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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…

Amazon Linux now brings a Graphical Desktop, a new kernel option with Linux kernel 6.12, an upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.2.2, and addition of new high demand packages on AL2023. AL2023.7 offers a modern, secure, and cloud-optimized desktop environment to Amazon Linux users. The new Graphical Desktop provides a lightweight interface designed for productivity and seamless AWS integration. The Graphical Desktop comes with GNOME 47 for a sleek UI experience. It includes other essential tools like a terminal emulator for improved CLI experience, an image viewer, a text editor, a file manager for file navigation, and Mozilla Firefox for secure web browsing. Additionally, yo…

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generatio…

Starting today, AWS Marketplace supports the Japan Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) rule, making it easier for Sellers to meet the Japanese regulatory requirements and providing a seamless tax experience for customers in Japan. Under the MPF rule, AWS Marketplace will collect the Japan consumption tax (JCT) and issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) for sales by non-Japan addressed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners (together as non-Japan addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. Also, AWS Marketplace will offer the same customer experience by enabling TQI issuance for sales by Japan-addressed ISVs and Channel Partners (together as Japan-addressed Sellers)…

Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in embedded dashboards and console. The Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight help business analysts and business users easily build and consume insights using natural language. With executive summaries, users of embedded dashboards can quickly grasp essential insights from any dashboard in seconds. Dashboard-authoring capabilities empower your users to build interactive dashboards more easily than ever, leveraging natural language to generate visuals and perform complex calculations with ease. With just a few lines of code, developers can integrate Generative BI capabilities into their applications by em…

AWS announces support for Amazon Redshift Serverless in AWS Backup, making it easier for you to centrally manage data protection of your Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse. You can now use AWS Backup to automate backup and restore of both Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster snapshots, along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and database. Using AWS Backup’s integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups across all your accounts, standardizing data protection across your organization. To get started with AWS Backup for Amazon Redshift Serverless, you can use the AWS Backup Manage…

Amazon QuickSight launches highlighting, a new interaction capability for analysis and dashboards. Highlighting allows authors and readers to emphasize and track specific data points across visuals, making it easier to compare data elements throughout a sheet and explore insights more effectively. With highlighting, simply select or hover over a data point in a visual, and related data across other visuals will stand out, while unrelated data is dimmed or greyed out. This seamless interaction helps users understand correlations, spot patterns, trends and outliers, facilitating faster and more informed analysis. Highlighting is now available in all supported Amazon Q…

Today, AWS End User Messaging launched self-service short code, and long code registration for 18 additional countries, helping developers to onboard to dedicated numbers which enables them to correctly configure SMS messaging for their applications. The new countries supported for long codes include Australia, Austria, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Hungary, and Portugal. The new countries supported for short codes include Chile, Finland, Germany, India, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Phone numbers and sender IDs act as an extension of a business's brand, and mobile carrier…

Now Amazon Connect makes it easy for supervisors to monitor agents’ adherence to their schedules in a calendar view. With this launch, supervisors can visualize adherence breaches by agent and day, for up to 90 days in the past alongside their shifts, including the ability to filter out minimal adherence breaches. This visualization allows supervisors to immediately spot adherence breaches across their team, prioritize the most critical incidents, compare with past agent behavior, and take steps to address concerns with the agent. For example, if a supervisor notices a pattern of agents consistently running late to work after breaks or lunches, they can investigate furthe…

AWS announces the general availability of VPC Route Server to simplify dynamic routing between virtual appliances in your Amazon VPC. Route Server allows you to advertise routing information through Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from virtual appliances and dynamically update the VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateway. Prior to this feature, you had to create custom scripts or use virtual routers with overlay network to dynamically update VPC route tables. VPC Route Server removes the operational overhead of creating and maintaining overlay networks or custom scripts and offers a managed solution for dynamically updating routes in route tables. Wi…

Amazon Connect now allows you to customize the number of seconds which the system will wait between a caller's keypad button presses so you can optimize user inputs in your Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Administrators can now adjust this waiting period from 1 to 20 seconds, which was previously fixed at 5 seconds. For example, in a banking IVR flow, you can now set a longer inter-digit timeout for account number entry benefitting customers who may need more time between pressing digits. Additionally, two existing settings, Maximum Digits and Timeout Before First Entry, can now be set dynamically using variables, giving administrators more flexibility in design…

