Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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

This blog is about optimizing ML pipelines that serve as the foundation for constructing and deploying models at scale; their optimization is key. AWS offers a variety of solutions designed to orchestrate machine learning workflows, equipping organizations with a complete set of tools to simplify and automate their ML processes. As a candidate for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam, you should ensure that you master these techniques, which is crucial. Optimizing ML pipelines on AWS There are various considerations steps and processes that can be followed by AI practitioners to effectively optimize ML pipelines on AWS. These include the following; Def…

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

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

Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities that allow customers to upgrade Java applications using Maven to Java 21 are now available. Developers interested in leveraging the enhanced performance, security, interoperability, and modern features of Java 21 can use the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Q Developer to accelerate code upgrades to Java 21. With this added support for Java Development Kit (JDK) 21, customers can upgrade the Java version of their applications using Maven from source versions 8, 11, 17, or 21 to target versions 17 or 21. Customers can also continue to upgrade libraries and frameworks used in Java 17 or Java 21 compatible applications wi…

Today, Amazon Inspector announced an upgrade to the engine powering its container image scanning for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). This upgrade will provide you with a more comprehensive view of the vulnerabilities in the third-party dependencies used in your container images. The enhancement to the engine will happen automatically without any action or disruption to your existing workflows. Existing customers can expect to see some findings closed as the new engine re-evaluates all the existing resources to better assess risks, while also surfacing new vulnerabilities as per the new engine’s dependency collection. Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability managem…

With the launch of AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, you now have additional visibility into AWS API activity that traverses your VPC endpoints, enabling you to strengthen your data perimeter and implement better detective controls. You can enable network activity events for VPC endpoints for five AWS Services: Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS CloudTrail. With network activity events for VPC endpoints, you can view details of who is accessing resources within your network giving you greater ability to identify and respond to malicious or unauthorized actions in your data perimeter. For example, a…

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

This post was authored by Abhishek Nanda, Containers Specialist Solutions Architect and co-written with Jayaprakash Alawala, Principal Container Specialist Solutions Architect and Rajesh Singh, Sr. Containers Specialist BDM. Introduction Amazon EKS users in the Regulatory and Compliance industry invest time and effort to build EKS custom AMIs for the worker nodes Operating System (OS) to harden for various Benchmarks including Centre for Internet Security (CIS). The CIS is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. They represent the consensus-based effort of c…

Today, Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in several new regions as well as new instance types in existing locations. You can use EC2 Capacity Blocks to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for a future date for the amount of time that you need to run your machine learning (ML) workloads. EC2 Capacity Blocks enable you to reserve GPU capacity up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to 6 months in cluster sizes of one to 64 instances, giving you the flexibility to run a broad range of ML workloads. They are ideal for short duration pre-training and fi…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers a new broker type called Express brokers. It’s designed to deliver up to 3 times more throughput per broker, scale up to 20 times faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% compared to Standard brokers running Apache Kafka. Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices by default, support Kafka APIs, and provide the same low latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so you can continue using existing client applications without any changes. Express brokers provide straightforward operations with hands-free storage management by offering unlimited storage without pre-provisioning, eli…

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) provides a unified experience for using data, analytics, and AI capabilities. You can use familiar AWS services for model development, generative AI, data processing, and analytics—all within a single, governed environment. Users can now build, deploy, and execute end-to-end workflows from a single interface. SageMaker Unified Studio is built on the foundations of Amazon DataZone, where it uses domains to categorize and structure the data assets, while offering project-based collaboration features that allow teams to securely share artifacts and work together across various compute services. This experience allows multiple persona…

AWS Deadline Cloud now includes support for Adobe After Effects in its Service-Managed Fleets. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, created in industry-standard graphics tools such as Adobe After Effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. With this new feature, you can submit After Effects projects to Deadline Cloud without having to manage your own render farm infrastructure. The integration offers built-in support for custom fonts and an adjustable number of image sequence frames rendered per task, allowing you to submit jobs th…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparabl…

AWS CodePipeline now provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics integration for V2 pipelines, enabling you to monitor both pipeline-level and account-level metrics directly in your AWS account. The integration introduces a pipeline duration metric that tracks the total execution time of your pipeline completions, and pipeline failure metric that monitors the frequency of pipeline execution failures. You can now track these metrics through both the CodePipeline console and the CloudWatch Metrics console to actively monitor your pipeline health. To learn more about this feature, please visit our documentation. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page. …

You can now update your existing Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services that use a short Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to use a long ARN without needing to re-create the service. This enables you to tag your long-running Amazon ECS services, letting you better allocate cost, improve visibility, and define fine-grained resource-level permissions for these services. Since 2018, customers have been able to tag Amazon ECS services that use the long ARN format (which includes the cluster name in the ARN) but if they wanted to tag services that were created with the old short ARN format, they had to delete and re-create the service. Now, ECS enables you to tag s…

