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AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically retrieve a list of all landing zone operations that have completed in the past 90 days including create, update, reset, and delete. The output contains summary information like the operation identifier, operation type, and status to help identify initiated operations. Until today, customers could only retrieve landing zone operations if they requested it by operation identifier or examined all operations. API users on the same team could not view operations performed by others in the same landing zone, resulting in lost context and reduced visibility into all operations. Now customers can easily view, audit and troub…

Today, Amazon Athena made Provisioned Capacity available in the South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Spain) regions. Provisioned Capacity is a feature of Athena that allows you to run SQL queries on fully-managed, dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Using Provisioned Capacity, you can selectively assign processing capacity to queries and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. You can scale capacity at any time, and pay only for the amount of capacity you need and time it is active in your account. Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it possible to analyze peta…

Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) and US West (Northern California) regions. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the minimum base capacity required to run Amazon Redshift Serverless was 32 RPUs. With the new lower base capacity minimum of 8 RPUs, you now have even more flexibility to a support diverse set of workloads of small to large complexity based on your price perform…

Today are announcing the availability of the latest quarterly update to AL2023 containing the latest version of PHP and .NET, along with IPA Client and mod-php. Customers can take advantage of newer versions of PHP and .NET to ensure their applications are secure and efficient. Additionally, AL2023.5 includes packages like mod-php and IPA client that can improve web server performance and simplify identity management integration, respectively, further streamlining development workflows and enhancing overall system efficiency. To learn more about other features and capabilities in AL2023.5, see release notes. Amazon Linux 2023 is generally available in all AWS Reg…

EventBridge Scheduler adds additional universal targets with 650+ more AWS API actions bringing the total to 7000+, including Amazon Bedrock. EventBridge Scheduler allows you to create and run millions of scheduled events and tasks across AWS services without provisioning or managing the underlying infrastructure. EventBridge Scheduler supports one time and recurring schedules that can be created using common scheduling expressions such as cron, rate, and specific time with support for time zones and daylight savings. Our support for additional targets allows you to automate more use cases such as scheduling your Bedrock model to run inference for text models, image mod…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for creating account-level subscription filters using the put-account-policy API in 4 additional regions. This new capability enables you to deliver real-time log events that are ingested into Amazon CloudWatch Logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda for custom processing, analysis, or delivery to other destinations using a single account level subscription filter. Customers often need to forward all or a subset of logs to AWS services such as Amazon OpenSearch for various analytical use cases or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for further streaming to other systems. Currently…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support for AWS CloudShell. This allows you to create CloudShell environments in a VPC, which enables you to use CloudShell securely within the same subnet as other resources in your VPC without the need for additional network configuration. Prior to this release, there was no mechanism to use CloudShell for controlling the network flow to the internet. This release allows you to securely and conveniently launch CloudShell in your VPC and access the resources within it. AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easy to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS …

AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct, a powerful instruction-following large language model, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Fine-tuned for instruction following and built for reliable commercial use, Jamba-Instruct can engage in open-ended dialogue, understand context and subtext, and complete a wide variety of tasks based on natural language instructions. With its 256K context window, Jamba-Instruct has the capability to ingest the equivalent of a 800-page novel or an entire company's financial filings for a given fiscal year. This large context window allows Jamba-Instruct to answer questions and produce summaries that are grounded in the provided inputs, eliminating the n…

Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitLab.com in CodeCatalyst projects. This allows customers to use GitLab.com repositories with CodeCatalyst’s features such as its cloud IDE (Development Environments), Amazon Q feature development, and custom and public blueprints. Customers can also trigger CodeCatalyst workflows based on events in GitLab.com, view the status of CodeCatalyst workflows back in GitLab.com, and even block GitLab.com pull request merges based on the status of CodeCatalyst workflows. Customers want the flexibility to use source code repositories hosted in GitLab.com, without the need to migrate to CodeCatalyst …

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights. This data is primarily used for analytical and machine learning purposes, but not easily accessible by the business users across Sales, Service, and Marketing teams to make data driven decisions. Salesforce and Amazon collaborated to address this challenge, by making the data accessible to the users in the flow of their work, with Zero Copy Data Federation between Salesforce Data Cloud…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20240529. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about the bug fixes and patches in this version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL on Aurora and RDS after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your MySQL da…

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on 27 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types in supported regions, including all C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances. Built on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, customers can now access local, GPS-disciplined reference clocks on additional EC2 instance types. These clocks can be used to more easily order application events, measure 1-way network latency, increase distributed application transaction speed, and incorporate in-region and cross-region scalability features while also simultaneously simplifying technical designs. A…

You can now upgrade your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on X-86 based M5 or T3 instances and replace them with AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances with a single click of a button. In-place upgrades allows you to seamlessly switch over your existing provisioned clusters to M7G instance type for better price performance, while continuing to serve reads and writes for your connecting client applications. Switching to AWS Graviton3 processor based M7G instances on Amazon MSK provisioned clusters allows you to achieve up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters …

AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm-based workloads now run on AWS Graviton3 without any additional configuration. In February 2021, CodeBuild launched support for native Arm builds on the second generation of AWS Graviton processors. Support for this platform allows customers to build and test on Arm without the need to emulate or cross-compile. Now, CodeBuild customers targeting Arm benefit from the enhanced capabilities of AWS Graviton3 processors. The upgrade delivers up to 25% higher performance over Graviton2 processors. Graviton3 also uses up to 60% less energy for the same performance as comparable EC2 instances, enabling customers to reduce their carbon footprint …

Amazon Aurora now provides additional granular monitoring information during upgrades for enhanced observability. Customers can use the additional granularity shared in Amazon Aurora Events to stay informed and better manage their database upgrades. Customers upgrade their database version, operating system, and/or other components containing security, compliance, and functional enhancements. When applying upgrades, Aurora will now emit additional messages in Aurora Events and indicate when the database cluster is online and when it is not. For database minor version and patch upgrades, customers can use the messages to get additional granular insights about the exact …

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. C6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of 3.6 GHz. C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance than comparable C5a instances. C6a instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. View the full article

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families. ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to Graviton2. As an example, when running ElastiCache for Redis on an R7g.4xlarge node, you can achieve up to 28% increased throughput (read and write operations per second) and up to 21% improved P99 latency, compared to running on R6g.4xlarge. In addition, these nodes deliver up to 25% higher networking bandwidth. The M7g and R7g nodes are now available for Amazon ElastiCache in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon and N. California), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paolo), Europe…

Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the minimum base capacity required to run Amazon Redshift Serverless was 32 RPUs. With the new lower base capacity minimum of 8 RPUs, you now have even more flexibility to a support diverse set of workloads of small to large complexity based on your price performance requirements. You can incre…

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports cluster authentication with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles ARNs. Users and applications connecting to an Amazon DocumentDB cluster to read, write, update, or delete data can now use an AWS IAM identity to authenticate connection requests. These users and applications can use the same AWS IAM user or role when connecting to different DocumentDB clusters and to other AWS services. Applications running on AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, or AWS EKS do not need to manage passwords in application when authenticating to Amazon DocumentDB using an AWS IAM role. These applications get their conn…

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it straightforward to run search and analytics workloads without managing infrastructure. Customers using OpenSearch Serverless often need to copy documents between two indexes within the same collection or across different collections. This primarily arises from two scenarios: Reindexing – You frequently need to update or modify index mapping due to evolving data needs or schema changes Disaster recovery – Although OpenSearch Serverless data is inherently durable, you may want to copy data across AWS Regions for added redundancy and resiliency Amazon OpenSear…

With over 550 million active users, X (formerly known as Twitter) has become a useful tool for understanding public opinion, identifying sentiment, and spotting emerging trends. In an environment where over 500 million tweets are sent each day, it’s crucial for brands to effectively analyze and interpret the data to maximize their return on investment (ROI), which is where real-time insights play an essential role. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink helps you to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink supports stateful computation over a large volume of data in real time with exactly-once consistency guarantees. Moreover, A…

Welcome to June’s post announcing new training and certification updates to help equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our May course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 29 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including 12 new generative AI digital courses (eight free and four paid), two new AWS Builder Labs, one new AWS Digital Classroom course, and a robust learning plan for aspiring machine learning engineers. For leaders, we launched a six-week generative AI learning experience in collaboration with the Udemy Business Leadership Academy. We also announced two new AWS Certifications, AWS…

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE) regions. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, as concurrency increases, to process queries without wait time. Amazon Redshift customers with an active Redshift cluster earn up to one hour of free Concurrency Scaling credits, which is sufficient for the concurrency needs of most customers. Concurrency scaling allows you to specify usage control pro…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. It runs open-source versions of Apache Kafka. This means existing applications, tooling, and plugins from partners and the Apache Kafka community are supported without requiring changes to application code. Customers use Amazon MSK for real-time data sharing with their end customers, who could be internal teams or third parties. These end customers manage Kafka clients, which are deployed in AWS, other managed cloud providers, or on premises. When migrating from self-managed to Amazon MSK or moving cli…

Introduction This post discusses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect, a capability that provides a secure and scalable way to connect different Amazon ECS service deployments. This enables seamless communication between micro-services while reducing the operational overhead. It provides features such as service discovery, load balancing, and network traffic metrics. This post primarily aims to outline a proactive approach to scaling Amazon ECS services by using custom metrics. These metrics are readily accessible by enabling the ECS Service Connect feature, thereby minimizing manual intervention and overhead. Background Traditional monolith…

Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to streamline how you manage your master user password for your RDS database instances. With this feature, RDS fully manages the master user password and stores it in AWS Secrets Manager whenever your RDS database instances are created, modified, or restored. The new feature supports the entire lifecycle maintenance for your RDS master user password including regular and automatic password rotations; removing the need for you to manage rotations using custom Lambda functions. RDS integration with AWS Secrets Manager improves your database security by ensuring your RDS master u…

AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically generates 999 functional acknowledgements to confirm receipt of individual X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) healthcare transactions and to report errors. This launch helps you maintain HIPAA compliance while automating delivery of 999 acknowledgements to trading partners that require them. This launch adds to AWS B2B Data Interchange’s existing support for automated TA1 acknowledgements. Each acknowledgement generated by AWS B2B Data Interchange is stored in Amazon S3, alongside your transformed EDI, and emits an Amazon EventBridge event. You can use these events to automatically send the acknowledgements created by AWS B…

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless in the Canada (Central) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently fast data ingestion rates and millisecond response times during changing usage patterns and application demand. With the support in the South America (Sao Paulo) region, OpenSearch Serverless is now available in 13 regions globally: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US We…

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Knowledge Bases now supports observability, offering log delivery choice through CloudWatch, S3 buckets, and Firehose streams. This capability provides enhanced visibility and timely insights into the execution of knowledge ingestion steps. Previously, Knowledge Bases provided basic statistics regarding content ingestion. However, this new feature offers more insights on the ingestion process, indicating whether each document was successfully …

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.37. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.37 in the Amazon RDS user guide. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster…

This week, I had the opportunity to try the new Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model in Amazon Bedrock just before it launched, and I was really impressed by its speed and accuracy! It was also the week of AWS Summit Japan. JAWS-UG, a Japanese AWS user group, held various sessions with AWS Heroes and Community Builders at the AWS Community Lounge, and many developers participated. Dr. Werner Vogels, a keynote speaker at the Japan Summit, had his first meeting with the Japanese community since 2020. Following the AWS Summit Japan, there was a lively event on Saturday where AWS community leaders from the Northeast Asia region (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea) all …

Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC), a feature of S3 Replication that provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA), is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers use S3 Replication to replicate billions of objects across buckets to the same or different AWS Regions and to one or more destination buckets. S3 RTC is designed to replicate 99.99% of objects within 15 minutes after upload, with the majority of those new objects replicated in seconds. S3 RTC is backed by an SLA with a commitment to replicate 99.9% of objects within 15 minutes during any billing month. With S3 RTC enabled, customers can also view S3 …

The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark is a performance-optimized runtime that is 100% API compatible with open source Apache Spark. It offers faster out-of-the-box performance than Apache Spark through improved query plans, faster queries, and tuned defaults. Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS, and Amazon EMR on AWS Outposts all use this optimized runtime, which is 4.5 times faster than Apache Spark 3.5.1 and has 2.8 times better price-performance based on an industry standard benchmark derived from TPC-DS at 3 TB scale (note that our TPC-DS derived benchmark results are not directly comparable with official TPC-DS benchmark results). W…

Starting today, enterprise admins using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart can easily configure granular access control for foundation models (FM) that are discoverable and accessible to users within their organization. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides access to hundreds of FMs, however many enterprise admins want more control over the FMs that can be discovered and used by users within their organization (e.g., only allowing Apache 2.0 license models to be discovered). With this new feature, enterprise admins can now creat…

Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for adding a default IAM role to an environment. Previously - when a workflow was configured - a user was required to specify the environment, AWS account connection, and IAM role for each individual action in order for that action to interact with AWS resources. With the default IAM role, a user only needs to set the environment for an action and the AWS account connection and role are automatically applied to the action. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where CodeCatalyst is generally available. To get started, add a default role to your environments today. To learn more, see the environments section in the C…

AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6 in the AWS GovCloud(US) Regions. With this launch, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce costs by minimizing the need for translation mechanisms. Previously, Lambda functions configured with an IPv4-only or dual-stack VPC could access VPC resources only over IPv4. To work around the constrained number of IPv4 addresses in VPC, customers modernizing their applications were required to build complex architectures or use network translation mechanisms. With today’s …

You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift in the AWS Canada (Calgary) region. Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor V2, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools by providing a web-based application that allows you to focus on exploring your data without managing your infrastructure. View the full article

Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 now enables customers to export their cost and usage data with the FOCUS 1.0 schema to Amazon S3. This feature is in preview. FOCUS is a new open-source cloud billing data specification that provides standardization to simplify cloud financial management across multiple sources. Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 includes several AWS-specific columns, such as usage types and cost categories, and delivers exports on a daily basis to Amazon S3 as Parquet or CSV files. With Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0, customers receive their costs in four standardized columns, ListCost, ContractedCost, BilledCost, and EffectiveCost. It provides a consistent treatment of…

