CloudWatch Database Insights announces support of fleet monitoring for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless databases. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health.
Database Insights consolidates logs and metrics from your applications, your databases, and the operating systems on which they run into a unified view in the console. Using its pre-built dashboards, and automated telemetry collection, you can monitor fleet health across all your database types in one place, and drill down seamlessly from fleet overview to individual instance analysis.
Database Insights offers two curated monitoring views: a fleet health dashboard for estate-wide visibility and an instance dashboard for detailed performance analysis. Aurora Limitless PostgreSQL databases were previously supported through instance-level monitoring — enabling you to track load distribution across shard groups. We’re now extending this capability to include fleet-level monitoring, which allows you to view the overall health of your entire database fleets, including Aurora clusters, RDS instances, and Aurora Limitless PostgreSQL databases, all from a single unified dashboard.
You can get started with Database Insights for Aurora Limitless by enabling it on your Limitless databases using the Aurora service console, AWS APIs, and SDKs.
Database Insights for Aurora Limitless is available in all regions where Aurora Limitless is available and applies a new ACU-based pricing – see pricing page for details. For further information, visit the Database Insights documentation.
Amazon CloudFront now offers two capabilities to enhance origin timeout controls: a response completion timeout and support for custom response timeout values for Amazon S3 origins. These enhancements provide more granular control over origin response timeouts, allowing you to deliver consistent and reliable user experiences regardless of variation in network conditions or origin performance.
Previously, you could configure a response timeout to control the amount of time CloudFront waits for your origin to send the first packet, as well as the amount of time CloudFront waits for subsequent packets. If your origin times out, CloudFront resets the response timeout and tries again based on the configured number of retries. With the new response completion timeout, you can now additionally configure the maximum amount of time CloudFront should wait for a complete response from your origin across all packets and retries. This allows you to control the cumulative response time for latency sensitive workloads such as media streaming or API calls. When using Amazon S3 as your origin, you can now also set custom response timeout values instead of using the default value of 30 seconds. These capabilities provide you with more control over how CloudFront handles slow or unresponsive origins.
CloudFront supports response completion timeout, and custom response timeout values for Amazon S3 origins, across all CloudFront edge locations excluding the AWS China (Beijing) region. You can configure origin timeouts using the CloudFront console, API, and AWS CloudFormation at no additional charge. To learn more, visit the CloudFront Developer Guide.
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the STT data center near Chennai, India. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is the fourth AWS Direct Connect location in India to provide 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption capabilities.
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 142 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.
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).
AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the need to set up and maintain the underlying infrastructure. It is integrated with AWS Firewall Manager to provide you with central visibility and control over your firewall policies across multiple AWS accounts.
To see which regions AWS Network Firewall is available in, visit the AWS Region Table. For more information, please see the AWS Network Firewall product page and the service documentation.
Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions. This launch introduces all Amazon Cognito features and tiers: Lite, Essentials, and Plus, allowing customers to use comprehensive and flexible authentication and access control features to implement secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences for their application within minutes. Cognito allows customers to scale authentication to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Cognito’s launch in these regions also includes OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow to support machine-to-machine (M2M) authorization flows.
For a full list of regions where Amazon Cognito is available, refer to the AWS Region Table. To learn more about Amazon Cognito, refer to:
AWS Backup now supports an improved restore workflow for Amazon Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters, simplifying recovery for distributed SQL databases. This enhancement lets customers initiate restoration from a single region within the multi-Region cluster, while AWS Backup manages the entire process across all regions.
AWS Backup now automatically identifies backup copies in peer regions, restores backups across all regions, and links restored clusters to complete multi-Region cluster creation. Customers get faster, more reliable restoration for Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters, improving business continuity and recovery objectives. Note: Customers are still required to create backup copies in all peer regions.
The improved restore workflow for Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters is available in all AWS Regions where Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters are available.
To learn more about this feature and how it can simplify your backup and restore processes for Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters, visit the AWS Backup documentation and the blog post. You can start using this feature today through the AWS Backup Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs.
Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances, our first GPU instances provisioned with GPU partitioning powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. G6f instances can be used for a wide range of graphics workloads. G6f instances offer GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory giving customers the flexibility to right size their instances and drive significant cost savings compared to EC2 G6 instances with a single GPU.
Customers can use G6f instances to provision remote workstations for Media & Entertainment, Computer-Aided Engineering, and for ML research, and game streaming. G6f instances are available in 5 instance sizes with half, quarter, and one-eighth of a GPU per instance size, paired with third generation AMD EPYC processors offering up to 12 GB of GPU memory and 16 vCPUs.
Amazon EC2 G6f instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Stockholm, Frankfurt, and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo, and Sydney), Canada (Central), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. Customers can purchase G6f instances as On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, or as a part of Savings Plans.
