2025 - Week 14 (31 Mar - 6 Apr)

Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2025-04-04 20:20:00

The Amazon Route 53 authoritative DNS service for public hosted zones is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. With today’s release, AWS customers and AWS Partners who rely on public DNS for their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now take advantage of most of the features they have come to expect of Route 53 in commercial AWS Regions. Previously, customers used Route 53 authoritative DNS served from commercial AWS Regions for routing traffic to their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can serve DNS queries to your public hosted zones from locations within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and without dependency on commercial AWS Region accounts. Features include authoritative DNS query logging, DNSSEC signing on AWS GovCloud (US) public hosted zones, and support for all Route 53 routing types except for IP-based routing. It also includes alias records to the following other AWS services: Amazon API Gateway, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC endpoints, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers. Getting started with Route 53 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions is easy. All customers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can use Route 53 authoritative DNS via the AWS Management Console and API in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. For more information, visit the Route 53 documentation or review migration recommendations in the Route 53 Developer Guide. For details on pricing, visit section Authoritative DNS on the Route 53 pricing page.

Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs

Published Date: 2025-04-04 18:35:00

Today, we are launching two significant updates to AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing: A new VOD ad insertion usage type priced at a 50% discount to live. The new pricing model aligns better with how streaming providers monetize their content. By pricing VOD ad insertion at 50% of the cost of live workflows, you can expand your ad-supported VOD libraries more cost-effectively using MediaTailor. Elimination of the $0.75 per 1000 ads pricing tier, so live ad insertion now has a single tier at $0.50 per 1000 ads. By removing the tiered pricing model of 1 to 5M insertions and greater than 5M insertions per month, this makes it easier for you to predict your bill and get started with MediaTailor. The following summary illustrates the changes: Previously, ad insertion pricing was tiered:

• $0.75 per 1,000 ad insertions for the first 5 million insertions per month

• $0.50 per 1,000 ad insertions for volumes exceeding 5 million per month

Under the new pricing model:

• Live streaming ad insertions: $0.50 per 1,000 insertions

• VOD streaming ad insertions: $0.25 per 1,000 insertions

Both rates now apply regardless of volume. The new pricing is effective immediately and will be applied automatically to your bill. Customers willing to make minimum commitments of more than 60 million ad insertions per month qualify for additional discounted pricing. Contact us or your account manager to learn more. This new pricing structure is available in all AWS Regions where MediaTailor is available. To learn more, please visit the MediaTailor product page.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports new minor version for SQL Server 2019

Published Date: 2025-04-04 17:00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 - 15.0.4430.1). This minor version includes performance improvements and bug fixes, and is available for SQL Server Developer, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 for details. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor version to benefit from the performance improvements and bug fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS Custom User Guide. This minor version is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is available. RDS Custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom for SQL Server supports two licensing models: License Included (LI) and Bring Your Own Media (BYOM). By using Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), customers can use their existing SQL Server licenses with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. See Amazon RDS Custom Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.  

Amazon SES now offers attachments in sending APIs

Published Date: 2025-04-04 17:00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for adding attachments to emails when sending via SES simple sending v2 APIs. Customers can add attachments such as PDF documents to emails, or include images for rendering inline in email content without requiring image downloads. This makes it easier to send richer email content with the convenience of the SES sending APIs. Previously, customers could send email content such as text and HTML through SES simple sending APIs. Customers did not have to worry about creating the email data structure which is actually sent to mailbox providers. However, if customers wanted to attach documents or include inline images, they had to use more complex APIs requiring construction of the email document structure prior to sending. Now, customers can add attachments in any of the SES supported MIME types (such as PDF, Word, and GIF), without knowledge of how MIME messages are constructed. This decreases code complexity and reduces time to implement sending over SES. SES supports attachments in all AWS Regions where SES is available. For more information, see the documentation for working with email attachments in SES.  

Amazon EKS Adds Support for Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups

Published Date: 2025-04-04 17:00:00

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers Bottlerocket FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) AMIs for EKS managed node groups, helping customers to meet federal compliance requirements while leveraging the security of Bottlerocket and the operational benefits of EKS managed node groups. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system optimized for running containers that follows a minimal, immutable design for enhanced security and performance. The FIPS-enabled Bottlerocket AMIs for EKS include FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules and are configured by default to use FIPS-enabled AWS service endpoints, making it easier for customers in regulated industries to run containerized workloads while maintaining compliance with federal standards. This feature is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West). There are no additional charges for using Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs with EKS managed node groups beyond standard EKS and EC2 pricing.

To learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation for the Bottlerocket FIPS AMI.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 with support for Ubuntu 24.04 and support for EFA-enabled with Amazon FSx for Lustre

Published Date: 2025-04-03 21:55:00

AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, reducing overall costs. To get started with enabling EFA with FSx Lustre filesystems on your clusters, follow the tutorial in the ParallelCluster User Guide - Creating a cluster with an EFA-enabled FSx Lustre . ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool that enables R&D customers and their IT administrators to operate high-performance computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. ParallelCluster is designed to automatically and securely provision cloud resources into elastically-scaling HPC clusters capable of running scientific and engineering workloads at scale on AWS. ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge in the AWS Regions listed here, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. To learn more about launching HPC clusters on AWS, visit the ParallelCluster User Guide. To start using ParallelCluster, see the installation instructions for ParallelCluster UI and CLI.

Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement

Published Date: 2025-04-03 20:30:00

Today, AWS announces an updated service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Neptune, increasing the Monthly Uptime Percentage for Multi-AZ DB Instance, Multi-AZ DB Cluster, and Multi-AZ Graph from 99.90% to 99.99%. This enhancement reflects AWS’s continued commitment to providing a highly available and reliable graph database service for your mission-critical applications. With this new SLA, AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make each Amazon Neptune’s Multi-AZ DB Instance, Multi-AZ DB Cluster, and Multi-AZ Graph available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99%. If Neptune does not meet this Service Commitment, customers will be eligible for Service Credits as outlined in the Amazon Neptune SLA. This improved SLA is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon Neptune is offered. For more details, visit the AWS Global Region Table and learn more about Neptune on our product page, developer resources, and documentation.