Today, AWS App Studio announces two new capabilities that accelerate enterprise application building from idea to production. App Studio now offers a prebuilt solutions catalog and application Import and Export, enabling users to get started quickly and easily deploy applications across Regions and AWS accounts. App Studio's prebuilt solutions catalog offers a variety of ready-to-use applications and common patterns (like Amazon S3 and Amazon Bedrock integration) that can be seamlessly imported into any App Studio instance. Customers can explore and deploy these applications to their own instances, significantly reducing initial setup time and move from concept to prod…

AWS Payment Cryptography now supports exchanging cryptographic keys using Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH). With this new feature, customers now have a method to electronically exchange keys up to 256 bits in strength. These capabilities bring more flexibility in addition to existing support for industry norms such as TR-34 and TR-31/X9.143. With AWS Payment Cryptography, you can simplify cryptography operations in your cloud-hosted payment applications with a service that grows elastically with your business and has been assessed as compliant with PCI PIN Security and Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) requirements. While payment processing has traditionally relied …

Amazon Web Services Korea LLC (AWS Korea) is now facilitating AWS Marketplace transactions for customers with AWS accounts in South Korea. AWS Korea enhances the purchasing experience by automatically including applicable Value Added Tax (VAT) on invoices and allowing payments in Korean Won (KRW) for AWS Marketplace purchases. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners from South Korea are now eligible to sell software in AWS Marketplace. Customers can now directly procure software from South Korean ISVs, and can pay for purchases using wire transfers in either KRW or US Dollars (USD), or by using credit cards in KRW only. Purchases can also be made throu…

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 32 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon CloudFront. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: 1. apigateway:vpclinks 2. appconfig:application 3. appconfig:deploymentstrategy 4. backup:report-plan 5. ce:anomalymonitor 6. ce:anomalysubscription 7. cloudfront:continuous-deployment-policy 8. cloudtrail:channel 9. codedeploy:application 10. codedeploy:deploymentconfig 11. events:archive 12. events:endpoint 13. gamelift:location 14. groundstation:mission-profile 15.…

You can now create a Transfer Family web app in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These Regions are designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud if you have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. With this release, you can now create a Transfer Family web app with an option to enable a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 compliant endpoint in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and meet compliance requirements. 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 with a fully managed, branded, …

Amazon QuickSight launches support for threshold alerts and scheduling in embedded dashboards for registered users. Users viewing embedded QuickSight dashboards can now define data thresholds and receive email notifications when their data exceeds them. They can also view and manage alerts at anytime in embedded dashboard. QuickSight admins can customize how the alerts emails notification appear and behave for account users. QuickSight admins can personalize alert email notifications for account users, tailoring their appearance and behavior. They can customize the sender display name, logo, and footer in the email, as well as specify where the dashboard opens when recipi…

Organizations seeking to diversify their cloud talent pipeline have a unique opportunity through AWS re/Start and our collaborating organizations that support underrepresented groups, minorities, displaced individuals, young people, and more. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, our collaboration with Momentum—a Calgary-based community economic development organization—demonstrates how workforce development initiatives can help build a more inclusive tech industry while strengthening technical teams. In this post, you’ll learn about how AWS re/Start approaches developing cloud talent, how our graduates bring value to employers, and how your organization can participat…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to reference AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters and AWS Secrets Manager secrets in environment variables. This new integration provides developers with a native method for accessing data from these services in their application. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. With this integration, Elastic Beanstalk customers can now reference information stored in Secrets Manager and Parameter Store from their application. Developers can reference resources from these services directly in E…

AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to create and manage RAM resource shares in your accounts. The existing RAM endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The new dual-stack domains are available either from the internet or from within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. Support for IPv6 on AWS RAM is available in the AWS Commercial Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions. To get…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ATH1 data center near Athens, Greece. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location within Greece. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connectio…

Amazon S3 Tables expand availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. They 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 Lakehouse, as well as Apache Iceberg-compatible open source engines like Apache…

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 (for Apache Cassandra) supports Multi-Region Replication in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this expansion, customers can now replicate their Keyspaces data to and from the Cape Town Region, enabling lower-latency access for local users while maintaining a consistent view of data across their global infrastructure. Multi-Region Replication helps customers meet data residency requirements and improve application performance by automatically replicating data across…

