Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P4d instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They provide up to 100 Gbps networking throughput with 96 vCPUs, 1.1 TB instance memory, and 8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. You can use P4d instances for interactive model training for use cases such as generative AI foundation model tuning with billions of parameters, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender engines. Visit d…

Today, AWS End User Computing announced new session management capabilities for Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. This update provides administrators with deeper visibility and monitoring insights for day-to-day service management. Administrators may now access a dashboard view from the AWS Console which displays active and historical sessions over the last 35 days. Using the dashboard, administrators can filter sessions based on user, session ID, portal, or by current status. Administrators can view a session’s start time, current status, and force stop in-progress sessions. Administrators can export session management records from the last 35 days, which can be used …

Amazon SageMaker with MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink, which enables you to transfer critical data from your virtual private cloud (VPC) to MLflow Tracking Servers in a private, secure, and scalable manner. This capability enhances the protection of sensitive information by ensuring that data sent to the MLflow Tracking Servers is transferred within the AWS network, avoiding exposure to the public internet. MLflow is a popular open-source tool that helps data scientists organize, track, and analyze machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) experiments. To accelerate ML and GenAI experimentation, you can set-up and manage MLflow Tracking Servers with a couple …

You can now pick the software and driver versions used by the instances that best fits your needs when deploying models on SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price performance for any use case. Previously, customers had to use preset software and driver versions defined by SageMaker on the managed instances behind an endpoint. Now customers can specify the “InferenceAmiVersion” parameter when configuring endpoints to select the combination of software and driver versions (such as Nvidia driver and CUDA version) that best meets their requirements. This allows you to tai…

AWS customers often look for ways to run their systems within or under budget, avoiding unnecessary costs. This post offers practical advice on designing scalable and cost-efficient three-tier architectures by using serverless technologies within the AWS Free Tier. With AWS, you can start small and scale cost-effectively as your business demand increases. You can begin with minimal investments by using the Free Tier to build a minimum viable product (MVP). Then you can expand resources as your user base grows and your needs evolve, and transition to a full-fledged, large-scale application. In this blog post, you will learn how to build a three-tier architecture that p…

Cross-Region deployments provide increased resilience to maintain business continuity during outages, natural disasters, or other operational interruptions. Many large enterprises, design and deploy special plans for readiness during such situations. They rely on solutions built with AWS services and features to improve their confidence and response times. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service for OpenSearch, a search and analytics engine at scale. OpenSearch Service provides high availability within an AWS Region through its Multi-AZ deployment model and provides Regional resiliency with cross-cluster replication. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a deployment opt…

AWS Resilience Hub has expanded its capabilities to assess applications that include Amazon ElastiCache. Resilience Hub serves as a centralized platform to define, validate, and monitor the resilience of your applications, helping you avoid unnecessary downtime because of software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. For applications using Amazon ElastiCache, including ElastiCache Serverless and Global Datastores, AWS Resilience Hub now provides enhanced resilience recommendations. These include guidelines for Region and multi-region setups, as well as strategies for Availability Zone and Multi-AZ deployments, resource grouping, and backup. AWS Resilience Hub also…

You can now use silences to suppress alert notifications for Grafana alerts in Amazon Managed Grafana. Grafana alerts enable you to proactively monitor your data and receive notifications about critical issues in real time. Silences allow you to temporarily disable notifications from specific alerts, for a specified duration. Silences reduce alert fatigue during scheduled maintenances, operational events or when dealing with known issues, without disabling the underlying alert rules. You can silence your Grafana alert notifications based on alert labels or by directly silencing notifications for a specific Grafana alert rule. This feature is supported on all Amazon …

AWS Resource Explorer introduced a new search operator that powers the complete discovery of tagged AWS resources across Services, AWS Regions, and AWS accounts. Customers use Resource Explorer to discover both tagged and untagged resources for resource types with full Resource Explorer support. Starting today, customers can specifically request to query all of their tagged resources, regardless of whether the resource types are fully supported by Resource Explorer. This feature immediately improves resource discovery coverage for customers by including resources fully supported by Resource Explorer, as well as any tagged resource from any service. To use this new f…

Amazon S3 is beginning to apply a default minimum object size of 128 KB for S3 Lifecycle transition rules to any S3 storage class. This change can help optimize your transition costs for datasets with many kilobyte-sized objects by reducing the number of transition requests. You can override this new default and customize the minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules to any value. Using S3 Lifecycle filters, you can create custom rules to transition objects based on prefix, tags, and object sizes. While the object size filter for your existing S3 Lifecycle rules will not automatically change, this new default behavior will be applied to any new or modified …

Today, AWS End User Computing Services announced that customers can use Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3 (FIPS) validated cryptography endpoints with their WorkSpaces Secure Browser portals. FIPS 140-3 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Secure Browser FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or regulated workloads. To use a FIPS-validated connection for your portal, specify a FIPS endpoint when creating a portal using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). You …

Today, we are announcing Node.js support for Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE). GLIDE is an open source client library for Valkey, an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching and message queues. With this launch, GLIDE supports Java, Python, and Node.js. GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it supports all Valkey commands. GLIDE supports Valkey versions 7.2 and 8.0, as well as Redis open-source versions 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2. Valkey GLIDE is designed for reliability, optimized performance, and high-availability, for connecting to a Valkey or Redis OSS datastore. It is pre-c…

AWS Lake Formation’s centralized access control and permission for Amazon Redshift data sharing is now available in 11 additional regions. You can manage permission grants, view access controls, and audit permissions on the tables and views in the Redshift datashares using Lake Formation APIs and the AWS Management Console. Furthermore, Lake Formation supports trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center, allowing you to leverage Lake Formation to manage permissions to datashares for specific users and groups defined in your Identity Provider (IdP). AWS Lake Formation managed data sharing improves the security of your data by enabling data lake administrat…

Welcome to September’s post announcing new training and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our August course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 21 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 7 new digital courses, an exciting new game-based learning exam prep option for AWS Certified AI Practitioner: AWS Escape Room: Exam prep for AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF, and a new generative AI course for AWS Partners: AWS Partner: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) on AWS (Business). New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill …

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue support for AWS App Mesh, effective September 30th, 2026. Until this date, existing AWS App Mesh customers will be able to use the service as normal, including creating new resources and onboarding new accounts via the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. Additionally, AWS will continue to provide critical security and availability updates to AWS App Mesh during this period. However, starting from September 24th, 2024, new customers will be unable to onboard to AWS App Mesh. At re:Invent 2022, AWS introduced Amazon ECS Service Connect, a new way to connect microservices within Amazon Elastic Container Serv…

Editor’s note: As new AWS generative AI courses and educational resources are released, we will add them to this blog. In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionizing industries and reshaping the way we approach problem-solving. As this technology continues to evolve, it becomes crucial for professionals to stay ahead of the curve and equip themselves with the necessary skills and knowledge. At AWS, we understand the importance of continuous learning and upskilling, which is why we offer a comprehensive suite of training and certification opportunities in the field of generative AI. …

We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports automatically shutting down applications after a period of inactivity. Starting today, administrators can configure idle shutdown time for JupyterLab and CodeEditor applications that use Amazon SageMaker Distribution image version 2.0 or newer. Administrators can set idle shutdown time on SageMaker domain or user profile level, and can optionally grant users flexibility to modify the idle shutdown time based on their specific use case. Once idle shutdown time is configured, SageMaker Studio will automatically detect when applications are idle and shut them down after specified period of inactivity. Th…