SES Mail Manager now supports incoming connections from customer VPCs via PrivateLink

Published Date: 2025-04-03 19:40:00

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now accept incoming connections from customer-provisioned Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to Mail Manager Ingress Endpoints. This makes use of PrivateLink connectivity features already provided by AWS. Since Mail Manager launched in mid-2024, VPC connectivity has become the most-requested new feature from customers. These customers operate large fleets of applications hosted inside AWS, and want to route all their outgoing and incoming mail for those applications via Mail Manager. By adding VPC support via PrivateLink, those customers can now route all their outgoing mail securely entirely within AWS to Mail Manager, using its ‘Send to Internet’ action or by delivering mail to a downstream SMTP relay, hands the message off to its first external destination. The feature is enabled after a customer has created their VPC, by creating a new ‘Network’ Ingress Endpoint type and specifying the VPC’s unique endpoint ID. Customers can also choose whether or not to use authentication to their Ingress Endpoint for connections originating via PrivateLink. All VPC-enabled Mail Manager Ingress Endpoints support dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity by default. Mail Manager VPC Ingress Endpoints are available in all 17 AWS Regions where Mail Manager is launched. There is no additional fee from SES to make use of this feature, though charges from AWS for VPC and PrivateLink activity may apply. Customers can learn more about SES Mail Manager by clicking here.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220

Published Date: 2025-04-03 18:30:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your RDS for PostgreSQL databases after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date. You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments for RDS for PostgreSQL using physical replication for your minor version upgrades. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

AWS Glue G4 and G8 worker types now available in six new regions

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:20:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue G.4X and G.8X workers in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo) AWS regions. Glue G.4X and G.8X workers enable you to run your most demanding serverless data integration workloads in these additional regions. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue G.4X and G.8X workers provide higher compute, memory, and storage resources than current Glue workers. These new types of workers help you scale and run your most demanding data integration workloads, such as memory-intensive data transforms, skewed aggregations, machine learning transforms, and entity detection checks with petabytes of data. To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and our documentation. For AWS Glue region availability, please see the AWS Region table.  

Amazon Kendra GenAI Index now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

Amazon Kendra is an AI-powered search service enabling organizations to build intelligent search experiences and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems to power generative AI applications. Starting today, AWS customers in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions can use the GenAI Index for RAG and intelligent search. With the Kendra GenAI Index, customers get high out-of-the-box search accuracy powered by the latest information retrieval technologies and semantic models. Kendra GenAI Index supports mobility across AWS generative AI services like Amazon Q Business, giving customers the flexibility to use their indexed content across different use cases. Customers can also integrate with other Bedrock Services like Guardrails, Prompt Flows, and Agents to build advanced generative AI applications. The GenAI Index supports connectors for 43 different data sources, enabling customers to easily ingest content from a variety of sources. With this launch, Amazon Kendra GenAI Index is now available in the following regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe West (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Regions. To learn more, see Kendra GenAI Index in the Amazon Kendra Developer Guide. For pricing, please refer to Kendra pricing page.

Amazon Q Business Browser Extension now available to all subscribers

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

Today, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Q Business browser extensions for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge to all Q Business subscribers. Now, all Q Business users can supercharge their browsers’ intelligence and receive context-aware, generative AI assistance directly within their web pages. The Amazon Q Business browser extensions enhance productivity by enabling users to use Amazon Q to summarize web pages, ask questions about web content on their browser, and access their enterprise information without having to leave their web page. With the extensions, professionals can maximize their productivity, streamline the analysis of complex information, gather key insights from their company’s data sources without switching context, and get instant help creating content. The Amazon Q Business browser extension is now available to all Amazon Q Business users in all regions where Amazon Q Business is available for $3/month. Learn how you can boost the productivity of your organization with the browser extension by visiting the Amazon Q Business product page and the browser extension documentation.  

AWS Step Functions expands SDK integrations with Amazon Backup Search and 137 additional APIs

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for Amazon Backup Search. You can now orchestrate backup discovery and management actions directly in your workflows without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. By directly invoking AWS services or their API actions from AWS Step Functions, customers can write less code, simplify their architecture, and save costs. In addition to the new Amazon Backup Search integration, Step Functions added support for 137 API actions across new and existing AWS services. These new actions span a wide range of AWS services, including Amazon Backup, AWS MediaConvert and Amazon Bedrock. This expansion enables you to incorporate diverse tasks such as backup operations, media analysis, and AI agent interactions into your workflows. For the full list of added services and supported API actions, visit AWS SDK service integrations. These enhancements are now generally available in all regions where AWS Step Functions is available. Specific services and API actions are subject to the availability of the target services in the AWS Region. To learn more about AWS SDK integrations, visit the Developer Guide, or build a state machine using our AWS SDK integration tutorial.  

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE 2110 inputs

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

AWS Elemental MediaLive Anywhere now supports SMPTE ST 2110 professional broadcast input standards on your own hardware. With this new capability, you can ingest professional IP-based video, audio, and metadata streams directly into MediaLive Anywhere nodes running on your own infrastructure, while maintaining centralized control using the AWS Management Console. SMPTE 2110 support, which requires a 25GbE or higher network interface card, enables native IP-based signal handling throughout the workflow. By accepting SMPTE 2110 IP streams in MediaLive Anywhere, you can maintain signals in the IP domain from source to processing, eliminating the need for costly signal conversion hardware or SDI intermediary steps. You can process professional broadcast feeds where they originate, whether in broadcast facilities, production studios, or other on-premises locations, while maintaining centralized management through AWS and benefiting from pay-as-you-go pricing. MediaLive Anywhere with SMPTE 2110 support is available wherever you deploy MediaLive Anywhere nodes on compatible hardware. The service supports the core SMPTE 2110 standards for uncompressed video (ST 2110-20), digital audio (ST 2110-30), and metadata (ST 2110-40). To learn more about implementing SMPTE 2110 workflows with MediaLive Anywhere, visit the AWS Elemental MediaLive documentation. For information about hardware requirements and supported network interface cards, see the MediaLive Anywhere setup guide.

Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SNS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. The addition of IPv6 support provides customers with a vastly expanded address space, eliminating concerns about address exhaustion and simplifying network architecture for IPv6-native applications. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on SNS public endpoints, customers can gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6-based systems and applications without needing to switch all systems at once. This enhancement is particularly valuable for modern cloud-native applications and organizations transitioning to IPv6 as part of their modernization efforts. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. This feature is now available in all AWS commercial Regions, including AWS China Regions, and can be used at no additional cost. See here for a full listing of our Regions. To learn more about Amazon SNS, please refer to our Developer Guide.  

AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 34 AWS Regions globally. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. Use IAM Identity Center with your existing identity source or create a new directory, and manage workforce access to part or all of your AWS environment. With IAM Identity Center, you can manage and audit user access more easily and consistently, your workforce has single sign-on access and unified experience across AWS services, and your data owners can authorize and log data access by user. IAM Identity Center is available to you at no additional cost. For more information about the AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more about IAM Identity Center, visit the product detail page. To get started, see the IAM Identity Center user guide.  

