Today, AWS announces that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle resource recommendations for NAT Gateways. With this new recommendation type, you will be able to identify NAT Gateways that are unused, resulting in cost savings. With the new unused NAT Gateway recommendation, you will be able to identify NAT Gateways that show no traffic activity […]

Amazon CloudWatch now offers configuring deletion protection on your CloudWatch log groups, helping customers safeguard their critical logging data from accidental or unintended deletion. This feature provides an additional layer of protection for logs maintaining audit trails, compliance records, and operational logs that must be preserved. With deletion protection enabled, administrators can prevent unintended deletions […]

AWS Health now includes two new properties in its event schema – actionability and persona – enabling customers to identify the most relevant events. These properties allow organizations to programmatically identify events requiring customer action and direct them to relevant teams. The enhanced event schema is accessible through both the AWS Health API and Health […]

Amazon S3 Block Public Access (BPA) now allows organization-level control through AWS Organizations, allowing you to standardize and enforce S3 public access settings across all accounts in your AWS organization through a single policy configuration. S3 Block Public Access at the organization level uses a single configuration that controls all public access settings across accounts […]

Amazon Route 53 is excited to release the accelerated recovery option for managing DNS records in public hosted zones. Accelerated recovery targets a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) for regaining the ability to make DNS changes to your DNS records in Route 53 public hosted zones, if AWS services in US East (N. Virginia) become […]

Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now provide comprehensive audit context support for AWS Lake Formation credential vending APIs and AWS Glue Data Catalog GetTable and GetTables API calls. This auditing capability helps you maintain compliance with regulatory frameworks, including the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and data protection regulations. The feature is enabled by default, offering […]

Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now enable you to enforce fine-grained access control (FGAC) on both read and write operations for AWS Lake Formation registered tables in your Apache Spark jobs. Previously, you could only apply Lake Formation’s table, column, and row-level permissions for read operations (SELECT, DESCRIBE). This simplifies data workflows by allowing both […]

AWS Glue 5.1 is now generally available, delivering improved performance, security updates, expanded Apache Iceberg capabilities, and AWS Lake Formation write support for data integration workloads. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that simplifies discovering, preparing, moving, and integrating data from multiple sources. This release upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, […]

Amazon Lex now allows you to use Large Language Models (LLMs) as the primary option to understand customer intent across voice and chat interactions. With this capability, your voice and chat bots can better understand customer requests, handle complex utterances, maintain accuracy despite spelling errors, and extract key information from verbose inputs. When customer intent […]

Amazon Quick Suite, the AI-powered workspace helping organizations get answers from their enterprise data and move swiftly from insights to action, enhances Quick Research with access to specialized third-party datasets. Quick Research transforms how business professionals tackle complex business problems by completing weeks of data discovery, analysis, and insight generation in minutes. Today, Quick Research […]