AWS Lambda now supports tagging Event Source Mappings (ESM) and Code Signing Config (CSC) resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources to easily organize, search, identify resources, and control access. Previously, customer tagging was limited to Lambda Function resources. With today's launch, customers can now use tag-based controls to manage access to ESM or CSC resources used with their Lambda functions. Customers can manage tags for ESM and CSC resources using the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, AWS CDKs, AWS SAM, AWS CloudFormation or AWS Management Console. Lambda support for tagging ESM and CSC resources is available at no addition…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports Internet Protocol Version 6(IPv6). Customers moving to IPv6 can now connect to their instances with a single click or command using EC2 Instance Connect over IPv6. Amazon EC2 Instance Connect provides a single-click and single command Secure shell(SSH) based connectivity to instances. Until today, EC2 Instance Connect, only supported connectivity over IPv4. With this launch, EC2 Instance Connect now supports SSH to instances over both IPv6 and IPv4. Customers can additionally use prefix lists to configure and maintain their security group rules to allow SSH traffic. EC2 Instance Connect is available at no ad…

Amazon WorkSpaces announces support for graphics bundles (G4dn instances) for WorkSpaces Pools. The customers can now run their graphics-intensive and accelerated applications on Windows using AWS G4dn graphics instance with WorkSpaces Pools. The Graphics G4dn bundles offer cost-effective solutions for graphics applications optimized for NVIDIA GPUs using NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN, OptiX, and Video Codec SDK. With WSP, the users will be able to experience a highly responsive remote desktop experience with 4K resolution and support for multiple monitors. G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP are available for Windows Server 2022. Alternatively, customers can bring their…

The Jamba 1.5 Model Family from AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Jamba 1.5 Large and 1.5 Mini are cutting-edge foundation models designed for enterprise applications. With a 256k effective context window, one of the longest on the market, these models enable customers to tackle complex tasks like lengthy document summarization and analysis. The Jamba 1.5 models, purpose-built for speed and efficiency with a hybrid architecture that makes them 2.5x faster than many other models (according to AI21), offer customers improved speed on long contexts, making them among the fastest in their size class. Jamba 1.5 Mini demonstrates exceptional performance, achievin…

You can now use the bandwidth reduction filter in AWS Elemental MediaLive to improve encoding efficiency. The bandwidth reduction filter improves video encoding efficiency by an average of 7%, reducing bandwidth and storage while maintaining comparable video quality. You can save on transmission, content distribution, and storage without compromising the viewing experience. The bandwidth reduction filter is available with Enhanced AVC and HEVC encoding in MediaLive at no additional cost. For more information, visit the MediaLive documentation. AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video stream…

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on Amazon EC2 instances in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and US East (Ohio) regions. Built on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, customers can now access local, GPS-disciplined reference clocks on supported EC2 instances. 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. This capability is an improvement over many on-premises time solut…

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 runtimes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This includes the following runtimes: Python 3.12, Node.js 20, Java 21, .NET 8, Ruby 3.3, and Amazon Linux 2023 (provided.al2023). Each runtime is available as both a managed runtime and a container base image. We will automatically apply updates to each managed runtime and container base image, as they become available. This release includes the latest version of each programming language supported by Lambda, providing access to the latest programming language features and performance improvements. Built on Amazon Linux 2023, these runtimes provide a significantly smaller deployment f…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now allows you to set up multi-VPC and cross-account private connectivity on Amazon MSK clusters configured with any of the MSK supported authentication mechanisms. Multi-VPC private connectivity (powered by AWS PrivateLink) allows you to easily establish cross-VPC and cross-account connectivity between your Apache Kafka clients and your Amazon MSK cluster, while keeping all traffic within the AWS Network. With a few clicks, you can turn on multi-VPC private connectivity for one or more authentication modes on your cluster. This feature was previously supported only on clusters with client authentication enabled. With thi…

Amazon now adds Content Credentials to images created using Amazon Titan Image Generator v1 and v2 to increase transparency around AI-generated content. Content Credentials are based on an open technical specification developed and maintained by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a cross-industry standards development organization. C2PA metadata, similar to invisible watermarks, is included in images generated by Amazon Titan Image Generator by default. The metadata comprises of the model, the platform, and the task type used to generate the image. This inclusion allows people to easily verify the source and history (or, provenance) of images…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS US East (Dallas) Local Zone. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more about A…

