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Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA), a feature of Amazon Bedrock that enables developers to automate the generation of valuable insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, video, and audio to build GenAI-based applications. By leveraging BDA, developers can reduce development time and effort, making it easier to build intelligent document processing, media analysis, and other multimodal data-centric automation solutions. BDA can be used as a standalone feature or as a parser in Amazon Knowledge Bases RAG workflows. Further, Amazon Q Business now uses BDA to process multimodal assets and del…

I have fond memories of the time I built an application live at the AWS GenAI Loft London last September. AWS GenAI Lofts are back in locations such as San Francisco, Berlin, and more, to continue providing collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers. Find a loft near you for hands-on access to AI products and services events, workshops, and networking opportunities, that you can’t miss! Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS — For some situations, you may want to enable centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts or share reso…

Amazon Cognito now allows customers to customize access tokens for M2M flows, enabling you to implement fine-grained authorization in your applications, APIs, and workloads. M2M authorization is commonly used for automated processes such as scheduled data synchronization tasks, event-driven workflows, microservices communication, or real-time data streaming between systems. In M2M authorization flows, an app client can represent a software system or service that can request access tokens to interact with resources, such as a reporting system or a data processing service. With this launch, customers can now customize their access tokens with custom claims (attributes about…

CloudWatch RUM, which provides real-time monitoring into web application performance by tracking user interactions, now supports resource based policies that simplify access for data ingestion to RUM. With resource-based policies, you can specify which Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals have access to ingest data to your RUM app monitors— effectively which clients can write data to RUM. This would also allow you to ingest data at higher volume and gives you greater control over data ingress in RUM. Using resource based policies allows you to manage ingestion access to your app monitor without using Amazon Cognito to assume an IAM role, and AWS Security Tok…

AWS CodeBuild managed images now support Node 22, Python 3.13, and Go 1.23. These new runtime versions are available in Linux x86, Arm, Windows and macOS platforms. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. For CodeBuild managed images based on Linux, you can specify a runtime of your choice in the runtime-versions section of your buildspec file. You can select specific major and minor versions supported by CodeBuild, or define a custom runtime version. Additionally with this release, we added commonly used tools that are available in GitHub Actions environ…

Customers can use regional processing profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) in Europe (Stockholm). Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other FMs from leading AI companies via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI built in. These capabilities help you build tailored applications for multiple use cases across different industries, helping organizations unlock sustained growth from generative AI while ens…

Today, AWS IoT Device Management announces the preview of managed integrations, a new feature that enables you to simplify control and management of a diverse set of devices across multiple manufacturers and connectivity protocols. The new feature helps you streamline cloud onboarding of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and enables you to control both self-managed and third-party devices, including cloud-based devices, from a single application. Managed integrations provides cloud and device Software Development Kits (SDKs) for device connectivity and protocol support for ZigBee, Z-Wave, and Wi-Fi specifications, eliminating the need to handle dedicated connectivity pr…

AWS announces the preview of new AWS Outposts racks designed specifically for on-premises high throughput, network-intensive workloads. With these new Outposts racks, telecom service providers (telcos) can extend AWS infrastructure and services to telco locations, enabling them to deploy on-premises network functions requiring low latency, high throughput, and real-time performance. The new Outposts racks feature new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) bare metal instances along with a high-performance bare metal network fabric. This architecture delivers the low latency and high throughput required for d…

Amazon Connect now supports outbound campaign calling to Brazil in the US East (Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions, making it easier to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Communication capabilities include features such as point-of-dial checks, calling controls for time of day, time zone, number of attempts per contact, and predictive dialing with integrated voicemail detection. A list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user contact experiences. Outbound campaigns c…

AWS Amplify now supports HttpOnly cookies for server-rendered Next.js applications when using Amazon Cognito's Managed Login. This enhancement builds upon existing cookie functionality in server-rendered sites, opting in to the HttpOnly attribute strengthens your application's security posture by blocking client-side JavaScript from accessing cookie contents. With HttpOnly cookies, your applications gain an additional layer of protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This ensures that sensitive information remains secure and will only be transmitted between the browser and the server, and is particularly valuable when handling authentication tokens in you…

