapped vault using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. Target backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as a copy destination in your backup plan. Share the vault for recovery or restore testing with other accounts usi…

In today’s fast-paced software as a service (SaaS) landscape, tenant portability is a critical capability for SaaS providers seeking to stay competitive. By enabling seamless movement between tiers, tenant portability allows businesses to adapt to changing needs. However, manual orchestration of portability requests can be a significant bottleneck, hindering scalability and requiring substantial resources. As tenant volumes and portability requests grow, this approach becomes increasingly unsustainable, making it essential to implement a more efficient solution. This blog post delves into the significance of tenant portability and outlines the essential steps for its im…

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. The memory optimized R6i instance types feature up to 8x the RAM per vCPU of the existing R6i instance types to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs without impacting application performance. Memory optimized R6i instances come in various configurations from 2 vCPUs to 48 vCPUs, memory from 32 GiB to 1024 GiB, and up to 64:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. These configurations will allow yo…

Amazon QuickSight includes a new advanced filter type: nested filters. Authors can use a nested filter to use one field in a dataset to filter another field in the dataset. You might know this by another name such as in SQL this would be known as a correlated sub-query and in shopping analysis this would be known as market basket analysis. Nested filtering enables authors to show additional contextual data, rather than filtering it out if it doesn’t meet an initial condition. This can be useful in many different scenarios including market basket analysis where it is now possible to find out sales quantity by product for those customers who have purchased a specific pro…

Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock customers in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3 Haiku. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is Anthropic’s latest foundation model and ranks among the most intelligent in the world. With Claude 3.5 Sonnet, you can now get intelligence better than Claude 3 Opus, at one fifth the cost. Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic’s most compact model, and one of the fastest, most affordable options on the market for its intelligence category. Amazon Bedrock is a fully man…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Paris) 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 Memory I…

Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In March 2024, we increased the Elastic Throughput read throughput limit to 20 GiB/s (from 10 GiB/s) to support the growing demand for read-heavy workloads such as AI and machine learning. Now, we are further increasing the read throughput to 30 GiB/s, extending EFS’s simple, fully elastic, and provisioning-free experience to support throughput-intensive AI and machine learning workloads for model training, inference, financial analytics, and genomic data analysis. The increased throughput limits are immediately available for EFS file syste…

Cost Optimization Hub is an AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend. Starting today, you can designate a member account as the delegated administrator, allowing that account to view cost optimization recommendations in the Cost Optimization Hub with administrator privileges, giving you greater flexibility to identify resource optimization opportunities centrally. Delegating an administrator allows you to manage Cost Optimization Hub independently of the management account and incorporate AWS security best practices, which recommend delegating …

If you are studying for the AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty Certification exam, earning this certification to advance your AWS machine learning skills and knowledge can be a valuable addition to your career. This blog provides you with the AWS Machine Learning Specialty MLS-C01 exam preparation tips and helps with simple and practical things you can use to pass the exam. Let’s dive in. Overview of AWS Machine Learning Specialty Certification To obtain these AWS ML certifications, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty, one must know how to design, implement, deploy, and use machine learning models in AWS. The AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialt…

Are you a security specialist looking to broaden your horizons? Or a tech aspirant wondering how you can kick start your journey into the security architecture or AWS domain? Which AWS certification will best suit your career milestone in the evolving cloud landscape? The AWS Certified Security Specialty Certification is the one-stop answer for all. Read this blog to know the significance of the AWS security specialty exam, how it differs from other high-impact AWS certifications, and how it fits into your career needs. Let’s dive in. An overview of AWS Certified Security Specialty certification The AWS Certified Security Specialty Certification (SCS-C02 exam) helps …

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze your data. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per day and power analytics workloads such as BI, predictive analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Amazon Redshift ML is a feature of Amazon Redshift that enables you to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models directly within the Redshift environment. Now, you can use pretrained publicly available large language models (LLMs) in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart as part of Redshift ML, allowing you to bring the power of LLMs …

Amazon WorkSpaces is introducing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP (WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol) for Windows. Now you can run your graphics-intensive and accelerated applications on Windows using G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP on AWS. 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, your users will benefit from a highly responsive remote desktop experience with 4K resolution and support for multiple monitors. G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP is available for Windows Server 2022. Alternatively, you can bring your own Windows desktop…

Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to address additional enterprise needs. You now have the option to disallow users from reusing previous passwords, helping you address compliance needs. Additionally, you now have the option to stream security events from ASF to an Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, or CloudWatch Insights. This allows you to combine ASF events with security signals from other AWS and third-party tools, helping you gain better insights and elevating security. Amazon Cognito is a service that makes it simpler to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. The service provides authenti…

We are excited to announce the launch of Terraform compatibility for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. Terraform support enables you to automate and streamline your time-series data management workflows with infrastructure-as-code (IaC). With Terraform support, you can now define and manage your Timestream for InfluxDB instances, databases, and tables using Terraform configuration files, reducing manual errors and increasing efficiency. This feature makes it easier to version and track changes to your infrastructure, providing a more seamless experience for industrial and IoT applications. To get started, use the AWS-provided Terraform Reference Engine on GitHub that co…

We’re excited to announce the launch of Amazon Titan Image Generator v2, a new image generation model which brings to customers additional control and flexibility - including image conditioning using ControlNet, subject consistency, and background removal. With Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 image conditioning, you can use a reference image to guide the generation of the output image. Image conditioning uses ControlNet techniques, like canny edge to preserve edges, and segmentation to identify regions in the reference image, to guide image generation. Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 also lets you fine-tune the model for subject consistency, allowing you to preserve sp…

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces a simplified Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) template in AWS Partner Central that includes the VMware Strategic Partner Incentive (SPI). Eligible AWS Partners can leverage the enhanced MAP template to accelerate more VMware customer migration opportunities with a simple approval workflow and access to SPIs. The simplified MAP template accelerates VMware opportunities by providing better speed to market with fewer AWS approval stages. The AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP) automatically calculates the eligible VMware SPI incentive and creates associated claim milestones. This improves overall partner productivity by e…

Amazon Redshift ML enables customers to create, train, and deploy machine learning models on their Redshift data using familiar SQL commands. Now, you can leverage pretrained publicly available LLMs in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart as part of Redshift ML. For example, you can use LLMs to summarize feedback, perform entity extraction, and conduct sentiment analysis on data in your Redshift table. Large Language Models in Redshift ML is now generally available which empowers you to bring the power of generative AI to your data warehouse. With this capability, Amazon Redshift ML removes the complexities of building custom machine learning pipelines to perform generative AI t…

AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically get descriptions for managed controls. These APIs enable automation of AWS Control Tower’s library of managed controls improving ease of use for control deployment. With this release customers can extend AWS Control Tower governance into regions where some of their enabled controls are not available. Customers can also enable a control in additional Regions, even though the control is not supported in all of their governed Regions. AWS Control Tower now supports the below APIs: ListControls – This API call returns a paginated list of all available controls in AWS Control Tower controls library. GetControl – This …

OR1, the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family, is now available in South America (Sao Paulo). 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. The new OR1 instances are best suited for indexing-heavy workloads, and offers better indexing performance compared to the existing memory optimized instances available on OpenSearch Service. OR1 enables customers to economically and reliably scale their OpenSearch deployments without compromising the interactive analytics experience they expect. Each OR1 instance is provisioned with compute, local instance storage for …

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announced the general availability of a new version of basic scanning. The new version of ECR basic scanning uses Amazon’s native scanning technology, which is designed to provide customers with improved scanning results and vulnerability detection across a broad set of popular operating systems. This allows customers to further strengthen the security of their container images. ECR basic scanning enables customers to identify software vulnerabilities in their ECR container images. Customers can either scan their container images manually or via configurations that specify which repositories should be scanned when an image…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18TiB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) 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…

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving, and generative AI is the latest innovation at the forefront of this revolution. As organizations seek to harness AI to drive innovation and competitive advantage, there is a growing need for executives to be well-versed in the fundamentals of generative AI. Recognizing this need, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new classroom course, Generative AI for Executives. This instructor-led course is meticulously designed to give c-suite and senior business leaders from technical and non-technical business units the knowledge and tools necessary to lead generative AI initiatives effectively. About Gener…

The Amazon Global Transportation Technology Services (GTTS) team owns a set of products called INSITE (Insights Into Transportation Everywhere). These products are user-facing applications that solve specific business problems across different transportation domains: network topology management, capacity management, and network monitoring. As of this writing, GTTS serves around 10,000 customers globally on a monthly basis, managing the outbound transportation network. INSITE applications are in general data intensive. They ingest and transform large volumes of data in different formats and processing patterns (such as batch and near real time) from various sources inter…

