Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for Go to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the Go programming language. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt data based on industry standards and best practices. The AWS Encryption SDK is available in multiple languages and all implementations of the SDK are interoperable, allowing you to encrypt data in one programming language and decrypt it with any other. The AWS Encryption SDK is developed under open source projects on GitHub where you c…

AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar's "Action details" button. This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in a side panel. This streamlined layout allows you to easily monitor the pipeline process and quickly debug action failures. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where CodePipeline is supported, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. For more informatio…

Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account. Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one accou…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now allow you to define widget level filters and groupings, re-order and re-size columns, and delete or add new metrics. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, you can further customize specific widgets to create dashboards that best fit your business needs. For example, you can create a single line chart that combines contacts queued, average queue answer time, and abandoned contacts, filtered for your most important queues, so you can quickly see how in…

AWS announces the general availability of two new larger sizes (12xlarge and 16xlarge) on Amazon EC2 Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, that are available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Flex instances are the easiest way to get price performance benefits and lower prices for a majority of compute-intensive and general-pur…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard that lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a contact, or change an agent state in a few clicks from a single interface. With this dashboard, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, you can track how long an agent has been on after contact work, color code time in specific statuses, and listen into live contacts that need immediate attention. For example, you can automatically highlig…

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. You can now use this additional Region to continuously monitor and detect anomalous behavior, security threats, and sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences targeting your AWS accounts to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Tens of thousands of customers across many industries and geographies use GuardDuty. GuardDuty can identify unusual or unauthorized activity like cryptocurrency mining, access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from unusual locations, or unauthorized access to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. GuardDuty Malware …

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. 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 …

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 29 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon FSx, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Glue. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: acm:certificate codepipeline:webhook comprehend:document-classifier comprehend:entity-recognizer databrew:job databrew:project dataexchange:data-sets dms:es dms:subgrp elasticmapreduce:cluster emr-containers:virtualclusters frauddetector:external-model frauddetector:model fsx:file-system glacier:vaults glue:crawler greengrass:connectorsDefinition greengrass:coresDefinition …

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I8g instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networki…

As organizations deploy Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters across multiple use cases, the manual management of topic configurations can be challenging. This can lead to several issues: Inefficiency – Manual configuration is time-consuming and error-prone, especially for large deployments. Maintaining consistency across multiple configurations can be difficult. To avoid this, Kafka administrators often set the create.topics.enable property on brokers, which leads to cluster operation inefficiency. Human error – Manual configuration increases the risk of mistakes that can disrupt data flow and impact applications relying on Amazon MSK. …

Today, AWS Partner Central announces the general availability of Partner Connections, which allows AWS Partners to discover and connect with other Partners for collaboration on shared customer opportunities. With Partner Connections, Partners can co-sell joint solutions, accelerate deal progression, and expand their reach by teaming with other AWS Partners. At the core of Partner Connections are two key capabilities: connections discovery and multi-partner opportunities. The connections discovery feature uses AI-powered recommendations to streamline Partner matchmaking, making it easier for Partners to find suitable collaborators and add them to their network. With mul…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is expanding its Spot allocation strategy options to include capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price and price-capacity-optimized, in addition to the existing default capacity-optimized strategy. 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. Customers can now enjoy additional allocation strategy options for Spot instances on Elastic Beanstalk such as capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price, and price-capacity-optimized strategies. The capacity-optimized-prioritized strategy allows users to prioritize instance ty…

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their ElastiCache service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their ElastiCache quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Customers will also benefit from visibility into quota usage for all on-boarded quotas via Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics, …

Today, Amazon MSK announced the availability of four additional instance sizes of Graviton3-based M7g instances for Express Brokers. With this launch, you now have seven different instance sizes to choose from to host Express Brokers in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), ranging from large to 16xlarge. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latenc…

Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their MemoryDB service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their MemoryDB quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Service Quotas for MemoryDB is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where MemoryDB is available. …

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions with immutable recovery points and vaults, and restore your data in the event of a data loss incident. You can get started with AWS Backup using the AWS Backup console, SDKs, or CLI by creating a data protection policy and then assigning AWS resources to it us…

