Amazon Web Services (AWS)

CloudWatch Database Insights announces support for customization of its metrics dashboard, allowing users to add or remove any database metric to the default dashboard provided. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. Database Insights consolidates logs and metrics from your applications, your databases, and the operating systems on which they run into a unified view in the console. Using its pre-built dashboards, recommended alarms, and automa…

Today, we are announcing the general availability of our Web Application Firewall Protection for AWS Amplify Hosting. This new feature allows customers to easily attach a web application firewall to their AWS Amplify apps, enhancing the security of their hosted applications. With this integration, customers can implement robust security measures without additional configuration steps or management overhead. The AWS WAF integration with Amplify Hosting provides access to a full range of AWS WAF capabilities. Customers can now use managed rules to protect against common web exploits and vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). Additionally, t…

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the need to set up and maintain the underlying infrastructure. It is integrated with AWS Firewall Manager to provide you with central visibility and control over your firewall policies across multiple AWS accounts. To see which regions AWS Network Firewall is availabl…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports linked servers to Teradata databases. Linked server is a SQL Server feature that enables customers to read data and execute commands on remote database servers outside of the SQL Server instance. With this launch, customers can link their RDS for SQL Server instance to a Teradata database running on AWS or on premises. To start setting up a linked server for Teradata, add the ODBC_TERADATA option to your RDS for SQL Server instance's Option Group. Amazon RDS automatically installs and configures the Teradata ODBC driver, enabling you to run distributed queries, and execute SQL commands on your …

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) has expanded its Multi-Region Replication capabilities, now enabling you to replicate your tables beyond the previous quota of six AWS Regions to all available AWS Regions. This enhancement to the existing multi-Region Replication provides even greater flexibility for organizations requiring broader global presence and data distribution. Customers can now automatically replicate their data across any number of AWS Regions supported within Amazon Keyspaces. With multi-Region replication, Amazon Keyspaces asynchronously replicates data between Regions, and data is typically propagated across Regions within a second. The expanded…

The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Paris). Amazon SageMaker is the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. Users can access all their data and tools from Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment that brings together the functionality and tools from existing AWS Analytics and AI/ML services, including Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker AI. Unified access to data is provided by Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, and catalog and governance features are available via SageMaker Catalog (built on Am…

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift in the AWS Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) regions. Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor V2, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools by providing a web-based application that allows you to focus on exploring your data without managing your infrastructure. The Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is a separate web…

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing you access to Scheduler from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without using the public internet. This feature eliminates the need for an internet gateway, firewall rules, or proxy servers when accessing EventBridge Scheduler from a private subnet. With Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, you can create billions of scheduled events and tasks that run across more than 270 AWS services, without provisioning or managing infrastructure. You can set up one-time schedules for specific dates and times, or create recurring schedules using cron and rate expressions, with support for time zones and dayli…

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces two new instances- OR2 and OM2, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family. The new generation OR2 instance delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput compared to previous OR1 instances and 70% over R7g instances. The new OM2 instance delivers up to 15% higher indexing throughput compared to OR1 instances and 66% over M7g instances in internal benchmarks. The new generation OpenSearch Optimized instances use the same architecture as the OR1 instances, leveraging best-in-class cloud technologies like Amazon S3, to provide high durability, and improved price-performance for higher indexing throughput better for indexing hea…

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 9.2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MySQL 9.2 is the latest Innovation Release from the MySQL community. MySQL Innovation releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. MySQL Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next major & minor release, whereas MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) Releases…

Amazon DataZone is now available in 2 additional commercial regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Europe (Paris). Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers in your organization. With Amazon DataZone, data producers populate the business data catalog with structured data assets from AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Redshift tables. Data consumers search and subscribe to data assets in the data catalog and share with other business use case collaborators. Consumers can analyze their subscribed data assets with tools—such as Amazon Redshift or Amazon Athena query edito…

Resilience has always been a top priority for customers running mission-critical Apache Kafka applications. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is deployed across multiple Availability Zones and provides resilience within an AWS Region. However, mission-critical Kafka deployments require cross-Region resilience to minimize downtime during service impairment in a Region. With Amazon MSK Replicator, you can build multi-Region resilient streaming applications to provide business continuity, share data with partners, aggregate data from multiple clusters for analytics, and serve global clients with reduced latency. This post explains how to use MSK Replicat…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the scenarios capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight. Amazon Q guides you through data analysis by uncovering hidden trends, making recommendations for your business, and intelligently suggesting next steps for deeper exploration—all in response to natural language interactions. Now anyone can explore past trends, forecast future scenarios, and model solutions without needing specialized skill, analyst support, or manual manipulation of data in spreadsheets. With its intuitive interface and step-by-step guidance, the scenarios capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight helps users perform complex data analysis up to 10x faster th…

