2025 - Week 5 (27 Jan - 2 Feb)

AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in 20 additional Regions

Published Date: 2025-01-31 21:25:00

AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the following additional Regions: North America (N. California, Canada West, Canada Central), South America (S?o Paulo), Europe (London, Paris, Zurich, Milan, Spain), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), and Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Seoul, Mumbai). This expansion allows you to create Transfer Family web apps in additional commercial Regions where Transfer Family is available. AWS Transfer Family web apps provide a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce with a fully managed, branded, and secure portal for your end users to browse, upload, and download data in S3. To learn more about AWS Transfer Family web apps, read our blog and visit the Transfer Family User Guide. For complete regional availability information, see the AWS Region Table.

Q in QuickSight Dashboard Q&A

Published Date: 2025-01-31 21:25:00

Dashboard Q&A by Amazon Q in QuickSight enables QuickSight Authors to add Data Q&A to their dashboards in one-click. With dashboard Q&A, QuickSight users can ask and answer questions about their data using natural language. Dashboard Q&A capabilities of Q in QuickSight automatically extract semantic information presented in dashboards and use it to enable Q&A over specific data and improves existing Topic based Q&A experiences by automatically using semantics from dashboards to improve Q&A answers. With Dashboard Q&A Authors can quickly deliver self-service access to customized data insights for the entire organization. Dashboard Q&A is launching to all regions in which QuickSight’s generative data Q&A is available today, as documented here. To learn more, visit our documentation.

Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:40:00

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports additional resource-level permissions for creating EBS volumes from snapshots. With this launch, you now have more granular controls to set resource-level permissions for the creation of a volume and selection of the source snapshot when calling the CreateVolume action in your IAM policy. This allows you to control the IAM identities that can create EBS volumes from source snapshots, and the conditions that they can use these snapshots to create EBS volumes. To meet your specific permission needs on the source snapshots, you can also specify any of 5 EC2-specific condition keys in your IAM policy: ec2:Encrypted, ec2:VolumeSize, ec2:Owner, ec2:ParentVolume, and ec2:SnapshotTime. Additionally, you can use global condition keys for the source snapshot. This new resource-level permission model is available in all AWS Regions where EBS volumes are available. To learn more about using resource-level permissions to create EBS volume, or transitioning to the new resource-level permission model from previous permission model, please visit the launch blog. For more information about Amazon EBS, please visit the product page.

Amazon Q Developer agent now runs builds and tests to validate generated code in real time

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:30:00

Today, Amazon Q Developer announces an improved software development agent capable of running build and test scripts on generated code to validate the code before the developers review. This new capability detects errors, ensures generated code is in sync with the project’s current state, and accelerates the development process by producing higher quality code on the first iteration. With the developer’s natural language input request and project-specific context, the Amazon Q Developer agent is designed to assist in implementing complex multi-file features and bug fixes. The agent will analyze the existing codebase, make necessary code changes, and run the selected build and test commands to ensure the code is working as expected. Where errors are found, the agent will iterate on the code prior to requesting the developer’s review. Throughout the process, the agent maintains a real-time connection with the developer, providing updates as changes are made. With control over what commands Amazon Q runs through a Devfile, you can customize the development process for better accuracy. The Amazon Q Developer agent for software development is available for JetBrains and Visual Studio Code IDEs in all AWS regions where Q Developer is available. To learn more about Amazon Q Developer, visit the service overview page. For more details about this announcement and how to get started using the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development, read the AWS DevOps & Developer Productivity blog.

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports configurable limits to effectively manage fixed resources

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

AWS Deadline Cloud now includes the ability to specify a limit for a specific resource, like a floating license, and also constrain the maximum number of workers that work on a job. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design. By adding a limit to your Deadline Cloud farm, you can specify a maximum amount of concurrent usage of resources by workers in your farm. Capping resource usage ensures tasks don't start until the resources needed to run are available. For example, if you have 50 floating licenses for a particular plugin required by your rendering workflow, a Deadline Cloud limit allows you to ensure no more than 50 tasks requiring that limit are started, preventing tasks from failing due to the license being unavailable. Additionally, setting a maximum number of workers on a job enables you to prevent any single job from consuming all the available workers so that you can efficiently run multiple jobs concurrently when there are a limited number of workers available. Limits are available in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is available. To learn more, visit the AWS Deadline Cloud documentation. ?

Amazon Connect now supports agent time off scheduling up to 24 months in the future

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

Amazon Connect now includes the ability for agents to schedule time off up to 24 months in the future, making it easier for managers and agents to plan ahead of time. With this launch, agents can now book time off in Connect up to 24 months ahead of time (an increase from 13 months). Additionally, you can now upload pre-approved time off windows for a scheduling group (group allowance) for up to 27 months at a time (an increase from 13 months). These increased limits provide agents more flexibility to plan their personal time and also provide managers better visibility into future staffing needs, thus enabling more efficient resource allocation. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect agent scheduling, click here.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports up to 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express volumes

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and data warehouses to handle larger workloads on a single Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server database instance. The support for 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now generally available in all AWS regions where both Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server are currently supported. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and includes the ability to bring your own licensed SQL Server media or use SQL Server Developer Edition while providing the time-savings, durability, and scalability benefits of a managed database service. To get started, visit the Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server User Guide. See Amazon RDS Custom Pricing for up-to-date pricing of instances, storage, data transfer and regional availability. ?