Amazon QuickSight is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization. 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 infra…

In 2023, we blogged about OpenSearch Service vector database capabilities. Since then, OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have developed to bring better performance, lower cost, and enhanced tradeoffs. We’ve improved the OpenSearch Service hybrid lexical and semantic search methods using both dense vectors and sparse vectors. We’ve simplified connecting with and managing large language models (LLMs) hosted in other environments. We’ve brought native chunking and streamlined searching for chunked documents. Where 2023 saw the explosion of LLMs for generative AI and LLM-generated vector embeddings for semantic search, 2024 was a year of consolidation and reification…

Imagine navigating the same cloud challenges that AWS solutions architects face daily, and proving you can solve them. That’s what AWS Jam Journeys offer through hands-on learning experiences. AWS Skill Builder now features 14 AWS Jam Journeys, comprised of six new experiences and eight revamped journeys with fresh challenges. These immersive learning experiences are available with both AWS Skill Builder Individual subscription and Team subscription providing flexible access options for learners and organizations. AWS Jam Journeys are challenge-based, hands-on experiences that allow you to apply your AWS knowledge in realistic scenarios. Whether you’re preparing for cer…

Amazon Connect now allows agents to exchange shifts with each other, providing greater schedule flexibility without compromising service levels. With this launch, agents can initiate shift trades directly, allowing them to manage unexpected life events without using time off. Additionally, contact center managers can now automate some approvals while ensuring others are approved manually — reducing admin work without sacrificing controls when needed. For example, supervisors can automate approvals for agents handling non-critical tasks, such as routine customer inquiries, while manually approving requests from agents who handle sensitive customer segments, like healthcare…

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink to connect directly to the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager APIs in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. Customers create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies to automate the creation, retention, and management of EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). When you use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager APIs, communication between your VPC and Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager API is conducted privately within the AWS network, providing a secure pathway for your data. An AWS PrivateLink endpoint connects your VPC directly to the Amazon Data Li…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered contact categorization in five additional regions, making it easy to identify top drivers, customer experience, and agent behavior for your contacts. With this launch, you can use natural language instructions to define a criteria to automatically categorize customer contacts (e.g., “show me calls where customers attempted payment”). Contact Lens automatically labels interactions matching your criteria and extracts relevant conversation points. In addition, you can receive alerts and generate tasks on categorized contacts, and search for contacts using the automated labels. This feature helps managers easily c…

Amazon Bedrock announces the preview launch of the Session Management APIs, a new capability that enables developers to simplify state and context management for generative AI (GenAI) applications built with popular open-source frameworks such as LangGraph and LlamaIndex. Session Management APIs provide an out-of-the-box solution that enables developers to securely manage state and conversation context across multi-step GenAI workflows, eliminating the need to build, maintain, or scale custom backend solutions. By preserving session state between interactions, Session Management APIs enhance workflow continuity, enabling GenAI applications, such as virtual assistants a…

In modern data architectures, the need to manage and query vast datasets efficiently, consistently, and accurately is paramount. For organizations that deal with big data processing, managing metadata becomes a critical concern. This is where Hive Metastore (HMS) can serve as a central metadata store, playing a crucial role in these modern data architectures. HMS is a central repository of metadata for Apache Hive tables and other data lake table formats (for example, Apache Iceberg), providing clients (such as Apache Hive, Apache Spark, and Trino) access to this information using the Metastore Service API. Over time, HMS has become a foundational component for data lak…

