Today, AWS Systems Manager announces auto-update support for the EC2 Windows, Linux and Mac launch agents in Quick Setup. Up to now, customers only had documentation available to help them manually install and upgrade their EC2 launch agent. With this launch, customers can now enable automatic upgrades with a few clicks in the console in […]

Today, OpsCenter, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces simplified cross-account management of operational issues (OpsItems). In just a few clicks, customers can configure OpsCenter to centrally create, view, and manage operational issues across all accounts in their AWS Organization. Read More for the details.

Starting with Amazon VPC CNI version 1.13, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) allows clusters in IPv4 address space to connect with end points in IPv6 address space. This enables customers to operate services in mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environments while migrating to IPv6 only address space-based services. The native support in Amazon VPC CNI reduces […]

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can now deliver streaming data to Amazon Redshift Serverless. With few clicks, you can more easily ingest, transform, and reliably deliver streaming data into Amazon Redshift Serverless without building and managing your own data ingestion and delivery infrastructure. Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match […]

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the integration between AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub. You can now enable over 170 Security Hub detective controls that map to related control objectives from AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower now detects when you disable a control from Security Hub which results […]

AWS Verified Access now provides improved logging functionality, making it easier to author and troubleshoot application access policies. Verified Access enables you to provide secure access to your corporate application using zero-trust principles. You can use end-user context, such as user groups and device risk score, from your existing third-party identity and device security services […]

We are excited to announce the addition of Volcano and Apache Yunikorn as job schedulers when running EMR on EKS using Spark operator and spark-submit. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Using a custom job scheduler for Spark jobs enables fine-grained capacity […]

AWS Local Zones is now available in Manila, Philippines. You can now use AWS Local Zones in Manila to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor is now available in all standard AWS Regions. Internet Monitor is a feature of Amazon CloudWatch that helps you monitor internet performance and availability metrics between your AWS-hosted applications and your application’s end users. It can help reduce the time it takes to diagnose internet issues from days to minutes, and […]