Today's launch extends the abilities of Amazon Q Developer to access CloudZero's cloud cost optimization platform without leaving the AWS Management Console. Administrators on the Q Developer Pro Tier can enable the new CloudZero plugin in the AWS Management Console by configuring the credentials to access these third party services. Builders can now easily get cost insights, billing information and learn more about CloudZero directly in the console using Q Developer. For example, customers can ask about insights and cost information using natural language by asking “@cloudzero list my top cost insights”. When working with Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Consol…

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 36 additional AWS services including AWS End User Messaging and Amazon Q Apps, an Amazon Q Business capability. You can leverage our breadth and depth of services in your workflow, 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 36 newly added services…

AWS announces GeneralPurpose.4xlarge and GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core, providing customers with powerful cloud desktops for resource-intensive Windows workloads. GeneralPurpose.4xlarge bundles offer 16vCPUs and 64 GB RAM, while GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles provide 32vCPUs and 128 GB RAM. Both bundles include a 175GB root volume and a 100GB user volume and are available on WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. These new large bundles are designed to allow developers, scientists, financial analysts, and engineers to run demanding applications with ease. Developers can handle large compilation and developmen…

The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool is now available on a dedicated page in the AWS Billing console, under Cost and Usage Analysis. It is no longer in the Cost and Usage Reports page, as this page is being deprecated. The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool supports customers on their sustainability journey. When signed into the AWS Billing console, customers can view their carbon emissions data for the past 36 months by geographical location and by AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). All other services are reported as Other. They can also measure changes in their carbon footprint over time, as they deploy new re…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for application…

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you filter which logs you want to capture. You can choose specific log types like Ad Server Interactions or individual events like Ad Server Responses, helping reduce costs and complexity by only collecting the data you need. To enable this feature, you add filtering parameters to your session requests to customize logging for each playback session. Please see the MediaTailor User Guide for further details. Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more about MediaTailor, please visit the product page. View the full article

AWS Marketplace now supports the collection of Swiss Value Added Tax (VAT) on sales by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to customers located in Switzerland. This allows ISVs registered for Swiss VAT to simplify and streamline their tax operations on AWS Marketplace in Switzerland. In addition, AWS Marketplace now supports Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland, a new feature that enables ISVs to associate multiple VAT registrations with a single seller account. These features make it easier for global ISVs to do business in Switzerland by simplifying their tax management. With this launch, ISVs will no longer be required to manually manage the Swiss VAT for their sal…

Today, AWS is announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager support for cross-account, cross-Region reports in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and recovery activities. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on th…

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availabil…

This post is co-written by Dr. Leonard Heilig and Meliena Zlotos from EUROGATE. For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Internally, making data accessible and fostering cross-departmental processing through advanced analytics and data science enhances information use and decision-making, leading to better resource allocation, reduced bottlenecks, and improved operational performance. Externally, sharing real-time data with partners such as shipping lines, trucking companies, and customs agencies fosters better coordination, visibility, and faster dec…

This blog discusses the AWS services and tools that can help improve model performance and outcomes with relevance to AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer-Associate (MLA-C01) certification. You can automate performance tracking, anomaly detection, and real-time debugging using these tools. Read through this blog to ensure the model remains accurate, reliable, and aligned with business goals, even in dynamic environments. AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer-Associate (MLA-C01) overview Launched in June 2024, the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer-Associate (MLA-C01) exam, is one of the newest AWS certifications that aligns with the evolving needs of the indus…

This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) offering on AWS, the challenges we faced and how these obstacles were overcome. We provide insights into the AWS architecture and design approach. webMethods iPaaS, part of the IBM portfolio, enables businesses globally to remove connectivity barriers…

This post is cowritten by Ishan Gupta, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Juicebox. Juicebox is an AI-powered talent sourcing search engine, using advanced natural language models to help recruiters identify the best candidates from a vast dataset of over 800 million profiles. At the core of this functionality is Amazon OpenSearch Service, which provides the backbone for Juicebox’s powerful search infrastructure, enabling a seamless combination of traditional full-text search methods with modern, cutting-edge semantic search capabilities. In this post, we share how Juicebox uses OpenSearch Service for improved search. Challenges in recruiting search Recruitin…

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

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MX1, Querétaro, Mexico data center near Mexico City. 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 second AWS Direct Connect location within Mexico. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing KIO Networks data center in Querétaro, Mexico. The Direct Connect service enables y…

Amazon EC2 Image Builder now supports direct conversion of Microsoft Windows ISO files to Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), streamlining the process of using your own Windows AMIs. This also simplifies the process of leveraging your existing Windows licenses (BYOL) with Amazon WorkSpaces. The existing process for converting Windows ISO files into AMIs involves time-consuming manual steps and familiarity with multiple tools, increasing operational overhead. EC2 Image Builder now enables you to seamlessly import your Windows ISO files. This enhancement simplifies the workflow for Windows 11 ISO to AMI conversion and reduces time and complexity in creating custom Windows AMIs…

TVS Supply Chain Solutions (TVS SCS), promoted by the erstwhile TVS Group and now part of the $3 billion TVS Mobility Group, is an India-based multinational company who pioneered the development of the supply chain solutions market in India. For the last 2 decades, it has provided supply chain management services to customers in the automotive, consumer goods, defense, and utility sectors in India, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US. It has a presence in 26 countries with over 17,000 employees and provides services to 78 global Fortune 500 companies. The company went public in 2023. To meet its customers’ compliance requirements, TVS SCS sought a reliable file tra…

Organizations constantly work to process and analyze vast volumes of data to derive actionable insights. Effective data ingestion and search capabilities have become essential for use cases like log analytics, application search, and enterprise search. These use cases demand a robust pipeline that can handle high data volumes and enable efficient data exploration. Apache Spark, an open source powerhouse for large-scale data processing, is widely recognized for its speed, scalability, and ease of use. Its ability to process and transform massive datasets has made it an indispensable tool in modern data engineering. Amazon OpenSearch Service—a community-driven search and …

In addition to the currencies already supported, AWS US customers can choose to pay in Chilean Peso (CLP), Colombian Peso (COP), and Uruguayan Peso (UYU). Similarly, AWS Europe customers can pay in Egyptian Pound (EGP), Nigerian Naira (NGN), Polish Zloty (PLN), Romanian Leu (RON), Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH). Local currencies are important in localizing the payment experience for customers. With payments in their local currencies, customers can avoid foreign exchange costs associated making foreign currency payments. Also, it removes payment friction for customers in countries where local regulations put limits on the foreign currency amount a customer can access. Log i…

Amazon MSK Connect (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect) now supports updating connector configuration of existing connectors. With this launch, you can change the configuration of your connector using a single, UpdateConnector API call. You can make changes to your connector settings, such as updating source or sink destinations, or processing configurations. Amazon MSK Connect allows you to deploy and operate Apache Kafka Connect connectors in a fully managed environment. You can modify the connector configuration parameters of your existing connector when you have changes in your source or sink settings such as source database tables or topics to deliv…

AWS Security Hub now supports Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, allowing you to receive security findings for DNS queries made from your Amazon VPCs for domains suspected as malicious or identified as low-reputation. Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is a managed firewall that enables you to block DNS queries made for malicious domains and to allow queries for trusted domains. Today, AWS Security Hub gives you a comprehensive view of your security alerts and compliance status across your AWS accounts. This integration allows you to enable three new finding types for Security Hub. You can now receive security findings for queries blocked or alerted on for domains asso…

As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune — with each ingredient representing the diversity and abundance of life. This traditional practice dates back to when Buddha achieved enlightenment after consuming rice porridge, making it a symbol of both material and spiritual nourishment. The festival, occurring on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, marks the…

You can now evaluate agent performance on emails in Amazon Connect, enabling managers to assess agent performance across contact channels (voice, chat, email, and tasks) in a single easy-to-use web interface, and get aggregated insights across cohorts of agents over time. With this launch, managers can evaluate agent performance by reviewing email threads and additional details of the email interaction (e.g., handle time) in a single UI. Contact centers can also use public APIs to incorporate data from third-party systems (e.g., CSAT, sales volumes, customer retention, etc.) into performance evaluations of email contacts, providing managers with comprehensive insights on …

Today, AWS End User Messaging launched self-service Sender ID registrations for 19 additional countries, helping developers correctly configure SMS messaging for their applications. The new countries include Australia, Belarus, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Zambia. Phone numbers and sender IDs act as an extension of a business's brand, and mobile carriers and governments worldwide have implemented SMS registrations as a form of "know your customer" check to protect end-users from unwanted and spam messages. By registering, a…

