Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of two new EC2 I7ie bare metal instances. These instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The I7ie instances feature 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with a 3.2GHz all-core turbo frequency. Compared to I3en instances, they deliver 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage per…

Today, Amazon ElastiCache introduces the ability to perform vertical scaling on self-designed Memcached caches on ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, Valkey-, Memcached- and Redis OSS-compatible service that delivers real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications with 99.99% availability. With this launch, you can now dynamically adjust the compute and memory resources of your ElastiCache for Memcached clusters, providing greater flexibility and scalability. Hundreds and thousands of customers use ElastiCache to improve their database and application performance and optimize costs. With vertical scaling on ElastiCache for Memcached, you c…

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports horizontal autoscaling enabling you to automatically adjust capacity of your self-designed Memcached caches without the need for manual intervention. ElastiCache for Memcached leverages AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage the scaling process and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when to scale in or out, ensuring your Memcached caches maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Hundreds and thousands of customers use ElastiCache to improve their database and application performance and optimize costs. ElastiCache for Memcached supports target tracking and scheduled auto scaling policies. Wit…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 - 15.0.4430.1) and SQL Server 2022 (CU18 - 16.0.4185.3). These minor versions include performance improvements and bug fixes, and are available for SQL Server Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 and CU18 for details. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to benefit from the performance improvements and bug fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from…

AWS CodeBuild now supports Node 22, Python 3.13, Go 1.24 and Ruby 3.4 in Lambda Compute. These new runtime versions are available in both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. The new Lambda Compute runtime versions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more about runtime versions provided by CodeBuild, please vi…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in US West (N. California) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance o…

AWS Transfer Family announces new configuration options for SFTP connectors, providing you more flexibility and performance when connecting with remote SFTP servers. These enhancements include support for OpenSSH key format for authentication, ability to discover remote server’s host key for validating server identity, and ability to perform concurrent remote operations for improved transfer performance. SFTP connectors provide a fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. You can now authenticate connections to remote servers using OpenSSH keys, in addition to the existing option of using PEM-formatted keys. Your conn…

Amazon Lex now allows you to disable automatic intent switching during slot elicitation using request attributes. This new capability gives you more control over conversation flows by preventing unintended switches between intents while gathering required information from users. The feature helps maintain focused conversations and reduces the likelihood of interrupting the process. This enhancement is particularly valuable for complex conversational flows where completing the current interaction is crucial before allowing transitions to other intents. By setting certain attributes, you can ensure that your bot stays focused on collecting all necessary slots, or conform…

Cloud migration presents an opportunity for organizations to enhance performance, reduce costs, and drive innovation with AWS. However, successful migration requires more than just technical expertise—it demands organizational alignment, clear strategy, and well-trained teams. While technical skills are crucial, the most significant challenges often stem from company culture and people. Organizations that successfully migrate to the cloud share three key elements: Consolidated senior leadership with a clear direction and aligned expectations Detailed migration goals with a timeline and next steps A top-down commitment to training teams to operate comfortably in the cloud …

We’re excited to introduce a new enhancement to the search experience in Amazon SageMaker Catalog, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker—exact match search using technical identifiers. With this capability, you can now perform highly targeted searches for assets such as column names, table names, database names, and Amazon Redshift schema names by enclosing search terms in a qualifier such as double quotes (" "). This yields results with exact precision, dramatically improving the speed and accuracy of data discovery. In this post, we demonstrate how to streamline data discovery with precise technical identifier search in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio... View …

We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports recovery mode, enabling users to regain access to their JupyterLab and Code Editor applications when configuration issues prevent normal startup. Starting today, when users encounter application startup failures due to issues such as corrupted Conda configuration or insufficient storage space, they can launch their application in recovery mode on Studio UI or using AWS CLI. When configuration issues occur, users see a warning banner with the recommended solution and can choose to run their space in recovery mode. This simplified environment provides access to essential features like terminal and file …

