Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 24.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c and 21c versions of Oracle Database. Oracle APEX is a low-code development platform that enables developers to build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 24.2, please refer to […]

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization. This feature helps you create fully performant Amazon EBS volumes from Amazon EBS Snapshots with predictability, helping speed up Amazon EC2 Instance launches at scale, disaster recovery, and volume copy workflows. You can […]

Amazon Verified Permissions now enables customers to tag Policy Stores. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources such as Verified Permissions Policy Stores to manage cost-allocate and control access. This launch enables Verified Permissions customers to use tag-based controls to manage access to policy stores. For example, customers can now […]

Amazon SageMaker now offers 14 new built-in Visual ETL transforms: “Format timestamp”, “Split string”, “Regex extractor”, “Autobalance processing”, “UUID (Universally Unique Identified)”, “Identifier”, “Unpivot columns into rows”, “Pivot rows into columns”, “Parse JSON column”, “Extract JSON path”, “Lookup”, “Router”, “Select from collection” and “Order By”. With these transforms, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated […]

Amazon Connect Contact Lens real-time queue and agent performance dashboards, and flows performance dashboards are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), a secure cloud environment designed for government and public sector customers. The new dashboard lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a […]

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for connecting to SES outbound sending endpoints over IPv6. Customers can now specify their preference for IPv4 or IPv6 endpoints when using the AWS SDK or CLI. This makes it easy to switch from using IPv4 addresses to IPv6 addresses when communicating with the SES services for […]

Amazon Connect is expanding WhatsApp Business messaging to five new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Africa (Cape Town). Additionally, Amazon Connect SMS is now available in Africa (Cape Town). These expansions enable you to engage with customers through their preferred messaging channels while leveraging Amazon Connect’s […]

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon ElastiCache from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises networks, without exposing traffic to the public internet and securing your network traffic. To use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon […]

AWS WAF is expanding the availability of its enhanced rate-based rules feature to customers in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Australia (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). This feature supports additional request parameters for rate-based rules, including cookies and other HTTP headers. Additionally, customers can now create composite keys based on […]