2/14/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing for Virtual Deliverability Manager

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new pricing structure for Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM), giving customers reduced charges at higher levels of usage. Customers can benefit from lower total VDM charges without the need to change account configuration, sending practices, or billing setup. This can lower customer total cost of ownership for VDM as their usage increases.\n Previously, all customers using VDM paid a fixed price per message sent. Customers could turn VDM on or off whenever needed, and they paid only for what they used without any commitment or fixed monthly charges. Now, customers will see their charges per message for VDM decrease as their sending volume exceeds specific thresholds each month. After crossing each threshold in a given billing month, each subsequent message processed by VDM is charged at a lower rate. This reduces the total cost of using VDM for high volume senders. SES supports tiered pricing for VDM in all AWS regions where SES is available. For more information, see the documentation for the SES pricing page.

AWS Lambda adds application performance monitoring (APM) for Java and .NET runtimes via Application Signals

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, for Java and .NET managed runtimes, enabling developers and operators to easily monitor the health and performance of their serverless applications built using Lambda.\n We previously announced support for Application Signals for Lambda functions for Python and Node.js managed runtimes. With this launch, you can now enable Application Signals for Lambda functions using Java 11, Java 17, Java 21, and .NET 8 Lambda managed runtimes. Once enabled, Application Signals provides pre-built, standardized dashboards for critical application metrics (such as throughput, availability, latency, faults, and errors), correlated traces, and interactions between the Lambda function and its dependencies (such as other AWS services), without requiring any manual instrumentation or code changes from developers. This gives operators a single-pane-of-glass view of the health of the application and enables them to drill down to establish the root cause of performance anomalies. To get started, visit the Configuration tab in Lambda console and enable Application Signals for your function with just one click in the “Monitoring and operational tools” section. To learn more, visit the Lambda developer guide, Application Signals developer guide, and Application Signals for Lambda blog post. Application Signals for Lambda is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Lambda and CloudWatch Application Signals are available. To take advantage of the new, cost-effective pricing for Application Signals, opt-in to the Transaction Search capability of Application Signals. To learn more about Application Signals pricing, visit the CloudWatch pricing page.

AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints are now generally available

With the launch of AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, you now have additional visibility into AWS API activity that traverses your VPC endpoints, enabling you to strengthen your data perimeter and implement better detective controls. You can enable network activity events for VPC endpoints for five AWS Services: Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS CloudTrail.\n With network activity events for VPC endpoints, you can view details of who is accessing resources within your network giving you greater ability to identify and respond to malicious or unauthorized actions in your data perimeter. For example, as the VPC endpoint owner, you can view logs of actions that were denied due to VPC endpoint policies or determine if an actor outside of your data perimeter is trying to access the data in your S3 buckets. You can enable logging for network activity events logging for your VPC endpoints using the AWS CloudTrail console, AWS CLI, and SDKs. When creating a new trail or event data store or editing an existing one, you can select network activity events for supported services that you wish to monitor; you can configure to log all API calls, or log only the accessDenied calls, and you can use advanced event selectors for additional filtering controls. Network activity events for VPC endpoints are available in all commercial AWS Regions. Refer to CloudTrail pricing to learn more about network activity events pricing and the documentation to get started.

Amazon Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning

Today, Amazon Inspector announced an upgrade to the engine powering its container image scanning for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). This upgrade will provide you with a more comprehensive view of the vulnerabilities in the third-party dependencies used in your container images. The enhancement to the engine will happen automatically without any action or disruption to your existing workflows. Existing customers can expect to see some findings closed as the new engine re-evaluates all the existing resources to better assess risks, while also surfacing new vulnerabilities as per the new engine’s dependency collection.\n Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads including Amazon EC2 instances, container images, and AWS Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities, code vulnerabilities, and unintended network exposure across your entire AWS organization. This improved version of container image scanning within ECR is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Inspector is available.

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Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.\n Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 C7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

Amazon Q Developer now supports upgrade to Java 21

Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities that allow customers to upgrade Java applications using Maven to Java 21 are now available. Developers interested in leveraging the enhanced performance, security, interoperability, and modern features of Java 21 can use the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Q Developer to accelerate code upgrades to Java 21.\n With this added support for Java Development Kit (JDK) 21, customers can upgrade the Java version of their applications using Maven from source versions 8, 11, 17, or 21 to target versions 17 or 21. Customers can also continue to upgrade libraries and frameworks used in Java 17 or Java 21 compatible applications without upgrading JDK versions. The Java transformation capabilities are available both in IDE (Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA) and CLI (Linux and MacOS). To learn more, please visit Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities webpage and documentation.

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