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is crucial in modern data-driven apps, acting as an abstraction layer connecting raw data to users for efficient analysis. It organizes data into user-friendly structures, aligning with shared business definitions, ensuring users can analyze data with ease despite changes. OLAP combines data from various data sources and aggregates and groups them as business terms and KPIs. In essence, it’s the foundation for user-centric data analysis in modern apps, because it’s the layer that translates technical assets into business-friendly terms that enable users to extract actionable insights from data. Real-time OLAP Traditionally, OLAP data…

We are excited to announce a new feature in Amazon DataZone that allows data producers to group data assets into well-defined, self-contained packages (data products) tailored for specific business use cases. For example, a marketing analysis data product can bundle various data assets such as marketing campaign data, pipeline data, and customer data. This simplifies the process for data consumers to find datasets, understand their context through shared metadata, and access comprehensive datasets for specific use cases through a single workflow. With the grouping capabilities of data products, data producers can manage and control access to the underlying data assets wit…

Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules, making it easier to schedule agents while complying with labor, union, and other contractual rules. You can now configure five new rules for scheduling agents in Amazon Connect: minimum rest period between shifts, minimum rest period per week, maximum consecutive working days, maximum consecutive day of the week worked, and shift cannot start earlier than the previous day's shift. Once configured, these rules will be applied when new schedules are generated as well as when existing schedules are edited. These additional rules in agent scheduling make day-to-day management of agent schedules easier for…

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Trust Stores now supports a new capability that enables cross-account sharing via AWS RAM (Resource Access Manager). This feature allows customers to centrally manage their ELB Trust Stores across multiple accounts to streamline trust store management and enable consistent Mutual TLS configurations across Application Load Balancers (ALBs). With this launch, ELB Trust Store owners can now share their trust stores and revocation lists with other AWS accounts, organizational units (OUs), and specific IAM roles and users through AWS RAM. Security Admins can now maintain a single or smaller number of trust stores within AWS. Application develope…

Most organizations manage their workforce identity centrally in external identity providers (IdPs) and are comprised of multiple business units that produce their own datasets and manage the lifecycle spread across multiple AWS accounts. These business units have varying landscapes, where a data lake is managed by Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and analytics workloads are run on Amazon Redshift, a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. Business units that create data products like to share them with others, without copying the data, …

Summer is reaching its peak for some of us around the globe, and many are heading out to their favorite holiday destinations to enjoy some time off. I just came back from holidays myself and I couldn’t help thinking about the key role that artificial intelligence (AI) plays in our modern world to help us scale the operation of simple things like traveling. Passport and identity verifications were quick, and thanks to the new airport security system rolling out across the world, so were my bag checks. I watched my backpack with a smile as it rolled along the security check belt with my computer, tablet, and portable game consoles all nicely tucked inside without any fuss. …

Today, Amazon DataZone introduces data products, which enable the grouping of data assets into well-defined, self-contained packages tailored for specific business use cases. For example, a marketing analysis data product can bundle various data assets, such as marketing campaign data, pipeline data, and customer data. With data products, customers can simplify discovery and subscription processes, aligning them with business objectives and reducing redundancy in handling individual assets. To get started, data producers can create a collection of relevant cataloged assets in the Amazon DataZone portal, add business context, and publish it as a data product unit. This …

Amazon Verified Permissions has simplified implementing fine-grained authorization for developers using third party identity providers, such as Okta, CyberArk and Transmit security. Developers can now authorize user actions, based on attributes and group memberships, managed within their own open id connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. For example, in a insurance claims processing application, you can authorize that only users in the “manager” group who completed the “high value claim training” are allowed to approve claims for more than $10,000. Verified Permissions provides fine-grained authorization for the applications that you build, allowing you to impleme…

AWS CodeBuild now supports building and testing your software applications on three new Arm-based compute types: Medium, X-Large and 2X-Large. You can select up to 48 vCPUs and 96 GB memory to run more resource-intensive workloads. With the addition of these new compute types, you now have similar compute options for running x86 and Arm workloads on CodeBuild. You can build and test your software applications on Arm without the need to emulate or cross-compile. CodeBuild supports AWS Graviton 3 processors, which delivers a leap in performance and capabilities over previous generations of AWS Graviton processors. These compute types are now available in: US East (Ohi…

