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AWS IAM Identity Center now provides customers with streamlined first-time access to the AWS Console Mobile Application, reducing the required user actions by more than half. In the past, AWS IAM Identity Center customers who wanted to access the AWS Console Mobile Application were required to find and manually enter their AWS access portal sign in URL. With this release, users can scan a QR code on their AWS Access Portal page using their mobile device. An application link takes them directly to the AWS Console Mobile Application and pre-populates the sign in URL for their AWS access portal. The Console Mobile Application lets users view and manage a select set of …

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Zurich) regions. 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’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). You will be able to configure maximum number of OCUs per account to to control costs. The support for OpenSearch Serverless is now available in 16 regions globally: US Ea…

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum filesystem read throughput to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase). Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In August 2024, we increased the maximum Elastic Throughput limits to 30 GiB/s read to support the growing throughput demand for AI and machine learning workloads. Now, we are further increasing the read throughput limit to 60 GiB/s, extending EFS's simple, fully elastic, and provisioning-free experience to support throughput-intensive AI and machine learning workloads for model training, inference, financial analytics, …

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage as a new storage option for your Windows AppStream 2.0 users. With the launch of this feature, users can easily access and collaborate on shared files without transferring files manually. The shared network storage is implemented as an SMB (Server Message Block) network drive. When administrators enable and map these SMB network drives, multiple users can access the same data during their AppStream 2.0 sessions. Changes made to the shared files are automatically backed up and synchronized. Additionally, the feature provides the advantage of scalable, shared storage resources, optimizing customer storage us…

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 G5 instances. Customers can use G6e instances to interactively test model deployment and for interactive model training use cases such as generative AI fine-tuning. You can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are avai…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Europe (Paris), and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Milan). With this regional expansion, Graviton3 database instances are now available for Amazon RDS in 21 regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Malaysia, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain). For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refe…

Starting today, you can assign the billing of unused Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) to any one of your organization accounts with which the reservation is shared. Capacity Reservations help you reserve compute capacity for any duration and share it across multiple accounts, enabling you to centrally pool and manage your reserved capacity. When a Capacity Reservation is shared, each account is billed for their respective usage of the reservation, while any unused capacity is by default billed to the account that owns the reservation. Now, depending on your business needs, you have the flexibility to configure which account gets billed for the unused capa…

Customers who are building their “Golden Image” Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) using EC2 Image Builder may wish to extend their Image Builder pipelines to build out their Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) worker nodes as well. In this blog, we will show you how to do this and provide you with AWS CloudFormation templates to get you started. In this post, we will use the concept of Image Builder Cascading Pipelines. The image created from the golden image pipeline will be the source image of the EKS worker node pipeline. Image Builder can run pipelines on a recurring schedule when dependencies, such as base images or components, are updated. Additionally, the …

Amazon Verified Permissions is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations subject to HIPAA to use the service for permissions management. Amazon Verified Permissions is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. Amazon Verified Permissions uses the Cedar policy language to enable developers and admins to define policy-based access controls using roles and attributes. For example, an patient management application might call Amazon Verified Permissions (AVP) to determine if Alice is permitted access to Bob’s patient records,…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3en instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. D3en instances are ideal for workloads including distributed/clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3en instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or on-premises infrastructure to a platform optimized for dense HDD storage workloads. Amazon EC2 D3en instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of private networking, and efficient, flexible, and secure cloud ser…

AWS Transfer Family now provides real-time status of file transfers initiated using SFTP connectors. With this capability, you can easily monitor the current state of your file transfer operations and orchestrate post-transfer actions to automate your Managed File Transfer (MFT) workflows in AWS. SFTP connectors provide a fully managed, low-code capability to transfer files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. Now you can query the status of your file transfer operations on demand, such as which file transfers are completed, in-progress, queued, or failed. You can use this capability to orchestrate post-transfer actions based on file status, such as sending statu…