Amazon Security Lake now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

Amazon Security Lake customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses via new dual-stack endpoints to configure and manage the service. This update addresses the growing need for IPv6 adoption due to the exhaustion of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses caused by continued internet growth. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on premises, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. With Security Lake, you can get a more complete understanding of your security data across your entire organization. You can also improve the protection of your workloads, applications, and data. The new dual-stack endpoints support both IPv4 and IPv6 clients, helping you transition from IPv4 to IPv6-based systems and applications at your own pace. This approach can help you work toward IPv6 compliance requirements while reducing the need for additional networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. Support for IPv6 on Amazon Security Lake is available in all commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US). To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, you can visit our whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. You can start with a 15-day free trial of Amazon Security Lake with a single-click in the AWS Management console. To learn more and get started, see the following resources:

• How to develop an Amazon Security Lake POC

• Understanding Amazon Security Lake Costs

• Amazon Security Lake User Guide

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Innovation Release 11.8 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Published Date: 2025-04-03 17:00:00

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB Innovation Release 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. You can deploy MariaDB 11.8 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MariaDB 11.8 is the latest Innovation Release from the MariaDB community, and includes support for vector datatype, indexing, and search capabilities. MariaDB Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next Innovation release, whereas MariaDB Long Term Maintenance Releases, such as MariaDB 10.11 and MariaDB 11.4, are supported by the community for up to five years. Please refer to the MariaDB 11.8 release notes and Amazon MariaDB user guide for more details about this release. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment supports both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments on the latest generation of instance classes. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum period of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots that are created in the preview environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the preview environment. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced the same as production RDS instances created in the US East (Ohio) Region.

Monitor service dependencies with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals SLOs

Published Date: 2025-04-02 21:45:00

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports creating Service Level Objectives (SLOs) using metrics from your service dependencies. You can now monitor the performance of your services' dependencies, and proactively resolve problems through SLO goal setting, thanks to this new ability. Using Application Signals you can create period-based or request-based SLOs that track key metrics like latency and faults for the outgoing requests from your services to their dependencies. You can see how your dependencies perform and how this impacts the reliability of your overall service. For example, if your e-commerce service relies on a payment processor, you can set an SLO to monitor latency of requests from your createOrder operation to the payment processor. If this SLO degrades, you can quickly investigate the dependency as the potential root cause before it affects your customer-facing service. SLOs on dependencies are available in all commercial AWS Regions where CloudWatch Application Signals is available. Customers can now sign up for the new bundled pricing plan for Application Signals. To learn more, see Amazon CloudWatch pricing.

Amazon Security Lake achieves FedRamp High and Moderate authorization

Published Date: 2025-04-02 20:25:00

Amazon Security Lake has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Region and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East and US West Regions. If you’re a federal agency, public sector organization, or enterprise with FedRAMP compliance requirements, you can now centralize your security data using Amazon Security Lake. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on premises, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. With Security Lake, you can get a more complete understanding of your security data across your entire organization. You can also improve the protection of your workloads, applications, and data. Security Lake has adopted the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), an open standard that is part of the Linux Foundation. With OCSF support, the service normalizes and combines security data from AWS and a broad range of enterprise security data sources. You can start with a 15-day free trial of Amazon Security Lake with a single-click in the AWS Management console. To learn more and get started, see the following resources:  

• How to develop an Amazon Security Lake POC

• Understanding Amazon Security Lake Costs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB

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

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log events up to 1 MB in size, a 4x increase from the previous 256 KB limit. This enhancement applies to the CloudWatch Logs PutLogEvents API and OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoint. Customers can now capture richer log data while maintaining data integrity, eliminating the need to truncate large events or split them across multiple entries. It is especially valuable for use cases such as stack traces, debug outputs, and detailed application and security audit logs, enabling simplified troubleshooting, enhanced security audit capabilities, and better visibility into application behavior. The increased limit is automatically available in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch Logs is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For more information, visit the CloudWatch Logs documentation.  

Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. Many applications, including those built on modern architectures capable of horizontal scaling based on ebb and flow of active users, can open a large number of database connections or open and close connections frequently. This can stress the database’s memory and compute, leading to slower performance and limited application scalability. Amazon RDS Proxy sits between your application and database to pool and share established database connections, improving database efficiency and application scalability. In case of a failure, Amazon RDS Proxy automatically connects to a standby database instance within a region. With Amazon RDS Proxy, database credentials and access can be managed through AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), eliminating the need to embed database credentials in application code. For information on supported database engine versions and regional availability of RDS Proxy, refer to the RDS Proxy RDS and Aurora documentation.  

AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL now supports aggregation and list analysis rules

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

With today’s launch, AWS Clean Rooms provides additional privacy-enhancing controls to support aggregation and list analysis rules using the Spark analytics engine. Using AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL, you and your partners can now manage how your data is used with aggregation, list, and custom analysis rules, running SQL queries with configurable resources based on your performance, scale, and cost requirements. For example, advertisers can use list analysis rules to create targeted audience segments from collective advertiser and publisher data sets without sharing the raw data used to create the segments. Similarly, publishers and their partners can run media planning and campaign measurement analyses across their data sets using aggregation rules to compile joint statistics results, protecting the underlying data of all collaborators. Additionally, you can now update an existing AWS Clean Rooms collaboration to use the Spark analytics engine instead of creating a new collaboration, making it easier to get started with AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL. AWS Clean Rooms Spark SQL is generally available in these AWS Regions. AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more easily analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without revealing or copying one another’s underlying data. To learn more, visit AWS Clean Rooms.  

AWS CDK Construct Library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now generally available

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This construct library allows developers to programmatically create, configure, and manage scheduled tasks using infrastructure as code with their preferred programming language, simplifying the process of building event-driven applications. The EventBridge Scheduler construct library enables you to define schedules using cron or rate expressions, configure target destinations including AWS Lambda functions, Amazon SQS queues, and other AWS services, and manage execution windows and retry policies. Developers can now leverage type-safe programming languages to define their scheduling infrastructure, improving code maintainability and reducing configuration errors. The AWS CDK construct library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EventBridge Scheduler is available. To get started, visit the following resources:

• Amazon EventBridge Scheduler documentation

• AWS CDK API Reference for EventBridge Scheduler

• AWS CDK Developer Guide

AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now generally available

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools. This library enables developers to programmatically define and deploy Identity Pool resources using familiar programming languages, making it easier to grant users secure access to AWS services in their applications. With this construct library, you can define Identity Pools as infrastructure as code, configure authentication providers like Amazon Cognito User Pools, social identity providers (Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon), and SAML 2.0 providers. The library helps you implement security best practices by default and reduces the complexity of managing authentication and authorization for your web and mobile applications. The AWS CDK construct library for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito is available. To get started, visit the following resources:

• Amazon Cognito Identity Pools documentation

• AWS CDK API Reference

Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats directly from the Amazon Connect UI, accelerating issue resolution and improving customer satisfaction. For example, supervisors can now end chats with inactive customers or reassign chats to specific agents or queues. To learn more, please refer to the help documentation or visit the Amazon Connect website. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available.

