Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) announces automated public TLS certificates for Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront customers can now simply check a box to receive required public certificates to enable TLS when creating new CloudFront content delivery applications. ACM and CloudFront work together to automatically request, issue and associate the required public certificates with CloudFront. ACM will also automatically renew these certificates as long as the certificate is in use and traffic for the certificate domain is routed to CloudFront. Previously, to set up a similar secure CloudFront distribution, customers had to request a public certificate through ACM, validate the do…

Today, AWS announced support for VPC endpoints in Amazon Route 53 Profiles, allowing you to create, manage, and share private hosted zones (PHZs) for interface VPC endpoints across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts within your organization. With this enhancement, Amazon Route 53 Profiles simplifies the management of VPC endpoints by streamlining the process of creating and associating interface VPC endpoint managed PHZs with VPCs and AWS accounts, and without requiring you to manually associate them. Route 53 Profiles makes it easy for you to create one or more configurations for VPC-related DNS settings, such as private hosted zones and Route 53 Resolver rules, and share…

Today, AWS announces CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new Amazon CloudFront feature designed to efficiently manage content delivery across multiple websites for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, web development platforms, and companies with multiple brands/websites. CloudFront SaaS Manager provides a unified experience, alleviating the operational burden of managing multiple websites at scale, including TLS certificate management, DDoS protection, and observability. CloudFront SaaS Manager introduces reusable configuration settings, eliminating redundant configurations and allowing customers to maintain consistent settings across their websites. This not only saves tim…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TB of memory (u-24tb1.112xlarge) are available in the US East (Ohio) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory …

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of next generation high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, delivering up to 23% better compute performance and more than 1…

Today, AWS announced a new AWS Client VPN feature that monitors device networking routes, prevents VPN traffic leaks, and strengthens remote access security. The feature continuously tracks your users' device routing tables to ensure outbound traffic flows through the VPN tunnel according to your configured settings. If the feature detects any modified networking route settings, it automatically restores the routes to your original configuration. AWS Client VPN allows admins to configure routes on users' devices to route traffic through the VPN. For example, an admin might configure end users' devices to connect to the 10.0.0.0/24 network using VPN connectivity while t…

Writer's enterprise-grade foundation models, Palmyra X5 and X4, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Writer, allowing organizations to leverage enterprise AI capabilities with serverless scalability and cost optimization. Palmyra X5 has a one million token context window, while Palmyra X4 features a 128,000 token context window, both designed for sophisticated business applications. These models, top-ranked on Stanford's HELM benchmark, excel at complex tasks including advanced reasoning, multi-step tool-calling, and built-in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Both …

In this blog, let us know what Amazon Redshift is all about and also dive into its working mechanism in handling data efficiently, unlike traditional databases. Come on, let’s dive deep into the Amazon Redshift which plays a significant role in AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate Certification (DEA-C01). Introduction to Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing service designed for storing petabytes of data used for reporting and analytics. Unlike the traditional databases and data lakes excel at storing data, to turn raw data into insights, you need a data warehouse. Stored data doesn’t reveal anything; you need to analyze that data to make informed choi…

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Starting today, in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, you can now deliver events from an Amazon EventBridge Event Bus directly to AWS services in another account. Using multiple accounts can improve security and streamline business processes while reducing the overall cost and complexity of your architecture. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. This launch allows you to directly target services in another account, without the need for additional infrastruct…

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AWS Resource Explorer now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial AWS Regions, allowing you to search for and discover your AWS resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. With AWS Resource Explorer you can search for and discover your AWS resources across AWS Regions and accounts in your organization, either using the AWS Resource Explorer console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), the AWS SDKs, or the unified search bar from wherever you are in the AWS Management Console. For more information about the AWS Regions where AWS Resource Explorer is available, see the AWS Region table. To turn on AWS Re…

Today, AWS Resource Groups is adding support for an additional 160 resource types for tag-based Resource Groups. Customers can now use Resource Groups to group and manage resources from services such as AWS Code Catalyst and AWS Chatbot. AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources by using tags to logically group your resources. You can create logical collections of resources such as applications, projects, and cost centers, and manage them on dimensions such as cost, performance, and compliance in AWS services such as myApplications, AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch. Resource Groups expanded resourc…

In this blog, we will discover the abilities of AWS to handle big data for ML. Maintaining high-quality data and records comes with a high level of challenges, but the AWS tools for processing and analysing big data come in handy. Let us explore how AWS achieves this! Major Challenges In Handling Big Data For Businesses Today, businesses are moving towards data-driven decision-making. From analysing customer interactions and transactions to IoT sensor data and Social media analysis, data is the starting point to extract meaningful insights. The main challenges faced in handling big data are Storing and retrieving data without performance issues that affect scalabili…

The Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports additional capabilities for third-party applications including the ability make outbound calls, accept, transfer, and clear contacts, and update agent status. These enhancements allow you to integrate applications that give agents more intuitive workflows. For example, agents can now initiate one-click outbound calls from a custom-built call history interface that presents their most recent customer interactions. Third-party applications are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US-West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacifi…

Starting today, AWS AppSync Events, a fully managed service for serverless WebSocket APIs with full connection management, now supports data source integrations for channel namespaces. This new feature enables developers to associate AWS Lambda functions, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon Aurora databases, and other data sources with channel namespace handlers to process published events and subscription requests. Developers can now connect directly to Lambda functions without writing code and leverage both request/response and event modes for synchronous and asynchronous operations. With these new capabilities, developers can create sophisticated event processing workflo…

With this launch, VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Europe (Spain) Region. VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) by analyzing your network configurations.For example, Reachability Analyzer can help you identify a missing route table entry in your VPC route table that could be blocking network reachability between an EC2 instance in Account A that is not able to connect to another EC2 instance in Account B in your AWS Organization. VPC Network Access Analyzer allows you to identify unintended network a…

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal and session tags to simplify data access, grant creation, and maintenance. With ABAC, you can manage permissions using dynamic business attributes associated with user identities. Previously, SageMaker Lakehouse granted access to lakehouse databases and tables by directly assigning permissions to specific principals such as IAM users and IAM roles, a process that could quickly become unwieldy as the number of users grew. ABAC now allows administrators to grant permissions on a resource with conditions that specify user attribute keys a…

AWS AppConfig now supports dual-stack endpoints, facilitating connectivity through Internet Protocol Version 6. The existing AWS AppConfig endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The continuous growth of the internet has created an urgent need for IPv6 adoption, as IPv4 address space reaches its limits. Through AWS AppConfig's implementation of dual-stack endpoints, organizations can execute a strategic transition to IPv6 architecture on their own timeline. This approach enables companies to satisfy IPv6 regulatory standards while preserving IPv4 connectivity for systems that have not yet moved to IPv6 capabilities. IPv6 support …

Amazon Redshift now supports history mode for zero-ETL integrations with eight third-party applications including Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP. This addition complements existing history mode support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible and MySQL-compatible, DynamoDB, and RDS for MySQL databases. The expansion enables you to track historical data changes without Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes, simplifying data management across AWS and third-party applications. History Mode for zero-ETL integrations with third-party applications lets customers easily run advanced analytics on historical data from their applications, build comprehensive lookback repo…

In November 2024, we launched Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock to accelerate prompt creation and engineering for foundation models (FMs). Today, we're announcing its general availability and pricing. Prompt engineering is the process of designing prompts to guide FMs to generate relevant responses. These prompts must be customized for each FM according to its best practices and guidelines, which is a time-consuming process that delays application development. With Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock, you can now automatically rewrite prompts for better performance and more concise responses on Anthropic, Llama, Nova, DeepSeek, Mistral and Titan models. You can c…

AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMS Serverless) now offers storage scaling. With this enhancement you never have to worry about exceeding the DMS Serverless 100GB default replication storage capacity limit when processing very large transaction volumes or using detailed logging. You can now use AWS DMS Serverless for replicating even the highest of transaction volumes since there is no longer any storage capacity limits. AWS DMS Severless will automatically increase the storage for your replications any time the existing capacity reaches it limits. To learn more, see the AWS DMS Serverless storage capacity documentation. For AWS DMS regional availa…

This blog was authored by Sascha Möllering, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect Containers and Yuriy Bezsonov, Senior Partner Solutions Architect. Introduction Container startup performance presents a significant challenge for Java applications running on Kubernetes, particularly during scaling events and recovery scenarios. Although Java remains a top choice for both legacy modernization and new microservices development, especially with frameworks such as Spring Boot or Quarkus, containerized Java applications often face unique challenges around startup times and runtime behavior. Performance profiling in containerized Java applications has long presented sign…

Today, AWS announced three updates to enhance your experience with the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT). These updates include easier access to carbon emissions data, visibility into emissions by AWS Region, and an updated, independently-verified methodology (v2.0). You can now export your monthly data through AWS's Billing and Cost Management Data Exports service. This feature delivers carbon emissions estimates for all member accounts linked to their management account when using AWS Organizations. Additionally, you can now see your carbon emissions broken down by AWS Region (e.g., US East (Ohio)), so you can identify the Regions where your usage contributes the…

