Cross-Region Automated Backup replication for Amazon RDS is now available in five additional AWS Regions. This launch allows you to setup automated backup replication between Australia (Melbourne) and Australia (Sydney); between Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) or Asia Pacific (Tokyo); between Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Singapore); between Canada (Central) and […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now gives customers the option to use default security groups or their own custom security groups when deploying applications. This new feature provides greater control over network access and security configurations. With this update, customers can use custom security groups instead of default security groups for both new and existing Elastic Beanstalk […]

Amazon Connect now lets you grant administrator access to agent schedules, making it easier to address key operational needs with minimal configuration. With this launch, you can now give certain users access to all published agent schedules without being added as a supervisor to every staff group. For example, users such as centralized schedulers or […]

You can now run OpenSearch version 2.19 in Amazon OpenSearch Service which introduces several improvements in the areas of Vector Search, Observability and OpenSearch Dashboards. We have introduced four key capabilities for vector search applications. The Faiss engine now supports AVX512 SIMD instructions, to accelerate vector similarity computations. The ML inference search response processor can […]

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now have a rule action which enables messages to be published using an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notification. The notification includes the complete email content, and has options for SNS Topic and Encoding. Amazon SNS is a fully managed […]

Amazon Connect now provides bulk removal of agent schedules, making day-to-day management of agent schedules more efficient. With this launch, you can now remove schedules for up to 400 agents for a single day, or up to 30 days for a single agent. For example, remove all schedules for next Monday as the contact center […]

Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces support for multiple collaboration members to receive analysis results from queries using Spark SQL. This streamlined capability enhances usability and transparency by eliminating the need for additional audit mechanisms outside of the collaboration. With this feature, multiple members can receive and validate analysis results from queries across collective datasets directly […]

Starting today, we’re enhancing the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) with two key capabilities to help you accelerate your modernization efforts and drive customers’ adoption of AI: New “Move to AI” Modernization Pathway, featuring Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. This pathway enables you to help customers transform their existing applications and business processes with proven […]

Today AWS Elemental MediaTailor launched recurring prefetch schedules, enhancing server-side ad prefetch capabilities for live streaming content. This feature helps content providers and broadcasters efficiently manage ad insertion for live events where exact ad break timing is unpredictable, while maintaining high-quality viewer experiences. Content providers can benefit from this during major sporting events, live concerts, […]

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of anonymous user access for Amazon Q Business. This feature allows customers to create Q Business applications for anonymous users using publicly accessible content. Q Business applications created in this anonymous mode are billed on a API consumption basis. Customers can now create anonymous Q Business […]