Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers significantly higher default shard limits for data streams in Provisioned capacity mode, increasing from 500 to 20,000 shards per AWS account in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. You can also see an account’s utilization of the shards limit in any region via […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Europe (Paris) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro […]

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to […]

Amazon SQS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SQS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of distributed systems, microservices, […]

Today, AWS announces the update of Amazon Q Developer’s software development agent. This new agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on industry benchmark SWTBench Verified (49%) and sits among the top ranking models on SWEBench Verified (66%). The agent has access to tools for planning and reasoning that use the capacity of advanced models to their fullest. […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9, which allows users to retain tiered data when disabling Tiered Storage at the topic level. Consumer applications can continue to read historical data from the remote log start offset (Rx) while maintaining continuous log offsets across both local and remote storage. […]

AWS HealthOmics now supports workflow versioning, enabling customers to manage multiple versions of their bioinformatics workflows efficiently. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. With this release, workflow developers can create and maintain multiple versions of their workflows […]

AWS launches CloudWatch cross-account observability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling monitoring and troubleshooting of applications across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS GovCloud (US) Region. CloudWatch Cross-account observability allows seamless searching, visualization, and analysis of metrics, logs, and traces, removing account boundaries. Security teams, operations teams, and service owners can now easily explore […]

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports label-based active series limits within your workspace. This feature helps you manage active series volume across different producers such as applications, services or teams that share a workspace. You can now allocate specific active series limits to different metric producers in your workspace, enabling you to protect your […]