To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs, and launch G6f instances with NVIDIA GRID driver 18.4 or later. Additionally, you can connect to your G6f instances seamlessly using Amazon DCV, enabling remote desktop access from anywhere. For Amazon DCV, please refer to the Amazon DCV documentation. To learn more, visit the G6 instance page.
Amazon MSK Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. MSK Connect enables you to run fully managed Kafka Connect clusters with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to easily deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data in and out of Apache Kafka and Amazon MSK clusters from external systems such as databases, file systems, and search indices. MSK Connect eliminates the need to provision and maintain cluster infrastructure. Connectors scale automatically in response to increases in usage and you pay only for the resources you use. With full compatibility with Kafka Connect, it is easy to migrate workloads without code changes. MSK Connect will support both Amazon MSK-managed and self-managed Apache Kafka clusters.
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the STT Hyderabad, DC1 data center near Hyderabad, India. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is the fifth AWS Direct Connect location in India to provide 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption capabilities.
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 142 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.
Veo 3 has seen massive global adoption with over 70 million videos created since May, and we’ve seen tremendous momentum with our enterprise customers as well. Since its preview launch on Vertex AI in June, enterprise customers have already generated over 6 million videos, showcasing the incredible demand for professional-grade, scalable AI video creation.
Today, we’re building on this momentum with some exciting updates to Veo on Vertex AI.
Veo 3, our most advanced video generation model, is now generally available to everyone on Vertex AI.
Veo 3 Fast, a model designed for speed and rapid iteration, is now generally available for everyone on Vertex AI. It’s a faster way to turn text to video, from narrated product demos to short films.
Coming to public preview on Vertex AI in August, Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast will also offer image-to-video capabilities to make it possible for you to bring static visuals and images to life. All you have to do is provide the source image along with a text prompt that describes what kind of video you want to create.
How businesses are building with Veo 3 on Vertex AI
Google Cloud customers around the world are using Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast on Vertex AI to create professional-quality video content with unparalleled efficiency and creative freedom. Let’s look at some examples.
Canva– the design platform used by millions of people worldwide – uses Veo to make it easy for users to create videos for marketing, social media, and more.
“Enabling anyone to bring their ideas to life – especially their most creative ones – has been core to Canva’s mission ever since we set out to empower the world to design. By democratising access to a powerful technology like Google’s Veo 3 inside Canva AI, your big ideas can now be brought to life in the highest quality video and sound, all from within your existing Canva subscription. In true Canva fashion, we’ve built this with an intuitive interface and simple editing tools in place, all backed by Canva Shield.” – Cameron Adams, co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Canva
But the momentum extends beyond design. The team at BarkleyOKRP, a leading ad agency, is using Veo 3 to speed up video production timelines.
“The rapid advancements from Veo 2 to Veo 3 within such a short time frame on this project have been nothing short of remarkable. Our team undertook the task of re-creating numerous music videos initially produced with Veo 2 once Veo 3 was released, primarily due to the significantly improved synchronization between voice and mouth movements. The continuous daily progress we are witnessing is truly extraordinary.” – Julie Ray Barr, Senior Vice President Client Experience, BarkleyOKRP
At global investing platform eToro, the team is making marketing iterations a breeze with Veo 3.
“At eToro, innovation is in our DNA. As a global investing platform serving clients in 75 countries, local storytelling isn’t optional – it’s essential. With Veo 3, we produced 15 fully AI‑generated versions of our ad, each in the native language of its market, all while capturing real emotion at scale. Ironically, AI didn’t reduce humanity – it amplified it. Veo 3 lets us tell more stories, in more tongues, with more impact.” – Shay Chikotay, Head of Creative & Content, eToro
Razorfish, an interactive agency and part of the Publicis Groupe, is using Veo to bring creative to life.
“For The Morelandos, our campaign with Visit Orlando and Google, we used the full Vertex AI stack—Gemini to mine real reviews, Imagen to bring the characters to life, and Veo to give them motion. Veo let us go from story to near-cinematic video in a fraction of the usual time—which meant more room to explore, iterate, and push the idea further.” – Anthony Yell, Chief Creative Officer, Razorfish
Synthesia, a leading synthetic media generation company, is using Veo to contextually adapt visuals to its hyper-realistic AI avatars and voices.
“Veo 3 represents a leap forward in generative AI, and its integration into Synthesia’s platform will redefine how businesses create video content. By combining our hyper-realistic AI avatars and voices with Veo-powered fully contextual visuals that adapt to each unique story, we’re giving enterprise teams the creative power to communicate with unrivalled clarity and impact.” – Bill Leaver, Product Manager, Synthesia
How enterprises can use Veo 3 Fast for speed and creativity
Veo 3 Fast is a great fit for work that requires rapid iteration and speed. It has an ideal balance between processing time and high-quality visual output, making it especially helpful for:
Quickly generating and testing variations of ad concepts to respond to market trends.