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are now available in the Chicago and New York City Local Zones. C6in instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are x86-based Amazon EC2 compute-optimized instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth. The instances are built on AWS Nitro System, which is a dedicated and lightweight hypervisor that delivers the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. You can take advantage of the higher network bandwidth to scale the performance for a broad range of wor…

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports workloads up to 100TB of data for time-series collections. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. With the support for larger datasets, OpenSearch Serverless now enables more data-intensive use cases such as log analytics, security analytics, real-time application monitoring, and more. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for indexing and search are measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To accommodate for larger d…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250103. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about the bug fixes and patches in this version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your RDS for MySQL databases after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your MySQL da…

Amazon Q generative SQL is now available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor for US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. This feature enhances SQL query authoring in the web-based Query Editor for Amazon Redshift, enabling you to write SQL queries using natural language and receive intelligent SQL code recommendations. Amazon Q generative SQL makes Amazon Redshift database querying more accessible and efficient for users, regardless of their SQL expertise. Using generative AI, Amazon Q generative SQL analyzes user intent, SQL query patterns, and schema metadata to identify common query patterns within Amazon Redshift. The conversational interface allows users to s…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.3, 16.7, 15.11, 14.16, and 13.19. 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. This release also includes updates for PostgreSQL extensions such as pg_active 2.1.4, pg_cron 1.6.5, pg_partman 5.2.4, and others. You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments for RDS for…

Today, we are launching the ability to remove Availability Zones (AZ) of an existing Network Load Balancer (NLB). Prior to this launch, customers could add AZs to an existing NLB, but could not remove AZs. With this capability, customers can now change their application stack locations and move them between availability zones quickly. Changing business needs such as mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, data residency compliance requirements, and capacity considerations in a given region are some of the use cases that necessitate removing AZs of existing NLBs. Using this capability, customers can remove one or more availability zones from their NLB by simply updati…

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now enables you to upgrade the Lustre version of your FSx for Lustre file systems. This feature allows you to benefit from the enhancements available in newer Lustre versions on your existing file systems. FSx for Lustre provides fully-managed file systems built on Lustre, the world's most popular open-source high performance file system. FSx for Lustre supports multiple long-term support Lustre versions released by the Lustre community. Newer Lustre versions provide benefits such as performance enhancements, new features, and support for th…

AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL service that helps customers build scalable APIs, announces improvements to its EvaluateCode and EvaluateMappingTemplate APIs. This update enables developers to comprehensively mock all properties of the context object during resolver and function unit testing, including identity information, stash variables, and error handling. The enhancement also introduces improved JSON input validation with clear, actionable error messages, making it easier for developers to identify and fix issues in their context setup. These improvements simplify the setup and configuration requirements. Developers can now efficiently test functions and reso…

AWS HealthScribe is a generative AI-powered service that automatically generates summarized clinical notes and transcripts from patient-clinician conversations. Documentation for behavioral health related encounters follows a goal centric format based on GIRPP (Goal, Intervention, Response, Progress, Plan) format. With this launch, AWS HealthScribe customers can directly convert a behavioral health related patient-clinician conversation to a GIRPP format note. This can potentially save clinicians hours daily in manually documenting behavioral health related encounters. Customers using the HealthScribe StartMedicalScribeJob and StartMedicalScribeStream API can simply se…

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now displays the full snapshot size for EBS Snapshots. With this enhancement, customers can now retrieve full snapshot sizes programmatically through the DescribeSnapshots API using the new field, full-snapshot-size-in-bytes. The full snapshot size is also displayed in the EBS Snapshots console under the new 'Full snapshot size' column. Since EBS Snapshots are incremental in nature, if you take multiple snapshots of a volume over time, each snapshot only stores the new or modified blocks while maintaining references to unchanged blocks from previous snapshots. The ‘full snapshot size’ field shows you the total size of all blocks…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Jasmine - new Singaporean English Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) female voice for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Jasmine is our first voice for the Singaporean variant of English. Even though Singaporean English is reported to be close to British English, there are some unique pronunciation patterns that we captured while training this voice, such as pronunciation of telephone numbers or postal codes, to make sure that Jasmine sounds like a local speak…

AWS AppSync GraphQL now offers operation-level caching, a new feature that allows customers to cache entire GraphQL query operation responses. This enhancement enables developers to optimize read-heavy GraphQL APIs, delivering faster response times and improved application performance. Operation-level caching in AWS AppSync GraphQL streamlines the caching process by storing complete query responses. This approach is particularly beneficial for complex queries or high-traffic scenarios, where it can significantly reduce latency and enhance the overall user experience. By caching at the operation level, developers can easily boost API efficiency and create more responsiv…