Starting today, customers can reference the latest macOS AMIs via public parameters on the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. With this functionality, customers can query the public parameters to retrieve the latest macOS imageIDs, ensure that new EC2 Mac instances are launched with the latest macOS versions, and display a complete list of all available public parameter macOS AMIs. Public parameters are available for both x86 and ARM64 macOS AMIs and can be integrated with customers’ existing AWS CloudFormation templates. This capability is supported in all AWS regions where EC2 Mac instances are available. To learn more about this feature, please visit the documenta…

Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub now enables customers to export their cost optimization recommendations to Amazon S3. Cost Optimization Hub recommendations are consolidated from over 15 types of AWS cost optimization recommendations, such as EC2 instance rightsizing, Graviton migration, and Savings Plan purchases across their AWS accounts and AWS Regions. Exports are delivered on a daily basis to Amazon S3 in Parquet or CSV format. With Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub, customers receive their recommendations in easy-to-ingest data files, which simplifies creating reports or dashboards. Customers can apply the same filters and preferences to their exports …

Real-time data streaming has become prominent in today’s world of instantaneous digital experiences. Modern software as a service (SaaS) applications across all industries rely more and more on continuously generated data from different data sources such as web and mobile applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, social media platforms, and ecommerce sites. Processing these data streams in real time is key to delivering responsive and personalized solutions, and maximizes the value of data by processing it as close to the event time as possible. AWS helps SaaS vendors by providing the building blocks needed to implement a streaming application with Amazon Kinesis …

AWS Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL DB instances and storage. These recommendations help you identify idle databases and choose the optimal DB instance class and provisioned IOPS settings, so you can reduce costs for over-provisioned workloads and increase the performance of under-provisioned workloads. AWS Compute Optimizer automatically discovers your Amazon RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL DB instances and analyzes Amazon CloudWatch metrics such as CPU utilization, read and write IOPS, and database connections to generate recommendations. If you enable Amazon RDS Performance Insights on your DB instances, Compute Op…

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per seconds (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with IO2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and data warehouses to handle larger workloads on a single Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instance, eliminating the need to shard data across multiple instances. The support for 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express for Amazon RDS for SQL Server is now generally available in all AWS regions where Amazon RDS io2 B…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Cargo support in CodeArtifact. Crates, which are used to distribute Rust libraries, can now be stored in CodeArtifact. Cargo, the package manager for the Rust programming language, can be used to publish and download crates from CodeArtifact repositories. Developers can configure CodeArtifact to fetch crates from crates.io, the Rust community’s crate hosting service. When Cargo is connected to a CodeArtifact repository, CodeArtifact will automatically fetch requested crates from crates.io and store them in the CodeArtifact repository. By storing both private first-party crates and public, third-party crates in CodeArtifa…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB. With Oracle Multitenant, you have the option to consolidate standalone databases by either creating them as PDBs or migrating them to PDBs. Database consolidation c…

Amazon Bedrock now supports compressed embeddings (int8 and binary) from the Cohere Embed model, enabling developers and businesses to build more efficient generative AI applications without compromising on performance. Cohere Embed is a leading text embedding model. It is most frequently used to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search systems. The text embeddings output by the Cohere Embed model must be stored in a database with vector search capabilities, with storage costs being directly related to the dimensions of the embedding output as well as the number format precision. Cohere’s compression-aware model training techniques allows the mode…

Amazon Chime SDK now offers WebRTC meetings with API endpoints in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this release, Amazon Chime SDK developers can add one-to-one and group meetings with real-time audio and video to web and mobile applications from the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This release also includes the ability to connect clients to audio and video media hosted in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. When creating meetings applications with Amazon Chime SDK, developers call API endpoints to create, update, and delete one-to-one and group meetings. The region selected for the API endpoint can impact the latency for API calls and helps control the location of meeting dat…

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) Real-Time Streaming enables you to build real-time interactive video experiences. With individual participant recording, you can now record each live stream participant’s video or audio to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). When recording is enabled, each participant is automatically recorded and saved as a separate file in the Amazon S3 bucket you select. This new individual recording option is in addition to the existing composite recording feature, which combines all participants into one media file. There is no additional cost for enabling individual participant recording, but standard Amazon S3 storage and requ…

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, sets a new industry standard for intelligence. The model outperforms other generative AI models in the industry as well as Anthropic’s previously most intelligent model, Claude 3 Opus, on a wide range of evaluations, all while being one-fifth of the cost of Opus. You can now get intelligence better than Claude 3 Opus, at the same cost of Anthropic’s original Claude 3 Sonnet model. The frontier intelligence displayed by Claude 3.5 Sonnet combined with cost-effective pricing, makes this model ideal for complex tasks suc…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of configurable cluster storage for SageMaker HyperPod cluster instances, which enables customers to provision additional storage for model development. This launch allows you to centrally automate the provisioning and management of additional Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes for your cluster instances. With configurable cluster storage, you can easily integrate additional storage capacity across all your cluster instances, empowering you to customize your persistent cluster environment to meet the unique demands of your distributed training workloads. Cluster storage on SageMaker HyperPod enables customers to dynamically …

