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You can now remove queues and routing profiles that are no longer required in your contact center directly from the Amazon Connect admin website, in addition to the API-based deletion that was previously supported. For example, if your team set up sample queues to test a use case that are no longer needed, or you are consolidating your routing profiles because you have reorganized agents, you can now click to remove the unwanted resources. To get started, open the Amazon Connect admin website and navigate to the queues or routing profile page. Use the delete action to remove unneeded rows and free up service quotas for that resource. The updated UIs are available in al…

Amazon Connect now provides built-in capabilities for customer authentication within chats, making it easier to verify customer identity and deliver personalized experiences. You can use the new Authenticate Customer flow block to simplify authentication in your chat workflows. For example, unauthenticated customers who require agent assistance can be shown a pop-up to sign-in before connecting with an agent, allowing agent’s to provide more personalized and efficient support. To get started, visit the new ‘Customer authentication’ page within the AWS Console to configure your identify provider, then add the Authenticate Customer block to your contact flow. To learn mo…

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of Unique Key for Dataset, enabling users to define additional aspects of their data semantics. The unique key will be used to improve performance for QuickSight visuals, especially un-aggregated table charts. Previously, to maintain table pagination stability, all columns in the table visual were sorted, which was an expensive query causing performance latency. Now, with the unique key defined in the dataset, once the column is used in the visual, users will automatically experience improved sorting performance without compromising user behavior. For some cases, the new approach can increase the performance up to 60% de…

Amazon Q Business is now SOC (System and Organization Controls) eligible. Amazon Q Business is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With the Amazon Q Business SOC certification, customers, can now use Amazon Q Business for use cases that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) requirements. Amazon Q Business is now SOC 1, 2 and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party audits of AWS co…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 11.4.4, 10.11.10, 10.6.20, and 10.5.27. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more …

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now integrates with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) to enhance WorkSpaces connection performance by optimizing streaming traffic through the AWS Global Network and edge locations. This feature particularly benefits customers whose end users connect to WorkSpaces across long distances. The AGA feature can be enabled at either the WorkSpaces directory level or for individual WorkSpaces running DCV protocol. When advantageous, the service automatically routes the streaming traffic through the nearest AWS edge location and across AWS's congestion-free, redundant global network, delivering a more responsive and stable streaming experience. The WorkSp…

Amazon Location Service announces the availability of dual-stack endpoints, enabling customers to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual-stack clients. These dual-stack endpoints are accessible through a new AWS DNS domain name, while existing Amazon Location Service endpoints remain available to ensure backward compatibility. The transition to IPv6 is essential due to the ongoing expansion of the internet, which is rapidly depleting available IPv4 addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 on Amazon Location Service endpoints, customers can gradually migrate their systems and applications to IPv6-…

Amazon RDS for Db2 now enables the creation of multiple Db2 databases within a database instance. This enhanced capability offers greater flexibility in managing databases and optimizing licenses for various enterprise workloads. Customers can now provision and manage up to 50 Db2 databases within a single RDS for Db2 instance, eliminating the need to deploy and license databases individually for each RDS instance. Customers using multiple databases can quickly create, activate, deactivate or drop databases, enabling them to reduce the overhead of managing separate RDS for Db2 instances. To create multiple databases within an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance, simply set up …

Jumia is a technology company born in 2012, present in 14 African countries, with its main headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. Jumia is built around a marketplace, a logistics service, and a payment service. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through a network of local partners, and the payment service facilitates the payments of online transactions within Jumia’s ecosystem. Jumia is present in NYSE and has a market cap of $554 million. In this post, we share part of the journey that Jumia took with AWS Professional Services to modernize its data platform that ran under a Hadoop distribution to AWS serverless based solutions. Some of the challenges that …

AWS offers over 200 fully-featured services, providing unparalleled opportunities for businesses of all sizes. However, this abundance of choice can be overwhelming, leaving many customers uncertain about where to begin or which services best fit their specific needs. This is where AWS Solutions Architects, a free resource, can help by wearing three crucial hats: technical advisor, customer advocate, and educator. Solutions Architects are technical advisors Since 2006, Solutions Architects have been architecting thousands of solutions across a wide variety of business verticals and use cases. From this experience, Solutions Architects have identified best practices and…

Today, AWS Backup announces additional options to assign resources to a backup policy on AWS Organizations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can now select specific resources by resource type and exclude them based on resource type or tag. They can also use the combination of multiple tags within the same resource selection. With additional options to select resources, customers can implement flexible backup strategies across their organizations by combining multiple resource types and/or tags. They can also exclude resources they do not want to back up using resource type or tag, optimizing cost on non-critical resources. To get started, use your AWS Orga…

Amazon Q in Connect now supports 64 languages for agent assistance capabilities. Customer service agents can now chat with Q for assistance in their native language and Q will provide answers, knowledge article links, and recommended step-by-step guides in said language. New languages supported include: Chinese, French, French (Canadian), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Tagalog. For the full list of supported languages, please see the Languages supported by Amazon Connect features. For region availability, please see the availability of Amazon Connect features by Region. To learn more about Amazon Q in Connect, please visit the websi…

Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (SD3.5 Large) is now available in Amazon Bedrock. SD3.5 Large is an advanced text-to-image model featuring 8.1 billion parameters. Trained on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, this powerful model will enable AWS customers to generate high-quality, 1-megapixel images from text descriptions with superior accuracy and creative control. The model excels at creating diverse, high-quality images across multiple styles, making it valuable for media, gaming, advertising, ecommerce, corporate training, retail, and education industries. Its enhanced capabilities include exceptional photorealism with detailed 3D imagery, superior handling of mult…

AWS Partner Central Analytics now provides insights for resell revenue for AWS Partners participating in the AWS Solution Provider or Distribution Programs. The new data helps Partners gain visibility into amortized revenue generated through resellers. With this new resell revenue section in Partner Central Analytics, Partners can measure revenue by month, reseller, end customer, and geography to help define sales growth strategies. Prior to this launch, Partners could see discounts for authorized resell services, but received limited visibility into program revenue. With this launch, the “Solution provider and distributor“ tab within Partner Central Analytics is renam…

AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity in the following additional Regions: North America (N.California, Ohio, Canada Central), Europe (Stockholm, Paris, London, Milan, Frankfurt), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hong Kong, Seoul, Mumbai). This launch enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions in the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service provider, you can enable access to your VPCE service for customers in all existing and upcoming AWS Regions without the need to setup additional infrastructure in each region. As a service consumer, you can privately con…

Today, AWS announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for Recycle Bin, a data recovery feature that enables restoration of accidental deleted Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs. You now have the option of using IPv6 addresses for new and existing endpoints. By moving to IPv6, you can simplify your network stack by running dual-stack Recycle Bin endpoints on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Customers can create rules in Recycle Bin to retain deleted EBS Snapshots or deregistered EBS-backed AMI for a specific retention time. This capability allows you to immediately recover your deleted snapshots or EBS-backed AMIs when you create volumes or la…

AWS Glue Data Catalog now offers advanced automatic optimization for Apache Iceberg tables. This update includes supporting compaction of delete files, nested data types, partial progress commits, and partition evolution support, making it easier to maintain consistently performant transactional data lakes. These features address challenges faced by customers with streaming data continuously ingested into Apache Iceberg tables, resulting in a large number of delete files that track changes in data files. With this new capability, Glue Data Catalog constantly monitors table partitions for positional and equality delete files, initiates the compaction process, and regula…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 extends native client support to macOS. Users can now access AppStream 2.0 streamed applications through a web browser, the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows, or AppStream 2.0 client for macOS. This additional macOS support provides more flexibility and platform options for users needing access to streamed applications and desktops. The AppStream 2.0 client for macOS is an application you install on your Mac to access AppStream streaming sessions. The client provides enhanced capabilities and user experience. It supports two monitors with 4K resolution, and the ability to connect up to four monitors, leveraging multi-monitor layouts. Users can use k…

AWS Config now supports 3 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The newly supported resource types are also available across the AWS Config feature set, including Config rules, Config aggregators, and Config advanced queries. You can now use AWS Config to monitor the following newly supported resource types in all AWS Regions where the supported services are available:…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers support for Rocky Linux from CIQ, enabling ISVs and central IT organizations to stream from an RPM Package Manager (RPM) compatible environment optimized for running compute-intensive applications while leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the AWS Cloud. With this launch, customers have the flexibility to choose from a broader set of operating systems including Rocky Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Microsoft Windows. This launch enables organizations to stream Rocky Linux apps from AppStream 2.0, helping to accelerate time to market, scaling resources up or down with demand, and managing the enti…

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now allows you to perform network fault injection experiments on your applications deployed on AWS Fargate. Fault injection experiments create disruptions to test how your applications behave, helping you improve application performance, observability, and resilience. AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) now supports 6 actions for ECS on both EC2 and Fargate: network latency, network blackhole, network packet loss, CPU stress, I/O stress, and kill process. Developers and operators can now verify the response of their application to potential network errors, some of which may also be required for regulatory compliance. By …

Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 3.3 70B represents a significant advancement in model efficiency and performance optimization. This instruction-tuned model delivers impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, including multilingual dialogue, text summarization, and complex reasoning. Llama 3.3 70B is a text-only instruction-tuned model that provides enhanced performance relative to Llama 3.1 70B–and to Llama 3.2 90B when used for text-only applications. The new model delivers similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B, while requiring only a fraction of the computational resources. Llama 3.3 demonstrates substantial improvements in rea…

