Recent Announcements
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Announcing sticky session routing for Amazon SageMaker Inference
Today, we are announcing the availability of sticky session routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference which helps customers improve the performance and user experience of their generative AI applications by leveraging their previously processed information. Amazon SageMaker makes it easier to deploy ML models including foundation models (FMs) to make inference requests at the best price performance for any use case. |
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink. Customers can now access and manage their Network Firewalls privately, without going through the public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely over the Amazon network. When AWS PrivateLink is used with AWS Network Firewall, all management and control traffic between clients and Network Firewall flows over a private network. |
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth, and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use R6in and R6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached, Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real-time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark). |
AWS Application Migration Service supports Trend Micro post-launch action
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing the Trend Micro Vision One Server & Workload Protection Agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the agent to support your security needs. |
AWS Elemental Media Services now support live AV1 encoding
The AV1 video codec is now supported in the AWS Elemental Media Services. You can use AV1 in AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor, and MediaConvert to produce both live and on-demand streams with ad insertion. |
Announcing AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere for live video encoding on your own hardware
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere, which allows you to run live video transcoding on your on-premises hardware. MediaLive Anywhere brings the cloud control and pay-as-you-go pricing of AWS Elemental MediaLive to compute resources you manage. With MediaLive Anywhere, you can take advantage of MediaLive's centralized configuration, control, and monitoring capabilities while processing live video on premises close to video sources and outputs. |
Amazon ECR announces support for dual-layer server-side encryption in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports dual-layer server-side encryption in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This capability allows you to apply two independent layers of server-side encryption to images stored in Amazon ECR. Dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS) enables you to meet stronger compliance and regulatory requirements of applying multiple layers of encryption to your container images. |
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports language and visual mode preferences in the AWS access portal
The AWS access portal provides AWS IAM Identity Center users with single sign-on access to all their assigned AWS applications and AWS accounts. Today, AWS IAM Identity Center added support for user preferences on language and visual mode in the AWS access portal. |
Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports customer managed KMS keys
Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys, allowing you to encrypt Pipes filter patterns, enrichment parameters, and target parameters with your own keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that you create, own, and manage can satisfy your organization’s security and governance requirements. |
Amazon Redshift now supports altering sort keys on tables in zero-ETL integration
Amazon Redshift now lets you alter sort keys of tables replicated through zero-ETL integration. Sort keys play a crucial role in determining the physical sorting order of rows within a table, and optimizing them can significantly enhance query performance, especially for queries using range-bound filters on sort key columns. |
Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to scale foundation model development
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon EKS support in SageMaker HyperPod which enables customers to run and manage their Kubernetes workloads on SageMaker HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure for foundation model (FM) development which reduces time to train models by up to 40%. |
Amazon EMR on EC2 improves cluster launch experience with intelligent subnet selection
Starting today, Amazon EMR on EC2 offers improved reliability and cluster launch experience for instance fleet clusters through enhanced subnet selection. With this feature, EMR on EC2 reduces cluster launch failures caused due to IP address shortages. |
Container Insights now announces SageMaker HyperPod node health observability on EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now auto-discovers the health status of your SageMaker HyperPod nodes running on EKS and visualizes them in curated dashboards to help you monitor your node availability for operational excellence. Using out-of-the-box dashboards, you can identify unhealthy nodes easily and mitigate quickly to achieve efficient training durations. |
Amazon MSK enhances cross-cluster replication with support for identical topic names
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports a new configuration that enables you to preserve original Kafka topic names while replicating streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters. Amazon MSK Replicator is a feature of Amazon MSK that lets you reliably replicate data across MSK clusters in the same or different AWS region(s) with just a few clicks. The new configuration reduces the need for you to reconfigure client applications during setup and makes it even more simple to operate multi-cluster streaming architectures, while continuing to benefit from MSK Replicator’s reliability. |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.15
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.15 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.15, we have made several improvements in the areas of search performance, query optimization, and added capabilities to help you to build AI-powered applications with greater flexibility and ease. |
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for IPv6 inbound traffic to service endpoints
