AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitLab self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab CI/CD job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. This feature allows GitLab jobs to […]

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) using customer managed keys. By default, S3 Express One Zone encrypts all objects with server-side encryption using S3 managed keys (SSE-S3). With S3 Express One Zone support for customer managed keys, you have more options to encrypt and manage the […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS SDK for Swift, the official AWS solution for accessing Amazon Web Services from applications built with the Swift programming language. Customers can now use AWS SDK for Swift for production workloads. AWS SDK for Swift provides a modern, user-friendly, and native Swift interface for accessing Amazon […]

Today, AWS launched volume discount pricing for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, providing customers with on-demand pricing which scales down as usage of the service goes up. Volume discount pricing takes effect during the September, 2024 billing cycle. With on-demand volume discount pricing, you can save up to 75% off list prices based on your monthly usage. […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports recovery to AWS Local Zones. This feature allows you to set your recovery target to be within an AWS Local Zone. AWS DRS minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery. With this […]

Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.20, introducing Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) (beta), a programming interface for AWS Trainium and Inferentia, enabling developers to build optimized compute kernels for new functionalities, optimizations, and science innovations. Additionally, this release introduces NxD Training (beta), a PyTorch-based library enabling efficient distributed training, with a user-friendly interface compatible […]

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added the capability to add columns to existing multi-Region tables. With this launch, you can modify the schema of your existing multi-Region tables to add new columns. You only have […]

AWS Transfer Family announces higher performance limits for SFTP connectors, with maximum supported file size increased to 150 GB and maximum throughput increased to 100 files per second. SFTP connectors provide fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. With today’s enhancements, customers can use connectors to easily […]

AWS Amplify now supports asynchronous AWS Lambda invocations from your AWS AppSync API. This new feature allows you to invoke Lambda functions asynchronously, enabling your API to handle more complex, long-running processes without blocking the response to the client. With asynchronous Lambda invocations, developers can initiate operations like generative AI model inferences, batch processing jobs, […]

AWS Chatbot now enables customers to interact with Amazon Bedrock agents from Slack and Microsoft Teams chat channels. Prior to today, customers had to implement their own ad-hoc ways to integrate their Bedrock agents with their Microsoft Teams and Slack. They needed to develop custom chat applications and integrate it with Bedrock agents. Now with […]