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect will support NDI® (Network Device Interface) outputs from MediaConnect flows. NDI is a high-quality and low-latency video connectivity technology, widely used in live production applications and supported by more than 500 hardware products and 300 software applications. At launch, the MediaConnect support for NDI allows you to take an incoming transport stream source encoded as AVC or HEVC up to 1080p at 60FPS and output it as NDI High Bandwidth to a VPC. NDI enabled flows can simultaneously output NDI as well as transport stream-based outputs. NDI outputs will use the field-proven SpeedHQ codec and allow you to configure the …

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces supports User Defined Types (UDTs) in Multi-Region. This enhancement allows you to use UDTs consistently across multiple AWS Regions, enabling global applications to maintain consistent data schemas. With Multi-Region UDT support, you can replicate UDT schemas automatically across Regions, maintain consistent data models across your global infrastructure, and scale your Cassandra-compatible applications across geographic boundaries. This feature builds upon the exist…

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion is a fully managed feature of DMS that automatically assesses and converts database schemas to formats compatible with AWS target database services. Today, we are excited to announce that Schema Conversion now supports conversions from IBM Db2 for z/OS to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Db2. Using Schema Conversion, you can automatically convert database objects from your IBM Db2 for z/OS source to an Amazon RDS for Db2 target, including stored procedures, functions, views, and other database structures. This is especially valuable for mainframe migrations as it simplifies complex processes by resolvin…

Amplify Swift now supports sharing authentication state across multiple apps by leveraging keychain access groups. This new feature allows developers to manage a single authentication session across all Swift-based applications and extensions within the same access group. Developers can now configure Amplify to store authentication information in a shared keychain, with built-in support for migrating existing sessions. Regardless of platform, users only need to sign in once to access any application or extension within the same access group. This feature is particularly valuable for developers creating families of Swift applications that require consistent authenticati…

Today, AWS announced upgrades to the Amazon Q Business Slack and Teams integrations. The upgrades include the ability to create multiple Amazon Q Business integrations within a Slack workspace or Teams organization, free text feedback support, improved response and source formatting, and the support for larger file attachments with user queries. With the support for multiple integrations, customers can now deploy and test up to ten integrations at a time in their Slack workspace or Teams organization and maintain separate integrations for testing, production, and different user groups. With the ability to monitor feedback, customers can review their users’ satisfaction…

Corretto 24 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto 24 is an OpenJDK 24 Feature Release, which will be supported through October, 2025. OpenJDK 24 introduces enhanced performance with two new experimental features: the Generational Shenandoah garbage collector, designed to improve sustainable throughput, load-spike resilience, and memory utilization, and Compact Object Headers, designed to improve heap usage by shrinking object headers from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. Additionally, this release includes Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linkin…

Amazon Redshift supports querying data stored using Apache Iceberg tables, an open table format that simplifies management of tabular data residing in data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon S3 Tables delivers the first cloud object store with built-in Iceberg support and streamlines storing tabular data at scale, including continual table optimizations that help improve query performance. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse unifies your data across S3 data lakes, including S3 Tables, and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helps you build powerful analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications on a single copy of data, queryin…

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo). 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. You can use S3 Tables with AWS analytics services through the integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehou…

You can now capture and review agent acknowledgements of performance evaluations within Contact Lens, ensuring that agents have reviewed evaluation feedback and understand performance expectations. Today, agents receive automated email notifications or tasks to review their performance evaluations. With this launch, agents can acknowledge their review of performance evaluations within the Connect UI, and add optional notes (e.g., “reviewed and accepted feedback on being more empathetic towards angry customers”). Managers can then track agent acknowledgements, to confirm that agents are regularly reviewing the feedback on performance evaluations for improving their perform…

Today, AWS announced support for 24 additional AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App can now access 24 additional AWS services including Service Quotas, CloudFront, Amazon SES, AWS Cloud9, and AWS Batch via an integrated mobile web browser experience in the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers who are on-the-go can use the AWS Console Mobile App to access a select set of native and in-app browser supported services. Customers benefit from the AWS Console Mobile App's biometric authentication (sign-in), and mobile optimized customer experience. For AWS services not available natively, customers can access the AWS Man…

AWS has enhanced Payment Profiles to allow customers to select their preferred currency for each AWS service provider (seller of record). This new capability builds upon the existing ability to set different payment methods per service provider, giving you more control over your currency preferences. With Payment Profiles you can now customize both payment methods and currencies for each AWS service provider. For example, you can select to pay one AWS service provider in USD and another in EUR, aligning your AWS payment preferences with your business needs. If you prefer not to create specific Payment Profiles, AWS will continue using your default payment preferences. …

