Amazon QuickSight now supports Trusted Identity Propagation (TIP) for Direct Query Datasets connecting to Amazon Athena data sources. With this capability customers can apply fine grained access controls using Lake Formation Rules to govern user access to data in QuickSight. TIP allows Authors to securely control rows and columns of data returned by queries allowing […]

Amazon Inspector is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Mexico (Central), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Spain). Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads including Amazon EC2 instances, container images, and AWS Lambda functions for […]

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now enables organizations to create customer segments from imported CSV files. This new capability allows contact center managers and campaign managers to upload predefined customer lists, streamlining the creation of targeted segments for personalized engagement strategies. With this new feature, users can efficiently map CSV data to standard profile attributes powered […]

AWS Transfer Family announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for server endpoints and service APIs. This enhancement enables both IPv6 and IPv4 clients to communicate with Transfer Family SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2 server endpoints. You can also use IPv6 while accessing the Transfer Family service APIs. AWS Transfer Family offers fully managed support […]

Amazon Bedrock introduces Citations API and PDF support for Anthropic’s Claude Models that empower developers to build more trustworthy AI applications and expand document processing capabilities. The Citations API allows Claude to ground its answers in source documents, providing detailed references to the exact sentences and passages used to generate responses. This leads to more […]

Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers. With this new capability, you can now build highly available multi-Region applications with a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero, achieving the highest level of […]

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), Mexico (Central), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up […]

Today, AWS announced Ubuntu support for Finch, an open source command line tool that allows developers to build, run, and publish Linux containers. Finch simplifies container development by bundling a minimal native client with a curated selection of open-source components. With the addition of Ubuntu support, Finch now provides a consistent and streamlined container development […]

Today, AWS Config rules adds classification information from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog to make it easier for you to identify how Config rules map to different compliance frameworks such as CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, and NIST-CSF-v1.1. AWS Config rules help you automatically evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings, enabling you to assess, audit, and […]