AWS CodeBuild has expanded its batch build capabilities to include support for reserved capacity fleets and Lambda compute. This enhancement allows you to select a mix of on-demand instances, reserved capacity fleets, or Lambda compute resources for your build batches. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Batch builds in CodeBuild enable the simultaneous execution of multiple, coordinated builds within a project. This feature is particularly beneficial for developers working on multi-platform projects or those with interdependent build processes. You c…

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB Innovation Release 11.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. You can deploy MariaDB 11.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MariaDB 11.7 is the latest Innovation Release from the MariaDB community, and includes support for vector datatype, indexing, and search capabilities. MariaDB Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next Innovation release, whereas MariaDB Long Term Maintenance Releases,…

AWS Marketplace launched email notification and Amazon EventBridge event that informs AWS Marketplace selling partners, including ISVs and Channel Partners, when their disbursements have been paused due to invalid bank account information. With this launch, selling partners can be alerted to these events and take immediate action to update their banking details so they receive their disbursements promptly. Until now, AWS Marketplace selling partners had to check disbursement status in Insights tab in AMMP. With this release, disbursement paused events that are caused by invalid bank accounts will be sent to Amazon EventBridge and AWS Marketplace sellers can subscribe t…

AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups with scaling policies and multiple instance types. With the new recommendations, you can take actions to optimize cost and performance of these groups without requiring specialized knowledge or engineering resources to analyze them. Compute Optimizer analyzes EC2 Auto Scaling groups' scaling policies, instance configurations, and utilization metrics to understand their usage patterns and identify opportunities for cost and performance optimization. For EC2 Auto Scaling groups using multiple instance types, Compute Optimizer helps identify the most cost-efficient ins…

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg, we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. In this post, we focus on data management implementation options such as accessing data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), using popular data formats like Parquet, or using open table formats like Iceberg. Our experiments are based on real-world historical full order book data, provided by our partner CryptoStruct, and compare the trade-offs between these choices, focusing on performance, cost, and quant developer productivity. Data management is the foundation of quantitative res…

The rise of generative AI applications has heightened the necessity to implement semantic search and natural language search. These advanced search features help find and retrieve conceptually relevant documents from enterprise content repositories to serve as prompts for generative AI models. Raw data within various source repositories in the form of text, images, audio, video, and so on are converted, with the help of embedding models, to a standard numerical representation called vectors that powers the semantic and natural language search. As organizations harness more sophisticated large language and foundational models to power their generative AI applications, supp…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. 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 general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-ba…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in New York City, supporting a wide range of workloads at the edge. This new Local Zone offers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, R7i, M6i, and M6in instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect, and the microsecond-accurate time of Amazon Time Sync in this new Local Zone to support your workloads at the edge. Local Zones are an AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, stor…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. C7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are a great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (me…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides free trials for first-time users of conversational analytics and performance evaluations. New conversational analytics for voice customers will receive a free trial with no charge for the first 100,000 voice minutes per month for the first two months. In addition, customers using Contact Lens performance evaluations for the first time will receive a 30-day free trial, that begins the day that they submit their first performance evaluation. The free trials will enable first-time customers to pilot Contact Lens conversational analytics and evaluations in their environment without incurring additional costs. With this launch, the n…

Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio Code Editor. SageMaker Studio customers now get generative AI assistance powered by Q Developer right within their Code Editor (Visual Studio Code – Open Source) IDE. With Q Developer, data scientists and ML engineers can access expert guidance on SageMaker features, code generation, and troubleshooting. This allows for more productivity by eliminating the need for tedious online searches and documentation review, and ensuring more time delivering differentiated business value. Data scientists and ML engineers using Code Editor in Sag…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse Bangkok, Thailand data center. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Bangkok 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 second AWS Direct Connect location within Thailand. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing TCC, Bangkok Direct Connect location. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a …

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK Connect APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your MSK Clusters and your Amazon MSK Connect connectors is private, and your data never traverses the internet. Similar to AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon MSK APIs, this launch enables clients to invoke MSK Connect APIs via a private endpoint. This allows client applications with strict security requirements to perform MSK Connect specific actions such as creating connectors fro…