Today, AWS announced extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere). With extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere, you continue to receive security patches for clusters on any Kubernetes version for up to 26 months after the version is released in Amazon EKS Anywhere. Extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere is available for Kubernetes versions 1.28 and above. Standard support begins when a Kubernetes version becomes available in Amazon EKS Anywhere, and continues for 14 months - the same as the upstream Kubernetes project support window. After this time peri…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Tomcat 11 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Tomcat features while benefiting from AL2023's enhanced security and performance features. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Tomcat 11 on AL2023 allows developers to take advantage of the latest Jakarta EE specifications. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running Corretto 17 and 21 with Tomcat 11 on AL2023 through the El…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Ruby 3.4 applications on the Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Ruby features while benefiting from AL2023's enhanced security and performance features. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Ruby 3.4 on AL2023 delivers performance improvements and reduced memory usage. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running Ruby 3.4 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API. Th…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Q Business integrations for Microsoft 365 for Word and Outlook. These new integrations improve the usability and usefulness of Amazon Q Business by making its generative AI features available where business users do their work. Users can now get Amazon Q Business’ help in creating content, reviewing documents, and reading or drafting their emails without switching context. The Word integration helps users boost their document creation and review efficiency. Users can leverage generative AI capabilities to draft content, enhance writing quality, and analyze lengthy documents with ease. Through the Amazon Q Busi…

Starting today, EC2 Fleet customers can override the Block Device Mapping specified in the Launch Template when launching a new fleet. With this release, customers save the effort of creating and associating new Launch Templates with their fleet requests, when they need to customize the Block Device Mapping but keep rest of the instance configurations the same. Customers use EC2 Fleet to access wider EC2 capacity across instance types and availability zones within a single launch request. To provide their EC2 instance configurations such as Amazon Machine Images, Key pair etc, customers associate a Launch Template with their Fleet requests. They can override the values…

With the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, your Kubernetes applications can access S3 objects through a file system interface, achieving high aggregate throughput without any changes to your application. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. As a result, distributed machine learning training jobs in Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters can read data from Amazon S3 at high throughput to accelerate training times. The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver supports sequentia…

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Nova creative models, including Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel, in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). 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 i…

Today, we are announcing that Amazon Q Developer is generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Amazon Q Developer provides generative AI-powered assistance throughout the machine learning (ML) lifecycle, enabling users of all skill levels to build production-ready ML models using natural language. With this release, Amazon Q Developer introduces new capabilities including support for additional ML use cases, enhanced data analysis, and improved responsiveness. In addition to regression and classification predictive models, starting today users can build time-series models with Amazon Q Developer to support use cases such as forecasting product sales and resource d…

Today, AWS IoT Device Defender introduced two features to simplify IoT certificate lifecycle management - a new audit check for certificate age and enhancements to the existing device certificate expiring audit check. The new audit check for certificate age allows developers to monitor and receive alerts based on a certificate's age, regardless of its expiration date. Additionally, the device certificate expiring audit check now supports new configuration options, allowing developers to set custom alert durations before certificate expiration. Regularly rotating certificates is a critical security practice that mitigates risks from compromised credentials and prevents …

AWS Network Firewall now provides enhanced console capabilities that improve rule management and policy configuration workflows. Key improvements include the ability to modify the priority of rules directly from the console without needing to delete and recreate them, pre-populated fields to add descriptions and signature ID in your rules, default "Alert Established" selection for comprehensive connection logging, and automatic "Reject" action selection in Stream Exception Policy configuration. These console improvements streamline the firewall administration workflow and help prevent common configuration oversights. Security teams can now efficiently adjust rule prior…

AWS CodeBuild now supports macOS 15.2 as a new major version for macOS builds. This allows developers to build and test their applications in the latest macOS environment. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. The new major version includes the latest Xcode 16.2, Fastlane for iOS automation and Finch for container management in macOS environment. We have also updated our existing macOS AMI to version 14.7, ensuring customers have access to the latest security updates and improvements. The new macOS 15.2 is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Vir…

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to the RDS for MySQL and RDS for MariaDB database engines. This feature leverages machine learning models to help identify performance bottlenecks during the selected time period, and gives advice on what to do next. This launch allows you to analyze database performance monitoring data for a time period of your choice. You can learn how the selected time period differs from normal, what went wrong, and get advice on corrective actions. Through simple-to-understand graphs and explanations, you can identify the chief contributors to performance issues. You will also get gui…

Amazon Relational Database (RDS) for Db2 now supports M7i and R7i database instance types. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel-based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance types. M7i and R7i instances are available for Amazon RDS for Db2 in Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) model and in hourly Db2 licensing model available through AWS Marketplace. You can launch the new database instance in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. Amazon RDS for Db2 is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Db2 de…

