Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Auckland, New Zealand. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Auckland location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the details.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now supports IPv6, allowing you to forward traffic to and resolve traffic from on-premises Domain Name System (DNS) servers with IPv6 addresses.  Read More for the details.

We are excited to announce support for customer-level metrics when running interactive Spark workloads via managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers can setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Read More for the details.

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. Data Wrangler enables you to access data from a wide variety of popular sources (Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR Presto, Snowflake) and over 40 other third-party […]

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces the addition of two new metrics to its Email Receiving service without additional charges, providing customers with greater visibility into message processing workflows. The move comes in response to customer frustration over the limited set of metrics available, which made it difficult for customers to test their setup and […]

AWS License Manager extends support for delegated administrator to Linux subscriptions discovery and governance capabilities. Using delegated administrator, your management account can give access to another account in your organization to track Linux subscriptions on AWS. Delegated administrator gives you the flexibility to separate subscription management from billing and other central management tasks. Read More […]

Today, we are excited to announce Systems Manager Favorites, a quick way for customers to find and execute their most important and frequently used documents and runbooks. Documents and runbooks define the actions that Systems Manager performs on your managed instances and other AWS resources. Now, you can select up to 20 of your favorite […]

Amazon Connect now provides a new API to programmatically access trailing 14 days of historical agent and contact metrics data. This new API extends the capabilities of current GetMetricData API, that provides historical metrics data only for the last 24 hours, provides new metrics (e.g., number of contacts disconnected or callbacks attempted) and the ability […]