You can now request for Amazon DynamoDB account-level and table-level throughput quota adjustments using AWS Service Quotas in all AWS Commercial Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and get auto-approved within minutes. Previously, when requesting a quota adjustment, Service Quotas allowed you to indicate the Amazon DynamoDB quota and desired value to be adjusted to. AWS Support would then review your request, approve, and make the adjustments. With this launch, when you make updates to your DynamoDB account-level and table-level throughput quotas using AWS Service Quotas, your adjustments will get automatically approved and adjusted with just a few clicks. AWS S…

Contact Lens now provides managers with an agent performance evaluation dashboard, to view aggregations of agent performance, and insights across cohorts of agents over time. With this launch, managers can access a unified dashboard on agent performance across evaluation scores, productivity (e.g., contacts handled, average handle time, etc.) and operational metrics. Through detailed performance scorecards at both team and individual levels, managers can dive deep into specific performance criteria, and compare performance with similar cohorts and over time, to identify agent strengths and improvement opportunities. The dashboard also provides managers with insights into …

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables managers to create rules based on patterns of customer hold time and agent interaction duration, to take automated actions such as categorizing contacts, evaluating agent performance and notifying supervisors. With this launch, managers can create rules to check how well agents comply with guidelines on placing customers on hold. For example, did the agent set expectations on hold duration, before placing the customer on hold for more than 5 minutes? In addition, managers can check if the agent interaction lasted long enough to warrant assessment of complex agent behaviors such as building customer rapport, customer issue root cause…

Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces that AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider (ASCP) now integrates with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Pod Identity. This integration simplifies IAM authentication for Amazon EKS when retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager or parameters from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. With this new capability, you can manage IAM permissions for Kubernetes applications more efficiently and securely, enabling granular access control through role session tags on secrets. ASCP is a plugin for the industry-standard Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver. It enables applications running in Kubernetes pods to retrieve secrets fro…

Serverless queue processors like AWS Lambda often exist in architectures where they pull messages from queues such as Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and interact with downstream services or external APIs in a distributed architecture. Robust retry approaches are necessary to provide reliable message processing due to the susceptibility of these downstream services to short-term outages or throttling. This often requires implementing special retry logic with features like dead-letter queues (DLQs) and exponential backoff to handle these cases gracefully, making sure that the downstream systems don’t get overwhelmed by too many retries. In this post, we propose …

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

We are well settled into 2025 by now, but many people are still catching up with all the exciting new releases and announcements that came out of re:Invent last year. There have been hundreds of re:Invent recap events around the world since the beginning of the year, including in-person all-day official AWS events with multiple tracks to help you discover and dive deeper into the releases you care about, as well as community and virtual events. Last month, I was lucky to be a co-host for AWS EMEA re:Invent re:Cap which was a nearly 4-hour livestream with experts featuring demos, whiteboard sessions, and a live Q&A. The good news is that you can now watch it on-deman…

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor version is SQL Server 2022 CU17 - 16.0.4175.1. This minor version is available in all A…

In the rapidly evolving world of data and analytics, organizations are constantly seeking new ways to optimize their data infrastructure and unlock valuable insights. Amazon Redshift is changing the game for thousands of businesses every day by making analytics straightforward and more impactful. Fully managed, AI powered, and using parallel processing, Amazon Redshift helps companies uncover insights faster than ever. Whether you’re a small startup or a big player, Amazon Redshift helps you make smart decisions quickly and with the best price-performance at scale. Amazon Redshift Serverless is a pay-per-use serverless data warehousing service that eliminates the need for…

Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is now available in Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region. According to Anthropic, the model delivers across-the-board improvements over its predecessor, with significant gains in coding—an area where it already led the field. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model shows wide-ranging improvements on industry benchmarks. On coding the model improves performance on SWE-bench Verified from 33% to 49%. It also improves performance on TAU-bench, an agentic tool use task, from 62.6% to 69.2% in the retail domain, and from 36.0% to 46.0% in the airline domain. The model offers these advancements at the same price of …

Amazon Redshift Serverless announces reduction in IP Address Requirements to 3 per Subnet. When using Amazon Redshift Serverless without Enhanced VPC Routing (EVR) enabled, you only need 3 free IP addresses in each subnet in your Amazon VPC. The new enhancement makes starting with Amazon Redshift Serverless easier, and you do not have to worry about free IP addresses in your Amazon VPC subnet network. Before this announcement, you must have at least 9 free IP addresses in your subnet when creating an Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroup (workgroup) or when updating your workgroup for the Redshift Processing Units (RPUs), you must have at least 10 free IP addresses in y…

