Starting today, Amazon S3 Express One Zone has reduced pricing for storage by 31%, PUT requests by 55%, and GET requests by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding […]

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 57 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation accelerated computing instances (P5e, P5en, G6e), storage optimized instances (I7ie, I8g), and compute optimized instances (M8g), as well as high memory instances (U7i) and new instance sizes for C7i-flex and M7i-flex. […]

IAM Identity Center has released a new SDK plugin that simplifies AWS resource authorization for applications that authenticate with external identity providers (IdPs) such as Microsoft EntraID, Okta, and others. The plugin which supports trusted identity propagation (TIP), streamlines how external IdP tokens are exchanged for IAM Identity Center tokens. These tokens enable precise access […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of two new EC2 I7ie bare metal instances. These instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The I7ie instances feature 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with a 3.2GHz all-core turbo frequency. Compared […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 – 15.0.4430.1) and SQL Server 2022 (CU18 – 16.0.4185.3). These minor versions include performance improvements and bug fixes, and are available for SQL Server Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for […]

AWS CodeBuild now supports Node 22, Python 3.13, Go 1.24 and Ruby 3.4 in Lambda Compute. These new runtime versions are available in both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. The new Lambda Compute runtime […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in US West (N. California) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6id instances are available in Europe (Spain) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. R6id instances are built on AWS Nitro […]

Amazon Lex now allows you to disable automatic intent switching during slot elicitation using request attributes. This new capability gives you more control over conversation flows by preventing unintended switches between intents while gathering required information from users. The feature helps maintain focused conversations and reduces the likelihood of interrupting the process. This enhancement is […]

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in the Mexico (Central) Region to build real-time stream processing applications. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data […]