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dual-stack public service endpoints and dual-stack VPC endpoints, including VPC endpoints integrated with AWS PrivateLink. This capability allows you to configure your Elastic Beanstalk VPC endpoints to accept dual-stack incoming traffic (via IPv6 and IPV4). You can also send requests to the Elastic Beanstalk service using the AWS CLI or the AWS SDK specifying an IPv4 endpoint or a dual-stack endpoint. For a list of public endpoints, see Elastic Beanstalk service endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. Elastic Beanstalk support for IPv6 and IPv4 dual-stack functionality is available in all of the AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions that Elastic Beanstalk supports. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions. For more information about Elastic Beanstalk dual-stack traffic support, see IPV6 support in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide. |
Amazon Aurora now supports R7g Graviton3-based instance family in 15 additional regions
AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in 15 additional regions, including US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). AWS Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement and up to 20% price/performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Amazon Aurora, depending on the database engine version and workload. |
Secondary sensor support for AWS IoT SiteWise Edge through CloudRail
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of secondary sensor support for AWS IoT SiteWise. Through an integration with AWS Partner CloudRail, customers can now ingest data from over 12,000 sensors from vendors like ifm, SICK, Turck, and Pepperl+Fuchs using either IO-Link or Modbus TCP/IP protocols. Secondary sensors enable data collection from isolated brownfield equipment and for customers to digitally integrate it with their other operational data. Previously, ingesting data from brownfield equipment required either upgrading equipment or manual processes for data collection resulting in manual errors, additional cost and time to value. |
Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming now supports RTMP ingest
Starting today, you can use RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) and the encrypted version, RTMPS, to broadcast to your Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) stages. This new protocol complements the currently supported WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol). RTMP ingest enhances compatibility with a wide range of software and hardware encoders for increased flexibility in your broadcasting. |
AWS IoT SiteWise Edge adds support for 100+ protocols through Litmus Edge
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of expanded industrial protocol support for AWS IoT SiteWise. Through a new integration with AWS Partner Litmus, customers can now ingest data from 100+ additional industrial protocols including proprietary protocols from companies like Allen-Bradley, Beckhoff, Emerson, Fanuc, Mitsubishi, Omron, and Yaskawa along with many others. Previously, ingesting data from these protocols required acquiring, provisioning, and configuring infrastructure and middleware for data collection resulting in additional cost and time to value. |
AWS Resource Access Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing you to create and manage your resource shares from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. |
AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for input thumbnail images
You can now monitor your sources and get instant visual feedback for AWS Elemental MediaConnect flows with thumbnail images via the AWS Management Console or API. Thumbnails are also available in the Workflow Monitor tool. |
Amazon EC2 P5e instances are generally available via EC2 Capacity Blocks
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5e instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs. Available via EC2 Capacity Blocks, these instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and generative AI inference. |
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
Starting today, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams supports adding a VPC endpoint using AWS PrivateLink that connects through the regional endpoint that has been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. With this new launch, you can easily use AWS PrivateLink with Kinesis Data Streams for those regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module. |
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows you to bring your own licensed SQL Server media and have access to the underlying operating system and database environment. This service is now available in the AWS Regions of US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Europe (Paris). |
CloudWatch Application Signals now supports request based Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
CloudWatch Application Signals, which helps troubleshoot issues quickly by providing out-of-the-box dashboards that correlate telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs for your applications and their dependencies, now supports Service Level Objectives (SLOs) calculated based on the request count i.e. the fraction of good or bad requests of the total operations performed by any service. This allows for more precise tracking of how many requests met the defined SLO criteria (e.g., latency under 200ms) out of the total requests received by a service. |
PostgreSQL 17 RC1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) 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 RC1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. |
Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports AWS Graviton-based compute with AWS Fargate Spot. This capability helps you run fault-tolerant Arm-based applications with up to 70% discount compared to Fargate prices. AWS Graviton processors are custom-built by AWS to deliver the best price-performance for cloud workloads. |
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in the Canada, London and Paris AWS regions
You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Canada (Central), Europe (London) and Europe (Paris) AWS regions. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. |
Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.9, 10.6.19, 10.5.26
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.9, 10.6.19, and 10.5.26. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. |
Amazon S3 Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API