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage your AWS Transfer Family web apps. This enables you to define and deploy Transfer Family web apps via infrastructure-as-code so you can automate centralized management at scale. With CloudFormation templates, you can programmatically provision and configure your Transfer Family web app, associated customizations, and S3 access grants in a single deployment. This eliminates time-consuming manual configurations and ensures you maintain consistent, secure implementations across departments. You can rapidly scale your file transfer interfaces from hundreds to thousands of users while maintaining strict secur…

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of runtime metrics for .NET applications in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an OpenTelemetry (OTel)-compatible application performance monitoring (APM) feature in CloudWatch. Without requiring any source code changes, you can now collect runtime metrics such as Garbage Collection and Heap usage from .NET applications and correlate with application metrics, traces, and logs for applications running across EKS, EC2, ECS and on-premise servers. Runtime metrics enable real-time monitoring of your application’s resource consumption, such as memory and CPU usage. Now, for .NET applications, developers and SREs can dete…

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has now increased the access points limit from 1,000 to 10,000 per file system, a 10x increase. This launch makes it even easier for customers to manage application-specific access to shared datasets, enabling them to seamlessly scale access management to thousands of users, on a single EFS file system. Amazon EFS is a fully elastic file storage service that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. Access points are application-specific entry points that enforce a user identity and root directory, and logically isolate data between applications. The new EFS access point limits automatically apply to all …

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL instances. This feature helps you identify the root cause behind both ongoing and historical lock contention issues within minutes. The lock contention diagnostics feature is available exclusively in the Advanced mode of CloudWatch Database Insights. With this launch, you can visualize a locking condition in the Database Insights console, which shows the relationship between blocking and waiting sessions. The visualization helps you quickly identify the dominating sessions, queries, or objects causing lock contention. Additionally, this feature persists historical locking…

AWS Step Functions now supports additional data sources and output options for Distributed Map, enabling more flexible large-scale parallel processing workflows. Distributed map can now process data from JSON Lines (JSONL) and a broader range of delimited file formats stored in Amazon S3. Additionally, distributed map offers new output transformations for greater control over result formatting. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. With this update, you can more easily iterate over and process diverse datasets using Ste…

DeepSeek-R1 is a powerful and cost-effective AI model that excels at complex reasoning tasks. When combined with Amazon OpenSearch Service, it enables robust Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. This post shows you how to set up RAG using DeepSeek-R1 on Amazon SageMaker with an OpenSearch Service vector database as the knowledge base. This example provides a solution for enterprises looking to enhance their AI capabilities. OpenSearch Service provides rich capabilities for RAG use cases, as well as vector embedding-powered semantic search. You can use the flexible connector framework and search flow pipelines in OpenSearch to connect to models hosted by De…

Amazon EC2 U7in-8tb instances are now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. U7in-8tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), delivering up to 135% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances. U7in-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7in-8tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 60Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers u…

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their networks stack by running their Data Lifecycle Manager dual-stack endpoints on a network supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, depending on the protocol used by their network and client. Customers create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies to automate the creation, retention, and management of EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The policies can also automatically copy created resources across AWS Regions, move EBS Snapshots to EBS Snapshots Archive tier, an…

AWS Config now supports 4 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The newly supported resource types are also available in Config rules and Config aggregators. You can now use AWS Config to monitor the following newly supported resource types in all AWS Regions where the supported resources are available: AWS::EC2::VPCBlockPublicAccessExclusion AWS::EC2::VPCBlockPu…

AWS Marketplace now supports custom payment schedules for private offers, giving Channel Partners the ability to add margins on private offers with installment plans. Channel Partners can now adjust each scheduled payment individually, either through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal or the AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Previously, Channel Partners could only apply a uniform percentage markup across all installments in a private offer. With this update, they can now adjust the payment amount for each installment in the schedule, providing greater flexibility in structuring deals and managing cash flow. Once the buyer accepts and pays their invoices, the Channel Part…

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the Amazon FSx Service APIs. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can standardize their applications and workflows for managing their Amazon FSx resources on the new version of Internet Protocol by using the new dual-stack Amazon FSx Service endpoints. IPv6 support for Amazon FSx Service APIs is available in all commercial, AWS GovCloud (US), and AWS China regi…

AWS WAF’s console dashboard now includes richer visualizations that give you insights into the top sources of traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US). With this feature, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations can view a new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard. Customers previously used the all traffic dashboard, a default dashboard that populates visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. As customers strive to continue gaining additional visibility into their traffic, they have requested richer visualizations based on logs in addition to visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. Starting today, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations wi…

