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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]