Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for connecting to SES outbound sending endpoints over IPv6. Customers can now specify their preference for IPv4 or IPv6 endpoints when using the AWS SDK or CLI. This makes it easy to switch from using IPv4 addresses to IPv6 addresses when communicating with the SES services for outbound sending. Previously, customers could use the AWS SDK or CLI to connect with SES endpoints for outbound sending. These connections always used IPv4 addresses when creating TCP/IP connections for communication with the SES service. Now customers can specify their preference for dual-stack using an environment variable or command li…

Amazon Connect is expanding WhatsApp Business messaging to five new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Africa (Cape Town). Additionally, Amazon Connect SMS is now available in Africa (Cape Town). These expansions enable you to engage with customers through their preferred messaging channels while leveraging Amazon Connect's unified contact center capabilities to deliver seamless omnichannel experiences. With this launch, Amazon Connect for WhatsApp Business messaging and Amazon Connect SMS are now available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Paci…

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon ElastiCache, you create an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon ElastiCache in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. With an interface VPC endpoint, you can privately access the Amazon ElastiCache APIs from applications inside your Amazon VPC. You can also access the VPC endpoint fr…

AWS WAF is expanding the availability of its enhanced rate-based rules feature to customers in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Australia (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). This feature supports additional request parameters for rate-based rules, including cookies and other HTTP headers. Additionally, customers can now create composite keys based on up to 5 request parameters, providing more granular options for managing and securing web application traffic. Customers could already use WAF rate-based rules to automatically block requests from IP addresses that make large numbers of requests within a short period of time unt…

AWS Marketplace now supports software as a service (SaaS) products deployed on AWS, on other cloud infrastructures, and on-premises. This will allow independent software vendors to list more SaaS products in AWS Marketplace, offering customers a broader selection of products. By listing SaaS products in AWS Marketplace, sellers can streamline their sales processes and scale operations more efficiently. Customers can now identify products, including SaaS products, that are 100% deployed on AWS infrastructure with a new “Deployed on AWS” badge in AWS Marketplace. The badge is visible on product detail pages, and customers can also see whether products are “Deployed on AW…

Amazon Connect now supports Outbound Campaign calling to Poland in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (London) regions, making it easier to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection, etc. Outbound Campaigns offers real-time audience segmentation using unified customer data from Customer Profiles, along with an intuitive UI for campaign management, targeting, and analytics. It eliminates the need for complex integrations or direct AWS Console access. Outbound Campaigns can be enabled within the AWS Connect Console. With Outbound Campaigns, Amazon Conne…

AWS Billing and Cost Management Console’s Payments page now features a Payments Account Summary that helps you view your AWS account's financial status more efficiently. Critical account balance information is now summarized in a single, easy-to-access location on your Payments page. Payments Account Summary shows your total outstanding balance, including current and past due amounts, alongside your total unapplied funds from credit memos, unapplied cash, and Advance Pay balance. You can use these unapplied funds to pay outstanding invoices by sending remittance instructions via the email address on your invoice, or by contacting AWS Customer Service. Customers with Ad…

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports extraction of custom GenAI-powered insights from audio by specifying the desired output configuration through blueprints. BDA is a GenAI-powered capability of Bedrock that streamlines the development of generative AI applications and automates workflows involving documents, images, audio, and videos. Developers can now extract custom insights from audio using blueprints, which contain their desired output including a list of field names, the data format in which the response for the field is to be extracted as well as natural language instructions for each field. Developers can get started with blueprints by either using a…

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced a new feature that allows you to easily rollback your Amazon ECS service to a previous safe state if a deployment fails. Amazon ECS customers can configure automated failure detection and remediation for their ECS service rolling updates using deployment circuit breaker and CloudWatch Alarms. Deployment circuit breaker automatically detects task launch failures while CloudWatch alarms allow you to detect issues that result in degradation in infrastructure (e.g. cpu utilization) or performance (e.g. response latency) metrics. Previously, in scenarios where a failing deployment was not detected by either of t…