Amazon RDS Proxy announces TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol for Proxy connections to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL database instances. TLS 1.3 provides improved security through stronger cryptographic algorithms and simplified handshake process as compared to older TLS versions. With this release, RDS Proxy can use TLS 1.3 for connections to Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL databases. During connection establishment, Proxy will automatically negotiate the most secure supported TLS version supported with the database. Customers can also configure their PostgreSQL database to require TLS 1.3, by setting the ssl_min_protocol_version parameter in their parameter group. TLS 1.3 is already supported for connections to RDS Proxy, as well as for RDS Proxy connections to MySQL engines. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. For information about TLS version support and related configuration on Aurora, please review Aurora documentation. For information on supported database engine versions and regional availability of RDS Proxy, refer to our RDS and Aurora documentations.  

IAM Identity Center extends sessions and TIP management capabilities for customers with Microsoft AD

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

AWS IAM Identity Center enhanced its session management and trusted identity propagation (TIP) capabilities for customers that connect Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as their identity source. The enhanced capabilities help customers manage user sessions, scale their use of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Developer Pro, and implement use cases, such as for analytics, with trusted identity propagation. With this release, customers who connect Microsoft AD to IAM Identity Center will be able to: (a) configure the session duration for AWS applications and the AWS access portal from a minimum of 15 minutes to a maximum of 90 days; (b) list and delete active user sessions; (c) configure an extended 90-day session duration for Amazon Q Developer Pro, while maintaining shorter session duration for other AWS applications; and (d) enable TIP from business intelligence applications that authenticate users via a third party identity provider to AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon Q Business. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications and multiple AWS accounts. It enables you to connect your existing source of workforce identities to AWS once and offer your users single sign on experience across AWS. It powers the personalized experiences offered by AWS applications, such as Amazon Q; and the ability to define and audit user-aware access to data in AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift. It helps you manage access to multiple AWS accounts from a central place. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these AWS Regions. Learn more here.  

Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 additional visual ETL transforms

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 new built-in transforms: “Derived column”, “Flatten”, “Add current timestamp”, “Explode array or map into rows”, “To timestamp”, “Array to columns”, “Intersect”, “Limit” and “Concatenate columns”. Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building ETL flows and authoring flows with Amazon Q Developer. With these new transforms, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated data pipelines without having to write custom code for common transform tasks. Each of these new transforms address a unique data processing need. For example, use “Derived column” to define a new column based on a math formula or SQL expression, use “To timestamp” to convert a column to timestamp type, or build a new string column using the values of other columns with an optional spacer with the “Concatenate columns” transform. This new feature is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon SageMaker is available. Access the supported region list for the most up-to-date availability information. To learn more, visit our Amazon SageMaker documentation.

Amazon CloudFront supports VPC Origin modification with CloudFront Functions

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

In November 2024, CloudFront Functions introduced origin modifications, allowing you to conditionally change origin servers on each request. Starting today, you can now use this capability with VPC Origins and origin groups, enabling you to create even more sophisticated routing policies for your applications delivered from CloudFront. You can now create dynamic routing policies that direct individual requests between any origin, including VPC Origins, by simply providing the ID for the origin. For example, you can automatically route each request to different applications by creating weights to send a certain percentage of traffic to multiple backend services, all without updating your distribution configuration. You can also create new origin groups dynamically, with the ability to set multiple origins with failover criteria. For example, you can create custom failover logic to update the primary and failover origins based on viewer location or request headers to ensure viewers have the lowest possible latency. These features are now available within CloudFront Functions at no additional charge. For more information, see the CloudFront Developer Guide. For examples of how to use origin modification, see our GitHub examples repository.  

Announcing enhanced autoscaling for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines

Published Date: 2025-04-02 17:00:00

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports enhanced autoscaling capabilities, allowing pipelines to scale dynamically based on additional parameters, including Amazon SQS queue size, persistent buffer lag, and the number of incoming HTTP connections. These enhancements improves upon the existing scaling mechanism, which previously relied only on memory and CPU utilization, providing a more comprehensive and responsive scaling mechanism for your data ingestion workloads.

With these improvements, customers can build more resilient and efficient data ingestion pipelines that automatically adapt to varying workloads. The new autoscaling parameters help optimize resource utilization, reduce ingestion bottlenecks, and improve overall pipeline performance, making it easier to handle high-throughput data streams for log analytics, observability, and security analytics use cases.

The enhanced autoscaling capabilities are now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is currently offered. You can take advantage of these improvements by updating your existing pipelines or creating new pipelines through the Amazon OpenSearch Service console or APIs at no additional cost.

To learn more, see the Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion webpage and the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide.

Amazon QuickSight launches dashboard versioning and publish any analysis to any dashboard

Published Date: 2025-04-01 21:50:00

Amazon QuickSight launches dashboard versioning and the ability to publish any analysis to replace any dashboard to improve author productivity. Dashboard versioning enables authors to view and easily re-publish previously published versions of their dashboards as well as the notes on what updates were made by whom. Publishing any analysis to any dashboard means that authors don’t have to replace a dashboard with the analysis that it started from, but can use any other analysis in the account. With the launch of these two features, authors can build new analyses with updates and then publish them to the existing dashboard that readers already have bookmarked. Authors don’t have to send out new links and depreciate old versions. In addition, if any issue arises from a new dashboard version, authors have the ability to revert to previous versions of the dashboard so that they can keep the dashboard in a working state while they work on the necessary changes.

Publish any analysis to any dashboard and dashboard versioning are now available in all supported Amazon QuickSight regions - go to this link for QuickSight regional endpoints. For more details refer to documentation for publish any analysis to any dashboard or dashboard versioning.  

Announcing the general availability seventh quarterly update for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), AL2023.7

Published Date: 2025-04-01 21:05:00

Amazon Linux now brings a Graphical Desktop, a new kernel option with Linux kernel 6.12, an upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.2.2, and addition of new high demand packages on AL2023. AL2023.7 offers a modern, secure, and cloud-optimized desktop environment to Amazon Linux users. The new Graphical Desktop provides a lightweight interface designed for productivity and seamless AWS integration. The Graphical Desktop comes with GNOME 47 for a sleek UI experience. It includes other essential tools like a terminal emulator for improved CLI experience, an image viewer, a text editor, a file manager for file navigation, and Mozilla Firefox for secure web browsing. Additionally, you can connect seamlessly using Amazon DCV, enabling remote desktop access from anywhere. The updated kernel 6.12 will help you get benefits from upstream improvements in scheduling, networking, security, and system tracing. Some of the features include EEVDF scheduling, FUSE passthrough I/O support, and enhanced eBPF support. In addition, OpenSSL has been upgraded which provides a significant performance upgrade. Finally, some of the most requested packages such as gcc14, nbd-client, nbdkit, and openDKIM will be available with AL2023.7, and this comes on the heels of recently released packages such as pam_radius, lldpad, and mod_auth_mellon. Please refer to the release notes for the latest features and packages getting added to Amazon Linux. Amazon Linux 2023 is generally available in all AWS Regions. To learn more about Amazon Linux 2023, see the AWS documentation. For Amazon DCV, please refer to the Amazon DCV documentation.

