Today, AWS Config rules adds classification information from AWS Control Tower Control Catalog to make it easier for you to identify how Config rules map to different compliance frameworks such as CIS-v8.0, FedRAMP-r4, and NIST-CSF-v1.1. AWS Config rules help you automatically evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings, enabling you to assess, audit, and […]

Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce feature and accuracy updates to the text detection model used in Textract […]

You can now use Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD volumes (gp3) volumes with the second-generation AWS Outposts racks for your workloads that require local data processing and data residency. The latest generation of gp3 enables you to provision performance independently of storage capacity, delivering a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s at any […]

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now makes it easier to troubleshoot unhealthy tasks by adding the Task ID in service action events generated due to health failures. Amazon ECS is designed to help easily launch and scale your applications. When your Amazon ECS task fails Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) health checks, Amazon ECS produces […]

We are excited to announce that Amazon Athena is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei). Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze petabytes of data using SQL, without requiring infrastructure setup or management. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto query engines, providing powerful and flexible interactive query […]

Amazon Connect can now integrate agent activities from third-party applications as Connect Tasks, which can be evaluated alongside work completed in Connect, providing managers with a unified application for quality management. You can programmatically ingest activities from third-party applications (such as application processing, social media posts, etc.) as completed Tasks within Connect, capturing details relevant […]

Zonal autoshift practice runs take place once a week to ensure your application is ready for a zonal shift. Now with on-demand practice runs, you can trigger a practice run anytime you want to and validate your application’s preparedness. When a practice run is started, a pre-check will be performed to ensure your application has […]

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Middle East (UAE), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Customers can now use these new Regions to leverage Amazon SES to send emails and, if needed, to help manage data sovereignty requirements. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service […]