Amazon Connect now supports multi-party chat, allowing up to 4 additional agents to join an ongoing chat conversation, making it easier to collaborate and resolve customer issues quickly. For example, agents can add a supervisor or subject matter experts to join the chat, ensuring customers receive accurate and timely support. Multi-party chat can be enabled within the AWS Console. Once enabled, agents can simply use a Quick Connect to invite additional agents to an ongoing chat. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more and get started, please refer to the help documentation or visit the Amazon Connect web…

Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication plugin support for client to proxy connections on MySQL on Aurora and RDS. Customers need to use plugins to perform authentication between databases and clients while using RDS Proxy. Starting with MySQL 8.4, community MySQL uses caching_sha2_password plugin as the default, which is more secure than the previous default plugins. To align with this, starting today, caching_sha2_password will also be the default authentication plugin for new connection creates with RDS Proxy, if a value is not specified. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases…

Today, AWS IoT Device Management announces the general availability of a high-throughput connectivity status query API, allowing developers to query the latest connectivity state of IoT devices, for monitoring and management purposes. AWS IoT Device Management is a fully managed cloud service that helps you register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices at scale. Device connectivity status is crucial for monitoring device failures and executing remote commands. The new connectivity status API which will be available to AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing customers, provides a high-throughput solution (350+ requests per second) fo…

AWS ParallelCluster 3.12 is now generally available. This release makes it possible to include Lustre and NVIDIA software components in ParallelCluster custom images. Now, you can include ParallelCluster's recommended Nvidia drivers and CUDA libraries in custom images. This update also makes the Lustre client optional to account for scenarios where you may opt for alternative storage solutions. To enable these optional software components when creating custom images, configure the NvidiaSoftware and the LustreClient parameters in the build image configuration file when using the build-image command. For more details on the release, review the AWS ParallelCluster 3.12.0…

This post is cowritten by Tommaso Paracciani and Oghosa Omorisiagbon from HEMA. Data has become an invaluable asset for businesses, offering critical insights to drive strategic decision-making and operational optimization. However, many companies today still struggle to effectively harness and use their data due to challenges such as data silos, lack of discoverability, poor data quality, and a lack of data literacy and analytical capabilities to quickly access and use data across the organization. To address these growing data management challenges, AWS customers are using Amazon DataZone, a data management service that makes it fast and effortless to catalog, discove…

Data lakes were originally designed to store large volumes of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, primarily serving big data and analytics use cases. Over time, as organizations began to explore broader applications, data lakes have become essential for various data-driven processes beyond just reporting and analytics. Today, they play a critical role in syncing with customer applications, enabling the ability to manage concurrent data operations while maintaining the integrity and consistency of information. This shift includes not only storing batch data but also ingesting and processing near real-time data streams, allowing businesses to merge his…

Organizational data is often fragmented across multiple lines of business, leading to inconsistent and sometimes duplicate datasets. This fragmentation can delay decision-making and erode trust in available data. Amazon DataZone, a data management service, helps you catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises systems, and third-party sources. Although Amazon DataZone automates subscription fulfillment for structured data assets—such as data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), cataloged with the AWS Glue Data Catalog, or stored in Amazon Redshift—many organizations also rely heavily on unstructured data. For these customers, ex…

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 9.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.1 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. MySQL 9.1 is the latest Innovation Release from the MySQL community. MySQL Innovation releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. MySQL Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next major & minor release, whereas MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) Releases…

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) introduces NVMe-backed R6gd Instances, offering up to 7x faster query performance for applications with large datasets exceeding regular instance memory. These instances can expand the data caching capacity by up to 7 times compared to a regular instance. NVMe-backed R6gd Instances leverage the local non-volatile memory express (NVMe)-based SSD storage available on r6gd instances to store ephemeral data, reducing network-based storage access, and improving read latency and throughput. Database pages evicted from the in-memory buffer cache are cached on local NVMe storage. Additionally, temporary space is hosted on local SS…

AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces dual stack support for the managed runtime environments, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. 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 AWS Mainframe Modernization runtime environments, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. You can also continue to use…

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics along with other AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases as well as third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection operations. With this launch, AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is available in the followin…

Today, we are announcing AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). Using AWS CloudFormation, you can easily create and manage PCS clusters and automate your cluster administration tasks. AWS PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to run and scale your high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. You can use AWS PCS to build complete, elastic environments that integrate compute, storage, networking, and visualization tools. AWS PCS simplifies cluster operations with managed updates and built-in observability features, helping to remove the burden of maintenance. Y…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. Visit the AWS Regions page for all the regions where Amazon MSK is available. To get star…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i, R7i, M7g and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance types. M7g and R7g database instances are custom build on AWS Graviton2 Processor are provide up to 20% higher network bandwidth that the prior generation’s M6g and R6g instance types. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. Get started by c…

AWS Transfer Family announces new configuration options to control the attributes of inbound and outbound Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages. This update helps you ensure seamless compatibility with a broader range of your trading partners’ AS2 implementations, without requiring any changes on the partners’ side. AS2 is a business-to-business (B2B) messaging protocol used across various industries, including healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics. You now have greater control over the default attributes of your AS2 messages. For inbound messages, you can preserve the original filenames of files received from your trading partners and optionally enforce me…