Second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now available in additional EMEA and APAC Regions

Published Date: 2025-04-01 20:35:00

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 2 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the FSx for ONTAP user guide.

AWS Marketplace now supports Japan Marketplace Facilitator Rule

Published Date: 2025-04-01 18:05:00

Starting today, AWS Marketplace supports the Japan Marketplace Facilitator (MPF) rule, making it easier for Sellers to meet the Japanese regulatory requirements and providing a seamless tax experience for customers in Japan. Under the MPF rule, AWS Marketplace will collect the Japan consumption tax (JCT) and issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) for sales by non-Japan addressed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners (together as non-Japan addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. Also, AWS Marketplace will offer the same customer experience by enabling TQI issuance for sales by Japan-addressed ISVs and Channel Partners (together as Japan-addressed Sellers) to customers in Japan. With this launch, for non-Japan addressed Sellers, AWS Japan will collect the 10% JCT on products listed and sold on AWS Marketplace to Japan customers, issue a TQI to the customers, and remit the JCT to the Japan Tax Authorities. For Japan-addressed Sellers, AWS Japan will continue to collect 10% JCT on the products listed and sold on AWS Marketplace to Japan customers and disburse the collected JCT to the Japan-addressed Sellers; additionally, AWS Japan will issue a TQI to the customers. The TQI issuance helps customers reduce the administrative burden for managing tax documentation. This feature is available for all Sellers when transacting via the AWS Japan Marketplace Operator. To learn more, please visit the AWS Japan FAQ or AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.

AWS CodeBuild expands on-demand Windows fleets to 4 more AWS Regions

Published Date: 2025-04-01 18:00:00

AWS CodeBuild now supports on-demand Windows build environments in four additional AWS Regions: South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt). The expansion allows customers in these AWS Regions to run Windows-based workloads with the flexibility of on-demand pricing. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Additionally, CodeBuild Windows build environment now supports non-container builds, enabling you to run build commands directly on the host operating system without containerization. You can also configure your builds to build docker images in Windows environment. CodeBuild on-demand Windows environment is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more about CodeBuild build environment, please visit our documentation. To learn more about how to get started with CodeBuild, visit the AWS CodeBuild product page.  

Amazon QuickSight launches Amazon Q in embedded QuickSight

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:50:00

Amazon Q in QuickSight is now generally available in embedded dashboards and console. The Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight help business analysts and business users easily build and consume insights using natural language. With executive summaries, users of embedded dashboards can quickly grasp essential insights from any dashboard in seconds. Dashboard-authoring capabilities empower your users to build interactive dashboards more easily than ever, leveraging natural language to generate visuals and perform complex calculations with ease. With just a few lines of code, developers can integrate Generative BI capabilities into their applications by embedding the new multi-visual Q&A experience—enabling end users to confidently explore and answer questions from data. Users can prompt Amazon Q using a few words to generate a sharable document or presentation in moments that explains data, extracts key insights and visuals, and recommends best actions to improve your business. These Amazon Q capabilities in embedded dashboards and console are now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai and Sydney ), Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) AWS Regions. To learn more about Amazon Q in embedded QuickSight see the AWS Business Intelligence Blog and try Amazon QuickSight free for 30 days.

AWS Resource Explorer supports 32 new resource types

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 32 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon CloudFront. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:

1. apigateway:vpclinks

2. appconfig:application

3. appconfig:deploymentstrategy

4. backup:report-plan

5. ce:anomalymonitor

6. ce:anomalysubscription

7. cloudfront:continuous-deployment-policy

8. cloudtrail:channel

9. codedeploy:application

10. codedeploy:deploymentconfig

11. events:archive

12. events:endpoint

13. gamelift:location

14. groundstation:mission-profile

15. inspector:target/template

16. iot:cacert

17. iot:cert

18. iotdeviceadvisor:suitedefinition

19. iotfleetwise:decoder-manifest

20. iotfleetwise:model-manifest

21. iotfleetwise:signal-catalog

22. managedblockchain:accessors

23. oam:sink

24. omics:referenceStore

25. omics:runGroup

26. omics:workflow

27. personalize:solution

28. pipes:pipe

29. scheduler:schedule-group

30. schemas:discoverer

31. transfer:certificate

32. transfer:connector

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.

AWS Automates VAT and supports Korean Won for South Korea AWS Marketplace customers

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

Amazon Web Services Korea LLC (AWS Korea) is now facilitating AWS Marketplace transactions for customers with AWS accounts in South Korea. AWS Korea enhances the purchasing experience by automatically including applicable Value Added Tax (VAT) on invoices and allowing payments in Korean Won (KRW) for AWS Marketplace purchases. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners from South Korea are now eligible to sell software in AWS Marketplace. Customers can now directly procure software from South Korean ISVs, and can pay for purchases using wire transfers in either KRW or US Dollars (USD), or by using credit cards in KRW only. Purchases can also be made through local Channel Partners in South Korea, allowing customers to benefit from local relationships, expertise, and support. AWS Korea manages VAT obligations for all transactions, including those between ISVs and Channel Partners. AWS Korea automates VAT collection and invoicing for all third-party product purchases, except Amazon Bedrock products. AWS, Inc. will continue to be the contracting party for purchases of AWS services and Amazon Bedrock offerings. Customers can now purchase software from South Korean ISVs such as Saltlux, Hackle, Superb AI, and Neosapience, and from Channel Partners such as MegazoneCloud, LG CNS, BespinGlobal, and SK C&C. For sellers, an additional regional listing fee of 1% will be applied to the standard AWS Marketplace listing fees for their transactions with Korean buyers. For more information, visit the AWS Korea FAQs, the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide or the Seller Guide.

AWS End User Messaging expands self-service for phone number registration support in 18 new countries

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

Today, AWS End User Messaging launched self-service short code, and long code registration for 18 additional countries, helping developers to onboard to dedicated numbers which enables them to correctly configure SMS messaging for their applications. The new countries supported for long codes include Australia, Austria, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Hungary, and Portugal. The new countries supported for short codes include Chile, Finland, Germany, India, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Phone numbers and sender IDs act as an extension of a business's brand, and mobile carriers and governments worldwide have implemented SMS registrations as a form of "know your customer" check to protect end-users from unwanted and spam messages. By registering, application developers ensure a higher level of deliverability and ensure their use-cases comply with local rules and regulations, avoiding message filtering. Previously, customers needed to open a support case to request these short code and long code forms, but now they can self-service via the AWS Management Console or programmatically via the APIs, saving time-to-onboard. The registration support is available in all commercial regions where AWS End User Messaging is generally available.  