AWS announces general availability of 20 additional AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook recommendations as contextual action buttons on event notifications in AWS Chatbot. This launch enables customers to run AWS Systems Manager automations from Microsoft Teams and Slack channels to address AWS Security Hub and Amazon ECS-related events. With this launch, customers can run AWS Systems Manager automations to resolve issues when they receive AWS Security Hub and Amazon ECS event notifications in chat channels. AWS Chatbot displays contextual action buttons on Security Hub and ECS event notifications and customers can click on them to run automations to resolve the fin…

Amazon DynamoDB now supports a configurable period for point-in-time-recovery (PITR). You can specify the duration for data recoverability using PITR on a per-table basis, ranging from 1 to 35 days. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) protects your DynamoDB data from accidental writes and deletes, allowing you to restore your data to any second within your recovery period. With this launch, a configurable backup recovery period can help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements that necessitate shorter data recovery periods. Point-in-time-recovery is now configurable in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. You pay base…

Quick and reliable access to information is crucial for making smart business decisions. That’s why companies are turning to Amazon OpenSearch Service to power their search and analytics capabilities. OpenSearch Service makes it straightforward to deploy, operate, and scale search systems in the cloud, enabling use cases like log analysis, application monitoring, and website search. Efficiently managing OpenSearch Service indexes and cluster resources can lead to significant improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability – all of which directly impact a company’s bottom line. However, the industry lacks built-in and well-documented solutions to automate these…

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to stay ahead of the competition. If you’re thinking about a career in this field, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a clear certification path that can help you grow your skills, starting from the basics and building up to advanced AI/ML expertise. I intend to walk you through AWS’s AI/ML certification path—from the AWS Certified AI Practitioner to the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate certification to the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty—and share some resources that will help you in your journey. Step 1: AWS Certified AI Practitioner (…

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) provides valuable insights into user behavior across websites and apps. But what if you need to combine GA4 data with other sources or perform deeper analysis? That’s where Amazon Redshift and Amazon AppFlow come in. Amazon AppFlow bridges the gap between Google applications and Amazon Redshift, empowering organizations to unlock deeper insights and drive data-informed decisions. In this post, we show you how to establish the data ingestion pipeline between Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, and an Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroup. Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that you can use to securely transfer data from software …

Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, and beyond: The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven A new era of energy efficiency drives innovation Technology tips the scales in the discovery of truth Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness Intention-driven consumer technology takes hold Download the Werner Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond ebook, or read Werner’s All Things Distributed blog to learn m…

This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS). The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting for environmental sustainability doesn’t have to mean sacrificing functionality or higher bills. In this blog post, we provide guidance on how to build and run your container images using less storage and fewer compute resources. You will find that you don’t need to remove features or strip functi…

AWS WAF’s console dashboard now includes richer visualizations that give you insights into the top sources of traffic. With this feature, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations can view a new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard. Customers previously used the all traffic dashboard, a default dashboard that populates visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. As customers strive to continue gaining additional visibility into their traffic, they have requested richer visualizations based on logs in addition to visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. Starting today, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations will have access to this new t…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression). To learn …

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for c…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more abou…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service. To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visi…

This blog presents how the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02) exam tests your ability to design, develop, and implement fault-tolerant and reliable architecture. To become an AWS solution architect, you must understand the AWS reliability design principles, advanced concepts about designing distributed systems, and other best practices for creating resilient fault-tolerant systems. Fault tolerance in SAP-C02 Exam Domain Fault tolerance is the ability to withstand subsystem failure and maintain availability, without impacting AWS service-level agreement (SLA). The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) exam covers fault toleranc…

AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS) customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack domains, while discovering on-premises server inventory as part of a cloud migration. The existing ADS endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain for backwards compatibility. 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. The new dual-stack domains is available either fr…

Rental and lease agreements can be a complex and time-consuming process for property management companies and landlords. The agreements contain legal language, varied formatting, and diverse terms and conditions based on state and local regulations. Landlord-tenant laws vary significantly across the country, with each state having its own set of regulations. For example, California’s landlord-tenant law spans over 100 pages in the state’s Civil Code. Manually extracting and processing the key details from lease documents is inefficient and error prone. In 2023, there were approximately 45 million rental units managed by over 310,000 property management companies in the US…