The AWS IoT Device SDK team is introducing the Developer Preview for IoT Device SDK for Swift that enables developers to build Internet of Things (IoT) applications to run on Linux, macOS, iOS, and tvOS platforms. This SDK provides an idiomatic interface for iOS mobile developers to build their applications in the modern Swift language and to connect to AWS IoT services through MQTT protocol. With the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, the developers can now build more sophisticated IoT applications by leveraging the native Swift integration, and the MQTT version 5 advanced features to improve error handling, client load balancing and fault tolerance with Shared Subscription…

AWS Outposts now supports self-service capacity management that can be defined specifically for each individual asset. An Outpost asset can be a single server within an Outposts rack or an Outposts server. This makes it easy for customers to customize the allocation of capacity on Outposts at a more granular level. Outposts brings native AWS services, AWS infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility by providing the same services, tools, and partner solutions with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) on premises. Customers have evolving business requirements and often need to fine-tune their application…

AWS Glue now offers support for custom visual transforms and version control in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that uses reusable jobs to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks on data sets of nearly any scale. With version control, customers can use GitHub and AWS CodeCommit to maintain a history of changes to their AWS Glue jobs and apply their existing DevOps practices to deploy them. Previously, customers needed to set up their own integrations with their code versioning systems and build tooling to move jobs from development environments to production environments. Git integration in AWS Glue works for al…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. 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 deliver the best performanc…

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

Amazon API Gateway (APIGW) introduces dual-stack support for all endpoint types, custom domains and APIGW management APIs. You can now configure your REST, HTTP or WebSocket APIs as well as custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call APIGW management APIs from dual-stack clients. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 environments, without needing to switch all over at once. This enables you to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and avoid IPv4 address constraints. There is no additional charge for this support. This support is now ava…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now lets you enable or disable sentiment analysis. This provides organizations with control over sentiment analysis, particularly for those needing to meet compliance obligations, while maintaining access to other Contact Lens conversational analytics capabilities including transcripts, generative AI summaries, and other conversational insights. For example, you may want to enable sentiment analysis to track customer brand perception and disable sentiment analysis for contacts coming to an internal company complaints line. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect Contact Lens is available. To learn more, please visit our …

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports conversational analytics in 34 new languages including Afrikaans, Arabic (Modern Standard), Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese), Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Kannada, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sundanese, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Zulu. Additionally, 21 languages that were previously available for post-call analytics are now available for real-time analytics, including Arabic (Gulf), Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English (India), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), E…

AWS has enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for card registration in Japan to enhance payment security. Customers will need to perform MFA when registering new cards at sign-up or the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. MFA provides an extra layer of security during card registration, helping protect customers against credit card fraud. This implementation supports all major card networks including: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club, China UnionPay, and JCB. The authentication process uses 3D-Secure technology, which is the global standard for card payment security, ensuring safe and secure card registration for our customers. When adding or…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in two additional regions, Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). With this launch, you can summarize long customer conversations into succinct, coherent, and context rich contact summaries (e.g., “The customer didn’t receive a reimbursement for a last minute flight cancellation and the agent didn’t offer a partial reimbursement as per the SOP”). This allows agents to focus on customer interactions by eliminating the need for to take after-call notes manually. Additionally, supervisors get faster insights when reviewing contacts, saving time on quality and compliance reviews, and m…

The next generation of SageMaker brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities, delivering an integrated experience with unified access to all data. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse supports unified data access, and Amazon SageMaker Catalog, built on Amazon DataZone, offers catalog and governance features to meet enterprise security needs. Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports metadata rules allowing organizations to enforce metadata standards across data publishing and subscription workflows. A rule is a formal agreement that enforces specific metadata requirements across user workflows (e.g., publishing assets to the catalog, requesting data…

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces a new dual-stack public endpoint, enabling customers to connect to IAM over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. Dual-stack support is also available when customers access the new IAM endpoint privately from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on IAM endpoint, customers can gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6-based systems and applications. Support for dual-stack IAM endpoint is available in all commercial AWS Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions. For more information about IAM dual-s…

Amazon EC2 now supports up to the full EC2 instance bandwidth for inter-region VPC peering traffic and to AWS Direct Connect. Additionally, EC2 supports jumbo frames up to 8500 Bytes for cross region VPC peering. Before today, the egress bandwidth for EC2 instances was limited to 50% of the aggregate bandwidth limit for instances with 32 or more vCPUs, and 5 Gbps for smaller instances. Cross region peering supported up to 1500 bytes. Now, customers can send bandwidth from EC2 between regions or towards AWS Direct Connect at the full instance baseline specification or 5Gbps, whichever is greater and customers can use jumbo frames across regions for peered VPCs. Customer…