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes t…

Today, AWS announces the preview of the Amazon Q Developer integration in GitHub. With this launch, developers can use the power of Amazon Q Developer agents for feature development, code review, and Java transformation within GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud projects to streamline their developer experience. After installing the Amazon Q Developer application from GitHub, developers can use labels to assign issues to Amazon Q Developer. Then, Amazon Q Developer agents automatically implement new features, generate bug fixes, run code reviews on new pull requests, and modernize legacy Java applications, all within the GitHub projects. While generating new code, t…

This blog post was authored by Olly Pomeroy, Senior Container Specialist Solution Architect at AWS. As organizations grow, enforcing governance and securing workloads becomes increasingly complex. Security and platform teams face the challenge of implementing consistent security controls, enforcing defaults, and applying best practices without slowing down application teams. Organizations need a comprehensive approach to security, governance, and compliance that can scale with their containerized workloads. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) addresses these challenges through deep integration with AWS security and governance services. For security and acces…

Today, AWS Organizations is making resource control policies (RCPs) available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. RCPs help you centrally establish a data perimeter across your AWS environment. With RCPs, you can centrally restrict external access to your AWS resources at scale. RCPs are a type of authorization policy in AWS Organizations that you can use to centrally enforce the maximum available permissions for resources in your organization. For example, an RCP can help enforce the requirement that “no principal outside my organization can access Amazon S3 buckets in my organization,” regardless of the permissions granted through indiv…

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition database clusters. This database driver provides support for faster switchover and failover times, Aurora Limitless, and authentication with AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), or Federated Identity. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL is a standalone driver and supports RDS and community PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. You can install the aws-pgsql-odbc package for Windows, Mac or Linux by following the Getting Started instructions on GitHub. The driver relie…

Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and PostgreSQL compatibility now supports R7i database instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. R7i database instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. You can launch R7i database instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. Upgrading a database instance to R7i instance family requires a simple instance type modification. For more details, refer to the Aurora documentation. Amazon Aurora is designed for unpara…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i database (DB) instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), South America (Sao Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. R7i DB instances are now supported in South America (Sao Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance types. M7i and R7i DB instances are available for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL version 17.1 and higher, 16.1 and higher, 15…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Zurich) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. R7g is now supported in Middle East (Bahrain), South America (Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. Graviton3 processors offer several improvements over the …

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database instances in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. T4g database instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance, with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. T4g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for All PostgreSQL 17, 16, 15, 14, and 13 versions; and 12.7 and higher 12 versions. T4g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for MySQL versions 8.4 and 8.0, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB versions…

AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Middle East (Bahrain) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Aurora depending on database engine, version, and workload. Graviton3 processors offer several improvements over Graviton2 processors. Graviton3-based R7g are the first AWS database instances to feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4, enabling high-speed access to data in memory. R7g database instances offer up…

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announces IPv6 support for API and Docker/OCI endpoints for both ECR and ECR Public. This makes it easier to standardize on IPv6 and remove IP address scalability limitations for your container build, deployment, and orchestration infrastructure. With today’s launch, you can pull your private or public ECR images via the AWS SDK or Docker/OCI CLI using ECR’s new dual-stack endpoints which support both IPv4 and IPv6. When you make a request to an ECR dual-stack endpoint, the endpoint resolves to an IPv4 or an IPv6 address, depending on the protocol used by your network and client. This helps you meet IPv6 compliance requirements, …

AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon Aurora databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload. AWS Graviton4 processors are the latest generation of custom-designed AWS Grav…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton4-based M8g database instances in Europe (Ireland) Region and R8g database instances in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon RDS open source databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload. M8g and R8g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for Postgr…

If you could choose any career, what would give you a lifetime of joy and fulfillment? Even with a rewarding career as a scientist, it’s a question I pondered often during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many others, the pandemic pushed me to reflect deeply on what truly mattered and reshaped my perspective. My scientific career began in college when a summer internship unexpectedly became a full-time opportunity that funded my education. Over the next decade, I gained experience across multiple industries, including academic research, large-scale manufacturing, and clinical sciences. While these roles allowed me to apply my analytical thinking and problem-solving skill…

