2/25/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/26/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS CodePipeline introduces new console experience for viewing pipeline releases

AWS CodePipeline now offers a redesigned console experience that helps you monitor and troubleshoot your pipeline releases more effectively.\n The new horizontal pipeline view displays stages and actions from left to right, results in a stronger visual hierarchy, which helps you to better locate and understand stage and action execution status. This visual update also makes it easier for you to focus on the key information, and find what you are looking for more effectively while preserving the familiar and consistent experience of the current CodePipeline console. The new layout also optimizes information density by reducing unused space, leading to more pipeline release information visible on the screen, which improves the experience to serve pipelines with a large number of stages and actions. This feature is available in all regions where AWS CodePipeline is supported, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in service quota limits

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces an increase in default service quota limits enabling you to scale your generative AI applications for higher traffic. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to filter undesirable and harmful content across different categories and prompt attacks, topic filters to define and disallow specific topics, sensitive information filters to redact personally identifiable information (PII), word filters to block specific words, and detect model hallucinations by detecting grounding and relevance of model responses as well as identify, correct, and explain factual claims in model responses using Automated Reasoning . These policies can be tailored to your specific use cases and responsible AI policies. Guardrails can be applied across any foundation model including those hosted with Amazon Bedrock, self-hosted models, and third-party models using the ApplyGuardrail API, providing a consistent user experience and standardizing safety and privacy controls.\n Starting today, Bedrock Guardrails enables you to scale your generative AI applications for higher traffic loads with increased service quota limits that help process higher transactions per second (TPS) and higher text units per second (TUPS). With this increase, you can now process up to 50 calls per second using the ApplyGuardrail API, a 2x increase from the previous limit of 25 calls per second. Content filters, sensitive information filters, and word filters can now process up to 200 TUPS, a 8x increase from the previous limits of 25 TUPS. These limits are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS regions. To learn more, see the technical documentation and the Bedrock Guardrails product page.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) is available in the Europe (Zurich) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On-Demand (OD) and Savings Plan purchase options.\n Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To hear from Steven Jones, GM for SAP on AWS on what this launch means for our SAP customers, you can read his launch blog.

Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink

We are excited to announce that Amazon Location Service now supports AWS PrivateLink integration, enabling customers to establish private connectivity between their VPCs and Amazon Location Service without data ever traversing the public internet.\n With this new capability, customers can now access Amazon Location Service APIs through private IP addresses within their VPC, significantly enhancing their security posture. This integration simplifies network architecture by eliminating the need for internet gateways, NAT devices, or public IP addresses, while helping customers meet strict regulatory and compliance requirements by keeping all traffic within the AWS network. Setting up AWS PrivateLink for Amazon Location Service is straightforward. Customers can create interface VPC endpoints through the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) commands. Once configured, applications can immediately begin accessing Amazon Location Service APIs using private IP addresses, with all traffic remaining secure within the AWS network. To learn more about using AWS PrivateLink with Amazon Location, see the Amazon Location Service developer guide.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Spatial Patch Bundle for January 2025 Release Update

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) for the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c. This update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations.\n You can now create new DB instances or upgrade existing ones to engine version ‘19.0.0.0.ru-2025-01.spb-1.r1’. The SPB engine version will be visible in the AWS Console by selecting the “Spatial Patch Bundle Engine Versions” checkbox in the engine version selector, making it simple to identify and implement the latest spatial patches for your database environment. To learn more about Oracle SPBs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. For more information about the AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle is available, see the AWS Region table.

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