AWS IAM Identity Center now provides improved error messages to simplify troubleshooting when syncing users and groups. You can also build automated monitoring and auditing for these errors using the AWS CloudTrail logs. IAM Identity Center helps you securely connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts and applications. With improved error messaging, IAM Identity Center provides actionable information to troubleshoot provisioning issues as you sync your users and groups using SCIM or configurable AD sync. CloudTrail logs enable automated monitoring of synchronization processes and provide audit trails of provisioning issues. …

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports delivering logs to Amazon S3 and Amazon Data Firehose, in addition to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Additionally, customers now receive 50 KB of MediaTailor logs per ad inserted (50,000 KB per 1,000 ads inserted) for free when delivering to supported destinations. Customers delivering MediaTailor logs to CloudWatch logs benefit from advanced log analytics features such as Live Tailing, Anomaly Detection, and Logs Insights as well as metrics and dashboards to monitor ad monetization. Delivery to S3 or Firehose enables offline analysis and real-time streaming to other AWS services and third-party tools. Usage over the free 50 KB per ad…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, your DB instance is upgraded to the latest quarterly RU six to eight weeks after it is made available by Amazon RDS for Oracle in your AWS Region. These upgrades will happen during the maintenance window. To learn more, see the Amazon RDS maintenance window documentation. For more information about the AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for O…

Amazon Personalize introduces dual stack support for the Personalize API endpoints, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when you privately access the Personalize API endpoint from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. The urgency to transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is driven by the continued growth of internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on Personalize endpoints, you are able to gradually transition f…

Today, we are excited to announce a new onboarding experience that makes it easy to set up and manage Amazon Q Developer Pro tier subscriptions. The workflow on Amazon Q console has been redesigned to provide a friendlier 2-step setup for users or teams that are looking to try out Amazon Q Developer in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). AWS account administrators can create subscriptions using the Amazon Q console for their standalone or AWS Organizations member accounts using a guided setup to create local users and configure Amazon Q Developer managed applications. Once the setup is complete, subscribed users will receive details on setting up credential…

AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables you to move resources from one stack to another, split monolithic stacks into smaller components, and rename the logical name of resources within a stack. This enables you to adapt your stacks to meet architectural patterns, operational needs, or business requirements. As your workloads scale and requirements evolve, re-architecting resources into a new stack structure can become necessary. For example, you may need to split a monolithic stack for easier resource lifecycle management or ren…

Cost Optimization Hub now supports idle EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups with scaling policies and multiple instance types. It also allows you to easily filter and aggregate EC2 Auto Scaling group cost optimization opportunities separately from standalone EC2 instances, making it easier to identify EC2 Auto Scaling groups with the highest cost-saving opportunities. With this launch, you can view, consolidate, and prioritize cost optimization opportunities for EC2 Auto Scaling groups across your organization’s member accounts and AWS Regions through a single dashboard. Cost Optimization Hub helps you quant…

Amazon MSK has added support for Express brokers in all AWS Regions where Amazon MSK offers Graviton3 based M7g instances. You can now benefit from Amazon MSK Express brokers in ten additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (Bahrain). Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come pre-confi…

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With Amazon Keyspaces, you can run your Cassandra workloads on AWS using the same Cassandra application code and developer tools that you use today. The service is completely serverless, eliminating the need to provision, patch, or manage servers, or handle software installation and maintenance. You pay only for the resources you use, and tables automatically scale up and down based on application traffic. Amazon Keyspaces supports applications serving thousands of requests per second with vir…

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 provides a fully-managed offering to scan new object uploads to S3 bucket for malware. Starting February 1, 2025, we are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension by 85%. Over the past few months we have made improvements to our scanning infrastructure and data processing efficiencies, enabling us to reduce the price as part of our commitment to pass savings back to customers. GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is priced based on two dimensions: the number of objects evaluated and the amount of data scanned. We are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension, for example in US East (N. Virginia) from $0.6…

AWS AppSync Events allows developers to create serverless WebSocket APIs that can broadcast real-time data to millions of subscribers without managing infrastructure or connection state. Developers simply create their API, and publish events without having the worry about scale and handling fan-out. Today, AWS AppSync announces the release of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 constructs for AWS AppSync Events, enabling developers to programmatically create and manage Event APIs and channel namespaces using infrastructure as code. These new constructs simplify the process of creating Event APIs and managing access controls, reducing the complexity of integrating real-time…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access’ support for secure access to resources that connect over protocols such as TCP, SSH, and RDP. With this launch, you can use Verified Access to provide secure VPN-less access to all your corporate applications and resources using AWS zero trust principles. This feature eliminates the need to manage separate access, and connectivity solutions for non-HTTP(S) resources on AWS and simplifies security operations. Verified Access allows admins to set access policies based on user identity and device posture. It evaluates access for new connections and continuously monitors active connections, terminating c…

