1/30/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/31/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon S3 Tables add schema definition support to the CreateTable API

Amazon S3 announces schema definition support for the CreateTable API to programmatically create tables with pre-defined columns. This enhancement simplifies table creation for data analytics applications, making it easier to get started and ingest data in S3 table buckets.\n To use this feature, you can specify column names and their data types as new request headers in the CreateTable API to define a table’s schema in an S3 table bucket. You can also define a table’s schema when you create tables using the AWS CLI or the AWS SDK. To create tables with a pre-defined schema, upgrade to the latest version of the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs. This support is available in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon S3 Tables overview page and documentation.

Amazon S3 Tables now support 10,000 tables per table bucket

Amazon S3 Tables now support creating up to 10,000 tables in each S3 table bucket. With this higher quota, you can scale up to 100,000 tables across 10 table buckets within an AWS Region per AWS Account. The higher table quota is available by default on all table buckets at no additional cost.\n S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. You can use S3 Tables with AWS Analytics services through the preview integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, as well as Apache Iceberg-compatible open source engines like Apache Spark and Apache Flink. S3 Tables support 10,000 tables in each S3 table bucket in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon S3 Tables overview page and documentation.

Amazon Q Developer Pro tier adds automated user onboarding emails

The Amazon Q Developer Pro tier now offers automated email notifications for newly subscribed users. When a new user is subscribed by an administrator, users will now automatically receive a welcome email within 24 hours containing important information to help them get started quickly and efficiently with their new subscription. This automation streamlines the onboarding process and saves administrators valuable time by eliminating the need for them to manually notify each new user.\n In the welcome email, users will find guidance on accessing the Q Console chat and details on downloading and installing the Q Developer plugin in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The email includes their unique Start URL and AWS region for authentication. Additionally, it provides quick-start steps for using Q Developer in their IDE. To learn more about this new feature and other Amazon Q Developer Pro tier subscription management features, visit the AWS Console.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now in preview in seven additional Regions

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is now available in preview in seven additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt and London), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central).\n Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) is an integrated data and AI development environment that enables collaboration and helps teams build data products faster. It brings together familiar tools from AWS analytics and AI/ML services for data processing, SQL analytics, machine learning model development, and generative AI application development into a single experience. SageMaker Unified Studio provides unified data access through Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, and enhanced governance features are built in to help you meet enterprise security requirements. With the availability of new Regions, customers who have data sovereignty and low latency requirements can now use SageMaker Unified Studio while keeping their data and workloads closer to their primary operational Regions. For more information on AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is available in preview, see Supported Regions. You can create an Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio domain by visiting the Amazon SageMaker console. To get started, see the following resources:

SageMaker overview

SageMaker documentation

SageMaker in the AWS Management Console

CloudWatch Database Insights now supports historical OS process snapshots

CloudWatch Database Insights now supports the analysis of historical snapshots of operating system (OS) processes running on your databases, allowing you to correlate a spike in database load with OS process metrics.\n Database administrators (DBAs) leverage OS metrics to understand how different processes or threads use system resources on their database instances. With this new Database Insights feature, DBAs can now access historical snapshots of OS processes running on their databases, including key metrics like memory and CPU utilization for each running process. OS process snapshots in Database Insights helps DBAs understand how each running process is using system resources on their databases for a given timestamp, making it easy to correlate OS process metrics with database load.

OS process snapshots are now available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL in all regions where Database Insights is available. To learn more about OS process snapshots in Database Insights, please refer to the public documentation. To learn more about Database Insights pricing, refer to the CloudWatch pricing page. To get started with OS process snapshots in Database Insights, ensure you have enabled RDS Enhanced Monitoring and Database Insights Advanced mode. From the Database Instance dashboard, navigate to Database Telemetry and click on the OS processes tab. To correlate OS process metrics with database load, click on any data point on the database load chart, and a snapshot of OS processes will populate accordingly with key metrics per running process for the selected timestamp.

SES Mail Manager is now available in 11 new AWS Regions, 17 total

Amazon SES announces that the SES Mail Manager product is now available in 11 new commercial AWS Regions. This expands coverage from the original six commercial AWS Regions where Mail Manager first launched, meaning that Mail Manager is now offered in all non-opt-in commercial Regions where SES offers sending and receiving services.\n SES Mail Manager allows customers to configure email routing and delivery mechanisms for their domains, or for private use, and to have a single view of email governance, risk, and compliance solutions for all email workloads. Mail Manager is most often deployed to replace legacy hosted mail relays, or to simplify integration alongside third-party mailbox providers or external email content security solutions. In addition, Mail Manager allows customers to perform onward delivery to WorkMail mailboxes, archive content to built-in archiving and search/export features, and to interoperate with third-party security add-ons offered directly within the Mail Manager console experience. The new Regions include US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada Central (Montreal), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). They join US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland). Customers can learn more about SES Mail Manager here and explore the new Regions in their SES consoles for any of the available Regions listed above.

