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Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault
Today, AWS Backup announces the general availability of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. |
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku now available in more regions
Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock customers in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) can now access Claude 3 Haiku. |
Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub
Cost Optimization Hub is an AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend. Starting today, you can designate a member account as the delegated administrator, allowing that account to view cost optimization recommendations in the Cost Optimization Hub with administrator privileges, giving you greater flexibility to identify resource optimization opportunities centrally. |
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Paris) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Paris) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. |
Amazon EFS now supports up to 30 GiB/s (a 50% increase) of read throughput
Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In March 2024, we increased the Elastic Throughput read throughput limit to 20 GiB/s (from 10 GiB/s) to support the growing demand for read-heavy workloads such as AI and machine learning. Now, we are further increasing the read throughput to 30 GiB/s, extending EFS’s simple, fully elastic, and provisioning-free experience to support throughput-intensive AI and machine learning workloads for model training, inference, financial analytics, and genomic data analysis. |
Announcing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP for Windows
Amazon WorkSpaces is introducing G4dn WorkSpaces Personal bundles with WSP (WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol) for Windows. Now you can run your graphics-intensive and accelerated applications on Windows using G4dn WorkSpaces with WSP on AWS. |
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 18TiB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. |
Introducing Titan Image Generator v2 now available on Amazon Bedrock
We’re excited to announce the launch of Amazon Titan Image Generator v2, a new image generation model which brings to customers additional control and flexibility - including image conditioning using ControlNet, subject consistency, and background removal. |
Large language models powered by Amazon Sagemaker Jumpstart available in Redshift ML
Amazon Redshift ML enables customers to create, train, and deploy machine learning models on their Redshift data using familiar SQL commands. Now, you can leverage pretrained publicly available LLMs in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart as part of Redshift ML. For example, you can use LLMs to summarize feedback, perform entity extraction, and conduct sentiment analysis on data in your Redshift table. Large Language Models in Redshift ML is now generally available which empowers you to bring the power of generative AI to your data warehouse. |
Simplified Migration Acceleration Program for VMware funding experience in AWS Partner Central
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces a simplified Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) template in AWS Partner Central that includes the VMware Strategic Partner Incentive (SPI). Eligible AWS Partners can leverage the enhanced MAP template to accelerate more VMware customer migration opportunities with a simple approval workflow and access to SPIs. |
New version of Amazon ECR basic scanning is now generally available
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announced the general availability of a new version of basic scanning. The new version of ECR basic scanning uses Amazon’s native scanning technology, which is designed to provide customers with improved scanning results and vulnerability detection across a broad set of popular operating systems. This allows customers to further strengthen the security of their container images. |
AWS Control Tower releases 2 new descriptive control APIs
AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically get descriptions for managed controls. These APIs enable automation of AWS Control Tower’s library of managed controls improving ease of use for control deployment. With this release customers can extend AWS Control Tower governance into regions where some of their enabled controls are not available. Customers can also enable a control in additional Regions, even though the control is not supported in all of their governed Regions. AWS Control Tower now supports the below APIs:
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Announcing Terraform support Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Deployments
We are excited to announce the launch of Terraform compatibility for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. Terraform support enables you to automate and streamline your time-series data management workflows with infrastructure-as-code (IaC). |
Amazon OpenSearch Service OR1 instances now available in Sao Paulo
OR1, the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family, is now available in South America (Sao Paulo). OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. The new OR1 instances are best suited for indexing-heavy workloads, and offers better indexing performance compared to the existing memory optimized instances available on OpenSearch Service. |
Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to disallow password reuse and stream security events
Amazon Cognito enhances Advanced Security Features (ASF) to address additional enterprise needs. You now have the option to disallow users from reusing previous passwords, helping you address compliance needs. Additionally, you now have the option to stream security events from ASF to an Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, or CloudWatch Insights. This allows you to combine ASF events with security signals from other AWS and third-party tools, helping you gain better insights and elevating security. To get started, see the following resources: |
Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules
Amazon Connect now supports additional agent scheduling staffing rules, making it easier to schedule agents while complying with labor, union, and other contractual rules. You can now configure five new rules for scheduling agents in Amazon Connect: minimum rest period between shifts, minimum rest period per week, maximum consecutive working days, maximum consecutive day of the week worked, and shift cannot start earlier than the previous day's shift. Once configured, these rules will be applied when new schedules are generated as well as when existing schedules are edited. These additional rules in agent scheduling make day-to-day management of agent schedules easier for managers. |
Elastic Load Balancing Trust Store now supports cross-account sharing using AWS Resource Access Manager
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Trust Stores now supports a new capability that enables cross-account sharing via AWS RAM (Resource Access Manager). This feature allows customers to centrally manage their ELB Trust Stores across multiple accounts to streamline trust store management and enable consistent Mutual TLS configurations across Application Load Balancers (ALBs). |
AWS CodeBuild now supports three new Arm-based compute types
AWS CodeBuild now supports building and testing your software applications on three new Arm-based compute types: Medium, X-Large and 2X-Large. You can select up to 48 vCPUs and 96 GB memory to run more resource-intensive workloads. |
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2024 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. |
AWS Resilience Hub introduces improved resource grouping capabilities
Today, AWS Resilience Hub is launching improved resource grouping to more intelligently group your resources into Application Components, which are resources that work and fail as a single unit, when onboarding your application. |
Amazon DataZone offers business use case-based grouping with data products
Today, Amazon DataZone introduces data products, which enable the grouping of data assets into well-defined, self-contained packages tailored for specific business use cases. For example, a marketing analysis data product can bundle various data assets, such as marketing campaign data, pipeline data, and customer data. With data products, customers can simplify discovery and subscription processes, aligning them with business objectives and reducing redundancy in handling individual assets. |
Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces cloud desktops
Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Amazon WorkSpaces client application for a supported device or a web browser and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries. |
Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for OIDC identity providers
Amazon Verified Permissions has simplified implementing fine-grained authorization for developers using third party identity providers, such as Okta, CyberArk and Transmit security. Developers can now authorize user actions, based on attributes and group memberships, managed within their own open id connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. For example, in a insurance claims processing application, you can authorize that only users in the “manager” group who completed the “high value claim training” are allowed to approve claims for more than $10,000. |
Amazon DataZone achieves PCI DSS Certification
Amazon DataZone has obtained the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance certification, demonstrating that it meets requirements established by the PCI Security Standards Council for handling payment account data securely, as required by financial and insurance industry customers handling credit card payments. |
AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions across Europe and Asia
AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions - Europe(Frankfurt), Europe(Ireland), Asia Pacific(Singapore) and Asia Pacific(Tokyo). Adding new regional support allows customers with low-latency payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support. Customers using AWS Payment Cryptography can simplify cryptography operations in their payment applications with a service that grows elastically, provides modern APIs and integrates into AWS services such as IAM and CloudTrail. |
Amazon Connect launches the ability to configure when whisper flows are used
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to configure when whisper flows are used during a contact to optimize flow performance. A whisper flow is what a customer or agent experiences during the moment when they are connected to each other in a voice or chat conversation. With this launch, you can turn off whisper flows, helping you further optimize your flow’s performance and reduce contact duration. For example, you can choose to turn off whisper flows during an outbound or callback scenario to save time when the agent and customer are expecting the contact. |
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) expands DMS homogeneous data migrations feature to 29 AWS regions
In June 2023, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) launched a homogeneous data migration feature to simplify and accelerate like-to-like migrations to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora. |
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in six additional regions
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. |
Announcing purchase order support for AWS Data Exchange private offers
Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to AWS Data exchange private offers, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order number. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. |
AWS Systems Manager launches API support for Quick Setup
Quick Setup, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, provides an intuitive console experience for configuring frequently used Amazon Web Services features and services with recommended best practices. With just a few clicks, customers can enable common configurations and best practices across accounts and regions. This includes enabling auto-updates for popular AWS agents, such as the CloudWatch agent, defining patch schedules and baselines for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, or configuring AWS Resource Explorer to search and discover resources in AWS accounts or across an entire AWS Organization. |
New Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for Amazon EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservations
Today, we are introducing new Amazon CloudWatch(CW) dimensions for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations(ODCR). The existing CW metrics for On-Demand Capacity Reservations can now be grouped using the following new dimensions: Availability Zone, Instance Match Criteria, Instance Type, Platform, Tenancy, or across all Capacity Reservations. You can group the metrics by any of these dimensions, within selected region. |
AWS CodePipeline introduces stage level conditions to implement pipeline gates
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines now support stage level conditions to enable development teams to safely release changes that meet quality and compliance requirements. Customers can configure stage level conditions to gate a pipeline execution before entering the stage, and before exiting a stage - when all actions in the stage have completed successfully, or when any action in the stage has failed. A condition consists of one or more rules, and a result to apply when the condition fails. Customers can configure a stage level condition from the console, API, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDK. |
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports integration of transaction log backup with DMS
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now integrates transaction log backups with Database Migration Service (DMS). This integration provides greater reliability in data replication for customers using DMS to replicate data from an RDS for SQL Server source database. If database connection interruptions or sudden transaction volume spikes cause active transaction logs to be archived before DMS can finish processing, DMS can now access the RDS for SQL Server backup logs to recover and resume replication. This prevents replication failures that would previously require a full data reload. |
Amazon Bedrock achieves FedRAMP High authorization
Amazon Bedrock is a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage Amazon Bedrock to access fully managed large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs). To learn more about Amazon Bedrock security and compliance, visit the webpage here. |
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the Europe (Spain) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. You can create DAX clusters using Amazon EC2 R5 and T3 instance types in these AWS Regions for applications that require microsecond latency. |
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers Microsoft Visual Studio
Today Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core are announcing the general availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 on WorkSpaces Personal. Following this launch, WorkSpaces administrators can provide comprehensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for .NET and C++ developers on Windows powered WorkSpaces. |
AWS CodeBuild now supports VPC-connectivity on Windows
AWS CodeBuild now supports connecting your Windows builds to your Amazon VPC resources. This new capability allows CodeBuild to access your VPC resources without requiring internet access. CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. |
Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client has received Carbon Trust verification for the product's carbon footprint
We are happy to announce that the product carbon footprint of Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client has been verified by the Carbon Trust. This verification is based on measurement and estimation of the product's carbon footprint throughout the stages of its lifecycle. |
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports version 8.4 in RDS Database preview environment
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version 8.4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 8.4 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. |
Llama 3 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
As of today, Amazon Bedrock customers can use Meta’s Llama 3 models, Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. |
AWS Application Migration Service supports New Relic post-launch action
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing New Relic’s infrastructure agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the New Relic infrastructure agent to support your observability needs. |
Amazon Redshift releases drivers for supporting single sign-on with AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon Redshift customers can now connect to their data warehouses via JDBC/ODBC/Python drivers with corporate identity by integrating their identity providers with AWS IAM Identity Center, which enables a seamless single-sign-on experience with other AWS services or Redshift tools that already support trusted identity propagation. With single sign-on capabilities, users can seamlessly access Amazon Redshift and other AWS services without the need to manage multiple sets of credentials. |
Amazon Connect now enables agents to view pre-approved windows when scheduling time off
Amazon Connect now enables agents to view pre-approved time off windows for their scheduling group (group allowance), making it easier for agents to identify available options when requesting time off. For example, when creating a time off request for 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., an agent can now see that while there is available group allowance for 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., there isn’t any remaining allowance for 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Agents can then modify their time off request before submitting or request a supervisor override. This launch simplifies the time off process for agents by letting them evaluate which days have the required allowance before submitting the request. |
Announcing fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation with EMR Serverless
We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Serverless. This enables you to enforce full FGAC (database, table, column, row and cell-level) policies defined in Lake Formation to take effect for your data lake tables from your EMR Serverless Spark jobs and interactive sessions. |
AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances now support hibernation
Starting today, customers can hibernate their EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton processors. Hibernation helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. |
Amazon Connect now supports Inbound DID calling in Vietnam
Amazon Connect has expanded availability to support Inbound Direct Dial (DID) telephone numbers and guaranteed number presentation for in-country calling for Vietnam from the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. |
Amazon Neptune Analytics now introduces new smaller capacity units
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Neptune Analytics now offers 32 and 64 m-NCU (Neptune Memory Capacity Units) capacity units, expanding beyond the current range of 128 to 1024 m-NCUs. This enhancement provides greater flexibility and cost efficiency for smaller graph sizes, making it easier and more affordable to get started with vector search, graph algorithms, and graph RAG. Data Scientists and developers can now start with the smaller capacity units, significantly reducing costs while meeting their specific needs during the initial stages of development. |
Create an AWS Account using your bank account available in Germany
Customers in Germany can now create an AWS Account using their bank account. Upon signup, customers with a Germany billing address can now securely connect their bank account which supports the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) standard. Until today, signing up for an AWS account was only permitted with a debit or credit card. With this release, customers in Germany can choose to use their card or securely connect their bank account. |
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports Flexible Instance Types launch setting
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) introduces Flexible Instance Types, a new capability that reduces the likelihood of failed recovery attempts or prolonged downtime due to capacity shortage. This feature allows you to create a list of optional instance types that can be used during a launch, based on specific attributes. By defining a range of acceptable instance types upfront, you can increase the chances of finding available resources, even in situations where capacity is constrained. |
AWS IoT SiteWise Edge on Siemens Industrial Edge is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge on Siemens Industrial Edge, offering customers a seamless way to bridge the gap between OT (Operational Technology) and IT (Information Technology) to solve industrial operational challenges. This new offering allows customers to easily connect and collect data from their industrial equipment using Siemens Industrial Edge connectivity applications and send it to the cloud using AWS IoT SiteWise Edge. Users such as process engineers and maintenance technicians can use applications on Siemens Industrial Edge to gain insights or send the data to AWS IoT SiteWise to organize, standardize, and store data for driving critical use cases such as asset monitoring, predictive maintenance, energy monitoring, and building industrial data lakes. |
Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux Application and Desktop streaming
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, enabling ISVs and central IT organizations to stream Red Hat Enterprise Linux apps and desktops to users 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux 2, and Microsoft Windows. |
Amazon EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling now support using custom identifiers to reference Amazon Machine Images (AMI) in EC2 Fleet launch requests and Auto Scaling groups configured to choose from a diversified list of instance types. You can create these identifiers using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and use the parameters to reference your AMI during instance launch. These AMI references simplify your automation as you no longer need to modify your code every time a new version of an AMI is created. |
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides downloadable screen recordings
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides the ability to download screen recordings from the contact details page in the Amazon Connect UI, for customers that use Contact Lens screen recording. With this launch, managers can evaluate contact quality and agent performance via offline reviews, as well as review downloaded screen recordings with agents for coaching. This launch also provides a new permission to manage who can download screen recordings. |
Build your event-driven application using AWS CloudFormation Git sync status changes
AWS CloudFormation Git sync now publishes sync status changes as events to Amazon Eventbridge. With this launch, you can subscribe to new deployment sync events that shows your Git repositories or resource sync status changes. You can also get instant notification and build on top of it to further automate your GitOps workflow. With EventBridge, you can take advantage of a serverless event bus to easily connect and route events between many AWS services and third-party applications. Events are delivered to EventBridge in near real-time, and you can write simple rules to listen for specific events. |
Amazon Q Business launches support for cross-region AWS IAM Identity Center access
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that enhances workforce productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customer's enterprise data. AWS IAM Identity Center helps set up and centrally manage workforce user identity and their access to their AWS accounts and applications. Q Business is integrated with IAM Identity Center so that workforce users can securely and privately access enterprise content using web applications built with Q Business. |
Introducing AWS End User Messaging
Today, we announce AWS End User Messaging as the new name for Amazon Pinpoint’s SMS, MMS, push, and text to voice messaging capabilities. We are making this change to simplify how you manage end user communications across your applications and other AWS services. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Developers can integrate messaging to support uses cases such as one-time passcodes (OTP) at sign-ups, account updates, appointment reminders, delivery notifications, promotions and more. |
Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.18
Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.18, which introduces several improvements and fixes compared to the previous version of ActiveMQ supported by Amazon MQ. These enhancements include initial support for the JMS 2.0 simplified APIs, such as JMSContext, JMSProducer, and JMSConsumer, as well as the implementation of methods for XA transactions. Starting from ActiveMQ 5.18, Amazon MQ will manage patch version upgrades for your brokers. All brokers on ActiveMQ version 5.18 will be automatically upgraded to the next compatible and secure patch version in your scheduled maintenance window. |
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports SRT caller input
You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to receive sources using SRT caller. |
Meta Llama 3.1 405B now generally available in Amazon Bedrock
The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are available in Amazon Bedrock. Starting today, the Llama 3.1 405B model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications. |
AWS launches a self-guided journey for AWS Partners enrolled on the Services Path
AWS is launching a self-guided experience to help AWS Partners on the Services Path reach the Advanced tier. This experience includes personalized Tasks in Partner Central that offer tips and resources for both new and existing partners to advance in their AWS journey, unlocking access to programs like Specialization and enhancing their discoverability for AWS customers and AWS sales teams. In addition, AWS Partners who provide managed services will receive personalized tasks including the new AWS MSP Practice Building Guide. |
AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region
You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 33 AWS Regions globally. |
Amazon SageMaker launches faster auto-scaling for Generative AI models
We are excited to announce a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Inference that helps customers reduce the time it takes for their Generative AI models to scale automatically. They can now use sub-minute metrics and significantly reduce overall scaling latency for AI models. Using this enhancement customers can improve the responsiveness of their Generative AI applications as demand fluctuates. |
Amazon GameLift now supports AWS Nigeria Local Zone
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to the AWS Nigeria region Local Zone, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into the Nigeria Local Zone to reach players across the continent of Africa.
To get started, visit the Amazon GameLift documentation to see a complete list of regions. |
AWS HealthImaging announces enhanced copy and update capabilities
AWS HealthImaging adds new copy and update capabilities, making it easier than ever to manage your medical imaging data. With this launch, you can more efficiently organize, combine, and update your medical imaging data to support common clinical and research workflows. |
Amazon ECR repository creation templates are now generally available
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is announcing the general availability of repository creation templates, which allow customers to specify initial configuration for repositories that are automatically created by ECR via pull through cache and replication. ECR customers can specify configuration for these repositories, including encryption settings, lifecycle policies, and repository permissions. This enables customers to define custom configurations and assign them as defaults for various use cases within their registries. |
AWS Step Functions now supports Customer Managed Keys
AWS Step Functions now supports the use of Customer Managed Keys with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt Step Functions State Machine and Activity resources. This new capability enables you to encrypt your workflow definitions and execution data using your own encryption keys. |
CloudWatch RUM PutRumEvents API now supports data event logging in AWS CloudTrail
CloudWatch RUM, which helps you perform real user monitoring by collecting client-side data of application performance and user interactions in real time, now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for PutRumEvents API, enabling enhanced data visibility for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. |
AWS Clean Rooms launches new capabilities for entity resolution, ML modeling, privacy, and analysis controls
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces four new enhancements: the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution on Clean Rooms, additional privacy controls for data analyses, a feature to configure which collaborators receive analyses results, and the ability to generate seed data for lookalike modeling using SQL. These capabilities help you improve data matching, and give you increased control and flexibility for data collaborations. |
Announcing 24 months support for Amazon EMR
Today, Amazon EMR announces 24 month support for Amazon EMR release versions. Amazon EMR aims to get the latest open-source versions of its Core Engines and Open Table Formats into your hands within 90 days from their upstream release. This extended support period gives customers peace of mind and a predictable timeline for budgeting, testing, and transitioning workloads. |
Amazon EC2 D3en instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3en instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. D3en instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3en instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or on-premises infrastructure to a platform optimized for dense HDD storage workloads. |
AWS DataSync expands support for agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions
AWS DataSync now supports agentless cross-region data transfers between all regions in the commercial AWS partition, including opt-in regions. With this update, you can now transfer millions of files or objects between AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in different regions without deploying or managing a DataSync agent. |
AWS Signer open sources Notation plugin for container image signing
Today, AWS open-sourced the AWS Signer plugin for Notation, giving customers flexibility and transparency in how they sign and verify container images with AWS Signer, a managed signing service. Notation is an open source tool developed by the Notary Project, an industry standard for securing software supply chains by authenticating container images and other OCI artifacts. The plugin extends Notation with Signer managed secrets and revocation capabilities. Customers can now incorporate the Signer plugin as a library inside their native tools to generate and verify container artifacts signatures. |
Mistral Large 2 foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 (24.07) foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This model is the latest version of Mistral AI's flagship large language model, Mistral Large (24.02), with significant improvements on multilingual accuracy, conversational behavior, coding capabilities, reasoning and instruction-following behavior. |
AWS Cost Categories now supports “Billing Entity” dimension
AWS Cost Categories has added a new dimension “Billing Entity” to its rules. You can now use eight types of dimensions: “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service”, "Usage Type", “Cost Allocation Tags”, “Region”, “Billing Entity” and other “Cost Category” while creating cost categories rules. |
Meta Llama 3.1 generative AI models now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
The most advanced and capable Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models and built-in algorithms to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3.1 models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. |
Meta Llama 3.1 generative AI models now available in Amazon Bedrock
The most advanced Meta Llama models to date, Llama 3.1, are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers a turnkey way to build generative AI applications with Llama. Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications. |
AWS Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica is now generally available
We are excited to announce public availability of Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica. This new capability enables automated conversion of legacy code written in Assembler language to COBOL. The majority of mainframe environments include Assembler code that is expensive to maintain. Modernization of the code unblocks modernization projects to enable refactor projects, replatform projects, on-mainframe modernization initiatives, within AWS Mainframe Modernization toolchains, or to use alongside third-party modernization toolchains. |
Amazon EKS introduces new controls for Kubernetes version support policy
Today, Amazon EKS announces new controls for Kubernetes version policy, allowing cluster administrators to configure end of standard support behavior for EKS clusters. This behavior can easily be set through the EKS Console and CLI. Kubernetes version policy control is available for Kubernetes versions in standard support. |
AWS AppConfig announces feature flag targets, variants, and splits
Today, AWS announces advanced targeting capabilities for AWS AppConfig feature flags. Customers can set up multiple values within flag data, and target those values to fine-grained and high-cardinality user segments. A common use-case for feature flag targets include allow lists, where a customer can specify user IDs or customer tiers, and only enable a new or premium feature for those segments. Another use-case is to split traffic to 15% of your user-base, and experiment with a user experience optimization for a limited cohort of users before rolling the feature out to all users. |
Amazon ECS now supports Amazon Linux 2023 and more for on-premises container workloads
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports managing on-premises workloads running on Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora 40, Debian 11, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24, and CentOS Stream 9. Amazon ECS Anywhere is a feature of Amazon ECS that enables you to run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. |
Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches a new dashboard for outbound campaign analytics
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard for outbound campaign analytics. You can now easily visualize and monitor campaign performance, track efficiency, measure compliance, and understand campaign outcomes for your voice workloads. You can view real-time and historical reports using custom time periods and benchmarks, track campaign progress and delivery status, and drill down into call classification outcomes (e.g., human answered, voicemail). You can also quickly identify trends and patterns across key metrics, such as dials attempted or abandonment rate, to monitor and enhance campaign performance. Additionally, these metrics are now available via API for custom reporting or integrations with other data sources. |
Amazon MQ now supports quorum queues for RabbitMQ 3.13
Amazon MQ now provides support for quorum queues, a replicated FIFO queue type offered by open-source RabbitMQ that uses the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain data consistency. Quorum queues are the replicated queue type recommended by open-source RabbitMQ maintainers. With quorum queues, developers can design highly available messaging systems with higher data consistency and fault tolerance. |
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BYOIP for IPs registered with any Internet Registry
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) supports Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) for IP addresses registered with any Internet Registry. Internet registries manage the allocation and registration of IP addresses within specific geographical regions. BYOIP allows you to bring IP addresses allocated to you by these registries, to AWS, and use them for your workloads. This new feature extends BYOIP support to previously unsupported Internet Registries, including JPNIC, LACNIC, and AFRINIC. |
Amazon DocumentDB announces improvements to document compression
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports the ability to enable compression on existing collections, set a compression threshold for each collection, and enable compression on all new collections using a cluster-wide setting. Compressed documents in Amazon DocumentDB can be up to 7 times smaller than uncompressed documents, leading to lower storage costs, I/O costs, and improved query performance. |
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered summaries within seconds after a contact ends
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries within seconds after a contact ends, versus minutes previously, helping you get faster insights when reviewing contacts, save time on after-contact work, and more quickly identifying opportunities to improve contact quality and agent performance. These faster summaries are available via API and Kinesis data streams, enabling integrations with third-party agent workspace or CRM systems. You can also access these summaries natively within Amazon Connect through contact details and contact control panel (CCP). |
Amazon RDS now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M6i, R6i, M6g, R6g, and T4g database instances in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this expansion, customers of RDS for open source engines in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region have more than double the number of available instance types to choose from. |
AWS KMS increases default service quotas for cryptographic operations
AWS KMS has doubled default service quotas for cryptographic operations in all AWS Regions, including raising the symmetric cryptographic operation request rate from 50,000 to 100,000 in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). |
Amazon DocumentDB now supports change streams on reader instances
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports change streams on reader instances. |
Amazon Connect launches search API for agent status
Amazon Connect now provides an API to search an agent status by name, ID, tag, or other criteria. Agent statuses are used in the Contact Control Panel (CCP) to indicate if an agent is available to handle contacts or not, for example because they are away for lunch or in training. With this new API, you can now answer questions such as, “How many of our statuses are disabled?”, and, “What statuses have ‘break’ in their description?”, and see a response with details like name, description, display order, and ARN. |
Productionize Fine-tuned Foundation Models from SageMaker Canvas
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports deploying fine-tuned Foundation Models (FMs) to SageMaker real-time inference endpoints, allowing you to bring generative AI capabilities into production and consume outside the Canvas workspace. SageMaker Canvas is a no-code workspace that enables analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions and use generative AI capabilities. |
Amazon Connect launches search API for hierarchy groups
Amazon Connect now provides an API to search for hierarchy groups by name, group ID, tag, or other criteria. Hierarchy groups describe your organization’s structure, and are used for reporting and access control. With this new API, you can now answer questions such as, “How many teams operate in the northwest region?” and, “What groups have a tag indicating they can access performance reviews?” and see a response with details like name, description, hierarchy level, ARN, and when a record was last updated. |
Simplify Your AWS Marketplace Catalog API (CAPI) Integration with Strongly-Typed API Schemas
We're excited to announce the introduction of a GitHub library that will host the schemas for the DetailsDocument used in StartChangeSet, DescribeChangeSet, and DescribeEntity APIs in Catalog API (CAPI). This new feature aims to simplify the integration process for developers working with the Catalog API. |
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in five new regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions, enabling you to build serverless applications with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers. |
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access log class available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA), a log class for cost-effectively consolidating all your logs natively on AWS, is now available in all GovCloud regions. Logs IA helps improve visibility into your overall application health with a subset of CloudWatch Logs' capabilities including managed ingestion, cross-account log analytics, and encryption with a lower per GB ingestion price. This makes Logs IA ideal for ad-hoc querying and after-the-fact forensic analysis on infrequently accessed logs. |
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. |
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports password policies for SQL Server logins
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports password policies for SQL Server logins. If you use SQL Server logins to authenticate users to an RDS for SQL Server database instance, you can now apply password policies to meet your compliance requirements. You can configure password policy parameters such as minimum length, minimum age, maximum age, lockout threshold, lockout duration, and lockout reset counter. |
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java functions that use the ARM64 architecture
Starting today, you can use Lambda SnapStart with Java functions that use the ARM64 instruction set architecture. |
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. |
Amazon Redshift Serverless with lower base capacity available in the Europe (London) Region
Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Europe (London) region. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the minimum base capacity required to run Amazon Redshift Serverless was 32 RPUs. With the new lower base capacity minimum of 8 RPUs, you now have even more flexibility to a support diverse set of workloads of small to large complexity based on your price performance requirements. You can increment or decrement the RPU in units of 8 RPUs. |
Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now available in 8 additional regions
Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 8 additional regions, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift. With this launch, Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is supported in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Redshift is supported. |