Recent Announcements
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AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with adjustable timeouts for custom resources
AWS CloudFormation launches a new property for custom resources called ServiceTimeout. This new property allows customers to set a maximum timeout for the execution of the provisioning logic in a custom resource, enabling faster feedback loops in dev-test cycles. |
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications. |
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports Bitbucket Cloud source code repositories
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in Bitbucket Cloud in CodeCatalyst projects. This allows customers to use Bitbucket Cloud repositories with CodeCatalyst’s features such as its cloud IDE (Development Environments), view the status of CodeCatalyst workflows back in Bitbucket Cloud, and even block Bitbucket Cloud pull request merges based on the status of CodeCatalyst workflows. |
Amazon Data Firehose now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager (Secrets Manager) to configure secrets such as database credentials or keys to connect to streaming destinations such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Splunk, and HTTP endpoints. |
Amazon FSx for Lustre increases maximum metadata IOPS by up to 15x
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, is increasing the maximum level of metadata IO operations per second (IOPS) you can drive on a file system by up to 15x, and now allows you to provision metadata IOPS independently of your file system’s storage capacity. |
Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization
Today, we are making it easier for AWS Organizations customers to centrally manage the root email address of member accounts across their Organization using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Software Development Kit (SDK), and AWS Organizations console. We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables Organizations customers to centrally and programmatically manage both primary and alternate contact information as well as the enabled AWS Regions for their accounts. In order to manage the root email address, customers were forced to login as root to manage the root email address of member accounts. Starting today, customers can use the same SDK to update the root email address of a member account from either the Organization’s management account (or delegated administrator), saving them the time and effort of logging into each account directly and allowing them to manage their Organization’s root addresses at scale. Additionally, this API will require customers to verify the new root email address using One Time Password (OTP) ensuring customers are using accurate email addresses for their member accounts. The root email address won’t change to the new email address until it has been verified. |
Amazon API Gateway customers can easily secure APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
Amazon Verified Permissions expanded support for securing Amazon API Gateway APIs, with fine grained access controls when using an Open ID connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. Developers can now control access based on user attributes and group memberships, without writing code. For example, say you are building a loan processing application. Using this feature, you can restrict access to the “approve_loan” API to only users in the “loan_officer” group. |
AWS AppFabric now supports JumpCloud
AWS AppFabric, a no-code service that quickly integrates with software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to enhance an organization’s security posture, now supports JumpCloud. AppFabric provides aggregated and normalized audit logs from popular SaaS applications like Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, Atlassian Jira suite, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. By centralizing SaaS application data, AppFabric helps teams gain greater visibility into vulnerabilities in a customer's SaaS environment, enabling them to monitor threats more effectively and respond to incidents faster. IT and security teams no longer need to manage point-to-point SaaS integrations that take time away from higher value tasks, like standardizing alerts or setting common security policies. |
Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in South America (São Paulo) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage for compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. |
Amazon Inspector container image scanning is now available for Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions
Amazon Inspector now offers native integration with Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions for container image scanning, allowing customers to assess their container images for software vulnerabilities within their Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools, pushing security earlier in the software development lifecycle. With this expansion, Inspector now natively integrates with four developer tools including, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub actions, and Amazon CodeCatalyst for container image scanning. This feature works with CI/CD tools hosted anywhere in AWS, as well as in on-premise environments and hybrid clouds, providing consistency for developers to use a single solution across all their development pipelines. |
Announcing the common control library in AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager has introduced a common control library that simplifies the process of automating risk and compliance assessments against enterprise controls. This new library enables Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) teams to efficiently map their controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection. |
AWS launches Tax Settings API to programmatically manage tax registration information
Today AWS launches AWS Tax Settings API, a new public API service that enables customers to programmatically view, set, and modify tax registration information and associated business legal name and address. This launch allows you to automate tax registration updates as an enhanced offering to the AWS Tax Settings page. |
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports ingesting streaming data from Amazon MSK Serverless