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Amazon DataZone now supports metadata rules for data publishing workflows, in addition to existing support for subscription workflows. This enhancement allows organizations to enforce metadata standards consistently across both producer and consumer workflows. By standardizing metadata practices, organizations can improve compliance, enhance audit readiness, and streamline workflows for greater efficiency and control. With metadata rules, domain owners can define mandatory metada…

The next generation of SageMaker brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities, delivering an integrated experience with unified access to all data. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse supports unified data access, and Amazon SageMaker Catalog, built on Amazon DataZone, offers catalog and governance features to meet enterprise security needs. Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports metadata rules, allowing organizations to enforce metadata standards across data publishing and subscription workflows. By standardizing metadata practices, organizations can improve compliance, enhance audit readiness, and streamline access workflows for greater effici…

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. The Amazon ElastiCache API supports AWS PrivateLink in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon ElastiCache, you create an interface VPC endpoint for Amazon ElastiCache in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. With an interface VPC endpoint, you can privately access the Amazon ElastiCache…

You can now use Amazon EBS gp3 and io1 volumes in AWS Dedicated Local Zones. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that are fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help you comply with regulatory requirements. In Dedicated Local Zones, these volumes are purpose-built to store data in a specific data perimeter, helping to support your data isolation and data residency use cases. The latest generation of General Purpose SSD volumes (gp3) enable customers to provision performance independently of storage capacity, providing up to 20% lower price point per GB than e…

AWS CodeBuild now supports an enhanced S3 caching experience. You can now define custom cache keys for more granular cache management and improved cache persistence across your builds. You can also share the cache keys across projects to use a common dependency cache to speed up your builds. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Additionally, CodeBuild added support for fallback keys, which allows partial matches when an exact cache key is not found. This capability enables efficient caching sharing between similar builds, such as builds with common dep…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS US West (N. California) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. 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 deliver the best perfo…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance…

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Mexico (Central). 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 build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Thailand). 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

AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Ruby 3.4. Developers can use Ruby 3.4 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. Ruby 3.4 is the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Ruby and is expected to be supported for security and bug fixes until March 2028. In addition to providing access to the latest Ruby language features, the Lambda Runtime for Ruby 3.4 uses an updated runtime interface client, the package used to integrate your function code with the Lambda service. This updated client has been released as open source on Git…

Amazon GameLift Servers now supports Amazon EC2 5th through 8th generation instances, offering enhanced price-performance, efficiency, and flexibility for game server hosting. This update allows developers to leverage the latest advancements in EC2 compute, memory, and networking across three main instance families: General Purpose (M-series): Balanced CPU, memory, and networking for a wide range of game workloads. Compute Optimized (C-series): High-performance compute instances with a 2:1 memory ratio, ideal for CPU-intensive game servers. Memory Optimized (R-Series): Optimized for high-memory workloads with an 8:1 memory ratio, supporting complex simulations an…

AWS Network Manager and AWS Cloud WAN now support AWS PrivateLink and IPv6 based connectivity to the management endpoint of these services. Using PrivateLink, customers can now access AWS Network Manager or AWS Cloud WAN privately on the AWS network, without going through the public Internet. Additionally, customers can now access these services over IPv6 using dual-stack endpoints. With AWS Cloud WAN, you can use a central dashboard and network policies to create a global network that spans multiple locations and networks, allowing you to configure and manage different networks using the same technology. The Cloud WAN central dashboard, powered by AWS Network Manager,…

Today, AWS announces new features for AWS Network Firewall: The ability to generate alerts on traffic that matches pass action rules and JA4 fingerprinting support in firewall rules. AWS Network Firewall is a stateful, managed, network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service for your virtual private cloud (VPC). These new capabilities enhance the security and visibility of your network traffic, allowing for more granular control and improved threat detection. The ability to generate alert log events on traffic that matches pass action rules provides enhanced visibility into your network traffic without a need to add an alert action rule before the pass …

Today, we are excited to announce a set of improvements to the seller management experience for Machine Learning (ML) products in AWS Marketplace. Sellers can now quickly publish and update ML listings with a new self-service experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. Additionally, sellers can now create, view, and manage private offers for ML products through a guided step-by-step process in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, making it easier for them to extend custom pricing terms to their customers. To help improve operational efficiency, sellers can now utilize AWS Marketplace Catalog APIs to automate creating and updating ML product listings and private…