Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon S3 Tables now support create and query table operations directly from the S3 console using Amazon Athena. With this new feature, you can now create a table, populate it with data, and query it with just a few steps in the S3 console. To get started, enable S3 Tables integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, which allows AWS analytics services to automatically discover and access your S3 Tables data. Then, select a table bucket and select “Create table with Athena”, or select an existing table and select “Query table with Athena”. As the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, S3 Tables offer the easiest way to store tabular data at s…

Amazon S3 Tables now offer table management APIs that are compatible with the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog standard, enabling any Iceberg-compatible application to easily create, update, list, and delete tables in an S3 table bucket. These new table management APIs, that map directly to S3 Tables operations, make it easier for you to get started with S3 Tables if you have a custom catalog implementation, need only basic read and write access to tabular data in a single S3 table bucket, or use an APN partner-provided catalog. For unified data management across all of your tabular data, data governance, and fine-grained access controls, you can use S3 Tables with SageMake…

AWS announces the general availability of one new larger sizes (48xlarge) on Amazon EC2 I8g instances in US East(N. Virginia) and US West(Oregon) regions. The new size expand the I8g portfolio supporting up to 192vCPUs, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional CPU and memory. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50…

Amazon S3 Tables now seamlessly integrate with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, making it easy to query and join S3 Tables with data in S3 data lakes, Amazon Redshift data warehouses, and third-party data sources. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. SageMaker Lakehouse is a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse that simplifies your analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). All data in SageMaker Lakehouse can be queried from SageMaker Unified Studio and engines such as Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, and Apache Iceberg-compatible engines like Apache Spark or PyIceberg. SageMaker Lakehouse provides the…

AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to offer Skew Protection, a powerful feature that guarantees version consistency across your deployments. This feature ensures frontend requests are always routed to the correct server backend version—eliminating version skew and making deployments more reliable. You can enable this feature at the branch level in the Amplify Console under App Settings → Branch Settings. There is no additional cost associated with this feature and it is available to all customers. This feature is available in all 20 AWS Amplify Hosting regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), As…

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. You can now protect your Amazon FSx file system in logically air-gapped vaults in either the same account or across other accounts and Regions. This hel…

Amazon QuickSight a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization is now available in Spain Region. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards can be shared with 10s of 1000s of users without the need to provision or manage any infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites to provide rich, interactive analytics for end-users. With this launch, QuickSight expands to 23 regions, including: US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West …

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This expansion of GuardDuty Malware Protection allows you to scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware, viruses, and other suspicious uploads and take action to isolate them before they are ingested into downstream processes. GuardDuty helps customers protect millions of Amazon S3 buckets and AWS accounts. GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 is fully managed by AWS, alleviating the operational complexity and overhead that normally comes with managing a data-scanning pipeline, with compute infr…

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS in 13 additional AWS Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can help improve business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements by protecting Amazon FSx for OpenZFS backups in additional Regions. AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is added in the following Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Osaka), …

Today, AWS is expanding service reference information to include resources and condition keys, providing a more comprehensive view of service permissions. Service reference information streamlines automation of policy management workflows, helping you retrieve available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. Whether you are a security administrator establishing guardrails for workloads or a developer ensuring appropriate access to applications, you can now more easily identify the available actions, resources, and condition keys for each AWS service. You can automate the retrieval of service reference information, eliminating manual effort and ensurin…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250213. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL databases on Aurora and RDS after the community ends support…

AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling customers to build and run their ETL workloads closer to their data sources in these regions. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration simpler so you can analyze your data and put it to use in minutes instead of months. To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and our documentation. For AWS Glue region availability, pl…

Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Pro) to AWS GovCloud (US-West) - an isolated U.S. sovereign region for managing sensitive data and controlled unclassified information. Government customers, technology partners, and entities with highly-regulated enterprise requirements now have access to Amazon Nova's powerful AI capabilities including: Amazon Nova Micro, a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at a very low cost; Amazon Nova Lite, a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs to generate text outputs; a…

AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports three new invocation points for stacks, change sets, and AWS Cloud Control API (CCAPI) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now evaluate CloudFormation create/update/delete stack and change set operations, and CCAPI create/update operations. With this launch, you can standardize your proactive evaluations beyond CloudFormation resource properties by enabling safety checks that consider the entire context of a stack, a CloudFormation change set, and/or a CCAPI resource configuration. CloudFormation Hooks also extended two new managed hooks to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The managed Lambda and Guard Hook simplify your hooks a…

AWS CodeBuild now supports registering self-hosted runners at GitHub organization or enterprise level. Additionally, you can assign your self-hosted runners to specific runner groups for enhanced security and access control. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Organization and enterprise level runners provide centralized management across multiple repositories. Runner groups offer additional security control with granular repository access policies. You can also configure webhook filters on your CodeBuild projects to allow or deny workflow jobs from s…

