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Today, CloudWatch RUM, a real-time monitoring service that visualizes and analyzes user interactions with web applications, announces support for Interaction to Next Paint (INP) web vital monitoring. This crucial metric would help customers measure the latency of a page's response to user interactions, offering insights into the end-user experience of their web application. INP is a metric that assesses a page's overall responsiveness to user interactions by observing the latency of all click, tap, and keyboard interactions that occur throughout the lifespan of a user's visit to a page. The final INP value is the longest interaction observed, ignoring outliers. This ne…

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Omnissa Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Omnissa remote desktop application (e.g., Omnissa Horizon) and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries. These new features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offe…

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Today, Amazon Web Services announces that SageMaker Hyperpod Flexible Training Plans is available in six new regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm, London), and South America (São Paulo). SageMaker Training Plans allows you to gain predictable model training timelines and run training workloads within your budget requirements. You can use SageMaker Training Plans to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances (P4d, P5, P5e, P5en) for Hyperpod for a future date. SageMaker Training Plans enables you to reserve GPU capacity up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to six months in cluster sizes of 1 to 256 instances, giving …

Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. To learn more, visit the EC2 X2i Instances Page, or con…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system. 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 comput…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system. 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 OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data managem…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP 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 NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of…

Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports the ability to exclude network resources when analyzing reachability between a source and destination, providing you greater flexibility to run reachability analyses. VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis feature that enables you to check network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs). With this launch, you can easily identify an alternative traffic path in your network. For example, if you want to identify any path from your internet gateway to Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) that is not passing through the network firewall for inspection, y…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. 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 Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Se…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. 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 Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, v…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system. 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 (H…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system.. 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 OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management ca…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. 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 NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility,…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, enabling you to receive near-real time notifications about changes in your cluster’s status. With this integration, you can easily track key events such as HyperPod cluster status transitions and node health changes. SageMaker HyperPod delivers two types of notifications via EventBridge - 1. Cluster Status Change Events, that notify you when your HyperPod cluster transitions between states, such as InService or Failed. 2) Node Health Events that notify you when nodes change health status (e.g. Healthy/Unhealthy), or are automatically replaced during recovery from failures. You can also write simple Event…

Amazon Connect now has new pricing models for external voice transfer and Contact Lens with external voice systems. The new pricing models have independent pricing for external voice connectors and external voice minutes and are effective for all customers from May 1, 2025. External voice transfer directly transfers voice calls and metadata from Amazon Connect to another voice system, so you can use Amazon Connect telephony and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) to help improve customer experience. Each external transfer connector is now $3,100 per month and each external voice transfer is $0.005 per minute. Contact Lens with external voice enables Connect Contact Len…

Organizations across industries are accelerating their digital transformation and realizing cloud value through AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA), a transformation methodology using hands-on, agile, and immersive engagements. Hundreds of enterprises at various levels of cloud maturity have harnessed EBA to build cloud foundations, migrate at scale, modernize their businesses, and innovate for their customers. They have succeeded because of a proven learn-by-doing working model that seamlessly scales to drive business value, all while following the AWS Well-Architected Framework. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we saw that successful cloud migration requires mor…

AWS CodePipeline now enables you to use AWS Secrets Manager credentials in your Commands actions by specifying the secrets as environment variables in the action declaration. Additionally, Commands actions now support Windows commands and larger instance types, allowing you to run more complex workloads and accelerate execution times. To learn more about these new capabilities, visit our documentation. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page. This feature is available in all regions where AWS CodePipeline is supported. View the full article

Today, AWS announces significant enhancements to Amazon Q Developer in Amazon SageMaker AI Jupyter Lab, introducing customization of code suggestions based on private code repositories and the ability to include entire workspace context for improved code assistance. These new features empower organizations to leverage their proprietary code and improve the relevance of code suggestions, ultimately enhancing developer productivity and code quality within Jupyter Lab environments. With the new customization feature, Amazon Q Developer can now assist with software development in ways that conform to your team's internal libraries, proprietary algorithmic techniques, and e…

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 32 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale. I…

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield Advanced provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency from DDoS attacks. Also, it provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. To learn more vi…

AWS Security Incident Response is now available to customers in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo). You can now use these additional regions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events. With AWS Security Incident Response, you can enhance your organization’s overall security posture and incident response readiness. AWS Security Incident Response offers three core features: monitoring and triaging of security findings from Amazon GuardDuty and third-party tools through AWS Security Hub; integrated communication and collaboration tools to streamline security escalation and response; and acce…

Amazon SQS now supports VPCE endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. You can now easily use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon SQS for regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module. FIPS compliant endpoints help companies contracting with the US federal government meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in supported regions. To create an interface VPC endpoint that connects to an Amazon SQS FIPS endpoint, see Internetwork traffic privacy in Amazon SQS. The new capability is available in all AWS Commercial Regions in the United Sta…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEXTDC B2 data center near Brisbane, Australia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Brisbane and the eight AWS Direct connect location within Australia. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office…

Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated - including source IP and instance ID - and the responses that were received. Route 53 Resolver is the Amazon DNS server that is available by default in all Amazon VPCs. Route 53 Resolver responds to DNS queries from AWS resources within a VPC for public DNS records, Amazon VPC-specific DNS names, and Amazon…

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (Bahrain). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. With this expansion, S3 Tables are now generally available in thirty AWS Regions. To learn more, visit the product page, documentation, and the S3 pricing page. View the full article

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, are generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances deliver up to 40% lower inference costs over comparable Amazon EC2 instances. You can use Inf2 instances to run popular applications such as text summarization, code generation, video and image generation, speech recognition, personalization, and more. Inf2 instances are the first inference-optimized instances in Amazon EC2 to introduce scale-out distributed inference supported by NeuronLink, a high-speed, nonblocking interconnect. Inf2 instances offer up to 2.3 petaflops and…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the regional availability for Amazon AppStream 2.0. Starting today, AWS customers can deploy their applications and desktops in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region and stream them using AppStream 2.0. Deploying your applications on AppStream 2.0 in a region closer to your end users helps provide a more responsive experience. Additionally, European Union customers now have another AWS region option to deploy their workloads on AppStream 2.0. Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that provides users with instant access to their desktop applications from anywhere. It allows users to stream applica…

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, …

Organizations across industries are accelerating their digital transformation and realizing cloud value through AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA), a transformation methodology using hands-on, agile, and immersive engagements. Hundreds of enterprises at various levels of cloud maturity have harnessed EBA to build cloud foundations, migrate at scale, modernize their businesses, and innovate for their customers. They have succeeded because of a proven learn-by-doing working model that seamlessly scales to drive business value, all while following the AWS Well-Architected Framework. However, successful cloud migration requires more than just technical tools—it demands…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in AWS Middle East (UAE), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Paris, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon fo…

We are excited to announce that AWS End User Messaging is now available in Mexico (Central). AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Developers can integrate messaging to support uses cases such as one-time passcodes (OTP) at sign-ups, account updates, appointment reminders, delivery notifications, promotions and more. For more information about the AWS Regions where End User Messaging is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more, see AWS End User Messaging. View the full article

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 41 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Connect, Amazon Sagemaker, and more. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: cloud9:environment cloudtrail:eventdatastore connect:instance/rule connect:instance/task-template connect:phone-number datapipeline:pipeline dax:cache devicefarm:project devicefarm:testgrid-project ds:directory ec2:ipam-resource-discovery ec2:ipam-resource-discovery-association elasticloadbalancing:listener-rule/net events:connection forecast:dataset-import-job …

AWS Systems Manager now enables customers to customize their configurations when enabling the new Systems Manager experience, which provides centralized node management capabilities across AWS accounts and Regions. Customers can choose to enable or disable default EC2 instance permissions for Systems Manager connectivity, set the frequency of inventory metadata collection, and define how often the SSM Agent automatically updates. These options allow customers to tailor their Systems Manager setup while centrally managing their nodes. The new Systems Manager experience uses Default Host Management Configuration (DHMC) to grant EC2 instances permissions to connect to Sys…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now provides seamless certificate renewal for all MSK Provisioned clusters, allowing the brokers in your cluster to receive the most up-to-date encryption certificates without going through a restart. The encryption certificates used by Amazon MSK require renewal every 13 months. With this launch, certificate renewals on Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters now occur seamlessly without disruption to client connectivity. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where MSK Provisioned is supported. To learn more, visit the Amazon MSK Developer Guide. View the full article

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. The list of all supported regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is generally available can be found on the user guide. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metrics to a single workspace and can create many workspaces per account, where a workspace is a logical space dedicated to the storage and querying of Prometheus metrics. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collect…

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Amazon Web Services has announced availability of Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, WorkSpaces Pools and WorkSpaces Core in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region. You can now provision WorkSpaces closer to your users, helping to provide in-country data residency and a more responsive experience. Additionally, you can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet changing demand, without the cost and complexity of on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service that helps organizations provide end users access to applications and data while optimizing costs and improving productivity. WorkSpaces gives orga…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these …

Amazon SageMaker now supports direct connectivity to Oracle, Amazon DocumentDB, and Microsoft SQL Server databases, expanding the available data integration capabilities in Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse. This enhancement enables customers to seamlessly access and analyze data from these databases. With these new data source connections, customers can directly query data and build ETL flows from their Oracle, Amazon DocumentDB, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. This integration simplifies data and AI/ML workflows by allowing you to work with your data alongside AWS data, analytics and AI capabilities. Support for these new data sources is available in all AWS Regions …

Amazon SageMaker Catalog, part of the next generation of SageMaker, now supports authorization policies for asset type (template) usage — a new governance capability that gives organizations fine-grained control over who can create and manage custom assets using specific asset type. In large enterprises, teams often define business specific asset templates (such as ClinicalStudyAsset or FinancialReportAsset) to standardize how data is structured, cataloged for discovery, and governed across the organization. With this authorization policy-based control, organizations can enforce usage boundaries, allowing administrators to restrict the use of sensitive or proprietary t…

Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. To learn more, visit the EC2 X2i Instances Page, or connect wi…

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Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Verizon in Lenexa, Kansas. AWS Wavelength Zone enables customers to run applications using AWS infrastructure and services in AWS telco partners' data centers, addressing critical needs for low latency, data residency, and application resiliency across a wide range of industries. With this expansion, AWS Wavelength Zone now offers low-latency, local compute, storage, networking, and other building block services for edge computing to customers in the Lenexa metropolitan area. This is particularly valuable for industries with strict regulatory compliance needs, such as financial serv…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5en instances powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs are available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. These instances are optimized for generative AI and high performance computing (HPC) applications. P5en instances feature 8 H200 GPUs which have 1.7x GPU memory size and 1.4x GPU memory bandwidth than H100 GPUs featured in P5 instances. P5en instances pair the H200 GPUs with high performance custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, enabling Gen5 PCIe between CPU and GPU which provides up to 4x the bandwidth between CPU and GPU and boosts AI training and inference performance. P5en, with up to 3200 Gbp…

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization. This feature helps you create fully performant Amazon EBS volumes from Amazon EBS Snapshots with predictability, helping speed up Amazon EC2 Instance launches at scale, disaster recovery, and volume copy workflows. You can use Amazon EBS volumes as durable, block-level storage devices attached to Amazon EC2 instances. With Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, you can launch hundreds of instances from Amazon EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) at the same time and know that the attached vol…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Flex instances (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) larger sizes are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. The new sizes (12xlarge, 16xlarge) expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, that are available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of genera…

Amazon Verified Permissions now enables customers to tag Policy Stores. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources such as Verified Permissions Policy Stores to manage cost-allocate and control access. This launch enables Verified Permissions customers to use tag-based controls to manage access to policy stores. For example, customers can now tag a policy store for a tenant, and use IAM permissions to restrict to that policy store accordingly. Further, customers can use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate costs by tenant, team, department or application. Lastly, this launch makes it simpler for customers to search for policy…

Amazon SageMaker now offers 14 new built-in Visual ETL transforms: “Format timestamp”, “Split string”, “Regex extractor”, “Autobalance processing”, “UUID (Universally Unique Identified)”, “Identifier”, “Unpivot columns into rows”, “Pivot rows into columns”, “Parse JSON column”, “Extract JSON path”, “Lookup”, “Router”, “Select from collection” and “Order By”. With these transforms, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated data pipelines without having to write custom code for common transform tasks. Also, Amazon S3 Tables are now supported via the Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse node. Providing you with the flexibility to access and preview data in-place across S3 Ta…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens real-time queue and agent performance dashboards, and flows performance dashboards are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), a secure cloud environment designed for government and public sector customers. The new dashboard lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a contact, or change an agent state in a few clicks from a single interface. The dashboards now allow you to define widget level filters and groupings, re-order and re-size columns, and delete or add new metrics. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performanc…