AWS Clean Rooms now supports configurable compute size for PySpark, offering customers the flexibility to customize and allocate resources to run PySpark jobs based on their performance, scale, and cost requirements. With this launch, customers can specify the instance type and cluster size at job runtime for each analysis that uses PySpark, the Python API […]

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 18 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 18 RC1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. […]

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports repository creation templates in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Repository creation templates allow you to configure the settings for the new repositories that Amazon ECR creates on your behalf during pull through cache and replication operations. These settings include encryption, lifecycle policies, access permissions, and tag immutability. Each […]

Amazon Connect now offers expanded disconnect reasons to help you better understand why outbound calls failed to connect in your contact center. These enhanced reasons are based on standard telecom error codes that provide deeper call insights and enable faster troubleshooting, reducing the need to create support tickets to understand failure reasons. You’ll benefit from […]

The Amazon ECS console now supports ECS Exec, enabling you to open secure, interactive shell access directly from the AWS Management Console to any running container. ECS customers often need to access running containers to debug applications and examine running processes. ECS Exec provides easy and secure access to running containers without requiring inbound ports […]

Today, AWS announces that AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, expanding access to fully managed bioinformatics workflows for healthcare and life sciences customers in Korea. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed bioinformatics workflows. HealthOmics enables […]

Amazon MQ now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization for RabbitMQ brokers with public identity providers in both single instance and highly available Multi-AZ cluster deployments. This feature enables RabbitMQ brokers to authenticate clients and users using JWT-encoded OAuth 2.0 access tokens, providing enhanced security and flexibility in access management. You can configure OAuth 2.0 […]

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within East African Data Centres NBO1 near Nairobi, Kenya. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Kenya. […]

Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to monitor multiple individual metrics via a single alarm. By dynamically including metrics to monitor via a query, this new capability eliminates the need to manually manage separate alarms for dynamic resource fleets. As customers rely more on autonomous teams and autoscaled resources, they face a choice between maintenance-free aggregated […]