Starting today, you can use Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to authenticate users into Amazon WorkSpaces through your self-managed Active Directory (AD) and AWS Directory Service AD Connector in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Additionally, you can now use the AWS Management Console to configure smart card authentication with […]

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Read More for the details.

Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks to the Middle East (Dubai) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. With this launch, customers can deploy Hooks in these newly supported AWS Regions to help keep resources secure and compliant. Read More for the details.

Today, Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Multi-AZ with Standby, a new deployment option that enables 99.99% availability and consistent performance for business-critical workloads. With Multi-AZ with Standby, OpenSearch Service domains are resilient to potential infrastructure failures, such as a node or an Availability Zone (AZ) failure. Multi-AZ with Standby also ensures OpenSearch Service domains follow recommended […]

AWS Network Firewall now allows you to override the Suricata HOME_NET variable making it easy to use AWS managed rule groups in firewalls that are deployed in a centralized deployment model. Managed rule groups are collections of predefined, ready-to-use rules that AWS writes and maintains for you. The Suricata HOME_NET variable of the managed rule […]

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Starting today, Amazon Rekognition content moderation comes with an improved model for image and video moderation that significantly improves the detection of explicit, violence, and […]

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Read More for the details.

Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, or local government security and compliance requirements. For a list of regions where WorkSpaces is available, see the AWS Region Table. With […]

AWS is pleased to announce an enhancement to the AWS Well-Architected (WA) Tool integration with AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry (AR). This integration allows customers to now filter their AWS Trusted Advisor checks based on resources defined within application, helping surface the most relevant checks in the Well-Architected console. Read More for the details.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the pgvector extension to store embeddings from machine learning (ML) models in your database and to perform efficient similarity searches. Embeddings are numerical representations (vectors) created from generative AI that capture the semantic meaning of text input into a large language model (LLM). pgvector can store and search embeddings […]