Amazon EC2 announces the general availability of Time-based Copy for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Similar to Time-based Copy for EBS snapshots , this feature enables customers to meet their compliance objectives by ensuring that AMIs are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified duration. Prior to today, customers could not predict or control the duration of their AMI copy operations, making it challenging for them to meet their recovery time objectives for disaster recovery and compliance purposes. Now with this capability, customers can specify a desired completion duration, ranging from 15 minutes to 48 hours, for individual AMI copy requests. Custome…

We are excited to announce regional inference profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) in Europe and Asia Pacific. AWS Customers are now able to use cross-region inference profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models in the following regions: Europe (Stockholm, Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney). The Amazon Nova understanding models include: 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 input…

AWS Batch now supports job scheduling that takes into account consumable resources (CRs) such as third-party license tokens, database access bandwidth, budgetary limits, and more. With resource aware scheduling you can set up sets of tokens representing these resources, which will then be consumed by the running AWS Batch jobs. This will help you reduce job failures and wasted compute time caused by missing or rate-limited resources, which in turn will improve utilization of infrastructure and reduce costs. You can create, manage, and monitor consumption of your CRs using AWS Batch Management Console or the new AWS Batch consumable resource APIs such as CreateConsumabl…

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Vietnam in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. This includes price reductions of Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 95% from $0.0815/min to $0.004/min, and Outbound minutes by 44% from $0.0896/min to $0.05/min. The new Telephony Rates are now available as part of the standard pricing for Amazon Connect service usage for the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. To see all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available, see the AWS Region table. Visit the Amazon Connect website for more information. View the full article

CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications now supports the ability to monitor your applications' services and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) across multiple source accounts from one monitoring account. Centralized application observability across accounts in a region provides single-pane-of-glass tracking, health maintenance, and resource optimization. Customers can use Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager (OAM) to create and manage links between source accounts and monitoring accounts. Using the Application Signals Console in their monitoring account, c…

Starting today, the FPGA-powered Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. F2 instances are the second generation of FPGA powered instances and are the first to feature an FPGA with 16 GB of high bandwidth memory (HBM). Compared to F1 instances, the F2 instances have up to 3x vCPUs (192 vCPUS), 2x system memory (2 TB), 2x SSD space (7.6 TiB), and 4x networking bandwidth (100 Gbps). Amazon EC2 F2 instances are ideal for FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network acceleration, and more. With this additional region, F2 instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (…

Effective data governance has long been a critical priority for organizations seeking to maximize the value of their data assets. It encompasses the processes, policies, and practices an organization uses to manage its data resources. The key goals of data governance are to make data discoverable and usable by those who need it, accurate and consistent, secure and protected from unauthorized access or misuse, and compliant with relevant regulations and standards. Data governance involves establishing clear ownership and accountability for data, including defining roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority related to data management. Traditionally, data gover…

Passionate sports viewers expect to easily discover and access sports events and their favorite teams, leagues, and players. Providing a robust and intuitive search experience is crucial for the success of Prime Video Sports. With a vast, rapidly growing catalog of live and on-demand sports offerings, a well-designed search architecture allows Prime Video Sports to cater to this engaged audience, streamlining navigation and reducing friction in the user experience. The Prime Video search experience is one of the most clicked on elements in the global navigation bar. Search enables highly relevant recommendations and drives increased viewership and engagement. By prioritiz…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) IAM Database Authentication (IAM DB Auth) now provides enhanced observability through metrics and logs. It enables customers to investigate and resolve authentication issues when connecting to RDS databases. Database connection authentication issues can occur due to multiple reasons such as configuration or permission issues with your IAM policy, using expired tokens, throttling, etc. IAM DB Auth metrics and logs can help troubleshoot authentication issues caused due to all the above issues. Now you will also get visibility into error logs that help you get insights into user specific connection failures. IAM DB Auth metrics are…