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Amazon WorkSpaces client application for a supported device or a web browser and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries. These new features are available in all AWS regions …

Today, AWS Resilience Hub is launching improved resource grouping to more intelligently group your resources into Application Components, which are resources that work and fail as a single unit, when onboarding your application. Customers who want to manage and improve the resilience posture of their applications on AWS can now more quickly and easily onboard their application to Resilience Hub with the new improved resource grouping feature. This feature simplifies onboarding by automatically and accurately organizing resources into appropriate AppComponents. Customers are presented with the grouping recommendations and can determine if the recommendations are accurat…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, your DB instance is upgraded to the latest quarterly RU six to eight weeks after it is made available by Amazon RDS for Oracle in your AWS Region. These upgrades will happen during the maintenance window. To learn more, see the Amazon RDS maintenance window documentation. For more information about the AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for Orac…

Amazon DataZone has obtained the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance certification, demonstrating that it meets requirements established by the PCI Security Standards Council for handling payment account data securely, as required by financial and insurance industry customers handling credit card payments. The certification includes the 2024 PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) assessment and the shared responsibility guide. These are now available to AWS customers in the AWS Management Console through AWS Artifact, which can help enable PCI 3DS attestation for customers. This attestation may be required to support application-based authentication, digita…

AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions - Europe(Frankfurt), Europe(Ireland), Asia Pacific(Singapore) and Asia Pacific(Tokyo). Adding new regional support allows customers with low-latency payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support. Customers using AWS Payment Cryptography can simplify cryptography operations in their payment applications with a service that grows elastically, provides modern APIs and integrates into AWS services such as IAM and CloudTrail. AWS Payment Cryptography is a managed AWS service that provides access to cryptographic functions and key management us…

We’re excited to announce the new lower entry cost for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. With support for half (0.5) OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) for indexing and search workloads, the entry cost is cut in half. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that you can use to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management, shard tuning or data lifecycle management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently fast data ingestion rates and millisecond query response times during changing usage patterns and application demand. OpenSearch…

Since the launch of tiered storage for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), customers have embraced this feature for its ability to optimize storage costs and improve performance. In previous posts, we explored the inner workings of Kafka, maximized the potential of Amazon MSK, and delved into the intricacies of Amazon MSK tiered storage. In this post, we deep dive into how tiered storage helps with faster broker recovery and quicker partition migrations, facilitating faster load balancing and broker scaling. Apache Kafka availability Apache Kafka is a distributed log service designed to provide high availability and fault tolerance. At its core, Kaf…

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. For volumes that are created from snapshots, the storage blocks must be pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the volume before you can access them. This initialization process takes time and can cause a significant increase in the latency of I/O operations the first time each block is accessed. Volume performance is achieved after initialization is complete and all blocks have been downloaded and written to the volume. Launched in 2019, FSR eliminates the need for v…

Amazon Connect now supports the ability to configure when whisper flows are used during a contact to optimize flow performance. A whisper flow is what a customer or agent experiences during the moment when they are connected to each other in a voice or chat conversation. With this launch, you can turn off whisper flows, helping you further optimize your flow’s performance and reduce contact duration. For example, you can choose to turn off whisper flows during an outbound or callback scenario to save time when the agent and customer are expecting the contact. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about flows, see th…

In June 2023, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) launched a homogeneous data migration feature to simplify and accelerate like-to-like migrations to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora. Today, we are pleased to announce that the DMS homogeneous data migrations feature is now made generally available in 29 AWS regions (includes 9 AWS regions from the June 2023 launch). These include: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), US West (N. California), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), …

Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to AWS Data exchange private offers, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order number. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. AWS Marketplace transaction purchase orders will allow the purchase order number that a customer provides at the time of the transaction in AWS Marketplace to appear on all out-of-cycle invoices related to that purchase. Today, a customer’s management (payer) account and linked accounts can provide a purchase order number at the time of purchase in AWS Marketplace for professional services, SaaS con…

In Aotearoa New Zealand, we have been listening and learning to better understand Māori aspirations when using cloud technology. We have been learning from Māori customers, partners, and advisors who have helped us on this journey. A common theme was how to safeguard Māori data in a digital world. Together with a group of Māori advisers, we are excited to introduce the first iteration of a Māori Data Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This lens is the first of its kind for AWS globally that focuses on indigenous data, specifically Māori data considerations. An AWS Well-Architected Framework lens is designed to provide a technology, industry, or domain specific…