AWS Deadline Cloud customer can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to call Deadline Cloud's public service endpoints. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps customers render visual effects, animation, and other complex graphics workloads in the cloud. With the addition of IPv6 support, AWS Deadline Cloud enhances its networking capabilities, providing you with improved compatibility with modern network infrastructures. The transition to IPv6 is essential due to the continued growth of the internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. By adopting IPv6 in AWS Deadline Cloud, you can ensure your rendering w…

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Mexico - Central and in Thailand region. Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), AWS Managed Microsoft AD enables you to migrate AD-aware applications while reducing the work of managing AD infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. You can use your Microsoft AD credentials to domain join EC2 instances, and also manage containers and Kubernetes clusters. You can keep your identities in your existing Microsoft AD or create and manage identities in your AWS managed directory. AD Connector is a proxy that enables AWS applications to…

The ability for organizations to quickly analyze data across multiple sources is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Imagine a scenario where the retail analytics team is trying to answer a simple question: Among customers who purchased summer jackets last season, which customers are likely to be interested in the new spring collection? While the question is straightforward, getting the answer requires piecing together data across multiple data sources such as customer profiles stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from customer relationship management (CRM) systems, historical purchase transactions in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse, and cu…

Today we’re excited to announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2025.03. This release introduces the RES cost dashboard, supports custom instance lists by software stack, extends hibernation support to Linux virtual desktops, and supports virtual desktops running Windows 10 and 11. Administrators now have access to the RES cost dashboard, which provides an overview of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) costs at a project level. Use the cost dashboard to get an overview of each project’s budget progress and view data related to historical spend. RES 2024.08 introduced the ability to modify the list of allowable VDI instance types at the env…

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

Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now offers IonQ's latest 36-qubit Forte Enterprise quantum processing unit (QPU) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This new device joins IonQ's existing quantum hardware portfolio on Braket, which includes Forte-1, Aria-1, and Aria-2, providing customers with additional capacity to run their quantum workloads on ion-trapped devices. With this launch, customers can use the familiar Braket SDK and APIs to access Forte Enterprise, which maintains the same capabilities that customers value in Forte-1. The device features IonQ's debiasing and sharpening error mitigation algorithms to enable advanced customers workloa…

Amazon OpenSearch Service has been providing vector database capabilities to enable efficient vector similarity searches using specialized k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) indexes to customers since 2019. This functionality has supported various use cases such as semantic search, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs), and rich media searching. With the explosion of AI capabilities and the increasing creation of generative AI applications, customers are seeking vector databases with rich feature sets. OpenSearch Service also offers a multi-tiered storage solution to its customers in the form of UltraWarm and Cold tiers. UltraWarm provides cost-e…

Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation’s LLM-as-a-judge capability is now generally available. Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation allows you to evaluate, compare, and select the right models for your use case. You can choose an LLM as your judge from several available on Bedrock to ensure you have the right combination of evaluator models and models being evaluated. You can select quality metrics such as correctness, completeness, and professional style and tone, as well as responsible AI metrics such as harmfulness and answer refusal. You can evaluate all available models on Amazon Bedrock, including serverless models, Bedrock Marketplace models compatible with Converse API, custo…

Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation is now generally available. You can evaluate your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, either those built on Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases or a custom RAG system. You can evaluate either retrieval or end-to-end generation. Evaluations are powered by an LLM-as-a-judge, with a choice of several judge models. For retrieval, you can select from metrics such as context relevance and coverage. For end-to-end retrieve and generation, you can select from quality metrics such as correctness, completeness, and faithfulness (hallucination detection), and responsible AI metrics such as harmfulness, answer refusal, and stereotyping. You can…

Today, AWS announces a new flow management feature for AWS Network Firewall that enables customers to identify and control active network flows. This feature introduces two key functions: Flow Capture, which allows point-in-time snapshots of active flows, and Flow Flush, which enables selective termination of specific connections. With these new capabilities, customers can now view and manage active flows based on criteria such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, and protocols, providing enhanced control over their network traffic. This new feature helps customers maintain consistent security policies when updating firewall rules and enables rapid response durin…

Starting today, Amazon Q Business is available in AWS Europe region (Ireland). Amazon Q Business revolutionizes the way that employees interact with organizational knowledge and enterprise systems. Q Business customers in this region can get answers from enterprise RAG knowledge bases and uploaded files (e.g. pdf's, images) and run tabular search on small tables. Customers can also get answers from LLM knowledge and generate content using their Q Business assistant. Amazon Q Business connects seamlessly to over 40 popular enterprise systems, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Microsoft 365, and Salesforce. It ensures that users access content securely wi…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these i…

While helping our customers build systems on AWS, we found out that a large number of enterprise customers who pay great attention to data security and compliance, such as B2C FinTech enterprises, build data-sensitive applications on premises and use other applications on AWS to take advantage AWS managed services. Using AWS managed services can greatly simplify daily operation and maintenance, as well as help you achieve optimized resource utilization and performance. This post discusses a decoupled approach of building a serverless data lakehouse using AWS Cloud-centered services, including Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon Athena, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3…

