Starting today, you can remove your AWS account from launch permissions for an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that was directly shared with your AWS account. You can leverage this capability, for example, to reduce the likelihood of launching an EC2 instance with an unused or deprecated AMI that was shared with you earlier. Read More […]

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose makes it easier to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. You can use it to capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch, and third party providers like Splunk and Datadog, enabling near real-time analytics. Read More for the details.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, a managed database service that allows access to the operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central). Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server manages the operations and backups of databases in the cloud, while […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of job templates in Amazon EMR on EKS. Job templates allow you to create and store templates to configure Spark applications parameters. This helps you ensure consistent settings across applications by reusing and enforcing configuration overrides in data pipelines. Read More for the details.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in twelve additional regions. This deployment option gives you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances. Read […]

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets improves access to detailed information on stack instances for stack set operations. You can get the count of failed stack instances for stack set operations in DescribeStackSetOperation. Additionally, you can list and filter stack instances for stack set operations in ListStackInstances. Read More for the details.

AWS Security Hub has added Wiz as a new integration partner to help you with your cloud security posture monitoring. Wiz sends findings about critical risks in your cloud environment to Security Hub to help you maintain your security posture and compliance events. Integration with Wiz brings Security Hub to 82 partner integrations. Read More for the […]

AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. AWS CloudFormation speeds up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy and modify Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys, along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure, in a secure, […]