Amazon Connect is expanding WhatsApp Business messaging to five new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Africa (Cape Town). Additionally, Amazon Connect SMS is now available in Africa (Cape Town). These expansions enable you to engage with customers through their preferred messaging channels while leveraging Amazon Connect’s […]

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon […]

AWS WAF is expanding the availability of its enhanced rate-based rules feature to customers in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Australia (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). This feature supports additional request parameters for rate-based rules, including cookies and other HTTP headers. Additionally, customers can now create composite keys based on […]

AWS Marketplace now supports software as a service (SaaS) products deployed on AWS, on other cloud infrastructures, and on-premises. This will allow independent software vendors to list more SaaS products in AWS Marketplace, offering customers a broader selection of products. By listing SaaS products in AWS Marketplace, sellers can streamline their sales processes and scale […]

Amazon Connect now supports Outbound Campaign calling to Poland in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (London) regions, making it easier to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection, etc. Outbound Campaigns offers real-time audience segmentation using unified customer data from Customer […]

AWS Billing and Cost Management Console’s Payments page now features a Payments Account Summary that helps you view your AWS account’s financial status more efficiently. Critical account balance information is now summarized in a single, easy-to-access location on your Payments page. Payments Account Summary shows your total outstanding balance, including current and past due amounts, […]

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports extraction of custom GenAI-powered insights from audio by specifying the desired output configuration through blueprints. BDA is a GenAI-powered capability of Bedrock that streamlines the development of generative AI applications and automates workflows involving documents, images, audio, and videos. Developers can now extract custom insights from audio using […]

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced a new feature that allows you to easily rollback your Amazon ECS service to a previous safe state if a deployment fails. Amazon ECS customers can configure automated failure detection and remediation for their ECS service rolling updates using deployment circuit breaker and CloudWatch Alarms. Deployment circuit […]

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. […]