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest streaming data from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Serverless, enabling you to seamlessly index the data from Amazon MSK Serverless clusters in Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or Serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to perform near- real-time aggregations, sampling and anomaly detection on data ingested from Amazon MSK Serverless, helping you to build efficient data pipelines to power your complex observability and analytics use cases. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines can consume data from one or more topics in an Amazon MSK Serverless cluster and transform the data before writing it to Amazon OpenSearch Service or Amazon S3. While reading data from Amazon MSK Serverless via Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, you can configure the number of consumers per topic and tune different fetch parameters for high and low priority data. Furthermore, you can also optionally use AWS Glue Schema Registry to specify your data schema to dynamically read custom data schema at ingest time. |
Amazon Location Service launches Enhanced Location Integrity features
Amazon Location Service launches enhanced location integrity features, which offer tools to help developers evaluate the accuracy and authenticity of user-reported locations. With enhanced location integrity features, customers can now use predictive tools that anticipate user movements into or out of customer-specified areas, using criteria like time-to-breach and proximity to enhance monitoring and security measures. For instance, a retailer can utilize improved location integrity features to gauge the proximity of a curbside pickup user and optimize operations for a superior customer experience. Customers can also use new validation capabilities to help confirm user locations by triangulating WiFi, cellular signals, and IP address information. This is critical for detecting and preventing location spoofing. Lastly, Amazon Location Service now also supports detailed geofences, allowing for the management of complex areas like state boundaries. These improvements provide stronger and more accurate location tracking capabilities, enabling more stringent protocols for location integrity. Amazon Location Service is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. To learn more, visit the Amazon Location Service Developer Guide. |
Amazon CloudWatch GetMetricData API now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging
Amazon CloudWatch now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for the GetMetricData and GetMetricWidgetImage APIs. With this launch, customers have greater visibility into metric retrieval activity from their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. |
Amazon EC2 instance type finder capability is generally available in AWS Console
Today, Amazon Web Services, announced the availability of Amazon EC2 instance type finder, enabling you to select the ideal Amazon EC2 instance types for your workload. It uses machine learning to help customers make quick and cost-effective selections for instance types, before provisioning workloads. Using the AWS Management Console, customers can specify their workload requirements and get trusted recommendations. Amazon EC2 instance type finder is integrated with Amazon Q, allowing customers to use natural language to specify requirements and get instance family suggestions. |
AWS IoT Device Management adds a unified connectivity metrics monitoring dashboard
Today, AWS IoT Device Management announced the launch of a new connectivity metrics dashboard, enabling customers to easily identify connectivity patterns and configure operational alarms for their device fleet through a unified view. 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. With this launch, you can now select and view a range of connectivity metrics sourced from AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management on a single page. To learn more, visit the AWS IoT Device Management developer guide. |
Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports machine learning (ML) governance information
Amazon SageMaker now integrates Model Cards into Model Registry, making it easier for customers to manage governance information for specific model versions directly in Model Registry in just a few clicks. |
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitHub Cloud source code with blueprints
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitHub Cloud with its blueprints capability. This allows customers to create a project from a CodeCatalyst blueprint into a GitHub Cloud source repository and add a blueprint into an existing project's GitHub Cloud source repository. It also enables customers to create custom blueprints in a GitHub Cloud repository. |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless slashes entry cost in half for all collection types
We are excited to offer a new lower entry point for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, which makes it affordable to run small-scale search and analytics workloads. Opensearch Serverless’ compute capacity for indexing and searching data are measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). Prior to this update, highly-available production deployments required a minimum of 4 OCUs with redundancy for protection against Availability Zone outages and infrastructure failures. |
Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for forecasts
Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for forecasts, making it easier for contact center managers to analyze future demand. With this launch, you can now generate, view, and download forecasts for the time zone in which your business operates. This feature will also automatically adjust forecasts to account for daylight saving changes (e.g., if a contact center receives contacts from 8am-8pm US Eastern time, then forecasts will automatically switch from 8am-8pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) to 8am-8pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on November 3, 2024). Time zone support in forecasts simplifies the day-to-day experience for managers. |
Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.36) is generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.36. In addition to security enhancements and bug fixes in MySQL 8.0.36, Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 includes several fixes and general improvements. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.36. |
Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in Canada (Central) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Canada (Central) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage for compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. |
