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Amazon CloudWatch now lets customers evaluate metrics data for an extended duration of up to 7 days, a 7x increase from the previous limit of 24 hours. This enhancement empowers customers to monitor the health of longer-running or infrequent processes, such as daily data loading jobs or day-over-day performance trends, offering deeper insights into their resources and applications. Customers now have the flexibility to leverage CloudWatch alarms for use cases like near-real-time metric tracking as well as for monitoring patterns that span multiple days. Amazon CloudWatch alarming on multi-day data is now available in all AWS Regions including the AWS GovCloud (US) R…

Starting today, you can easily connect Amazon ElastiCache clusters to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance directly from the AWS Management Console. You can also connect to your cache using AWS CloudShell to execute commands without additional setup. With a single click, you can establish secure connectivity between your cache and an EC2 instance, following AWS recommended best practices. ElastiCache automatically configures VPCs, security groups, and network settings, eliminating the need for manual tasks like setting up subnets and ingress/egress rules. This streamlines the process for new users and developers, enabling them to launch a cache instanc…

Today, AWS Marketplace announces the availability of automated archival of old, unused product versions that are no longer available publicly for subscription (restricted). This feature is available for Amazon Machine Image (AMI), AMI with CloudFormation templates, and container products. With this release, AWS Marketplace is streamlining the version management experience for AWS customers and sellers. With automated version archival, any product version that has already been restricted by a seller for longer than two years will be archived. Archived versions will no longer be available to launch from AWS Marketplace for new customers; however, existing users can conti…

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can easily deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about configuring the infrastructure that runs those applications. Now, AWS Elastic Beanstalk will support EC2 Launch Template in Elastic Beanstalk environments by default after the deprecation of EC2 Launch Configuration. With this feature, you will not need to manually set certain configuration options in any AWS accounts, as described in documentation, to direct AWS Elastic Beanstalk to use the EC2 Launch Template when creating new environments. Elastic Beanstalk’s support for EC2 Launch Template is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is ava…

Today, AWS Resource Groups is adding support for an additional 172 resource types for tag-based Resource Groups. Customers can now use Resource Groups to group and manage resources from services such as AWS Entity Resolution, Amazon Personalize, and Amazon Q Apps. AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources by logically grouping your resources. You can create collections of resources such as applications, projects, or workloads, and manage them on dimensions such as cost, performance, and compliance in AWS services such as myApplications, AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS Resource Groups expanded…

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse enables a unified, open, and secure lakehouse platform on your existing data lakes and warehouses. Its unified data architecture supports data analysis, business intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI applications, which can now take advantage of a single authoritative copy of data. With SageMaker Lakehouse, you get the best of both worlds—the flexibility to use cost effective Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) storage with the scalable compute of a data lake, along with the performance, reliability and SQL capabilities typically associated with a data warehouse. SageMaker Lakehouse enables interoperability by providing open …

Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was the right one. AI/ML carries itself in the top posts this year, but we’re also happy to see that foundational topics like resiliency and cost optimization are still of great interest to our audience. (By the way, if you were hoping for more AI/ML content, head on over to our sister channel, the AWS Machine Learning Blog!). Without further ado, h…

You can now enable Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on on your EKS cluster with 1-click when provisioning. With 1-click enablement, CloudWatch Observability add-on turns on CloudWatch Container Insights and Application Signals together, enabling you to the understand the health and performance of your applications out of the box. CloudWatch Observability add-on integrates with EKS Pod Identity such that you can simply create a recommended IAM role for the add-on and re-use it across your clusters when creating them, saving you time and effort. Previously, you need to create your clusters first, wait for their status to become active and install the CloudWatch Add-on…

AWS Marketplace sellers can now price usage rates with up to 8 decimal places. This enhancement improves the precision of pay-as-you-go pricing where per-unit costs can be fractions of a cent ($0.00000001), enabling more accurate billing calculations for customers. Previously, AWS Marketplace sellers were limited to using only 3 decimal places for usage pricing, restricting flexibility in pricing pay-as-you-go products. This increased precision gives sellers more control over pricing strategies. Sellers can now set more granular per-unit costs (for example, per megabyte or gigabyte), allowing for more accurate billing. This also benefits sellers operating in different …