Quick Setup, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, provides an intuitive console experience for configuring frequently used Amazon Web Services features and services with recommended best practices. With just a few clicks, customers can enable common configurations and best practices across accounts and regions. This includes enabling auto-updates for popular AWS agents, such as the CloudWatch agent, defining patch schedules and baselines for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, or configuring AWS Resource Explorer to search and discover resources in AWS accounts or across an entire AWS Organization. Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of a n…

Today, we are introducing new Amazon CloudWatch(CW) dimensions for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations(ODCR). The existing CW metrics for On-Demand Capacity Reservations can now be grouped using the following new dimensions: Availability Zone, Instance Match Criteria, Instance Type, Platform, Tenancy, or across all Capacity Reservations. You can group the metrics by any of these dimensions, within selected region. You can now efficiently monitor your On Demand Capacity Reservations and identify unused capacity by setting CloudWatch alarms on CloudWatch metrics on any of these six new dimensions in addition to the existing Capacity Reservation ID dimension. These…

AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines now support stage level conditions to enable development teams to safely release changes that meet quality and compliance requirements. Customers can configure stage level conditions to gate a pipeline execution before entering the stage, and before exiting a stage - when all actions in the stage have completed successfully, or when any action in the stage has failed. A condition consists of one or more rules, and a result to apply when the condition fails. Customers can configure a stage level condition from the console, API, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDK. Customers can choose from rules that check the status of an Amazon CloudWatch al…

As described in a previous post, AWS Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, can be used to manage access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by administrators who need elevated permissions for setup, troubleshooting, or emergency changes. While working for a large global organization with thousands of accounts, we were asked to answer a specific business question: “What did employees with privileged access do in Session Manager?” This question had an initial answer: use logging and auditing capabilities of Session Manager and integration with other AWS services, including recording connections (StartSession API calls) with AWS CloudTrai…

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now integrates transaction log backups with Database Migration Service (DMS). This integration provides greater reliability in data replication for customers using DMS to replicate data from an RDS for SQL Server source database. If database connection interruptions or sudden transaction volume spikes cause active transaction logs to be archived before DMS can finish processing, DMS can now access the RDS for SQL Server backup logs to recover and resume replication. This prevents replication failures that would previously require a full data reload. The integration of transaction log backup with DMS is now generally available in all AWS region…

Amazon Redshift customers can now connect to their data warehouses via JDBC/ODBC/Python drivers with corporate identity by integrating their identity providers with AWS IAM Identity Center, which enables a seamless single-sign-on experience with other AWS services or Redshift tools that already support trusted identity propagation. With single sign-on capabilities, users can seamlessly access Amazon Redshift and other AWS services without the need to manage multiple sets of credentials. Customers can now connect to Amazon Redshift data warehouses from their SQL client tools over JDBC, Python, and ODBC drivers using their identity with their preferred identity provider …

AWS CodeBuild now supports connecting your Windows builds to your Amazon VPC resources. This new capability allows CodeBuild to access your VPC resources without requiring internet access. CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. With this feature, you can use CodeBuild to build and test your software within your VPC and access resources such as Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon ElastiCache, or any service endpoints that are only reachable from within a specific VPC. Configuring your builds to connect to your VPC also secures them by applying the same netw…

Today Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core are announcing the general availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 on WorkSpaces Personal. Following this launch, WorkSpaces administrators can provide comprehensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for .NET and C++ developers on Windows powered WorkSpaces. With this launch, Amazon WorkSpaces adds Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 and Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 to the list of available license included applications on WorkSpaces Personal. Through the Manage applications workflow, which enables administrators to install the necessary set of applications on WorkSpaces Personal depending on the …

We are happy to announce that the product carbon footprint of Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client has been verified by the Carbon Trust. This verification is based on measurement and estimation of the product's carbon footprint throughout the stages of its lifecycle. The total lifecycle carbon emission for Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is 77kg CO2e as verified by the Carbon Trust. Additionally, this product is made from 50% recycled materials (power adapter and cable not included) and uses Sleep Mode to reduce energy consumption when idle. Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Clients are built to last. But when you’re ready, you can recycle your devices through Amazon Second Chance. See t…

