2025 - Week 6 (3 Feb - 9 Feb)

AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map

Published Date: 2025-02-07 22:50:00

AWS Step Functions now supports additional data sources and output options for Distributed Map, enabling more flexible large-scale parallel processing workflows. Distributed map can now process data from JSON Lines (JSONL) and a broader range of delimited file formats stored in Amazon S3. Additionally, distributed map offers new output transformations for greater control over result formatting. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. With this update, you can more easily iterate over and process diverse datasets using Step Functions distributed map. In addition to existing JSON and comma separated value (CSV) file support, distributed map now supports JSONL, and new delimited file formats, such as semicolon-delimited files and tab-delimited files. This expands processing capabilities to a wider range of data formats without custom pre-processing. The new flexible output transformations give you more control over how results are formatted, enabling easier aggregation of results and simplifying integration with downstream systems. To get started, you can use the distributed map mode today in the AWS Step Functions console or read this blog post. To learn more, visit the Step Functions developer guide.

Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs

Published Date: 2025-02-07 18:00:00

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the Amazon FSx Service APIs. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can standardize their applications and workflows for managing their Amazon FSx resources on the new version of Internet Protocol by using the new dual-stack Amazon FSx Service endpoints. IPv6 support for Amazon FSx Service APIs is available in all commercial, AWS GovCloud (US), and AWS China regions where Amazon FSx is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx user guide. ?

Announcing custom payment schedules for AWS Marketplace Channel Partner private offers

Published Date: 2025-02-07 18:00:00

AWS Marketplace now supports custom payment schedules for private offers, giving Channel Partners the ability to add margins on private offers with installment plans. Channel Partners can now adjust each scheduled payment individually, either through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal or the AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Previously, Channel Partners could only apply a uniform percentage markup across all installments in a private offer. With this update, they can now adjust the payment amount for each installment in the schedule, providing greater flexibility in structuring deals and managing cash flow. Once the buyer accepts and pays their invoices, the Channel Partner and independent software vendor (ISV) will receive their appropriate payment as defined in the offer and resell agreement. This saves Channel Partners significant time and effort, eliminating the need to request margin updates from AWS. Channel Partners can use this feature for all AWS Marketplace products using installment plans sold through Channel Partner private offers, across all supported currencies. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is available. To learn more, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide. To try the new capability, visit the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. ?

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2025-02-07 18:00:00

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their networks stack by running their Data Lifecycle Manager dual-stack endpoints on a network supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, depending on the protocol used by their network and client. Customers create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies to automate the creation, retention, and management of EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The policies can also automatically copy created resources across AWS Regions, move EBS Snapshots to EBS Snapshots Archive tier, and manage Fast Snapshot Restore. Customers can also create policies to automate creation and retention of application-consistent EBS Snapshots via pre and post-scripts, as well as create Default Policies for comprehensive protection for their account or AWS Organization. Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager with IPv6 is now available in all AWS commercial Regions. To learn more about configuring Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager endpoints for IPv6, please refer to our documentation. ?

AWS Config now supports 4 new resource types

Published Date: 2025-02-07 18:00:00

AWS Config now supports 4 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The newly supported resource types are also available in Config rules and Config aggregators.

You can now use AWS Config to monitor the following newly supported resource types in all AWS Regions where the supported resources are available:

• AWS::EC2::VPCBlockPublicAccessExclusion
• AWS::EC2::VPCBlockPublicAccessOptions
• AWS::S3Express::BucketPolicy
• AWS::S3Express::DirectoryBucket

To view the complete list of AWS Config supported resource types, see supported resource types page.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in Seoul (Asia Pacific) Region

Published Date: 2025-02-07 18:00:00

Amazon EC2 U7in-8tb instances are now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. U7in-8tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), delivering up to 135% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances. U7in-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7in-8tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 60Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.