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 3 additional regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. With this launch, DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Redshift is available. Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications, break data silos in your organization, and gain significant cost savings and operational efficiencies.…

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports up to five integrations from the same Aurora cluster. This enhancement allows customers to create multiple zero-ETL integrations between a single Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster and same or different Amazon Redshift warehouses, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in data analytics workflows. With this new capability, customers can now seamlessly replicate data from a single Aurora PostgreSQL cluster to multiple Redshift environments without the need for complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes. This feature is particularly benefic…

Amazon ECR announces ECR to ECR pull through cache, a capability that allows customers to automatically sync container images between two ECR private registries, existing across AWS regions and/or accounts. This enables customers to benefit from the reduced latency of pulling cached images in-region. With today’s release, Amazon ECR makes it easier for customers to optimize storage costs by providing a simple and reliable way to store local copies of only the images that are pulled across regions/accounts. As customers grow, they often have container deployments spread across multiple AWS regions. Storing images within the region of deployment improves application star…

Today, we are excited to announce support for scratch, distroless (Debian/Ubuntu based), and Chainguard image scanning with Amazon Inspector. With the expanded support for ECR images, Amazon Inspector extends its security coverage to minimal and security-focused container bases, enabling teams to maintain robust security practices even with highly optimized container environments. For ECR scanning, Amazon Inspector expands scanning to additional ecosystems including Go toolchain, Oracle JDK & JRE, Amazon Corretto, Apache Tomcat, Apache httpd, Wordpress (core, themes, plugins), Google Puppeteer (Chrome embedding), and Node.js runtime. This enhancement helps customer…

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that allows you to process and integrate data coming through different data sources at scale. AWS Glue 5.0, the latest version of AWS Glue for Apache Spark jobs, provides a performance-optimized Apache Spark 3.5 runtime experience for batch and stream processing. With AWS Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, support for the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, and more. AWS Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster. AWS Glue accommodates various development preferences through multiple job creation approaches. For developers who prefer di…

Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova creative models, including Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel, to Europe (Dublin). These models are designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs, providing customizable visual content for various applications. This expansion addresses the growing demand for automated, high-quality visual content generation, benefiting marketers, content creators, and developers who need efficient solutions for producing engaging media. Amazon Nova creative models offer built-in controls to enable the safe and responsible use of AI, including watermarking for traceability, content moderation, and…

Allowed AMIs, an account-wide Amazon EC2 setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your AWS accounts, now integrates with AWS Config. You can now use AWS Config rules to automatically monitor, detect, and report instances launched using AMIs that have not been allowed by Allowed AMIs. Prior to today, you had to create custom scripts to monitor instance launches and assess the impact of enabling Allowed AMIs. Now with the integration of Allowed AMIs with AWS Config, you can track and detect non-compliant instances using the new AWS Config rule. By leveraging this rule in conjunction with the audit-mode functionality o…

Enterprises face many challenges when they build and manage application programming interfaces (APIs). These challenges include security controls, version management, traffic control, and usage analytics. As digital businesses expand, a mature API management (APIM) solution is crucial for ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency. This blog post shows how you can use Amazon API Gateway—along with AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and other AWS services—to create a comprehensive and customizable APIM solution. This solution addresses the complex requirements of large enterprises managing APIs at scale. Core features of APIM API Management (APIM) centralize…

Today’s digital-first, B2B landscape presents marketers with complex challenges as they navigate sophisticated buyer journeys involving diverse decision-making groups. Adobe Marketo Engage offers a comprehensive marketing hub for orchestrating cross-channel campaigns. Using AI-driven personalization, automation, and real-time analytics, it helps businesses acquire and retain customers throughout their buying journeys. Marketo Engage empowers B2B marketers to navigate modern complexities and successfully drive measurable business growth through multi-channel engagement, automated customer journeys, and sales-marketing collaboration. To further enhance their B2B marketing…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. R7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus R6i instances. These instances are SAP certified and are a great choice for memory-intensive workloads, such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real time bi…

AWS makes it easier for developers to build serverless applications by bringing Serverless Land's extensive application pattern library directly into the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE. This integration eliminates the need to switch between your development environment and external resources when building serverless architectures by enabling you to browse, search, and implement pre-built serverless patterns directly in VS Code IDE. This new feature simplifies and accelerates the process of building serverless applications using VS Code IDE. Serverless Land provides hundreds of curated serverless application patterns covering popular use cases across AWS services like…

Amazon EventBridge expands execution role support to AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS event bus targets, making this feature available for all target types. We recommend configuring execution roles for all your EventBridge targets to benefit from consistent permissions policies and dedicated invocation throttle limits. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. An execution role is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that EventBridge assumes when invoking a target, giving …