AWS HealthImaging now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge
AWS HealthImaging now supports event-driven architectures by sending event notifications to Amazon EventBridge. By subscribing to HealthImaging events in EventBridge, you can automatically kick-off application workflows such as image quality assessment or de-identification based upon changes to resources in the data store. With EventBridge, developers can take advantage of a serverless event bus to easily connect and route events between many AWS services and third-party applications. Developers working with HealthImaging can now receive state changes for asynchronous tasks, such as DICOM import jobs and image set copy and update operations. Events are delivered to EventBridge in near real-time, and developers can write simple rules to listen for specific events. |
Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless Streaming jobs for continuous processing on streaming data
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are excited to announce a new streaming job mode on Amazon EMR Serverless, enabling you to continuously analyze and process streaming data. |
Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds
Amazon API Gateway now enables customers to increase their integration timeout beyond the prior limit of 29 seconds. This setting represents the maximum amount of time API Gateway will wait for a response from the integration to complete. You can raise the integration timeout to greater than 29 seconds for Regional REST APIs and private REST APIs, but this might require a reduction in your account-level throttle quota limit. With this launch, customers with workloads requiring longer timeouts, such as Generative AI use cases with Large Language Models (LLMs), can leverage API Gateway. |
Amazon Route 53 Profiles now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Profiles in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions to define a standard DNS configuration, in the form of a Profile, that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Route 53 Resolver rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this configuration to multiple VPCs in your account. Profiles can also be used to enforce DNS settings for your VPCs, with configurations for DNSSEC validations, Resolver reverse DNS lookups, and the DNS Firewall failure mode. Your can share Profiles with AWS accounts in your organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Route 53 Profiles simplifies the association of Route 53 resources and VPC-level settings for DNS across VPCs and AWS accounts in a Region with a single configuration, minimizing the complexity of having to manage each resource association and setting per VPC. |
Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics now an Amazon EventBridge Pipes target
Amazon TimeStream for LiveAnalytics is now an Amazon EventBridge Pipes target, simplifying the ingestion of time-series data from sources such as Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, and more. Pipes provides a fully-managed experience, enabling you to easily ingest time-series data into Timestream for LiveAnalytics without the need to write undifferentiated integration code. |
AWS DMS now supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a source by enhancing its existing PostgreSQL endpoint to handle Babelfish data types. Babelfish is a feature of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition that enables Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. |
Amazon Q offers inline completions in the command line
Today, Amazon Q Developer launches AI-powered inline completions in the command line. As developers type in their command line, Q Developer will provide real-time AI-generated code suggestions. For instance, if a developer types `git`, Q Developer might suggest `push origin main`. Developers can accept the suggestion by simply pressing the right arrow. |
Amazon Connect agent workspace launches refreshed look and feel
The Amazon Connect agent workspace now features an updated user interface to improve productivity and focus for your agents. The new user interface is designed to be more intuitive, highly responsive, and increase visual consistency across capabilities, providing your agents with a streamlined user experience. With this launch, you can also easily build and embed third-party applications that have a consistent look and feel with the agent workspace by using Cloudscape Design System components. |
Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available for use with Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2, a new embeddings model in the Amazon Titan family of models, is now available for use with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. Using Titan Text Embeddings V2, customers can embed their data into a vector database and use it to retrieve relevant information for tasks such as questions and answers, classification, or personalized recommendations. |
AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS Backup announces support for EBS Snapshots Archive in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, allowing customers to automatically move EBS Snapshots created by AWS Backup to EBS Snapshots Archive. EBS Snapshots Archive is low-cost, long-term storage tier meant for your rarely-accessed snapshots that do not need frequent or fast retrieval, allowing you to save up to 75% on storage cost. |
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Live Tail streaming CLI support
We are excited to announce streaming CLI support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, making it possible to view, search and filter relevant log events in real-time. You can now view your logs interactively in real-time as they’re ingested via AWS CLI or programmatically within your own custom dashboards inside or outside of AWS. |
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports .NET 8 on AL2023
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports .NET 8 on AL2023 Elastic Beanstalk environments. Elastic Beanstalk .NET 8 on AL2023 environments come with .NET 8.0 installed by default. See Release Notes for additional details. 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. .NET 8 on AL2023 runtime adds security improvements, such as support for the SHA-3 hashing algorithm, along with other updates including enhanced dynamic profile-guided optimization (PGO) that can lead to runtime performance improvements, and better garbage collection with the ability to adjust the memory limit on the fly. You can create Elastic Beanstalk environment(s) running .NET 8 on AL2023 using any of the Elastic Beanstalk interfaces such as Elastic Beanstalk Console, Elastic Beanstalk CLI, Elastic Beanstalk API, and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. |
