Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces OI2 instances, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family. The new OI2 instances delivers up to 9% higher indexing throughput compared to OR2 instances and up to 33% over I8g instances in our internal benchmarks. The new OI2 OpenSearch Optimized instances use the same architecture as the OR2 instances, leveraging best-in-class cloud […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a new multi-tier storage option powered by OpenSearch Optimized Instances. This new architecture combines Amazon S3 cloud technology with local instance storage to deliver improved durability and performance. The new multi-tier architecture features two tiers: hot and warm. The hot tier handles frequently accessed data, while the warm tier leverages […]

AWS Security Incident Response is now available to customers in ten additional opt-in AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Zurich, Milan, Spain), Middle East (UAE, Bahrain). You can now use these additional regions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events faster and more effectively. AWS […]

Today, AWS Payment Cryptography announced a significant price reduction of up to 63% for API requests across existing tiers and introduced a new fourth tier. This change unifies pricing across all regions and enables customers to migrate higher volume workloads to the service without being worried about pricing. As part of this update, we moved […]

AWS IoT Device Management commands now supports dynamic payload functionality, enabling developers to create reusable command templates with placeholders that can be replaced with different values during command execution. The enhancement also includes parameter validation rules to verify that parameter values conform to specified criteria before execution. With this update, developers can now set parameters […]

Amazon Connect alerts on real-time metrics now provide the specific agents, queues, flows, or routing profiles that exceeded thresholds and triggered the alert. This enables managers to respond faster to customer experience and operational issues by eliminating the need to manually investigate the root cause of the alert. For example, alerts on elevated queue wait […]

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the CMC Tower in Hanoi, Vietnam. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Vietnam. This Direct […]

AWS Security Incident Response now offers integration with the cloud-based team collaboration platform Slack, enabling you to prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events faster and more effectively while maintaining your existing notification and communication workflows. With the bidirectional integration, you can create and update cases in both the Security Incident Response console […]

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed platform that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker AI removes the heavy lifting from each step of […]