AWS CodeBuild now supports building and testing your software applications on three new Arm-based compute types: Medium, X-Large and 2X-Large. You can select up to 48 vCPUs and 96 GB memory to run more resource-intensive workloads. With the addition of these new compute types, you now have similar compute options for running x86 and Arm […]

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Amazon WorkSpaces client […]

Today, AWS Resilience Hub is launching improved resource grouping to more intelligently group your resources into Application Components, which are resources that work and fail as a single unit, when onboarding your application. Customers who want to manage and improve the resilience posture of their applications on AWS can now more quickly and easily onboard […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, […]

Amazon DataZone has obtained the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance certification, demonstrating that it meets requirements established by the PCI Security Standards Council for handling payment account data securely, as required by financial and insurance industry customers handling credit card payments. The certification includes the 2024 PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) assessment […]

AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions – Europe(Frankfurt), Europe(Ireland), Asia Pacific(Singapore) and Asia Pacific(Tokyo). Adding new regional support allows customers with low-latency payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support. Customers using AWS Payment Cryptography can simplify cryptography operations in their payment applications […]

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. For volumes that are created from snapshots, the storage blocks must be pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the volume before you can […]

Amazon Connect now supports the ability to configure when whisper flows are used during a contact to optimize flow performance. A whisper flow is what a customer or agent experiences during the moment when they are connected to each other in a voice or chat conversation. With this launch, you can turn off whisper flows, […]

In June 2023, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) launched a homogeneous data migration feature to simplify and accelerate like-to-like migrations to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora. Today, we are pleased to announce that the DMS homogeneous data migrations feature is now made generally available in 29 AWS regions (includes 9 AWS […]