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports administrative control over admin consent for linking OneDrive for Business

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows administrator to control whether admin consent is required when users link their OneDrive for Business accounts as a persistent storage option. The new capability simplifies the management of AppStream 2.0 persistent storage and the admin consent process. After enabling OneDrive for Business for an AppStream 2.0 stack and specifying the OneDrive domains, administrators can now configure whether admin consent is needed for each OneDrive domain. If admin consent is required, administrators must approve users’ OneDrive connections within their Azure Active Directory environment when users attempt to link their account to AppStream 2.0. This feature is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 is offered. It is supported only on AppStream stacks using single-session Windows fleets. To get started, open the AppStream 2.0 console and create a stack. In the Enable storage step, enable OneDrive for business and configure the admin consent settings. For more details, refer to Administer OneDrive for business. You can also programmatically manage the setting using AppStream 2.0 APIs. For API details, see the CreateStack API documentation.

AWS Glue expands connectivity to 14 native connectors for applications

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

AWS Glue announces 14 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Customers can now use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, CircleCI, Docusign Monitor, Domo, Dynatrace, Kustomer, Mailchimp, Microsoft Teams, Monday, Okta, Pendo, Pipedrive, Productboard and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they need to integrate with data from various applications. With 14 new connectors, customers have more options to easily establish a connection to their applications using the AWS Glue console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn application-specific APIs. Glue native connectors provide the scalability and performance of the AWS Glue Spark engine along with support for standard authorization and authentication methods like OAuth 2. With these connectors, customers can test connections, validate their connection credentials, preview data, and browse metadata. AWS Glue native connectors to Blackbaud, CircleCI, Docusign Monitor, Domo, Dynatrace, Kustomer, Mailchimp, Microsoft Teams, Monday, Okta, Pendo, Pipedrive, Productboard, Salesforce Commerce Cloud are available in all AWS commercial regions. To get started, create new AWS Glue connections with these connectors and use them as source in AWS Glue studio. To learn more, visit AWS Glue documentation for connectors.

Amazon EventBridge enhances event source discovery in the console

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

The Amazon EventBridge console now displays the source and detail type of all available AWS service events when you create a rule in the EventBridge console. This makes it easier for customers to discover and utilize the full range of AWS service events when building event-driven architectures. Additionally, the EventBridge documentation now includes an automatically updated list of all AWS service events, facilitating access to the most current information. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event router that enables you to create highly scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. With this update, developers can quickly search and filter through all available AWS service events, including event types, within the EventBridge console, when configuring event patterns in the sandbox and rules, and in the documentation, enabling customers to more efficiently create event-driven integrations and reduce misconfiguration. This feature in the EventBridge console is available in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more about discovering and using AWS service events in Amazon EventBridge, see the updated list of AWS service events in the documentation here. ?

Amazon Connect Cases now provides more granular search capabilities and customizable case list views

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

Amazon Connect Cases now allows agents and supervisors to filter cases in the agent workspace by custom field values, making it easier to narrow down search results and find relevant cases. Users can also customize the case list view and search results layout by adding custom columns, hiding or rearranging existing columns, and adjusting the number of cases per page. These enhancements enable users to tailor the case list view to meet their needs and manage their case workloads more effectively. For region availability, please see the availability of Amazon Connect features by Region. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect Cases webpage and documentation. ?

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector adds support for cross-account ingestion

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics, adds support for cross-account ingestion. Starting today, you can agentlessly scrape metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters in different accounts than your Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. While it was previously possible to apply AWS multi-account best practices for centralized observability with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces, you had to use self-managed collection. This meant that you had to run, scale, and patch telemetry agents yourself to scrape metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters in various accounts in order to ingest them into a central Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces in a different account. With this launch, you can now use the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector to get rid of this heavy lifting and ingest metrics in a cross-account setup without having to self-run a collector. In addition, you can now also use the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector to scrape metrics from for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters to ingest them into Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces created with customer managed keys. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector is available in all regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is available. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, visit the user guide or product page. ?

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 1 additional region

Published Date: 2025-01-31 18:00:00

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region.

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, as concurrency increases, to process queries without wait time. Amazon Redshift customers with an active Redshift cluster earn up to one hour of free Concurrency Scaling credits, which is sufficient for the concurrency needs of most customers. Concurrency scaling allows you to specify usage control providing customers with predictability in their month-to-month cost, even during periods of fluctuating analytical demand. To enable Concurrency Scaling, set the Concurrency Scaling Mode to Auto in your Amazon Web Services Management Console. You can allocate Concurrency Scaling usage to specific user groups and workloads, control the number of Concurrency Scaling clusters that can be used, and monitor Cloudwatch performance and usage metrics. To learn more about concurrency scaling including regional-availability, see our documentation and pricing page. ?