For years, I lived a double life: engineering student by day, musician by night. I earned two degrees while playing more than 100 shows annually, convinced I could keep both dreams alive indefinitely. But in 2019, everything unraveled. Suddenly, those hard-earned degrees weren’t enough to keep a roof over my head. I found myself on my dad’s couch, scraping by with coding gigs. It was during one of these jobs that a client asked a question that would change everything: “Are you AWS Certified?” That simple inquiry became my lifeline. Within a month, I had my first AWS Certification. Six years and many certifications later, I’ve climbed from struggling graduate to Senior S…

Architecture decision records (ADRs) help you document and communicate important process and architecture decisions in your engineering projects. Based on our experience implementing over 200 ADRs across multiple projects, we’ve developed best practices that can help you streamline your decision-making processes and improve team collaboration. In this post, you’ll learn: How to implement ADRs in your organization Best practices based on more than 200 ADRs across multiple projects Practical tips for streamlining architectural decision-making Real-world examples from projects with 10 to more than 100 team members Common challenges in architecture decision-ma…

For digital enterprises to remain competitive, resilience is essential for maintaining reliability and building customer trust. End users expect applications to be available 24 hours a day, leading companies to develop increasingly sophisticated methods to provide continuous operation of critical services. Some companies, such as financial services companies, have to meet regulatory requirements such as Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and are expected to manage the risk of outsourcing critical applications. They must design for high availability and plan for potential impairments. By proactively planning for potential disruptions, they’re not just mitigating ris…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, the…

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

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Middle East (UAE) 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 instances, …

Amazon Nova now supports expanded Tool Choice parameter options in the Converse API, enhancing developers' control over model interactions with tools. Today, developers already use the Converse API to create sophisticated conversational applications, such as customized chat bots to maintain conversations over multiple turns. With this update, Nova adds support for 'Any' and 'Tool' modes in addition to the existing 'Auto' mode support, enabling developers to use all three different modes. Auto leaves tool selection entirely to Nova’s discretion, whether to call a tool or generate text instead. Auto is useful in use cases like chatbots and assistants where you may need…

This blog post was authored by Robert Northard, Principal Container Specialist SA, Eric Chapman, Senior Product Manager EKS, and Elamaran Shanmugam, Senior Specialist Partner SA. Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Hybrid Nodes transform how you run generative AI inference workloads across cloud and on-premises environments. Extending your EKS cluster to on-premises infrastructure allows you to deploy AI applications with consistent management and reduced operational complexity. Amazon EKS provides a managed Kubernetes control plane, and EKS Hybrid Nodes enables you to join on-premises infrastructure to the Amazon EKS control plane as worker nod…

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights announces support for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases hosted in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. Database Insights consolidates logs and metrics from your applications, your databases, and the operating systems on which they run into a unified view in the console. Using its pre-built dashboards, recommended alarms, and automated telemetry collection, you can monito…

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy-based enforcement capabilities to build safe, generative AI applications at scale. This new feature enables customers to apply specific guardrails to model inference calls, ensuring responsible AI policies are applied across all AI interactions. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to detect and filter undesirable content, 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 respons…

Amazon CloudWatch RUM now allows customers to monitor multiple top-level domains (TLDs), and second-level domains (SLDs) using a single App Monitor unifying real user monitoring across multiple domains in CloudWatch RUM. Customers can now specify a list of domains and also use wildcards for TLDs to monitor all their front-end applications together. This enhancement is useful for web applications that need to be accessible from different domains due to various reasons such as user locations, domain migrations, or any other development needs. This enhancement simplifies observability for applications accessed from multiple domains by displaying all real user data of the …

AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 34 AWS commercial regions, 2 GovCloud regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that enables customers to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across their accounts and resources. Using AWS Firewall Manager, customers can manage AWS WAF rules, AWS Shield Advanced protections, AWS Network Firewall, R53 resolver DNS Firewall and VPC security groups across their entire AWS Organizations. AWS Firewall Manager makes it easier for customers to ensure that …

AWS WAF now supports URI fragment field matching, enabling customers to match against the URI fragment and along with the already supported URI path. With this feature, customers can create rules that inspect and match against the content of the URI fragment within the URI path. Customers previously could use WAF match conditions to inspect requests and compare their origin against provided criteria. As customers strive to enhance security, they have requested the ability to match against the URI fragment - the part of the URL often after the "#" symbol. URI fragment is often used to identify specific sections or anchors within a web page and is not typically sent to t…

AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity in the following additional Regions: Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne). This launch enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions in the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service provider, you can enable access to your VPCE service for customers in all existing and upcoming AWS Regions without the need to setup additional infrastructure in each region. As a service consumer, you can privately connect to VPCE services in other AWS Regions without the need to setup cross-region peering or…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose and compute intensive workloads. C7i-flex and M7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i and M6i instances respectively…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of PySpark in AWS Clean Rooms, enabling companies and their partners to run sophisticated analytics across large datasets using PySpark, the Python API for Apache Spark. With this launch, you and your partners can bring PySpark code and libraries to an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration and run advanced analyses without having to share underlying data or proprietary analysis methods. For example, an advertising measurement provider can use PySpark in AWS Clean Rooms to run their custom algorithms across multiple publisher datasets simultaneously to measure ad effectiveness. Similarly, a pharmaceutical company can run their propriet…

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which helps developers monitor real user interactions and diagnose front-end performance issues in web applications, now supports JavaScript source maps, enabling developers to convert minified JavaScript errors in the stack trace into readable formats for faster error resolution. With this feature, front-end developers and DevOps teams can now view searchable, human-readable JS errors and quickly identify the exact location of errors in their original source code. JavaScript errors can be difficult to debug when they are minified in the stack trace, making it hard to pinpoint the source of an issue. Now, if an error occurs in a production enviro…

The Amazon DAX SDK for JavaScript, version 3 (v3) is now available. You can use this new DAX SDK to build JavaScript applications that benefit from accelerated access to DynamoDB with minimal configuration changes. The AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 offers a modular architecture and features that improve developer productivity. DAX is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that can boost read performance by up to 10 times, even at millions of requests per second. It is API compatible with DynamoDB, so you do not need to change your application logic. Simply provision a DAX cluster, update your client to use the new DAX SDK for JavaScript v3, and dir…

The Amazon DAX SDK for Go, version 2 (v2) is now available and is compatible with the AWS SDK for Go v2. The Amazon DAX SDK for Go v2 offers a modular architecture and features that improve developer productivity. DAX is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that can boost read performance by up to 10 times, even at millions of requests per second. It is API compatible with DynamoDB, so you do not need to change your application logic. Simply create a DAX cluster, switch to the DAX SDK for Go v2, and point your existing DynamoDB calls to the DAX endpoint. For information about DAX Regional availability, see the “Service endpoints” section i…

Today, AWS announces increased quotas for AWS Client VPN, expanding routes per target network association to 100 and authorization rules per endpoint to 200. AWS Client VPN allows you to securely manage network routing and access control for your VPN connections. Previously, you were given default quota of 10 routes per association and 50 authorization rules per endpoint. With this quota increase, you can now configure up to 100 routes per association and 200 rules per endpoint. For example, enterprises with distributed architectures can define specific routing paths for multiple subnets across development, staging, and production environments, providing greater flexib…

AWS announces the next generation of Amazon Connect, where powerful AI turns every customer touchpoint into a deeper relationship and better outcome. This comprehensive approach spans self-service, agent assistance, analytics, post-contact evaluation, and automated follow-up boosts sales and delights customers, while learning from every touchpoint. The next generation of Amazon Connect can be enabled with a single click, and includes unlimited use of AI capabilities, so you can focus on making customer experience improvements, not cost-driven compromises. This next generation of Amazon Connect is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul…

Apache HBase is a massively scalable, distributed big data store in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. We can use Amazon EMR with HBase on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for random, strictly consistent real-time access for tables with Apache Kylin. It ingests data through spark jobs and queries the HTables through Apache Kylin cubes. The HBase cluster uses HBase write-ahead logs (WAL) instead of Amazon EMR WAL. A time goes by, companies may want to scale in long-running Amazon EMR HBase clusters because of issues such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) scheduling events and budget concerns. Another issue is that companies may use Spot Instances and…

Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available on two different release cycles - Current Track and Trailing Track. With the Current Track you will get the most up-to-date certified release version with the latest features, security updates, and performance enhancements. With the Trailing Track you will be on the previous certified release. With the Trailing Track feature, you now have the option to run a subset of Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroups in the Amazon Redshift Serverless Trailing Track to allow for a few weeks of integration validation in your environment before adopting the release across all your workgroups. Each Amazon Redshift Serverless release undergoe…

Today, AWS announced several upgrades to the Amazon Q Business browser extension to enhance its utility and improve user efficiency when performing browser-based tasks. The upgrades include company knowledge access, in-line PDF support, the ability to delete previous attachments from conversation context, image file attachment support, and an expanded prompt context window. With the new upgrades, browser extension users are now able to access questions from a wide range of data sources that include not only their open web pages and attached documents, but also their company’s indexed data, PDFs they open in their browser, and multimodal file attachments such as charts …

Amazon Connect Tasks can now be configured to expire up to 90 days from creation, with a default of 7 days. For example, tasks like auto repairs can take weeks to complete or that have longer follow-up times can stay active for up to 90 days before being escalated to a supervisor, while more time-critical tasks like rescheduling a hotel reservation can be distributed and tracked to completion within minutes. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. This feature is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect Tasks …

