Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 in Canada West (Calgary) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with […]

Today, Amazon QuickSight announces the addition of Repeating Sections capability within Pixel-perfect reports. The new feature gives QuickSight Authors the ability to configure report sections to automatically repeat based on the values of one or more dimensions in their data. When defining a repeating section, QuickSight users can select which dimension(s) the section should repeat […]

Amazon DataZone introduces data lineage in preview, helping customers visualize lineage events from OpenLineage-enabled systems or through API and trace data movement from source to consumption. Amazon DataZone is a data management service for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. Amazon DataZone’s data […]

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 1.19. This version includes new capabilities in the SQL API such as state TTL configuration and session window support. Flink 1.19 also includes Python 3.11 support, trace reporters for job restarts and checkpointing, and more. You can use in-place version upgrades for Apache Flink to […]

The Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming capability subscriber limit can now be raised beyond the default of 10,000 per stage in an AWS Region. You can request an increase for up to 25,000 subscribers per stage. With this enhancement, you can now reach an audience that is more than double the previous size, all engaging in […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces a new feature of Amazon WorkSpaces, called Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, that helps customers save costs by sharing a pool of virtual desktops across a group of users who get a fresh desktop every time they log in. This new feature provides customers the flexibility and choice to support a wide […]

AWS is excited to announce updates to the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog. This latest update brings a comprehensive expansion to customers with expanded guidance on architectural best practices, empowering them to build and maintain optimized, secure, and resilient workloads in the cloud. The Framework updates provide more recommendations for AWS services, observability, generative AI, […]

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announced that it supports Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image and Distribution specification version 1.1, which includes support for Reference Types, simplifying the storage, discovery, and retrieval of artifacts related to a container image. AWS Container Services customers can now easily store, discover, and retrieve artifacts such as image signatures […]

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 Beta 2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL […]