AWS Key Management Service (KMS) announces support for the Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA). With this new capability, you can create an elliptic curve asymmetric KMS key or data key pairs to sign and verify EdDSA signatures using the Edwards25519 curve (Ed25519). Ed25519 provides 128-bit security level equivalent to NIST P-256, faster signing performance, and […]

Amazon Cognito user pools now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure and private connectivity. With AWS PrivateLink, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon Cognito user pools to configure, manage, and authenticate against your Cognito user pools without using the public internet. By enabling private network connectivity, this enhancement […]

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced .NET Data Provider Driver is now generally available for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases. This advanced database driver reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover and database failover times, improving application availability. Additionally, it supports multiple authentication mechanisms for your database, including Federated Authentication, AWS Secrets Manager authentication, […]

Today, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio announced new capabilities allowing SageMaker projects to add custom tags to resources created through the project. This helps customers enforce tagging standards that conform to Service Control Policies (SCP) and helps enable cost tracking reporting practices on resources created across the organization. As an Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio administrator, you […]

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals expands its availability to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, enabling government customers and regulated industries to automatically monitor and improve application performance in these regions. CloudWatch Application Signals provides comprehensive application monitoring capabilities by automatically collecting telemetry data from applications running on Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS […]

AWS announces expanded instance family support in Deadline Cloud, adding new 6th, 7th, and 8th generation EC2 instances to enhance visual effects and animation rendering workloads. This release includes support for C7i, C7a, M7i, M7a, R7a, R7i, M8a, M8i, and R8i instance families, along with additional 6th generation instance types that were previously unavailable. Deadline […]

AWS Backup now supports encrypting backups in logically air-gapped vaults with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys (CMKs). This enhancement provides additional encryption options beyond the existing AWS-owned keys, helping organizations meet their regulatory and compliance requirements. You can now create logically air-gapped vaults using your own customer managed keys (CMKs) in AWS […]

Today, AWS announced a new tool called AWS Capabilities by Region in Builder Center. This tool helps you discover and compare AWS services, features, APIs, CloudFormation resources across AWS Regions. You can explore service availability through an interactive interface, compare multiple Regions side-by-side, and view forward-looking roadmap information. This detailed visibility helps you make informed […]

Today, we’re announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in all availability zones in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central) and Europe (Paris) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage the scale and flexibility of AWS for running your VMware workloads in the cloud. Amazon EVS lets […]

AWS announces the release of AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16, introducing new core components for nucleus and nucleus lite. AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software at the edge. The latest version 2.16 release includes enhanced debugging capabilities through the […]