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports the ability to sort on additional columns within step, task, and worker data, and filter tasks by status. This feature enables users to quickly find and organize data about their job submissions to their Deadline Cloud render farm. Customers operating a render farm will often have hundreds of jobs running simultaneously. When users need to identify issues and take action, it is critical to view information related to the steps and tasks within a job quickly and easily. Having the ability to filter and sort step, task, and worker information helps to navigate data efficiently. These sort and filter capabilities are supported in all AWS…

AWS CloudFormation Git sync now allows you to review your stack changes via Pull Request (PR) comments before they are deployed to CloudFormation. With this launch, you get a clear overview of the changes in your deployments within the PR. CloudFormation Git sync will automatically post the change set information as comments to each new PR created or updated in your repository. You are able to review the proposed changes and then deploy the changes by merging the PR. CloudFormation allows you to use a template file to manage the configuration of your resources as a stack. Using Git sync, you can store this template in a remote Git repository and have your CloudFormatio…

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Jordan. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies. Outposts can also help meet data residency requirements. Outposts is available in a variety of form factors, from 1U and 2U Outposts servers to 42U Outposts racks, and multiple rack deployments…

We are excited to announce the public availability of two new capabilities for the AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC feature. Users can now copy data sets in binary format without any conversion. This provides compatibility with modernization tools that require data sets to be processed in their raw mainframe format. It can be used as part of refactoring, replatforming, or augmentation toolchains. We have also introduced performance enhancements that reduce the file transfer task start-up time, enabling users to see data transfers begin in a matter of seconds and allowing for the swift execution of multiple transfer tasks. These new capabilities provide c…

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customers’ experience using snippets of code called canaries, now supports replication of tags created on canaries to the associated AWS Lambda function to help you better identify and organize your AWS resources. You can now also filter canaries by tags on the canaries list page in the CloudWatch Synthetics console. A tag is a custom attribute label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. With this release, tags created on a canary will be replicated to the Lambda function created by the canary when the option is selected in the AWS console or the optional parameter Resour…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Me…

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now supports configuration at the Aurora cluster level. Customers can configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring on all the instances within an Aurora cluster with a single click in the console or through APIs. With this launch, customers no longer need to spend manual effort to configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring individually for all instances within an Aurora cluster. When Aurora Auto Scaling adds new Aurora Replicas, the new instances automatically inherit the cluster-level configuration of Performance Insights and Enhanced Monitoring. This feature allows customers to enforce …

With OpenSearch 2.15, you can now leverage OR1 instances for your existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. You can start using OR1 by simply updating your existing domain configuration, and choosing OR1 instances for data nodes. This will seamlessly move domains running OpenSearch 2.15 to OR1 instances using a blue/green deployment. Please note that changing domain configuration from an OR1 instance type to another instance type will require a snapshot restore. OR1 enables customers to economically and reliab…

Today, AWS announces general availability of new capabilities and usability improvements for the AWS IoT Device Management Software Package Catalog (SPC) and AWS IoT Device Management Jobs. With these new capabilities, you can now: Associate and store industry-standard Software Bill of Material (SBOM) files with package versions to gain granular insights into your software's composition, enabling you to proactively identify and mitigate of potential security risks. Simplify your version deployment workflows through sample deployment instruction sets, referred as recipes. Utilize the new package and version placeholders in Job documents (recipe) to specify destina…

Today, we launched an enhanced monitoring dashboard for your AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) tasks. You can now experience greatly improved monitoring capabilities for the database and analytics workloads DMS is processing as it moves data between different services and locations. These new dashboard improvements make it easier to monitor the health of data workload movements and troubleshoot problems. Using the DMS console, you can now monitor aggregated and customized metrics for multiple DMS tasks, visualize utilization for all tasks on a given replication instance, and quickly identify the root cause of task issues. This new feature is generally availab…