Amazon S3 Tables add schema definition support to the CreateTable API

Published Date: 2025-01-30 21:05:00

Amazon S3 announces schema definition support for the CreateTable API to programmatically create tables with pre-defined columns. This enhancement simplifies table creation for data analytics applications, making it easier to get started and ingest data in S3 table buckets. To use this feature, you can specify column names and their data types as new request headers in the CreateTable API to define a table's schema in an S3 table bucket. You can also define a table's schema when you create tables using the AWS CLI or the AWS SDK. To create tables with a pre-defined schema, upgrade to the latest version of the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs. This support is available in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon S3 Tables overview page and documentation.

Amazon S3 Tables now support 10,000 tables per table bucket

Published Date: 2025-01-30 21:00:00

Amazon S3 Tables now support creating up to 10,000 tables in each S3 table bucket. With this higher quota, you can scale up to 100,000 tables across 10 table buckets within an AWS Region per AWS Account. The higher table quota is available by default on all table buckets at no additional cost. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. You can use S3 Tables with AWS Analytics services through the preview integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, as well as Apache Iceberg-compatible open source engines like Apache Spark and Apache Flink. S3 Tables support 10,000 tables in each S3 table bucket in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon S3 Tables overview page and documentation. ?

Amazon Q Developer Pro tier adds automated user onboarding emails

Published Date: 2025-01-30 20:15:00

The Amazon Q Developer Pro tier now offers automated email notifications for newly subscribed users. When a new user is subscribed by an administrator, users will now automatically receive a welcome email within 24 hours containing important information to help them get started quickly and efficiently with their new subscription. This automation streamlines the onboarding process and saves administrators valuable time by eliminating the need for them to manually notify each new user. In the welcome email, users will find guidance on accessing the Q Console chat and details on downloading and installing the Q Developer plugin in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The email includes their unique Start URL and AWS region for authentication. Additionally, it provides quick-start steps for using Q Developer in their IDE. To learn more about this new feature and other Amazon Q Developer Pro tier subscription management features, visit the AWS Console.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now in preview in seven additional Regions

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:55:00

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is now available in preview in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt and London), South America (S?o Paulo), and Canada (Central). Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) is an integrated data and AI development environment that enables collaboration and helps teams build data products faster. It brings together familiar tools from AWS analytics and AI/ML services for data processing, SQL analytics, machine learning model development, and generative AI application development into a single experience. SageMaker Unified Studio provides unified data access through Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, and enhanced governance features are built in to help you meet enterprise security requirements. With the availability of new Regions, customers who have data sovereignty and low latency requirements can now use SageMaker Unified Studio while keeping their data and workloads closer to their primary operational Regions. For more information on AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is available in preview, see Supported Regions. You can create an Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio domain by visiting the Amazon SageMaker console. To get started, see the following resources:

• SageMaker overview
• SageMaker documentation
• SageMaker in the AWS Management Console

CloudWatch Database Insights now supports historical OS process snapshots

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

CloudWatch Database Insights now supports the analysis of historical snapshots of operating system (OS) processes running on your databases, allowing you to correlate a spike in database load with OS process metrics. Database administrators (DBAs) leverage OS metrics to understand how different processes or threads use system resources on their database instances. With this new Database Insights feature, DBAs can now access historical snapshots of OS processes running on their databases, including key metrics like memory and CPU utilization for each running process. OS process snapshots in Database Insights helps DBAs understand how each running process is using system resources on their databases for a given timestamp, making it easy to correlate OS process metrics with database load. OS process snapshots are now available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL in all regions where Database Insights is available. To learn more about OS process snapshots in Database Insights, please refer to the public documentation. To learn more about Database Insights pricing, refer to the CloudWatch pricing page. To get started with OS process snapshots in Database Insights, ensure you have enabled RDS Enhanced Monitoring and Database Insights Advanced mode. From the Database Instance dashboard, navigate to Database Telemetry and click on the OS processes tab. To correlate OS process metrics with database load, click on any data point on the database load chart, and a snapshot of OS processes will populate accordingly with key metrics per running process for the selected timestamp.

SES Mail Manager is now available in 11 new AWS Regions, 17 total

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

Amazon SES announces that the SES Mail Manager product is now available in 11 new commercial AWS Regions. This expands coverage from the original six commercial AWS Regions where Mail Manager first launched, meaning that Mail Manager is now offered in all non-opt-in commercial Regions where SES offers sending and receiving services. SES Mail Manager allows customers to configure email routing and delivery mechanisms for their domains, or for private use, and to have a single view of email governance, risk, and compliance solutions for all email workloads. Mail Manager is most often deployed to replace legacy hosted mail relays, or to simplify integration alongside third-party mailbox providers or external email content security solutions. In addition, Mail Manager allows customers to perform onward delivery to WorkMail mailboxes, archive content to built-in archiving and search/export features, and to interoperate with third-party security add-ons offered directly within the Mail Manager console experience. The new Regions include US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (S?o Paulo). They join US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland). Customers can learn more about SES Mail Manager here and explore the new Regions in their SES consoles for any of the available Regions listed above. ?

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage Scaling

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

We are excited to announce the launch of storage scaling functions for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing you to scale your allocated storage and change your storage Tiers as needed. With Storage Scaling, in you few simple steps you have greater flexibility and control over your time-series data processing and analysis. Timestream for InfluxDB is used in applications that require high-performance time-series data processing and analysis. You can quickly respond to changes in data ingestion rates, query volumes, or other workload fluctuations by moving to a faster more performant storage tier or extending your allocated storage capacity, ensuring that your Timestream for InfluxDB instances always have the necessary resources to handle your workload and cost effectively. This means you can focus on building and deploying your applications, rather than worrying about storage sizing and management. Support for Storage Scaling is available in all Regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is available. See here for a full listing of our Regions. To learn more about Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, please refer to our user guide. You can create a Amazon Timestream Instance from the Amazon Timestream console, AWS Command line Interface (CLI), or SDK, and AWS CloudFormation. To learn more about compute scaling for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, visit the product page, documentation, and pricing page. ?

Amazon EMR Serverless adds support for Public Subnets

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce support for Public Subnets that allow you to use EMR Serverless for cost effective outbound data transfer from the cloud for big data processing workloads. EMR Serverless applications allow you to enable VPC connectivity for use cases that need to connect to VPC resources or for outbound data transfer from the cloud to access resources on the Internet or other cloud providers. Previously, VPC connectivity supported only Private Subnets, hence you needed to configure a NAT (network address translation) Gateway for outbound connectivity from the cloud, which adds additional charges based on the amount of data transferred. Now, you can configure VPC connectivity for EMR Serverless applications on Public Subnets, which have a direct route to an internet gateway. This allows you to eliminate the NAT Gateway charges and use EMR Serverless for cost-effective outbound data transfer from the cloud for big data processing workloads. Amazon EMR Serverless Public Subnet support is available in all supported EMR releases and in all AWS Regions where EMR Serverless is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, visit Configuring VPC Access in the EMR Serverless documentation.

Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Casablanca

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Orange in Casablanca, Morocco. With this first Wavelength Zone in North Africa, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use AWS infrastructure and services to support applications with data residency, low latency, and resiliency requirements. AWS Wavelength, in partnership with Orange, delivers on-demand AWS compute and storage services to customers in North Africa. AWS Wavelength enables customers to build and deploy applications that meet their data residency, low-latency, and resiliency requirements. AWS Wavelength offers the operational consistency, industry leading cloud security practices, and familiar tools for automation that are similar to an AWS Region. With AWS Wavelength in partnership with Orange, developers can now build the applications needed for use cases, such as AI/ML inference at the edge, gaming, and fraud detection. Learn more about AWS Wavelength and get started today.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP 8.4 on Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy PHP 8.4 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to take advantage of the newest PHP features while leveraging the enhanced security and performance of AL2023.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. PHP 8.4 on AL2023 delivers significant performance improvements, critical bug fixes, and a new Document Object Model (DOM) API. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running PHP 8.4 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API.

This platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

For more information about PHP 8.4 and Linux Platforms, see the Elastic Beanstalk?developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds IPv6 support

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

CloudWatch Synthetics now allows canaries running in a VPC to make outbound requests to IPv6 endpoints allowing monitoring of IPv6-only and dual stack enabled endpoints over IPv6. You can also access CloudWatch Synthetics APIs over both IPv4 and IPv6 through new dual stack compatible regional endpoints. Additionally, PrivateLink access to Synthetics within VPCs is now available over IPv6 connections. Using CloudWatch Synthetics, you can now monitor the availability and performance of websites or microservices accessible via IPv6 endpoints ensuring that end users can use the applications seamlessly irrespective of their network protocol. You can create IPv6 enabled canaries in your VPC using the CLI, CDK, CloudFormation, or the AWS console, and update existing VPC canaries to support dual stack connectivity without making any script changes. You can monitor endpoints external to your VPC by giving the canary internet access and configuring the VPC subnets appropriately. Now you can manage Synthetics resources in environments with IPv6-only networking policies, or access Synthetics APIs via IPv6 without traffic traversing the internet using PrivateLink helping meet security and regulatory requirements. IPv6 support for Synthetics is available in all commercial regions where CloudWatch Synthetics is present at no additional cost to the users. To learn how to configure a IPv6 canary in a VPC see documentation, or click here to find dual-stack API management endpoints for Synthetics. See user guide and One Observability Workshop to get started with CloudWatch Synthetics.

SES Mail Manager adds support for address and domain lists

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

SES announces that Mail Manager now supports defined email address and domain lists which are used as part of the Mail Manager rules engine to distinguish between known and unknown addresses. This functionality adds both the mechanisms to upload and manage email address and domain lists, and the rules engine controls to make routing decisions based on whether a given address in a message envelope is on such a list or not. Customers are therefore able to ensure trusted delivery for known internal recipients while implementing catch-all behaviors for directory harvesting attacks, mistyped addresses, and standard behaviors for other domains owned and managed by the customer. SES recipient lists allow customers to upload email addresses individually or in batches via CSV files. They can then configure one or more lists with different routing preferences in the Mail Manager rules engine. This provides immediate changes to mail routing simply by adding another address to an existing list. For example, a list of “Retired Employees” might have new names added with some frequency, but the handling rule — attached to the list name itself — remains the same throughout. SES Mail Manager recipient lists increase the flexibility and security of customers using Mail Manager to handle incoming mail by increasing resistance to email-based reconnaissance efforts and without disclosing list names or aliases externally. SES Mail Manager recipient lists are available in every region where Mail Manager is launched. Customers can learn more about SES Mail Manager here.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports bring your own ads (BYOA) via VAST responses

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

With AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now bring your own pre-transcoded HLS and DASH packaged ads through VAST responses, enabling custom control over ad transcoding. This new capability allows ad decision servers to include HLS and DASH manifest URLs for pre-transcoded multi-bitrate ad streams directly in the VAST XML creative file attributes. MediaTailor will stitch the pre-transcoded ad creative into the manifest without dynamic transcoding. Previously, MediaTailor could only dynamically transcode ads to match the content stream at insertion time. With Bring-Your-Own-Ads via VAST, you can now pre-transcode ads and provide the transcoded manifest URLs via VAST, enabling use cases like server-side overlay ads and instantly inserting new ad creatives. Bring-Your-Own-Ads via VAST can be enabled at the configuration level in MediaTailor. The feature supports both HLS and DASH streaming protocols and is available now in all regions where MediaTailor is supported. Please see the MediaTailor User Guide for further details. Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more about MediaTailor, please visit the product page.

Amazon Lex expands Assisted Slot Resolution regions and model access

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

Amazon Lex has expanded Assisted Slot Resolution to additional AWS regions and enhanced its capabilities through integration with newer Amazon Bedrock foundation models. Bot developers can now select from allowlisted foundation models in their account to enhance slot resolution capabilities, while maintaining the same simplified permission model through bot Service Linked Role updates. When enabled, this feature helps chatbots better understand user responses during slot collection, activating during slot retries and fallback scenarios. The feature supports AMAZON.City, AMAZON.Country, AMAZON.Number, AMAZON.Date, AMAZON.AlphaNumeric (without regex), and AMAZON.PhoneNumber slot types, with the ability to enable improvements for individual slots during build time. Assisted Slot Resolution is now available in Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo), and Canada (Central) regions, in addition to US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon). While there are no additional Amazon Lex charges for this feature, standard Amazon Bedrock pricing applies for foundation model usage. To learn more about implementing these enhancements, please refer to our documentation on Assisted Slot Resolution. You can enable the feature through the Amazon Lex console or APIs. ?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Python 3.13 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest features and improvements in Python while taking advantage of the enhanced security and performance of AL2023.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Python 3.13 on AL2023 delivers enhanced interactive interpreter capabilities, improved error messages, and important security and API improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running Python 3.13 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API.

This platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

To learn more about Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023, see the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer guide.?For additional information, visit the AWS Elastic Beanstalk product page.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports .NET 9 on Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2025-01-30 18:00:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy .NET 9 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest .NET features while benefiting from AL2023's enhanced security and performance features.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. .NET 9 on AL2023 delivers enhanced garbage collection capabilities and significant performance improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running .NET 9 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API.

This platform is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

For more information about .NET 9 and Linux Platforms, see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

AWS Marketplace adds self-service seller onboarding support for demo and private offer requests

Published Date: 2025-01-29 18:00:00

AWS Marketplace sellers can now utilize a new self-service process to enable demo and private offer requests for their products through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal and AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Enabling this feature allows customers to request demos and private offers directly from sellers’ product listing pages, accelerating product evaluations and reducing procurement cycle times. When creating or updating software as a service (SaaS) or server products in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal, sellers who are eligible to receive AWS Opportunity referrals through the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) program and have linked their AWS Marketplace and Partner Central accounts now have the option to enable ‘Request demo’ and/or ‘Request private offer’ call-to-action buttons on their product detail pages. This empowers sellers with direct self-service access to onboard these features. By enabling demo and private offer requests, AWS Marketplace sellers can be connected directly to high-intent prospects that are pre-qualified by AWS. To learn more about enabling demo and private offer requests, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.