We’re excited to introduce the Amazon GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper, an open-source tool that helps significantly reduce the time required for game developers to onboard their game servers. Developers told us they faced significant overhead integrating the Server SDK, including dependency management and custom code implementation. The Game Server Wrapper solves these challenges by eliminating the need for server SDK integration, making it easy to deploy game servers on Amazon GameLift Servers with zero code changes. The Game Server Wrapper supports game session management through built in default functions to start and stop game sessions, making it easy to test …

Amazon Bedrock Flows and Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and Europe (Stockholm) regions. Flows helps you accelerate the creation, testing, and deployment of predefined generative AI workflows. You can use the visual builder or SDK to connect the latest foundation models, prompts, agents, knowledge bases, and other AWS services to create and test generative AI workflows. You can easily experiment with Flows using the visual builder or APIs, A/B test multiple flow versions, and deploy and scale to production using serverless infrastructure. Prompt Management helps you simplify the creation, evaluation, versioning, and sharing of pr…

Amazon Neptune Database now supports R7i database instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. These instances are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), and engine versions 1.4.3 or above. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easier to build and run…

Amazon EventBridge now supports Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) partner integrations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling government customers and organizations in regulated industries to build event-driven architectures that connect their AWS applications with supported third-party SaaS partners. With EventBridge partner integrations, customers can receive events from supported SaaS providers without writing custom code for API integration. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event router that enables you to create highly scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS service…

Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Asia Pacific(Seoul) 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 processor…

This blog was authored by Sriram Ranganathan, Senior Product Manager, AWS and Vikram Venkataram, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS. Introduction As part of AWS re:Invent 2023, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launched Amazon EKS Pod Identity, simplifying how you apply AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to your Kubernetes cluster workloads. Some EKS add-ons, which enable critical cluster functionality like networking, storage, and compute, need to interact with underlying AWS services. EKS Pod Identities helps inject IAM permissions to EKS add-ons, enabling add-ons to interact with underlying AWS services. EKS add-on containers levera…

DeepSeek-R1 is now available as a fully managed, serverless model in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first cloud service provider to deliver DeepSeek-R1 as a fully managed, generally available model. You can power your applications with DeepSeek-R1's capabilities through Amazon Bedrock's fully managed service via a single API along with Amazon Bedrock's tools, allowing your team to focus on building differentiated generative AI applications right away. By using Amazon Bedrock to deploy DeepSeek-R1, you also get seamless access to enterprise-grade security, monitoring, and cost-control features essential for deploying AI responsibly at scale, all while giving you complete contr…

Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. This launch introduces all Amazon Cognito features and tiers: Essentials, Lite, and Plus, allowing customers to use comprehensive and flexible authentication and access control features to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. Cognito allows customers to scale authentication to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. For a full list of regions where Amazon Cognito …

Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically scales compute capacity to match workload demands, measuring this capacity in Redshift Processing Units (RPUs). Although traditional scaling primarily responds to query queue times, the new AI-driven scaling and optimization feature offers a more sophisticated approach by considering multiple factors including query complexity and data volume. Intelligent scaling addresses key data warehouse challenges by preventing both over-provisioning of resources for performance and under-provisioning to save costs, particularly for workloads that fluctuate based on daily patterns or monthly cycles. Amazon Redshift serverless now offers enha…

Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. This launch introduces all Amazon Cognito features and tiers: Essentials, Lite, and Plus, allowing customers to use comprehensive and flexible authentication and access control features to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. Cognito allows customers to scale authentication to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. For a full list of regions where Amazon Cognito is av…

Amazon Cognito introduces Managed Login in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their company or application branding. Amazon Cognito provides millions of users with secure, scalable, and customizable sign-up and sign-in experiences. With Managed Login, Cognito customers can now use its no-code visual editor to customize the look and feel of the user journey from signup and login to password recovery and multi-factor authentication. Managed Login helps customers offload the undifferentiated heavy lifting of designing and maintaining custom implementations such as passwordless …

Today, Amazon Cognito announced support for passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Cognito now allows you to secure user access to your applications with passwordless authentication, including sign-in with passkeys, email, and text message. Passkeys are based on FIDO standards and use public key cryptography, which enables strong, phishing-resistant authentication. With passwordless authentication, you can reduce the friction associated with traditional password-based authentication and thus simplify the user log-in experience for their applications. For example, if your users choose to use passkeys to log i…

Amazon Cognito launches new user pool feature tiers, Essentials and Plus, in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The Essentials tier offers comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. It supports password-based log-in, multi-factor authentication (email, SMS, TOTP), and log-in with social identity providers, along with recently announced Managed Login and passwordless log-in (passkeys, email, SMS) features. Essentials also supports customizing access tokens and disallowing password reuse. The Plus tier is geared …