Today, AWS announced upgrades to the Amazon Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook to enhance their utility when performing document and email centered tasks. The upgrades include company knowledge access, image file attachment support, and an expanded prompt context window. With company knowledge support, users can now ask questions about their company’s indexed data directly through the Word and Outlook integrations allowing them to instantly find relevant information when drafting their documents and emails without needing to switch context. With image attachment support and an expanded context window, users can incorporate richer context through large…

AWS CodeBuild now supports selecting an EC2 instance by name when using reserved capacity fleets. This enhancement also allows you to configure the amount of storage attached to each instance. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. You can select a compute type that is most suitable for your workload. Customize your build environment to match specific resource needs - whether that's more CPU, memory, storage, faster network speed, or GPU support. This allows you to optimize cost and feedback cycle, resulting in improved developer productivity. The feature …

Today, we are introducing a new account management API that enables customers to update the account name via authorized IAM principals and more efficiently manage account names. This new API is added to the AWS account management APIs that enable AWS Organizations customers to centrally and programmatically manage primary email addresses, primary contact information, alternate contact information, and AWS Regions for their accounts. Using the new API, customers will no longer need root access to manage their account names, and they will be able to use authorized IAM principals within the account. Additionally, customers using AWS Organizations in all-features mode can now…

AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.4.1 is now generally available with support for managing Deadline Cloud Usage-Based Licensing (UBL) together with your existing floating licenses. This release also brings support for Cinema4D 2025, After Effects 2025, Nuke 16, 3ds Max 2026, and Maya 2026. This release enhances how you can manage license limits when using a combination of floating licenses and Deadline Cloud Usage-Based Licensing (UBL) for third party software. By configuring limits for Deadline Cloud License Endpoints, you can now better control license usage across your render farm, helping teams scale more effectively while maintaining their existing license infrastructure. …

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and 2nd generation AWS Nitro SSDs are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. I4g instances are optimized for workloads performing a high mix of random read/write operations and requiring very low I/O latency and high compute performance, such as transactional databases (MySQL, and PostgreSQL), real-time databases including in-memory databases, NoSQL databases, time-series databases (Clickhouse, Apache Druid, MongoDB) and real-time analytics such as Apache Spark. Get started with I4g instances by visiting the AWS Management Console, A…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS US West (N. California). 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…

Today, AWS Backup announces support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups in 4 additional Regions. This capability allows you to search the metadata of your backups for specific files or objects across your backups and recover up to 5 items at a time, allowing for faster recovery times. AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups is added in the following Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). To learn more about AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery, visit the AWS Backup product page, technical docume…

Amazon Redshift now offers Serverless Reservations for Amazon Redshift Serverless, a new discounted pricing option that helps you save up to 24% and gain greater cost predictability for your analytics workloads. With Serverless Reservations, you can commit to a specific number of Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) for a one-year term, and choose between two payment options: a no-upfront option that provides a 20% discount off on-demand rates, or an all-upfront option that provides a 24% discount. Amazon Redshift Serverless allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage clusters with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Now with Serverless Reservat…

AWS Deadline Cloud now provides a macOS installer for integrated submitters for Autodesk Maya, Blender, Keyshot, Maxon Cinema 4D, and SideFx Houdini. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. The new installer makes it easy to get all your artists, across Linux, Windows, and macOS, submitting to your Deadline Cloud farm from within their favorite digital content creation tools. The Deadline Cloud installer also allows you to script silent installations to simplify workstation setup and maintenance. …

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports additional resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots. When moving your data across Regions, accounts, and Availability Zones, you can copy any snapshot accessible to you to another Region or account, including snapshots created by you or shared with you. With this launch, you have more granular controls to set resource-level permissions for the snapshot copy and selection of the source snapshot. This allows you to control the IAM identities that can copy EBS snapshot from source snapshots, and the conditions that they can use these source snapshots for the snapshot copy operation. To meet your specific per…

This post was jointly authored by Alex Kestner (Sr. Product Manager, Amazon EKS), Ratnopam Chakrabarti (Sr. SA, Containers & OSS), Shivam Dubey (Specialist SA, Containers), and Suket Sharma (Sr. SDE, Amazon EKS). Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers node monitoring and auto repair capabilities. This new feature enables automatic detection and remediation of node-level issues in EKS clusters, helping customers to improve the availability and reliability of their Kubernetes applications. Node failures can lead to application downtime and necessitate manual intervention from operations teams. EKS node monitoring and auto repair all…