AWS DataSync now supports configuration updates for all supported storage locations, including Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. With this enhancement, you can update storage locations directly, removing the need to delete and create new locations in order to update key parameters. AWS DataSync is a high-speed data transfer service that securely and reliably copies data over a network. With this new capability, you gain greater flexibility in managing data transfer configurations across supported AWS storage services. With configuration update support extended to Am…

AWS Backup introduces dual stack support for the AWS Backup API endpoint in IPv6, 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 Backup 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 Backup API endpoints are maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Backup endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems…

Amazon Connect Tasks can now be configured to expire up to 30 days from creation, with a default of 7 days. For example, less urgent tasks like monthly expense notifications can stay active for up to 30 days before escalating to a supervisor, while urgent tasks like customer escalations can now be sent to a supervisor after 1 minute. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. This feature is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, see our documentation. To learn more about Amazon Conne…

AWS Resilience Hub now automatically detects and integrates existing Amazon CloudWatch alarms into its resilience assessments, providing a more comprehensive view of your application’s resilience posture. This new capability combines AWS Resilience Hub recommendations with your current monitoring setup to streamline alarm management and enhance assessment accuracy. As part of Operational Recommendations, AWS Resilience Hub advises setting up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor application resilience. With this update, Resilience Hub now identifies and includes any relevant Amazon CloudWatch alarms you’ve already configured, eliminating the need for manual entry. Alarms…

Today, AWS Backup announces support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. This capability allows you to search the metadata of your backups so you can find specific files or objects across your backups and recover up to 5 items at a time, allowing for faster recovery times. You can get started with search and item-level recovery using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. In order to search your Amazon EBS Snapshots or Amazon S3 backups, you must first create a backup index. You can create a backup index via a backup plan, or on-demand after your backup has been created. Once indexed, you can search across multiple backups to…

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is now available to purchase in India on Amazon Business. Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment. End users can set up WorkSpaces Thin Client in minutes using an on-device guided deployment experience to connect their network and peripherals and log in to their virtual desktops including Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser, and Amazon AppStream 2.0. WorkSpaces Thin Client helps IT organizations improve security by removing the ability to upload or download files or applications an…

Today, we are announcing Slurm 24.05 support in AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). You can now create AWS PCS clusters running the newer Slurm 24.05 version. AWS PCS' release of Slurm 24.05 provides new Slurm fixes and security updates, including improved auditing for RPC calls, hardened security, and enhancements in Slurm client commands. With this release, AWS PCS also enables a series of Slurm functionalities out of the box, such as improved fanout with partition locality, SHA-3 for cryptographic hashing, and job containers for prolog execution. To get started with using Slurm 24.05 in AWS PCS via AWS Management Console or AWS SDK, please refer to the docu…

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now allows customers to use Kerberos authentication to securely connect to Oracle and SQL Server source endpoints. This feature allows users to authenticate database connections using the Kerberos protocol, a widely adopted standard for secure identity verification. With this update, AWS DMS can authenticate using credentials stored in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory or in an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory that has a forest trust relationship with an AWS Managed Active Directory. Customers can use this feature for Oracle Database and SQL Server without additional licensing costs, simplifying secure m…

Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, now offers enhanced administration capabilities, providing valuable insights from AI conversations and user feedback information. With the new analytics dashboard, administrators can view and analyze various aspects of these conversations, including: No answer found queries: Administrators can review conversations where Amazon Q Business couldn't provide relevant answers, helping identify data gaps or areas that require improvement. Blocked queries: Administrators can view queries that contain blocked words as configured in Amazon…

Today, AWS has launched a self-service feature that allows customers with billing address in United States to update their business names on AWS Invoices. This capability empowers AWS customers with Billing Address in United states to update business names on AWS Invoices, without having to reach out to AWS customer support or concierge teams. Updated invoices will be accessible within the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console within 24 hours of initiation. With this self-serve feature, US customers can update the business name on the account and initiate an invoice update from the AWS Bills page in the AWS Billing and Cost management console. The updated invoice wil…

AWS Glue announces 16 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Adobe Analytics, Asana, Datadog, Facebook Page Insights, Freshdesk, Freshsales, Google Search Console, Linkedin, Mixpanel, Paypal Checkout, Quickbooks, SendGrid, SmartSheets, Twilio, WooCommerce and Zoom Meetings. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they need to integrate with data from various applications. With 16 new connectors, customers have more options to easily establish a connection to their applications using the AWS Glue console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn appl…

AWS Marketplace now allows sellers to enhance product detail pages with videos and images through a new self-service promotional media feature. Prominently shown on product detail pages, promotional media provides customers with an enriched way to discover and evaluate products in AWS Marketplace. This launch expands media support to images and provides sellers a self-service way to add and manage media and related metadata. With the new self-service promotional media feature, AWS Marketplace sellers can add, update, and remove media from product detail pages, reducing the time to onboard or refresh product listing content. Sellers can now directly upload media through…