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) now includes Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). This integration allows customers to use VS Code to view, create and manage Amazon DocumentDB resources. To get started, you can download the latest AWS-Toolkit extension from VSCode marketplace or update your AWS-Toolkit extension if you already have it installed in your VSCode environment. Then you can configure the extension with credentials for your AWS account and connect to AWS explorer in VSCode. Once connected, you can interact with the DocumentDB menu item to create DocumentDB clusters or manage your existing DocumentDB clusters. To learn more, see Amazon D…

Data streaming applications continuously process incoming data, much like a never-ending query against a database. Unlike traditional database queries where you request data one time and receive a single response, streaming data applications constantly receive new data in real time. This introduces some complexity, particularly around error handling. This post discusses the strategies for handling errors in Apache Flink applications. However, the general principles discussed here apply to stream processing applications at large. Error handling in streaming applications When developing stream processing applications, navigating complexities—especially around error handl…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches its networking capability called ECS Service Connect in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easier for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. With ECS Service Connect, customers can easily configure service discovery, connectivity, traffic observability, and encryption for services running in Amazon ECS. This enables more efficient application development by allowing you to focus on writing application code instead of managing complex networking infrastructure To learn more about how to ge…

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Malaysia). Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed platform that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker AI removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high quality models. To learn more and get started, see SageMaker AI documentation and pricing page. View the full article

Starting today, you can connect to your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters with a single click through AWS CloudShell directly from the AWS Management Console. This new feature allows our customers to easily connect to their DocumentDB clusters directly from their browser, without requiring any local setup. One-click connectivity with Cloudshell automatically configures VPCs, security groups, and MongoDB shell installation, eliminating the need for manual tasks like setting up security groups and ingress/egress rules. This streamlines the process for database administrators and developers, enabling them to connect quickly to their DocumentDB cluste…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale their performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Functio…

Clinical trials involve the ingestion and processing of vast amounts of highly regulated data, including complex protocol documents that describe how the trial will be conducted. Managing this volume of information can be overwhelming, but generative AI offers a solution by helping automate the process and enabling clinical researchers to quickly focus on the most relevant information. Currently, the drug approval process takes on average 10–12 years, with clinical trial study startup time accounting for 1 year of that timeframe. Much of the challenge with study startup lies in the complex and non-standard nature of protocol documents. These often require weeks or months …

Amazon Q Business, the generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, introduced an intelligent orchestration feature that simplifies conversational experience by understanding user queries, and automatically directing the queries to the right data sources and plugins to generate relevant responses. Earlier, users would need to manually switch between different work applications to complete their tasks and gain insights from data sources. Enabling orchestration simplifies the user conversational experience by automatically directing user queries to indexed enterprise data sources and plugins, eliminating the need fo…

AWS Step Functions has increased the default quota for the maximum number of registered state machines and activities from 10,000 to 100,000. This tenfold increase enables customers to create and manage significantly more workflows within a single AWS account, providing greater scalability and flexibility. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and orchestrate data processing workloads. With this quota increase, customers can now create up to 100,000 state machines and activities, unblocking use cases that require a large number of workflows such as a…

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

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of a new smaller size of Amazon EC2 F2 instances, F2.6xlarge. Amazon EC2 F2 instances are the second-generation of FPGA-powered instances, purpose built for developing and deploying reconfigurable hardware in the cloud. The new F2.6xlarge instance size has 1 FPGA, compared to the currently available F2 sizes with 4 and 8 FPGAs. Amazon EC2 F2 instances are ideal for FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network acceleration, and more. AWS customers can use the new instance size, F2.6xlarge, for applications that are more cost-efficient or performant when running on a single FPGA. F2.6xl…

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announced support for encrypted SAML assertions. SAML is an open standard that many identity providers (IdPs) use for federated single sign-on (SSO), enabling users or applications in your company to log into the AWS Management Console or call AWS API operations. You can now configure your identity provider to encrypt the SAML assertions that it sends to IAM. This ensures that your assertions are encrypted when passed through intermediaries (for example, the end user’s web browser). You can use the AWS IAM console, APIs, or CLI to configure SAML encryption for your identity providers that support encryption. Please refer …

AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports files on S3 source endpoints. Using AWS DMSS, you can now migrate data in CSV or parquet format from S3 to any supported AWS DMSS target endpoint. AWS DMSS supports both full load and Change Data Capture (CDC) migration modes for CSV and Parquet files with S3 source endpoints using AWS DMS console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs in all regions where DMSS is available. For information about AWS DMS S3 source endpoints see DMS S3. Visit AWS DMS to get started. For AWS DMS regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table. View the full article