Amazon Connect Chat now enables you to greet customers with interactive messages when starting chats, delivering contextual and personalized experiences that improve engagement and self-service resolution rates. For example, when a customer visits a product page and opens the chat widget, they receive a contextual greeting with options to compare similar products, check store availability, or learn about warranty details. To customize the interactive welcome message using Amazon Lex, check the 'Initialize bot with message' option in the 'Get customer input' block in the Amazon Connect flow designer. You can either manually enter or dynamically set the initial message s…

AWS re:Invent 2024, the flagship annual conference, took place December 2–6, 2024, in Las Vegas, bringing together thousands of cloud enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders from around the globe. This premier event showcased groundbreaking advancements, keynotes from AWS leadership, hands-on technical sessions, and exciting product launches. Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data an…

You can now automatically merge your tests reports into a consolidated report when you execute test cases in parallel. This enhancement also allows you to select a mix of on-demand instances, reserved capacity fleets, or Lambda compute resources for your parallel tests. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. As the number of tests in a project grows, the total test execution time also increases when using a single compute resource. CodeBuild runs your tests in parallel across new compute environments and now also merges the test results into a single report. …

AWS Chatbot is now called Amazon Q Developer. The new name recognizes the integration of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, in Microsoft Teams and Slack to manage and optimize AWS resources. With Amazon Q Developer, customers can monitor, operate, and troubleshoot AWS resources in chat channels faster. Customers can quickly retrieve telemetry and ask questions to understand the state of their resources. Customers can leverage the existing non-generative AI features to operationalize Dev Ops and incident response processes with customizable notifications, action buttons, and command aliases. With this launch, t…

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. M6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable M5a instances. These instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. With this additional region, M6a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo). These instances can be purchased as …

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

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21, and 10.5.28. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more …

RDS Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned PostgreSQL-Compatible and MySQL-Compatible database clusters is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and South America (São Paulo) regions. RDS Data API allows you to access these Aurora clusters via a secure HTTP endpoint and run SQL statements without the use of database drivers and without managing connections. Data API eliminates the use of drivers and improves application scalability by automatically pooling and sharing database con…

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

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today launched 8 new service-specific condition keys for Identity and Access Management (IAM). These new condition keys let you create IAM policies as well as Service Control Policies (SCPs) to better enforce your organizational policies in containerized environments. IAM condition keys allow you to author policies that enforce access control based on API request context. With today’s release, Amazon ECS has added condition keys that allow you to enforce policies related to resource configuration (ecs:task-cpu, ecs:task:memory, and ecs:compute-compatibility), container privileges (ecs:privileged), network configuration (ecs…

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

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

In this blog, let us deep-dive into different AI Key model deployment strategies like Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, AWS Inferentia, Elastic Inference and more from the AWS services. Here, you will also understand the best practices to deploy efficient machine learning models, performance optimization, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. AWS Certified AI Practitioner Certification—Overview: The AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) certification is designed in such a way as to help professionals have a strong foundational understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI (GenAI). As one of the major aspects of AI implementation on…

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

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

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

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) for the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c. This update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations. You can now create new DB instances or upgrade existing ones to engine version ‘19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1’. The SPB engine version will be visible in the AWS Console by selecting the "Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions" checkbox in the engine version selector, making it simple to identify and implement the latest spatial patches for yo…

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

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

Welcome to February’s post announcing new training course launches—helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. Missed our January course update? Check it out here. This month, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including seven new AWS Builder Labs, four new AWS Jam Journeys, and six major updates to AWS Jam Journeys. New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS B…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, and 13.20. Please note, this release supports the versions released by the PostgreSQL community on February, 20,2025 to address the regression that was part of the February 13, 2025 release. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also …

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other FMs from leading AI companies via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI built in. These capabilities help you build tailored applications for multiple use …

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

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

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

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

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.41 and 8.4.4. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 and 8.4.4 in the Amazon RDS user guide. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer…

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

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

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

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing and data management, AWS has consistently been at the forefront of innovation. One of the groundbreaking developments in recent years is zero-ETL integration, a set of fully managed integrations by AWS that minimizes the need to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) data pipelines. This post will explore brief history of zero-ETL, its importance for customers, and introduce an exciting new feature: history mode for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, and Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift. …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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