An AI search flow builder is now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service when you launch OpenSearch 2.19+ domains. This new feature allows you to design and run AI search flows through a low-code experience free from custom middleware. It provides a low-code designer accessible through the AI search flows section of OpenSearch dashboards. Using the builder, you can create sophisticated search flows enhanced by AWS and third-party AI services, and simply run then with a single query. Previously, you had develop custom code to integrate AI into advanced workflows and manage them on custom middleware. Now, you can use the low-code designer and automation APIs to run and cu…

Amazon Connect now publishes a new contact completion event in the Contact Event Stream (via Amazon EventBridge), delivering real-time insights into when a contact has fully concluded, including the completion of any after-contact work (ACW). This new event empowers contact centers with full-lifecycle visibility into customer and agent interactions, enabling smarter, faster downstream actions. For example, if you were to automatically create a follow-up ticket once an agent finishes their wrap-up work, this event gives you a precise, real-time signal to trigger that workflow, ensuring your systems stay in sync and your customer service stays responsive. To learn more, …

Amazon Connect now provides richer contact information through the DescribeContact API, enabling your contact center to take smarter, faster action during and after customer interactions. This update surfaces key insights such as disconnect reasons, recording status, after-contact work time, and custom contact attributes, all in a single API response, helping to reduce complexity and improve performance. For example, a customer chat session might disconnect due to a network issue on the agent’s end. With the new DisconnectReason field in the DescribeContact API, you can now programmatically detect this and re-queue the chat for follow-up, ensuring the customer gets help w…

Today, AWS announced the ability for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) to distribute IPAM costs to AWS Organizations member accounts. This allows you to easily allocate costs to your internal teams for their IPAM usage. VPC IPAM makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. When you enable IPAM for your AWS Organization, IPAM aggregates the organization-wide IP address usage, and charges the AWS account in which IPAM is created. With this launch, you can allocate the charges directly to AWS Organizations member accounts, for their individual usage. For example, you may have IPAM enabled in a central AWS account that runs mu…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.42 and 8.4.5, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 and 8.4.5 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 Ma…

Today, Amazon CloudWatch launched volume tiered pricing for AWS Lambda logs and support for additional delivery destinations. The new tiered pricing is effective immediately on Lambda function logs, requiring no code or configuration changes. For example in US East (N. Virginia), Lambda logs to CloudWatch pricing starts at $0.50 per GB tiering down to $0.05 per GB. Additionally, CloudWatch now supports Amazon S3 and Amazon Data Firehose as Lambda log delivery destinations. These new destinations provide additional flexibility in Lambda log management, and are also available at volume tiered pricing. Again in US East (N. Virginia), pricing starts at $0.25 per GB tiering…

AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of multi-node SAP NetWeaver applications on SAP ASE database, allowing you to deploy multiple applications servers at the time of deployment. With this deployment pattern, you deploy SAP application and ASE database components on different EC2 instances to meet your application performance requirements. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capability that allows you to automate deployment of SAP systems on SAP ASE database in single-node pattern. AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, deploying, and scaling AWS resources for third party applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server and SAP systems, …

AWS HealthImaging announces two enhancements that make it easier to manage diverse medical imaging data in the cloud. First, HealthImaging now supports video data, encoded per the DICOM standard. With this launch, video data can be stored in a HealthImaging data store, alongside still image data. The service supports the DICOM video formats: MPEG2, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, corresponding to DICOM transfer syntax UIDs 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.100 through 1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.108. This data can be retrieved as DICOM instances (.dcm files) and directly as video objects. For more information, see the documentation. Second, HealthImaging has added support for retrieving lo…

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 17 (17.4). This release contains product improvements and bug fixes from the PostgreSQL community along with Aurora- specific feature improvements such as enhanced memory management, faster storage metadata initialization during failovers, and optimized write-heavy workloads on new Graviton 4 high-end instances. This release also includes new features for Babelfish, Aurora-specific security fixes, and updates to key extensions including pgvector 0.8.0 and postgis 3.5.1. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL updates for more details about the release. To use the new version,…

