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Data protection is a high priority, particularly as organizations face increasing cybersecurity threats. Maintaining the security of customer data is top priority for AWS and Salesforce. With AWS PrivateLink, Salesforce Private Connect eliminates common security risks associated with public endpoints. Salesforce Private Connect now works with Salesforce Data Cloud to keep your customer data secure when using with key services like Agentforce… View the full article

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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i and R7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i and R7i deliver up to 15% better price-performance compared to M6i and R6i instances respectively. They offer larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, can attach up to 128 EBS volumes and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data…

AWS Transfer Family now enables you to delete, rename, or move files on remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors. This enhancement allows you to easily manage files and directories stored on remote SFTP file systems and keep them up to date. SFTP connectors provide fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. You can now organize your remote directories by deleting, renaming or moving source files to archive locations after they have been copied from the remote server. This helps you ensure that your remote directories remain current and prevent duplicate file transfers during subsequent job runs. These new features ad…

AWS CodeBuild now supports enhanced debugging experience through secure and isolated sandbox environments. You can connect to the sandbox environment via SSH clients or from an IDE to interactively troubleshoot your build or test runs. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. With the enhanced debugging capability, you can investigate issues and validate the fixes in real-time, before committing changes to your buildspec configurations. The sandbox environment maintains a persistent file system during the debugging session, and offers the same native integ…

We are excited to announce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which enables the generation of multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length and style consistency across shots. In addition, Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation over Amazon Nova Reel 1.0. Multi-shot videos in Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 offers two modes: automated mode and manual mode. In automated mode, users can generate multiple 6-second videos by providing a single prompt and specifying the total video duration, up to 2 minutes. In manual mode, the model provides granular control, allowing users to input a text prompt and an optional image for each 6-second…

AWS End User Messaging now allows customers to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing service endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their AWS End User Messaging endpoints on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can standardize their applications on the new …

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). ARP is a NetApp ONTAP feature that proactively monitors your file system for unusual activity and automatically generates ONTAP snapshots when a potential attack is detected, helping you protect your business-critical data against a broader set of ransomware and malware attacks. When enabled on your FSx for ONTAP storage volumes, ARP analyzes your workload access patterns to proactively detect suspicious activity – including changes in the randomness of data in files, the usage of unusu…

Amazon Nova Canvas now supports fine-tuning through Amazon Bedrock, enabling customers to adapt the model to their unique datasets and brand characteristics. With custom model fine-tuning, customers can train the model on their proprietary data to generate fully customized images that align with their specific requirements and style guidelines. Fine-tuned models can be tested and deployed with provisioned throughput for consistent performance. Text-to-image models are transforming how businesses across industries create and edit visual content. From architects visualizing floor plans to fashion designers iterating on new concepts, these models accelerate innovation by …

Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys for encrypting archived events. This expands your encryption options by letting you choose between default AWS owned keys for simpler, automated data protection or customer managed keys to help meet your organization's specific security and governance requirements. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus receives and routes events between your applications, SaaS applications, and AWS services. The Archive and Replay feature enhances this capability by allowing you to store events from an event bus and replay them later, helping you build more durable event-driven applications…

The Amazon Route 53 authoritative DNS service for public hosted zones is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. With today’s release, AWS customers and AWS Partners who rely on public DNS for their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now take advantage of most of the features they have come to expect of Route 53 in commercial AWS Regions. Previously, customers used Route 53 authoritative DNS served from commercial AWS Regions for routing traffic to their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can serve DNS queries to your public hosted zones from locations within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and withou…

Today, we are launching two significant updates to AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing: A new VOD ad insertion usage type priced at a 50% discount to live. The new pricing model aligns better with how streaming providers monetize their content. By pricing VOD ad insertion at 50% of the cost of live workflows, you can expand your ad-supported VOD libraries more cost-effectively using MediaTailor. Elimination of the $0.75 per 1000 ads pricing tier, so live ad insertion now has a single tier at $0.50 per 1000 ads. By removing the tiered pricing model of 1 to 5M insertions and greater than 5M insertions per month, this makes it easier for you to predict your bill and get …

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Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for adding attachments to emails when sending via SES simple sending v2 APIs. Customers can add attachments such as PDF documents to emails, or include images for rendering inline in email content without requiring image downloads. This makes it easier to send richer email content with the convenience of the SES sending APIs. Previously, customers could send email content such as text and HTML through SES simple sending APIs. Customers did not have to worry about creating the email data structure which is actually sent to mailbox providers. However, if customers wanted to attach documents or include inline image…

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Three data center technicians who knew every detail of server room operations–from the constant hum of machines to the daily rhythm of infrastructure maintenance–decided to level up their careers. Today, they’re no longer maintaining systems, they’re designing enterprise solutions that run on the very infrastructure they once supported. This is our story–and it’s your potential future. In this post, we’ll share the steps we took to become AWS Solutions Architects, and you’ll discover how to build your own path using AWS Skill Builder and other resources... View the full article

