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Amazon Data Firehose is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg Tables, Amazon S3 Tables, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases. With Amazon Data Firehose, you don't need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination…

AWS CodeBuild’s support for managed webhooks now extends to include GitHub Enterprise. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Customers using GitHub Enterprise as their source provider previously had to manually create webhooks for CodeBuild to receive events. CodeBuild now integrates natively to create and manage webhooks on your behalf. Additionally, you can use CloudFormation to define your webhooks in a CodeBuild project. This feature is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), GovCloud (US-Eas…

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed runners for GitLab Self-Managed. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab Self-Managed CI/CD job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. This feature allows GitLab Self-Managed jobs to integrate natively with AWS, providing security and convenience through features such as IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon VPC. Customers can access all compute platforms that CodeBuild offers, including Lambda, GPU-enhanced and Arm-based instanc…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. We were positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in 2023. This recognition, we feel, reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and excellence in data integration, demonstrating our continued progress in providing comprehensive data management solutions. The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates 20 data integration tool vendors based on two axes—Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. This evaluation, we feel, critically examines vendors’ capabilities to address key service needs, including data engineering, operational data integration, modern d…

In this blog, let us deep-dive into different AI Key model deployment strategies like Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, AWS Inferentia, Elastic Inference and more from the AWS services. Here, you will also understand the best practices to deploy efficient machine learning models, performance optimization, scalability, and cost-effectiveness... View the full article

AWS CodePipeline now offers a redesigned console experience that helps you monitor and troubleshoot your pipeline releases more effectively. The new horizontal pipeline view displays stages and actions from left to right, results in a stronger visual hierarchy, which helps you to better locate and understand stage and action execution status. This visual update also makes it easier for you to focus on the key information, and find what you are looking for more effectively while preserving the familiar and consistent experience of the current CodePipeline console. The new layout also optimizes information density by reducing unused space, leading to more pipeline releas…

Businesses of all sizes are challenged with the complexities and constraints posed by traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) tools. These intricate solutions, while powerful, often come with a significant financial burden, particularly for small and medium enterprise customers. Beyond the substantial costs of procurement and licensing, customers must also contend with the expenses associated with installation, maintenance, and upgrades—a perpetual cycle of investment that can strain even the most robust budgets. At Wipro, scalability of data pipelines in addition to automation remains a persistent concern for their customers and they’ve learned through customer eng…

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in default service quota limits enabling you to scale your generative AI applications for higher traffic. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to filter undesirable and harmful content across different categories and prompt attacks, topic filters to define and disallow specific topics, sensitive information filters to redact personally identifiable information (PII), word filters to block specific words, and detect model hallucinations by detecting grounding and relevance of model responses as well as identify, correct, and explain factual claims in model responses using Automated Reasoning . These policies ca…

We are excited to announce that Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink integration, enabling customers to establish private connectivity between their VPCs and Amazon Location Service without data ever traversing the public internet. With this new capability, customers can now access Amazon Location Service APIs through private IP addresses within their VPC, significantly enhancing their security posture. This integration simplifies network architecture by eliminating the need for internet gateways, NAT devices, or public IP addresses, while helping customers meet strict regulatory and compliance requirements by keeping all traffic within the AWS network.…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) is available in the Europe (Zurich) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On-Demand (OD) and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memo…

Welcome to February’s post announcing new training course launches—helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our January course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including seven new AWS Builder Labs, four new AWS Jam Journeys, and six major updates to AWS Jam Journeys... View the full article

AWS Developer Day 2025, held on February 20th, showcased how to integrate responsible generative AI into development workflows. The event featured keynotes from AWS leaders including Srini Iragavarapu, Director Generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, David Nalley, Director Open Source Marketing of AWS, along with AWS Heroes and technical community members. Watch the full event recording on Developer Day 2025. Applications are now open through March 6th for the 2025 AWS Cloud Clubs Captains program. AWS Cloud Clubs are student-led groups for post-secondary and independent students, 18 years old and over. Find …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3-based instances also use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 in…