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version 8.4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 8.4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MySQL 8.4 is the latest Long-Term Support Release from the MySQL community. MySQL Long-Term Support Releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. Please refer to the MySQL 8.4 release notes for more details about this release. The Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment supports both…

As of today, Amazon Bedrock customers can use Meta’s Llama 3 models, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Meta Llama 3 is designed for you to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative artificial intelligence applications. You can now use these two Llama 3 models in Amazon Bedrock to easily experiment with and evaluate even more top foundation models for your use case. Llama 3 models support a broad range of use cases with improvements in reasoning, code generation, and instruction. The Llama 3 model family is a collection of instruction-tuned LLMs in 8B and 70B parameter sizes. Llama 3 8B is ideal for limited computational …

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the Europe (Spain) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. You can create DAX clusters using Amazon EC2 R5 and T3 instance types in these AWS Regions for applications that require microsecond latency. Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. DAX delivers up to a 10 times performance improvement—from milliseconds to microseconds—even at millions of requests per second. DAX does all the heavy lifting required to add in-memory acceleration to your DynamoDB tables, without requiring developers to manage cache invalidation, data population, or cluster manag…

Amazon Bedrock is a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage Amazon Bedrock to access fully managed large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs). To learn more about Amazon Bedrock security and compliance, visit the webpage here. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and respons…

Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing New Relic’s infrastructure agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the New Relic infrastructure agent to support your observability 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 regions …

Large-scale data warehouse migration to the cloud is a complex and challenging endeavor that many organizations undertake to modernize their data infrastructure, enhance data management capabilities, and unlock new business opportunities. As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, traditional data warehousing solutions may struggle to keep up with the increasing demands for scalability, performance, and advanced analytics. Migrating to Amazon Redshift offers organizations the potential for improved price-performance, enhanced data processing, faster query response times, and better integration with technologies such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intellige…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs collect, aggregate, and analyze logs from different systems in one place. CloudWatch provides subcriptions as a real-time feed of these logs to other services like Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, AWS Lambda, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. These subscriptions are a popular mechanism to enable custom processing and advanced analysis of log data to gain additional valuable insights. At the time of publishing this blog post, these subscription filters support delivering logs to Amazon OpenSearch Service provisioned clusters only. Customers are increasingly adopting Amazon OpenSearch Serverless as a cost-effective option for infrequent, intermittent and unp…

In the current industry landscape, data lakes have become a cornerstone of modern data architecture, serving as repositories for vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Change data capture (CDC) refers to the process of identifying and capturing changes made to data in a database and then delivering those changes in a downstream system. Capturing every change from transactions in a source database and moving them to the target keeps the systems synchronized, and helps with analytics use cases and zero-downtime database migrations. However, efficiently managing and synchronizing data within these lakes presents a significant challenge. Maintaining data consiste…

We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Serverless. This enables you to enforce full FGAC (database, table, column, row and cell-level) policies defined in Lake Formation to take effect for your data lake tables from your EMR Serverless Spark jobs and interactive sessions. Lake Formation makes it simple to build, secure, and manage data lakes. It allows you to define fine-grained access controls through grant and revoke statements, similar to those used with relational database management systems (RDBMS), and automatically enforce those policies via compatible…

Amazon Connect now enables agents to view pre-approved time off windows for their scheduling group (group allowance), making it easier for agents to identify available options when requesting time off. For example, when creating a time off request for 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., an agent can now see that while there is available group allowance for 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., there isn’t any remaining allowance for 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Agents can then modify their time off request before submitting or request a supervisor override. This launch simplifies the time off process for agents by letting them evaluate which days have the required allowance before submitting the request. This feat…

The design of cloud workloads can be a complex task, where a perfect and universal solution doesn’t exist. We should balance all the different trade-offs and find an optimal solution based on our context. But how does it work in practice? Which guiding principles should we follow? Which are the most important areas we should focus on? In this blog, we will try to answer some of these questions by sharing a set of resources related to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The Framework shares a set of methods to help you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building cloud systems. By following this resource, you will learn architectural best practices f…

Starting on January 5, 2024, AWS Accounts will no longer support security challenge questions for accounts that have not already enabled them. This will remove the option for customers to add new security challenge questions from the Accounts page in the AWS Management Console. View the full article