Today, Amazon Q Developer announces a new agentic coding experience within the IDE that transforms how you build software. The new experience redefines how you write, modify, and maintain code by leveraging natural language understanding to seamlessly execute complex workflows. The new coding experience provides intelligent task execution, enabling Q Developer to perform actions beyond code suggestions, such as modifying files, generating code diffs, and running commands based on your natural language instructions. Additionally, it offers transparent reasoning, allowing you to follow Q Developer's thought process as it interprets your requirements and makes code change…

Amazon Neptune Database now supports Graviton3-based R7g and Graviton4-based R8g database instances for Amazon Neptune engine versions 1.4.5 or above, and priced -16% vs R6g. Graviton3-based R7g are the first AWS database instances to feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4, enabling high-speed access to data in memory. R7g database instances offer up to 30Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Graviton4-based R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. R7g …

Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and DNS Firewall Advanced in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, to govern and filter outbound DNS traffic for your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is a managed service that enables you to block DNS queries made for domains identified as low-reputation or suspected to be malicious, and to allow queries for trusted domains. In addition, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced is a capability of DNS Firewall that allows you to detect and block DNS traffic associated with Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) and DNS Tunneling threats. DNS Firewall can b…

Today, AWS announced managed support for Energy Data Insights (EDI) on AWS - delivered through AWS Managed Service (AMS), which enables energy customers to easily deploy, manage, and operate their subsurface data management platform on AWS, in compliance with the (OSDU®) standard. Now, you can automatically deploy EDI on AWS and accelerate your data ingestion from weeks to hours, and intelligently process and organize your subsurface data with minimal manual effort. AWS extends your team with operational capabilities, allowing you to focus on innovation and accelerating time to value with your subsurface data. With AWS-provided managed support, EDI on AWS removes the un…

Amazon Q Developer in chat applications now supports AWS Systems Manager just-in-time node access approvals from Microsoft Teams and Slack. AWS customers can now monitor node access requests and approvals from chat channels to enhance security posture and meet compliance requirements. The Just-in-time node access provides customers policy-based time-bound access to nodes and helps them comply with zero-standing privileges operations model. This launch provides a seamless integration for managing Just-in-time access request approvals in chat applications. When configuring Just-in-time approval policies, customers can designate Amazon SNS topics associated with Amazon…

Model Distillation is the process of transferring knowledge from a more capable model (teacher) to a less capable one (student) with the goal to make the faster and cost-efficient student model as performant as the teacher for a specific use-case. With general availability, we now add support for the following new models: Amazon Nova Premier (teacher) and Nova Pro (student), Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2 (teacher), Llama 3.3 70B (teacher) and Llama 3.2 1B/3B (student). Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation now enables smaller models to accurately predict function calling for Agents use cases while helping to deliver substantially faster response times and lower operational costs. Dist…

Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now offers reporting on recipients and campaign executions along with additional metrics for tracking progress and troubleshooting issues. These capabilities are available in the Contact Lens dashboards and allow you to easily monitor campaign engagement by tracking total outreach against the total number of recipients targeted. You can drill down into your campaign and examine performance data for each campaign execution - for example, if you run a campaign every week for a month, you can drill down to view campaign performance for each week. You can also identify and resolve any delivery issues against each campaign - for example, out o…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now include a pre-configured agent adherence widget which supports filtering and sorting on agent adherence metrics, making day-to-day adherence management more efficient for supervisors. With this launch, supervisors can apply filters on adherence status, duration, and percentage; sort by duration or percentage; and apply conditional formatting within the agent adherence widget on the queue and agent performance dashboard. For example, a supervisor can highlight agents who have been falling behind schedule for more than 5 minutes, quickly identify breaches, and notify the agents accordingly. With this widget, supervisors can simplify the proce…