AWS Batch introduces the Job Queue Snapshot to view jobs at the front of the job queues
AWS Batch now offers the Job Queue Snapshot feature, enabling you to observe the jobs at the front of your queues. This feature provides visibility to the existing AWS Batch Fair Share Scheduling capabilities. The Job Queue Snapshot displays the jobs at the front of your job queues to assist administrators. |
AWS CloudFormation Hooks is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS CloudFormation Hooks is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch, customers can deploy Hooks in these newly supported AWS Regions to help keep resources secure and compliant. |
AWS Transfer Family increases message size and throughput limits for AS2
AWS Transfer Family support for the Applicability Statement (AS2) protocol has increased its default message size limit from 50 MB to 1 GB and throughput limit from 30 to 100 message transfers per second. You will find these increased limits reflected on the AWS Transfer Family page within the Service Quotas console. These increased limits enable you to reliably connect with trading partners that frequently transmit sizable batches of AS2 messages. |
Announcing preview of the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP - BTP edition
The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP – BTP edition is now available in preview, making it easier for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) users to connect to AWS services, including the latest generative AI capabilities. With this new edition, SAP customers can develop and run powerful SAP extensions and standalone applications in SAP BTP that use AWS services. |
Amazon Connect now supports Apple Messages for Business
Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Messages for Business, enabling you to deliver personalized customer experiences on Apple Messages, the default messaging application on all iOS devices, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing costs. Rich messaging features such as link previews, quick replies, forms, attachments, customer authentication, iMessage apps, and Apple Pay allow customers to browse product recommendations, check shipments, schedule appointments, or make a payment. |
AWS Supply Chain Lead Time Insights enhances the support for data variability
Vendor Lead Time (VLT) Insights increases lead time deviation awareness, focusing on critical factors such as the vendor’s transportation mode and source locations. Users can identify lead time deviations at a more granular level and view them through the ASC Insights UI. Additionally, users can easily export all lead time deviations to combine with external sources for further analysis. |
AWS Marketplace announces amendments for AMI annual agreements
AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of amendments for annual agreements on Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products purchased on AWS Marketplace. This allows customers with annual agreements to switch the Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance types for the AMI solution they purchased from AWS Marketplace. |
Announcing AWS DMS Serverless improved Oracle to Redshift Full Load throughput
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports improved Oracle to Amazon Redshift Full Load throughput. Using AWS DMSS, you can now migrate data from Oracle databases to Amazon Redshift at much higher throughput rates, ranging from two to ten times faster than previously possible with AWS DMSS. |
Amazon Connect provides Zero-ETL analytics data lake to access contact center data
Amazon Connect announces the general availability of analytics data lake, a single source for contact center data including contact records, agent performance, Contact Lens insights, and more — eliminating the need to build and maintain complex data pipelines. Organizations can create their own custom reports using Amazon Connect data or combine data queried from third-party sources using zero-ETL. |
Amazon QuickSight launches multi column sorting for Tables
Amazon QuickSight now supports the ability to sort by multiple columns in Tables. This allows both authors and readers to sort by two or more columns simultaneously in a nested fashion (e.g., first by column A, then B, then C) using the new sorting pop over. They can add, remove, reorder and reset sort on a table. Readers can also perform multi column sort using hidden and off visual field as defined by the author or opt for single column sort from column header context menu as well. For more details refer to documentation. |
Real-time audio and Microsoft Server 2022 support are now available on Amazon AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets
Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces support for real-time audio conferencing on multi-session fleets. Additionally, you can now launch multi-session fleets powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2022 operating system and take the advantage of latest operating systems features. |
Amazon Cognito user pools now support the ability to customize access tokens
In December 2023, Amazon Cognito user pools announced the ability to enrich identity and access tokens with custom attributes in the form of OAuth 2.0 scopes and claims. Today, we are expanding this functionality to support complex custom attributes such as arrays, maps and JSON objects in both identity and access tokens. You can now make fine-grained authorization decisions using complex custom attributes in the token. This feature enables you to offer enhanced personalization and increased access control. You can also simplify migration and modernization of your applications to use Amazon Cognito with minimal or no changes to your applications. |
Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) adds support for Agents for Amazon Bedrock
Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), an open-source developer library, launched a new feature to ease the creation of Agents for Amazon Bedrock. |
AWS AppSync now supports long running events with asynchronous Lambda function invocations
AWS AppSync now allows customers to invoke their Lambda functions, configured as AppSync data sources, in an event-driven manner. This new capability enables asynchronous execution of Lambda functions, providing more flexibility and scalability for serverless and event-driven applications. |