AWS WAF Console adds new top insights visualizations in additional regions

Published Date: 2025-02-06 21:00:00

AWS WAF’s console dashboard now includes richer visualizations that give you insights into the top sources of traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US). With this feature, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations can view a new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard. Customers previously used the all traffic dashboard, a default dashboard that populates visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. As customers strive to continue gaining additional visibility into their traffic, they have requested richer visualizations based on logs in addition to visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. Starting today, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations will have access to this new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard, which includes richer visualizations based on terminating rules, client IPs, URI path, and more. These top insights will enable customers to better understand their security posture, quickly identify anomalies, and optimize their WAF configurations accordingly. For example, if a customer sees more than expected traffic from an suspicious IP address, they can take steps to create a IP-blocking rule to address this anomaly. Standard CloudWatch pricing applies to metrics and logs queried through the dashboard. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS CloudWatch Pricing page. The feature is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) for all origin types supported by WAF. For more information about the all traffic dashboard, visit the Developer Guide. ?

AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues

Published Date: 2025-02-06 20:25:00

AWS IAM Identity Center now provides improved error messages to simplify troubleshooting when syncing users and groups. You can also build automated monitoring and auditing for these errors using the AWS CloudTrail logs. IAM Identity Center helps you securely connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts and applications. With improved error messaging, IAM Identity Center provides actionable information to troubleshoot provisioning issues as you sync your users and groups using SCIM or configurable AD sync. CloudTrail logs enable automated monitoring of synchronization processes and provide audit trails of provisioning issues. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where it is supported. To learn more, see the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports log delivery to additional destinations

Published Date: 2025-02-06 19:10:00

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports delivering logs to Amazon S3 and Amazon Data Firehose, in addition to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Additionally, customers now receive 50 KB of MediaTailor logs per ad inserted (50,000 KB per 1,000 ads inserted) for free when delivering to supported destinations. Customers delivering MediaTailor logs to CloudWatch logs benefit from advanced log analytics features such as Live Tailing, Anomaly Detection, and Logs Insights as well as metrics and dashboards to monitor ad monetization. Delivery to S3 or Firehose enables offline analysis and real-time streaming to other AWS services and third-party tools. Usage over the free 50 KB per ad insert will be charged as per MediaTailor logs pricing. For details, please refer to the pricing section of the MediaTailor product page. 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 RDS for Oracle now supports January 2025 Release Update

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:20:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, your DB instance is upgraded to the latest quarterly RU six to eight weeks after it is made available by Amazon RDS for Oracle in your AWS Region. These upgrades will happen during the maintenance window. To learn more, see the Amazon RDS maintenance window documentation. For more information about the AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle is available, see the AWS Region table.

Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to 10 more AWS Regions

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Amazon MSK has added support for Express brokers in all AWS Regions where Amazon MSK offers Graviton3 based M7g instances. You can now benefit from Amazon MSK Express brokers in ten additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (Bahrain). Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes. You can now create an MSK cluster with Express brokers in these AWS Regions from the Amazon MSK console. To learn more, check out this blog. ?

AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

AWS AppSync Events allows developers to create serverless WebSocket APIs that can broadcast real-time data to millions of subscribers without managing infrastructure or connection state. Developers simply create their API, and publish events without having the worry about scale and handling fan-out. Today, AWS AppSync announces the release of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 constructs for AWS AppSync Events, enabling developers to programmatically create and manage Event APIs and channel namespaces using infrastructure as code. These new constructs simplify the process of creating Event APIs and managing access controls, reducing the complexity of integrating real-time capabilities into applications. The new L2 constructs provide a higher-level abstraction that makes it easier for developers to define AppSync Event APIs and their associated channel namespaces using familiar programming languages. Developers can now easily grant access to specific channel namespaces to AWS resources such as AWS Lambda functions, streamlining the integration between services. This eliminates the need to manually configure complex IAM permissions and reduces the potential for security misconfigurations. These CDK L2 constructs are available in all AWS Regions where AWS AppSync is available. To get started with the new AWS AppSync Events CDK L2 constructs, visit the AWS CDK API Reference documentation. ?

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 announces price reduction

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 provides a fully-managed offering to scan new object uploads to S3 bucket for malware. Starting February 1, 2025, we are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension by 85%. Over the past few months we have made improvements to our scanning infrastructure and data processing efficiencies, enabling us to reduce the price as part of our commitment to pass savings back to customers. GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is priced based on two dimensions: the number of objects evaluated and the amount of data scanned. We are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension, for example in US East (N. Virginia) from $0.60 to $0.09 per GB. The price for objects evaluated remains unchanged. With this price reduction, you will be more capable of building secure and cost-effective data pipelines on Amazon S3 for applications with untrusted uploads across the enterprise. The price reduction applies automatically to all AWS Regions where GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is available, requiring no action from customers. For additional information visit Amazon GuardDuty pricing page. To receive programmatic updates on new GuardDuty features and threat detections, subscribe to the Amazon GuardDuty AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic. ?