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDb now supports Storage Scaling

We are excited to announce the launch of storage scaling functions for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing you to scale your allocated storage and change your storage Tiers as needed. With Storage Scaling, in you few simple steps you have greater flexibility and control over your time-series data processing and analysis.\n Timestream for InfluxDB is used in applications that require high-performance time-series data processing and analysis. You can quickly respond to changes in data ingestion rates, query volumes, or other workload fluctuations by moving to a faster more performant storage tier or extending your allocated storage capacity, ensuring that your Timestream for InfluxDB instances always have the necessary resources to handle your workload and cost effectively. This means you can focus on building and deploying your applications, rather than worrying about storage sizing and management. Support for Storage Scaling is available in all Regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is available. See here for a full listing of our Regions. To learn more about Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, please refer to our user guide. You can create a Amazon Timestream Instance from the Amazon Timestream console, AWS Command line Interface (CLI), or SDK, and AWS CloudFormation. To learn more about compute scaling for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, visit the product page, documentation, and pricing page.

Amazon EMR Serverless adds support for Public Subnets

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce support for Public Subnets that allow you to use EMR Serverless for cost effective outbound data transfer from the cloud for big data processing workloads.\n EMR Serverless applications allow you to enable VPC connectivity for use cases that need to connect to VPC resources or for outbound data transfer from the cloud to access resources on the Internet or other cloud providers. Previously, VPC connectivity supported only Private Subnets, hence you needed to configure a NAT (network address translation) Gateway for outbound connectivity from the cloud, which adds additional charges based on the amount of data transferred. Now, you can configure VPC connectivity for EMR Serverless applications on Public Subnets, which have a direct route to an internet gateway. This allows you to eliminate the NAT Gateway charges and use EMR Serverless for cost-effective outbound data transfer from the cloud for big data processing workloads. Amazon EMR Serverless Public Subnet support is available in all supported EMR releases and in all AWS Regions where EMR Serverless is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, visit Configuring VPC Access in the EMR Serverless documentation.

Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Casablanca

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Orange in Casablanca, Morocco. With this first Wavelength Zone in North Africa, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use AWS infrastructure and services to support applications with data residency, low latency, and resiliency requirements.\n AWS Wavelength, in partnership with Orange, delivers on-demand AWS compute and storage services to customers in North Africa. AWS Wavelength enables customers to build and deploy applications that meet their data residency, low-latency, and resiliency requirements. AWS Wavelength offers the operational consistency, industry leading cloud security practices, and familiar tools for automation that are similar to an AWS Region. With AWS Wavelength in partnership with Orange, developers can now build the applications needed for use cases, such as AI/ML inference at the edge, gaming, and fraud detection. Learn more about AWS Wavelength and get started today.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds IPv6 support

CloudWatch Synthetics now allows canaries running in a VPC to make outbound requests to IPv6 endpoints allowing monitoring of IPv6-only and dual stack enabled endpoints over IPv6. You can also access CloudWatch Synthetics APIs over both IPv4 and IPv6 through new dual stack compatible regional endpoints. Additionally, PrivateLink access to Synthetics within VPCs is now available over IPv6 connections.\n Using CloudWatch Synthetics, you can now monitor the availability and performance of websites or microservices accessible via IPv6 endpoints ensuring that end users can use the applications seamlessly irrespective of their network protocol. You can create IPv6 enabled canaries in your VPC using the CLI, CDK, CloudFormation, or the AWS console, and update existing VPC canaries to support dual stack connectivity without making any script changes. You can monitor endpoints external to your VPC by giving the canary internet access and configuring the VPC subnets appropriately. Now you can manage Synthetics resources in environments with IPv6-only networking policies, or access Synthetics APIs via IPv6 without traffic traversing the internet using PrivateLink helping meet security and regulatory requirements. IPv6 support for Synthetics is available in all commercial regions where CloudWatch Synthetics is present at no additional cost to the users. To learn how to configure a IPv6 canary in a VPC see documentation, or click here to find dual-stack API management endpoints for Synthetics. See user guide and One Observability Workshop to get started with CloudWatch Synthetics.