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) region. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization as well as graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also sup…

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) has launched a new feature through the Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM) Advisor, which aims to increase awareness among customers when their complaint rates approach or exceed levels allowed by best practices. This feature allows customers to monitor the potential impact on their sending reputation they have due to high complaint rates, and identify the specific sending identities that are the source of these complaints. This enhancement is designed to enable customers to take proactive measures before high complaint rates trigger disruptions to their email sending. Previously, customers could use VDM to see complaint rates …

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch domains in AWS to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Understanding OpenSearch service spend per domain is crucial for effective cost management, optimization, and informed decision-making. Amazon OpenSearch Service Pricing is based on three dimensions: instances, storage, and data transfer. Storage pricing depends on the chosen storage type and also the storage tier. Visibility into domain-level charges enables accurate budgeting, efficient resource allocation, fair cost attribution across projects, and over…

Embarking on a cloud career can seem daunting, especially when you’re just starting out. But with the right mindset, resources, and strategy, you can break into this field. We’ve gathered insights from learners who have navigated the path from beginners to cloud professionals. Whether you’re changing careers or searching for your first-ever professional job, learn from them to start your cloud journey. Meet the Learners Based in Ghana, Nana Adjoa Anmin began in a non-technical role in international affairs before transitioning into tech through AWS re/Start, a cohort-based workforce development training program that prepares individuals for careers in the cloud and c…

Starting today, AWS Cost Explorer offers purchase recommendations for Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity. DynamoDB reserved capacity allows you to save up to 77% compared to provisioned capacity pricing in exchange for a usage commitment over a one or three-year term. With these new recommendations, you can make informed purchases of DynamoDB reserved capacity in minutes, making it even easier to optimize your DynamoDB spend. With this launch, AWS Cost Explorer now includes recommendations for 7 reservation models: Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon MemoryDB, and Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity. Cost Explorer automat…

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton4-based instance. They have the best price performance among EC2 X-series instances, and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, in-memory databases (Redis, Memcached), relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time big data analytics, real-time caching servers, and m…

Amazon DocumentDB(with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB is designed to give you the scalability and durability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service(DMS), Amazo…

Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), in addition to the existing Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) regions. This expansion brings the power of Generative Business Intelligence to more customers, enabling them to leverage natural language capabilities of Amazon Q to quickly extract insights from data, make better business decisions, and accelerate the work of business analysts. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, users can generate documents, slide decks, and executive summaries explaining data and providi…

AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, now adds new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on users and groups directly through AWS CLI, APIs, and AWS Management Console. DevOps engineers, developers, and IT administrators can leverage these new APIs to automate synchronization of users and groups from external identity sources and HR systems, using AWS Lambda functions or AWS SDK supported programming languages. You can also react faster to security alerts. For example, you may create automation to remove compromised user accounts…

Amazon DocumentDB is now available in Europe (Spain) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB is designed to give you the scalability and durability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, A…

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation storage optimized instances i4g and i4i. These instances have AWS Nitro SSD storage offering high I/O performance, low latency, and security with always-on encryption. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance versus comparable x86-based storage optimized instances, and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. I4g instances support all OpenSearch versions & Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10. I4i instances offer a new size of 128 vCPUs & 1,024 GiB of memory, which is twice the size of largest i3 instance. To k…

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor versions include: SQL Server 2016 - 13.00.6445.1 SQL Server …

Corretto 23 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto 23 is an OpenJDK 23 Feature Release, which will be supported through April, 2025. OpenJDK 23 introduces enhanced performance with updates to the Z Garbage Collector and Vector API, along with improved JIT compilation for faster code execution. Additionally, it brings expanded pattern matching and switch expression capabilities for more concise and expressive coding. For more information about the features in OpenJDK 23, a detailed description can be found on its Project page. Amazon Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open s…