Cost Optimization Hub now supports DynamoDB and MemoryDB reservation recommendations. You can filter and aggregate recommendations across both services, making it easier to identify the highest cost-saving opportunities for DynamoDB and MemoryDB. With this launch, you can view, consolidate, and prioritize reservation recommendations for DynamoDB and MemoryDB across your organization's member accounts and AWS Regions through a single dashboard. Cost Optimization Hub's comprehensive view enables you to see these recommendations as part of your total potential savings, helping you compare and prioritize them alongside other cost-saving opportunities. DynamoDB and Memor…

Amazon SageMaker Catalog, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, now supports enhanced search capabilities with exact-match and partial-match functionality for technical identifiers such as column and table names. This feature allows users to perform precise searches by enclosing terms within a qualifier such as double quotes (" "), helping them quickly locate assets with exact or partial technical names. For example, analysts can find specific columns faster, stewards can validate assets using naming patterns like "audit_", and engineers can identify temporary tables with prefixes like "temp_". Building on SageMaker Catalog’s existing keyword and semantic sea…

Amazon Connect now provides the ability to dynamically set the text-to-speech (TTS) voices, language, or speaking styles used in voice bots and interactive voice response (IVR). These new capabilities enable you to deliver a more personalized experience for each of your end customers. For example, you can have a desired voice configured dynamically based on the primary speaking language set in their customer profile. These new capabilities are configurable in the “Set Voice” block in Amazon Connect flows and can be configured in the drag-and-drop flow designer or public APIs. To learn more, see the public documentation on Set Voice block and the Amazon Connect Administ…

Starting today, PartyRock is supporting an image playground that uses the Amazon Nova Canvas foundation model to transform your ideas into customizable images. You can access the image playground directly through the "Images" section, featuring an intuitive interface and comprehensive customization options. This new capability enhances PartyRock's existing image generation features. While you could previously generate images using widgets in your apps, you can now also create images through the dedicated image playground. The playground offers configuration options including orientation choices (landscape, portrait, square), resolution sizes, and color guidance. The im…

Today, AWS announces a new fulfillment experience for container products in AWS Marketplace, enhancing the deployment and management of container-based software from AWS Partners. The new fulfillment experience helps to reduce complexity and improve workflow efficiency by making it easier to understand available deployment options, and providing explanations of each option's purpose and implications. The fulfillment experience also offers readily accessible help resources, including detailed guides from AWS Marketplace sellers. The experience is available across all AWS Regions and in local languages, delivering a consistent experience worldwide. To learn more about…

The latest Well-Architected Framework update is now available in the Well-Architected Tool, featuring updates and improvements for 78 new best practices that offer actionable guidance to help organizations build more secure, resilient, scalable, and sustainable workloads. With this release, the Well-Architected Framework has refreshed 100% of each pillar, including the Reliability Pillar, with 14 of its best practices updated for the first time since major Framework improvements started in 2022. With the refreshed AWS Well-Architected Framework, organizations can use our actionable guidance to help achieve more operable, secure, sustainable, scalable, and resilient …

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports pgvector 0.8.0, an open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing vector embeddings in your database. pgvector provides vector similarity search capabilities that enables Aurora use in generative artificial intelligence (AI) semantic search and retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) applications. pgvector 0.8.0 includes improvements to PostgreSQL query planner’s selection of index when filters are present, which can deliver better query performance and improve search result quality. pgvector 0.8.0 improves data filtering using conditions in WHERE clauses and joins that can improve query performance and usability…

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), and US West (N. California). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. With this expansion, S3 Tables are now generally available in nineteen AWS Regions. To learn more, visit the product page, documentation, and the S3 pricing page. View the full article

AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) now supports custom domain names for private REST APIs feature of Amazon API Gateway. Developers building serverless applications using SAM can now seamlessly incorporate custom domain names for private APIs directly in their SAM templates, eliminating the need to configure custom domain names separately using other tools. API Gateway allows you to create a custom domain name, like private.example.com, for your private REST APIs, enabling you to provide API callers with a simpler and intuitive URL. With a private custom domain name, you can reduce complexity, configure security measures with TLS encryption, and manage the life…