Amazon Keyspaces is now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With Amazon Keyspaces, you can run your Cassandra workloads on AWS using the same Cassandra application code and developer tools that you use today. The service is completely serverless, eliminating the need to provision, patch, or manage servers, or handle software installation and maintenance. You pay only for the resources you use, and tables automatically scale up and down based on application traffic. Amazon Keyspaces supports applications serving thousands of requests per second with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. The service includes built-in security features with encryption by default and continuous data backup capabilities through point-in-time recovery. For pricing information in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, visit Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) pricing. To see the complete list of AWS Regions where Amazon Keyspaces is available, check AWS Regional Services. To begin using Amazon Keyspaces in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, refer to Getting Started with Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) in the Amazon Keyspaces Developer Guide. ?

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) now includes Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). This integration allows customers to use VS Code to view, create and manage Amazon DocumentDB resources.

To get started, you can download the latest AWS-Toolkit extension from VSCode marketplace or update your AWS-Toolkit extension if you already have it installed in your VSCode environment. Then you can configure the extension with credentials for your AWS account and connect to AWS explorer in VSCode. Once connected, you can interact with the DocumentDB menu item to create DocumentDB clusters or manage your existing DocumentDB clusters. To learn more, see Amazon DocumentDB support in VSCode. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please visit the Amazon DocumentDB product page, pricing page and documentation. ?

AWS Verified Access launches Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access’ support for secure access to resources that connect over protocols such as TCP, SSH, and RDP. With this launch, you can use Verified Access to provide secure VPN-less access to all your corporate applications and resources using AWS zero trust principles. This feature eliminates the need to manage separate access, and connectivity solutions for non-HTTP(S) resources on AWS and simplifies security operations. Verified Access allows admins to set access policies based on user identity and device posture. It evaluates access for new connections and continuously monitors active connections, terminating connections when security requirements specified in the access policies aren't met. Now you can extend your existing Verified Access policies to enable secure access to non-HTTP(S) applications and resources such as databases, and SAP and git-repositories running on EC2 instances. For example, you can centrally define access policies granting prod database access only to authenticated database administrators using compliant, managed devices. This simplifies your security operations by allowing you to centrally create, group, and manage access policies for all applications and resources with similar security requirements from a single interface. This feature is generally available in 18 AWS regions: US East (Ohio), US East (Northern Virginia), US West (N California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), South America (S?o Paulo), and Israel (Tel Aviv). To learn more, visit the product page, pricing page, and documentation. ?

Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

AWS CloudFormation introduces a new capability called stack refactoring that makes it easy to reorganize cloud resources across your CloudFormation stacks. Stack refactoring enables you to move resources from one stack to another, split monolithic stacks into smaller components, and rename the logical name of resources within a stack. This enables you to adapt your stacks to meet architectural patterns, operational needs, or business requirements. As your workloads scale and requirements evolve, re-architecting resources into a new stack structure can become necessary. For example, you may need to split a monolithic stack for easier resource lifecycle management or rename resource logical IDs to align with new naming conventions. Previously, refactoring a stack required multiple manual steps, such as updating templates to retain targeted resources, removing them from current stacks, and then importing them into new stacks. Stack refactoring improves the speed and safety of this process. To refactor a stack, you first provide the CloudFormation templates that reflect the desired stack structure. Then, you generate a preview of the refactor operation, allowing you to confirm that the refactoring changes align with your requirements. If the planned changes meet your expectations, you can execute the refactor operation through an atomic workflow. This new capability enables seamless and continuous adaptation to evolving architectural patterns. Stack refactor is available in all AWS Regions where CloudFormation is supported. To get started, update your CloudFormation templates to reflect the desired stack structure, then use the AWS CLI or SDK to perform the refactor operation. Visit our user guide to learn more about this feature. ?

Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, simplified setup experience for Pro tier subscriptions

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Today, we are excited to announce a new onboarding experience that makes it easy to set up and manage Amazon Q Developer Pro tier subscriptions. The workflow on Amazon Q console has been redesigned to provide a friendlier 2-step setup for users or teams that are looking to try out Amazon Q Developer in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). AWS account administrators can create subscriptions using the Amazon Q console for their standalone or AWS Organizations member accounts using a guided setup to create local users and configure Amazon Q Developer managed applications. Once the setup is complete, subscribed users will receive details on setting up credentials to start using Amazon Q Developer. After installation of the Amazon Q Developer plugin in their preferred IDE, users can leverage context-aware code recommendations and enhanced development capabilities to accelerate their software development. Administrators in the Organizations management accounts will continue to maintain their existing IAM Identity Center capabilities to manage workforce access to Amazon Q Developer. To learn more about the new getting started experience, visit Amazon Q Developer User Guide. To get started with Amazon Q Developer, visit the AWS Console. ?

Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Cost Optimization Hub now supports idle EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups with scaling policies and multiple instance types. It also allows you to easily filter and aggregate EC2 Auto Scaling group cost optimization opportunities separately from standalone EC2 instances,?making it easier to identify EC2 Auto Scaling groups with the highest cost-saving opportunities.

With this launch, you can view, consolidate, and prioritize cost optimization opportunities for EC2 Auto Scaling groups across your organization’s member accounts and AWS Regions through a single dashboard. Cost Optimization Hub helps you quantify estimated savings from these recommendations, taking into account your specific discounts, such as Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, enabling you to easily compare and prioritize recommendations.

The new EC2 Auto Scaling group experience and recommendations are available in Cost Optimization Hub across all AWS Regions where Cost Optimization Hub and AWS Organizations are supported. ?

Amazon Personalize now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2025-02-06 18:00:00

Amazon Personalize introduces dual stack support for the Personalize API endpoints, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when you privately access the Personalize API endpoint from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. 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 Personalize 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 help meet IPv6 compliance requirements and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. Support for IPv6 on Amazon Personalize in all supported regions. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6, see the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. ?

Amazon ECS Service Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions

Published Date: 2025-02-05 21:30:00

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches its networking capability called ECS Service Connect in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easier for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. With ECS Service Connect, customers can easily configure service discovery, connectivity, traffic observability, and encryption for services running in Amazon ECS. This enables more efficient application development by allowing you to focus on writing application code instead of managing complex networking infrastructure To learn more about how to get started with Amazon ECS Service Connect and how it works, see our documentation.

Amazon DocumentDB now offers one-click connectivity with CloudShell

Published Date: 2025-02-05 20:10:00

Starting today, you can connect to your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) clusters with a single click through AWS CloudShell directly from the AWS Management Console. This new feature allows our customers to easily connect to their DocumentDB clusters directly from their browser, without requiring any local setup. One-click connectivity with Cloudshell automatically configures VPCs, security groups, and MongoDB shell installation, eliminating the need for manual tasks like setting up security groups and ingress/egress rules. This streamlines the process for database administrators and developers, enabling them to connect quickly to their DocumentDB cluster to preview data or execute adhoc queries. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where both Amazon DocumentDB and AWS CloudShell services are supported. For more information about region availability, see the AWS Region table. To get started, follow Get started with Amazon DocumentDB to create an Amazon DocumentDB cluster, then click the "Connect to cluster" button to connect via CloudShell.

Amazon SageMaker AI is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)

Published Date: 2025-02-05 20:10:00

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Malaysia). Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed platform that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker AI removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high quality models. To learn more and get started, see SageMaker AI documentation and pricing page.

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (Zurich)

Published Date: 2025-02-05 19:30:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. 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, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale their performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function. M6in and M6idn instances are available in 10 different instance sizes including metal, offering up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory. They deliver up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. M6in and M6idn instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. M6idn instances offer up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage. With this regional expansion, M6in and M6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see M6in and M6idn instances page.

Amazon Q Business introduces orchestration for user query management

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:10:00

Amazon Q Business, the generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, introduced an intelligent orchestration feature that simplifies conversational experience by understanding user queries, and automatically directing the queries to the right data sources and plugins to generate relevant responses. Earlier, users would need to manually switch between different work applications to complete their tasks and gain insights from data sources. Enabling orchestration simplifies the user conversational experience by automatically directing user queries to indexed enterprise data sources and plugins, eliminating the need for manual selection. Orchestration works with retrieval augmented generative (RAG) data for enterprise-specific knowledge, and with both built-in and custom plugins, allowing users to interact with popular business tools like Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, and PagerDuty - all through a single conversation in Amazon Q Business. The new orchestration feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is available. To get started with the feature, customers can access the setting directly from the Amazon Q Business console. To learn more, please visit Using global controls in Amazon Q Business. To learn more about Amazon Q Business plugins and how they can enhance your organization's productivity, visit the Amazon Q Business webpage and explore the Amazon Q Business plugin documentation.

Announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 F2.6xlarge, a new F2 instance size

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:00:00

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of a new smaller size of Amazon EC2 F2 instances, F2.6xlarge. Amazon EC2 F2 instances are the second-generation of FPGA-powered instances, purpose built for developing and deploying reconfigurable hardware in the cloud. The new F2.6xlarge instance size has 1 FPGA, compared to the currently available F2 sizes with 4 and 8 FPGAs. Amazon EC2 F2 instances are ideal for FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network acceleration, and more. AWS customers can use the new instance size, F2.6xlarge, for applications that are more cost-efficient or performant when running on a single FPGA. F2.6xlarge also provides a lower cost entry point to using F2 instances. F2 instances are the first to feature an FPGA with 16 GB of high bandwidth memory (HBM). The new F2.6xlarge size features a 3rd generation AMD EPYC processor with 24 vCPUs, 256 GB of system memory, 950 GB of NVMe SSD local storage, and 12.5 Gbps of network bandwidth. The F2.6xlarge size is now available in the US East (N. Virginia), Europe (London), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. To learn more, please visit the Amazon EC2 F2 Instances page.

AWS IAM announces support for encrypted SAML assertions

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:00:00

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announced support for encrypted SAML assertions. SAML is an open standard that many identity providers (IdPs) use for federated single sign-on (SSO), enabling users or applications in your company to log into the AWS Management Console or call AWS API operations. You can now configure your identity provider to encrypt the SAML assertions that it sends to IAM. This ensures that your assertions are encrypted when passed through intermediaries (for example, the end user’s web browser). You can use the AWS IAM console, APIs, or CLI to configure SAML encryption for your identity providers that support encryption. Please refer to IAM and your identity provider’s product documentation for detailed configuration steps. This feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, please refer to IAM documentation. ?

AWS Wickr now provides a dedicated space to organize and access files

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:00:00

AWS Wickr is excited to announce the launch of "Wickr Files" a dedicated space that allows you to access and manage files in conversations. Moderators of Wickr rooms and users in self-moderated group conversations can now upload and organize files in folders. Users can toggle between “Messages” and “Files” tabs to access relevant content and streamline collaboration. AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing with end-to-end encryption. Customers have full administrative control over data, which includes addressing information governance polices, configuring ephemeral messaging options, and deleting credentials for lost or stolen devices. You can log both internal and external conversations in an AWS Wickr network to a private data store that you manage, for data retention and auditing purposes. AWS Wickr is available in commercial AWS Regions that include US East (N. Virginia), AWS Canada (Central), AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo), and AWS Europe (London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Zurich). It is also available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) as Department of Defense Impact Level 5 (DoD IL5)-authorized AWS WickrGov. To learn more and get started, see the following resources:

• AWS Wickr product detail page
• AWS Wickr user guide
• AWS Wickr administration guide

Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:00:00

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools by providing a web-based application that allows you to focus on exploring your data without managing your infrastructure. The Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is a separate web-based SQL client application that you use to author and run queries on your Amazon Redshift data warehouse. You can use it to edit and run queries, visualize results, and share your work with your team. With Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2, you can create databases, schemas, tables, and user-defined functions (UDFs). In a tree-view panel, for each of your databases, you can view its schemas. For each schema, you can view its tables, views, UDFs, and stored procedures. The Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 comes with sample data and notebooks available for you to be loaded into a sample database and corresponding schema. You can use it to load data into a database in an Amazon Redshift cluster or workgroup. To learn more, see the documentation or the demo. ?