Amazon Bedrock announces new Converse API
Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the new Converse API, which provides developers a consistent way to invoke Amazon Bedrock models removing the complexity to adjust for model-specific differences such as inference parameters. This API also simplifies managing multi-turn conversations by enabling developers to provide conversational history in a structured way as part of the API request. Furthermore, Converse API supports Tool use (function calling), which for supported models (Anthropic's Claude 3 model family including Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku; Mistral Large; and Cohere’s Command R and R+), will enable developers to perform a wide variety of tasks that require access to external tools and APIs. The Converse API provides a consistent experience that works with Amazon Bedrock models, removing the need for developers to manage any model-specific implementation. With this API, you can write a code once and use it seamlessly with different models on Amazon Bedrock. |
Introducing versioning for AWS WAF Bot & Fraud Control managed rule groups
AWS WAF now allows you to select specific versions of Bot Control and Fraud Control managed rule groups within your web ACLs. This provides greater control over managing traffic when AWS makes new managed rule groups updates available to you. |
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in Region Europe (Zurich) and Europe (Spain)
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in AWS Europe (Zurich) and Europe (Spain) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications. |
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds new API request metrics for improved observability
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now emits 12 new Amazon CloudWatch metrics allowing you to monitor API request rates for create, delete, get, list, and update API calls for Schedules and ScheduleGroups. You can now more effectively monitor your application’s performance when making calls to Scheduler’s APIs and proactively identify when you may need to increase your Scheduler service quotas. |
Amazon QuickSight is now available in Milan, Zurich, Cape Town and Jakarta Regions
Amazon QuickSight, which lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization and embed data visualizations into your apps, is now available in Milan, Zurich, Cape Town and Jakarta Regions. New accounts are able to sign up for QuickSight with Milan, Zurich, Cape Town or Jakarta as their primary region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Users on existing QuickSight accounts can now switch regions with the region switcher and create SPICE datasets in the new regions. |
One-click instance profile creation to launch an RDS Custom for SQL Server instance
Starting today, RDS Custom for SQL Server database instance creation is simplified with single-click creation and attachment of an instance profile. You can choose “Create a new instance profile” and provide an instance profile name for Create database, Restore snapshot, and Restore to Point-in-time options within RDS Management Console. RDS Management Console will automatically generate a new instance profile with all the necessary permissions for RDS Custom automation tasks. |
Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku now available in Amazon Bedrock in the Europe (Frankfurt) region
Beginning today, customers in the Europe (Frankfurt) region can access Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku in Amazon Bedrock to easily build and scale generative AI applications. |
Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.7
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.7 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka version 3.7 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key improvements include latency improvements resulting from leader discovery optimizations during leadership changes, as well as log segment flush optimization options. For more details and a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.7. |
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys supports 6 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys are now available in six additional AWS Regions. |
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 10x faster startup time
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 10x faster startup time, enabling users to achieve faster business outcomes using a visual, no-code interface for machine learning (ML). With a faster startup time, you can now quickly prepare data, build, customize, and deploy machine learning (ML) and generative AI (Gen AI) models in SageMaker Canvas, without writing a single line of code. SageMaker Canvas can be launched using multiple methods including using your corporate credentials with a single sign-on portal such as AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC), Amazon SageMaker Studio, the AWS Management Console, or a pre-signed URL set up by IT administrators. Now, launching Canvas is quicker than ever using any of these methods. You can launch Canvas in less than a minute and get started with your ML journey 10x faster than before. Starting today, all new user profiles created in existing or new SageMaker domains can experience this accelerated startup time. Faster startup time is available in all AWS regions where SageMaker Canvas is supported today. Please see the SageMaker Canvas product page to learn more. |
Introducing the Document widget for PartyRock
Everyone can build, use, and share generative AI powered apps for fun and for boosting personal productivity using PartyRock. PartyRock uses foundation models from Amazon Bedrock to turn your ideas into working PartyRock apps. |
Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS US East (Atlanta) Local Zone
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS US East (Atlanta) Local Zone. |
Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances
Amazon Web Services is announcing general availability for Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances, the first DDR5 memory based 8-socket offering by a leading cloud provider, offering up to 32TiB of memory and 896 vCPUs. Powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7i instances have twice as many vCPUs, delivering more than 135% compute performance and up to 45% better price performance versus existing U-1 instances. Combining the largest memory sizes with the highest vCPU count in the AWS cloud, these instances are ideal to run large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server and compute-intensive workloads such as large language models. |