UNiDAYS is a fast, free digital platform that provides exclusive student offers and benefits to over 29 million verified members worldwide. With a rapidly growing user base and an increasing number of global partnerships, UNiDAYS recognized the need to enhance its platform’s performance to deliver a seamless consumer experience in geographic regions far from its original base of operations. In this post, we share how UNiDAYS achieved AWS Region expansion in just 3 weeks using AWS services... View the full article

Data protection is a high priority, particularly as organizations face increasing cybersecurity threats. Maintaining the security of customer data is top priority for AWS and Salesforce. With AWS PrivateLink, Salesforce Private Connect eliminates common security risks associated with public endpoints. Salesforce Private Connect now works with Salesforce Data Cloud to keep your customer data secure when using with key services like Agentforce… View the full article

AWS Transfer Family now enables you to delete, rename, or move files on remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors. This enhancement allows you to easily manage files and directories stored on remote SFTP file systems and keep them up to date. SFTP connectors provide fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. You can now organize your remote directories by deleting, renaming or moving source files to archive locations after they have been copied from the remote server. This helps you ensure that your remote directories remain current and prevent duplicate file transfers during subsequent job runs. These new features ad…

AWS CodeBuild now supports enhanced debugging experience through secure and isolated sandbox environments. You can connect to the sandbox environment via SSH clients or from an IDE to interactively troubleshoot your build or test runs. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. With the enhanced debugging capability, you can investigate issues and validate the fixes in real-time, before committing changes to your buildspec configurations. The sandbox environment maintains a persistent file system during the debugging session, and offers the same native integ…

AWS End User Messaging now allows customers to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing service endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their AWS End User Messaging endpoints on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can standardize their applications on the new …

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). ARP is a NetApp ONTAP feature that proactively monitors your file system for unusual activity and automatically generates ONTAP snapshots when a potential attack is detected, helping you protect your business-critical data against a broader set of ransomware and malware attacks. When enabled on your FSx for ONTAP storage volumes, ARP analyzes your workload access patterns to proactively detect suspicious activity – including changes in the randomness of data in files, the usage of unusu…

Amazon EventBridge Archive and Replay now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys for encrypting archived events. This expands your encryption options by letting you choose between default AWS owned keys for simpler, automated data protection or customer managed keys to help meet your organization's specific security and governance requirements. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus receives and routes events between your applications, SaaS applications, and AWS services. The Archive and Replay feature enhances this capability by allowing you to store events from an event bus and replay them later, helping you build more durable event-driven applications…

Today, we are launching two significant updates to AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing: A new VOD ad insertion usage type priced at a 50% discount to live. The new pricing model aligns better with how streaming providers monetize their content. By pricing VOD ad insertion at 50% of the cost of live workflows, you can expand your ad-supported VOD libraries more cost-effectively using MediaTailor. Elimination of the $0.75 per 1000 ads pricing tier, so live ad insertion now has a single tier at $0.50 per 1000 ads. By removing the tiered pricing model of 1 to 5M insertions and greater than 5M insertions per month, this makes it easier for you to predict your bill and get …

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for adding attachments to emails when sending via SES simple sending v2 APIs. Customers can add attachments such as PDF documents to emails, or include images for rendering inline in email content without requiring image downloads. This makes it easier to send richer email content with the convenience of the SES sending APIs. Previously, customers could send email content such as text and HTML through SES simple sending APIs. Customers did not have to worry about creating the email data structure which is actually sent to mailbox providers. However, if customers wanted to attach documents or include inline image…

Three data center technicians who knew every detail of server room operations–from the constant hum of machines to the daily rhythm of infrastructure maintenance–decided to level up their careers. Today, they’re no longer maintaining systems, they’re designing enterprise solutions that run on the very infrastructure they once supported. This is our story–and it’s your potential future. In this post, we’ll share the steps we took to become AWS Solutions Architects, and you’ll discover how to build your own path using AWS Skill Builder and other resources... View the full article