Amazon Connect now supports additional Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) configuration settings

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

Amazon Connect now allows you to customize the number of seconds which the system will wait between a caller's keypad button presses so you can optimize user inputs in your Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. Administrators can now adjust this waiting period from 1 to 20 seconds, which was previously fixed at 5 seconds. For example, in a banking IVR flow, you can now set a longer inter-digit timeout for account number entry benefitting customers who may need more time between pressing digits. Additionally, two existing settings, Maximum Digits and Timeout Before First Entry, can now be set dynamically using variables, giving administrators more flexibility in designing IVR flows. This added flexibility allows you to optimize your IVR systems for specific use cases, improving user experience and system efficiency. To learn more refer to our public documentation. This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.  

Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

AWS announces the general availability of VPC Route Server to simplify dynamic routing between virtual appliances in your Amazon VPC. Route Server allows you to advertise routing information through Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from virtual appliances and dynamically update the VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateway. Prior to this feature, you had to create custom scripts or use virtual routers with overlay network to dynamically update VPC route tables. VPC Route Server removes the operational overhead of creating and maintaining overlay networks or custom scripts and offers a managed solution for dynamically updating routes in route tables. With VPC Route Server, you can deploy endpoints in your VPC and peer them with your virtual appliances to advertise routes using BGP. The Route Server filters these received routes using standard BGP attributes and propagates the selected routes to the specified route tables. This makes it easy for you to dynamically update routes and quickly mitigate appliance failure or other issues. VPC Route Server is available in US East (Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions. For more information, see the VPC Route Server documentation.  

Amazon Connect now shows an agent’s adherence to their work schedules in a calendar view

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

Now Amazon Connect makes it easy for supervisors to monitor agents’ adherence to their schedules in a calendar view. With this launch, supervisors can visualize adherence breaches by agent and day, for up to 90 days in the past alongside their shifts, including the ability to filter out minimal adherence breaches. This visualization allows supervisors to immediately spot adherence breaches across their team, prioritize the most critical incidents, compare with past agent behavior, and take steps to address concerns with the agent. For example, if a supervisor notices a pattern of agents consistently running late to work after breaks or lunches, they can investigate further to determine if there are underlying issues such as network problems, equipment issues, or expectations of timeliness that need to be addressed. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon Connect agent scheduling guide for a overview of this feature.  

Amazon QuickSight now supports Highlighting

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

Amazon QuickSight launches highlighting, a new interaction capability for analysis and dashboards. Highlighting allows authors and readers to emphasize and track specific data points across visuals, making it easier to compare data elements throughout a sheet and explore insights more effectively. With highlighting, simply select or hover over a data point in a visual, and related data across other visuals will stand out, while unrelated data is dimmed or greyed out. This seamless interaction helps users understand correlations, spot patterns, trends and outliers, facilitating faster and more informed analysis. Highlighting is now available in all supported Amazon QuickSight regions - see here for QuickSight regional endpoints. This can be turned on under Analysis or Sheet Settings. For more details refer to documentation for analysis settings or sheet settings.  

AWS Payment Cryptography launches support for exchanging cryptographic keys using ECDH

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

AWS Payment Cryptography now supports exchanging cryptographic keys using Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH). With this new feature, customers now have a method to electronically exchange keys up to 256 bits in strength. These capabilities bring more flexibility in addition to existing support for industry norms such as TR-34 and TR-31/X9.143. With AWS Payment Cryptography, you can simplify cryptography operations in your cloud-hosted payment applications with a service that grows elastically with your business and has been assessed as compliant with PCI PIN Security and Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) requirements. While payment processing has traditionally relied on TDES (Triple DES) encryption schemes, customers have shown a greater interest in moving to the more secure AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) standard including the 256-bit option. With this feature, AWS Payment Cryptography provides an interoperable method to exchange any key supported by the service with a customers on-premise HSM, providing a secure method of key synchronization and migration. ECDH can also be used when transferring keys to mobile payment applications such as those certified under the PCI MPoC (Mobile Payments on Commercial-off-the-shelf devices) standard. This removes the risks and hassle of manual processes and makes it easier to upgrade to the latest cryptographic standards. These features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Payment Cryptography is available. For detailed information and samples for utilizing the new key exchange features, please download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and review importing and exporting keys in the AWS Payment Cryptography Developer Guide.  

AWS App Studio introduces a prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

Today, AWS App Studio announces two new capabilities that accelerate enterprise application building from idea to production. App Studio now offers a prebuilt solutions catalog and application Import and Export, enabling users to get started quickly and easily deploy applications across Regions and AWS accounts. App Studio's prebuilt solutions catalog offers a variety of ready-to-use applications and common patterns (like Amazon S3 and Amazon Bedrock integration) that can be seamlessly imported into any App Studio instance. Customers can explore and deploy these applications to their own instances, significantly reducing initial setup time and move from concept to production instances in less than 15 minutes. These new capabilities are now available in all AWS Regions where AWS App Studio is available, including US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). To learn more about App Studio, visit the AWS App Studio page and join the conversation in the #aws-app-studio channel in the AWS Developers Slack workspace. To explore App Studio’s prebuilt solutions catalog and Import and Export capabilities, visit the blog post. There is no charge for building and managing your App Studio applications. Get started by visiting the AWS Management Console.  

AWS Backup introduces support for Amazon Redshift Serverless

Published Date: 2025-04-01 17:00:00

AWS announces support for Amazon Redshift Serverless in AWS Backup, making it easier for you to centrally manage data protection of your Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouse. You can now use AWS Backup to automate backup and restore of both Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster snapshots, along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and database. Using AWS Backup’s integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups across all your accounts, standardizing data protection across your organization. To get started with AWS Backup for Amazon Redshift Serverless, you can use the AWS Backup Management console, API, or CLI to create backup policies. You assign Amazon Redshift Serverless resources to the policies, and AWS Backup automates the creation of backups of Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouses. You can restore Amazon Redshift Serverless namespace or individual Amazon Redshift tables from your backup vault with a few clicks or with a single API call. AWS Backup support for Amazon Redshift Serverless is available in all the regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is already available today. To learn more about AWS Backup support for Amazon Redshift Serverless, visit the AWS Backup product page and documentation.

AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2025-03-31 21:50:00

You can now create a Transfer Family web app in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These Regions are designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud if you have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. With this release, you can now create a Transfer Family web app with an option to enable a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 compliant endpoint in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and meet compliance requirements. 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.

Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region

Published Date: 2025-03-31 21:30:00

Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import in the Europe (Frankfurt) region to import and use their customized models alongside existing foundation models via a single, unified API. Customers can access their imported custom models in an on-demand, serverless manner without having to manage the underlying instances. They can accelerate generative AI application development by integrating their imported custom models seamlessly with native Bedrock tools and features like Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, Evaluation, and Prompt Flows. To get started, visit the Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import page and see the documentation page for more details.

Amazon QuickSight launches scheduling and alerts in embedded dashboards

Published Date: 2025-03-31 21:15:00

Amazon QuickSight launches support for threshold alerts and scheduling in embedded dashboards for registered users. Users viewing embedded QuickSight dashboards can now define data thresholds and receive email notifications when their data exceeds them. They can also view and manage alerts at anytime in embedded dashboard. QuickSight admins can customize how the alerts emails notification appear and behave for account users. QuickSight admins can personalize alert email notifications for account users, tailoring their appearance and behavior. They can customize the sender display name, logo, and footer in the email, as well as specify where the dashboard opens when recipients click on it. Additionally, they can replace the custom email address with a user-friendly name, such as "Sales." Application developers can enable alerts using the GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser and GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUserWithIdentity API. Registered users viewing embedded QuickSight dashboards can now subscribe to schedules for dashboard email reports and pixel-perfect reports. They can also create schedules to deliver pixel-perfect reports via email. Readers can create up to five schedules per dashboard for themselves. This empowers each user to create the view of pixel perfect report that they are interested in and send them as scheduled reports. User can also view previously generated snapshots when viewing embedded QuickSight dashboards. Application developers can enable scheduling using the GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser and GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUserWithIdentity API. . Scheduling and Alerts in Embedded Dashboards are now available in all supported Amazon QuickSight regions - see here for QuickSight regional endpoints. For more on how user can use these features, go to our documentation for scheduling and documentation for threshold alerts.

Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Published Date: 2025-03-31 21:10:00

Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing a set of AI-assisted features that expedite operational analytics and investigation processes. This release introduces five key AI-assisted features: visualization generation using natural language, intelligent alert summarization with one-step data exploration, query result summary in the Discover page, recommended anomaly detectors, and a dedicated Amazon Q Developer chat interface for OpenSearch-related questions. 

With Amazon Q Developer, teams can transform natural language inputs into visualizations, gain instant insights from alerts and query results, and streamline anomaly detector creation through recommendations. The new Amazon Q Developer chat interface helps users quickly find answers about OpenSearch Service, while the natural language capabilities reduce the time needed to analyze data and create visualizations. With these features, users can work more efficiently with their data.

Amazon Q Developer in OpenSearch Service is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo).

The Amazon Q Developer in OpenSearch Service features are supported on the new OpenSearch user interface with OpenSearch data sources (version 2.17+). To get started, create an OpenSearch Service application in the AWS Management Console. Learn more at the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide. 

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports retrieving secrets and configuration from AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager

Published Date: 2025-03-31 20:05:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to reference AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters and AWS Secrets Manager secrets in environment variables. This new integration provides developers with a native method for accessing data from these services in their application.

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. With this integration, Elastic Beanstalk customers can now reference information stored in Secrets Manager and Parameter Store from their application. Developers can reference resources from these services directly in Elastic Beanstalk environment variables using Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), benefiting from automatic encryption at rest and in transit. This eliminates the need for application redeployment when configuration values change, simplifying operations and enhancing security.

This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

To learn more about using Parameter Store and Secrets Manager with Elastic Beanstalk, see the Parameter Store and Secrets Manager Section in AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide. For additional information, visit the AWS Elastic Beanstalk product page.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports configurable cipher suites

Published Date: 2025-03-31 19:30:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports modifying the ssl_ciphers parameter. SSL Ciphers (or cipher suites) are combinations of algorithms used to secure network connections between a client and server. They handle key exchange, authentication, encryption, and message integrity verification to ensure secure and confidential communication. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 16.1 and later will support modification of the ssl_ciphers parameter. You can select cipher suites from the Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL allow list to align with your organization's security standards and maintain consistent security configurations across database deployments. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2025-03-31 19:25:00

AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to create and manage RAM resource shares in your accounts. The existing RAM endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. The new dual-stack domains are available either from the internet or from within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. Support for IPv6 on AWS RAM is available in the AWS Commercial Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions. To get started with using AWS RAM to share resources, visit the AWS Resource Access Manager Console.  

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides AI-powered contact summarization in 2 additional regions

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in two additional regions, Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). With this launch, you can summarize long customer conversations into succinct, coherent, and context rich contact summaries (e.g., “The customer didn’t receive a reimbursement for a last minute flight cancellation and the agent didn’t offer a partial reimbursement as per the SOP”). This allows agents to focus on customer interactions by eliminating the need for to take after-call notes manually. Additionally, supervisors get faster insights when reviewing contacts, saving time on quality and compliance reviews, and more quickly identifying opportunities to improve agent performance. This feature is supported in English language and is available in two additional AWS regions including Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. This feature is included within Contact Lens conversational analytics price at no additional cost. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.  

AWS adds Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for card registration in Japan

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

AWS has enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for card registration in Japan to enhance payment security. Customers will need to perform MFA when registering new cards at sign-up or the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. MFA provides an extra layer of security during card registration, helping protect customers against credit card fraud. This implementation supports all major card networks including: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club, China UnionPay, and JCB. The authentication process uses 3D-Secure technology, which is the global standard for card payment security, ensuring safe and secure card registration for our customers. When adding or updating a new card in their AWS account, you will automatically be redirected to your card issuer’s authentication page to complete MFA. After successful authentication, your card will be registered and ready for use with AWS. This applies to both new customer sign-ups and existing customers adding new cards through the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console. For more information to manage payment verification, visit the AWS Billing and Cost Management user guide.  

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports conversational analytics in 34 new languages

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports conversational analytics in 34 new languages including Afrikaans, Arabic (Modern Standard), Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese), Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Kannada, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sundanese, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Zulu. Additionally, 21 languages that were previously available for post-call analytics are now available for real-time analytics, including Arabic (Gulf), Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English (India), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (Scotland), English (South Africa), English (Wales), Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, German (Swiss), Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Spain (Spanish) and Swedish. Amazon Connect Contact Lens helps you to monitor, measure, and continuously improve contact quality and agent performance for a better overall customer experience. With Contact Lens conversational analytics, you can transcribe customer calls, analyze customer sentiment, discover top contact drivers, help redact sensitive data, and more, all natively within Amazon Connect. With this launch, Contact Lens conversational analytics now supports 67 languages. Conversational analytics support for these new languages is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (London). To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.

Amazon EKS introduces a new catalog of community add-ons

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced a new catalog of community add-ons that includes metrics-server, kube-state-metrics, cert-manager, prometheus-node-exporter, and external-dns. This enables you to easily find, select, configure, and manage popular open-source Kubernetes add-ons directly through EKS. Each add-on has been packaged, scanned, and validated for compatibility by EKS, with container images securely hosted in an EKS-owned private Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repository. To make Kubernetes clusters production-ready, you need to integrate various operational tools and add-ons. These add-ons can come from various sources including AWS, AWS Marketplace, and open-source community repositories. Now, EKS makes it easy for you to access a broader selection of add-ons, providing a unified management experience for AWS, AWS Marketplace, and community add-ons. You can view available add-ons, compatible versions, configuration options, and install and manage them directly through the EKS Console, API, CLI, eksctl, or IaC tools like AWS CloudFormation. This feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions. To learn more visit the EKS documentation.

