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AWS – AppSync Events adds publishing over WebSocket for real-time pub/sub
AWS AppSync Events is a fully managed service that allows developers to create secure and performant WebSocket APIs. Starting today, developers can use their AppSync Events APIs to publish events directly over WebSocket connections, complementing the existing HTTP API publishing capability. This enhancement enables applications to both publish and subscribe to events using a single […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) Regions
Customers can use regional processing profiles for Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, and Amazon Nova Pro) in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other FMs from leading AI companies like AI21 […]

AWS – Amazon S3 reduces pricing for S3 object tagging by 35%
Amazon S3 reduces pricing for S3 object tagging by 35% in all AWS Regions to $0.0065 per 10,000 tags per month. Object tags are key-value pairs applied to S3 objects that can be created, updated, or deleted at any time during the lifetime of the object. S3 object tags help you logically group data for […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow now offers an enhanced user interface for improved DNS traffic policy editing. Route 53 Traffic Flow is a network traffic management feature which simplifies the process of creating and maintaining DNS records in large and complex configurations by providing users with an interactive DNS policy management flow chart in their […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Tables add Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
Amazon S3 Tables now offer table management APIs that are compatible with the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog standard, enabling any Iceberg-compatible application to easily create, update, list, and delete tables in an S3 table bucket. These new table management APIs, that map directly to S3 Tables operations, make it easier for you to get started […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is now generally available
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment that brings together functionality and tools from AWS analytics and AI/ML services, including Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker AI. This launch includes simplified permissions management that makes it easier to […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Tables integration with SageMaker Lakehouse is now generally available
Amazon S3 Tables now seamlessly integrate with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, making it easy to query and join S3 Tables with data in S3 data lakes, Amazon Redshift data warehouses, and third-party data sources. S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support. SageMaker Lakehouse is a unified, open, and secure data […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 I8g.48xlarge instances in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions
AWS announces the general availability of one new larger sizes (48xlarge) on Amazon EC2 I8g instances in US East(N. Virginia) and US West(Oregon) regions. The new size expand the I8g portfolio supporting up to 192vCPUs, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional CPU and memory. I8g […]

AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces deployment skew protection support
AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to offer Skew Protection, a powerful feature that guarantees version consistency across your deployments. This feature ensures frontend requests are always routed to the correct server backend version—eliminating version skew and making deployments more reliable. You can enable this feature at the branch level in the Amplify Console under App […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This expansion of GuardDuty Malware Protection allows you to scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware, viruses, and other suspicious uploads and take action to isolate them before they are […]