AWS Resilience Hub now supports an enhanced integration with AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to offer tailored experiment recommendations. Fault injection experiments help test and improve your applications' performance, observability, and resilience. When you onboard an application to the Resilience Hub, you receive customized experiment recommendations based on the specific application context. With this launch, you can begin resilience testing with just a few clicks in the Resilience Hub Console. Resilience Hub offers tailored experiment recommendations using AWS FIS actions and scenarios to replicate the symptoms of possible application impairment events. Thi…

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Paris) regions. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization as well as graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPY…

This post is co-written with Elliott Choi from Cohere. The ability to quickly access relevant information is a key differentiator in today’s competitive landscape. As user expectations for search accuracy continue to rise, traditional keyword-based search methods often fall short in delivering truly relevant results. In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-powered search, organizations are looking to integrate large language models (LLMs) and embedding models with Amazon OpenSearch Service. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the various scenarios for how Cohere Rerank 3.5 improves search results for best matching 25 (BM25), a keyword-based algorithm that performs lexica…

On November 11, 2024, the Apache Flink community released a new version of AWS services connectors, an AWS open source contribution. This new release, version 5.0.0, introduces a new source connector to read data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. In this post, we explain how the new features of this connector can improve performance and reliability of your Apache Flink application. Apache Flink has both a source and sink connector, to read from and write to Kinesis Data Streams. In this post, we focus on the new source connector, because version 5.0.0 does not introduce new functionality for the sink. Apache Flink is a framework and distributed stream processing engin…

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, you also have the option to enable Route 53 Resolver endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) service. Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints make hybrid cloud configurations easier to manage by enabling seamless DNS query resolution across your entire hybrid cloud. Create Route 53 Resolver endpoints and conditional forwarding rules to allow resolution of DNS namespaces between …

AWS re:Post expanded language support to include a total of 8 languages, now featuring Spanish and Portuguese. This enhancement creates a more inclusive experience for our diverse global user base, allowing more users to engage with the community in their preferred language. By breaking down language barriers, we're making it easier for AWS users worldwide to seek help, share knowledge, and collaborate effectively. Whether you're more comfortable communicating in Spanish, Portuguese, or any of the other supported languages, you can now fully participate in AWS discussions and community interactions, fostering better communication and accessibility across the AWS ecosystem…

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). With AWS Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, and more. AWS Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue 5.0 upgrades the engines to Apache Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, with new performance and security improvements. Glue 5.0 updates open table format support to Apache Hudi 0.15.0, Apache Iceber…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports functionality that makes it easy to update a Beanstalk environment status when it enters into an invalid state during an update failure. With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can easily deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. However, there can be situations where a Beanstalk environment can become unavailable when the stack associated with it goes into an invalid status. Previously, when that happened, customers needed to contact AWS support to update their Beanstalk environment status in order to proceed. Now, Beanstalk will prompt you with a request to fix your underlyi…

AWS Marketplace has launched a refresh of its Professional Services product detail pages. The updated pages offer a streamlined layout that surfaces product highlights and accessible content. Customers can now more easily find services that best fit their specific needs in AWS Marketplace Professional Services. The new product detail pages display key information and associated software, allowing customers to quickly narrow down their options and identify the right service for their business requirements. The updated product detail pages are also available for most listings, providing a consistent experience across AWS Marketplace. To get started, visit the AWS Mark…

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere today released version 1.4.0 of the credential helper, introducing built-in compatibility with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0. With this release, the credential helper can directly utilize X.509 certificates and associated private keys stored in TPMs on Windows or Linux systems. Keys remain within their secure hardware store, which can help improve your security posture. IAM Roles Anywhere enables workloads that run outside of AWS, such as servers, containers, and applications, to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials and access AWS resources using the same IAM roles and policies th…

Amazon Redshift, launched in 2013, has undergone significant evolution since its inception, allowing customers to expand the horizons of data warehousing and SQL analytics. Today, Amazon Redshift is used by customers across all industries for a variety of use cases, including data warehouse migration and modernization, near real-time analytics, self-service analytics, data lake analytics, machine learning (ML), and data monetization. Amazon Redshift made significant strides in 2024, rolling out over 100 features and enhancements. These improvements enhanced price-performance, enabled data lakehouse architectures by blurring the boundaries between data lakes and data war…

AWS AppSync GraphQL is a fully managed service that helps developers create flexible GraphQL APIs that connect to data, events, and AI models. AppSync GraphQL can connect applications to various data sources, including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL. AppSync GraphQL now offers enhanced utilities for Amazon RDS in JavaScript resolvers. This update expands existing capabilities and introduces new aggregate functions. The enhancement adds new functionality to the select utility and makes it easier to build safe and accurate SQL select statements. Developers can now use a variety of join types, including inner, left, right, and full outer joins, as well a…

We are excited to announce that starting today, Amazon Athena is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, supporting open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data, with no provisioning or configuration effort required. For a complete list of AWS services available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and other regions, refer to the AWS Regional Services List. To learn more, see Amazon Athena. View the full article

Amazon Connect now provides published schedules data in the analytics data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data. From agent schedules data in the analytics data lake, you can now automate key operational use cases such as generating reports for paid and unpaid hours for payroll, generating summarized views of how many agents are scheduled to work and how many have time-off in a given time period. You can also address audit and compliance use cases such as generating a detailed report of all scheduled events for all agents for the past two years. To generate these reports and insights, you can use Amazon Athena with Amazon QuickSig…

Today, AWS releases AWS IoT Greengrass 2.14, offering a new nucleus lite feature that supports a lightweight runtime agent for resource-constrained devices operating on embedded Linux. The nucleus lite feature is offered alongside the original AWS IoT Greengrass nucleus, providing developers the flexibility to choose the most appropriate option for their specific edge device capabilities and application needs. AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge runtime and cloud service that enables the development, deployment, management, and monitoring of device software at scale. It facilitates remote deployment and maintenance of AWS-managed and custom applications on edge d…

This blog was co-authored by DeNA Co., Ltd. and Amazon Web Services Japan. DeNA Co., Ltd. (DeNA) engages in a variety of businesses, from games and live communities to sports & the community and healthcare & medical, under our mission to delight people beyond their wildest dreams. Among these, the healthcare & medical business handles particularly sensitive data. To comply with their data policies for sensitive data, this healthcare & medical business set the following requirements for their data processing: Process data in compliance with data policies – Mask or delete sensitive data as necessary to transform into anonymized data. Prevent the inclu…

Recently, AWS introduced over 50 new capabilities across its streaming services, significantly enhancing performance, scale, and cost-efficiency. Some of these innovations have tripled performance, provided 20 times faster scaling, and reduced failure recovery times by up to 90%. We have made it nearly effortless for customers to bring real-time context to AI applications and lakehouses. In this post, we discuss the top six game changers that will redefine AWS streaming data. Amazon MSK Express brokers: Kafka reimagined for AWS AWS offers Express brokers for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)—a transformative breakthrough for customers needing …

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers customers the option to create instances with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on Amazon Web Services for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. Customers moving to IPv6 can now simplify their network stack by creating their Timestream for InfluxDB instances on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. 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 …

AWS announces a new version of Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) that supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x for improved performance and security features. With the new KPL version 1.0, now you can fully remove the dependency on the AWS SDK for Java 1.x. You can upgrade your applications running previous KPL versions to KPL 1.0 without any change in your core data processing logic. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that enables customers to capture, process, and store real-time data streams at any scale. Kinesis Producer Library is an open-source library that simplifies producer application development, enabling developers to achieve high writ…

You can now use Amazon EBS Local Snapshots 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. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. With Local Snapshots, you can now create backups of your EBS volumes in Dedicated Local Zones and store them within the same geographical boundary as your EBS volumes, helping you meet your data isolation and data residency use cases. You ca…

Today, AWS announces the introduction of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for hosting containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. An EFA is a network device that you can attach to your Amazon EC2 instance to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. EFA support allows customers to use Bottlerocket with instance types such as G4, G5, P4, and P5 (see full list of the supported instance types). When an EFA device is detected, Bottlerocket automatically reserves huge pages and updates the locked memory …

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now monitors the health of the EC2 instances (nodes) in EKS clusters for Kubernetes-specific health issues and automatically takes action to repair them if they become unhealthy. This helps you achieve higher availability for your Kubernetes applications and reduces the operational overhead required to keep cluster infrastructure performing optimally. Managing the nodes where Kubernetes applications run to ensure they remain resilient to errors can be challenging and operationally intensive. This launch streamlines cluster infrastructure maintenance by continuously monitoring the health of the nodes within an EKS cluster, …

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance run on 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance offers 32TB of memory with 1920 vCPUs. U7inh is the highest performing High Memory instance in Amazon EC2 for running large, compute-intensive in-memory database workloads …

The need to integrate diverse data sources has grown exponentially, but there are several common challenges when integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources, services, and applications. First, you need to create and maintain independent connections to the same data source for different services. Second, the data connectivity experience is inconsistent across different services. For each service, you need to learn the supported authorization and authentication methods, data access APIs, and framework to onboard and test data sources. Third, some services require you to set up and manage compute resources used for federated connectivity, and capabilities like conne…

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and sessions on the AWS Event YouTube channel. This year Andy Jassy, now President and CEO at Amazon, returned to re:Invent and shared some thoughts in these videos. Drawing on experiences Amazon has had building distributed systems at massive scale, Werner Vogels, VP and CTO at Amazon, shared critical lessons and strategies he has learned for managing complex systems…