As organizations across industries embrace cloud innovation, the demand for skilled cloud talent continues to soar. IDC predicts that by 2026, over 90% of organizations will face an IT skills shortage. Aiming to help solve for this problem by upskilling the next generation of builders, AWS Cloud Institute is a virtual cloud-skills training program that will help you launch your career as a cloud developer in as little as one year – regardless of your technical background. But embarking on a new career can feel daunting, especially when venturing into tech where information overload can be a very real issue. Getting insider advice from those who have been in your shoes c…

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports JSON Web Token (JWT) that enables you to authenticate and authorize users without having to provide any credentials or use internal user database. JWT support also makes it easy for customers to integrate with identity provider of their choice and isolate tenants in a multi-tenant application. Until now, Amazon OpenSearch Service allowed customers to implement client and user authentication using Amazon Cognito and basic authentication with the internal user database. With JWT support, customers can now use a single token which any operator or external identity provider can use to authenticate requests to their Amazon OpenSearch S…

Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud with Amazon Q for feature development. Customers can now assign issues in CodeCatalyst to Amazon Q and direct it to work with source code hosted in GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud. Using Amazon Q, you can go from an issue all the way to merge-ready code in a pull request. Amazon Q analyzes the issue and existing source code, creates a plan, and then generates source code in a pull request. Before, customers could only use source code repositories hosted in CodeCatalyst with this capability. Now, customers can use source code repositories hosted in GitHub Clo…

AWS Elemental MediaConnect now provides information about the incoming transport stream and its program media. You can view transport stream information such as program numbers, stream types, codecs, and packet identifiers (PIDs) for video, audio, and data streams in the console or via the MediaConnect API. With this new feature you can more accurately identify and resolve issues, minimizing disruptions to your live broadcasts. To learn more about monitoring source streams, visit the AWS Elemental MediaConnect documentation page. AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owne…

The AWS Deadline Cloud Usage-Based Licensing (UBL) server now offers on-demand licenses for Autodesk 3ds Max, a popular software for 3D modeling, animation, and digital imagery. This addition joins other supported digital content creation tools such as Autodesk Arnold, Autodesk Maya®, Foundry Nuke®, and SideFX® Houdini. With Deadline Cloud UBL, you only pay for use of the software during the processing of jobs. With this release, customers can integrate 3ds Max licensing into their workflows by adding it to their license endpoints. Once configured, 3ds Max license traffic can be routed to the appropriate license endpoint, enabling seamless access and pay-as-you-go usag…

Amazon SageMaker now offers a fully managed MLflow capability. Data scientists can use familiar MLflow constructs to organize, track, and analyze ML experiments and administrators can setup MLflow with better scalability, availability, and security. MLflow is a popular open-source tool that helps customers manage ML experiments. Data scientists and ML engineers are already using MLflow with SageMaker. However, it required setting up, managing, and securing access to MLflow Tracking Servers. With this launch, SageMaker makes it easier for customers to set-up, and manage MLflow Tracking Servers with a couple of clicks. Customers can secure access to MLflow via AWS Identi…

AWS Glue now offers 13 new built-in transforms: Flag duplicates in column, Format Phone Number, Format case, Fill with mode, Flag duplicate rows, Remove duplicates, Month name, Is even, Cryptographic Hash, Decrypt, Encrypt, Int to IP and IP to int. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy for analytics users to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. With these new transform, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated data pipelines without having to write custom code for these common transform tasks. Each of these new transforms address a unique data processing need. For example, use Remove duplicates, Fl…

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. 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, a cloud data warehouse service, supports attaching dynamic data masking (DDM) policies to paths of SUPER data type columns, and uses the OBJECT_TRANSFORM function with the SUPER data type. SUPER data type…

OpenAI Whisper is a pre-trained model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation. It has demonstrated strong ASR performance across various languages, including the ability to transcribe speech in multiple languages and translate them into English. The Whisper model is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, making it accessible for developers to build useful applications, such as transcription services, voice assistants, and enhancing accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. For the apps such as transcriptions of live broadcast and online meeting, ASR streaming mode is required. Streaming has different APIs, fully duplex bi-directio…

Multimodal search enables both text and image search capabilities, transforming how users access data through search applications. Consider building an online fashion retail store: you can enhance the users’ search experience with a visually appealing application that customers can use to not only search using text but they can also upload an image depicting a desired style and use the uploaded image alongside the input text in order to find the most relevant items for each user. Multimodal search provides more flexibility in deciding how to find the most relevant information for your search. To enable multimodal search across text, images, and combinations of the two, …

Today, AWS announces rolling log file support for AWS Glue serverless Apache Spark UI. Serverless Spark UI enable you to get detailed information about your AWS Glue Spark jobs. With rolling log support, you can use AWS Glue serverless Spark UI to see detailed information for long-running batch or streaming jobs. Rolling log files enables you to monitor and debug large batch and streaming Glue jobs. View the full article