Starting today, customers can hibernate their EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton processors. Hibernation helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. When customers hibernate an instance, EC2 signals the operating system to perform hibernation (suspend-to-disk). This process saves the contents of the instance’s memory (RAM) to the associated Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) root volume. EC2 then persists the instance's EBS root volume and any attached EBS data volumes. When a hibernated instance resumes, EC2 restores the root volume to its previous state, along with the RAM cont…

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) provides a fully managed solution for orchestrating and automating complex workflows in the cloud. Amazon MWAA offers two network access modes for accessing the Apache Airflow web UI in your environments: public and private. Customers often deploy Amazon MWAA in private mode and want to use existing login authentication mechanisms and single sign-on (SSO) features to have seamless integration with the corporate Active Directory (AD). Also, the end-users don’t need to log in to the AWS Management Console to access the Airflow UI. In this post, we illustrate how to configure an Amazon MWAA environment deployed in p…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, enabling ISVs and central IT organizations to stream Red Hat Enterprise Linux apps and desktops to users while leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the AWS Cloud. With this launch, customers have the flexibility to choose from a broader set of operating systems including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux 2, and Microsoft Windows. This launch enables organizations operating in highly regulated industries to accelerate time to market, scale resources up or down with demand, and manage the entire fleet centrally through the AWS Console by streaming Red Hat Enterprise L…

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Neptune Analytics now offers 32 and 64 m-NCU (Neptune Memory Capacity Units) capacity units, expanding beyond the current range of 128 to 1024 m-NCUs. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and cost efficiency for smaller graph sizes, making it easier and more affordable to get started with vector search, graph algorithms, and graph RAG. Data Scientists and developers can now start with the smaller capacity units, significantly reducing costs while meeting their specific needs during the initial stages of development. Many organizations require customized setups for their specific needs, particularly during proof of …

Amazon Connect has expanded availability to support Inbound Direct Dial (DID) telephone numbers and guaranteed number presentation for in-country calling for Vietnam from the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. The new Telephony Rates are now available as part of the standard pricing for Amazon Connect service usage for Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. To see all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available, see the AWS Region table. Visit the Amazon Connect website for more information. View the full article

Customers in Germany can now create an AWS Account using their bank account. Upon signup, customers with a Germany billing address can now securely connect their bank account which supports the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) standard. Until today, signing up for an AWS account was only permitted with a debit or credit card. With this release, customers in Germany can choose to use their card or securely connect their bank account. To link your bank account, sign up for AWS, and enter your address and billing country in Germany. When prompted to add a payment method click "Bank Account" followed by "Link your bank account". Select your bank from the list of available b…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge on Siemens Industrial Edge, offering customers a seamless way to bridge the gap between OT (Operational Technology) and IT (Information Technology) to solve industrial operational challenges. This new offering allows customers to easily connect and collect data from their industrial equipment using Siemens Industrial Edge connectivity applications and send it to the cloud using AWS IoT SiteWise Edge. Users such as process engineers and maintenance technicians can use applications on Siemens Industrial Edge to gain insights or send the data to AWS IoT SiteWise to organize, standardize, and store data fo…

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) introduces Flexible Instance Types, a new capability that reduces the likelihood of failed recovery attempts or prolonged downtime due to capacity shortage. This feature allows you to create a list of optional instance types that can be used during a launch, based on specific attributes. By defining a range of acceptable instance types upfront, you can increase the chances of finding available resources, even in situations where capacity is constrained. 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 reco…

Many customers rely today on Okta or other identity providers (IdPs) to federate access to their technology stack and tools. With federation, security teams can centralize user management in a single place, which helps simplify and brings agility to their day-to-day operations while keeping highest security standards. To help develop a data-driven culture, everyone inside an organization can use Amazon DataZone. To realize the benefits of using Amazon DataZone for governing data and making it discoverable and available across different teams for collaboration, customers integrate it with their current technology stack. Handling access through their identity provider and…

Welcome to July’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 June course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 25 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including 12 new free digital courses, five new AWS Builder Labs, and two new exciting game-based learning offerings: AWS SimuLearn and AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI. AWS SimuLearn pairs Amazon Bedrock generative AI-powered simulations with hands-on training to help individuals learn how to translate business problems into technical solutions. Available on 200+ AWS SimuLearn dig…

