Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports password policies for SQL Server logins. If you use SQL Server logins to authenticate users to an RDS for SQL Server database instance, you can now apply password policies to meet your compliance requirements. You can configure password policy parameters such as minimum length, […]

Starting today, you can use Lambda SnapStart with Java functions that use the ARM64 instruction set architecture. SnapStart for Java delivers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost, enabling you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda without having to provision resources or implement complex performance optimizations. […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, […]

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 8 additional regions, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift. With this launch, Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is supported in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Redshift is supported. Zero-ETL integration helps you derive holistic […]

AWS IAM Identity Center administrators now have an option to extend the session duration for Amazon Q Developer separately from the session durations of other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal. Users of Q Developer can work in the integrated development environment (IDE) for 90 days without being asked to re-authenticate […]

Today, AWS Control Tower customization frameworks Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) and Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CfCT) are available in additional AWS Regions. AFT and CfCT are now available in 5 additional commercial AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, and Osaka), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE). They are also available in the […]

Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Europe (London) region. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on […]

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) announces support for ARM architecture in Kubernetes. With this support, you can now use the AWS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes with devices built on ARM architecture like MacOS and Linux. The connector lets you use private certificates to provide secure authentication and encryption over TLS for your […]

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without […]