AWS provides you with options when choosing a service that can spur creativity and productivity, but without the proper procedures in place, navigating the billing complexities can be daunting. In this blog post, we’ll explore essential AWS billing practices every AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner should be aware of to optimize costs and avoid surprises. Learn about AWS pricing models and how the estimation of costs for various AWS services and different pricing structures matters in the long run for cost optimization. Your AWS Billing Dashboard and Features As an AWS-certified cloud practitioner, knowing how to handle your organization’s Finance with the most convenient …

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now enables end users to save their client preferences when streaming through a web browser or AppStream 2.0 client application for Windows. These preferences will be applied automatically when the user connects again using the same client, helping to provide consistent experience across sessions. Users can now customize and save AppStream 2.0 client preferences across sessions when accessing from the same client. These preferences include audio (microphone), video (webcam), regional settings, and streaming mode, and macOS keyboard mappings. Previously, users had to manually re-adjust these settings during each session. By persisting personalized s…

AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway now supports source-specific multicast (SSM). This new feature allows you to specify both a multicast group address and an optional source IP address when creating or updating MediaConnect Gateway bridge sources, offering greater flexibility, security, and efficiency in your workflows. SSM support enhances control by allowing you to pull content from specific senders and filter unwanted traffic. It enables more efficient bandwidth use as network switches replicate data only when needed. Additionally, SSM improves security as content is only received from trusted sources via specified IP addresses. To learn more about enabling SSM f…

AWS announces the general availability of Instance Bandwidth Configurations (IBC) for 8th generation, Graviton based instances. With IBC, customers can adjust the VPC and EBS service bandwidth, by up to 25%, on their EC2 instances. When increasing the bandwidth for one of the service, say VPC, the available bandwidth for the other service, EBS, is reduced. IBC does not increase your instances burst bandwidth, packets per second, or IOPS capabilities. With IBC, AWS is providing customers greater flexibility with the allocation of their bandwidth resources to better optimize their workloads. Before today, EC2 instances were predefined with static bandwidth specifications…

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 59 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: access-analyzer:analyzer airflow:environment amplify:apps/branches amplify:apps/domains appflow:flow appmesh:mesh appmesh:mesh/virtualNode appmesh:mesh/virtualService apprunner:service appstream:image-builder auditmanager:ass…

AWS Cloud Map now supports service-level attributes, enabling you to store and access information directly at the service level. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries. With service-level attributes, your applications can store and retrieve important service-level information, such as traffic weights during deployments, throu…

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-3 is a US and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. Today, we are announcing the general availability of FIPS 140-3 interface endpoint support for DynamoDB and FIPS 140-3 public endpoint support for DynamoDB Streams. You can use AWS PrivateLink with DynamoDB for regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module. FIPS-compliant endpoints he…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse OS2 data center in Osaka, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Osaka location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the second AWS Direct Connect site within the Osaka Metropolitan area and the fifth site in Japan. 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 connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the…

Today, Amazon Redshift announced the support for automatically and incrementally refreshable materialized views (MVs) on tables in a zero-ETL integration. This new feature eliminates the need for full refreshes, which previously required re-executing underlying select statements and rewriting all data in the MV. With this launch, you can leverage the power of zero-ETL integrations with automatically and incrementally refreshable MVs, enabling more efficient data updates and faster query responses. This feature automatically keeps MVs up-to-date as the underlying data changes, eliminating the need for manual refresh operations or complex ETL processes. Organizations han…

Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and DNS Firewall Advanced in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is a managed service that enables you to block DNS queries made for domains identified as low-reputation or suspected to be malicious, and to allow queries for trusted domains. In addition, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced is a capability of DNS Firewall that allows you to detect and block DNS traffic associated with Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) and DNS Tunneling threats. DNS Firewall can be enabled only for Route 53 Resolver, which is a recursive DNS server that is available by default in all Ama…

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

Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account management in opt-in Regions (Regions that are disabled by default). Cross-account management helps customers manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations. With cross-account management in AWS Backup, customers can deploy an organization-wide backup policy using their AWS Organizations' management account or delegated administrator account, and help maintain compliance across all organizational accounts while reducing account management overhead. Cross-account monitoring allows you to monitor backup activity across all the accounts in your organization from the m…

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enable you to implement safeguards for your generative AI applications based on your use cases and responsible AI policies. Starting today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds multilingual capabilities with support for Spanish and French languages. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails help you implement safeguards for building safe, generative AI applications by filtering undesirable content, redacting personally identifiable information (PII), and enhancing content safety and privacy. You can configure policies for content filters, denied topics, word filters, PII redaction, and contextual grounding checks to tailor safeguards…

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, an interactive log streaming and analytics capability which provides real-time visibility into your logs, making it easier to develop and troubleshoot your serverless applications. The Toolkit for VS Code is an open-source extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. This extension makes it easier for developers to develop, debug locally, and deploy serverless applications that use AWS. This new integration brings the power of Live Tail directly into the VS Code Command Palette. CloudWatch log events can now be streamed in the VS Code Editor as they are ingested in real-time. Yo…

Today we’re excited to announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.12. This release makes it possible to configure your Active Directory (AD) dynamically at runtime, allows Amazon Cognito users to launch Linux virtual desktops, and gives administrators the option to configure SSH access to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). RES administrators can now manage AD parameters and enable Cognito users through the RES UI in the new Identity Management page. AD parameters that were once required when deploying RES are now optional and can be changed at any time after deployment. Admins can also add LDAP filters for users and groups to be more targeted…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs. Amazon EC2 F2 instances, the second-generation FPGA-powered instances, are purpose built to develop and deploy reconfigurable hardware in the cloud. You can use F2 instances to power the next generation of FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network security/acceleration, and cloud-based video broadcasting. F2 instances are the first FPGA-based instances to feature 16GB of high-bandwidth memory. F2 instances provide up to 8 FPGAs paired with a 3rd generation AMD EPYC (Milan) processor with 3x processor…

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of auto-copy, which simplifies data ingestion from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This new feature enables you to set up continuous file ingestion from your Amazon S3 prefix and automatically load new files to tables in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse without the need for additional tools or custom solutions. Previously, Amazon Redshift customers had to build their data pipelines using COPY commands to automate continuous loading of data from S3 to Amazon Redshift tables. With auto-copy, you can now setup an integration which will automatically detect and load new files in a specif…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20241121. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Learn more about the updates and patches in this Extended Support minor version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your RDS for PostgreSQL databases after the community ends support for a major…

Amazon OpenSearch Service now adds support for Graviton3 based r7gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage in six additional regions i.e., Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). AWS Graviton3-based instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance compared to comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3 based r7gd instances have custom-designed processors that enable improved performance for memory-intensive workloads. They offer upto 30 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to…

One-time and complex queries are two common scenarios in enterprise data analytics. One-time queries are flexible and suitable for instant analysis and exploratory research. Complex queries, on the other hand, refer to large-scale data processing and in-depth analysis based on petabyte-level data warehouses in massive data scenarios. These complex queries typically involve data sources from multiple business systems, requiring multilevel nested SQL or associations with numerous tables for highly sophisticated analytical tasks. However, combining the data lineage of these two query types presents several challenges: Diversity of data sources Varying query complexi…

This post is co-written by Adam Gaulding, Solution Architect at Satori. In this post, we continue from Accelerate Amazon Redshift secure data use with Satori – Part 1, and explain how Satori, an Amazon Redshift Ready partner, simplifies both the user experience of gaining access to data and the admin practice of granting and revoking access to data in Amazon Redshift. Satori enables both just-in-time and self-service access to data. Solution overview Satori creates a transparent layer providing visibility and control capabilities that is deployed in front of your existing Redshift data warehouse. When adding a new data store to Satori, a new, Satori-provided URL is g…

You can now configure holidays and other variances to your contact center Hours of operation with “overrides” in Amazon Connect, using APIs or the admin website. Overrides are exceptions to your contact center’s standard day-of-the-week operating hours. For example, if your contact center opens at 9am and closes at 10pm, but on New Year’s Eve you want to close at 4pm to allow your agents to get home in time to celebrate, you can add an override to do so. When the holiday arrives and you close your contact center early, callers get the after hours customer experience. Hours of operations overrides are supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To lear…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) 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. M7i-flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to M6i. M7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for ap…

We are pleased to announce general availability of inference optimized G6e instances (powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs) and P5e (powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs) on Amazon SageMaker. With 1128 GB of high bandwidth GPU memory across 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, 30 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, 192 vCPUs, and 2 TiB of system memory, ml.p5e.48xlarge instances can deliver exceptional performance for compute-intensive AI inference workloads such as large language model with 100B+ parameters, multi-modal foundation models, synthetic data generation, and complex generative AI applications including question answering, code generation, video, and image generation. Pow…

AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1. PCI DSS is a compliance framework that provides a set of rules and guidelines for safely handling credit and debit card information. PCI DSS standard in Security Hub provides a set of AWS security best practices that support you in protecting your cardholder data environments (CDE). Security Hub PCI DSS v4.0.1 includes 144 automated controls that conduct continual checks against PCI DSS requirements. The new standard is now available in all public AWS Regions where Security Hub is available and in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To quickl…

Amazon Connect now supports push notifications for mobile chat on iOS and Android devices, improving the customer experience and enabling faster issue resolution. Amazon Connect makes it easy to offer mobile chat experiences using the Amazon Connect Chat SDKs or a webview solution using the communications widget. Now, with built-in push notifications enabled for mobile chat experiences, customers will be proactively notified as soon as they receive a new message from an agent or chatbot, even when they are not actively chatting. Push notifications for mobile chat is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia P…