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AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces policy based enforcement for responsible AI
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy-based enforcement capabilities to build safe, generative AI applications at scale. This new feature enables customers to apply specific guardrails to model inference calls, ensuring responsible AI policies are applied across all AI interactions. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to detect and filter undesirable content, topic […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports monitoring multiple domains with a single App Monitor
Amazon CloudWatch RUM now allows customers to monitor multiple top-level domains (TLDs), and second-level domains (SLDs) using a single App Monitor unifying real user monitoring across multiple domains in CloudWatch RUM. Customers can now specify a list of domains and also use wildcards for TLDs to monitor all their front-end applications together. This enhancement is […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions
AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 34 AWS commercial regions, 2 GovCloud regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that enables customers to centrally configure and manage firewall […]

AWS – AWS WAF now supports URI fragment field matching
AWS WAF now supports URI fragment field matching, enabling customers to match against the URI fragment and along with the already supported URI path. With this feature, customers can create rules that inspect and match against the content of the URI fragment within the URI path. Customers previously could use WAF match conditions to inspect […]

AWS – AWS PrivateLink cross-region connectivity now available in 6 additional regions
AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity in the following additional Regions: Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne). This launch enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions in the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service provider, you can […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex and M7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other […]

AWS – PySpark available in AWS Clean Rooms
Today, AWS announces the general availability of PySpark in AWS Clean Rooms, enabling companies and their partners to run sophisticated analytics across large datasets using PySpark, the Python API for Apache Spark. With this launch, you and your partners can bring PySpark code and libraries to an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration and run advanced analyses […]

AWS – CloudWatch RUM now supports JavaScript source maps for easier error debugging
Amazon CloudWatch RUM, which helps developers monitor real user interactions and diagnose front-end performance issues in web applications, now supports JavaScript source maps, enabling developers to convert minified JavaScript errors in the stack trace into readable formats for faster error resolution. With this feature, front-end developers and DevOps teams can now view searchable, human-readable JS […]

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now available
The Amazon DAX SDK for JavaScript, version 3 (v3) is now available. You can use this new DAX SDK to build JavaScript applications that benefit from accelerated access to DynamoDB with minimal configuration changes. The AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 offers a modular architecture and features that improve developer productivity. DAX is a fully managed, […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Go version 2 is now available
The Amazon DAX SDK for Go, version 2 (v2) is now available and is compatible with the AWS SDK for Go v2. The Amazon DAX SDK for Go v2 offers a modular architecture and features that improve developer productivity. DAX is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that can boost read performance […]