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Location Service in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon Location Service is a location-based service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, search places and geocodes, plan routes, and enable device tracking and geofencing capabilities into their applications. With Amazon Location Service, developers can start a new location project or migrate existing mapping service workloads to benefit from cost reduction, privacy protection, and ease of integration with other AWS services. With this launch, Amazon Location Service is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East…

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22. Please note, this release supports the versions released by the PostgreSQL community on November 21,2024 and not the previous November 14,2024 release. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific security and feature improvements such as improved read replica upgrades for reduced downtime, new features for Babelfish and improved Global Database cross-region resiliency for better read availability during unplanned events. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 12 standard support en…

AWS Secrets Manager now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), Dualstack compatibility for Virtual Private Cloud through AWS PrivateLink. With this, Secrets Manager is now fully compatible for IPv6 connectivity in all commercial regions via PrivateLink networking. IPv6 addresses global increase in the demand for internet connected devices, without the need for NAT and is largely scalable. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on Secrets Manager endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. This also enables you to meet IPv6 compliance requirements. W…

Amazon Web Services is announcing starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I7ie instances are now available in AWS US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) regions. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generat…

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now lets you programmatically access availability of Kubernetes versions. This simplifies how you can discover and select available versions before creating or upgrading clusters. Kubernetes evolves rapidly, introducing three minor version releases each year with new features, design updates, and bug fixes. EKS provides standard support for each minor version for 14 months after release. After standard support ends, the version enters a 12-month extended support period. EKS stops supporting Kubernetes versions 26 months after their release. With this launch, you can now programmatically retrieve Kubernetes version metadata, inclu…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Im4gn Instances are available in Europe (Spain) region. Im4gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. They feature up to 30TB of instance storage with the 2nd Generation AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom-designed by AWS to maximize the storage performance of I/O intensive workloads such as SQL/NoSQL databases, search engines, distributed file systems and data analytics which continuously read and write from the SSDs in a sustained manner. AWS Nitro SSDs enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability in Im4gn instances compared to the third generation of storage optimized ins…

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) announces registry policy v2 which now supports managing IAM permissions for all ECR API actions. This new registry policy makes it easier for customers to control usage of ECR capabilities within their accounts. ECR registry policy allows customers to control usage of ECR private registries by granting permissions to perform registry-level actions to an AWS IAM principal. Registry policy version 1 (v1), only supported three actions: ReplicateImage, BatchImportUpstreamImage, and CreateRepository. Now, the new registry policy version 2 (v2) supports every ECR action. Using registry policy v2 makes it easier for custo…

AWS customers can now access the Llama 3.3 70B model from Meta through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Llama 3.3 70B model balances high performance with computational efficiency. It also delivers output quality comparable to larger Llama versions while requiring significantly fewer resources, making it an excellent choice for cost-effective AI deployments. Llama 3.3 70B features an enhanced attention mechanism that substantially reduces inference costs. Trained on approximately 15 trillion tokens, including web-sourced content and synthetic examples, the model underwent extensive supervised fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). This approa…

Introduction In 2020, AWS announced Bottlerocket, an open source, container-optimized Linux distribution designed for hosting containers. Each Bottlerocket image, known as a variant, is specialized for a specific combination of container orchestrator and cloud environment. Bottlerocket variants are provided to users as a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMI), currently optimized for either Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), with an associated stream of images for in-place updates. To learn more about benefits of using Bottlerocket, refer to documentation. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) is a set …

Amazon Bedrock Agents, Flows, and Knowledge Bases now offers support for the recently announced, in-preview, latency-optimized models via the SDK. This enhancement brings faster response times and improved responsiveness to AI applications built with Amazon Bedrock Tooling. Currently, this optimization is available for Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku model and Meta's Llama 3.1 405B and 70B models, delivering reduced latency compared to standard models without compromising accuracy. This update is particularly beneficial for customers developing latency-sensitive applications such as real-time customer service chatbots and interactive coding assistants. By leveraging purpo…