AWS Wickr is excited to announce the launch of "Wickr Files," a dedicated space that allows you to access and manage files in conversations. Moderators of Wickr rooms and users in self-moderated group conversations, can now upload and organize files in folders. Users can toggle between “Messages” and “Files” tabs to access relevant content and streamline collaboration. AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing wi…

Contact Lens now enables businesses to send automatic email notifications to agents when their contacts are evaluated, so they can review the evaluations and improve their performance. Managers can create rules to send emails based on specific evaluation criteria. For example, you can set up automatic notifications for agents who receive evaluation scores below 50%, ensuring prompt attention to performance opportunities. Managers can also personalize email content based on performance levels — whether recognizing top performers or providing constructive guidance for improvement areas. This feature is available in all regions where Contact Lens performance evaluations a…

Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service integrated analytics experience is now available in 2 additional commercial regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Stockholm). With this integration, CloudWatch Logs customers have two more query languages for log analytics, in addition to CloudWatch Logs Insights QL. Customers can use SQL to analyze data, correlate logs using JOIN, sub-queries, and use SQL functions, namely, JSON, mathematical, datetime, and string functions for intuitive log analytics. They can also use the OpenSearch PPL to filter, aggregate and analyze their data. With a few clicks, CloudWatch Logs customers can create OpenSearch dashboards for VPC, W…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Malaysia). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use C6in instances to scale the performance of applications such as network virtual appliances (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers), Telco 5G User Plane Function (UPF), data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), and CPU based AI/ML workloads. C6in instances are a…

Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditionally required fields to streamline case field population for agents and reduce data entry errors. Administrators can now configure case templates that prompt agents to enter relevant information in specific situations, such as providing a “Close Reason” when a case moves to “Closed” status, “Product Serial Number” when the “Issue Type” is “Hardware Problem”, or “Disposition Code” when handling a system-generated case. Conditionally required fields help agents follow processes for capturing necessary information, improving data quality for reporting, resolution tracking, and compliance. For region availability, please see the a…

Amazon Q Developer has expanded its AWS Console error coverage from US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) to AWS Commercial regions. Users can now troubleshoot AWS Console errors using Amazon Q Developer regardless of their console region, including locations like Europe (Frankfurt). In the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console, Amazon Q Developer diagnoses common errors you encounter while working with AWS services, such as insufficient permissions, incorrect configuration, and exceeding service limits. Q Developer troubleshoots errors arising from the following services in the AWS Management Console: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elast…

AWS Batch on EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes namespaces, Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs), subPath to Kubernetes pod container volumes, and Kubernetes pod annotations. Using different Kubernetes namespaces for your AWS Batch jobs, you can improve workload isolation by defining job permission boundaries both within EKS cluster and for access to other AWS services. With Kubernetes PVCs and subPath you can give your AWS Batch jobs access only to the right data or particular subPath within a data volume. Finally, EKS pod annotations make it easier to integrate with external tools and other AWS services such as AWS Secrets Manager by allowing you to attach necessary me…

Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared their technical expertise and experiences. The highlight was definitely Jeff Barr, AWS Vice President & Chief Evangelist, delivering an inspiring keynote titled “Next-Generation Software Development”, which set the perfect tone for the day. The day kicked off with welcoming remarks from Vatsun Thirapatarapong, AWS Country Manager for Thailand, and wa…

Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server databases from Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) based EBS snapshots. Customers can use an AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbook and specify a restore point of time to automate the recovery process without needing to stop a running Microsoft SQL Server database. Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) allows application data to be backed up while applications are still running. This new feature allows customers to automate the recovery from VSS-based EBS snapshots and ensure rapid recovery of large databases within minutes. This feature also offers customers the flexibility to restore to a new database or ac…

Amazon Connect now provides the ability to choose which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule, making it easier for you to customize adherence tracking to match your unique operational needs. With this launch, you can now define custom mappings between agent statuses and schedule activities. For example, schedule activity “Work” can be mapped to multiple agent statuses such as “Available” and “Back-office work.” An agent scheduled for “Work” from 8 AM to 10 AM will be considered adherent if they are either in “Available” or “Back-office work” status. Additionally, you can now view the actual name of the scheduled activity in the real-time adherence das…

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2019 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor version is SQL Server 2019 CU30 - 15.0.4415.2. This minor version is available in all A…

AWS CodeBuild now offers native support for self-hosted Buildkite runners, enabling you to execute Buildkite pipeline jobs within the CodeBuild environment. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Buildkite is a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform. With this feature, your Buildkite jobs can access CodeBuild’s comprehensive suite of instance types and managed images, and utilize native integrations with AWS services. You have control over the build environment, without the overhead of manually provisioning and scaling the compute resour…