Today, AWS announces the general availability of concurrent VPN connections for AWS Client VPN. This feature allows you to securely connect to multiple Client VPN connections simultaneously, enabling access to your resources across different work environments. AWS Client VPN allows your users to securely connect to your network remotely from any location. Previously, you could only connect to one VPN profile at a time. This limited your access to only one network. To access another network, you were required to disconnect and reconnect to a different VPN profile. With this launch, you can connect to multiple VPN profiles simultaneously without switching. For example, s…

Amazon Connect now provides daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads, enhancing your ability to review staffing requirements with greater precision. While capacity plans already provided weekly and monthly projections, this launch allows you to access day-by-day headcount requirements for up to 64 weeks into the future. This granular view simplifies key staffing and hiring decisions, such as how many workers to hire while accounting for seasonality and applying different shrinkage assumptions at a day level. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect agent scheduling,…

Amazon DynamoDB now supports a new warm throughput value and the ability to easily pre-warm DynamoDB tables and indexes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The warm throughput value provides visibility into the number of read and write operations your DynamoDB tables can readily handle, while pre-warming let’s you proactively increase the value to meet future traffic demands. DynamoDB automatically scales to support workloads of virtually any size. However, when you have peak events like product launches or shopping events, request rates can surge 10x or even 100x in a short period of time. You can now check your tables’ warm throughput value to assess if your table can …

Amazon EC2 introduces new capabilities that make it easy for customers to target instance launches on their On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs). On-Demand Capacity Reservations help you reserve compute capacity for your workloads in a specified Availability Zone for any duration. You can now ensure instance launches are fulfilled exclusively by ODCRs, or prefer unutilized ODCRs before falling back to On-Demand capacity. To get started, you can specify your capacity reservation preferences for your EC2 Auto Scaling groups via the AWS Console or the AWS CLI. These preferences can also be configured using EC2 RunInstances API calls. These features are available in …

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now collects the query execution plans of top SQL queries running on Aurora PostgreSQL instances, and stores them over time. This feature helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or a stalled query. Execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL is available exclusively in the Advanced mode of CloudWatch Database Insights. A query execution plan is a sequence of steps that database engines use to retrieve or modify data in a relational database management system (RDBMS). The RDBMS query optimizers may not always choose the most optimal execution plan from a set of alternative wa…

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. announces that AWS IoT SiteWise now supports NULL and NaN (Not a Number) data of bad or uncertain data quality from industrial data sources. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. This new feature enhances the services capability to handle a wider range of data, improving its utility for industrial applications. With this update, AWS IoT SiteWise now collects, stores, and retrieves real-time or historical NULL values for all supported data types. It also supports NaN values of double data type. Capturing NULL and NaN data is critical for …

In this post, we will share how you can use multi-Region as an architectural approach to achieve higher resilience on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This approach relies on first operating a workload across multiple Availability Zones within an AWS Region, before expanding to achieve even higher resilience by using multiple Regions. This is because within a Region there are multiple Availability Zones, which are physically separated by many miles but still close enough together (60 miles or less) to allow for single-digit millisecond latency. Each Availability Zone features one or more data centers, each housed in its own facility with its own redundant networking, connectivi…

Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports the ability to redirect audio from Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments to a customer service agent’s local device. Audio redirection improves voice quality and reduces latency for voice calls handled on virtual desktops, providing a better experience for both end customers and agents. For region availability, please see the availability of Amazon Connect features by Region. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect agent workspace webpage or see the help documentation. View the full article

AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances as well as R7i database instances are now available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement and up to 20% price/performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Amazon Aurora, depending on the database engine version and workload. 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 spin up an R7g or R7i database instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. Upgradin…

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now allows you to deliver events directly to AWS services in another account. This feature enables you to use multiple accounts to improve security and streamline business processes while reducing the overall cost and complexity of your architecture. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. This launch allows you to directly target services in another account, without the need for additional infrastructure such as an intermediary EventBridge Event Bus or Lambda…