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Today, we're announcing a new visual user interface for creating and editing Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines on the AWS console. This enhancement introduces a guided visual workflow, automatic permission creation, and enhanced real-time validations to streamline the pipeline development process. The new workflow simplifies pipeline development, reducing setup time and minimizing errors, making it easier to ingest, transform, and route data to Amazon OpenSearch Service. The guided visual workflow enables customers to quickly build and modify Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines without manually writing pipeline configurations. The new UI auto-discovers sources an…

Amazon Cognito announces support for OAuth 2.0 refresh token rotation for user pool clients. Refresh tokens are long-lived tokens that allow applications to obtain new access tokens without requiring users to sign in again. With refresh token rotation, you can now configure your user pool clients to automatically replace existing refresh tokens with new ones at regular intervals, which in turn can strengthen your application's security posture. Instead of previously relying on tokens that remain valid for long periods of time, refresh token rotation reduces the window a compromised refresh token could be used. In addition, refresh token rotates automatically in the backgr…

AWS Transfer Family introduces a Terraform module for deploying managed file transfer (MFT) server endpoints backed by Amazon S3. This enables you to leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and streamline centralized provisioning of MFT servers and users at scale. AWS Transfer Family provides fully-managed file transfers over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web browser-based interfaces directly into and out of AWS storage services. Using the Terraform module, you can programmatically provision your Transfer Family server endpoints, associated dependencies and customizations in a single deployment. This eliminates time-consuming manual configurations and ensures you…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Osaka) Regions. R7gd are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics 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…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) Regions. 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…

For learners seeking an engaging and interactive way to reinforce their cloud knowledge, AWS Skill Builder has introduced a new tool that transforms learning into a fun, competitive experience: AWS Skill Builder Trivia. This online trivia application is designed to create and deliver real-time multi-participant competitions, offering an interactive format for knowledge checks, icebreakers, and team challenges that strengthen understanding of key cloud concepts. AWS Skill Builder Trivia serves as a perfect complement to AWS Skill Builder’s extensive course catalog, providing a quick and engaging format for knowledge reinforcement. A customer from NuBank remarked, “AWS Sk…

Welcome to April’s post announcing new training course launches and certification launches—helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our March course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 14 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including 9 new AWS Builder Labs, 4 new Digital Classroom courses, and a new game-based learning offering, AWS Skill Builder Trivia, an immersive learning tool that enables you to create dynamic, multiplayer trivia quizzes for live training sessions and events. New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally an…

This blog discusses the importance of practical experience and how hands-on labs help you earn your AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Certificate. It includes the advantages and vital information required to boost your confidence exponentially. Read through to learn more. Why SAP-C02?—Earning the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Certification Advantage The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02) validates advanced AWS solution design. The SAP-C02 exam tests designing scalable, secure AWS solutions. Skills include multi-account architectures, performance/cost optimization, high availability, security controls, and migrations usin…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central) Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. Many applications, including those built on modern architectures capable of horizontal scaling based on ebb and flow of active users, can open a large number of database connections or open and close connections frequently. This can stress the database’s memory and compute, leading to slower performance and limited application scalability. Amazo…

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers significantly higher default shard limits for data streams in Provisioned capacity mode, increasing from 500 to 20,000 shards per AWS account in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. You can also see an account’s utilization of the shards limit in any region via the AWS Service Quotas console, so you can grow streaming workloads easily and quickly to bring real-time insights to more use cases. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that allows customers to build de-coupled applications that publish and consume real-time data streams at any scale. A data stream is com…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Europe (Paris) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applica…

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency…

Today, AWS announces the update of Amazon Q Developer’s software development agent. This new agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on industry benchmark SWTBench Verified (49%) and sits among the top ranking models on SWEBench Verified (66%). The agent has access to tools for planning and reasoning that use the capacity of advanced models to their fullest. By running in a dedicated environment with built-in access to all the functionalities of a modern IDE, the agent is now able to generate multiple candidate solutions for a given problem, select the most promising one, and return higher quality code to the developer. With this new agent, developers can further a…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9, which allows users to retain tiered data when disabling Tiered Storage at the topic level. Consumer applications can continue to read historical data from the remote log start offset (Rx) while maintaining continuous log offsets across both local and remote storage. Along with this feature, Apache Kafka version 3.9 includes various bug fixes and improvements. For more details, please refer to the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.9. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that …