AWS Budgets now offers enhanced filtering capabilities and cost metrics, providing greater flexibility in how customers track and manage their cloud costs. Customers can now create budgets for new cost metrics such as net unblended costs and net amortized costs allowing monitoring for costs after discounts. Customers can also exclude dimension values when creating a […]

Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of just-in-time node access, which helps remove long-standing permissions to nodes while maintaining operational efficiency. Customers can create zero standing privileges to nodes by requiring operators to request access to nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager that are running on AWS, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments before remotely connecting […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks, marking the latest innovation from AWS at the edge of the cloud for your workloads that require low latency, local data processing, and data residency. Second-generation Outposts racks support the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, starting with general […]

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports R7i instances, powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R7i instances provide instance sizes up to 24xlarge, feature an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and include the latest DDR5 memory. These instances are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US […]

Today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Amazon Q Developer Command Line Interface (CLI), enabling developers to leverage tools and prompts to support richer contextual, development workflows. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how AI models can, in a secure and structured way, access external tools, data sources, and […]

Today, AWS End User Messaging introduces new features to help developers combat artificially inflated traffic (AIT), also known as SMS pumping. AIT occurs when bad actors use automated systems or bots to trigger large volumes of SMS messages, leading to unexpected charges that can cost businesses millions of dollars each year. End User Messaging SMS […]

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Global Datastore in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE) Regions. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure cross-Region replication. […]

AWS Amplify now supports seeding data across Amazon Cognito, AWS AppSync, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3. Developers can programmatically create test users and associated resources through new APIs and a CLI command. This feature simplifies testing and development workflows by enabling quick population of auth-dependent resources. Create Cognito users, seed DynamoDB records via AppSync with […]

You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end […]