Today, Amazon EMR on EKS announces support for Amazon EKS Pod Identity, simplifying the setup of IAM permissions required by EMR on EKS jobs to access other AWS resources. With this launch, you can configure IAM permissions through a single API call, significantly reducing complexity and potential for errors. The new feature also allows you to leverage IAM roles across multiple clusters without the need to update IAM trust policies for use in new clusters, improving reusability and operational efficiency. To run workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS, customers need to create a job execution IAM role that pods in EKS cluster will use to interact with other AWS resources such a…

AWS WAF's new partner solutions page, available today, enables you to easily discover and implement PCI DSS v4.0 compliance solutions for your web applications. Choose from industry-leading security providers Human Security and Datadome, who offer client-side protection solutions directly through the AWS WAF console. These partner integrations simplify the process of finding and implementing security solutions, allowing you to quickly subscribe to partner offerings and protect your applications with just a few clicks. The new partner solutions page is designed to help you spend less time researching compliance solutions and more time building secure applications for your …

Amazon Connect announces the expansion of access to industry-leading inbound number availability across 158 countries, national outbound numbers in 72 countries, and global international dialing capabilities from any supported AWS commercial region. This expansion increases telephony coverage by an average of 125% across AWS regions. Organizations can now focus on selecting the ideal location for their customer experience operations based on business considerations such as agent availability, language fluency and regulatory needs without being constrained by telecommunications infrastructure. Agents and customers benefit from the reliability, quality, and cost-effectivene…

Starting today, you can use AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control protects applications against sophisticated bots targeting critical enterprise applications like e-commerce and financial services websites. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancer, AWS AppSync GraphQL API, AWS App Runner, AWS Verified Access, and Am…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today introduced GPU-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). This new offering enables customers to run GPU-accelerated containerized workloads on Amazon ECS while leveraging improved security features and newer kernel version available on AL2023. The new ECS GPU-optimized AMI is built on the minimal AL2023 base AMI and includes NVIDIA drivers, NVIDIA Fabric Manager, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, and other essential packages needed to run GPU-accelerated container workloads. The new AMI supports a wide range of NVIDIA GPU architectures including Ampere, Turing, Volta, Maxwell, Hopper, and Ada Lovela…

Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports rolling updates for inference component (IC) endpoints. This allows customers to update running IC endpoints without traffic interruption while using minimal extra instances, rather than requiring doubled instances as in the past. SageMaker Inference makes it easy to deploy ML models, including foundation models (FMs). As a capability of SageMaker Inference, IC enables customers to deploy multiple FMs on the same endpoint and control accelerator allocation for each model. Now, rolling updates enables customers to update ICs within an endpoint batch by batch, instead of all at once like the previous blue/green update method. Blue/…

Amazon EventBridge enhanced event source discovery, which displays the source and detail type of all AWS service events during rule creation in the AWS console, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This makes it easier for customers to discover and utilize the full range of AWS service events when building event-driven architectures. Additionally, the EventBridge documentation now includes an automatically updated list of all AWS service events, providing a single source of truth and ensuring developers always have access to accurate, reliable information. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event router that enables you to create highly scalable…

Today, AWS announces the general availability (GA) of multi-agent collaboration for Amazon Bedrock, allowing developers to create networks of specialized agents that communicate and coordinate under the guidance of a supervisor agent. This new capability allows you to tackle more intricate, multi-step workflows and scale your AI-driven applications more effectively. Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration GA introduces key enhancements designed to improve scalability, flexibility, and operational efficiency. Inline Agents allow you to dynamically adjust agent roles and behaviors at runtime, making workflows more adaptable as your business needs evolve. With Payload Ref…

As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations. AWS Pi Day is now a yearly tradition. It started in 2021 as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Amazon S3. This year, there will be in-depth discussions with AWS product teams on how to build a data foundation for a unified seamless experience, managing and using data for analytics and AI workloads. Join us online to learn about the latest innov…

Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Provisioned Capacity allows you to run SQL queries on dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price, with no long-term commitment, and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it possible to analyze petabyte-scale data with ease and flexibility. Provisioned Capacity provides workload management capabilities that help you prioritize, isolate, and scale your workloads. For example, use Provisioned Capacity when you need to run a high number of queries at the same time or isolate im…

AWS HealthOmics now supports the latest NVIDIA L4 and L40S graphical processing units (GPUs) and larger compute options of up to 192 vCPUs for workflows. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. This release expands workflow compute capabilities to support more demanding workloads for genomics research and analysis. In addition to current support for NVIDIA A10G and T4 GPUs, this release adds support for NVIDIA L4 and L40S GPUs, which enables researchers to efficiently run complex machine learning workloads such as protein st…

Amazon Redshift Data API, which lets you connect to Amazon Redshift through a secure HTTPS endpoint, now supports single sign-on (SSO) through AWS IAM Identity Center. Amazon Redshift Data API removes the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, and data buffering, simplifying how you access your data warehouses and data lakes. AWS IAM Identity Center lets customers connect existing identity providers from a centrally managed location. You can now use AWS IAM Identity Center with your preferred identity provider, including Microsoft Entra Id, Okta, and Ping, to connect to Amazon Redshift clusters through Amazon Redshift Data API. This new S…

Contact Lens now enables you to create dynamic evaluation forms that automatically show or hide questions based on responses to previous questions, tailoring each evaluation to specific customer interaction scenarios. For example, when a manager answers “Yes” to the form question "Did the customer try to make a purchase on the call?", the form automatically presents a follow-up question: "Did the agent read the sales disclosure?". With this launch, you can consolidate evaluation forms that are applicable to different interaction scenarios into a single dynamic evaluation form which automatically hides irrelevant questions. This reduces manager effort in selecting the rele…

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) now allows customers to provide a pool of public IPv4 addresses for IP address assignment to load balancer nodes. Customers can configure a public IP Address Manager (IPAM) pool that can consist of either Bring Your Own IP addresses (BYOIPs) that is customer owned or a contiguous IPv4 address block provided by Amazon. With this feature, customers can optimize public IPv4 cost by using BYOIP in public IPAM pools. Customers can also simplify their enterprise allowlisting and operations, by using Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks in public IPAM pools. The ALB's IP addresses are sourced from the IPAM pool and automatically switch to…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GraphRAG, a capability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases that enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) by incorporating graph data. GraphRAG delivers more comprehensive, relevant, and explainable responses by leveraging relationships within your data, improving how Generative AI applications retrieve and synthesize information. Since public preview, customers have leveraged the managed GraphRAG capability to get improved responses to queries from their end users. GraphRAG automatically generates and stores vector embeddings in Amazon Neptune Analytics, along with a graph representation of entities and their relation…

Today, Amazon SES announces the availability of the Vade Add On for Mail Manager, a sophisticated content filter that enhances email security for both incoming and outgoing messages. This new Add On, developed in collaboration with HornetSecurity, combines heuristics, behavioral analysis, and machine learning to provide robust protection against evolving communication threats such as spam, phishing attempts, and malware. Now available as a rule property in Mail Manager, the Vade Add On empowers users with automated, real-time defense against email-based threats for safer communication. Its AI-powered technology employs a multi-layered approach, analyzing messages in re…

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Europe (Spain) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability. To le…

Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now offers Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) validated endpoints (FIPS endpoints) for user streaming sessions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. WorkSpaces Pools FIPS endpoints use FIPS-validated cryptographic standards, which may be required for certain sensitive information or regulated workloads. To enable FIPS endpoint encryption for end user streaming via AWS Console, navigate to Directories, and verify that the Pools directory where you want to add FIPS is in a STOPPED state, and that the preferred protocol is se…

Fraud detection is a critical challenge for call centers, they need to provide a seamless customer experience while protecting the organization from fraudulent activities. Traditionally, call centers have relied on agents to manually screen calls, which can be time-consuming and expensive. Alternatively, companies might force customers to authenticate themselves every time they call, leading to a poor user experience. Machine learning (ML) offers a powerful solution that can help organization reach a harmonious balance between these approaches, enabling efficient and accurate fraud detection without compromising the customer experience. This blog post will show you how …

Managing and scaling data streams efficiently is a cornerstone of success for many organizations. Apache Kafka has emerged as a leading platform for real-time data streaming, offering unmatched scalability and reliability. However, setting up and scaling Kafka clusters can be challenging, requiring significant time, expertise, and resources. This is where Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Express brokers come into play. Express brokers are a new broker type in Amazon MSK that are designed to simplify Kafka deployment and scaling. In this post, we walk you through the implementation of MSK Express brokers, highlighting their core features, benefits…

In today’s data-driven world, securely accessing, visualizing, and analyzing data is essential for making informed business decisions. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift for modern data analytics at scale, delivering up to three times better price-performance and seven times better throughput than other cloud data warehouses. The Amazon Redshift Data API simplifies access to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse by removing the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, data buffering, and more. With the newly released feature of Amazon Redshift Data API support for single sign-on and trusted identity propagation, you can build…

AWS WAF now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. Additionally, you can now use both JA4 and JA3 fingerprints as aggregation keys within WAF's rate-based rules, allowing you to monitor and control request rates based on client fingerprints. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint contains a 36-character long fingerprint of the TLS Client Hello which is used to initiate a secure connection from clients. The fingerprint can be used to build a database of known good and bad actors to apply when inspecting HTTP requests. These new features enhance your ability to identify and mitigate soph…

AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, enabling you to visually create, edit, and debug state machine workflows directly in your local development environment. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. Workflow Studio is a visual builder that allows you to compose workflows on a canvas, while generating workflow definitions in the background. Workflow Studio for VS Code brings the console experience to the IDE, making it easier to create workflows in your local develop…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. With this launch, newly created gateways now include an MQTTv5 broker component that centralizes connectivity between SiteWise Edge and customer built edge components. Now you can integrate communications between your own edge components and AWS IoT SiteWise Edge using the MQTT protocol in a publish and subscribe topology. This eliminates building point-to-point connections between edge components simplifying the integration of…

Today, Amazon Q Developer announced an enhanced CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) that allows you to have more dynamic conversations. With this update, Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in your CLI environment to help you read and write files locally, query AWS resources or create code. You can now ask Q Developer to write code, test it, help debug issues, and Q Developer will iteratively make adjustments based on your feedback and approval. This allows you to efficiently complete tasks, improving and streamlining the development process, without needing to leave your terminal. The enhanced CLI agent, powered by Anthropic's most…

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to AWS Europe (Milan) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability. T…

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to AWS US West (SFO, N. California) and Europe (ARN, Stockholm) Regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availabi…

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. With this additional region, M7a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Spain, Stockholm). These instances can be purchased as Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Int…

AWS CodeConnections now allows you to securely share your Connection resource across individual AWS accounts or within your AWS Organization. Previously, to create a Connection, you installed the AWS connector App for GitHub or GitLab or Bitbucket for each AWS account from which source access was required. You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) to securely share a Connection to your third-party source provider across AWS accounts. By using AWS RAM to share your Connection resource, you no longer need to create a Connection in each AWS account. Instead, you can create a Connection in an AWS account, and then share the Connection across multiple AWS accounts. …

If you’re a woman in tech or business looking to advance your career with artificial intelligence (AI) skills, this post is for you. You’ll discover the latest research on women in AI, understand common learning pathways, and find specific Amazon Web Services (AWS) training resources to help you move forward—whether you’re just interested in learning the basics or ready to become an AI expert. Women in professional roles across industries show strong interest in learning generative AI skills, according to research commissioned by AWS. A nationwide survey of nearly 1,000 U.S. women conducted by Morning Consult found that 77% are interested in learning how to apply genera…

Amazon GameLift Streams is a new managed capability that allows developers to stream games at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second to any device with a WebRTC-enabled browser. In just a few clicks, you can upload games built with a variety of 3D engines with little to no modification, provision streaming capacity in specific AWS Regions, and immediately start test streaming. Players can start playing AAA, AA, and Indie games over the internet in just a few seconds on their PCs, phones, tablets, and smart TVs without waiting hours for a download. With Amazon GameLift Streams, you can create new direct-to-player distribution channels, launch instant-play game d…

Amazon Connect, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon AppStream 2.0 have earned Chrome Enterprise Recommended (CER) certification. This designation validates that these services are fully optimized for ChromeOS, ChromeOS Flex, and Chrome browser environments, ensuring seamless integration and performance for businesses using Chrome devices. These Chrome-optimized services deliver significant advantages for organizations with users gaining browser-based access to contact center capabilities through Amazon Connect, Windows or Linux virtual desktops through Amazon WorkSpaces, and streaming applications without refactoring with Amazon AppStream 2.0. Customers can take advantage of…

Today, AWS has announced that Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for containers, now supports NVIDIA's Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) feature, enabling customers to partition NVIDIA GPUs into multiple GPU instances on Kubernetes nodes. This capability allows system administrators to maximize GPU resource utilization by running multiple workloads simultaneously on a single GPU while maintaining hardware-level isolation between workloads. With MIG support, customers can optimize GPU resource allocation for workloads that don't fully utilize the GPU's compute capacity, such as machine learning inference tasks. Each GPU partition operates with complete …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) enables default envelope encryption for all Kubernetes API data in EKS clusters running Kubernetes version 1.28 or higher. This provides a managed, default experience that implements defense-in-depth for your Kubernetes applications. Using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) with Kubernetes KMS provider v2, EKS now provides an additional layer of security with an AWS owned, KMS encryption key or the option of bringing your own key. Previously, Amazon EKS provided optional envelope encryption with Kubernetes KMS provider v1. Now this is a default configuration for all objects in the Kubernetes API. By default, AWS own…

Today, AWS announced that Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for containers, now supports AWS Neuron-powered instances with its Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) AMIs. Customers using Bottlerocket AMIs can now deploy and manage machine learning inference and training workloads on AWS Neuron accelerated instance types, including Inf1, Inf2, Trn1, and Trn2. EKS customers can use these Bottlerocket AMIs with Karpenter version 1.2.2 and above. This integration enables automated device management and scheduling capabilities while maintaining Bottlerocket's focus on security and operational simplicity…

