Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB major version 11.4, the latest long-term maintenance release from the MariaDB community. Amazon RDS for MariaDB 11.4 now supports the Simple Password Check Plugin, and Cracklib Password Check Plugin for password validation. You can use these plugins together, or individually to enforce the security policies appropriate for your […]

Today, AWS announced the general availability of Linux 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, allowing developers to build and manage containers without the hassle of […]

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. As data is written into a DynamoDB table, it is seamlessly made available in Amazon Redshift, eliminating the need for customers to […]

AWS IAM Identity Center now provides customers with streamlined first-time access to the AWS Console Mobile Application, reducing the required user actions by more than half. In the past, AWS IAM Identity Center customers who wanted to access the AWS Console Mobile Application were required to find and manually enter their AWS access portal sign […]

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Zurich) regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute […]

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum filesystem read throughput to 60 GiB/s (a 2x increase). Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. In August 2024, we increased the maximum Elastic Throughput limits to 30 GiB/s […]

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports custom shared network storage as a new storage option for your Windows AppStream 2.0 users. With the launch of this feature, users can easily access and collaborate on shared files without transferring files manually. The shared network storage is implemented as an SMB (Server Message Block) network drive. When administrators […]

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are powered by up to 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. G6e instances deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to EC2 […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Europe (Paris), and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Milan). With this regional expansion, Graviton3 database instances are now available for Amazon RDS in 21 regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US […]