In this blog post, we show you the process of integrating TwelveLabs Embed API with OpenSearch Service to create a multimodal search solution. You’ll learn how to generate rich, contextual embeddings from video content and use OpenSearch Service’s vector database capabilities to enable search functionalities. By the end of this post, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to implement a system that can transform the way your organization handles and extracts value from video content... View the full article

AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, reducing overall costs. To get started with enabling EFA with FSx Lustre filesystems on your clusters, follow the tutorial in the ParallelCluster User Guide - Creating a cluster with an EFA-enabled FSx Lustre . ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool tha…

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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now accept incoming connections from customer-provisioned Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to Mail Manager Ingress Endpoints. This makes use of PrivateLink connectivity features already provided by AWS. Since Mail Manager launched in mid-2024, VPC connectivity has become the most-requested new feature from customers. These customers operate large fleets of applications hosted inside AWS, and want to route all their outgoing and incoming mail for those applications via Mail Manager. By adding VPC support via PrivateLink, those customers can now route all their …

As organizations increasingly take advantage of the benefits of hybrid cloud architectures, they are often faced with the challenge of balancing data residency requirements with the flexibility of the cloud. To help you navigate this complex landscape, we are excited to introduce the AWS Well-Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services (DRHC) Lens paper. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach for evaluating architectures and applying best practices to build reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. The framework is based on six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, C…

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Topic was moved to forum Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SNS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. The addition of IPv6 support provides customers with a vastly expanded address space, eliminating concerns about address exhaustion and simplifying network architecture for IPv6-native applications. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on…

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for Amazon Backup Search. You can now orchestrate backup discovery and management actions directly in your workflows without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. By directly invoking AWS services or their API actions from AWS Step Functions, customers can write less code, simplify their architecture, and save costs. In addition to the new Amazon Backup Search integration, Step Functions added support for 137 API actions a…

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 34 AWS Regions globally. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. Use IAM Identity Center with your existing identity source or create a new directory, and manage workforce access to part or all of your AWS environment. With IAM Identity Center, you can manage and audit user access more easily and consistently, your workforce has single sign-on access and unified experience across AWS services, and your data owners can authori…

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE ST 2110 professional broadcast input standards on your own hardware. With this new capability, you can ingest professional IP-based video, audio, and metadata streams directly into MediaLive Anywhere nodes running on your own infrastructure, while maintaining centralized control using the AWS Management Console. SMPTE 2110 support, which requires a 25GbE or higher network interface card, enables native IP-based signal handling throughout the workflow. By accepting SMPTE 2110 IP streams in MediaLive Anywhere, you can maintain signals in the IP domain from source to processing, eliminating the need for costly signal con…

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB Innovation Release 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. You can deploy MariaDB 11.8 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. MariaDB 11.8 is the latest Innovation Release from the MariaDB community, and includes support for vector datatype, indexing, and search capabilities. MariaDB Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next Innovation release, whereas MariaDB Long Term Maintenance Releases,…

Troubleshooting a large, complex, distributed enterprise application involves challenges like tracing requests across multiple services, identifying performance bottlenecks across the stack, and understanding cascading failures between dependent services. Customers often need to work with isolated data to identify the underlying cause of the problem. By correlating different signals like logs, traces, metrics, and other performance indicators, you can get valuable insight into what caused the problem, where, and why. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service to deploy, operate, and search data at scale within AWS. Amazon Managed Grafana is a secure data visualizati…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log events up to 1 MB in size, a 4x increase from the previous 256 KB limit. This enhancement applies to the CloudWatch Logs PutLogEvents API and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint. Customers can now capture richer log data while maintaining data integrity, eliminating the need to truncate large events or split them across multiple entries. It is especially valuable for use cases such as stack traces, debug outputs, and detailed application and security audit logs, enabling simplified troubleshooting, enhanced security audit capabilities, and better visibility into application behavior. The increased limit is automatically ava…

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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. Many applications, including those built on modern architectures capable of horizontal scaling based on ebb and flow of active users, can open a large number of database connections or open and close connections frequently. This can stress the database’s memory and compute, leading to slower performance and limited application scalability. Amazon RDS Proxy sits betw…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This construct library allows developers to programmatically create, configure, and manage scheduled tasks using infrastructure as code with their preferred programming language, simplifying the process of building event-driven applications. The EventBridge Scheduler construct library enables you to define schedules using cron or rate expressions, configure target destinations including AWS Lambda functions, Amazon SQS queues, and other AWS services, and manage execution windows and retry policies. Developers can…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools. This library enables developers to programmatically define and deploy Identity Pool resources using familiar programming languages, making it easier to grant users secure access to AWS services in their applications. With this construct library, you can define Identity Pools as infrastructure as code, configure authentication providers like Amazon Cognito User Pools, social identity providers (Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon), and SAML 2.0 providers. The library helps you implement security best practices by default and…

In November 2024, CloudFront Functions introduced origin modifications, allowing you to conditionally change origin servers on each request. Starting today, you can now use this capability with VPC Origins and origin groups, enabling you to create even more sophisticated routing policies for your applications delivered from CloudFront. You can now create dynamic routing policies that direct individual requests between any origin, including VPC Origins, by simply providing the ID for the origin. For example, you can automatically route each request to different applications by creating weights to send a certain percentage of traffic to multiple backend services, all wit…