The journey from implementing Well-Architected principles in a single workload to operating many workloads across multiple teams can be challenging. While the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides essential guidance for building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient workloads in the AWS Cloud, to fully benefit from Well-Architected, organizations must extend its principles beyond individual teams or workloads. To help organizations implement Well-Architected best practices consistently while they expand, we’ve launched Well-Architected for Enterprises, a new free digital course. Designed for technical professionals who architect, build, and operate AWS sol…

Dashboard Q&A by Amazon Q in QuickSight enables QuickSight Authors to add Data Q&A to their dashboards in one-click. With dashboard Q&A, QuickSight users can ask and answer questions about their data using natural language. Dashboard Q&A capabilities of Q in QuickSight automatically extract semantic information presented in dashboards and use it to enable Q&A over specific data and improves existing Topic based Q&A experiences by automatically using semantics from dashboards to improve Q&A answers. With Dashboard Q&A Authors can quickly deliver self-service access to customized data insights for the entire organization. Dashboard Q&am…

AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the following additional Regions: North America (N. California, Canada West, Canada Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London, Paris, Zurich, Milan, Spain), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), and Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Seoul, Mumbai). This expansion allows you to create Transfer Family web apps in additional commercial Regions where Transfer Family is available. AWS Transfer Family web apps provide a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce wi…

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots. With this launch, you now have more granular controls to set resource-level permissions for the creation of a volume and selection of the source snapshot when calling the CreateVolume action in your IAM policy. This allows you to control the IAM identities that can create EBS volumes from source snapshots, and the conditions that they can use these snapshots to create EBS volumes. To meet your specific permission needs on the source snapshots, you can also specify any of 5 EC2-specific condition keys in your IAM policy: ec2:Encrypted, ec2:…

Today, Amazon Q Developer announces an improved software development agent capable of running build and test scripts on generated code to validate the code before the developers review. This new capability detects errors, ensures generated code is in sync with the project’s current state, and accelerates the development process by producing higher quality code on the first iteration. With the developer’s natural language input request and project-specific context, the Amazon Q Developer agent is designed to assist in implementing complex multi-file features and bug fixes. The agent will analyze the existing codebase, make necessary code changes, and run the selected bu…

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, as concurrency increases, to process queries without wait time. Amazon Redshift customers with an active Redshift cluster earn up to one hour of free Concurrency Scaling credits, which is sufficient for the concurrency needs of most customers. Concurrency scaling allows you to specify usage control providing customers with predictability …

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics, adds support for cross-account ingestion. Starting today, you can agentlessly scrape metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters in different accounts than your Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. While it was previously possible to apply AWS multi-account best practices for centralized observability with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces, you had to use self-managed collection. This meant that you had to run, scale, and patch telemetry agents yourself to scrape metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters in va…

The Amazon EventBridge console now displays the source and detail type of all available AWS service events when you create a rule in the EventBridge console. This makes it easier for customers to discover and utilize the full range of AWS service events when building event-driven architectures. Additionally, the EventBridge documentation now includes an automatically updated list of all AWS service events, facilitating access to the most current information. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event router that enables you to create highly scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and oth…

Amazon Connect Cases now allows agents and supervisors to filter cases in the agent workspace by custom field values, making it easier to narrow down search results and find relevant cases. Users can also customize the case list view and search results layout by adding custom columns, hiding or rearranging existing columns, and adjusting the number of cases per page. These enhancements enable users to tailor the case list view to meet their needs and manage their case workloads more effectively. For region availability, please see the availability of Amazon Connect features by Region. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect Cases webpage and documentati…

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and data warehouses to handle larger workloads on a single Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server database instance. The support for 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now generally available in all AWS regions where both Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes and Amazon RDS C…

AWS Glue announces 14 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Customers can now use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, CircleCI, Docusign Monitor, Domo, Dynatrace, Kustomer, Mailchimp, Microsoft Teams, Monday, Okta, Pendo, Pipedrive, Productboard and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they need to integrate with data from various applications. With 14 new connectors, customers have more options to easily establish a connection to their applications using the AWS Glue console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn application-specific APIs. Glue…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows administrator to control whether admin consent is required when users link their OneDrive for Business accounts as a persistent storage option. The new capability simplifies the management of AppStream 2.0 persistent storage and the admin consent process. After enabling OneDrive for Business for an AppStream 2.0 stack and specifying the OneDrive domains, administrators can now configure whether admin consent is needed for each OneDrive domain. If admin consent is required, administrators must approve users’ OneDrive connections within their Azure Active Directory environment when users attempt to link their account to AppStream 2.0. T…