Amazon Redshift now supports the 'refresh interval' feature for zero-ETL integration, allowing you to control the frequency of data replication into Amazon Redshift. When you specify a non-zero refresh interval to your integration, the ongoing replication process will only start after the specified interval has elapsed. Amazon Redshift's zero-ETL integrations enable you to break down data silos in your organization and run near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on the data from your operational databases. Now, with the launch of refresh interval, you have the flexibility to control the frequency of data replication to Amazon Redshift. Existing integrations …

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) optimized accelerated AMIs for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). EKS customers can now enjoy the improved security features, optimized boot times, and newer kernel versions of AL2023 for their workloads using NVIDIA GPU, AWS Inferentia, and AWS Trainium instances. These new AMIs are based on the Amazon EKS optimized AMI for AL2023 and include support for NVIDIA and AWS Neuron workloads. The EKS Optimized NVIDIA AMI includes NVIDIA drivers, NVIDIA Fabric Manager and NVIDIA container toolkit, and the EKS Optimized Neuron AMI includes the Neuron driver. Both AMIs also come with the software…

Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain, an interactive generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant that helps you operate your supply chain more efficiently by analyzing the data in your AWS Supply Chain Data Lake, providing important operational and financial insights, and answering urgent supply chain questions. It reduces the time users spend searching for relevant information, simplifies the process of finding answers, and minimizes the time spent to learn, deploy, configure, or troubleshoot AWS Supply Chain. Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain will enable supply chain users to deep dive into their supply chain by asking questions and getting answers based on th…

Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open until October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). They will be packed with events, conferences, workshops, and meetups. If you’re around, be sure to check the agenda (London, Paris). Our well-known AWS News blog co-author Veliswa did an amazing demo. She live-coded a Duolingo-like app from scratch, just using suggestions and reviews from Amazon Q Devel…

Extracting valuable insights from massive datasets is essential for businesses striving to gain a competitive edge. Enterprise data is brought into data lakes and data warehouses to carry out analytical, reporting, and data science use cases using AWS analytical services like Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, and so on. Amazon Athena provides interactive analytics service for analyzing the data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon Redshift is used to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes. Amazon EMR provides a big data environment for data processing, interactive analysis, and ma…

In today’s data-driven world, processing large datasets efficiently is crucial for businesses to gain insights and maintain a competitive edge. Amazon EMR is a managed big data service designed to handle these large-scale data processing needs across the cloud. It allows running applications built using open source frameworks on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), or AWS Outposts, or completely serverless. One of the key features of Amazon EMR on EC2 is managed scaling, which dynamically adjusts computing capacity in response to application demands, providing optimal performance and cost-efficiency. Although managed…

Snapshots are crucial for data backup and disaster recovery in Amazon OpenSearch Service. These snapshots allow you to generate backups of your domain indexes and cluster state at specific moments and save them in a reliable storage location such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Snapshots play a critical role in providing the availability, integrity and ability to recover data in OpenSearch Service domains. By implementing a robust snapshot strategy, you can mitigate risks associated with data loss, streamline disaster recovery processes and maintain compliance with data management best practices. This post provides a detailed walkthrough about how to eff…

Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Redshift Service Level Agreement (SLA) to 99.99% and delivers a highly available data warehouse for the most demanding mission-critical workloads. Enterprise customers with mission critical workloads require a data warehouse with fast failover times and simplified operations that minimizes impact to applications. A Redshift Multi-AZ de…

AWS announces End User Messaging Social, enabling developers to message their end users on WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging app with over 2.7 billion users. With this release, developers can create rich messaging experiences on WhatsApp with multimedia content and interactive features. They can now use WhatsApp alongside End User Messaging SMS and Push notifications as part of their messaging strategy, ensuring they can communicate to their end users through the channels they prefer most. To get started, developers can create a new WhatsApp Business Account (WABA) using our self-guided onboarding or link an existing WABA to End User Messaging, all within th…

AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces the ability to skip a stage as a result of a stage level condition evaluation. With this launch, you can now set “Skip,” “Fail,” and “Rollback” as a result of a stage condition failing. “Skip” can only be used with conditions evaluated before a pipeline execution enters a stage. To skip a stage, add a condition to the before entry with “Skip” as the result. Add a rule such as variable check to the condition to evaluate if a pipeline variable matches a specific value. When a pipeline execution is waiting to enter the stage, the variable check rule is evaluated. If the rule fails, the condition fails and the stage where the c…