Amazon Redshift launches enhanced query monitoring to improve query monitoring and diagnostics

Published Date: 2025-01-29 18:00:00

Amazon Redshift now offers enhanced query monitoring capabilities, enabling you to efficiently identify and isolate performance bottlenecks. This feature provides comprehensive insights to track, evaluate, and diagnose query performance within data warehouses, eliminating the need to manually analyze system tables and logs. Accessible through the AWS console, enhanced query monitoring allows you to view performance history for trend analysis, detect workload changes and understand how query performance has changed over time and diagnose performance issues with query profiler. You can analyze a specific timeframe and find problematic queries, review performance trends, and drill down to detailed query plans. Enhanced query monitoring relies on system views like SYS_QUERY_DETAIL and requires users to connect to the Redshift data warehouse. A regular users can view only their queries whereas administrators with SYS:MONITOR role will be able to monitor queries for the entire data warehouse. Enhanced query monitoring is now generally available for both Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift provisioned data warehouses in all AWS commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Redshift is available. To learn more, see the documentation. ?

AWS Marketplace expands self-service listing experience for AMI products with CloudFormation templates

Published Date: 2025-01-28 22:40:00

AWS Marketplace now offers a self-service listing experience for sellers listing or managing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products with CloudFormation templates (CFT). This launch expands the self-service listing capability previously available for single-AMI, software as a service (SaaS), and container products. With this release, sellers can now create and manage AMI with CloudFormation listings using a new UI experience, replacing the manual spreadsheet process. During listing creation, sellers are guided through a step-by-step workflow to fill in required information about their listings. All changes are initially visible only to the sellers, allowing them to preview and test the product. Sellers who are ready to publish a product publicly can request a visibility change through the UI, prompting a final validation review by the AWS Marketplace team. Sellers can access this experience through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal or they can programmatically access the new functionality through AWS Marketplace Catalog API. For many submitted requests, such as an update to a product description, the AWS Marketplace catalog system automatically validates the requested changes and updates the listings. To learn more about this feature, see the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide and the Catalog API guide. To try the feature now, sellers can visit the server product page in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE)

Published Date: 2025-01-28 22:20:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS CodeBuild announces support for project ARN and build ARN IAM condition keys

Published Date: 2025-01-28 21:50:00

AWS CodeBuild announces support for codebuild:projectArn and codebuild:buildArn as IAM condition keys. These two new condition keys can be used in IAM policies to restrict the ARN of the project or build that originated the request. Starting today, CodeBuild will automatically add the new codebuild:projectArn and codebuild:buildArn condition keys to the request context of all AWS API calls made within the build. You can use the Condition element in your IAM policy to compare the codebuild:projectArn condition key in the request context with values that you specify in your policy. This capability allows you to implement advanced security controls for the AWS API calls originating from within your builds. For example, you can write conditional policies using the new codebuild:projectArn condition key to grant permissions to AWS API calls only if those originate from inside a build for the specified project. This feature is available in all regions where CodeBuild is offered. For more information about the AWS Regions where CodeBuild is available, see the AWS Regions page. To learn more about CodeBuild’s condition keys, please visit our documentation. To learn more about how to get started with CodeBuild, visit the AWS CodeBuild product page.

Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm)

Published Date: 2025-01-28 21:44:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which o?oads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon C7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. C8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 C8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS DataSync adds support for Kerberos authentication

Published Date: 2025-01-28 19:35:00

AWS DataSync now supports Kerberos authentication for self-managed file servers that use the Server Message Block (SMB) network protocol. This update provides enhanced security options for connecting to SMB file servers commonly found in Microsoft Windows environments. DataSync is a secure, high-speed data transfer service that simplifies and accelerates moving data over a network. It automates copying files and objects between AWS Storage services, on-premises storage, and other clouds. DataSync uses protocols like SMB to transfer data to and from network storage systems. With this launch, you can configure your DataSync SMB locations to authenticate access to your storage using Kerberos, in addition to existing support for NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication. DataSync supports any Kerberos server, such as Microsoft Active Directory, that implements Kerberos protocol version 5. Kerberos authentication is available in all AWS Regions where AWS DataSync is offered. To get started, visit the AWS DataSync console. To learn more, refer to the AWS DataSync documentation. ?

AWS Health now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2025-01-28 18:00:00

AWS Health customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to view operational issues or planned lifecycle events for all accounts and resources in your organization. The existing Health endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The urgency to transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is driven by the continued growth of internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on Health endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. This enables you to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. Support for IPv6 on AWS Health is available in all commercial regions. To learn more, please refer to the user guide.

Amazon Redshift announces enhanced default security configurations for new warehouses

Published Date: 2025-01-28 18:00:00

Amazon Redshift announces enhanced security defaults to help you adhere to best practices in data security and reduce the risk of potential misconfigurations. These changes include disabling public accessibility, enabling database encryption, and enforcing secure connections by default when creating a new data warehouse. The enhanced security defaults bring three key changes: First, public accessibility is disabled by default for all newly created provisioned clusters and clusters restored from snapshots. In this configuration, connections to clusters will only be permitted from client applications within the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Second, database encryption is enabled by default for provisioned clusters. If you don't specify an AWS KMS key when creating a provisioned cluster, the cluster is now automatically encrypted with an AWS-owned key. Third, Amazon Redshift now enforces secure, encrypted connections by default, a new default parameter group named "default.redshift-2.0" will be introduced for all newly created or restored clusters, with "require_ssl" parameter set to "true" by default. This default change will also apply to new serverless workgroups. Review your data warehouse creation configurations, scripts, and tools to align with the new default settings to avoid any potential disruption. While these security features are enabled by default, you will still have the ability to modify cluster or workgroup settings to change the default behavior. Your existing data warehouses will not be impacted by these security enhancements. These new default changes are implemented in all AWS regions where Amazon Redshift is available. For more information, please refer to our documentation.

