Amazon S3 Tables now offer table management APIs that are compatible with the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog standard, enabling any Iceberg-compatible application to easily create, update, list, and delete tables in an S3 table bucket. These new table management APIs, that map directly to S3 Tables operations, make it easier for you to get started […]

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment that brings together functionality and tools from AWS analytics and AI/ML services, including Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker AI. This launch includes simplified permissions management that makes it easier to […]

Amazon S3 Tables now seamlessly integrate with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, making it easy to query and join S3 Tables with data in S3 data lakes, Amazon Redshift data warehouses, and third-party data sources. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. SageMaker Lakehouse is a unified, open, and secure data […]

AWS announces the general availability of one new larger sizes (48xlarge) on Amazon EC2 I8g instances in US East(N. Virginia) and US West(Oregon) regions. The new size expand the I8g portfolio supporting up to 192vCPUs, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional CPU and memory. I8g […]

AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to offer Skew Protection, a powerful feature that guarantees version consistency across your deployments. This feature ensures frontend requests are always routed to the correct server backend version—eliminating version skew and making deployments more reliable. You can enable this feature at the branch level in the Amplify Console under App […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This expansion of GuardDuty Malware Protection allows you to scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware, viruses, and other suspicious uploads and take action to isolate them before they are […]

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery […]

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS in 13 additional AWS Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. With this launch, AWS Backup […]

Today, AWS is expanding service reference information to include resources and condition keys, providing a more comprehensive view of service permissions. Service reference information streamlines automation of policy management workflows, helping you retrieve available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. Whether you are a security administrator establishing guardrails for workloads or a developer ensuring […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250213. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon […]