Amazon Data Firehose support for delivering data streams into Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 is now available in all AWS regions except AWS China, AWS GovCloud and ap-southeast-5 regions. With this feature, Firehose integrates with Apache Iceberg, so customers can deliver data streams directly into Apache Iceberg tables in their Amazon S3 data lake. […]

Today, we are announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, featuring comprehensive guidance to help customers build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient workloads on AWS. This update includes 14 newly refreshed best practices, including the Reliability Pillar, representing the first major improvements since 2022. The refreshed Framework offers prescriptive guidance, expanded best practices, […]

AWS is improving the self-guided experience for AWS Partners by adding task categorization and grouping. The new experience helps partners prioritize the key actions needed to accelerate their journey from onboarding to AWS Partner Central to selling on AWS Marketplace. This new experience makes it easier to quickly understand the benefits of a task, time […]

Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025 with License Included (LI) Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), providing customers with an easy and flexible way to launch the latest version of Windows Server. By running Windows Server 2025 on Amazon EC2, customers can take advantage of the security, performance, and reliability of AWS with the latest […]

Effective October 25, 2024, all CloudFront requests blocked by AWS WAF are free of charge. With this change, CloudFront customers will never incur request fees or data transfer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF. This update requires no changes to your applications and applies to all CloudFront distributions using AWS WAF. AWS WAF will […]

Amazon DataZone has achieved HITRUST certification, demonstrating it meets the requirements established by the Health Information Trust Alliance Common Security Framework (HITRUST CSF) for managing sensitive health data, as required by healthcare and life sciences customers. This certification includes the testing of over 600 controls derived from multiple security frameworks such as ISO 27001 and […]

Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London) and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Amazon […]

You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end […]

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of six highly expressive Amazon Polly generative voices in English, French, Spanish, and German. Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. The generative engine […]

AWS CodeBuild now supports 18 new compute options for your reserved capacity fleets. You can select up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GB of memory to build and test your software applications on Linux x86, Arm, and Windows platforms. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and […]