Amazon SNS now supports high-throughput mode for SNS FIFO topics, with default throughput matching SNS standard topics across all regions. When you enable high-throughput mode, SNS FIFO topics will maintain order within message group, while reducing the de-duplication scope to the message-group level. With this change, you can leverage up to 30K messages per second (MPS) per account by default in US East (N. Virginia) Region, and 9K MPS per account in US West (Oregon) Region and Europe (Ireland) Region, and request quota increases for additional throughput in any region. Amazon SNS FIFO topics provides message ordering, message grouping, and de-duplication when deliver…

On Nov 22, 2024, Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion launched support for AWS Lambda processors. With this launch, you now have more flexibility enriching and transforming your logs, metrics, and trace data in an OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline. Some examples include using foundation models (FMs) to generate vector embeddings for your data and looking up external data sources like Amazon DynamoDB to enrich your data. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed, serverless data pipeline that delivers real-time log, metric, and trace data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections. Processors are components within an OpenSearch Ingestion …

On Jan 21, 2025 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.2, 21.0.6, 17.0.14, 11.0.26, 8u442 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, Corretto 11, Corretto 17, Corretto 21, or Corretto 23. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt or Yum repo. Feedback is welcomed! View the full article

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

Today, we are announcing the support of the open-source GraphRAG Toolkit, a new capability that enhances Generative AI applications by providing more comprehensive, relevant and explainable responses using RAG techniques combined with graph data. The toolkit provides an open-source framework for automating the construction of a graph from unstructured data, and composing question-answering strategies that query this graph when answering user questions. Previously, customers faced challenges in conducting exhaustive, multi-step searches across disparate content. By identifying key entities across documents, GraphRAG delivers insights that leverage relationships within t…

As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when daylight can be scarce in our corner of Europe. As we move deeper into 2025, the third week of the new year brings both reflection and forward momentum. While global conversations swirl around technological advancements, it’s these small, personal moments that remind us to pause and appreciate the simple pleasures amon…

You can now split your tests and run them across multiple, parallel-running compute environments. Based on your sharding strategy, CodeBuild will divide your tests and run them across the specified number of parallel environments. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. As the number of tests in a project grows, the total testing time also increases when using a single compute resource. Running tests in parallel across multiple compute resources reduces the overall testing duration in your CI/CD pipeline. This leads to faster feedback cycles and improved devel…

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in five additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables are specifically optimized for analytics workloads, resulting in up to 3x faster query performance through continual table optimization compared to unmanaged Iceberg tables, and up to 10x higher transactions per second compared to Iceberg tables stored in general purpose S3 buckets. S3 Tables integration with AWS Glue Data Catalog is in preview, allowing yo…

Amazon Connect outbound campaigns can now be configured to connect a customer who has picked up a campaign call to an available agent in under two seconds while also supporting automatic call classification. This enhancement helps organizations support regulatory compliance with telemarketing laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), while increasing customer engagement and agent productivity. Call classification automatically categorizes the outcome of a call using machine learning (ML), rather than requiring agent input, helping improve agent productivity and drive efficient customer engagement. To optimize outbound call performance, customers are …

In January 2024, we welcomed the first cohort of learners of AWS Cloud Institute, a comprehensive program designed to equip aspiring cloud builders with the skills needed for high-demand roles in cloud technology. Together, we’ve learned a lot along the way, worked extremely hard, and the learners in the program have built incredible, practical cloud skills. Today, we’re thrilled to celebrate the graduation of this inaugural cohort of AWS Cloud Institute learners, marking a significant milestone in their journey toward launching successful careers in cloud development. Throughout the program, this exceptional group of individuals not only honed their technical expertise…

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Connect screen recording is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its reach to government and public sector customers. This feature, which enables customers to record their agent screens during customer interactions for quality assurance purposes, was previously available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is live. With this launch, we're bringing the same powerful capabilities to our AWS GovCloud (US) customers. Amazon Connect screen recording is a valuable tool for contact centers looking to enhance their quality assurance processes. By capturing agent desktop activities during customer intera…

Amazon Connect now offers the ability to maintain an open communication channel between your agents and Amazon Connect, helping reduce the time it takes to establish a connection with a customer. Contact center administrators can configure an agent’s user profile to maintain a persistent connection after a conversation ends, allowing for subsequent calls to connect faster. Amazon Connect persistent agent connection makes it easier to support compliance requirements with telemarketing laws such as the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for outbound campaigns’ calling by reducing the time it takes for a customer to connect with your agents. Amazon Connect pers…

Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for Go to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the Go programming language. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt data based on industry standards and best practices. The AWS Encryption SDK is available in multiple languages and all implementations of the SDK are interoperable, allowing you to encrypt data in one programming language and decrypt it with any other. The AWS Encryption SDK is developed under open source projects on GitHub where you c…

AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar's "Action details" button. This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in a side panel. This streamlined layout allows you to easily monitor the pipeline process and quickly debug action failures. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where CodePipeline is supported, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. For more informatio…

Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account. Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one accou…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens 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 performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, you can further customize specific widgets to create dashboards that best fit your business needs. For example, you can create a single line chart that combines contacts queued, average queue answer time, and abandoned contacts, filtered for your most important queues, so you can quickly see how in…

AWS announces the general availability of two new larger sizes (12xlarge and 16xlarge) on Amazon EC2 Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances. The new sizes 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 to get price performance benefits and lower prices for a majority of compute-intensive and general-pur…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard that 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. With this dashboard, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, you can track how long an agent has been on after contact work, color code time in specific statuses, and listen into live contacts that need immediate attention. For example, you can automatically highlig…

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. You can now use this additional Region to continuously monitor and detect anomalous behavior, security threats, and sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences targeting your AWS accounts to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Tens of thousands of customers across many industries and geographies use GuardDuty. GuardDuty can identify unusual or unauthorized activity like cryptocurrency mining, access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from unusual locations, or unauthorized access to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. GuardDuty Malware …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances …

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 29 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon FSx, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Glue. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: acm:certificate codepipeline:webhook comprehend:document-classifier comprehend:entity-recognizer databrew:job databrew:project dataexchange:data-sets dms:es dms:subgrp elasticmapreduce:cluster emr-containers:virtualclusters frauddetector:external-model frauddetector:model fsx:file-system glacier:vaults glue:crawler greengrass:connectorsDefinition greengrass:coresDefinition …

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I8g instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networki…

As organizations deploy Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters across multiple use cases, the manual management of topic configurations can be challenging. This can lead to several issues: Inefficiency – Manual configuration is time-consuming and error-prone, especially for large deployments. Maintaining consistency across multiple configurations can be difficult. To avoid this, Kafka administrators often set the create.topics.enable property on brokers, which leads to cluster operation inefficiency. Human error – Manual configuration increases the risk of mistakes that can disrupt data flow and impact applications relying on Amazon MSK. …

Today, AWS Partner Central announces the general availability of Partner Connections, which allows AWS Partners to discover and connect with other Partners for collaboration on shared customer opportunities. With Partner Connections, Partners can co-sell joint solutions, accelerate deal progression, and expand their reach by teaming with other AWS Partners. At the core of Partner Connections are two key capabilities: connections discovery and multi-partner opportunities. The connections discovery feature uses AI-powered recommendations to streamline Partner matchmaking, making it easier for Partners to find suitable collaborators and add them to their network. With mul…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is expanding its Spot allocation strategy options to include capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price and price-capacity-optimized, in addition to the existing default capacity-optimized strategy. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Customers can now enjoy additional allocation strategy options for Spot instances on Elastic Beanstalk such as capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price, and price-capacity-optimized strategies. The capacity-optimized-prioritized strategy allows users to prioritize instance ty…

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their ElastiCache service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their ElastiCache quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Customers will also benefit from visibility into quota usage for all on-boarded quotas via Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics, …

Today, Amazon MSK announced the availability of four additional instance sizes of Graviton3-based M7g instances for Express Brokers. With this launch, you now have seven different instance sizes to choose from to host Express Brokers in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), ranging from large to 16xlarge. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latenc…

Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their MemoryDB service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their MemoryDB quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Service Quotas for MemoryDB is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where MemoryDB is available. …

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

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 36 additional AWS services including AWS End User Messaging and Amazon Q Apps, an Amazon Q Business capability. You can leverage our breadth and depth of services in your workflow, without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. By directly invoking AWS services or their API actions from AWS Step Functions, customers can write less code, simplify their architecture, and save costs. In addition to the 36 newly added services…