Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We’re excited to introduce multi-head node support for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters. This new capability enhances fault tolerance and availability for large scale generative AI model development workloads. When a single head node manages job scheduling and resource allocation, it can become a critical bottleneck for customers running large scale AI workloads. When this node fails or becomes unresponsive, it can lead to job failures and downtime ultimately impacting the time to train. With this launch, customers can now configure multiple head nodes within a single HyperPod Slurm cluster—one primary head (controller) node to control all compute (worker) nodes a…

Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which enables customers to monitor their web applications by collecting client side performance and error data in real time, is additionally available in the following AWS Regions starting today: Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). CloudWatch RUM provides curated dashboards for web application performance experienced by real end users including anomalies in page load steps, core web vitals, and JavaScript and Http errors across different geolocations, browsers, and devices. Custom events and metrics sent to CloudWatch RUM can be easily configured to monitor specific parts of the application for real user interactions, troubleshoot is…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables are specifically optimized for analytics workloads, resulting in up to 3x faster query performance through continual table optimization compared to unmanaged Iceberg tables, and up to 10x higher transactions per second compared to Iceberg tables stored in general purpose S3 buckets. You can use S3 Tables with AWS analytics services through the integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehou…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Topic was moved to forum Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Topic was moved to forum Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Topic was moved to forum Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Middle East (UAE) region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3-based instances also use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances, …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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