Efficiently creating video demonstrations for entire product catalogs from still images.
Developing engaging animated explainers and training modules in less time.
Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast on Vertex AI mean even more capabilities for enterprise storytelling
Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are designed to give creators the control and quality needed to move beyond short clips and produce complete, compelling narratives. Here are some of the core features now generally available on Vertex AI.
Create scenes with native audio: Veo 3 generates video and audio in a single step. This means you can create scenes with characters that speak with accurate lip-syncing, and sound effects that fit the mood.
Prompt: Talking to the barista from across the counter, a woman in a coffee shop places an order for a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, and a chocolate croissant. The barista listens to the order, responds sure 🙂 and then turns to the commercial espresso machine that is behind him. The woman patiently waits across the counter as her order is being prepared by the barista.
Deliver professional quality at enterprise scale: Veo 3 produces high-definition (1080p) video, suitable for professional marketing campaigns, product demonstrations, and internal communications. You can create content that meets brand standards, saving time and money.
Prompt: An eye-level shot, zooming in on a photorealistic scene of a person sculpting a pot on a pottery wheel in a well lit pottery studio.
Simplify content localization for global audiences: Veo 3’s native dialogue generation helps businesses connect with an international audience by producing a video once and localizing the dialogue for dozens of languages.
Prompt: An eye-level shot of a confident young woman in a dark floral halter-neck dress standing on a stone bridge with the Eiffel Tower softly blurred in the background. Her dark hair and the fabric of her dress flutter gently in the wind as the light subtly changes around her. The distant hum of city traffic fills the air. She says out loud: La confiance est mon accessoire préféré. Cette robe vient juste après.
Image-to-video (coming to public preview on Vertex AI in August): Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast can also take a single image, which can be a photo you uploaded or an AI-generated image, and animate it, creating an 8-second video clip. This feature is particularly powerful for content creators, marketers, and businesses looking to animate existing visual assets, create engaging social media content, or generate compelling product demonstrations from high-quality images.
Prompt: The artist continues to work as the camera pans around showing a shop full of stained glass creations.
Enterprise-grade safety and security
Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast on Vertex AI are built for scalable and responsible enterprise use. We embed digital watermarks into every frame with SynthID, helping combat misinformation and misattribution. Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are also covered by ourindemnity for generative AI services.
Get started with Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast today
To get started, go here to learn more about Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast on Vertex AI, and try it on Vertex AI Media Studio.
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the US West (N. California) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications.
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models and other FMs from leading AI companies via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI built into Amazon Bedrock. These capabilities help you build tailored applications for multiple use cases across different industries, helping organizations unlock sustained growth from generative AI while ensuring customer trust and data governance.
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) now supports switching AWS Regions for multi-Region application recovery. This automated feature allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch operating your multi-Region application out of another AWS Region. It provides dashboards for real-time visibility and logging that you can use throughout the recovery process. This saves hours of engineering effort and eliminates the operational overhead previously required to complete failover steps, create custom dashboards, and manually gather evidence of a successful recovery for applications across your organization and hosted in multiple AWS accounts. Region Switch supports failover and failback for active-passive multi-Region approaches, and removing and adding an AWS Region for an application with active-active multi-Region approaches.
ARC Region switch is a highly available solution for multi-Region recovery, and runs independently in each Region it operates in. When you create a Region switch plan, it is replicated to all the Regions your application operates in. This removes dependencies on the Region you are leaving for your recovery.
To get started, build a Region switch plan using the ARC console, API, or CLI. A Region switch plan allows you to create the specific workflow required to recover your applications in another Region. Once created, Region switch will evaluate your plan every 30 minutes to ensure correct configuration and readiness for recovery. When running a test or recovering from an operational event, you can use the ARC dashboard to monitor your applications’ recovery.
ARC Region switch is available in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more, please refer to the ARC Region switch documentation.
Customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family for file transfers over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2).
AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) over SFTP, FTP, FTPS and AS2 protocols. In addition to file transfers, Transfer Family enables common file processing and event-driven automation for managed file transfer (MFT) workflows, helping customers to modernize and migrate their business-to-business file transfers to AWS.
To learn more about AWS Transfer Family, visit our product page and user-guide. See the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
Today, AWS Marketplace is introducing new capabilities that simplify both software procurement and ongoing subscription management.