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (Paris) region. Amazon EC2 D3 instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) and provide up to 48 TB of local HDD storage. D3 instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3 instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or on-premises infrastructure to a platform optimized for dense HDD storage workloads. D3 instances are offered in 4 sizes - xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, and 8xlarge. D3…

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports custom domain names for the Airflow web server, simplifying access to the Airflow user interface. Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Amazon MWAA now adds the ability to customize the redirection URL that MWAA’s single sign-on (SSO) uses after authenticating the user against their IAM credentials. This allows customers that use private web servers …

Amazon Redshift has extended the VARBYTE data type from the current 1,024,000 bytes maximum size (see the VARBYTE What’s New announcement from December 2021) to 16,777,216 bytes max size. VARBYTE is a variable size data type for storing and representing variable-length binary strings. With this announcement, Amazon Redshift will support all existing VARBYTE functionality with 16MB VARBYTE values. VARBYTE data type can now ingest data larger than 1,024,000 bytes from Parquet, CSV and text file formats. The default size for a VARBYTE(n) column (if n is not specified) remains 64,0000 bytes. VARBYTE 16MB support is now available in all commercial AWS Regions. Refer to the …

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new capability of Amazon Q Developer in Amazon CodeCatalyst. Customers can now use Amazon Q to help them pick the best blueprint for their needs when getting started with a new project or on an existing project. Before, customers had to read through the descriptions of available blueprints to try and pick the best match. Now customers can describe what they want to create and receive direct guidance about which blueprint to pick for their needs. Amazon Q will also create an issue in the project for each requirement that isn’t included in the resources created by the blueprint. Users can then customize their project by ass…

Today, AWS announces general availability of AWS Glue Usage Profiles, a new cost control capability that allows admins to set preventatives controls and limits over resources consumed by their Glue jobs and Notebook sessions. With AWS Glue Usage Profiles, admins can create different cost profiles for different classes of users. Each profile is a unique set of parameters that can be assigned to different types of users. For example, a cost profile for data engineer working on production pipeline could have unrestricted number of workers whereas the cost profile for a test user could have a restricted number of workers. You can get started by creating a new usage profile…

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for storage, analytics, machine learning (ML), playback, and other processing. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices. It durably stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in your streams, and allows you to access your data through easy-to-use APIs. Kinesis Video Streams enables you to playback video for live and on-demand viewing, and quickly build applications t…

Amazon CodeCatalyst now offers a new capability powered by Amazon Q to help customers analyze issues and recommend granular tasks. These tasks can then be individually assigned to users or to Amazon Q itself, helping you accelerate work. Before, customers could create issues to track work that needs to be done on a project and they needed to manually create more granular tasks that can be assigned to others on the team. Now customers can ask Amazon Q to analyze an issue for complexity and suggest ways of breaking up the work into individual tasks. This capability is available in the PDX region. For more information, see the documentation or visit the Amazon CodeCatalys…

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless in the South America (Sao Paulo) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently fast data ingestion rates and millisecond response times during changing usage patterns and application demand. With the support in the South America (Sao Paulo) region, OpenSearch Serverless is now available in 12 regions globally: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virgini…

You can now learn how to automate your Managed File Transfer (MFT) workflows in AWS using event-driven architectures with a new workshop in AWS Workshop Studio. This workshop, titled Event-Driven MFT Workshop, provides hands on labs for using AWS Transfer Family in combination with other AWS services to modernize your business-to-business file transfer and file-processing workflows. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed, scalable and secure file transfers to AWS storage over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, and FTP protocols. This workshop will guide you through building bidirectional workflows to transfer files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3, and automate processing o…

Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports uploading local files up to 100MB in size when loading data into your Amazon Redshift databases. This increased file size limit provides more flexibility for ingesting larger datasets directly from your local environment. With the new 100MB file size limit, data analysts, engineers, and developers can now load larger datasets from local files into their Redshift clusters or workgroups using Query Editor V2. This enhancement is particularly beneficial when working with CSV, JSON, or other structured data files that previously exceeded the 5MB limit. By streamlining the upload process for sizeable local files, you can expedite…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g and R7g instances are available are now available in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and South America (São Paulo) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same perfo…

Amazon DataZone launches custom blueprint configurations for AWS services allowing customers to optimize resource usage and costs by using existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and/or AWS services, such as Amazon S3. Amazon DataZone is a data management service for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. Amazon DataZone’s blueprints can help administrators define which AWS tools and services will be deployed for data producers like data engineers or data consumers like data scientists, simplifying access to data and increasing collaboration among project memb…

Today, AWS announces the support for Maven, Python, and NuGet package formats in Amazon CodeCatalyst package repositories. CodeCatalyst customers can now securely store, publish, and share Maven, Python, and NuGet packages, using popular package managers such as mvn, pip, nuget and more. Through your CodeCatalyst package repositories, you can also access open source packages from from 6 additional public package registries. Your packages remain available for your development teams, should public packages and registries become unavailable from other service providers. View the full article