SES Mail Manager adds support for address and domain lists

SES announces that Mail Manager now supports defined email address and domain lists which are used as part of the Mail Manager rules engine to distinguish between known and unknown addresses. This functionality adds both the mechanisms to upload and manage email address and domain lists, and the rules engine controls to make routing decisions based on whether a given address in a message envelope is on such a list or not. Customers are therefore able to ensure trusted delivery for known internal recipients while implementing catch-all behaviors for directory harvesting attacks, mistyped addresses, and standard behaviors for other domains owned and managed by the customer.\n SES recipient lists allow customers to upload email addresses individually or in batches via CSV files. They can then configure one or more lists with different routing preferences in the Mail Manager rules engine. This provides immediate changes to mail routing simply by adding another address to an existing list. For example, a list of “Retired Employees” might have new names added with some frequency, but the handling rule — attached to the list name itself — remains the same throughout. SES Mail Manager recipient lists increase the flexibility and security of customers using Mail Manager to handle incoming mail by increasing resistance to email-based reconnaissance efforts and without disclosing list names or aliases externally. SES Mail Manager recipient lists are available in every region where Mail Manager is launched. Customers can learn more about SES Mail Manager here.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports bring your own ads (BYOA) via VAST responses

With AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now bring your own pre-transcoded HLS and DASH packaged ads through VAST responses, enabling custom control over ad transcoding. This new capability allows ad decision servers to include HLS and DASH manifest URLs for pre-transcoded multi-bitrate ad streams directly in the VAST XML creative file attributes. MediaTailor will stitch the pre-transcoded ad creative into the manifest without dynamic transcoding.\n Previously, MediaTailor could only dynamically transcode ads to match the content stream at insertion time. With Bring-Your-Own-Ads via VAST, you can now pre-transcode ads and provide the transcoded manifest URLs via VAST, enabling use cases like server-side overlay ads and instantly inserting new ad creatives. Bring-Your-Own-Ads via VAST can be enabled at the configuration level in MediaTailor. The feature supports both HLS and DASH streaming protocols and is available now in all regions where MediaTailor is supported. Please see the MediaTailor User Guide for further details. Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more about MediaTailor, please visit the product page.

Amazon Lex expands Assisted Slot Resolution regions and model access

Amazon Lex has expanded Assisted Slot Resolution to additional AWS regions and enhanced its capabilities through integration with newer Amazon Bedrock foundation models. Bot developers can now select from allowlisted foundation models in their account to enhance slot resolution capabilities, while maintaining the same simplified permission model through bot Service Linked Role updates.\n When enabled, this feature helps chatbots better understand user responses during slot collection, activating during slot retries and fallback scenarios. The feature supports AMAZON.City, AMAZON.Country, AMAZON.Number, AMAZON.Date, AMAZON.AlphaNumeric (without regex), and AMAZON.PhoneNumber slot types, with the ability to enable improvements for individual slots during build time. Assisted Slot Resolution is now available in Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo), and Canada (Central) regions, in addition to US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon). While there are no additional Amazon Lex charges for this feature, standard Amazon Bedrock pricing applies for foundation model usage. To learn more about implementing these enhancements, please refer to our documentation on Assisted Slot Resolution. You can enable the feature through the Amazon Lex console or APIs.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Python 3.13 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest features and improvements in Python while taking advantage of the enhanced security and performance of AL2023.\n AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Python 3.13 on AL2023 delivers enhanced interactive interpreter capabilities, improved error messages, and important security and API improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running Python 3.13 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API.

This platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

To learn more about Python 3.13 on Amazon Linux 2023, see the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer guide. For additional information, visit the AWS Elastic Beanstalk product page.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports .NET 9 on Amazon Linux 2023

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy .NET 9 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest .NET features while benefiting from AL2023’s enhanced security and performance features.\n AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. .NET 9 on AL2023 delivers enhanced garbage collection capabilities and significant performance improvements. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running .NET 9 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API.

This platform is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

For more information about .NET 9 and Linux Platforms, see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports PHP 8.4 on Amazon Linux 2023

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy PHP 8.4 applications on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to take advantage of the newest PHP features while leveraging the enhanced security and performance of AL2023.\n AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. PHP 8.4 on AL2023 delivers significant performance improvements, critical bug fixes, and a new Document Object Model (DOM) API. Developers can create Elastic Beanstalk environments running PHP 8.4 on AL2023 through the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API.

This platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

For more information about PHP 8.4 and Linux Platforms, see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

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