Amazon Lex Global Resiliency now supports CloudFormation and existing alias replication

Published Date: 2025-01-28 18:00:00

We are excited to announce new capabilities for Amazon Lex Global Resiliency. Building on our existing regional replication framework, we now support existing alias replication and CloudFormation for enabling bot replication. These new features enhance the existing automation that synchronizes your Lex V2 bots, associated resources, versions, and aliases to paired AWS regions in near real-time, while maintaining hot standby resources for immediate failover or an active-active setup. For contact center customers, this update streamlines disaster recovery by automatically keeping regional configurations in sync. The feature preserves existing alias ARNs during replication and removes the need to update contact flows in multiple places when modifying your bots. With support across the console, CLI, CDK, and CloudFormation, implementing robust disaster recovery solutions is more streamlined than ever. Global Resiliency for Amazon Lex is available in the following AWS region pairs: us-east-1 (N. Virginia)/us-west-2 (Oregon), and eu-west-2 (London)/eu-central-1 (Frankfurt). To get started with these new capabilities, contact your Amazon Connect Solutions Architect or Technical Account Manager. Visit the Amazon Lex Global Resiliency documentation?to learn more about implementing Global Resiliency for your Lex bots.

AWS Amplify now supports using the TypeScript Data client in server-side AWS Lambda functions

Published Date: 2025-01-28 18:00:00

AWS Amplify now enables developers to use the Amplify Data client within AWS Lambda functions. This new capability allows you to leverage the same type-safe data operations you use in your frontend applications directly in your Lambda functions, eliminating the need to write raw GraphQL queries. The Amplify Data client in Lambda functions brings a consistent data access pattern across your entire application stack. Instead of managing separate GraphQL implementations, you can now use the same familiar client-side syntax to query and mutate data with full TypeScript support. This unified approach reduces development time, minimizes errors, and makes your codebase more maintainable. This feature is now available in all AWS regions where AWS Amplify is supported. To get started, visit the AWS Amplify documentation to learn how to integrate the Amplify Data client in your Lambda functions. ?

Announcing support for Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift in AWS Deadline Cloud

Published Date: 2025-01-27 22:30:00

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports Maxon Cinema 4D and Maxon Redshift in its Service-Managed Fleets and Customer-Managed Fleets. With this update, creative teams can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render complex projects and access flexible Usage-Based Licensing (UBL). With AWS Deadline Cloud, you can submit Cinema 4D jobs to Deadline Cloud without having to manage your own render farm infrastructure. You can now scale Cinema 4D and Redshift rendering workloads effortlessly, eliminating bottlenecks caused by local resource limitations. UBL integration offers a pay-as-you-go licensing model, ideal for studios managing dynamic workloads. You can build pipelines for 3D graphics and visual effects using Cinema 4D without having to set up, configure, or manage the worker infrastructure yourself. Service-Managed Fleets can be configured in minutes so you can begin rendering immediately. Customers using Customer-Managed Fleets can also use Cinema 4D and Redshift UBL by integrating the license into their workflows, enabling access and pay-as-you-go usage. Creative teams can get started today in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is available. For more information, please visit the Deadline Cloud product page, and see the Deadline Cloud pricing page for UBL price details.

Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available

Published Date: 2025-01-27 22:20:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon S3 Metadata, the easiest and fastest way to discover and understand your Amazon S3 data. S3 Metadata provides automated and easily queried metadata that updates in near real time, simplifying business analytics, real-time inference applications, and more. S3 Metadata supports object metadata, which includes system-defined details like size and the source of the object, and custom metadata, which allows you to use tags to annotate your objects with information like product SKU, transaction ID, or content rating.

S3 Metadata automatically captures metadata from objects as they are uploaded into a bucket and makes that metadata queryable in a read-only table. As data in your bucket changes, S3 Metadata updates the table within minutes to reflect the latest changes. These metadata tables are stored in Amazon S3 Tables, storage optimized for tabular data. The S3 Tables integration with AWS Glue Data Catalog is in preview, allowing you to stream, query, and visualize data—including S3 Metadata tables—using AWS analytics?services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon Data Firehose, Amazon EMR, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon Redshift.?Additionally, S3 Metadata integrates with Amazon Bedrock, allowing for the annotation of AI-generated videos with metadata that specifies its AI origin, creation timestamp, and the specific model used for its generation. S3 Metadata is available in the following AWS Regions:?US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon).

For pricing details, visit the?Amazon S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the?Amazon S3 Metadata overview page,?documentation, and?AWS News Blog.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect introduces content quality metrics

Published Date: 2025-01-27 21:40:00

AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports a set of diagnostic metrics designed to provide visibility into the quality of your video and audio streams. The new metrics detect black frames, frozen video, and audio silence allowing you to quickly identify and address potential disruptions. This level of monitoring goes beyond traditional network performance indicators by analyzing the actual content, so you can maintain a high-quality experience for viewers. With these metrics, you have the flexibility to configure custom thresholds tailored to your preferences. This enables you to swiftly identify and address any interruptions to content delivery. To learn more about enabling the content quality metrics, visit the AWS Elemental MediaConnect monitoring documentation page. AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owners to build live video workflows and securely share live content with partners and customers. MediaConnect helps customers transport high-value live video streams into, through, and out of the AWS Cloud. MediaConnect can function as a standalone service or as part of a larger video workflow with other AWS Elemental Media Services, a family of services that form the foundation of cloud-based workflows to transport, transcode, package, and deliver video. Visit the AWS Region Table for a full list of AWS Regions where MediaConnect is available. To learn more about MediaConnect, please visit here.

Announcing general availability of AWS Managed Notifications

Published Date: 2025-01-27 18:50:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications, a new feature of AWS User Notifications that enhances how customers receive and manage AWS Health notifications. This feature allows you to view and modify default AWS Health notifications in the Console Notifications Center, alongside your custom notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. A dedicated user interface is now available to manage notification subscriptions, including the ability to unsubscribe the primary or alternate contact emails from specific notification categories like 'Operational events'. You can easily subscribe to Health Notifications through additional delivery channels. Supported channels include push notifications to the AWS Console Mobile App, AWS Chatbot (for Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations), and email. Configuring and viewing notifications in the Console Notifications Center is offered at no additional cost. This new capability is available in all AWS Regions where AWS User Notifications is available. For more information, visit the AWS User Notifications product page and documentation. To get started, go to the Console Notifications Center.

Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile App

Published Date: 2025-01-27 18:00:00

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now get push notifications for default AWS Health notifications and view them in the AWS Console Mobile Application’s notification inbox, alongside your user-configured notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. To get started, visit the AWS Console Notifications Center and select the AWS managed notifications subscriptions option in the navigation panel. Next, select Manage subscriptions for the specific notifications you’d like to receive and click Add delivery channels. Finally, in the Add delivery channels modal’s AWS Console Mobile App section, select your device and click Add delivery channels. Configuring and viewing notifications in the AWS Console Notifications Center and the AWS Console Mobile Application are offered at no additional cost. The AWS Console Mobile App lets you stay informed and connected with your AWS resources while on-the-go. Visit the AWS Console Mobile Application product page for more information. For more information about AWS User Notifications, visit the product page. ?

AWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability Zones

Published Date: 2025-01-27 18:00:00

AWS now supports the Zone Groups for Availability Zones across all AWS Regions, making it easier for you to differentiate groups of Local Zones and Availability Zones. Zone Groups were initially launched to help you identify related groups of Local Zones that reside in the same geography. For example, the two interconnected Local Zones in Los Angeles (us-west-2-lax-1a and us-west-2-lax-1b) make up the us-west-2-lax-1 Zone Group. These Zone Groups are used for opting in to the AWS Local Zones. You can now find the Zone Group for Availability Zones for all Regions in the DescribeAvailabilityZones API. For example, the Availability Zones in the US West (Oregon) Region make up the us-west-2-zg-1 Zone GroupName, where us-west-2 indicates the Region, and zg-1 indicates it is the group of AZs in the Region. This new identifier (such as us-west-2-zg-1) has replaced the previous naming (such as us-west-2). For more details, please refer to the Zone Group for Availability Zones blog post and the visit DescribeAvailabilityZones API documentation. ?

Amazon EKS managed node groups introduces new update strategies

Published Date: 2025-01-27 18:00:00

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers new update strategies for managed node groups, giving you control over how Amazon EC2 instances in your clusters are updated with new configurations or for new Kubernetes versions. This feature provides flexibility to make changes to your Amazon EKS cluster nodes in a way that best suits your use case, while reducing operational overhead and compute costs. Amazon EKS managed node group update strategies let you choose between the current EKS managed node group update behavior, Default, and a new strategy, Minimal Capacity, that attempts to update the managed node group by launching fewer new EC2 instances compared to the Default strategy. Minimal Capacity is useful for managed node groups that have been scaled to zero, are using EC2 instances in high demand, or instances with limited availability. This is especially beneficial, for example, if your managed node groups have GPU-accelerated instances or instances purchased using a capacity reservation like Reserved Instances. By default, both existing and new EKS managed node groups use the “Default” update strategy, which updates managed node groups in the same way as before this launch. EKS managed node group update strategies is available today at no additional cost in all AWS Regions, except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon EKS product page or Amazon EKS User Guide for managed node groups. ?