Today, AWS announces the opening of a new AWS Data Transfer Terminal location within Equinix MU1 in Munich, Germany. This marks AWS’s first Data Transfer Terminal outside the United States and its debut in Europe. Data Transfer Terminal is a secure, physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data to AWS […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Amazon ECS Optimized Windows AMIs compatible with Windows Server 2025, offering two distinct platforms: 2025-Core and 2025-Full. These AMIs are specifically engineered to support Windows container deployments on Amazon ECS. Each AMI comes ready-to-use with essential components and optimizations tailored for running containerized workloads, streamlining the container deployment process. […]

Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI-powered assistant for customer service, now supports 6 additional languages for offering proactive recommendations for customer service agents to resolve issues quickly and accurately. Amazon Q in Connect detects customer intent during voice and chat interactions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean, in addition to English. Amazon […]

On June 30, 2025, AWS announced that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for MySQL now support zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker, enabling near real-time data availability for analytics workloads. This integration automatically extracts and loads data from MySQL tables into your lakehouse where it’s immediately accessible through various analytics engines and machine learning […]

Today, AWS Transform introduced three enhancements to help you better assess and plan your migration and modernization journey. These new features include enhanced assessments to analyze EBS cost, .NET agent to analyze code complexity, and an expanded interactive chat interface for .NET modernization guidance. First, AWS Transform assessments now includes Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) […]

Amazon CloudWatch now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for the PutMetricData, GetMetricStatistics and ListMetrics APIs. With this launch, customers have full visibility into metric ingestion and egress activity to their AWS account for best practices in security, operational troubleshooting, and financial management. CloudTrail captures API activities related to Amazon CloudWatch PutMetricData and other metrics […]

Today, Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS resource records in Amazon Route 53.HTTPS resource records allow domain name systems (DNS) such as Amazon Route 53 to provide additional information such as supported HTTP protocol versions and port numbers before the HTTP connection is attempted. This helps clients establish the initial connection using their preferred HTTP […]

Amazon Connect Contact Lens is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Amazon Connect Contact Lens helps you to monitor, measure, and continuously improve contact quality and agent performance for a better overall customer experience. With Contact Lens conversational analytics, you can transcribe customer calls, analyze customer sentiment, discover top contact drivers, help redact sensitive data, […]

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition has added support for PostgreSQL versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21. The update includes PostgreSQL community’s product improvements and bug fixes, while introducing Aurora-specific enhancements: read replica optimizations to reduce downtime during cluster upgrades, new features for Babelfish, and security improvements. To use the new version, create a new Aurora […]

Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). This feature helps you predict contact volumes, allocate agents efficiently, and ensure optimal agent scheduling to meet operational goals while minimizing overstaffing. Using machine learning, it anticipates contact volume and arrival rates, converts forecasts into staffing projections, and assigns daily shifts […]