Today, we are excited to announce support for Stop/Start in Amazon Neptune Analytics, a new capability that enables organizations to pause and resume their graph workloads on demand,helping reduce costs during idle periods without losing data or configuration. Many customers use Neptune Analytics for periodic graph workloads such as fraud detection, recommendation engines, or research […]

Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Google Sheets connector. Customers can now connect to Google Sheets by logging in with their Google account and importing sheets into a QuickSight SPICE dataset for analysis. Google Sheets connector for Amazon QuickSight is now available in the following regions: US East (N.Virginia and […]

RDS Data API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), enabling dual-stack configuration (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for your Aurora databases. IPv6 enables an expanded address space, enabling you to scale your application on AWS beyond the typical constraints of the number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC. With IPv6, you can assign easy to […]

AWS announces Amazon EMR S3A, a new Amazon S3 connector that optimizes performance for Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive workloads on Amazon EMR. This new connector enhances the open source S3A architecture with AWS-specific optimizations to help organizations process large-scale data more efficiently. With direct integration support for S3 Express One Zone, S3 […]

Amazon EMR on EC2 announces two significant enhancements for governance: Apache Spark native fine-grained access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation, and support for AWS Glue Data Catalog views. These features allow organizations to improve data security, simplify access management, and enhance data sharing capabilities across their analytics environments. The Apache Spark native FGAC implementation […]

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage optimized I8ge instances. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage optimized Amazon EC2 instances. I8ge instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now offers three new global condition keys that will make it easier for you to establish a network perimeter. The new condition keys – aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, and aws:VpceOrgID – help you ensure that requests to your AWS resources or by your identities are made through your VPC endpoints. The […]

AWS HealthOmics introduces support for third-party container registries, enabled through Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) pull-through cache, along with URI remapping rules for automatic translation of third-party container URIs to ECR URIs. This enhancement enables AWS HealthOmics customers to more easily access containerized tools from popular third-party registries without needing to manually migrate them to […]

The Amazon SageMaker lakehouse architecture now supports tag based access control (TBAC) for managing fine-grained data access across federated catalogs. This capability, previously available only for default AWS Glue Data Catalog resources, is now available across Amazon S3 Tables, Amazon Redshift data warehouses, and federated data sources including Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. TBAC […]

Administrators can now control the Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers installed in Amazon Q Developer client applications directly within the AWS console. This provides organizations with the granular control needed to manage external resources safely and effectively. With this launch an admin has the ability to enable or disable the MCP functionality for all the […]