CloudWatch Synthetics, which continuously monitors web applications and APIs by running scripted canaries to help you detect issues before they impact end-users, now supports the Playwright framework for creating NodeJS canaries enabling comprehensive monitoring and diagnosis of complex user journeys and issues that are challenging to automate with other frameworks. Playwright is an open-source automation […]

AWS Lambda announces new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs), which provide customers visibility into the processing state of events read by ESMs that subscribe to Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB event sources. This enables customers to easily monitor issues or delays in event processing and take corrective actions. Customers […]

Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance S3 storage class for latency-sensitive applications, now supports object expiration using S3 Lifecycle. S3 Lifecycle can expire objects based on age to help you automatically optimize storage costs. Now, you can configure S3 Lifecycle rules for S3 Express One Zone to expire objects on your behalf. You can […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Flex […]

Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order number support to products with pay-as-you-go pricing, including Amazon Bedrock subscriptions, software as a service (SaaS) contracts with consumption pricing, and AMI annuals. Additionally, you can update purchase order numbers post-subscription prior to invoice creation to ensure your invoices reflect the proper purchase order. This launch helps […]

You can now use Amazon S3 Express One Zone as a high performance read cache with Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The cache can be shared by multiple compute instances and can elastically scale to any dataset size. Mountpoint for S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to REST API calls […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data […]

Today, AWS announced the ability for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) to be enabled and used for specific organizational units (OUs) within AWS Organizations. This allows you to enable IPAM for specific types of workloads, such as production workloads, or for specific business subsidiaries, that are grouped as OUs in your organization. VPC IPAM […]

Starting today, you can enable Media Quality-Aware Resiliency (MQAR), an integrated capability between Amazon CloudFront and AWS Media Services that provides dynamic, cross-region origin selection and failover based on a dynamically generated video quality score. Built for customers that need always-on ‘eyes-on-glass’ to deliver live events and 24/7 programming channels, MQAR automatically switches between regions […]

Amazon EC2 now provides source details for your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). With this lineage information, you can easily trace any copied or derived AMI back to their original AMI source. Prior to today, you had to maintain a list of AMIs, use tags, and create custom scripts to track the origins of an AMI. […]