Customers can now set exclusion time windows to avoid affecting a service's reliability score during planned downtime. This feature works with service-level objectives (SLOs) that are created and tracked using CloudWatch Application Signals. SLOs help track longer term performance of services against pre-defined thresholds. Customers can now gain control for pausing/resuming their SLOs during planned outages on CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications hosted on AWS. Customers occasionally need to omit specific timeframes from their SLO status and budget calculatio…

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Developer, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor version is SQL Server 2022 CU17 16.0.…

AWS Transfer Family enhances certificate management capabilities for Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) with more options to import and monitor your AS2 certificates. This update makes it easier to migrate AS2 trading partner relationships to AWS and ensure uninterrupted communications. AS2 is a widely used business-to-business messaging protocol in industries such as healthcare, retail and supply chain, and uses certificate keys for secure message transmission and signing. You now have an option to import complete certificate information, including the full certificate chain, as a single PEM file. To ensure timely rotation of your certificates, you can check the certific…

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI-powered assistant for customer service, now makes it easy to create and modify generative AI experiences to improve customer interactions through an intuitive user interface within the Amazon Connect admin website. With this no-code approach, contact center administrators can now configure AI agent behaviors, create or edit custom prompts and set appropriate guardrails directly through the Amazon Connect admin website. For example, users can update AI prompts when launching new products, adjust AI guardrails to filter inappropriate content, or refine AI agents. For region availability, please see the availability of Amazon Connect f…

Salesforce Contact Center with Amazon Connect, now generally available, is a groundbreaking offering that integrates native digital and voice capabilities into Salesforce Service Cloud, delivering a unified and streamlined experience for agents. Salesforce users can now unify and route voice, chat, email, and case management across Amazon Connect and Service Cloud capabilities, streamlining operational efficiency and enhancing customer service interactions. With Salesforce Contact Center with Amazon Connect, companies can now seamlessly integrate their Salesforce CRM data and agent experience with Amazon Connect’s leading voice, digital channels, and routing capabiliti…

AWS announces Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 now supports increased maximum result set and export size to 100MB of your query result sets with no row limit in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Prior to this limit of your query result sets was* 5MB or 100,000 rows. This enhancement provides greater flexibility for you and your team to work with large datasets, enabling you to generate, analyze, and export more comprehensive data without previous constraints. If you work with large datasets, such as security logs, gaming data, and other big data workloads, that require in-depth analysis, the previous 5MB or 100,000-row limit on result sets and exports often fell short of your …

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers support for managed VPC endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink) in two additional regions - AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Managed VPC endpoints allow to connect to your Amazon OpenSearch Service VPC-enabled domain in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With an Amazon OpenSearch Service managed endpoint, you can now privately access your OpenSearch Service domain within your VPC from your client applications in other VPCs, within the same or across AWS accounts, without using public IPs or requiring traffic to traverse the Internet. With this release, OpenSearch Service allows you to create an endpoint to an OpenSearc…

In AWS data engineering, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes are pivotal, as they allow you to prepare raw data sets for analytical purposes. This blog provides a detailed exploration of data engineering best practices specifically geared toward optimising ETL workflows, enhanced with relevant keywords and concepts for AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Certification (DEA-C01). The ETL Process ETL is the combination of data from multiple sources into a large central repository called a data warehouse. It uses a set of business rules to clean and organise and prepare raw data for such activities as storage, analytics, and machine learning (ML). It provides a c…

AWS Verified Access is a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud Regions and a FedRAMP Moderate authorized service in the AWS US East and US West commercial regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP compliance requirements can now leverage AWS Verified Access to enable secure VPN-less access to corporate HTTP, non-HTTP applications, and infrastructure resources. Built based on AWS Zero Trust principles, you can use Verified Access to implement a work-from-anywhere model with added security and scalability. AWS Verified Access allows admins to define fine-grained access policies based upon a user’s identity an…

Today, we announce support for AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0 for Apache Spark jobs. AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0 allows customers to create views from Glue 5.0 Spark jobs that can be queried from multiple engines without requiring access to referenced tables. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue Data Catalog views are virtual tables in which the contents are defined by a SQL query that references one or more tables. These views support multiple SQL query engines, so you can access the same view across different AWS …

AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon Aurora databases, depending on database engine, version, …

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton4-based M8g database instances in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), and Europe (London) Regions and R8g database instances in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon RDS open source databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload. M8g and R8g database instances ar…

AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipeline introduces CodeBuild rule and Commands rule that customers can use in their stage level condition to gate a pipeline execution. You can use CodeBuild rule to start a CodeBuild build or Commands rule to run simple shell commands before exiting a stage, when all actions in the stage have completed successfully, or when any action in the stage has failed. These new rules will provide more flexibility to your deployment process and enable more release safety controls. With these two rules, you can run integration tests as a stage level condition when your deployment completes and automatically roll back or fail your deployment when the int…

Amazon Bedrock now supports fine-tuning for Meta’s Llama 3.2 models (1B, 3B, 11B, and 90B), enabling businesses to customize these generative AI models with their own data. Llama 3.2 models are available in various sizes, from small (1B and 3B) to medium-sized multimodal models (11B and 90B). Llama 3.2 11B and 90B models are the first in the Llama series to support both text and vision tasks, achieved by integrating image encoder representations into the language model. Fine-tuning allows you to adapt Llama 3.2 models for domain-specific tasks, enhancing performance for specialized use cases. The Llama 3.2 90B model excels in advanced reasoning, long-form text generati…

Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection is now automatically available in AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. This capability allows you to identify sophisticated, multi-stage attacks targeting your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. You can now use new attack sequence findings that cover multiple resources and data sources over an extensive time period, allowing you to spend less time on first-level analysis and more time responding to critical-severity threats to minimize business impact. GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms trained at AWS scale and automatically correlates security signals from across A…

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Customers now have the option of using either IPv6 or IPv4 when sending requests over dual-stack public endpoints. Kinesis Data Streams allows users to capture, process, and store data streams in real time at any scale. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude, so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces. Many devices and networks today already use IPv6, and now they can easily write to and read from data streams. Support for IPv6 with Kinesis Data Streams is available in all Regions where Kin…

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless Streaming jobs, which enables you to continuously analyze and process streaming data, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Streaming has become vital for businesses to gain continuous insights from data sources like sensors, IoT devices, and web logs. However, processing streaming data can be challenging due to requirements such as high availability, resilience to fai…

Amazon EMR Serverless is now a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage EMR Serverless to run Apache Spark and Hive workloads. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessmen…

AWS CodePipeline now enables direct pipeline-to-pipeline invocation with a new native action. This feature simplifies triggering downstream pipeline executions and passing pipeline variables and source revisions between pipelines. The new CodePipeline Invoke action eliminates the need for workarounds like configuring CodeBuild projects or using the Commands action with custom shell commands. You can now directly specify subsequent pipelines to be executed with pipeline variables and source revisions. For example, when using separate pipelines for Docker image building and deployment, you can pass image digests between pipelines seamlessly. The action also supports cros…

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) 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 whe…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) integration with Amazon S3 Tables, a feature that enables customers to deliver real-time streaming data into Amazon S3 Tables without requiring any code development or multi-step processes. Firehose can acquire streaming data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon MSK, Direct PUT API, and AWS Services such as AWS WAF web ACL logs, Amazon VPC Flow Logs. It can then deliver this data to destinations like Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, Snowflake, and others for analytics. Now, with the Amazon S3 Table integration, customers can stream data from any of these sou…

Amazon S3 Access Grants now authenticate based on the union of both Identity Provider (IdP) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions. This means customers can use AWS machine learning and analytics services such as Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Glue to request access to their S3 data, and S3 Access Grants will grant access to their data after evaluating both their IdP and IAM permissions. Now, S3 Access Grants evaluate both IAM and IdP permissions so you no longer have to choose between identity contexts when requesting access to S3. With just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or a few lines of code using the AWS SDK…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix LS1 data center near Lisbon, Portugal. 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 Portugal. The new 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 connection…

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2019 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor version is SQL Server 2019 CU31 15.0.4420.2. This minor version is available in all AWS…

AWS Wickr is excited to announce a redesigned admin experience that's now fully integrated with the AWS Management Console. We've made updates to provide a more intuitive layout, easier navigation, and a more accessible experience. The new console uses the AWS Cloudscape design system for front-end components to give you the consistent and familiar experience you get with the AWS Management Console. AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service designed to keep internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. It protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing wi…

AWS CodeConnections now provides greater control to manage the creation of hosts with a new IAM condition key for self-managed GitLab/GitHub Enterprise Server hosts. The new condition key allows you to set up IAM policies to specify the VPC you want all connections to use when accessing your repositories. With today’s release, AWS CodeConnections has added a condition key that allows you to enforce policies related to creating or updating hosts to use a specified VPC ID. The new condition key (codeconnections:VpcId) allows you to specify the ID of the VPC you want the corresponding host resource to use. This gives greater control to admins to manage traffic through VPC…

Organizations rely on Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters to process large-scale data workloads using frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Trino. Events such as TV advertisements or unplanned promotions might lead to an increase in demand of compute capacity, making effective capacity planning necessary to make sure your workloads don’t hit capacity limits or job failures. A common scenario is to run daily Spark jobs on Amazon EMR using consistent Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types (for example, a single instance size and family for the cluster). Although this might work well to sustain the baseline, spikes can trigger auto scaling, which narrows …

This blog was authored by Zakiya Randall, Technical Account Manager and co-written with Muru Bhaskaran, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect. Introduction As the landscape of computing continues to evolve, there is a growing emphasis on supporting a diverse range of computing architectures. This shift is driven by the need for flexibility, efficiency, and performance optimization across different hardware platforms. Consequently, it has become increasingly important for developers and organizations to build container images that are compatible with multiple architectures (multi-arch). AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that now supports man…

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. Amazon SageMaker brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning (ML) and analytics capabilities and addresses the challenges of harnessing organizational data for analytics and AI through unified access to tools and data with governance built in. It enables teams to securely find, prepare, and collaborate on data assets and build analytics and AI applications through a single experience, accelerating the path from data to value. At the core of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker is Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI de…

Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) 1.x and Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) 0.x will reach end-of-support on January 30, 2026. Accordingly, these versions will enter maintenance mode on April 17, 2025. During maintenance mode, AWS will provide updates only for critical bug fixes and security issues. Major versions in maintenance mode will not receive updates for new features or feature enhancements. KCL is a software library that simplifies building applications to process streaming data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. KCL handles complex tasks such as load balancing across multiple consumer workers, responding to worker failures, checkpointing processed records…

This post is cowritten with Mayank Shrivastava and Barkha Herman from StarTree. Building a low-latency, high-concurrency, real-time online analytical processing (OLAP) solution has been previously explored on the AWS Big Data Blog, where we walked through how to build a real-time analytics solution with Apache Pinot on AWS, in which streaming sources, such as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, produce events that are ingested and processed in real time within Apache Pinot. However, this approach requires self-management of the infrastructure required to run Pinot, as well as a number of manual processes to run in pr…

This post was jointly authored by Elamaran Shanmugam (Senior Partner Specialist SA), Sanjeev Ganjihal (Senior Specialist SA), and Steven David (Principal SA). Introduction In this first part of a four-part series, titled Observability of MLOps on Amazon EKS, you get an overview of Machine Learning operations(MLOps) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(Amazon EKS). This includes understanding the relevant personas, learning essential metrics, and best practices to consider for the observability of machine learning(ML). MLOps is a set of practices that aim to streamline the deployment, observability, and maintenance of ML models in production environments. In the conte…

AWS AppSync Events is a fully managed service that allows developers to create secure and performant WebSocket APIs. Starting today, developers can use their AppSync Events APIs to publish events directly over WebSocket connections, complementing the existing HTTP API publishing capability. This enhancement enables applications to both publish and subscribe to events using a single WebSocket connection, streamlining the implementation of real-time features. The new WebSocket publishing capability simplifies the development of collaborative applications such as chat systems, multiplayer games, and shared document editing. Developers can now maintain a single connection …

Customers can use regional processing profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other FMs from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, as well as Amazon via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI built in. These capabilities help you build tailored applications for multiple …

Amazon S3 reduces pricing for S3 object tagging by 35% in all AWS Regions to $0.0065 per 10,000 tags per month. Object tags are key-value pairs applied to S3 objects that can be created, updated, or deleted at any time during the lifetime of the object. S3 object tags help you logically group data for a variety of reasons such as to apply IAM policies to provide fine-grained access, to specify tag-based filters to manage object lifecycle rules, and to selectively replicate data to another AWS Region. Additionally, in AWS Regions where S3 Metadata is available, you can easily capture and query custom metadata that is stored as object tags. S3 object tags are availabl…

Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow now offers an enhanced user interface for improved DNS traffic policy editing. Route 53 Traffic Flow is a network traffic management feature which simplifies the process of creating and maintaining DNS records in large and complex configurations by providing users with an interactive DNS policy management flow chart in their web browsers. With this release, you can more easily understand and change the way traffic is routed between users and endpoints using the new features of the visual editor. Now, Traffic Flow introduces a clearer way to craft DNS routing policies for many endpoints and multiple routing methods by moving configurations i…

Amazon Bedrock's capabilities are now generally available within Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, offering a governed collaborative environment that empowers developers to rapidly create and customize generative AI applications. This intuitive interface caters to developers of all skill levels, providing seamless access to Amazon Bedrock's high-performance foundation models (FMs) and advanced customization tools for collaborative development of tailored generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock can be accessed through the AWS Management Console, APIs, or Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. Its integration in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio eliminates barriers between dat…

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment that brings together functionality and tools from AWS analytics and AI/ML services, including Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker AI. This launch includes simplified permissions management that makes it easier to bring existing AWS resources to the unified studio. SageMaker Unified Studio allows you to find, access, and query data and AI assets across your organization, then collaborate in projects to securely build and share analytics and AI artifacts, including data, models, and generative AI appli…