Amazon Lightsail API endpoints now support the IPv6 protocol, allowing you to connect over IPv6. To use this new capability, point your applications to use Amazon Lightsail’s new dual-stack endpoints. When you make a request to a dual-stack endpoint, the endpoint URL resolves to an IPv6 or an IPv4 address, depending on the protocol used by your network and client. Public IPv4 addresses are being exhausted with the growth of the Internet. Earlier this year, Lightsail launched IPv6-only instance plans to support IPv6 adoption. With the introduction of dual-stack Lightsail API endpoints, you can now make requests to the Lightsail API from your Lightsail IPv6-only instance…

You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances or upgrade your existing x-86 based based M5 or T3 instances and replace them with AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances with a single click of a button in the Europe (Paris) AWS Region. AWS Graviton3 processor based M7G instances on Amazon MSK provisioned clusters allows you to achieve up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances. Additionally, these instances lower energy consumption by up to 60% than comparable instances, making your Kafka clusters…

SES Mail Manager now offers end to end logging for ingress endpoints and rules engine actions. Customers have the ability to configure a wide range of monitoring options to the three standard logging destinations: CloudWatch, S3, and Firehose. Mail Manager by design interoperates with external systems on both incoming and outgoing email flows. Customers expect to use it to gain visibility on email volumes as well as to troubleshoot configuration problems at every step in the email delivery paths. These new logging features enable both ad hoc investigations and automated alarming via standard CloudWatch tooling, ensuring that the overall integrity of Mail Manager config…

AWS has launched new Guides on AWS Partner Central providing detailed resources with step-by-step guidance on AWS Partner Network and Marketplace topics. The new guides provide introductory and advanced resources for every stage of your AWS journey, giving you the guidance you need to move up and across the AWS Partner Profitability Framework. In addition, guides provide enablement materials for Managed Service Provider, Solution Provider and ISV Accelerate Program, guidance on using AWS Co-sell Experience (ACE) and AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), and information on key topics, such as Generative AI and migration and modernization. These improvements provide Partners w…

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

Amazon Connect now offers the ability to exclude certain proficiencies from consideration when using routing criteria for routing. You can use this to exclude or reserve niche skills. For example, you can exclude dual-skilled Spanish and English speaking agents from English language contacts to reserve them for contacts in Spanish. You can include the dual-skilled agents when required by removing the exclusion condition. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about routing criteria, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Ama…

Amazon Connect now offers the ability to target a range of agent proficiency levels, such as from levels 1 to 3 for French. You can ensure each contact is matched to an agent with the right skill level to handle it, resulting in reduced contact transfers and lower handle times. You can assign simpler contacts to new hires while reserving your tenured agents for the difficult contacts that require their knowledge and expertise. This feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about routing criteria, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit t…

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.21, introducing support for AWS Trainium2 chips and Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances, including the trn2.48xlarge instance type and Trn2 UltraServer. This release also adds support for PyTorch 2.5 and introduces NxD Inference and Neuron Profiler 2.0 (beta). NxD Inference, is a new PyTorch-based library integrated with vLLM, simplifies the deployment of large language and multi-modality models and enables PyTorch model onboarding with minimal code changes, and Neuron Profiler 2.0 (beta), is new profiler that enhances capabilities and usability, including support for distributed workloads. Neuron 2.21 also introduces Llama 3.1 405B m…

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of notification actions in the AWS Console Mobile Application for iOS. Notification action buttons are displayed on the notification details screen when you receive a push notification from AWS User Notifications on your mobile device. AWS customers can take actions like view logs, start, stop, or reboot an EC2 instance on an event notification to shorten incident response diagnosis and resolution times. With notification actions, you can quickly run common DevOps tasks based on your IAM permissions using notification action buttons. Notification actions are displayed automatically on notifications…

AWS Systems Manager for SAP includes capabilities to now support registration of SAP NetWeaver ABAP-based applications, deployed in distributed and Highly Available (HA) topologies. This enhancement covers a wide range of applications, including S/4HANA and BW/4HANA, and extends support to additional application servers and web dispatcher components. With this launch, customers can automate start and stop operations for ABAP based SAP applications running on distributed and HA architectures. This new functionality simplifies the management of complex SAP landscapes, improves operational efficiency through automation, and provides enhanced support for high-availability con…