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports enhanced autoscaling capabilities, allowing pipelines to scale dynamically based on additional parameters, including Amazon SQS queue size, persistent buffer lag, and the number of incoming HTTP connections. These enhancements improves upon the existing scaling mechanism, which previously relied only on memory and CPU utilization, providing a more comprehensive and responsive scaling mechanism for your data ingestion workloads. With these improvements, customers can build more resilient and efficient data ingestion pipelines that automatically adapt to varying workloads. The new autoscaling parameters help optimize resource utili…

AWS IAM Identity Center enhanced its session management and trusted identity propagation (TIP) capabilities for customers that connect Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as their identity source. The enhanced capabilities help customers manage user sessions, scale their use of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Developer Pro, and implement use cases, such as for analytics, with trusted identity propagation. With this release, customers who connect Microsoft AD to IAM Identity Center will be able to: (a) configure the session duration for AWS applications and the AWS access portal from a minimum of 15 minutes to a maximum of 90 days; (b) list and delete active user session…

Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 new built-in transforms: “Derived column”, “Flatten”, “Add current timestamp”, “Explode array or map into rows”, “To timestamp”, “Array to columns”, “Intersect”, “Limit” and “Concatenate columns”. Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building ETL flows and authoring flows with Amazon Q Developer. With these new transforms, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated data pipelines without having to write custom code for common transform tasks. Each of these new transforms address a unique data processing need. For example, use “Derived column” to define a new column based on a math for…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol for Proxy connections to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL database instances. TLS 1.3 provides improved security through stronger cryptographic algorithms and simplified handshake process as compared to older TLS versions. With this release, RDS Proxy can use TLS 1.3 for connections to Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL databases. During connection establishment, Proxy will automatically negotiate the most secure supported TLS version supported with the database. Customers can also configure their PostgreSQL database to require TLS…

Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats directly from the Amazon Connect UI, accelerating issue resolution and improving customer satisfaction. For example, supervisors can now end chats with inactive customers or reassign chats to specific agents or queues. To learn more, please refer to the help documentation or visit the Amazon Connect website. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. View the full article

In this blog we will look into how AWS Lambda has emerged as a powerful tool that is being increasingly applied by machine learning engineers and developers in deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Let’s also discuss the role of it in AI model deployment, which is important in your preparation for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner Certification (AIF-C01) exam... View the full article

When JC Boissy’s serverless card game CloudJack-21 earned an honorable mention in the 2024 AWS Game Builder Challenge, it marked an incredible milestone in his cloud computing journey. Among 331 submissions from developers worldwide, his educational card game stood out. The achievement was even more remarkable given that JC had minimal hands-on cloud experience before joining AWS Cloud Institute, a virtual training program that helps learners launch cloud development careers in as little as nine months. View the full article

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, containers have become the cornerstone of modern application deployment. As businesses increasingly adopt microservices architectures, the demand for robust, scalable, and secure container management solutions has never been higher. We’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024-25 Omdia Universe for Cloud Container Management & Services, which evaluates top vendors providing container management solutions hosted on public clouds. AWS has been named a Leader in this report, ranking first on the Capability axis and second on the Strategy & Execution / Customer Experie…

Amazon QuickSight launches dashboard versioning and the ability to publish any analysis to replace any dashboard to improve author productivity. Dashboard versioning enables authors to view and easily re-publish previously published versions of their dashboards as well as the notes on what updates were made by whom. Publishing any analysis to any dashboard means that authors don’t have to replace a dashboard with the analysis that it started from, but can use any other analysis in the account. With the launch of these two features, authors can build new analyses with updates and then publish them to the existing dashboard that readers already have bookmarked. Authors d…

Amazon Linux now brings a Graphical Desktop, a new kernel option with Linux kernel 6.12, an upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.2.2, and addition of new high demand packages on AL2023. AL2023.7 offers a modern, secure, and cloud-optimized desktop environment to Amazon Linux users. The new Graphical Desktop provides a lightweight interface designed for productivity and seamless AWS integration. The Graphical Desktop comes with GNOME 47 for a sleek UI experience. It includes other essential tools like a terminal emulator for improved CLI experience, an image viewer, a text editor, a file manager for file navigation, and Mozilla Firefox for secure web browsing. Additionally, yo…

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). 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-generatio…

Starting today, AWS Marketplace supports the Japan Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) rule, making it easier for Sellers to meet the Japanese regulatory requirements and providing a seamless tax experience for customers in Japan. Under the MPF rule, AWS Marketplace will collect the Japan consumption tax (JCT) and issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) for sales by non-Japan addressed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners (together as non-Japan addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. Also, AWS Marketplace will offer the same customer experience by enabling TQI issuance for sales by Japan-addressed ISVs and Channel Partners (together as Japan-addressed Sellers)…

AWS CodeBuild now supports on-demand Windows build environments in four additional AWS Regions: South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt). The expansion allows customers in these AWS Regions to run Windows-based workloads with the flexibility of on-demand pricing. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Additionally, CodeBuild Windows build environment now supports non-container builds, enabling you to run build commands directly on the host operating system without containerization. You can also config…