Are you looking to break into the growing field of cloud computing? Prepare for an exciting new career with Amazon Web Services’ latest entry-level professional certificate on Coursera, the AWS Cloud Support Associate Professional Certificate. In this seven-course online training program, you’ll gain the foundational skills needed to launch a career as an AWS Cloud Support Associate. With cloud computing reshaping businesses across every industry, this role is in high demand as companies migrate their applications and infrastructure to the cloud. What is an AWS Cloud Support Associate? An AWS Cloud Support Associate is a dedicated and disciplined technical expert and…

EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling group now support using custom identifiers to reference Amazon Machine Images (AMI) in Auto Scaling groups and EC2 Fleet launch requests configured to choose from a diversified list of instance types. You can create these identifiers using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and use the parameters to reference your AMI during instance launch. These AMI references to simplify your automation as you no longer need to modify your code every time a new version of an AMI is created. View the full article

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides the ability to download screen recordings from the contact details page in the Amazon Connect UI, for customers that use Contact Lens screen recording. With this launch, managers can evaluate contact quality and agent performance via offline reviews, as well as review downloaded screen recordings with agents for coaching. This launch also provides a new permission to manage who can download screen recordings. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Contact Lens screen recording is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect Contact Lens, see our website. To learn more about this feature, please visit our help document…

I’m always amazed by the talent and passion of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) community members, especially in their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech community. Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the AWS User Group Women Bay Area meetup, led by Natalie. This group is dedicated to empowering and connecting women, providing a supportive environment to explore cloud computing. In Latin America, we recently had the privilege of supporting 12 women-led AWS User Groups from 10 countries in organizing two regional AWSome Women Community Summits, reaching over 800 women builders. There’s still more work to be done, but initiatives like thes…

In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are seeking ways to streamline their data management processes and unlock the full potential of their data assets, while controlling access and enforcing governance. That’s why we introduced Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users to seamlessly catalog, discover, analyze, and govern data across organizational boundaries, AWS accounts, data lakes, and data warehouses. On March 21, 2024, Amazon DataZone introduced several exciting enhancements to its Amazon Redshift integration that simplify the proc…

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources. Data lakes provide a unified repository for organizations to store and use large volumes of data. This enables more informed decision-making and innovative insights through various analytics and machine learning applications. Despite their advantages, traditional data lake architectures often grapple with challenges such as understanding deviations from the most optimal state of the table over time,…

AWS CloudFormation Git sync now publishes sync status changes as events to Amazon Eventbridge. With this launch, you can subscribe to new deployment sync events that shows your Git repositories or resource sync status changes. You can also get instant notification and build on top of it to further automate your GitOps workflow. With EventBridge, you can take advantage of a serverless event bus to easily connect and route events between many AWS services and third-party applications. Events are delivered to EventBridge in near real-time, and you can write simple rules to listen for specific events. AWS CloudFormation allows you to launch and configure your desired resou…

Today, we announce AWS End User Messaging as the new name for Amazon Pinpoint’s SMS, MMS, push, and text to voice messaging capabilities. We are making this change to simplify how you manage end user communications across your applications and other AWS services. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Developers can integrate messaging to support uses cases such as one-time passcodes (OTP) at sign-ups, account updates, appointment reminders, delivery notifications, promotions and more. Your existing applications will continue to…

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customer's enterprise data. AWS IAM Identity Center helps set up and centrally manage workforce user identity and their access to their AWS accounts and applications. Q Business is integrated with IAM Identity Center so that workforce users can securely and privately access enterprise content using web applications built with Q Business. Prior to today, Q Business applications could only connect to, and source user identity information from IAM Identity Center instances …

You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to receive sources using SRT caller. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), an open source video transport protocol supported by the SRT Alliance, helps deliver video reliably across the internet. SRT has two primary connection modes: caller and listener. With SRT caller input support in MediaLive you can add inputs to a MediaLive channel by calling into an available listener source address and port. For more information on how to use SRT caller input, visit the MediaLive documentation. AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video streams for delivery to broad…

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.18, which introduces several improvements and fixes compared to the previous version of ActiveMQ supported by Amazon MQ. These enhancements include initial support for the JMS 2.0 simplified APIs, such as JMSContext, JMSProducer, and JMSConsumer, as well as the implementation of methods for XA transactions. Starting from ActiveMQ 5.18, Amazon MQ will manage patch version upgrades for your brokers. All brokers on ActiveMQ version 5.18 will be automatically upgraded to the next compatible and secure patch version in your scheduled maintenance window. If you are utilizing prior versions of ActiveMQ, such as 5.17, 5.16, or 5.…