Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16. Linked servers allow customers to access external datasources from within their Amazon RDS for SQL Server database. Linked servers with Oracle OLEDB can be used in SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Editions, and with SQL Server 2017, 2019, or 2022 […]

Today, DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB, migrates to AWS SDK for Java 2.x. In alignment with our SDKs and Tools Maintenance Policy, this migration ensures DynamoDB local stays up-to-date in security, compatibility, and stability for developers developing and testing their DynamoDB applications locally. With the new DynamoDB local version 3.0.0, now you […]

Starting today, AWS Clean Rooms now supports training custom ML models on data in Parquet file format. Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format that provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance. With AWS Clean Rooms ML custom modeling, you and your partners can train a custom ML model […]

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announces new features that make software updates for your containerized applications safer, allowing you to ship software faster and with high confidence, without needing to build custom deployment tooling. Amazon ECS now supports a built-in blue/green deployment strategy and deployment lifecycle hooks that allow you to test new application […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has expanded its cross-Region delivery capabilities, providing more flexibility for customers using opt-in Regions. This update brings three improvements: Amazon SNS to Amazon SQS delivery between opt-in Regions: You can now deliver messages from an Amazon SNS topic in one opt-in Region to an […]

AWS Lambda now supports remote debugging in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), enabling developers to debug their Lambda functions running in the cloud directly from their local IDE. With this new capability, developers can use familiar debugging tools like breakpoints, variable inspection, and step-through debugging with functions deployed in the cloud without modifying their existing […]

AWS Lambda now supports low latency (sub 100ms) event processing for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka event sources in Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM. Customers can now set their MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds parameter to 0 in Kafka ESM configurations, enabling real-time processing of Kafka events. This enhancement significantly reduces end-to-end […]

AWS Lambda now enables seamless transition from console to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) IDE. This new console-to-IDE integration eliminates the friction between cloud and local development environments for serverless applications. Developers starting in the console require more sophisticated development capabilities of local IDE as applications evolve in complexity. Previously, they had to manually configure […]

Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports a new ShardFilter parameter in the DescribeStream API to simplify and optimize the consumption of streaming data. You can use ShardFilter parameter to quickly discover child shards after a parent shard has been closed, significantly improving efficiency and responsiveness when processing data from DynamoDB Streams. DynamoDB Streams is a serverless […]

The Amazon Connect agent workspace now includes an out-of-box analytics dashboard that provides agents with insights into their individual performance, such as contacts handled and average handle time. The dashboard also show agents their assigned queue metrics, such as contacts in queue and longest wait time. These insights help agents improve their performance and make […]