AWS WAF enhances Service Quotas capabilities, enabling organizations to proactively monitor and manage quotas for their cloud deployments. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. By leveraging AWS Service Quotas, you can quickly understand your applied service quota values for these WAF resources and request increases when needed. This enhanced integration brings three key benefits. First, you can now monitor the current utilization of your account-level quotas for WAF resources such as web ACLs, rule gro…

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model, their most intelligent model to date, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, offering both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This new model includes strong improvements in coding and brings enhanced performance across various tasks, like instruction following, math, and physics. Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces a unique approach to AI reasoning by integrating it seamlessly with other capabilities. Unlike traditional models that separate quick responses from those requiring deeper thought, Claude 3.7 Sonnet…

Amazon Verified Permissions now supports the same JSON format for entity and context data, as the Cedar SDK. Developers can use this simpler format for authorization requests. This aligns the Amazon Verified Permissions API more closely with the open source Cedar SDK, and simplifies moving from the SDK to Amazon Verified Permissions or vice versa. Amazon Verified Permissions is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. Using Cedar, an expressive and analyzable open-source policy language, developers and admins can define policy-based access controls using roles and attributes for more granular, context-aware ac…

WellRight is a leading comprehensive corporate wellness platform provider that helps organizations and employees drive meaningful outcomes through personalized wellness programs. The platform increases engagement and benefit utilization by delivering engaging challenges across multiple dimensions of wellness, from physical activities like step tracking to mental health initiatives and team-building exercises. In this post, we share how WellRight optimized the cost and performance of their application through a ground-up modernization to an event-driven architecture. The challenge WellRight’s infrastructure often experiences bursty and unpredictable traffic patterns. …

The old adage “garbage in, garbage out” applies to all search systems. Whether you are building for ecommerce, document retrieval, or Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), the quality of your search results depends on the quality of your search documents. Downstream, RAG systems improve the quality of generated answers by adding relevant data from other systems to the generative prompt. Most RAG solutions use a search engine to search for this relevant data. To get great responses, you need great search results, and to get great search results, you need great data. If you don’t properly partition, extract, enrich, and clean your data before loading it, your search results…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed how humans interact with information in two major ways—search applications and generative AI. Search applications include ecommerce websites, document repository search, customer support call centers, customer relationship management, matchmaking for gaming, and application search. Generative AI use cases include chatbots with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent log analysis, code generation, document summarization, and AI assistants. AWS recommends Amazon OpenSearch Service as a vector database for Amazon Bedrock as the building blocks to power your solution for these workloads. In this post, you’ll learn how t…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 improves the end-user experience by adding support for certificate-based authentication (CBA) on multi-session fleets running the Microsoft Windows operating system and joined to an Active Directory. This functionality helps administrators to leverage the cost benefits of the multi-session model while providing an enhanced end-user experience. By combining these enhancements with the existing advantages of multi-session fleets, AppStream 2.0 offers a solution that helps balance cost-efficiency and user satisfaction. By using certificate-based authentication, you can rely on the security and logon experience features of your SAML 2.0 identity provid…

We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR on EKS. This enables you to enforce full FGAC policies (database, table, column, row, and cell-level) defined in Lake Formation for your data lake tables from EMR on EKS Spark jobs. We are also sharing the general availability of Glue Data Catalog views with EMR on EKS for Spark workflows. Lake Formation simplifies building, securing, and managing data lakes by allowing you to define fine-grained access controls through grant and revoke statements, similar to RDBMS. The same Lake Formation rules now apply to Spark jobs on…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. now supports China UnionPay credit cards for creating new AWS accounts, eliminating the need for international credit cards for customers in China. To use China UnionPay for creating your AWS account, enter your address and billing country in China, then provide your local China UnionPay credit card details and verify your personal identity or business license. All subsequent AWS charges will be billed in Chinese Yuan currency, providing convenient payment experience for customers in China. To get started, select China UnionPay as your payment method when creating a new AWS account. For more information on using China UnionPay credit cards …

