Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports AWS Graviton-based compute with AWS Fargate Spot. This capability helps you run fault-tolerant Arm-based applications with up to 70% discount compared to Fargate prices. AWS Graviton processors are custom-built by AWS to deliver the best price-performance for cloud workloads. Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate enables customers to […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.9, 10.6.19, and 10.5.26. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You […]

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 RC1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. […]

Amazon S3 Access Grants now support ListCallerAccessGrants, a new API that allows AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and AWS IAM Identity Center end users to list all S3 buckets, prefixes, and objects they can access, as defined by their S3 Access Grants. Customers can use ListCallerAccessGrants to build applications that identify and then […]

Amazon Web Services announces the ability to setup Amazon WorkSpaces Pools powered by Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Now, customers can bring their Windows 10 or 11 licenses (provided they meet Microsoft’s licensing requirements) to support their eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, providing a consistent desktop […]

You can now automatically mark a performance evaluation question as not applicable based on conversational insights (e.g., detected call reason, etc.), and you can now use additional contact metrics (e.g., longest hold duration, number of holds, agent interaction duration including holds) to automatically fill answers to questions in the evaluation form. With this launch, you […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe (Milan). Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. R7i instances deliver […]

Amazon S3 is announcing the alpha release of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users access to easily browse, download, and […]

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports copying database snapshots, either created automatically or manually, across commercial AWS Regions. This enables you to seamlessly move database snapshots for your RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to different Regions, which can be used to build a robust disaster recovery solution for your mission-critical data. RDS […]

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink minor version 1.20. This version is expected to be be the last 1.x minor version released by the Flink community before Flink 2.0. We recommend that you upgrade to Flink 1.20 to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the Flink […]