Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security.  Read More for the details.

Deletion protection is now available for Amazon DynamoDB tables in all AWS Regions. DynamoDB now makes it possible for you to protect your tables from accidental deletion when performing regular table management operations. When creating new tables or managing existing tables, authorized administrators can set the deletion protection property for each table, which will govern […]

AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 (NIST SP 800-53 r5). Security Hub’s NIST SP 800-53 r5 standard includes up to 224 automated controls that conduct continual checks against 121 NIST SP 800-53 r5 requirements across 36 AWS services. […]

Amazon Redshift now supports up to 200K tables for Redshift Serverless and for clusters with ra3.4xlarge, ra3.16xlarge, dc2.8xlarge, and ds2.8xlarge node types. This feature is intended for customers with workloads that require a large number of tables to run with Amazon Redshift without having to split the tables across clusters or storing them in Amazon […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 14.7, 13.10, 12.14, and 11.19. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Writes enabling up to 2x higher write throughput at no additional cost. This is especially useful for RDS for MariaDB customers with write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming. Read More for the […]

AWS Glue now displays continuous logs on the job run details page of AWS Glue Studio. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and ETL service that helps discover, prepare, move, and integrate data for analytics and machine learning (ML). As your ETL and data integration jobs run, you can now see the logs update […]

AWS Glue now offers guided permissions setup in AWS Console. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and ETL service that helps discover, prepare, move, and integrate data for analytics and machine learning (ML). Administrators can use the new setup tool to grant IAM roles and users access to AWS Glue and their data, as […]

Today, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) announces the general availability of Fleet Advisor target recommendations, which gathers performance metrics and usage patterns of self-managed databases to recommend potential database engine and instance options for migration to AWS. Target recommendations can help to quickly identify the best migration option, based on estimated costs and limitations […]