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.8. You can now create new clusters using version 3.8 with either KRAFT or ZooKeeper mode for metadata management or upgrade your existing ZooKeeper based clusters to use version 3.8. Apache Kafka version 3.8 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key new features include support for compression level configuration. This allows you to further optimize your performance when using compression types such as lz4, zstd and gzip, by allowing you to change the default compression level. For more details and a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see th…

AWS CodePipeline introduces a new action to deploy to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This action enables you to easily deploy your application to a group of EC2 instances behind load balancers. Previously, if you wanted to deploy to EC2 instances, you had to use CodeDeploy with an AppSpec file to configure the deployment. Now, you can simply use this new EC2 deploy action in your pipeline to deploy to EC2 instances, without the necessity of managing CodeDeploy resources. This streamlined approach reduces your operational overhead and simplifies your deployment process. To learn more about using the EC2 deploy action in your pipeline, visit our tutorial and docu…

Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports the Multi-ENI networking model and Credentials Vending System for DMS Homogenous Migrations. Customers can now choose the Multi-ENI connection type and use the Credentials Vending System, providing a simplified networking configuration experience for secure connectivity to their on-premises database instances. For information see documentation for AWS DMS Homogeneous Migrations. For AWS DMS regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table. View the full article

AWS CodePipeline introduces a new action to deploy to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This action enables you to easily deploy your container applications to your EKS clusters, including those in private VPCs. Previously, if you wanted to deploy to a EKS cluster within a private network, you had to initialize and maintain a compute environment within the private network. Now, you can simply provide the name of the EKS cluster and add this action to your pipeline. The pipeline will automatically establish a connection into your private network to deploy your container application, without additional infrastructure needed. This streamlined approach reduce…

Today, AWS announces the introduction of Backup Payment Methods for AWS invoices in all commercial AWS Regions. This feature enables customers to set up alternate payment methods that will be automatically charged for their invoices if the primary payment method fails. This will help customers make timely invoice payments without the need for manual intervention or last-minute payment updates. There are several benefits this feature brings to AWS customers. Firstly, it reduces the risk of missed or late payments due to issues with the primary payment method. Backup payment method provides peace of mind, knowing that there's a fallback payment method in place for invoic…

Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Europe (Stockholm) region. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. Customers can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio. Additionally, the G6e instances will unlock customers’ ability to create larger, more immersive 3D simulations and digital twins for spatial computing workloads. G6e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to deploy applications on Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server Core 2025 environments. These environments come pre-configured with .NET Framework 4.8.1 and .NET 8.0, providing developers with the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of .NET alongside the established .NET Framework Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server Core 2025 delivers enhanced security features and performance improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments on Windows Server 2025 using the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, API, or AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. This platform is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic B…

The AWS Partner Network (APN) offers several training resources to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) succeed—from showing how to list your first solution on AWS Marketplace to teaching you how to accelerate growth through co-selling and funding opportunities. This blog post compiles these resources and explains the benefit of each, while also providing a recommended sequence along with time estimates, to help ISV alliance leaders plan their teams’ learning paths effectively. The value of AWS Training is clear: Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that AWS Partner organizations with higher adoption of AWS Training achieved a 42% higher average gross margin for…

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that Outbound customers can now specify a Mail Manager archive resource as an additional destination for outbound mail workloads. This enables retention of messages post-DKIM-signature, ensuring that the archive is usable for validating every individual sent message. The Mail Manager archive search interface allows easy discovery of indexed messages and presents search results directly in the AWS console, or makes them available to export to the customer’s chosen S3 bucket. SES Outbound customers using APIv2 now have access to a new parameter in their configuration set which specifies a Mail Manager archive ARN in the same . …