Amazon S3 Access Grants now support ListCallerAccessGrants, a new API that allows AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and AWS IAM Identity Center end users to list all S3 buckets, prefixes, and objects they can access, as defined by their S3 Access Grants. Customers can use ListCallerAccessGrants to build applications that identify and then take action on data that is accessible to specific end users. For example, the Storage Browser for Amazon S3, an open source UI component that customers can add to their applications to provide end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3, uses ListCallerAccessGrants to present end users with the data that they have access to in S3, based on their S3 Access Grants. |
Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now allows you to bring your Windows 10 or 11 licenses
Amazon Web Services announces the ability to setup Amazon WorkSpaces Pools powered by Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Now, customers can bring their Windows 10 or 11 licenses (provided they meet Microsoft's licensing requirements) to support their eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, providing a consistent desktop experience to their users when they switch between on-premise and virtual desktops. |
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports new ways to automate agent performance evaluations
You can now automatically mark a performance evaluation question as not applicable based on conversational insights (e.g., detected call reason, etc.), and you can now use additional contact metrics (e.g., longest hold duration, number of holds, agent interaction duration including holds) to automatically fill answers to questions in the evaluation form. With this launch, you can automatically complete only the applicable evaluation questions, under specific conditions. For example, you could check if an agent explained new account benefits and pricing, only for those customers who called to open an account. Additionally, you can automatically evaluate whether the agent was able to resolve the customer’s issue efficiently (e.g., resolved the customer’s issue within 10 minutes) and did not put the customer repeatedly on hold. |
Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe (Milan). |
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 1.20
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink minor version 1.20. This version is expected to be be the last 1.x minor version released by the Flink community before Flink 2.0. We recommend that you upgrade to Flink 1.20 to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the Flink community. You can use in-place version upgrades for Apache Flink to upgrade your existing application to this new version. |
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Oracle Label Security (OLS) option with Oracle Multitenant configuration. OEM enables monitoring and managing the Oracle infrastructure from a single console. OLS provides fine-grained control of access to individual tables or rows, and helps you enforce regulatory compliance with a policy-based administration. |
AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
Today AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is launching a new capability that allows you to align the TCP idle timeout value of GWLB with clients and target appliances. Using this capability you can now perform uninterrupted stateful inspection and fine tuning of the applications that use long-lived flows, such as financial applications, databases and ERP systems, when using GWLB. |
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports copying database snapshots, either created automatically or manually, across commercial AWS Regions. This enables you to seamlessly move database snapshots for your RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to different Regions, which can be used to build a robust disaster recovery solution for your mission-critical data. |
Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)
Amazon S3 is announcing the alpha release of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users access to easily browse, download, and upload data in S3 directly from your own applications. Storage Browser for S3 is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries. |
Bedrock Agents on Sonnet 3.5
Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to create generative AI-based applications that can complete complex tasks for a wide range of use cases and deliver answers based on company knowledge sources. In order to complete complex tasks, with high accuracy, reasoning capabilities of the underlying foundational model (FM) play a critical role. |
AWS AppSync enhances API monitoring with new DEBUG and INFO logging levels
Today, AWS announces the addition of DEBUG and INFO logging levels for AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs. These new logging levels provide more granular control over log verbosity and make it easier to troubleshoot your APIs while optimizing readability and costs. |
Use Apache Spark on Amazon EMR Serverless directly from Amazon Sagemaker Studio
You can now run petabyte-scale data analytics and machine learning on Amazon EMR Serverless directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks. EMR Serverless automatically provisions and scales the required resources, allowing you to focus on your data and models without having to configure, optimize, tune, or manage clusters. EMR Serverless automatically installs and configures open source frameworks and provides a performance-optimized runtime that is compatible with and faster than standard open source. |
Amazon SES announces enhanced onboarding with adaptive setup wizard and Virtual Deliverability Manager
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched enhancements to its onboarding experience to help customers easily discover and activate key SES features. The SES console now features an adaptive setup page that brings recommendations for optimal setup to the forefront. Additionally, the update introduces the option to enable the Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM) within the initial onboarding wizard, offering maximum guidance from the beginning of the setup process. |
Stability AI’s Top 3 Text-to-Image Models Now Available in Amazon Bedrock
Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large (SD3 Large), and Stable Image Core models from Stability AI are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. These models will empower customers in various industries, including media, marketing, retail, and game development, to generate high-quality visuals with unprecedented speed and precision.