Amazon Connect Cases is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions. Amazon Connect Cases provides built-in case management capabilities that make it easy for your contact center agents to create, collaborate on, and quickly resolve customer issues that require multiple customer conversations and follow-up tasks. View the full article

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that enables you to run extract, transform, and load (ETL) workloads on your data in a scalable and serverless manner. One of the main advantages of using a cloud platform is its flexibility; you can provision compute resources when you actually need them. However, with this ease of creating resources comes a risk of spiraling cloud costs when those resources are left unmanaged or without guardrails. As a result, admins need to balance avoiding high infrastructure costs with allowing users to work without unnecessary friction. To address that, today we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Glue usage pr…

Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was amazing to reconnect with long-time friends and former colleagues, and to make new friends. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users – We’ve added passkeys to the list of supported multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your root and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users…

Amazon CodeCatalyst now offers the ability to link an issue to other issues. This allows customers to link issues in CodeCatalyst as blocked by, duplicate of, related to, or blocks another issue. Customer use CodeCatalyst issues to organize and coordinate their team's daily work. In addition, customers want to identify and visualize relationships between issues to plan the work effectively. The new capability assists teams to visualize dependencies between issues and see which issue is blocked with with other issue, is a duplicate of another issue, or if an issue blocks others issues. View the full article

AWS CodeBuild now supports organization and global webhooks for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server. CodeBuild webhooks automatically detect changes in your repositories and trigger new builds whenever webhook events are received. These events include GitHub Actions workflow run, commit push, release, and pull request. With this feature, you can now configure a single CodeBuild webhook at organization or enterprise level to receive events from all repositories in your organizations, instead of creating webhooks for each individual repository. For managed GitHub Action self-hosted runners, this feature provides a centralized control mechanism, as you can set up runner e…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in US East (Ohio) region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don't…

The Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement enables two parties to establish a shared secret over a public channel. With this new feature, you can take another party’s public key and your own elliptic-curve KMS key that’s inside AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to derive a shared secret within the security boundary of FIPS 140-2 validated KMS hardware security module (HSM). This shared secret can then be used to derive a symmetric key to encrypt and decrypt data between the two parties using a symmetric encryption algorithm within your application. You can use this feature directly within your own applications by calling DeriveSharedSecret KMS API, or using …

AWS Systems Manager now supports instances running Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, and Oracle Linux versions 8.8 and 8.9. Systems Manager customers running these operating systems versions now have access to all AWS Systems Manager Node Management capabilities, including Fleet Manager, Compliance, Inventory, Hybrid Activations, Session Manager, Run Command, State Manager, Patch Manager, and Distributor. For a full list of supported operating systems and machine types for AWS Systems Manager, see the user guide. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch instances with both security-related and other types of updates across your infrastructure for a variety of common operat…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.8, 10.6.18, 10.5.25, and 10.4.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more …

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized R6i instance types featuring 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 you to right-size instances for your Oracle workloads. Memory optimized R6i instances are available in Bri…

Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in a customer’s organization. Amazon DataZone introduces advanced search filtering capabilities in its business data catalog. This include improved rendering of glossary term facets, the ability to switch between 'AND' and 'OR' logic for filtering, and clear summaries of selected filters, making data discovery more efficient and intuitive. Data consumers can navigate and select from hundreds of glossary terms in an expandable, collapsible hierarchy and perform more precise searches using logic filters to help find data qu…

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) released a new way to track email sending activity by delivering sending events to Amazon EventBridge. Customers can now select EventBridge as a delivery destination for configuration sets, making it easier to route event notifications such as bounces and complaints to any service supported by EventBridge. Customers can use EventBridge rules to filter events by selecting information of interest and building workflows or data stores to process and store events. This information can be used for use cases such as contact list updates and deliverability analytics. This update makes it easier to capture and process SES sending events fo…

AWS has launched the NICE DCV Access Console, a new web-based solution for administrators and end users to more easily manage their remote desktop sessions. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that allows users to securely connect to remote desktops from any device. Customers can now efficiently deploy an out-of-the-box solution that centralizes their NICE DCV session management. The NICE DCV Access Console complements the existing NICE DCV Session Manager, which provides installable software packages and an API to manage the lifecycle of sessions across a fleet of NICE DCV servers. With the Access Console, administrators can centrally create and man…

Today, Amazon EKS open sourced the Pod Identity agent, providing customers with more options to package and deploy the agent into EKS clusters. Pod Identity is a feature of EKS that simplifies the process for cluster administrators to configure Kubernetes applications with AWS IAM permissions. A prerequisite for using the Pod Identity feature is running the Pod Identity agent on the cluster’s worker nodes. With the Pod Identity agent being open sourced, you can now build the agent on your own. This gives you various options to package and deploy the agent, enabling you to align with your organization’s deployment practices. With access to the Pod Identity agent’s sourc…

