Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey, which is priced 30% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you are not charged for data written up to 10 TB/month. Any data written over 10TB/month is billed at $0.04/GB, which is 80% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. Valkey is an open source, […]

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey with Serverless priced 33% lower and node-based priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. […]

AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of a new procurement insights dashboard, helping you manage your organization’s renewals and optimize your AWS Marketplace spend. The new dashboard gives you detailed visibility into your organization’s AWS Marketplace agreements and associated spend across the AWS accounts in your organization. The procurement insights dashboard identifies contracts nearing their […]

We are pleased to announce that Amazon is extending the End of Life (EOL) dates for Amazon Corretto 8 and Amazon Corretto 11. The new EOL dates are as follows: Amazon Corretto 8: December-2030 Previous EOL date was April 2026 Amazon Corretto 11: January-2032 Previous EOL date was September 2027 Please note that Amazon will […]

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for contact center agents, now enables contact center supervisors to pre-configure LLM prompts to match your company’s brand and business guidelines. Supervisors can tailor prompts to change Amazon Q in Connect’s tone and behavior to incorporate specific company phrases, follow language guidelines, and designate certain “fixed” responses […]

Today, AWS announces support for resubmitting your Deadline Cloud jobs, via API, CLI, and within the Deadline Cloud monitor, so you can easily run jobs again with updated parameters. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, […]

The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now supports configuring distinct AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for individual Kubernetes pods. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. […]

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative-AI powered assistant for contact center agents, now recommends personalized guidance to agents using customer data from Amazon Connect and other third-party CRM systems. Amazon Q in Connect detects the customer’s intent from the real-time voice or chat conversation and understands customer data to recommend what an agent should say […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has recently introduced a suite of new features and enhancements that enable faster indexing, improved search performance, and expanded analytical capabilities. The updates include the introduction of a flat object data type, which allows for more efficient storage and searching of nested data. OpenSearch Serverless now supports enhanced geospatial features, providing users […]

Amazon VPC Lattice is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon VPC Lattice is an application networking service that simplifies connecting, securing, and monitoring service-to-service communication. You can use Amazon VPC Lattice to facilitate cross-account and cross-VPC connectivity, as well as application layer […]