Today, AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.4 with support for Autodesk 3dsMax 2025, Autodesk Maya 2025, and SideFX Houdini 20.5, a new plugin to support Houdini exports to Karma 20.0, and security and configuration changes in Deadline. The .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) has been updated to 8.0.302, and Deadline installs MongoDB version 6.0.16 by default, with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9, including Rocky and Alma. Additionally, machine-wide permissions now require user-specific configurations to be saved in user-level folders, enhancing security. Deadline 10.4 expands its platform support for RHEL 9, including Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, providing mo…

Amazon CloudFront now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. The JA4 fingerprint is passed via the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header. You can inspect the JA4 fingerprints using custom logic on your application web servers or using CloudFront Functions or Lambda@Edge. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint contains a 38-character long fingerprint of the TLS Client Hello which is used to initiate a secure connection from clients. The fingerprint can be used to build a database of known good and bad actors to apply when inspecting HTTP requests. You can add the Cloudfront-viewer-ja…

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s zonal shift and zonal autoshift features on load balancers that are enabled across zones. Zonal shift allows you to quickly shift traffic away from an impaired Availability Zone (AZ) and recover from events such as bad application deployment and gray failures. Zonal autoshift safely and automatically shifts your traffic away from an AZ when AWS identifies potential impact to it. Enabling cross-zone on NLBs is a popular configuration for customers that require an even distribution of traffic across application targets in multiple AZs. With this launch, customers can shift traffic away …

AWS Resource Explorer customers can now list all AWS resources indexed by Resource Explorer across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to search for supported AWS resources using keywords and search operators to return up to 1,000 relevancy-ranked results. Starting today, customers can use the same familiar search operators to list and paginate through all matching results with Resource Explorer’s new ListResources API. The ListResources API is available in the AWS SDKs and CLI. To learn more about this capability, please visit our documentation. This feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions. View the full article

Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now include the ability to color code metric performance, customize service level thresholds, and switch metrics within widgets. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. You can further customize the dashboards by changing the metrics you want to monitor, as well as color code metric performance based on custom defined thresholds. For example, you can automatically show service level as red if it dips below 70%, yellow if its between 70-90%, and green if its gre…

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is now available in the Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions, enabling users to configure and operate MediaPackage using the console or API endpoints in these regions. AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. T…

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions with immutable recovery points and vaults, and restore your data in the event of a data loss incident. You can get started with AWS Backup using the AWS Backup console, SDKs, or CLI by creating a data protection policy and then assigning AWS resources to it us…

Amazon Redshift's Data Sharing of data lake tables is now generally available, offering a secure and convenient way to share live data lake tables across different Amazon Redshift warehouses. Data Sharing of data lake tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog provides live access to the data, ensuring that you always see the most up-to-date and consistent information as it is updated in the data lake. Today you can use Amazon Redshift to query your data lake but you cannot leverage the power of Redshift or Lake Formation managed data sharing with external schemas referencing your data lake tables. You have redundant effort to setup your data lake tables for each Redshift war…

This post was co-written with Ran Isenberg, Principal Software Architect at CyberArk and an AWS Serverless Hero. Serverless architectures enable agility and simplified cloud resource management. Organizations embracing serverless architectures build robust, distributed cloud applications. As organizations grow and the number of development teams increases, maintaining architectural consistency, standardization, and governance across projects becomes crucial. In this post, you will discover how CyberArk, a leading identity security company, efficiently implements serverless architecture governance, reduces duplicative efforts, and saves months of development time by co…

Amazon Redshift introduces a unique identifier assigned to SQL queries, which lets you effectively track query performance over time and identify recurring patterns in resource-intensive queries. This new feature, called a 'query hash', uniquely identifies SQL queries based on their textual representation and predicate values. Query hash is a unique query signature that is generated for executed queries on a data warehouse. With query hash, you can investigate query performance by either performing trend analysis of queries over a period of time or comparing performance for a query across different time periods. This feature adds two new columns to SYS_QUERY_HISTORY vi…

