AWS Backup now supports organization-wide delegation of backup administration to member accounts within AWS Organizations. This enables delegated backup administrators to create and manage backup policies and monitor backup activity across accounts within the organization. Read More for the details.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. With a single click, […]

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports a 1-day Lifecycle Management Policy that allows you to automatically move files that haven’t been accessed in 1 day to the Amazon EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA) storage class. You can configure this new policy option for your file system, or you can use one of the […]

Today, AWS Backup is announcing application-aware data protection that enables you to add AWS CloudFormation stacks to backup policies, making it easier for you to back up and restore your entire applications. AWS Backup automates the data protection of applications that are defined using AWS CloudFormation stacks to create immutable application-level backups using AWS Backup […]

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor is a new preview feature of Amazon CloudWatch that helps you, as application developers and network engineers, continually monitor internet availability and performance metrics between your AWS-hosted applications and application end users. InternetMonitor monitors your application through Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Amazon CloudFront distributions, and Amazon WorkSpaces directories. Read More […]

Today, we are pleased to announce AWS IoT Device Management Jobs has added a new configuration option for scheduling, which gives customers the flexibility to deploy remote operations during pre-defined time windows so regular usage of their IoT devices is not disrupted. Using the scheduling feature, customers can define the start and end time of […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of real-time capabilities in Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, a machine learning (ML) powered conversation insights API that enables developers to transcribe and analyze contact center audio calls for improving customer experience. Transcribe Call Analytics provides real-time insights into conversations to identify critical scenarios like a customer expressing dissatisfaction. Using […]

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now allows you to initiate a scalable failback process for your applications running on AWS. This process helps simplify failing back recovered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to your primary AWS Region or Availability Zone. It also allows you to perform frequent, non-disruptive recovery and failback drills […]

We are excited to announce data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, a new set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching and machine learning capabilities to detect and protect sensitive log data-in-transit. Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services, in a single, highly scalable service. […]

AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers connect billions of IoT devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, and AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a cloud-based fully-managed test capability to help developers validate their IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core, announces the General Availability of […]