API Gateway launches support for dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon API Gateway (APIGW) introduces dual-stack support for all endpoint types, custom domains and APIGW management APIs. You can now configure your REST, HTTP or WebSocket APIs as well as custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call APIGW management APIs from dual-stack clients. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 environments, without needing to switch all over at once. This enables you to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and avoid IPv4 address constraints. There is no additional charge for this support. This support is now available in all API Gateway commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see API Gateway developer guide and IPv6 on AWS.  

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now lets you enable or disable sentiment analysis

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now lets you enable or disable sentiment analysis. This provides organizations with control over sentiment analysis, particularly for those needing to meet compliance obligations, while maintaining access to other Contact Lens conversational analytics capabilities including transcripts, generative AI summaries, and other conversational insights. For example, you may want to enable sentiment analysis to track customer brand perception and disable sentiment analysis for contacts coming to an internal company complaints line. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect Contact Lens is available. To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. This feature is included within Contact Lens conversational analytics price at no additional cost. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Athens, Greece

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ATH3 data center near Athens, Greece. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location within Greece. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet. For more information on the over 147 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.  

Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads 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. AWS Graviton4-based R8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 1.5TB) than Graviton3-based R7g instances. These instances are up to 30% faster for web applications, 40% faster for databases, and 45% faster for large Java applications compared to AWS Graviton3-based R7g instances. R8g 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 R8g 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.  

Asset level capacity management for AWS Outposts

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

AWS Outposts now supports self-service capacity management that can be defined specifically for each individual asset. An Outpost asset can be a single server within an Outposts rack or an Outposts server. This makes it easy for customers to customize the allocation of capacity on Outposts at a more granular level. Outposts brings native AWS services, AWS infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility by providing the same services, tools, and partner solutions with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) on premises. Customers have evolving business requirements and often need to fine-tune their application needs as their businesses scale. Capacity management, now with asset level control, enables viewing and modifying the configuration of EC2 capacity on any Outposts. Customers can define the configuration of EC2 instances on each Outposts rack or server when they place an Outposts order. Customers can then utilize capacity management to view these EC2 instances on their Outposts, their configured sizes, and their placement within the Outpost. Customers can also use capacity management to view, plan, and modify their capacity configuration through self-service UI and API. Capacity management is available in all AWS Regions where Outposts are supported. Check out the Outposts rack FAQs page and the Outposts servers FAQs page for the list of supported Regions. To learn more about these new capacity management capabilities for Outposts, read the Outposts user guide. To discuss Outposts for your on-premises workloads with an Outposts specialist, submit this form.

AWS Glue supports version control and custom transforms in AWS GovCloud (US)

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

AWS Glue now offers support for custom visual transforms and version control in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that uses reusable jobs to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks on data sets of nearly any scale. With version control, customers can use GitHub and AWS CodeCommit to maintain a history of changes to their AWS Glue jobs and apply their existing DevOps practices to deploy them. Previously, customers needed to set up their own integrations with their code versioning systems and build tooling to move jobs from development environments to production environments. Git integration in AWS Glue works for all AWS Glue job types, whether visual or code-based. Additionally, AWS Glue Studio’s visual editor now supports custom visual transforms, which allow you to create transforms and make them available for use in AWS Glue Studio jobs. Now, data engineers can write reusable transforms for the AWS Glue visual job editor. Reusable transforms increase consistency between teams and help keep jobs up to date by minimizing duplicate effort and code. This feature is available in all AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where AWS Glue is available. To learn more about version control, visit our documentation and blog post. To learn more about custom visual transforms, visit our documentation and blog post.  

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers AI-powered semantic contact categorization in 2 additional regions

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides generative AI-powered contact categorization in two additional regions (Europe - Frankfurt and Asia Pacific - Seoul), making it easy to identify top drivers, customer experience, and agent behavior for your contacts. With this launch, you can use natural language instructions to define a criteria to automatically categorize customer contacts (e.g., “show me calls where customers attempted payment”). Contact Lens automatically labels interactions matching your criteria and extracts relevant conversation points. In addition, you can receive alerts and generate tasks on categorized contacts, and search for contacts using the automated labels. This feature helps managers easily categorize contacts for scenarios such as identifying customer interest in specific products, assessing customer satisfaction, monitoring whether agents exhibited professional behavior on calls, and more. This feature is supported in English language and is available in two additional AWS regions including Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. This feature is included within Contact Lens conversational analytics price at no additional cost. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.  

Announcing the Developer Preview for AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

The AWS IoT Device SDK team is introducing the Developer Preview for IoT Device SDK for Swift that enables developers to build Internet of Things (IoT) applications to run on Linux, macOS, iOS, and tvOS platforms. This SDK provides an idiomatic interface for iOS mobile developers to build their applications in the modern Swift language and to connect to AWS IoT services through MQTT protocol.

With the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, the developers can now build more sophisticated IoT applications by leveraging the native Swift integration, and the MQTT version 5 advanced features to improve error handling, client load balancing and fault tolerance with Shared Subscription, and customization through User Properties. The SDK provides secure certificate-based authentication and supporting multiple connection methods including X.509 certificates, custom authentication, and MQTT over WebSockets connections.

To get started, see the following list of resources.

• What is AWS IoT

• AWS IoT Swift SDK

• MQTT 5 User Guide

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) supports Multi-Region Replication in Africa (Cape Town) Region

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) supports Multi-Region Replication in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With this expansion, customers can now replicate their Keyspaces data to and from the Cape Town Region, enabling lower-latency access for local users while maintaining a consistent view of data across their global infrastructure. Multi-Region Replication helps customers meet data residency requirements and improve application performance by automatically replicating data across multiple AWS Regions. Customers can now configure their tables to replicate data between Cape Town and any other AWS Region where Amazon Keyspaces is available. Multi-Region Replication in the Africa (Cape Town) Region is available at no additional cost – you pay only for the resources you use, including data transfer between regions and storage in each region. To get started with Multi-Region Replication in the Africa (Cape Town) Region, visit the Amazon Keyspaces documentation.  

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region

Published Date: 2025-03-31 17:00:00

Amazon S3 Tables expand availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. They are specifically optimized for analytics workloads, resulting in up to 3x faster query performance through continual table optimization compared to unmanaged Iceberg tables, and up to 10x higher transactions per second compared to Iceberg tables stored in general purpose S3 buckets. You can use S3 Tables with AWS analytics services through the integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, as well as Apache Iceberg-compatible open source engines like Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Additionally, S3 Tables perform continual table maintenance to automatically expire old snapshots and related data files to reduce storage cost over time. S3 Tables are now generally available in fifteen AWS Regions. For pricing details, visit the S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the product page, and documentation.