In this blog post, we show you the process of integrating TwelveLabs Embed API with OpenSearch Service to create a multimodal search solution. You’ll learn how to generate rich, contextual embeddings from video content and use OpenSearch Service’s vector database capabilities to enable search functionalities. By the end of this post, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to implement a system that can transform the way your organization handles and extracts value from video content... View the full article

AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, reducing overall costs. To get started with enabling EFA with FSx Lustre filesystems on your clusters, follow the tutorial in the ParallelCluster User Guide - Creating a cluster with an EFA-enabled FSx Lustre . ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool tha…

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now accept incoming connections from customer-provisioned Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to Mail Manager Ingress Endpoints. This makes use of PrivateLink connectivity features already provided by AWS. Since Mail Manager launched in mid-2024, VPC connectivity has become the most-requested new feature from customers. These customers operate large fleets of applications hosted inside AWS, and want to route all their outgoing and incoming mail for those applications via Mail Manager. By adding VPC support via PrivateLink, those customers can now route all their …

As organizations increasingly take advantage of the benefits of hybrid cloud architectures, they are often faced with the challenge of balancing data residency requirements with the flexibility of the cloud. To help you navigate this complex landscape, we are excited to introduce the AWS Well-Architected Data Residency with Hybrid Cloud Services (DRHC) Lens paper. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach for evaluating architectures and applying best practices to build reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud. The framework is based on six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, C…

Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SNS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. The addition of IPv6 support provides customers with a vastly expanded address space, eliminating concerns about address exhaustion and simplifying network architecture for IPv6-native applications. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on…

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for Amazon Backup Search. You can now orchestrate backup discovery and management actions directly in your workflows without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. By directly invoking AWS services or their API actions from AWS Step Functions, customers can write less code, simplify their architecture, and save costs. In addition to the new Amazon Backup Search integration, Step Functions added support for 137 API actions a…

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE ST 2110 professional broadcast input standards on your own hardware. With this new capability, you can ingest professional IP-based video, audio, and metadata streams directly into MediaLive Anywhere nodes running on your own infrastructure, while maintaining centralized control using the AWS Management Console. SMPTE 2110 support, which requires a 25GbE or higher network interface card, enables native IP-based signal handling throughout the workflow. By accepting SMPTE 2110 IP streams in MediaLive Anywhere, you can maintain signals in the IP domain from source to processing, eliminating the need for costly signal con…

Troubleshooting a large, complex, distributed enterprise application involves challenges like tracing requests across multiple services, identifying performance bottlenecks across the stack, and understanding cascading failures between dependent services. Customers often need to work with isolated data to identify the underlying cause of the problem. By correlating different signals like logs, traces, metrics, and other performance indicators, you can get valuable insight into what caused the problem, where, and why. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service to deploy, operate, and search data at scale within AWS. Amazon Managed Grafana is a secure data visualizati…

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log events up to 1 MB in size, a 4x increase from the previous 256 KB limit. This enhancement applies to the CloudWatch Logs PutLogEvents API and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint. Customers can now capture richer log data while maintaining data integrity, eliminating the need to truncate large events or split them across multiple entries. It is especially valuable for use cases such as stack traces, debug outputs, and detailed application and security audit logs, enabling simplified troubleshooting, enhanced security audit capabilities, and better visibility into application behavior. The increased limit is automatically ava…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This construct library allows developers to programmatically create, configure, and manage scheduled tasks using infrastructure as code with their preferred programming language, simplifying the process of building event-driven applications. The EventBridge Scheduler construct library enables you to define schedules using cron or rate expressions, configure target destinations including AWS Lambda functions, Amazon SQS queues, and other AWS services, and manage execution windows and retry policies. Developers can…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools. This library enables developers to programmatically define and deploy Identity Pool resources using familiar programming languages, making it easier to grant users secure access to AWS services in their applications. With this construct library, you can define Identity Pools as infrastructure as code, configure authentication providers like Amazon Cognito User Pools, social identity providers (Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon), and SAML 2.0 providers. The library helps you implement security best practices by default and…

