Starting today, we are making it easier for customers to understand their inter-availability zone (AZ) VPC Peering usage within the same AWS Region by introducing a new usage type in their bill. These changes won’t affect customers’ charges and will help them easily understand their VPC Peering costs, enabling them to choose the right architecture […]

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Concurrency Scaling resources are added to your Redshift cluster transparently in seconds, as concurrency increases, to process queries without wait […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and 2nd generation AWS Nitro SSDs are now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region. I4g instances are optimized for workloads performing a high mix of random read/write operations and requiring very low I/O latency and high compute performance, […]

Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) now supports Load Balancer Capacity Unit (LCU) Reservation that allows you to proactively set a minimum bandwidth capacity for your load balancer, complementing its existing ability to auto-scale based on your traffic pattern. Gateway Load Balancer helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual appliances. With this feature, you can reserve […]

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now extends support for hybrid search to knowledge bases created using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MongoDB Atlas vector stores. This capability, which can improve relevance of the results, previously only worked with Opensearch Serverless and Opensearch Managed Clusters in Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications use semantic search, based […]

Starting today, Amazon S3 Express One Zone has reduced pricing for storage by 31%, PUT requests by 55%, and GET requests by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding […]

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 57 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation accelerated computing instances (P5e, P5en, G6e), storage optimized instances (I7ie, I8g), and compute optimized instances (M8g), as well as high memory instances (U7i) and new instance sizes for C7i-flex and M7i-flex. […]

IAM Identity Center has released a new SDK plugin that simplifies AWS resource authorization for applications that authenticate with external identity providers (IdPs) such as Microsoft EntraID, Okta, and others. The plugin which supports trusted identity propagation (TIP), streamlines how external IdP tokens are exchanged for IAM Identity Center tokens. These tokens enable precise access […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of two new EC2 I7ie bare metal instances. These instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The I7ie instances feature 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with a 3.2GHz all-core turbo frequency. Compared […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 – 15.0.4430.1) and SQL Server 2022 (CU18 – 16.0.4185.3). These minor versions include performance improvements and bug fixes, and are available for SQL Server Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for […]