AWS Network Firewall now offers automated domain lists and insights, a feature that enhances visibility into network traffic and simplifies firewall rule configuration. This new capability analyzes HTTP and HTTPS traffic logs from the last 30 days and provides insights into frequently accessed domains, enabling quick rule creation based on observed network traffic patterns. Many organizations now use allow-list policies to limit access to approved destinations only. Automated domain lists reduce the time and effort required to identify necessary domains, configure initial rules, and update allow lists as business needs change. This feature helps quickly identify legiti…

Big data processing and analytics have emerged as fundamental components of modern data architectures. Organizations worldwide use these capabilities to extract actionable insights and facilitate data-driven decision-making processes. Amazon EMR has long been a cornerstone for big data processing in the cloud. Now, with a suite of exciting new features for EMR instance fleets that enables you to effectively manage your compute, Amazon is taking cloud-based analytics to the next level. Amazon EMR has introduced new features for instance fleets that address critical challenges in big data operations. This post explores how these innovations improve cluster resilience, sca…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports CPU limits of up to 192 vCPU for ECS tasks deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, an increase from the previous 10 vCPU limit. This enhancement allows customers to more effectively manage resource allocation on larger Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS customers can define soft and hard limits for CPU and memory resources at the container level, and hard limits at the task level. Soft limits reserve resources on an Amazon EC2 instance for a container, while hard limits enforce maximum usage. For CPU specifically, the container-level hard limit acts as a ceiling and helps prevent resource…

AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports premigration assessments for replications . A premigration assessment evaluates the source and target databases of a database migration task to help identify problems that might prevent a migration from running as expected. By identifying and fixing these issues before a migration starts, you can avoid delays in completing the database migration. The premigration assessments will obtain detailed information about the source schema and tables to provide recommendations on the AWS DMS settings that should be used. For example, the assessment can suggest which method of reading redo logs for change data cap…

Starting today, the memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region. R6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable R5a instances. These instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. With this additional region, R6a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Northern Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). These instances can be purchased as Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot…

Organizations are rapidly expanding their digital presence, creating opportunities to serve customers better through web applications. AWS WAF logs play a vital role in this expansion by enabling organizations to proactively monitor security, enforce compliance, and strengthen application defense. AWS WAF log analysis is essential across many industries, including banking, retail, and healthcare, each needing to deliver secure digital experiences. To optimize their security operations, organizations are adopting modern approaches that combine real-time monitoring with scalable data analytics. They are using data lake architectures and Apache Iceberg to efficiently proce…

AWS WAF expands its Data Protection capabilities with new controls for sensitive data in logs. In addition, we have updated the Logging configuration console experience, making it easier for customer to select the optimal logging option. Data Protection works together with existing Logging Redaction and Filtering features. You can select which protection method to use based on your use case and where you need to apply the controls. When configured, selected request log fields can be replaced with cryptographic hashes (e.g. ‘ade099751d2ea9f3393f0f’) or a predefined static string (‘REDACTED’) before logs are sent to WAF Sample Logs, Amazon Security Lake, CloudWatch, or o…

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports Read Replicas, enabling customers to scale their read operations across multiple instances and Availability Zones. Customers can activate a Read Replica via the AWS Marketplace from the Timestream AWS Management Console while creating a Timestream for InfluxDB instance. Adding Read Replicas allow customers to support higher read throughput by distributing read requests across multiple database instances while maintaining a single write endpoint. This helps customers meet the demands of read-intensive workloads, such as real-time analytics and monitoring applications, and improve application performance and availability. Custo…

We're excited to announce the launch of IAM compute roles for AWS Amplify Hosting, enabling secure connections to other AWS resources from server-side rendered applications. This allows developers to integrate their SSR applications with AWS services while maintaining robust security practices. Use Cases Unlocked: Secure credential management for SSR applications Direct integration with AWS services like Secrets Manager and Parameter Store Support for database connections (RDS, DynamoDB) Granular permission controls Branch-specific role configurations This feature is available in all 20 AWS Amplify Hosting regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), …

