Today, AWS announces new enhanced root cause analysis capabilities for AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, empowering you to better pinpoint and remediate underlying factors driving unplanned cost increases. By creating anomaly monitors, you can analyze spend across services, member accounts, Cost Allocation Tags, and Cost Categories. Once a cost anomaly is detected, Cost Anomaly Detection now […]

AWS Marketplace now offers a self-service Know Your Customer (KYC) feature for all sellers wishing to transact via the AWS Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Marketplace Operator. The KYC verification process is required for sellers to receive disbursements via the AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. This new self-service feature helps sellers complete this KYC process […]

Amazon DataZone now supports enforced metadata rules for data access workflows, providing organizations with enhanced capabilities to strengthen governance and compliance with their organization needs. This new feature allows domain owners to define and enforce mandatory metadata requirements, ensuring data consumers provide essential information when requesting access to data assets in Amazon DataZone. By streamlining […]

Today, AWS announces the public preview of the enhanced AWS Pricing Calculator that provides accurate cost estimates for new workloads or modifications to your existing AWS usage by incorporating eligible discounts. It also helps you estimate the cost impact of your commitment purchases and their impact to your organization’s consolidated bill. With today’s launch, AWS […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability (GA) of Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0, which has been in public preview since June 2024. FOCUS 1.0 is an open-source cloud cost and usage specification that provides standardization to simplify cloud financial management across multiple sources. Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 enables customers to export their AWS cost […]

Today, AWS Control Tower added AWS Backup to the list of AWS services you can optionally configure with prescriptive guidance. This configuration option allows you to select from a range of recommended backup plans, seamlessly integrating data backup and recovery workflows into your Control Tower landing zone and organizational units. A landing zone is a […]

When you use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and DMS Schema Conversion to migrate a database, you might need to convert the embedded SQL in your application to be compatible with your target database. Rather than converting it manually, you can use Amazon Q Developer in the IDE to automate the conversion. Amazon Q Developer […]

AWS Marketplace now provides AI-powered product summaries and comparisons for popular software as a service (SaaS) products, helping you make faster and more informed software purchasing decisions. Use this feature to compare similar SaaS products across key evaluation criteria such as customer reviews, product popularity, features, and security credentials. Additionally, you can gain AI-summarized insights […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Data Masking, enabling customers to transform sensitive data at the column level during migration, helping to comply with data protection regulations like GDPR. Using AWS DMS, you can now create copies of data that redacts information at a column level that you need to protect. AWS Data […]

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) […]