We now offer service reference information to streamline automation of policy management workflows, helping you to retrieve available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. Whether you are a security administrator establishing guardrails for workloads or a developer ensuring appropriate access to applications, you can now more easily identify the available actions for AWS services. We provide service reference for AWS services, enabling you to seamlessly incorporate the metadata into your own policy management workflows. With this new offering, you can automate the retrieval of service reference information, eliminating manual effort and your policies…

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client inventory is now available to purchase in UK on Amazon Business. Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment. End users can set up WorkSpaces Thin Client in minutes using an on-device guided deployment experience to connect their network and peripherals and log in to their virtual desktops including Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Web, and Amazon AppStream 2.0. WorkSpaces Thin Client also helps IT organizations improve security by removing the ability to upload or download files or applications a…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of four highly expressive Amazon Polly voices speaking in American and Australian English. Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. The generative engine is Amazon Polly's most advanced text-to-speech (TTS) model. With this launch, we add a variety of new synthetic generative English voices to Polly portfolio: i.e., an Australian English voice Olivia, and three US English voices Joanna, Danielle, and Stephen. These voices sound similar to our neural voices with t…

AWS is announcing the general availability of Console to Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Console to Code makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to move from prototyping in the AWS Management Console to building code for production deployments. Customers can generate code for their console actions in their preferred format with a single click. The generated code helps customers get started and bootstrap their automation pipelines for tasks. Console to Code makes it easy to convert actions performed in the console into reusable code, using the language of your choice. Customers use the AWS Management Console to learn and prototype cloud solutions, and using Conso…

Ray is an open-source framework that manages, executes, and optimizes compute needs for AI workloads. It is designed to make it easy to write parallel and distributed Python applications by providing a simple and intuitive API for distributed computing. Ray unifies infrastructure by leveraging any compute instance and accelerator on AWS via a single, flexible framework—enabling any AI workload from data processing to model training to model serving and beyond. Ray, launched as a research project in 2016, is quickly becoming a standard for orchestrating AI workloads, especially with Kubernetes. On AWS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service t…

Amazon Redshift has established itself as a highly scalable, fully managed cloud data warehouse trusted by tens of thousands of customers for its superior price-performance and advanced data analytics capabilities. Driven primarily by customer feedback, the product roadmap for Amazon Redshift is designed to make sure the service continuously evolves to meet the ever-changing needs of its users. Over the years, this customer-centric approach has led to the introduction of groundbreaking features such as zero-ETL, data sharing, streaming ingestion, data lake integration, Amazon Redshift ML, Amazon Q generative SQL, and transactional data lake capabilities. The latest inno…

The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure - or schema - in a shared, central location. You can download code bindings for those schemas for Java, Python, Typescript, and Golang so it’s easier to use events as objects in your code. The Schema Discovery and Schema Registry features are integrated with the Amazon EventBridge Event Bus, which enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. While event bus…

Model Evaluation on Amazon Bedrock allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case. Amazon Bedrock offers a choice of automatic evaluation and human evaluation. You can use automatic evaluation with predefined algorithms for metrics such as accuracy, robustness, and toxicity. Additionally, for those metrics or subjective and custom metrics, such as friendliness, style, and alignment to brand voice, you can set up a human evaluation workflow with a few clicks. Human evaluation workflows can leverage your own employees or an AWS-managed team as reviewers. Model evaluation provides built-in curated datasets or you can bring your own da…

Lambda recursive loop detection can now automatically detect and stop recursive loops between AWS Lambda and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Lambda recursive loop detection, which is enabled by default, is a preventative guardrail that automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda and other supported services, preventing unintended usage and billing from runaway workloads. Customers commonly use Amazon S3 as an event source to trigger Lambda functions. Customer misconfiguration or code defect can cause processed events to be sent back to the same Amazon S3 bucket that invoked the Lambda function, causing unintended recursive loops. Now…

Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, making event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing an easier way to replay past events. Archive and Replay enables you to build applications that can more easily recover from errors and also allows you to more easily validate new functionality in your applications. The Archive and Replay feature is integrated with the Amazon EventBridge Event Bus, which enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. You can set up r…

AWS CodePipeline introduces a simplified and new getting started experience to enable you to quickly create new pipelines. When you create a new pipeline using the CodePipeline console, you can now select from a list of pipeline templates across Build, Automation, and Deployment use cases. After selecting a pipeline template, you will be prompted to enter values for the action configuration fields in the pipeline definition, and completing the process will render a fully configured pipeline that is ready to run. To learn more about using the new pipeline templates, visit our documentation. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page. Getting sta…

Amazon Connect Chat now supports using your customer's initial message in flows, enabling you to improve self-service containment rates and personalize the customer experience. You can use the initial chat message to display the right step-by-step guide, trigger interactive messages from Amazon Lex (e.g., list pickers, carousels), or route the chat to the best agent. For example, if the initial message is about an order issue, you can immediately show the customer a list pickers of recent orders. Alternatively, if the message is about rescheduling a delivery, you can present date and time pickers to help them make the change. To use the customer's initial message with …

In this post, we highlight key lessons learned while helping a global financial services provider migrate their Apache Hadoop clusters to AWS and best practices that helped reduce their Amazon EMR, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) costs by over 30% per month. We outline cost-optimization strategies and operational best practices achieved through a strong collaboration with their DevOps teams. We also discuss a data-driven approach using a hackathon focused on cost optimization along with Apache Spark and Apache HBase configuration optimization. Background In early 2022, a business unit of a global financial serv…

Today, customers are embarking on data modernization programs by migrating on-premises data warehouses and data lakes to the AWS Cloud to take advantage of the scale and advanced analytical capabilities of the cloud. Customers are migrating their on-premises data warehouse solutions built on databases like Netezza, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, and Teradata to AWS based modern data platforms using services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Redshift. AWS based modern data platforms help you break down data silos and enable analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases at scale. During migration, you might want to establish data parity checks between on-p…

Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey, which is priced 30% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you are not charged for data written up to 10 TB/month. Any data written over 10TB/month is billed at $0.04/GB, which is 80% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a drop in replacement of Redis OSS. Valkey is backed by 40+ companies and has seen rapid adoption since the project was created in March 2024. Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible database service, which provides multi-AZ durability, microsecond read…

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey with Serverless priced 33% lower and node-based priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a drop in replacement of Redis OSS, backed by 40+ companies with rapid adoption since project inception in March 2024. Hundreds of thousands of customers use ElastiCache to improve their database and application performance and optimize costs. ElastiCache for Valkey provides a fully managed experience …

AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of a new procurement insights dashboard, helping you manage your organization’s renewals and optimize your AWS Marketplace spend. The new dashboard gives you detailed visibility into your organization’s AWS Marketplace agreements and associated spend across the AWS accounts in your organization. The procurement insights dashboard identifies contracts nearing their end of term, enabling you to proactively address upcoming renewals. The comprehensive view of your organization's AWS Marketplace agreements allows you to identify consolidation opportunities across teams. You can gain a deeper understanding of your organizat…

We are pleased to announce that Amazon is extending the End of Life (EOL) dates for Amazon Corretto 8 and Amazon Corretto 11. The new EOL dates are as follows: Amazon Corretto 8: December-2030 Previous EOL date was April 2026 Amazon Corretto 11: January-2032 Previous EOL date was September 2027 Please note that Amazon will halt support for JavaFX, which is currently included in Corrretto 8, on its original EOL date of March-2026. After this date, JavaFX will no longer be included with Corretto 8. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please reach out to the Amazon Corretto team by creating a GitHub ticket or, if …

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for contact center agents, now enables contact center supervisors to pre-configure LLM prompts to match your company's brand and business guidelines. Supervisors can tailor prompts to change Amazon Q in Connect's tone and behavior to incorporate specific company phrases, follow language guidelines, and designate certain "fixed" responses for situations requiring absolute consistency. For example, when a customer contacts a healthcare insurance provider, Amazon Q in Connect can be customized to be sensitive for use cases such as denied claim. Agents using step-by-step guides for the claim appeals process will be provid…