AWS B2B Data Interchange now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the AWS B2B Data Interchange Service APIs. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can standardize their applications and workflows for managing their AWS B2B Data Interchange resources on the new version of Internet Protocol by using the new dual-stack AWS B2B Data Interchange Service endpoints. IPv6 support for AWS B2B Data Interchange Service APIs is avai…

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable multimodal foundation model for complex tasks such as processing long documents, videos, large codebases, and executing multistep agentic workflows. It is also our most capable teacher model and can be used with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation to create custom distilled models for specific needs. Nova Premier extends the capabilities available from Amazon Nova understanding models with several key improvements, including: Superior intelligence: The model scores 87.4% in the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark for undergraduate-level knowledge, 82.0…

Today, AWS Resource Explorer has expanded the availability of resource search and discovery to 3 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). With AWS Resource Explorer you can search for and discover your AWS resources across AWS Regions and accounts in your organization, either using the AWS Resource Explorer console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), the AWS SDKs, or the unified search bar from wherever you are in the AWS Management Console. For more information about the AWS Regions where AWS Resource Explorer is available, see the AWS Region table. To turn on AWS Resource Explorer, visit the AWS Reso…

Amazon SageMaker now offers a unified scheduling experience for visual ETL flows and queries. The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is the center for all your data, analytics, and AI, and includes SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment. Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building ETL flows and authoring flows with Amazon Q. The query editor tool provides a place to write and run queries, view results, and share your work with your team. This new scheduling experience simplifies the scheduling process for Visual ETL and Query editor users. With unified scheduling you can now schedule your workloads wit…

Cross-Region Automated Backup replication for Amazon RDS is now available in five additional AWS Regions. This launch allows you to setup automated backup replication between Australia (Melbourne) and Australia (Sydney); between Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) or Asia Pacific (Tokyo); between Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Singapore); between Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary); and between Europe (Zurich) and Europe (Frankfurt) or Europe (Ireland) Regions. Automated Backups enable recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backu…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now gives customers the option to use default security groups or their own custom security groups when deploying applications. This new feature provides greater control over network access and security configurations. With this update, customers can use custom security groups instead of default security groups for both new and existing Elastic Beanstalk environments. This applies to the EC2 instances within the environment and, for load-balanced environments, to the load balancer as well. Previously, Elastic Beanstalk would automatically add a default security group. This enhancement enables customized security policies and simplifies security man…

Amazon Connect now lets you grant administrator access to agent schedules, making it easier to address key operational needs with minimal configuration. With this launch, you can now give certain users access to all published agent schedules without being added as a supervisor to every staff group. For example, users such as centralized schedulers or auditors who require a broad view of agent schedules across the organization can now be granted this access in a few clicks, thus reducing time spent on access management and improving overall operational efficiency. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn m…

You can now run OpenSearch version 2.19 in Amazon OpenSearch Service which introduces several improvements in the areas of Vector Search, Observability and OpenSearch Dashboards. We have introduced four key capabilities for vector search applications. The Faiss engine now supports AVX512 SIMD instructions, to accelerate vector similarity computations. The ML inference search response processor can now rank search hits and update scores based on model predictions, enabling sophisticated and context-aware document ranking and result augmentation. Lucene binary vectors, now complement existing Faiss engine binary vector support offering greater flexibility for vector sear…

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now have a rule action which enables messages to be published using an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notification. The notification includes the complete email content, and has options for SNS Topic and Encoding. Amazon SNS is a fully managed service that provides message delivery from publishers (producers) to subscribers (consumers). Publishers communicate asynchornously with subscribers by sending messages to a topic, which is a logical access point and communication channel. Subscribers can choose to receive these notifications through a vari…

Amazon Connect now provides bulk removal of agent schedules, making day-to-day management of agent schedules more efficient. With this launch, you can now remove schedules for up to 400 agents for a single day, or up to 30 days for a single agent. For example, remove all schedules for next Monday as the contact center is going to be closed, or remove future shifts for an agent who is no longer with the organization. With bulk remove, managers no longer have to remove agent shifts one agent and one day at a time, thus improving manager productivity by reducing time spent on managing agent schedules. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent…