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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. These RUs include bug and security fixes and are available for RDS for Oracle Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition. Review the Oracle release notes for April RU for details. We recommend upgrading to this RU as it includes security fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. You can also enable auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) to automatically upgrade your database instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS U…

AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically view statuses for their governed accounts via baseline APIs. The AWS Control Tower baseline contains best practice configurations, controls, and resources required for governance. When you enable this baseline on an organizational unit (OU), member accounts within the OU will be enrolled under governance. With this new experience, you can use baseline status to view enrollment for your accounts and use drift status to identify when account and OU baseline configurations are out of sync. In addition to seeing statuses for your accounts and OUs in the AWS Control Tower console, you can the ListEnabledBaselines API to v…

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL - Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.40 through Aurora MySQL v3.09. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.40 contains enhancements that improve database availability when handling large number of tables and reduce InnoDB issues related to redo logging, and index handling. Aurora MySQL 3.09 includes performance enhancements to improve write throughput for 32xl and larger instances running on I/O-Optimized configuration. This release also contains improvements that increase the cross-region resiliency of Aurora Global Database secondary region clusters. For more de…

Today, AWS HealthOmics announces enhancements to its Common Workflow Language (CWL) support by automatically generating comprehensive outputs.json mapping files for every workflow run. With this launch, HealthOmics now provides researchers and bioinformaticians with a complete catalog of all outputs generated by workflow runs along with their precise locations in Amazon S3. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. The new output mapping capability simplifies downstream process automation and validation of run outputs, enablin…

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables customers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS regions. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help detect and block harmful content and prompt attacks, define topics to deny and disallow specific topics, and helps redact personally identifiable information (PII) such as personal data from input prompts and model responses. Additionally, Bedrock Guardrails helps detect and block model hallucinations, and identify, correct, and explain factual claims in model responses using Automated Reasoning checks. Guardrai…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) for the April 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c. This update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations. You can now create new DB instances or upgrade existing ones to engine version ‘19.0.0.0.ru-2025-04.spb-1.r1’. The SPB engine version will be visible in the AWS Console by selecting the "Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions" checkbox in the engine version selector, making it simple to identify and implement the latest spatial patches for your…

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) with dual-stack AWS PrivateLink interface Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) endpoints. This enhancement extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to VPC endpoints across all AWS Regions. Dual-stack endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program are also available. Kinesis Data Streams allows users to capture, process, and store data streams in real time at any scale. Customers can now leverage IPv6 connectivity for data-streaming workloads within their Virtual Private Clouds…

Starting today, you can launch Windows instances using EC2 Fast Launch, without requiring a launch template or a default VPC. EC2 Fast Launch reduces the launch times of Windows instances using pre-provisioned snapshots. Previously, customers needed a launch template or a default VPC to enable EC2 Fast Launch for their Windows AMIs. With this update, you can enable EC2 Fast Launch with only the AMI ID. The updated EC2 Fast Launch is now available through the AWS Console, CLI, and SDK in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud Regions. To get started with EC2 Fast Launch and to learn more about this new streamlined configuration, please visit the EC2 Fast Launch …

Customers running Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases can now purchase Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and the latest DDR5 memory. Reserved Instances offer significant savings over On-Demand rates with three flexible payment options: All Upfront providing the highest discount, Partial Upfront balancing between upfront and hourly payments, and No Upfront requiring no initial payment. Reserved Instances provide instance size flexibility within the same family and automa…

Customers running Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases can now purchase Reserved Instances for Graviton4-based R8g and M8g instances. These instances provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances deliver up to 40% performance improvement and 29% better price-performance compared to equivalent Graviton3-based instances. Reserved Instances offer significant savings over On-Demand rates with three flexible payment options: All Upfront providing the highest discount, Partial Upfront balancing between upfront and hourly payments, and No Upfront requiring no initial …

The DevOps strategy in the IT sector can be likened to Henry Ford's revolutionary assembly line, which transformed automobile manufacturing by significantly improving efficiency. Just as automation enabled faster car production, DevOps practices—like continuous integration and delivery—streamline software development. Companies aiming for faster, high-quality releases often choose to hire DevOps engineer to optimize these workflows and ensure seamless deployment pipelines. This approach not only accelerates product delivery but also enhances collaboration and reduces operational risks. Continuous integration Continuous delivery Continuous deployment

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today added support for Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization. This feature helps you provision and attach fully performant Amazon EBS volumes from Amazon EBS Snapshots to your Amazon ECS tasks, accelerating initialization for your ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads deployed on Amazon ECS. Amazon ECS allows you to use Amazon EBS volumes for your ECS tasks and services deployed on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances by simply passing desired EBS volume attributes (e.g. size, type, IOPS, throughput). You could already initialize EBS volumes attached to your EC…

Today, AWS announces the opening of a new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location within CoreSite SV8 in Santa Clara, California, marking the second location in California alongside existing locations in Los Angeles and New York City. AWS Data Transfer Terminal is a secure, physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data to AWS to AWS including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and others using a high throughput network connection. Data Transfer Terminals are ideal for customers who need to transfer large amounts of data to the AWS quickly and securely. Common use cases span various industries and…

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon EC2 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling GuardDuty customers to detect the potential presence of malware by scanning the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and container workloads running on Amazon EC2. Malware scanning in GuardDuty does not any additional security software to be deployed and is designed to have no performance impact to running workloads. When potential malware is identified, GuardDuty generates actionable security findings with information related to the resource and t…

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports specifying a configuration script on both Linux and Windows service-managed fleets. The provided configuration script will be run with elevated privileges on each worker. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. Configuration scripts make it easy to install additional software, like plugins and dependencies, on a worker in a service-managed fleet as part of customizing the job environment. Configuration scripts can also be used to install telemetry collectors for monito…

Amazon VPC has enhanced CloudTrail logging to include VPC resources created by default during a VPC creation. This enhancement offers improved visibility of VPC resources and aids in auditing and governance. Prior to this, CloudTrail logs only included resources that were explicitly created by the customer. Customers had to manually curate list of default resources across their environment to comply with auditing requirements. With this launch, customers can view events that trigger the creation or deletion of default resources such as Security Group, Network ACL, Route Table, at the time of creation or deletion of the VPC. These events are logged under CloudTrail in th…

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports the ability to replicate images in private ECR repositories across accounts and/or regions, between the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Storing images helps applications start up faster as image download time is reduced due to lower latency from in-region pulls. Geographically dispersed images also help you meet backup and disaster recovery requirements for your applications. Amazon ECR Replication feature provides a simple and reliable way to replicate images, and eliminates the operational burden of manually pushing images across multiple regions and accounts. With a few clicks in the Amazon ECR Console, or using the Am…

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports registry policy v2 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, allowing customers to manage IAM permissions for all ECR API actions and simplify ECR permission management. ECR registry policy allows customers to control usage of ECR private registries by granting permissions to perform registry-level actions to an AWS IAM principal. Registry policy version 1 (v1), only supported three actions: ReplicateImage, BatchImportUpstreamImage, and CreateRepository. Now, the new registry policy version 2 (v2) supports every ECR action. Using registry policy v2 makes it easier for customers to control permissions across all repositori…

Today, AWS announces two complementary capabilities in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker that enhance the development experience for analytics, machine learning (ML), and GenAI teams: Code Editor and Multiple Spaces support. The Code Editor, based on Code-OSS (Visual Studio Code – Open Source), provides a lightweight and powerful IDE with familiar shortcuts and terminal access, along with advanced debugging capabilities and refactoring tools. Teams can boost their productivity by accessing thousands of Visual Studio Code–compatible extensions from the Open VSX extension gallery. The Code Editor enables version control and cross-team collaboration through GitHub, …

Today, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone added support for multiple domain features through AWS CloudFormation. Customers can now use AWS CloudFormation to model and manage domain units and their owners. Additionally, customers can set the AWS IAM Identity Center instance for a domain. Programmatically deploying these resources through AWS CloudFormation facilitates secure, efficient, and consistent provisioning of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone domains. As an Amazon SageMaker or Amazon DataZone administrator, you can now create AWS CloudFormation scripts to assign the domain’s IAM Identity Center instance appropriate for your single sign-on user population. A…

Today, AWS announced the ability to bring your own image (BYOI) to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker. This feature benefits customers who have regulatory and compliance requirements or who prefer not to use the framework containers that come with the default SageMaker Distribution image. BYOI provides you the flexibility to customize the image by removing unnecessary frameworks and adding new dependencies or security containers as per your requirement. It also provides the code reproducibility guarantees on the containers that you use across development and production environements. The SageMaker Distribution image is avai…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix IL4 data center near Istanbul, Turkey. 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 within Turkey. 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, or colocation environment. These private connections can…

AWS announces a new EC2 feature for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) that enables flexible queue allocation per Elastic Network Interface (ENI) on EC2 instances. ENA queues, which are key components of ENIs, efficiently manage network traffic by load-balancing sent and received data across available queues. This network interface feature optimizes networking performance by flexibly allocating multiple transmit and receive ENA queues, efficiently distributing packet processing across vCPUs. Customers now have granular control over their network resources and instance performance, allowing them to align ENA queue allocation with specific workload requirements. Prior to this…

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…

I’m Nikhil Nareddula, an AWS learner who started with zero cloud tech background—just curiosity and determination. A year ago, I wasn’t a cloud expert, I had no formal training or certifications, but today, I’m building real AWS projects. It all started when I had one question: Can I build something meaningful using only free resources? Turns out, the answer is yes, thanks to AWS Educate. Whether you’re starting fresh or switching careers, this post will show you how to build confidence and skills. And if you’re just starting out or looking for a way into cloud computing without upfront costs, this journey is perfect for you. Why I value AWS Educate AWS Educate h…

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…