All news with #aws tag

🔗 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) connections for external Apache Iceberg catalogs and IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB. IRC supports Snowflake Open Catalog, Databricks Unity Catalog, and a Generic IRC type, enabling browsing, ETL, and notebook access with OAuth2 or bearer tokens and short-lived S3 credentials. IAM authentication lets DocumentDB 5.0+ clusters with TLS validate connections via AWS STS without storing DB credentials. These capabilities are available now in all Regions where Unified Studio is offered at no extra cost.

🔐 Amazon Transcribe now allows encryption of custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest using a customer-managed AWS KMS symmetric key that you own and control. Previously these artifacts were encrypted with an AWS-owned key; if you do not provide a key, encryption continues under the AWS-owned key. Using a customer-managed key provides control over key permissions, CloudTrail logging for key usage, and the ability to disable or rotate keys to revoke access. The feature is available in all Regions where Amazon Transcribe is offered.

🔒 AWS IAM outbound identity federation now supports VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery, allowing workloads to access OIDC metadata and JWKS verification keys over AWS PrivateLink without traversing the public internet. This enables short-lived JWTs from AWS STS to be verified by external services while keeping traffic inside the AWS network. The feature addresses network security requirements for VPCs with restricted internet access and is available in all commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions with standard PrivateLink pricing.

📊 The AWS DataSync console now includes a monitoring dashboard that gives visibility into data transfers across your account, showing status, transfer rates, duration, and totals for each task execution. You can filter executions by status, task, mode, execution ID, or start time and see summarized results including counts of successful and failed runs and cumulative data transferred. The dashboard highlights configured tasks, locations, and agents and provides real-time aggregate transfer rates, with the ability to inspect errors for failed executions. This feature is available at no extra cost in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where DataSync is offered.

🔔 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. This update lets you protect and recover Graviton workloads with the same simple, reliable DRS workflow used for x86 servers. DRS automatically detects arm64 sources and recovers them onto Graviton instances with no extra configuration. The capability is available in all Regions where AWS DRS is offered and incurs no additional cost.

📞 AWS End User Messaging now supports voice calls on WhatsApp, letting businesses place and receive calls using their existing verified business identity. Conversations can transition from chat to voice within the same thread so context is not lost. Calls work both ways: customers can call businesses from a chat and businesses can call customers who granted permission. Manage the feature via the AWS End User Messaging console or API; it’s available in all Regions where Social is offered.

🛠️ AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now expose AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server so developers can perform messaging tasks using natural-language prompts. The skills provide validated, step-by-step guidance for actions like verifying sending identities, creating branded RCS agents, and sending production emails. They integrate with popular AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro, and are installed via the aws-core plugin or MCP configuration. Installation and per-skill details are covered in the respective agent setup guides.

🔍 AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides the ListBillingViewSegments API to return an account's billing context over a specified time period. The API reveals how accounts are positioned in the billing hierarchy—management, member, or billing group primary accounts—and which account managed the billing relationship and rate settings. It returns billing context only, not cost or usage data, and can be called directly or via an AI agent.

🔔 The updated Amazon EventBridge Custom event bus is a serverless event broker that enables scalable, decoupled event-driven applications. It supports cross-account sharing via AWS Resource Access Manager, strict ordering, CloudEvents JSON formats, built-in retention up to one year, and advanced transformations. A new Subscriber resource can filter and deliver events to over 250 AWS services, and a revised pricing model charges for data transfer rather than per-event.

🛡️ AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. These functions introduce primitives like step and wait to checkpoint progress, recover from failures, and pause executions without incurring on-demand compute charges. Support covers new Python (3.13, 3.14), Node.js (22, 24), and Java (17+) runtimes, and activation is possible via the AWS Lambda API, Console, SDKs, and IaC tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM, and AWS CDK.

🚀 Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on RDS. This beta refines query performance and autovacuum management, fixes TOAST table reporting in pg_stat_autovacuum_scores, and rebalances parallel autovacuum cost limits. Preview instances persist up to 60 days, snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment, and standard dump/load tooling is supported.

🔒 Today AWS announces the general availability of AWS Network Security Manager, a centralized network security management solution that simplifies policy deployment and enforcement at scale. It supports AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced today, with AWS Network Firewall support coming soon. The service enables consistent enforcement of firewall and DDoS protections across an AWS organization and is available in US East (N. Virginia).

🎮 Amazon GameLift Servers, a managed service for deploying and scaling dedicated multiplayer game servers, is expanding to 5 new AWS Regions and 8 AWS Local Zones worldwide. This expansion reduces player latency by enabling developers to deploy fleets closer to users across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. The new Regions include il-central-1, mx-central-1, eu-south-2, ap-south-2, and ap-southeast-3, while Local Zones add major city locations in the US and Latin America. Developers can now target these additional locations to improve gameplay responsiveness and player experience.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for EKS that integrates with existing SageMaker HyperPod infrastructure without application changes. It replaces round-robin balancing with real-time inference-signal-driven routing to reduce first-token latency by up to 82% and p99 TTFT by 97–98% in mixed-hardware and burst scenarios. The Gateway comprises an Envoy Endpoint, a Body-Based Router that reads model names from requests, and an Endpoint Picker that scores pods across six inference-level signals to select the optimal target. It supports OpenAI-compatible model servers like vLLM and SGLang, is available per-cluster in supported Regions, and will soon add cross-cluster, cross-region routing and centralized traffic controls.

🔖 Amazon ElastiCache now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control (TBAC) for Global Datastore. You can use AddTagsToResource, RemoveTagsFromResource, and ListTagsForResource on Global Datastore and reference tags in IAM policies and SCPs. Tag changes propagate automatically across all Regions the Global Datastore spans, keeping access control and cost allocation consistent. There is no additional cost and no change to Global Datastore creation or management.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now enables Multi‑AZ deployments using Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server Developer Edition. This provides a synchronous standby replica in a separate Availability Zone and automatic failover to support testing of high availability in non‑production environments. The capability mirrors Enterprise Edition functionality at no license cost and is available for SQL Server 2019, 2022, and 2025 Enterprise Developer Edition; SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition is not supported.

🔒 August’s AWS Security digest highlights new service capabilities, compliance updates, and hands-on resources across identity, data protection, AI security, detection, and governance. It summarizes 20+ blog posts, security bulletins, and 17 code samples focused on agent governance, credential protection, and automated compliance. The update emphasizes prompt patching and practical deployment guidance for enterprise security teams.

🔔 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards so customers don’t need to supply partition keys when ordering isn’t required. This simplifies ingestion for use cases such as log aggregation, metrics, and IoT telemetry, eliminating hot keys and reducing time to production. The feature is available today in all AWS commercial regions at no extra cost; customers can adopt it by upgrading to the latest AWS SDK or Kinesis Producer Library.

🔗 AWS announced native Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling direct synchronization of Salesforce knowledge articles and Zendesk help center articles and community posts. The connectors remove the need for custom ingestion pipelines by handling crawling, metadata extraction, and incremental sync using instance credentials. This streamlines building RAG-based AI agents and assistants grounded in up-to-date support and product knowledge.

📊 Amazon Connect Customer now delivers routing step data into its analytics data lake, enabling easier insight generation from routing decisions. Using the data lake, customers can use Amazon Athena and Amazon Quick to analyze trends like contacts queued and contacts joined at each routing step without building complex pipelines. Analysts can report on contact progression, pinpoint where agent matching criteria were relaxed, and measure routing impacts on wait times and agent utilization.