AWS Step Functions now supports 100,000 state machines and activities per AWS account

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:00:00

AWS Step Functions has increased the default quota for the maximum number of registered state machines and activities from 10,000 to 100,000. This tenfold increase enables customers to create and manage significantly more workflows within a single AWS account, providing greater scalability and flexibility. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and orchestrate data processing workloads. With this quota increase, customers can now create up to 100,000 state machines and activities, unblocking use cases that require a large number of workflows such as applications that dynamically create new workflows. This new quota is automatically applied to all AWS accounts and requires no action on your part. This quota increase is available in all AWS Regions where Step Functions is available. To learn more, see the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide. ?

Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless support for files with an S3 source endpoint

Published Date: 2025-02-05 18:00:00

AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports files on S3 source endpoints. Using AWS DMSS, you can now migrate data in CSV or parquet format from S3 to any supported AWS DMSS target endpoint. AWS DMSS supports both full load and Change Data Capture (CDC) migration modes for CSV and Parquet files with S3 source endpoints using AWS DMS console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs in all regions where DMSS is available. For information about AWS DMS S3 source endpoints see DMS S3. Visit AWS DMS to get started. For AWS DMS regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now automatically email agents about completed performance evaluations

Published Date: 2025-02-04 22:59:00

Contact Lens now enables businesses to send automatic email notifications to agents when their contacts are evaluated, so they can review the evaluations and improve their performance. Managers can create rules to send emails based on specific evaluation criteria. For example, you can set up automatic notifications for agents who receive evaluation scores below 50%, ensuring prompt attention to performance opportunities. Managers can also personalize email content based on performance levels — whether recognizing top performers or providing constructive guidance for improvement areas. This feature is available in all regions where Contact Lens performance evaluations are already available. To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.

Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service expand region support for integrated analytics experience

Published Date: 2025-02-04 22:55:00

Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service integrated analytics experience is now available in 2 additional commercial regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Stockholm). With this integration, CloudWatch Logs customers have two more query languages for log analytics, in addition to CloudWatch Logs Insights QL. Customers can use SQL to analyze data, correlate logs using JOIN, sub-queries, and use SQL functions, namely, JSON, mathematical, datetime, and string functions for intuitive log analytics. They can also use the OpenSearch PPL to filter, aggregate and analyze their data. With a few clicks, CloudWatch Logs customers can create OpenSearch dashboards for VPC, WAF, and CloudTrail logs to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot using visualizations derived from the logs. OpenSearch customers no longer have to copy logs from CloudWatch for analysis, or create ETL pipelines. Now, they can use OpenSearch Discover to analyze CloudWatch logs in-place, and build indexes and dashboards on CloudWatch Logs. With this launch the integrated experience is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Stockholm) along with regions where OpenSearch Service direct query is available. Please read pricing and free tier details on Amazon CloudWatch Pricing, and OpenSearch Service Pricing. To get started, please refer to Amazon CloudWatch Logs vended dashboard and Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide. ?

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)

Published Date: 2025-02-04 22:15:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Malaysia). 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, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use C6in instances to scale the performance of applications such as network virtual appliances (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers), Telco 5G User Plane Function (UPF), data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), and CPU based AI/ML workloads. C6in instances are available in 10 different sizes with up to 128 vCPUs, including bare metal size. Amazon EC2 sixth-generation x86-based network optimized EC2 instances deliver up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. C6in instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. C6in instances are available in these AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), Israel (Tel Aviv), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Africa (Cape Town), South America (S?o Paulo), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East). To learn more, see the Amazon EC2 C6in instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.

Amazon Q Developer now troubleshoots AWS Console errors in all AWS Commercial regions

Published Date: 2025-02-04 18:00:00

Amazon Q Developer has expanded its AWS Console error coverage from US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) to AWS Commercial regions. Users can now troubleshoot AWS Console errors using Amazon Q Developer regardless of their console region, including locations like Europe (Frankfurt). In the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console, Amazon Q Developer diagnoses common errors you encounter while working with AWS services, such as insufficient permissions, incorrect configuration, and exceeding service limits. Q Developer troubleshoots errors arising from the following services in the AWS Management Console: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudFormation (Amazon CFn). In addition, Q Developer troubleshoots IAM Permission and Athena console errors across all AWS Console pages. To learn more about using Amazon Q Developer to troubleshoot AWS Console errors, visit the AWS documentation. Amazon Q Developer is currently available in select regions, and you can review information about where your data is processed here. For pricing details, visit the Amazon Q Developer pricing page.

Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditionally required fields

Published Date: 2025-02-04 18:00:00

Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditionally required fields to streamline case field population for agents and reduce data entry errors. Administrators can now configure case templates that prompt agents to enter relevant information in specific situations, such as providing a “Close Reason” when a case moves to “Closed” status, “Product Serial Number” when the “Issue Type” is “Hardware Problem”, or “Disposition Code” when handling a system-generated case. Conditionally required fields help agents follow processes for capturing necessary information, improving data quality for reporting, resolution tracking, and compliance. 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. ?

AWS Batch launches new features for access control and management of AWS Batch on EKS workloads

Published Date: 2025-02-03 20:10:00

AWS Batch on EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes namespaces, Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs), subPath to Kubernetes pod container volumes, and Kubernetes pod annotations. Using different Kubernetes namespaces for your AWS Batch jobs, you can improve workload isolation by defining job permission boundaries both within EKS cluster and for access to other AWS services. With Kubernetes PVCs and subPath you can give your AWS Batch jobs access only to the right data or particular subPath within a data volume. Finally, EKS pod annotations make it easier to integrate with external tools and other AWS services such as AWS Secrets Manager by allowing you to attach necessary metadata directly to your AWS Batch job. You can configure Kubernetes namespaces, PVCs, subPath, and annotations while registering a new AWS Batch job definition or making a revision to an existing job definition. You can also override the namespace and annotations from your job definition when you submit the job. For more information, see Register Job Definition and Submit Job pages in the AWS Batch API reference and our AWS HPC Blog post. AWS Batch supports developers, scientists, and engineers in running efficient batch processing for ML model training, simulations, and analysis at any scale. Configurable Kubernetes namespaces, PVCs, subPath, and annotations are available in any AWS Region where AWS Batch is available. ?

Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS

Published Date: 2025-02-03 18:30:00

Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server databases from Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) based EBS snapshots. Customers can use an AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbook and specify a restore point of time to automate the recovery process without needing to stop a running Microsoft SQL Server database. Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) allows application data to be backed up while applications are still running. This new feature allows customers to automate the recovery from VSS-based EBS snapshots and ensure rapid recovery of large databases within minutes. This feature also offers customers the flexibility to restore to a new database or achieve point-in-time recovery. This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, visit this technical document in the Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in December 2024

Published Date: 2025-02-03 18:00:00

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2019 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor version is SQL Server 2019 CU30 - 15.0.4415.2. This minor version is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server databases are available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.

Amazon Connect now supports configuration of which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule

Published Date: 2025-02-03 18:00:00

Amazon Connect now provides the ability to choose which states an agent can be in when adhering to their schedule, making it easier for you to customize adherence tracking to match your unique operational needs. With this launch, you can now define custom mappings between agent statuses and schedule activities. For example, schedule activity “Work” can be mapped to multiple agent statuses such as “Available” and “Back-office work.” An agent scheduled for “Work” from 8 AM to 10 AM will be considered adherent if they are either in “Available” or “Back-office work” status. Additionally, you can now view the actual name of the scheduled activity in the real-time adherence dashboard (as opposed to only Productive/Non-productive). With custom mappings and enhanced real-time dashboard, this launch provides more accurate and flexible agent adherence monitoring. 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. ?

AWS CodeBuild now integrates with Buildkite

Published Date: 2025-02-03 18:00:00

AWS CodeBuild now offers native support for self-hosted Buildkite runners, enabling you to execute Buildkite pipeline jobs within the CodeBuild environment. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Buildkite is a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform. With this feature, your Buildkite jobs can access CodeBuild’s comprehensive suite of instance types and managed images, and utilize native integrations with AWS services. You have control over the build environment, without the overhead of manually provisioning and scaling the compute resources. The Buildkite runner 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 use the self-hosted Buildkite runners, follow the tutorial to set up a runner project in CodeBuild. To learn more about how to get started with CodeBuild, visit the AWS CodeBuild product page.