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Mexico (Central) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up and archiving data to AWS, providing on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing on-premises applications low latency access to data in the cloud. Visit the AWS Storage Gateway product page to learn more. Access the AWS Storage Gateway console to get started. To see all the Regions where AWS …

Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports real-time update of application configurations for EMR instance fleets without requiring cluster termination or restart. With this feature, customers can now dynamically adjust application configurations, such as Spark’s executor memory, YARN’s resource allocation, and HDFS settings seamlessly, on a running cluster, minimizing interruptions to your workloads. This is particularly useful for adjusting resource allocation and fine-tune applications to match data processing and job performance requirements, while ensuring optimal resource utilization. Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for data processing, interactive analysis, and mach…

AWS Price List API now supports AWS PrivateLink. With AWS PrivateLink, you can simplify private network connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), the AWS Price List API, and your on-premises data centers by using interface VPC endpoints and private IP addresses. The AWS Price List API provides a catalog of the products and prices for AWS services that you can purchase on AWS. AWS PrivateLink is compatible with AWS Direct Connect and AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN) to facilitate private network connectivity, and helps you eliminate the need to use public IP addresses, configure firewall rules, or configure an internet gateway to access the AWS Price List AP…

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 18 additional regions, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift. With this launch, Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is supported in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Redshift is supported. Zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift to analyze petabytes of transactional data from Aurora. Within seconds of transactional data being written into Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, zero-ETL seamlessly makes th…

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) now includes L2 construct support for Amazon Data Firehose delivery streams, enabling developers to define and deploy streaming data infrastructure as code. This new capability allows you to programmatically configure delivery streams that automatically deliver real-time data to destinations like Amazon S3. With this addition to AWS CDK, you can define sophisticated streaming architectures using familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, and .NET. The module simplifies the process of setting up fully-managed delivery streams that push data to your desired destinations on a regular cadence, making it easier to build…

Organizations that are interested in improving their development velocity that follow the principles of the twelve-factor app might find benefits in understanding how to realize those concepts on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, I will help you correlate the twelve-factors app concepts as you architect solutions on AWS. Twelve-factors Let’s start with a quick recap of twelve-factors. The Twelve-Factor App was published in 2011 by Adam Wiggins as a collaboration between developers at Heroku. He published it at a time when developers were shifting from a paradigm of writing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in their own cloud environments to having the ap…

Join us for the AWS Developer Day on February 20! This virtual event is designed to help developers and teams incorporate cutting-edge yet responsible generative AI across their development lifecycle to accelerate innovation. In his keynote, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, shares his thoughts on the next generation of software development based on generative AI, the skills needed to thrive in this changing environment, and how he sees it evolving in the future. Get a first look at exciting technical deep-dive and product updates about Amazon Q Developer, AWS Amplify, and GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. You get the chance to explore real-world use cases, live…

This blog is about optimizing ML pipelines that serve as the foundation for constructing and deploying models at scale; their optimization is key. AWS offers a variety of solutions designed to orchestrate machine learning workflows, equipping organizations with a complete set of tools to simplify and automate their ML processes. As a candidate for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam, you should ensure that you master these techniques, which is crucial... View the full article

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new pricing structure for Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM), giving customers reduced charges at higher levels of usage. Customers can benefit from lower total VDM charges without the need to change account configuration, sending practices, or billing setup. This can lower customer total cost of ownership for VDM as their usage increases. Previously, all customers using VDM paid a fixed price per message sent. Customers could turn VDM on or off whenever needed, and they paid only for what they used without any commitment or fixed monthly charges. Now, customers will see their charges per message for VDM decrease as…

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, for Java and .NET managed runtimes, enabling developers and operators to easily monitor the health and performance of their serverless applications built using Lambda. We previously announced support for Application Signals for Lambda functions for Python and Node.js managed runtimes. With this launch, you can now enable Application Signals for Lambda functions using Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and .NET 8 Lambda managed runtimes. Once enabled, Application Signals provides pre-built, standardized dashboards for critical application metrics (such as through…