Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS Authentication (mTLS), a security protocol that requires both the server and client to authenticate each other using X.509 certificates, enabling customers to validate client identities at CloudFront’s edge locations. Customers can now ensure only clients presenting trusted certificates can access their distributions, helping protect against unauthorized access and […]

Today, AWS announces enhanced log analytics capabilities in Amazon OpenSearch Service, making Piped Processing Language (PPL) and natural language the default experience in OpenSearch UI’s Observability workspace. This update combines proven pipeline syntax with simplified workflows to deliver an intuitive observability experience, helping customers analyze growing data volumes while controlling costs. The new experience includes […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Quick Suite Embedded Chat, enabling you to embed Quick Suite’s conversational AI, which combines structured data and unstructured knowledge in a single conversation – directly into your applications, eliminating the need to build conversational interfaces, orchestration logic, or data access layers from scratch. Quick Suite Embedded Chat […]

Customers can now use Claude Opus 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies. Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest model, setting new standards across coding, agentic workflows, computer use, and office tasks while making Opus-level intelligence accessible at one-third the cost. Opus 4.5 […]

AWS Glue announces the general availability of catalog federation for remote Iceberg catalogs. This capability provides direct and secure access to Iceberg tables stored in Amazon S3 and cataloged in remote catalogs using AWS analytics engines. With catalog federation, you can federate to remote Iceberg catalogs and query remote Iceberg tables using your preferred AWS […]

Amazon Connect flow modules now support custom inputs, outputs, and branches, along with version and alias management. With this launch, you can now define flexible parameters for your reusable flow modules to math your specific business logic. For example, you can create an authentication module that accepts a phone number and PIN as inputs, then […]

AWS Lambda launches enhanced error handling capabilities for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka (SMK) event sources. These capabilities allow customers to build custom retry configurations, optimize retries of failed messages, and send failed events to a Kafka topic as an on-failure destination, enabling customers to build resilient Kafka workloads […]

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Interstitials for live streams, enabling broadcasters and streaming service providers to deliver seamless, personalized ad experiences across a wide range of modern video players. This capability allows customers to insert interstitial advertisements and promotions directly into live streams using the HLS Interstitials specification (RFC 8216), which […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]