All news with #product update tag

📣 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers three hierarchical pricing plans — Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise — that bundle commonly used deliverability and management capabilities. Each plan builds on the prior tier and provides progressively greater features at a discount versus à‑la‑carte purchases. Plans remove the need to evaluate and buy individual add-ons and are available in all AWS Regions where SES operates except the Middle East (UAE) and Bahrain.

🛠️ AWS Partner Central agents now support guidance across all AWS Partner funding programs, providing fast, documentation-backed answers on eligibility and application processes. The agents automate the funding lifecycle, validate eligibility against partner and opportunity data, review uploaded documents for compliance, and draft requests with auto-filled fields. Available in all commercial AWS Regions, partners can access recommendations by opening an opportunity in AWS Partner Central or consulting the agents guide.

📊 Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now show real-time and historical metrics for agent queues, enabling supervisors to monitor performance for agents routed directly through those queues. These metrics help identify issues such as spikes in queued contacts after scheduled callbacks so supervisors can reassign work and reduce wait times. Agent queue metrics are available across all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🚀 Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 2.3, delivering adaptive partition selection to reduce backpressure and smoother operations under uneven load. The release improves CDC pipelines by better handling out-of-order updates and adds new SQL functions to simplify conversion between changelog and standard streams. Flink 2.3 is available across all AWS Regions where the service is offered, and existing applications can use in-place upgrades.

🔐 Amazon GameLift Streams now allows assigning an IAM role to a stream session so streamed applications can securely access AWS resources like Amazon S3 and DynamoDB. By passing a RoleArn when starting a session, applications receive short-lived, auto-refreshing credentials via the standard AWS SDK credential chain with no code changes. The service validates role configuration at session start and the console offers a pre-filled trust policy template for easy setup; the feature is available in all Regions where GameLift Streams runs.

🔄 Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides one‑click migration from legacy OpenSearch Dashboards to the new OpenSearch UI for both domains and serverless collections. This serverless, zero‑downtime interface enables unified observability and search across data sources while preserving tenants and saved objects. You can migrate into new or existing OpenSearch UI workspaces and choose whether to consolidate or retain multiple tenants per team. The capability is available in all Regions where OpenSearch UI is offered and is documented in the OpenSearch UI Help and Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide.

🧭 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports partition-level network topology configuration for Slurm clusters, allowing a single cluster to run different topologies (tree or block) per partition. HyperPod auto-detects topology from instance types—UltraServer types map to block and hierarchical-interconnect types map to tree—while partitions without topology data remain schedulable. The feature is enabled by default for Slurm 25.11+ and is available in all Regions that support HyperPod.

📊 AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) now offers a Cost Efficiency widget for BCM Dashboards, allowing teams to view efficiency trends alongside Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance reports. The widget displays efficiency scores over time by account, region, or overall, with adjustable granularity and links to the Cost Optimization Hub. Widgets support exports, scheduled email reports, CSV/PDF downloads, and cross-account sharing, and are available in all AWS commercial Regions at no extra charge.

🔍 Amazon EC2 now includes the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store names associated with public AMIs directly in the AMI metadata. When you describe a public AMI, the response shows the related public SSM parameter, enabling easier discovery and referencing. This feature simplifies using SSM parameter aliases that resolve to the latest AMI versions and is available in all AWS regions, including China and GovCloud, at no extra cost.

🔔 Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to destinations such as Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda. These tags are metadata labels applied to buckets by AWS services and can be used to filter events across thousands of buckets with a single EventBridge rule rather than listing each bucket individually. Enable S3 Event Notifications via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI; tags already applied by services like AWS CloudFormation are automatically included in new notifications. This capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions and requires no configuration changes.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on a fully managed service. PostgreSQL 19 adds parallel autovacuum, REPACK CONCURRENTLY, SQL/PGQ, and enhanced logical replication behavior. Beta 2 includes bug fixes and stability improvements from Beta 1. Preview instances are retained for up to 60 days and follow US East (Ohio) pricing.

💧Customers can now view annual water withdrawals data associated with their AWS workloads in the AWS Sustainability service, alongside existing carbon emissions metrics. Data is available by AWS Region, service, and account on an annual basis via the console and API, reflecting total volume withdrawn for data center operations and showing efficiency improvements as reduced withdrawals. The feature is provided at no extra charge in Regions where the service is available.

🔔 You can now transition objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (One Zone-IA) immediately after creation, removing the previous 30-day minimum in S3 Standard. These classes provide up to 40% lower storage costs than S3 Standard with millisecond access, suitable for backups, log analytics, and compliance data that becomes cold quickly. Configure new S3 Lifecycle rules with 0-day transitions via the S3 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs, available in all Regions where the storage classes are offered.

🛡️ AWS Backup restore testing is now available in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). The capability automates periodic restore tests for supported storage, compute, and database resources, letting you create plans that select recovery points, run scheduled restores, and measure completion against recovery time objectives. This helps organisations evaluate recovery readiness and meet regulatory and business continuity requirements. To start, use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs and consult the documentation for supported Regions and pricing.

🔒 AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). These vaults provide immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted with AWS-owned or customer-managed keys. You can back up directly to these vaults, copy backups across accounts and Regions, share via AWS Resource Access Manager, and use Multi-party approval to protect access during account compromise. Use the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs to get started and consult the documentation for region and feature details.

📣 Amazon MQ now lets you configure EBS Disk storage size for RabbitMQ brokers independently of instance type. This applies to RabbitMQ M7g brokers on version 4.2+ using cluster deployments, with storage selectable in 5 GB increments from the M7g default to the instance-specific maximum. You can set storage via the AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK; changes take effect after a broker reboot and follow standard Amazon MQ storage pricing.

🚀 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Express Brokers now supports Apache Kafka version 4.2. This update brings Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) enhancements for improved leader election correctness, a new consumer rebalance protocol for faster group rebalances, and a Streams Rebalance Protocol to extend broker coordination to Kafka Streams. MSK Express delivers up to three times more throughput per broker, faster scaling, and reduced recovery time; version 4.2 is available today and can be selected when creating or upgrading clusters via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs.

⚙️ AWS has expanded availability of Graviton4-based R8g instances for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB across multiple regions, and added M8g support in additional regions. These instances offer up to 40% better performance and up to 29% improved price/performance versus Graviton3 equivalents, with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes providing up to 192 vCPUs, DDR5 memory at an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, and enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth. R8g and M8g instances can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI; engine version, pricing, and regional details are available in the Aurora/RDS documentation and pricing pages.

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports R8gd instances in 12 additional regions and M8gd instances in 6 more regions, offering Optimized Reads for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB. These R8gd and M8gd instances provide up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% improved price-performance over R6g for Aurora PostgreSQL by using local NVMe SSDs for ephemeral data and extended caching. Customers can enable Optimized Reads via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK by creating or modifying databases to use these instance types. Regional availability lists and engine version compatibility are provided in the Aurora and RDS documentation.

🔧 Amazon RDS now permits up to four storage modifications per database instance within a rolling 24-hour window. These changes let you increase size, change volume type, and adjust performance without incurring downtime, and a new modification can begin once the previous optimization completes. The feature is automatically enabled across Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Db2, Oracle, and SQL Server in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).