These models enable customers to streamline creative processes, swiftly adapt to market trends, drive innovation through visual brainstorming, and gain a competitive advantage by boosting productivity, reducing costs, and improving visual communication across business functions. |
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports enhanced management features
We are excited to announce the launch of enhanced management options for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing you to scale your instance sizes up or down as needed and update your deployment configuration between Single-AZ and Multi-AZ, giving you greater flexibility and control over your time-series data processing and analysis. |
Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Middle East (Bahrain) region
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. |
AWS Fault Injection Service introduces additional safety control
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now provides additional safety control with a safety lever that, when engaged, stops all running experiments and prevents new experiments from starting. Customers can now prevent fault injection during certain time periods, such as sales events or product launches, or in response to application health alarms. |
AWS Glue now provides job queuing
Today, AWS adds job queuing for AWS Glue jobs. This new capability enables you to submit AWS Glue job runs without needing to manage account level quotas and limits. |
Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports IPv6 in AWS PrivateLink
Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) protocol when you connect your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to EBS Direct APIs using AWS PrivateLink. EBS direct APIs can help customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. Through AWS PrivateLink, customers can access EBS direct APIs as if it were in your VPC. This change can support customers with their IPv6 compliance needs, integrate with existing IPv6-based on-premises applications, and remove the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. |
Introducing sagemaker-core: A New Object-Oriented SDK for Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce sagemaker-core, a new Python SDK that provides an object-oriented interface for interacting with SageMaker resources such as TrainingJob, Model, and Endpoint resource classes. The resource chaining feature in sagemaker-core lets developers pass resource objects as parameters, eliminating the need to manually specify complex parameters. The SDK also abstracts low-level details like resource state transitions and polling logic. It achieves full parity with SageMaker APIs, allowing developers to leverage all SageMaker capabilities directly through the SDK. Additional key usability improvements include auto code completion in popular IDEs, comprehensive documentation, and type hints. |
Amazon DynamoDB announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control
Amazon DynamoDB now supports Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for tables and indexes. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags attached to users, roles, and AWS resources. |
AWS announces session reuse with Amazon Redshift Data API
Today, Amazon Redshift launches session reuse feature in Data API that enables you to access data efficiently from Amazon Redshift data warehouses by eliminating the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, data buffering, and more. Data API session reuse allows you to retain the context of a session from one query execution to another, which reduces connection setup latency on repeated queries to the same data warehouse. |
Amazon Connect now provides a weekly view of agent schedules
Amazon Connect now provides a weekly view of agent schedules, making it easier for contact center managers to get an at-a-glance view of staffing for an entire week. With this launch, you can now ensure there is required coverage each day via daily aggregated metrics including service level, occupancy, and forecasted versus scheduled hours. For example, from the weekly view you can easily identify if there is overstaffing on Wednesday and understaffing on Friday. You can then move agent shifts from Wednesday to Friday within the weekly view. Weekly view also makes it easy to verify that agents receive the appropriate shifts each day (e.g. each agent has an 8-hour shift) and that they are not working too many days in a row (e.g. each agent gets at least 2 days off every week). Weekly view improves manager productivity by reducing time spent on day to day management of agent shifts and makes it easier to review staffing for multiple days in a single view. |
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
Today AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) is launching a new capability that allows you to align the TCP idle timeout value of NLB with clients and target applications. Using this capability you can now reduce TCP connection retries and latency in applications that use long-lived flows, such as telemetry reporting devices, databases, streaming services and ERP systems, when using NLB. |
Amazon Connect now offers intraday forecasts
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and agent scheduling now includes machine learning (ML) powered intraday forecast capabilities, available within the Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards. With intraday forecasts, you receive updates every 15 minutes with predictions for rest-of-day contact volumes, average queue answer time, and average handle time. These forecasts allow you to take proactive actions to improve customer wait time and service level. For example, if contact volume drops below expected levels, contact center managers can use the intraday forecast to predict how long that drop will continue, determine the required staffing levels, and shift the remaining agents into back office work or other higher volume queues. |
AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone expanded to more regions
AWS has expanded the AI recommendations for descriptions capability in Amazon DataZone to four new regions: South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central). This expansion helps improve data discovery, understanding, and usage by enriching the business data catalog. With a single click, data producers can generate comprehensive business data descriptions and context, highlight impactful columns, and include recommendations on analytical use cases. |
Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages
Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages that include Catalan (Spain), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Finnish (Finland), Indonesian (Indonesia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian Bokmål (Norway), Polish (Poland), Swedish (Sweden), and Tagalog/Filipino (Philippines). With this launch, Contact Lens conversational analytics now provides transcription support for 33 languages. |
Organizational Units in AWS Control Tower can now contain up to 1,000 accounts
AWS Control Tower now allows you to register Organizational Units (OUs) containing up to 1,000 accounts. With this launch, you can implement governance best practices and standardize configurations across the accounts in your OUs at greater scale. When you register an OU or enable the AWS Control Tower baseline on an OU, member accounts receive best practice configurations, controls, and baseline resources such as AWS IAM roles, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, AWS Identity Center, required for AWS Control Tower governance. |
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink (interface VPC endpoint) to connect to Amazon Redshift Serverless. You can now connect directly to the Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift Serverless API services using AWS PrivateLink in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. |
AWS IoT SiteWise models now support versioning
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports asset model and component model versioning. This new capability is designed to help industrial customers and integrators manage the evolution of their asset models and component models more effectively. |
AWS Security Hub launches 8 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 8 new security controls, increasing the total number of controls offered to 423. With this release, Security Hub now supports controls for additional AWS services such as Amazon WorkSpaces and AWS DataSync . Security Hub also released new controls against previously supported services like AWS CodeBuild and Amazon Athena. For the full list of recently released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide.
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AWS Config conformance packs now available in additional AWS Regions
AWS Config conformance packs and organization-level management capabilities for conformance packs and individual AWS Config rules are now available in additional AWS Regions. Conformance packs allow you to bundle AWS Config rules and their associated remediation actions into a single package, simplifying deployment at scale. You can deploy and manage these conformance packs throughout your AWS environment. With this launch, AWS Config conformance packs are now available in 10 additional Regions, and organization-level management capabilities for conformance packs and individual AWS Config rules are now available in 12 additional Regions. |
AWS Backup extends support for Cross-Region backup with Amazon Neptune
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for cross-Region backup of Amazon Neptune backups in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). Cross-Region backup enables customers to copy backups from one AWS Region to a different AWS Region, helping increase data resiliency. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon Neptune along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. |
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Application Master placement aware
Today, we are excited to announce a new enhancement in EMR Managed Scaling that improves application resiliency and scales the cluster based on executor and ApplicationMasters demand by adding support for Yarn Node Labels. Amazon EMR by default ensures that the processes that controls running jobs and needs to stay alive for the life of the job (ApplicationMasters) can run on both core and task nodes. However, many customers specially who use Spot Instances to run task nodes choose to run ApplicationMasters only on On-Demand core nodes to ensure running jobs do not fail if application masters running on Spot Instances are interrupted. With today’s launch, EMR Managed Scaling will now scale the clusters based on the demand for the individual AM’s or executors requests as defined by YARN node labels. Intelligently scaling the cluster based on AM's or executors demand leads to better performance, utilization and lower cost. |
Amazon Personalize enhances automatic solution training
Amazon Personalize is excited to introduce the ability for developers to modify automatic training configurations after a Personalize solution has been created. With this launch, developers gain greater flexibility over the automatic training process for both new and existing solutions. Previously, changing configurations like training frequency required re-creating the solution entirely. Now, you can easily modify automatic training settings of any solution via API or console. When updating a solution's configuration, you can choose to enable or disable automatic retraining, as well as adjust the training frequency as needed. |
AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits
AWS WAF now supports setting lower rate limit thresholds for rate-based rules. Customers can now configure rate-based rules with rate limits as low as 10 requests per evaluation window, compared to the previous minimum of 100 requests. |
AWS Amplify introduces new function capabilities with scheduled cron jobs and streaming logs
AWS Amplify now offers two new features for its Functions capability: Scheduled Cron Jobs and Streaming Logs. Cron Jobs allow developers to configure serverless functions to run at specific intervals, while Streaming Logs enable developers to quickly iterate and test function execution by streaming logs directly to their terminal. |
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor 5.7.44-RDS.20240808
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20240808. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about the bug fixes and patches in this version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. |
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Windows Server 2022 in service-managed fleets
Today, AWS announces support for running Windows Server 2022 on workers in service-managed fleets in AWS Deadline Cloud. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, games, and industrial design. |
Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions announces a new Validation API for your AWS Step Functions workflows. The Validation API enables you to perform semantic checks on your workflows as you author them, helping you find syntactical errors sooner, shortening development cycles. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating virtually any AWS service to automate business processes and data processing workloads. With the Validation API, you can perform semantic checks on your workflows before you run or deploy them to catch issues sooner. Simply validate a workflow by creating, updating, or directly calling the ValidateStateMachineDefinition API. Now with the Validation API you can catch common syntactical errors in workflows such as missing .$ on a field that uses a JSONPath or Intrinsic Function. We have also included suggestions for field names that are incorrect, but have a close match. For example, in the event of potential case sensitivity errors when calling AWS services such as Amazon Simple Notification Service, or Amazon Simple Queue Service, we will suggest the correct alphabetical case for a service name when a mismatch is detected, saving you time. |
AWS AppConfig now provides deletion protection for additional guardrails
Customers can now enable deletion protection on AWS AppConfig resources, including Configuration Profiles and Environments. AWS AppConfig helps engineers move faster and resolve issues more quickly with managed feature flags and dynamic configuration. However, deleting any configuration data, for application hygiene or compliance reasons, should always be done very carefully to avoid unexpected behavior. With AWS AppConfig deletion protection enabled, a customer’s account will not be allowed to delete a recently-used resource without explicitly bypassing deletion protection in the AWS Management Console, CLI, or API call. In addition, customers can set the amount of time that is considered “recently-used” to tailor to their organization’s workflows. |
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AWS Graviton3 instances, which deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. The new instance types are compute optimized (C7g), general purpose (M7g), and memory optimized (R7g, R7gd) instances. You can update your domain to the new instances seamlessly through the OpenSearch Service console or APIs. |
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) 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 Asia Pacific (Jakarta) 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 SageMaker Projects now allows you to reuse names of previously deleted Projects
Amazon SageMaker Projects now allows you to reuse deleted project names. This launch enhances the project deletion process by removing the project names and metadata instead of only marking them as deleted. This capability is available via SageMaker Projects API, SageMaker Studio, and Amazon SageMaker Python SDK. |
AWS Global Accelerator launches new edge location in Cairo, Egypt
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new AWS edge location in Cairo, Egypt. With the addition of the edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 121 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 29 AWS Regions. |
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2024.08 now available
Today we’re excited to announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.08. This release adds new features such as Amazon S3 bucket mountpoints for Linux, allows creation of custom user roles and permission profiles, and offers the ability to adjust the list of Amazon EC2 instances available to launch as virtual desktops. |
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Meta’s Llama 3.1 family of foundation models (405B, 70B, and 8B) is now generally available on Knowledge Bases. |
AWS Network Firewall introduces GeoIP Filtering to inspect traffic based on geographic location
AWS Network Firewall now supports GeoIP Filtering on ingress and egress Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) traffic. This new feature makes it easy for customers to block traffic coming from or going to specific countries and meet compliance requirements. Previously, maintaining compliance with regulations was time-consuming because you have to maintain a list of IP addresses associated with specific countries and update your firewall rules regularly. GeoIP Filtering saves time and reduces operational complexity by enabling you to filter traffic on Network Firewall using the country name. |
Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service
Today, AWS announces AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS), a new managed service that lets you run and scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS. The service enables you to build scientific and engineering models, and run simulations using your preferred HPC job scheduler (starting with Slurm). AWS PCS allows you to build complete HPC clusters that integrates compute, storage, networking, and visualization resources, and seamlessly scale from zero to thousands of instances. The service offers a fully managed Slurm scheduler with built-in technical support and a rich set of customization options, helping you tailor your HPC environment to your specific needs and integrate it with your preferred software stack. |
Amazon Location Service announces Migration SDK
Amazon Location Service has launched a Migration SDK that enables users to easily and quickly migrate their existing application from Google Maps Platform to Amazon Location Service. |
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). |
AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks
Starting today, customers can provision Amazon-provided contiguous IPv4 blocks using Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), to simplify network management and security. |
Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes
Starting today, you can leverage Amazon EC2 status checks to directly monitor if the EBS volumes attached to your instances are reachable and able to complete I/O operations. You can use this new status check to quickly detect attachment issues or volume impairments that may impact the performance of your applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. You can further integrate these status checks within Auto Scaling groups to monitor the health of EC2 instances and replace impacted instances to ensure high availability and reliability of your applications. Attached EBS status checks can be used along with the instance status and system status checks to monitor the health of your instances. |
Polly Voices for two new locales: Czechia and Switzerland
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of two female-sounding Amazon Polly voices for two new locales: Czechia and Switzerland. |
Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are available in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. |
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor 11.22-RDS.20240808
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20240808. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Learn more about the updates and patches in this Extended Support minor version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. |
Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-region inference
Today, Amazon Bedrock announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables developers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions. By using cross-region inference, Bedrock customers using on-demand mode will be able to get higher throughput limits (up to 2x their allocated in-region quotas) and enhanced resilience during periods of peak demand. By opting in, developers no longer have to spend time and effort predicting demand fluctuations. Instead, cross-region inference dynamically routes traffic across multiple regions, ensuring optimal availability for each request and smoother performance during high-usage periods. |
AWS announces support for Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune on Amazon WorkSpaces Personal
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports Microsoft Entra ID and Intune. With this launch, customers using Amazon WorkSpaces Personal can now provision virtual desktops joined with Entra ID and enrolled in Intune, without requiring Microsoft Active Directory. By integrating with AWS IAM Identity Center, the launch also allows customers the flexibility to use other cloud-based identity and endpoint management solutions with WorkSpaces including JumpCloud. |
Amazon Q Business launches IAM federation for user identity authentication
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 customers’ enterprise data. Customers create and manage their workforce user identity using identity providers of their choice. Previously, customers had to sync their user identity information from their identity provider into AWS IAM Identity Center, and then connect their Amazon Q Business applications to IAM Identity Center for user authentication. |
Amazon Braket adds support for Rigetti's 84-Qubit Ankaa™-2 system, our largest gate-based superconducting device
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now offers Rigetti Computing’s latest 84-qubit Ankaa-2 system in the US West (N. California) Region. Ankaa-2 is the highest qubit-count gate-based quantum device available on Amazon Braket, enabling customers to tackle larger and more complex problems while pushing the boundaries of what's possible with today's quantum hardware. Ankaa-2 allows customers to submit their quantum tasks and hybrid jobs at any time, opening up new possibilities for uninterrupted experiments and a more efficient use of quantum hardware resources, all on a pay-as-you-go basis. |
Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards
Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards. This feature allows developers to enable more collaborative capabilities in their application with embedded QuickSight dashboards. Additionally, they can enable personalization capabilities such as bookmarks for anonymous users. |
AWS announces a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing a streamlined Federated and SSO sign in process for the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers who use Federated or SSO authentication methods with the AWS Console Mobile App can now select their sign in URL from a list of recently used URLs when they setup a subsequent identity to access an account. |
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock supports Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available on Knowledge Bases. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet—the first model in the forthcoming Claude 3.5 model family—has a 200,000 context window (roughly 150,000 words, or around 300 pages of material) and raises the industry bar for intelligence, outperforming other generative AI models on a wide range of evaluations. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is well-suited for tasks that require complex reasoning, quick outputs, and RAG. Additionally, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is supported through the fully managed RetrieveAndGenerate API. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model support for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. To learn more, read the AWS News launch blog and Claude in Amazon Bedrock product page. To get started, refer to the Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock documentation and visit the Amazon Bedrock console. |
Amazon Connect provides new ways to configure callbacks
Amazon Connect now allows you to configure flows to take actions on callbacks prior their creation and while they are in queue. For example, you can now automate sending a notification to a customer via SMS before calling them back, update callback attributes based on latest customer data for agents to reference, or even terminate the callback if the issue has already been resolved. You can also now run flows to dynamically re-prioritize and transfer callbacks to another queue based on customer information from Customer profiles or third-party applications, or if it’s just taking too long for the callback queue to drain. |
CloudFormation simplifies resource discovery and template review in the IaC Generator
Today, AWS CloudFormation announces two new enhancements to the IaC generator, which customers use to create infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from existing resources. Now, after the IaC generator finishes scanning the resources in an account, it presents a graphical summary of the different resource types to help customers more quickly find the resources they want to include in their template. After selecting resources, customers can also preview their template in AWS Application Composer, which visualizes the full application architecture with the resources and their relationships. |
Amazon Q now provides more details about user subscriptions and associated resources
The Amazon Q Console now provides administrators with greater visibility into how users are utilizing Amazon Q Developer Pro, Amazon Q Business Pro, and Amazon Q Business Lite subscriptions. This new feature enables administrators to view a list of subscribed users, their subscription status (e.g., active, pending, under free trial, canceled), and their corresponding associations. Associations refer to the applications, accounts, or services that a user has access to through their subscription. Organization administrators will have a view of all subscription associations across applications in various accounts, while member account administrators' visibility will be limited to only the applications within accounts they administer. |
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Failover
Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Cluster Failover, a fully managed experience for performing a cross-region failover to respond to unplanned events such as a regional outage. With Global Cluster Failover, you can convert a secondary region into the new primary region in typically a minute and also maintain the multi-region Global Cluster configuration. An Amazon DocumentDB Global Cluster is a single cluster that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. |
AWS Amplify introduces multiple bucket support for Storage
AWS Amplify is launching multiple bucket support for Storage (JavaScript Only). You can now configure more than one storage bucket in your Amplify backend configuration. Amplify storage integrates with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides an intuitive approach to managing cloud-based file storage. With this new feature you can upload and download files from and to multiple storage buckets, providing greater flexibility and control over your storage resources. |
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides an audit trail for changes to an agent performance evaluation
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides an audit trail to review the changes made to an agent performance evaluation when it is re-submitted. This launch displays the audit trail, which was previously available within a customer’s S3 bucket, directly in the Amazon Connect UI. When an evaluator submits changes to an existing evaluation form, managers can now view an audit trail of who submitted the original evaluation, who re-submitted the evaluation, and what changes they made. Contact center managers can use this information to perform internal audits and improve consistency across evaluators. |
Amazon Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Starting today, you can use Amazon Data Firehose in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases. |