Amazon Connect now offers the ability to target up to 4 different combinations of agent proficiencies per routing step. By using up to 3 OR conditions, routing will try to match a contact with 4 different types of agents and increase the possibility of finding a suitable match. For example, if the back-up for a niche banking skills consists of agents trained on account management, registration, and tax then after an initial search for balance transfer agents you can attempt a match across all four types of agents at the same time. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about routing criteria, see the Amazon Connect A…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances…

This post was jointly authored by Kevin Liu (Senior PMT), Jens-Uwe Walther (Senior STAM-Containers), and Drew Sirenko (Software Dev Engineer). Introduction In this post, we explore how to modify Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes on Kubernetes without application downtime. Learn how to use the VolumeAttributesClass API alongside the Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to tune provisioned performance, migrate to gp3 volumes, and automate your data backup workflows. Modern containerized applications that use persistent storage, such as data analytics, databases, or video encoding and decoding, need a wide variety of storage characteristics …

Starting March 5, 2025, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP eliminates SnapLock licensing fees for data stored in SnapLock volumes, making it more cost-effective for customers to protect their business-critical data from ransomware, unauthorized deletions, and malicious modifications. SnapLock is an ONTAP feature that offers Write Once, Read Many (WORM) protection to prevent alteration or deletion of data for specified retention periods, enabling customers to meet regulatory compliance and improve data protection. After this billing change, volumes with SnapLock enabled will no longer incur licensing charges. This license removal requires no changes to customer applications an…

Today, AWS has announced that Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for containers, now provides a default bootstrap container image that simplifies system setup tasks, eliminating the need for most customers to maintain their own container images for initial configuration. Bootstrap containers are special-purpose containers that handle pre-startup operations such as directory creation, environment variable setup, and node-specific configurations before the main application containers start. This enhancement allows customers to focus on their startup scripts rather than container image maintenance and regional availability. Previously, customers …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) 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 ins…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhanc…

Amazon Nova Pro foundation model now supports latency-optimized inference in preview on Amazon Bedrock, enabling faster response times and improved responsiveness for generative AI applications. Latency-optimized inference speeds up response times for latency-sensitive applications, improving the end-user experience and giving developers more flexibility to optimize performance for their use case. Accessing these capabilities requires no additional setup or model fine-tuning, allowing for immediate enhancement of existing applications with faster response times. Latency optimized inference for Amazon Nova Pro is available via cross-region inference in US West (Oregon),…

Starting today, you can use AWS WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. To see the full list of regions where AWS WAF is currently available, visit the AWS Region Table. Please note that only core AWS WAF features like AWS Managed Rules and rules are currently available in these new regions. For more information about the service, visit the AWS WAF page. AWS WAF pricing may vary between regions. For more information about pri…

AWS Identity and Access Manager (IAM) Access Analyzer now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses via our new dual-stack endpoints. The existing IAM Access Analyzer endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The new dual-stack domains are available either from the internet or from within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. Support for IPv6 on IAM Access Analyzer is available in the AWS Commercial Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions. To get started with using IAM …

Data sharing has become a crucial aspect of driving innovation, contributing to growth, and fostering collaboration across industries. According to this Gartner study, organizations promoting data sharing outperform their peers on most business value metrics. A straightforward data access and sharing mechanism is crucial for enabling effective data sharing across an organization. There are challenges such as complexity in managing cross-account permissions and difficulty in discovering the right data across accounts that organizations face when trying to share data products across AWS accounts. Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service that customers can …

This post was jointly authored by Praseeda Sathaye (Principal Solutions Architect, Containers & OSS), AJ Davis (AWS Enterprise Support) and Arvind Viswanathan (Principal Solutions Architect). Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of containerized applications, maintaining resilience and observability across Kubernetes environments has become a critical challenge. As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage their containerized workloads, the need for cluster version lifecycle management and discovery mechanisms becomes crucial. As Amazon EKS environments grow more complex and span multiple AWS Regions and account…

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Q Business now supports the ingestion of audio and video data. This new feature enables Amazon Q customers to search through ingested audio and video content, allowing them to ask questions based on the information contained within these media files. This enhancement significantly expands the capabilities of Amazon Q Business, making it an even more powerful tool for organizations to access and utilize their multimedia content. Customers can unlock valuable insights from their audio and video resources. Users can now easily search for specific information within recorded meetings, training videos, podcasts, or any other aud…

As of February 14, 2025, SageMaker Flexible Training Plans now supports instant start times that allow customers to book a plan starting as soon as the next 30 minutes. Amazon SageMaker‘s Flexible Training Plan (FTP) makes it easy for customers to access GPU capacity to run ML workloads. Customers who use Flexible Training Plans can plan their ML development cycles with confidence in knowing they’ll have the GPUs they need on a specific date for the amount of time they reserve. There are no long-term commitments, so customers get capacity assurance while only paying for the amount of GPU time necessary to complete their workloads. With the ability to start a reservatio…

