Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager to streamline how you manage your master user password for your RDS database instances. With this feature, RDS fully manages the master user password and stores it in AWS Secrets Manager whenever your RDS database instances are created, modified, or restored. The new feature supports the […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports renaming Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. The ability to rename the RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys helps you to replace a deployment without having to change any application code that references the deployment by name such as the connection endpoint. Renaming is used when […]

AWS IoT Core announces the capability to decode Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) encoded messages to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format using the AWS IoT Core Rules Engine, making it easier to use Protobuf directly in your IoT Rule, without the need to invoke a Lambda function to decode the Protobuf message. Read More for the details.

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized writes now supports R6g and R6gd instances. With Optimized Writes you can improve write throughout by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL customers with write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as […]

AWS Batch now enables you to gain visibility into the current state of a terminated or cancelled job. This means that once you terminate/cancel a job, a flag of isTerminated or isCancelled can be observed in the job payload throughout the queue before it moves to either a ‘Terminated’ or ‘Cancelled’ state.  Read More for […]

Today, Amazon Connect announces general availability of Microsoft Edge Chromium browser support. Edge Chromium has grown in popularity and many companies have selected it as their preferred or enterprise-wide standard browser. With this launch, customers now have the option to use the Edge Chromium browser in all regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more […]

Amazon Connect Chat now supports JSON content-type messages. Using JSON you can enable rich personalized experiences by allowing customers and agents to send/receive structured chat messages using the JSON format. For example, messages can be supplemented with additional data (metadata) to pass relevant information (e.g. recent purchases, order status), send custom interactive messages (e.g. buttons, […]

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) now provides an AWS Management Console experience that simplifies the process for satisfying the AWS account prerequisites for provisioning and operating ROSA clusters. The new AWS ROSA console page automatically checks whether ROSA prerequisites are met and provides automated configuration and step-by-step guidance where manual configuration is required.  […]

AWS ParallelCluster 3.4 is now generally available and introduces the ability to create HPC clusters that can access and aggregate compute capacity across multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) in a Region. Other important features in this release include: Amazon VPC configuration for AWS Lambda functions used by ParallelCluster for managing your clusters. Custom AWS IAM […]

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides enhanced controls that enable businesses to select specific personal identifiable information (PII) types that they want to redact from call and chat transcripts. Today, Contact Lens redacts PII types such as name, email, SSN, and others from the transcripts. With enhanced PII redaction, businesses now have the flexibility […]