Amazon MSK launches support for KRaft mode for new Apache Kafka clusters
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports KRaft mode (Apache Kafka Raft) in Apache Kafka version 3.7. The Apache Kafka community developed KRaft to replace Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management in Apache Kafka clusters. In KRaft mode, cluster metadata is propagated within a group of Kafka controllers, which are part of the Kafka cluster, versus across ZooKeeper nodes. On Amazon MSK, like with ZooKeeper nodes, KRaft controllers are included at no additional cost to you, and require no additional setup or management. |
Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Resource-based policies help you simplify access control for your DynamoDB resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify the Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals that have access to a resource and what actions they can perform on it. You can attach a resource-based policy to a DynamoDB table or a stream. The resource-based policy that you attach to a table can include access permissions to its indexes. The resource-based policy that you attach to a stream can include access permissions to the stream. With resource-based policies, you can also simplify cross-account access control for sharing resources with IAM principals of different AWS accounts. |
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS China (Ningxia) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists can now use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications. |
Amazon DynamoDB local supports configurable maximum throughput for on-demand tables
Amazon DynamoDB local now supports configurable maximum throughput for individual on-demand tables and associated secondary indexes. Customers can use the configurable maximum throughput for on-demand tables feature for predictable cost management, protection against accidental surge in consumed resources and excessive use, and safe guarding downstream services with fixed capacities from potential overloading and performance bottlenecks. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test your application with managing maximum on-demand table throughput, making it easier to validate the use of the supported API actions before releasing code to production. |
Amazon CloudWatch now offers 30 days of alarm history
Amazon CloudWatch extended the duration during which customers can access their alarm history. Now, customers can view the history of their alarm state changes for up to 30 days prior. |
New Oracle to PostgreSQL built-in system functions in DMS Schema Conversion
DMS Schema Conversion has released five generative artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted built-in functions to improve Oracle to PostgreSQL conversions. This launch marked the first ever gen AI-assisted conversion improvement in DMS Schema Conversion. Customers can use these functions by applying the DMS Schema Conversion extension pack. The extension pack is an add-on module that emulates source database functions that aren't supported in the target database and can streamline the conversion step. DMS Schema Conversion is generally available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore). To learn more, visit Converting database schemas using DMS Schema Conversion. For more details on how to apply extension pack, go to Using extension packs in DMS Schema Conversion. |
AWS Network Firewall increases quota for stateful rules
The AWS Network Firewall service quota limit for stateful rules is now adjustable. The default limit is still 30,000 stateful rules per firewall policy in a Region, but you can request an increase up to 50,000. This firewall rule limit increase helps customers strengthen their security posture on AWS and mitigate emerging threats more effectively. |
Mistral Small foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
The Mistral Small foundation model from Mistral AI is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. You can now access four high-performing models from Mistral AI in Amazon Bedrock including Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Mistral 7B, and Mixtral 8x7B, further expanding model choice. Mistral Small is a highly efficient large language model optimized for high-volume, low-latency language-based tasks. It provides outstanding performance at a cost-effective price point. Key features of Mistral Small include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) specialization, coding proficiency, and multilingual capabilities. |
PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. |
Connect your Jupyter notebooks to Amazon EMR Serverless using Apache Livy endpoints
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless now supports endpoints for Apache Livy. Customers can now securely connect their Jupyter notebooks and manage Apache Spark workloads using Livy’s REST interface. |
AWS Launches Console-based Bulk Policy Migration for Billing and Cost Management Console Access
AWS Billing and Cost Management console now supports a console-based simplified migration experience for affected policies containing retired IAM actions (aws-portal). Customers, who are not migrated to using fine-grained IAM actions, can trigger this experience by clicking on Update IAM Policies recommended action available on the Billing and Cost Management home page. The experience identifies affected policies, suggests equivalent new actions to match customers’ current access, provides testing options, and completes the migration of all affected policies across the organization. |
AWS Chatbot now supports tagging of AWS Chatbot resources
AWS Chatbot now enables customers to tag AWS Chatbot resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources such as AWS Chatbot channel configurations to easily organize, search, identify resources, and control access. |
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.30
Kubernetes version 1.30 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.30. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using v1.30 and upgrade your existing clusters to v1.30 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool. |
Introducing the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector for Amazon EMR
We are excited to announce the launch of the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Connector for Spark Structured Streaming on Amazon EMR. The new connector makes it easy for you to build real-time streaming applications and pipelines that consume Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Apache Spark Structured Streaming. Starting Amazon EMR 7.1, the connector comes pre-packaged on Amazon EMR on EKS, EMR on EC2 and EMR Serverless. Now, you do not need to build or download any packages and can focus on building your business logic using the familiar and optimized Spark Data Source APIs when consuming data from your Kinesis data streams. |
New open-source AWS Advanced Python Wrapper driver now available for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Python Wrapper driver is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible edition database clusters. This database driver provides support for faster switchover and failover times, and authentication with AWS Secrets Manager or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). |
AWS re:Post Private is now available in five new regions
AWS re:Post Private is now available in five new regions: US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). |
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Chicago, Illinois
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Coresite CH1 data center in Chicago, Illinois. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Illinois 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 fourth AWS Direct Connect site within Chicago Metropolitan area and the 44th site in the United States. |
Amazon EC2 M7i-flex, M7i, C7i, and R7i instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex, M7i, C7i are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. In addition, Amazon EC2 M7i-flex, M7i and R7i instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids)custom processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. |
Amazon QuickSight launches public API for SPICE CMK Data Encryption
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of public API support for Customer Managed Keys (CMK) to encrypt and manage SPICE datasets. Previously, customers were required to manually configure CMK data encryption keys via the QuickSight console UI. Now with this API enhancement, QuickSight users can programmatically opt in and configure the customer managed keys, seamlessly integrating it into their adoption and migration pipeline. Once turned on, the feature would benefit QuickSight users to 1/ be able to revoke access to SPICE datasets with one click, and 2/ maintain an auditable log that tracks how SPICE datasets are accessed. For further details, visit here. |
AWS Lambda console now supports sharing test events between developers in additional regions
Developers can now share test events with other developers in their AWS account in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE). Test events provide developers the ability to define a sample event in the Lambda console, and then invoke a Lambda function using that event to test their code. Previously in the above mentioned regions, test events were only available to the developers who created them. With this launch, developers can make test events available to other team members in their AWS account using granular IAM permissions. This capability makes it easier for developers to collaborate and streamline testing workflows. It also allows developers to use a consistent set of test events across their entire team. |
Amazon RDS Extended Support APIs are now available
Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) announce the availability of Extended Support APIs for automated database management. You can use these APIs to create new databases or restore existing snapshots, and specify whether or not they will be in Extended Support. You can also use these APIs to view the Extended Support status of your existing databases. When your databases are in Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases after the community ends support for a major version, to give you time to upgrade to a newer community-supported version. |
Amazon MWAA supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in US and Canada Regions
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to help you protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Amazon MWAA for regulated workloads. |
Amazon SES launches Mail Manager to help manage complex inbound and outbound email workloads
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces the general availability of Mail Manager, a suite of email management features designed to streamline complex email operations for businesses of all sizes. With Mail Manager, companies can centralize their email infrastructure, applying unified policies and rules to manage both inbound and outbound email flows through a single interface. Mail Manager allows organizations to set up dedicated email ingress endpoints, enforce sophisticated email traffic filtering policies such as IP filters, and utilize a powerful rules engine to process and route emails to intended destinations. Mail Manager provides customers archiving capabilities to meet their compliance needs with records retention and data protection. At launch, Mail Manager will offer three initial Email Add Ons, developed with Spamhaus, Abusix, and Trend Micro, to provide email security features. These add-ons offer additional layers of protection and control, enhancing the overall security posture of your email operations. Mail Manager is generally available, and you can use it in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney). To learn more, see the documentation on Mail Manager in the Amazon SES Developer Guide and the blog post. To start using Mail Manager, visit the Amazon SES console. |
Amazon Braket adds new quantum processor from IQM in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now supports Garnet, a new high-fidelity 20-qubit superconducting quantum processing unit (QPU) from IQM, expanding Braket to the European Union for the first time. Researchers and developers in Europe, the Middle-East, and Asia Pacific can now conveniently explore this high-fidelity device during their work hours and accelerate their research in quantum computing. You can access the Garnet QPU from the Europe (Stockholm) Region. Researchers at accredited institutions can apply for credits to support experiments on Amazon Braket through the AWS Cloud Credits for Research program. To get started with the new Garnet QPU, please see the following resources: |
AWS Entity Resolution expands support for customer compliance with ISO and SOC
AWS Entity Resolution has added certification for System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports. Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through audits of its controls to help appropriately manage information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information. |
Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 now available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3, a new efficient way for customers to query operational logs in Amazon S3 data lakes eliminating the need to switch between tools to analyze data. Customers can quickly get started by installing out-of-the-box dashboards for AWS log types such as VPC Flow, WAF, and Elastic Load Balancer. |
Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 6 additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Zurich), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. |
AWS announces new edge location in Egypt
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in Egypt by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Cairo, Egypt. Customers in Egypt can expect up to 30% improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video with low latency and high performance. |
Announcing support for Sigv4A with session tokens issued in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is announcing support for signing AWS API requests with the Sigv4A encryption algorithm using session tokens issued in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Cryptographically signing an AWS request with the Sigv4A algorithm allows you to send the request to service endpoints in any of the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. If workloads or callers in your account intend to sign AWS requests using Sigv4A, or you plan to adopt a specific AWS feature that requires it, configure the AWS Security Token Service (STS) endpoint in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region to vend session tokens that support the Sigv4A algorithm. You can configure this behavior either using the AWS IAM Console or calling the AWS IAM SetSecurityTokenServicePreferences API. Session tokens that support the Sigv4A algorithm are larger in size and match the size of session tokens issued by the STS endpoint in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, which already supports the use of Sigv4A. |
Announcing LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune to build GraphRAG applications
Starting today, you can build Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) applications by combining knowledge graphs stored in Amazon Neptune and LlamaIndex, a popular open-source framework for building applications with Large Language Models (LLM) such as those available in Amazon Bedrock. |
AWS Glue now supports native SaaS connectivity: Salesforce connector available now
AWS Glue now supports SaaS connectivity with out-of-the-box support for Salesforce enabling users to quickly preview and transfer their CRM data, query, detect schema and schedule jobs. |
Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports improved filtering capabilities for event matching
Amazon EventBridge event matching on Event Bus now supports an array of values when combining anything-but filtering (matching anything except for the value) with prefix filtering (matching against characters at the beginning of a value), suffix filtering (matching against characters at the end of a value), and wildcard filtering (matching against patterns in string values). For example, you can now match against values that do not end with specific file types such as .png and .jpg. Or you can match against values that do not have a specific filename path such as */lib/* and */bin/*. |
Amazon Redshift announces Snapshot Isolation as the default for new cluster creates and restores
Starting today, Amazon Redshift is making snapshot isolation as the default for provisioned clusters when you create a new cluster or restore a cluster from a snapshot. The database isolation level will remain unchanged on your existing provisioned clusters unless explicitly changed. You can switch to serializable at any time if it is your preferred database isolation level. This change makes the product experience consistent for both Provisioned and Serverless which already uses snapshot isolation as default. |
Amazon EC2 M7i-flex, M7i, and C7i instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex, M7i, and C7i instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) 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. |
AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with a new parameter for DeleteStack API
AWS CloudFormation launches a new parameter called DeletionMode for the DeleteStack API. This new parameter allows customers to safely delete their CloudFormation stacks that are in DELETE_FAILED state. |
Amazon Security Lake now supports logs from AWS WAF
Today, AWS announces the expansion in the log coverage support for Amazon Security Lake, now including AWS Web Application Firewall Logs (AWS WAF). This enhancement allows you to automatically centralize and normalize your AWS WAF web ACL logs in Security Lake. You can easily analyze your log data to determine if a suspicious IP address is interacting with your environment, monitor trends in denied requests to identify new exploitation campaigns, or conduct analytics to determine anomalous successful access by previously blocked hosts. This enables you to monitor and investigate potential suspicious activities in your web applications. |
RDS Performance Insights provides fine grained access control
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now provides fine-grained access control for the performance data that it collects. Customers can create new IAM policies or update existing IAM policies to enforce fine-grained access to Performance Insights data through the console or APIs. |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.13
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.13 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.13, we have made several improvements to search performance and resiliency, OpenSearch Dashboards, and added new features to help you build AI-powered applications. We have introduced concurrent segment search that allows users to query index segments in parallel at the shard level. This offers improved latency for long-running requests that contain aggregations or large ranges. You can now index quantized vectors with FAISS-engine-based k-NN indexes, with potential to reduce memory footprint by as much as 50 percent with minimal impact to accuracy and latency. I/O-based admission control proactively monitors and prevents I/O usage breaches to further improve the resilience of the cluster. |