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics, now offers customers the option to collect metrics from an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in a dual stack VPC setup. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. 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 now use the managed service to collect IPv6 Prometheus metrics endpoints in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cl…

Real-time data streaming and event processing are critical components of modern distributed systems architectures. Apache Kafka has emerged as a leading platform for building real-time data pipelines and enabling asynchronous communication between microservices and applications. However, running and managing Kafka clusters at scale can be challenging, requiring specialized expertise and significant operational overhead. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that allows you to build and run production Kafka applications. With Amazon MSK, you can rely on AWS to handle the heavy lifting of provisioning and managing Kafka clusters…

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces new enhancements to upgrade insights, a feature that surfaces cluster configuration issues that may impact your ability to successfully upgrade a cluster to a newer version of Kubernetes. With these new enhancements, EKS upgrade insights will scan and warn on cluster health and version compatibility issues between different Kubernetes and EKS components such as kubelet, kube-proxy and EKS add-ons. Kubernetes is a fast-paced, evolving open source project with 3 releases per year, making upgrades a routine part of running Kubernetes clusters. EKS upgrade insights automatically scan clusters against a list of potent…

Amazon Q data integration, introduced in January 2024, allows you to use natural language to author extract, transform, load (ETL) jobs and operations in AWS Glue specific data abstraction DynamicFrame. This post introduces exciting new capabilities for Amazon Q data integration that work together to make ETL development more efficient and intuitive. We’ve added support for DataFrame-based code generation that works across any Spark environment. We’ve also introduced in-prompt context-aware development that applies details from your conversations, working seamlessly with a new iterative development experience. This means you can refine your ETL jobs through natural follow…

AWS announces the general availability of custom billing view, a new feature within AWS Billing and Cost Management that enables customers to grant member accounts access to cost management data spanning multiple accounts within their organization. Custom billing view allows you to provide application and business unit owners with access to relevant cost management data across multiple AWS accounts using a single view in AWS Cost Explorer, without granting access to the management account. With custom billing view, you can create filtered views of cost management data based on cost allocation tags or specific AWS accounts. These views can be shared with member accounts…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect) now supports Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7 for new connectors. Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7 includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. For more details and a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.7. Amazon MSK Connect is a feature of Amazon MSK that allows you to run fully managed Apache Kafka Connect workloads on AWS. This feature makes it easy to deploy, monitor, and automatically scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka clusters and external systems such as databases, file systems, and search indices. MSK Con…

Amazon Connect now records all changes made on the Agent status page as events in AWS CloudTrail. This enables you to look in AWS CloudTrail to identify which admin website user added, updated or disabled an agent status, for example adding ‘Break’ and ‘Training’ to the standard available and offline choices. Now you have the same logging capabilities available on other resources such as users, queues, and flows that help you analyze and monitor changes to your contact center. The updated UI with AWS CloudTrail support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail event history. To learn more a…

Amazon Connect provides a refreshed experience for configuring hierarchies on the admin website, giving customers better ways to navigate complex organizational structures quickly and accurately. Hierarchies are a way for customers to organize their agents into teams and groups for reporting purposes (e.g. by department, location, or skill sets). Now customers can visualize their tree structure and find resources using free-text type-ahead search. Because this UI is now powered by public APIs, customers can leverage AWS CloudTrail to log, view and audit all changes to hierarchy groups and structures regardless of who made them or how. The updated UI with AWS CloudTrail…

AWS Network Firewall introduces dual stack support for Network Firewall management API, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when the AWS Network Firewall management API endpoint is privately accessed from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. Dual stack endpoints are made available on a new AWS DNS domain name. The existing AWS Network Firewall management API endpoints are maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically s…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge and u-6tb1.112xlarge) are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AW…

Amazon EventBridge API destinations now support proactive OAuth token refresh for public and private OAuth authorization endpoints. This capability helps you to preemptively mitigate delays and errors during invocations when the OAuth access token is close to expiration. EventBridge API destinations are HTTPS endpoints that you can invoke as the target of an event bus rule, or pipe, similar to how you invoke an AWS service or resource as a target. Using API destinations, you can route events between AWS services, integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications, and public or private applications by using API calls. Now, when you invoke an API destination with an O…