In November 2024, CloudFront Functions introduced origin modifications, allowing you to conditionally change origin servers on each request. Starting today, you can now use this capability with VPC Origins and origin groups, enabling you to create even more sophisticated routing policies for your applications delivered from CloudFront. You can now create dynamic routing policies that direct individual requests between any origin, including VPC Origins, by simply providing the ID for the origin. For example, you can automatically route each request to different applications by creating weights to send a certain percentage of traffic to multiple backend services, all wit…

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports enhanced autoscaling capabilities, allowing pipelines to scale dynamically based on additional parameters, including Amazon SQS queue size, persistent buffer lag, and the number of incoming HTTP connections. These enhancements improves upon the existing scaling mechanism, which previously relied only on memory and CPU utilization, providing a more comprehensive and responsive scaling mechanism for your data ingestion workloads. With these improvements, customers can build more resilient and efficient data ingestion pipelines that automatically adapt to varying workloads. The new autoscaling parameters help optimize resource utili…

AWS IAM Identity Center enhanced its session management and trusted identity propagation (TIP) capabilities for customers that connect Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as their identity source. The enhanced capabilities help customers manage user sessions, scale their use of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Developer Pro, and implement use cases, such as for analytics, with trusted identity propagation. With this release, customers who connect Microsoft AD to IAM Identity Center will be able to: (a) configure the session duration for AWS applications and the AWS access portal from a minimum of 15 minutes to a maximum of 90 days; (b) list and delete active user session…

Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 new built-in transforms: “Derived column”, “Flatten”, “Add current timestamp”, “Explode array or map into rows”, “To timestamp”, “Array to columns”, “Intersect”, “Limit” and “Concatenate columns”. Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building ETL flows and authoring flows with Amazon Q Developer. With these new transforms, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated data pipelines without having to write custom code for common transform tasks. Each of these new transforms address a unique data processing need. For example, use “Derived column” to define a new column based on a math for…

Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats directly from the Amazon Connect UI, accelerating issue resolution and improving customer satisfaction. For example, supervisors can now end chats with inactive customers or reassign chats to specific agents or queues. To learn more, please refer to the help documentation or visit the Amazon Connect website. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. View the full article

In this blog we will look into how AWS Lambda has emerged as a powerful tool that is being increasingly applied by machine learning engineers and developers in deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. Let’s also discuss the role of it in AI model deployment, which is important in your preparation for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner Certification (AIF-C01) exam... View the full article

When JC Boissy’s serverless card game CloudJack-21 earned an honorable mention in the 2024 AWS Game Builder Challenge, it marked an incredible milestone in his cloud computing journey. Among 331 submissions from developers worldwide, his educational card game stood out. The achievement was even more remarkable given that JC had minimal hands-on cloud experience before joining AWS Cloud Institute, a virtual training program that helps learners launch cloud development careers in as little as nine months. View the full article

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, containers have become the cornerstone of modern application deployment. As businesses increasingly adopt microservices architectures, the demand for robust, scalable, and secure container management solutions has never been higher. We’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024-25 Omdia Universe for Cloud Container Management & Services, which evaluates top vendors providing container management solutions hosted on public clouds. AWS has been named a Leader in this report, ranking first on the Capability axis and second on the Strategy & Execution / Customer Experie…

Amazon QuickSight launches dashboard versioning and the ability to publish any analysis to replace any dashboard to improve author productivity. Dashboard versioning enables authors to view and easily re-publish previously published versions of their dashboards as well as the notes on what updates were made by whom. Publishing any analysis to any dashboard means that authors don’t have to replace a dashboard with the analysis that it started from, but can use any other analysis in the account. With the launch of these two features, authors can build new analyses with updates and then publish them to the existing dashboard that readers already have bookmarked. Authors d…