You can now use AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) identity-based policies to enforce encryption of data at rest for your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system resources. Using an IAM condition key, you can prevent users from creating EFS file systems that aren’t encrypted. Central security administrators can also define service […]

AWS Backup now provides customers a more seamless way to manage their backups, by automatically copying tags from their nested EBS volumes to their EC2 backups. For customers using tags to manage their AWS resources, AWS Backup will enable them to more effectively search for source resources or conduct billing for their backups. See AWS […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in US West (Northern California) region. Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are built utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable x86-based […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Amazon EC2 C5a instances were launched in June 2020. C5a instances feature 2nd generation AMD EPYC™ 7002 series processors running at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz, and are variants of the Amazon EC2 compute optimized (C5) family of instances. Read More […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, and c5.metal instance sizes are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) and the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Local Region. In addition, c5.24xlarge and c5.metal instance sizes are also available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. These C5 instance sizes are powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances, featuring AMD EPYC™ 2nd generation 7002 Series (Rome) processors, are available in AWS Govcloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Europe (Milan) AWS region. Read More for the details.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Database – Specialty and Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty, two new one-day, advanced-level instructor-led training courses. Built by AWS experts, these courses are designed for candidates preparing to take the AWS Certified Database – Specialty or AWS Certified Data Analytics – […]

You can now use tags to manage your Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) resources in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message-oriented […]

AWS IQ is a professional services marketplace that connects AWS customers with AWS Certified freelancers and consulting firms with deep AWS expertise. IQ experts can now easily share their public profiles via a custom, short URL. Public profiles showcase an expert’s AWS Certifications and professional experience.  Read More for the details.