Amazon Lex now supports Confirmation and Alphanumeric slot types in Korean (ko-KR) locale. These built-in slot types help developers build more natural and efficient conversational experiences in Korean language applications. The Confirmation slot type automatically resolves various Korean expressions into 'Yes', 'No', 'Maybe', and 'Don't know' values, eliminating the need for custom slots with multiple synonyms. The Alphanumeric slot type enables capturing combinations of letters and numbers, with support for regular expressions to validate specific formats, making it easier to collect structured data like identification numbers or reference codes. Korean support f…

AWS Secrets Manager now supports higher request rates for the core set of API operations: GetSecretValue and DescribeSecret. GetSecretValue now supports up to 10,000 requests per second and DescribeSecret supports 40,000 requests per second. The increased API limits are available at no additional cost and will automatically be applied to your AWS accounts. No further action required on your end. Increased API limits for GetSecretValue and DescribeSecret are available in all regions where the service operates. For a list of regions where Secrets Manager is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more about Secrets Manager API operations, visit our API reference. V…

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). 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 preview integration with Amazon SageMa…

AWS CodeBuild now supports non-container builds on Linux x86, Arm, and Windows on-demand fleets. You can run build commands directly on the host operating system without containerization. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. With non-container builds, you can execute build commands that require direct access to the host system resources or have specific requirements that make containerization challenging. This feature is particularly useful for scenarios such as building device drivers, running system-level tests, or working with tools that require hos…

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail in VS Code IDE through the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. Live Tail is an interactive log streaming and analytics capability which provides real-time visibility into logs, making it easier to develop and troubleshoot Lambda functions. We previously announced support for Live Tail in the Lambda console, enabling developers to view and analyze Lambda logs in real time. Now, with Live Tail support in VS Code IDE, developers can monitor Lambda function logs in real time while staying within their development environment, eliminating the need to switch between multiple interfaces for coding and log analysis. This…

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R6g, R6i, T4g, and T3 instance types in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service that makes it easy to build and run applications work with highly connected datasets. You can build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or openCypher on the Property Graph model, or using the SPARQL query language on W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF). Neptune also offers enterprise features such as high availability, automated bac…

AWS Transfer Family has reduced the service side login latency from 1-2 seconds to under 500 milliseconds. AWS Transfer Family offers fully managed support for the transfer of files over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web browser-based transfers directly into and out of AWS storage services. With this launch, you benefit from significantly reduced latency from the service to initiate the transfer over SFTP. This optimization offers substantial benefits, particularly for high-frequency, low-latency use cases with automated processes or applications requiring rapid file operations. Reduced server-side login latency is immediately available at no additional cost for all new…

In this blog, you will learn more about AWS Lambda, a powerful serverless computing service that empowers AI inference and model execution without infrastructure management, and a major service used by AWS Certified AI Practitioners. Read through to know more about how it supports AI inference and model executions, serverless architecture, model deployment strategies, scalable AI workloads, and others, with use cases for better understanding. Serverless AI Model Execution AWS Lambda enables serverless AI inference by eliminating infrastructure management while providing auto-scaling, cost efficiency, and seamless integration with AWS AI/ML services. Below is an in-depth …

Amazon API Gateway (APIGW) now supports all features of HTTP APIs as well as Mutual TLS and multi-level base path mappings on REST APIs in the following additional Regions: Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary). AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) for REST APIs is now available in two additional regions: Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur) and Canada West (Calgary). HTTP APIs simplify API development for serverless applications with a simpler user interface that includes support for OAuth2.0 and automatic deployments. Mutua…

Game developers face a common challenge: building cloud expertise while staying focused on game creation. Modern games require sophisticated cloud infrastructure to handle millions of concurrent players, manage real-time multiplayer experiences, and deliver seamless global gameplay—making cloud expertise key to game development. This guide organizes essential training resources to help you build cloud expertise, from foundational courses to hands-on workshops and industry-recognized certifications. Whether you’re an independent developer looking to scale your first game, a technical artist requiring cloud-based rendering solutions, or a studio engineer architecting larg…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is headed to London for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025. Join us at Booth S300 in Excel London from April 1-4 to discover our latest innovations and learn how our customers, partners, and community members are transforming their businesses with Kubernetes. Experience hands-on demonstrations of AWS solutions that simplify Kubernetes operations, optimize costs, and leverage AI/ML capabilities. Meet our AWS experts who will share best practices, implementation strategies, and insights to help you build scalable platforms. Don’t miss the special book signing session with Kubernetes thought leader Kelsey Hightower at our booth. AWS Hands-O…