Amazon DataZone, a fully managed data management service for cataloging, discovering, analyzing, sharing, and governing data within an organization, has achieved key milestones in security and compliance certifications. These accomplishments reflect an ongoing effort to expand compliance programs to support customers' architectural and regulatory needs. The certifications included System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3, validating the effectiveness of compliance controls through independent third-party assurance. Additionally, Amazon DataZone secured International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications—ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, …

Starting today, you can enable your content delivery network (CDN) to transparently failover between two or more AWS Elemental MediaPackage Live origins in different AWS regions. This resilience capability uses the new support for CMAF Ingest (Interface-1) and the force-endpoint error configuration option to enable CDN failover to a backup origin in case of stale or incomplete primary stream. This capability of MediaPackage is easy to use in combination with AWS Elemental MediaLive or AWS Elemental Live encoders, and Amazon CloudFront. Configuring MediaPackage channels for cross-region failover helps ensure smooth playback for viewers during origin failovers, eliminate…

Today, Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for customers who want to use the same AWS resources for billing and managing single sign-on access for multiple spaces. You can now connect multiple CodeCatalyst spaces to a single AWS Identity Center application for managing access to CodeCatalyst spaces for your users. You can also connect multiple CodeCatalyst spaces to a single AWS account for billing purposes. With SSO support through IAM Identity Center, it’s easier to manage which team members have access across multiple Amazon CodeCatalyst spaces. Additionally, customers can now centrally segment user access and billing across business units. Each business unit can …

Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Europe (London), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central) regions to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, as well as Amazon via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI bu…

AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, and industrial equipment. Today, we are announcing the Dynamic Scene feature, which allows for the updating and rendering of 3D objects dynamically based on TwinMaker Entities and Knowledge Graph queries. This feature will make it easier for customers to create and update 3D scenes using Knowledge Graph queries. Previously, customers had to manually edit scenes in the AWS console to make changes. With the Dynamic Scene feature, all 3D scene objects, settings, and data bindings are stored as entities in the Knowledge Graph. Now, customers can use Knowledge Graph…

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 33 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon MQ reduces your your operational responsibilities by managing the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers for you. Because Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols, you can more easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. View the full article

AWS Launch Wizard now offers resource and tag-based access controls for improved governance and security. With today’s launch, you can add tags to your AWS Launch Wizard resources and define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions based on resource IDs and tags. Similarly, for resource-level access controls, you can configure IAM policies through Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) or wildcards, and specify the users, roles and actions that are permitted on the resources. AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS resources for third party applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server Always On an…

Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports the ability to automatically backup and restore your Memcached data. You can now create a snapshot of your serverless Memcached cache and use it to restore the cache or seed data into a new serverless cache, enhancing data resilience and recovery. Hundreds of thousands of customers use ElastiCache to build highly responsive applications. With ElastiCache Serverless, you can accelerate application performance without needing to manage infrastructure and capacity. Previously customers running Memcached workloads on ElastiCache did not have the ability to backup or preserve their data in the event of a failure, data loss, or data…

AWS User Notifications is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region. User Notifications enables you to view notifications across accounts, regions, and services in a Console Notifications Center, and configure delivery channels where you want to receive these notifications, like email, AWS Chatbot, and AWS Console Mobile App. You can centrally setup and view notifications from AWS services, such as AWS Health events, Amazon CloudWatch alarms, or Amazon EC2 instance state changes, in a consistent, human-readable format. Notifications include URLs to direct you to resources on the AWS Console, where you can take take additional actions. With User Notifications, you sp…

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to create VPC interface endpoints to securely connect your VPC to Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline via AWS PrivateLink. This allows greater control in meeting your network and security posture by explicitly restricting VPC resource access to only entities that need it. Furthermore, you can now connect multiple VPCs to a single Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline in an AWS account allowing network architectures for centralized logging. With customer-managed VPC endpoints, your VPC resources can communicate with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion within the AWS network, which helps you meet your compliance and regulatory requiremen…

We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing, an AWS Mainframe Modernization service feature that automates functional equivalence testing for mainframe application modernization and migration to AWS, and regression testing. When modernizing mainframe applications, customers typically spend a majority of their time on software testing requiring specialized skillsets. The diversity of languages, data formats, protocols, and system dependencies add to the testing complexity. To accelerate modernization and continuous testing even long after mainframe application modernization is complete, Application Testing provi…

Amazon DynamoDB now supports an AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) action to pause replication for global tables in the GovCloud (US) Regions. FIS is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Global tables replicate your Amazon DynamoDB tables automatically across your choice of AWS Regions to achieve fast, local read and write performance. Customers can use the new FIS action to observe how their application responds to a pause in regional replication, and tune their monitoring and recovery process to improve resiliency and application availability. Global tables ar…