Customers can now download private offers and agreements to PDF documents. They can also access historical agreement information, agreement status, and deployed on AWS status directly in the AWS Marketplace console for a more comprehensive view of transactions and improved governance. These features enable customers to easily save and share AWS Marketplace offer and agreement details to supplement approval requests or help satisfy audit requirements for AWS Marketplace transactions.
These new capabilities are available today in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is supported.
To learn more about these enhancements, visit the AWS Marketplace console to view the updated manage subscription experience, read the AWS Marketplace buyer guide, or download a copy prior to accepting your next private offer.
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 33 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.
If you are new to AWS Control Tower, you can launch it today in any of the supported regions, and you can use AWS Control Tower to build and govern your multi-account environment in all supported Regions. If you are already using AWS Control Tower and you want to extend its governance features to the newly supported regions in your accounts, you can go to the settings page in your AWS Control Tower dashboard, select your regions, and update your landing zone. Once you update all accounts that are governed by AWS Control Tower, your landing zone, managed accounts, and registered OUs will be under governance in the new region(s).
For a full list of Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage or see the AWS Control Tower User Guide.
The Amazon Connect UI builder, used to create each step in a Step-by-Step Guide, now features an updated user interface to reduce the complexity to build structured workflows in Connect. The new user interface is designed to make the process of passing dynamic data onto guides and storing data entered in a guide by a user more initiative and consistent with Connect’s workflow orchestration. These improvements provide your managers with a streamlined user experience that enables them to create powerful and flexible experiences for agents and end customers. For example, managers can now define custom variables as dynamic references that can be edited for clarity or reusability and can be shared across multiple fields and components within each step in a guide.
In addition, the UI builder now contains a consistent look and feel with the rest of Amazon Connect by using Cloudscape Design System components. Amazon Connect UI builder is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.
AWS Direct Connect now supports IEEE 802.1AE MAC Security Standard (MACsec) encryption on Partner-owned interconnects terminated on supported physical devices. Partners using supported devices can now encrypt the Layer 2 connection between their edge network device and the Direct Connect device at over 100 Points of Presence globally where MACsec is supported. MACsec is designed to deliver native, near line-rate, point-to-point encryption at Layer 2 between AWS’ network device and the Partner’s edge device on the other end of that connection. Partners who enable the feature can now encrypt all customer traffic traversing the secured link. The Direct Connect User Guide provides instructions for how to set up MACsec on supported 10Gbps and 100Gbps interconnects. Partners can request MACsec-capable interconnects and manage the new feature through the Direct Connect Console or supported APIs.
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports DOC/DOCX files for document processing and H.265 encoded video files for video processing. This update allows you to build more comprehensive and efficient multimodal data analysis pipelines by working directly with these popular formats.
With support for DOC/DOCX, you can now seamlessly process your Word documents, reports, and other text-based content without the intermediate step of converting them to PDF. This streamlines your workflows, allowing for faster text extraction and analysis.
H.265 support enables you to process high-quality video files more efficiently. The H.265 codec provides superior video quality at significantly smaller file sizes compared to older codecs, speeding up processing times for your video analysis workloads.
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation is available in 7 AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Asia Pacific (Sydney), US West (Oregon) and US East (N. Virginia) AWS Regions.
Today, AWS announces the general availability of multivariate anomaly detection in AWS IoT SiteWise. This native capability enables industrial customers to automatically identify abnormalities across their equipment and asset data. This capability simplifies the implementation of predictive and preventative maintenance strategies without requiring machine learning expertise, helping to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime.
Multivariate anomaly detection in AWS IoT SiteWise helps to address a critical challenge faced by industrial operations: the need to prevent costly downtime and maintain peak efficiency. By embedding this capability directly within AWS IoT SiteWise, industrial customers can now detect equipment anomalies across their entire fleet of assets without writing code or managing complex infrastructure, lowering the barrier to entry for implementing effective predictive maintenance strategies. This feature is particularly effective for assets like turbines, compressors, and motors, where continuous monitoring of operational parameters is crucial for early detection of failure risks.
Multivariate anomaly detection is available in US East (N. Virginia) , Europe (Ireland) , and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Regions where AWS IoT SiteWise is offered. To learn more, read the launch blog and user guide.
Amazon Connect now allows businesses to introduce new actions and workflows into the agent workspace, powered by third-party applications running in the background. For example, when an agent logs in, they see a new training to complete, or when an agent initiates transfer, they see a company-specific phone directory. Agents can also perform new actions within their third-party applications, including filling out forms in pop-up windows and downloading files. When agents finish helping the customer, they can resume their work exactly where they left off. These new capabilities enable agents to complete more advanced workflows within a single-pane-of-glass experience, improving their productivity and customer satisfaction.
Third-party applications are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US-West (Oregon), Africa (Cape town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London).
