3/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/25/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for NDI® outputs
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect will support NDI® (Network Device Interface) outputs from MediaConnect flows. NDI is a high-quality and low-latency video connectivity technology, widely used in live production applications and supported by more than 500 hardware products and 300 software applications.\n At launch, the MediaConnect support for NDI allows you to take an incoming transport stream source encoded as AVC or HEVC up to 1080p at 60FPS and output it as NDI High Bandwidth to a VPC. NDI enabled flows can simultaneously output NDI as well as transport stream-based outputs. NDI outputs will use the field-proven SpeedHQ codec and allow you to configure the quality between 100% and 200%. With NDI outputs, the process of connecting on-premises sources such as cameras for use in live cloud production is simpler to deploy, more scalable, and cost-effective using a pay-as-you-go pricing model. NDI support is available in all regions where MediaConnect is currently deployed. For more information and details on pricing, please refer to the NDI documentation and the MediaConnect pricing page.
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) adds Multi-Region support for User Defined Types (UDTs)
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability.\n Today, Amazon Keyspaces supports User Defined Types (UDTs) in Multi-Region. This enhancement allows you to use UDTs consistently across multiple AWS Regions, enabling global applications to maintain consistent data schemas. With Multi-Region UDT support, you can replicate UDT schemas automatically across Regions, maintain consistent data models across your global infrastructure, and scale your Cassandra-compatible applications across geographic boundaries. This feature builds upon the existing UDT capabilities in Amazon Keyspaces, maintaining the ability to use UDTs in primary keys and create nested data structures that match your real-world data hierarchies. Multi-Region UDT support is now available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Keyspaces is offered. To learn more about implementing Multi-Region UDTs, visit the Amazon Keyspaces documentation.
Amplify Swift launches Shared Keychain support
Amplify Swift now supports sharing authentication state across multiple apps by leveraging keychain access groups. This new feature allows developers to manage a single authentication session across all Swift-based applications and extensions within the same access group. Developers can now configure Amplify to store authentication information in a shared keychain, with built-in support for migrating existing sessions.\n Regardless of platform, users only need to sign in once to access any application or extension within the same access group. This feature is particularly valuable for developers creating families of Swift applications that require consistent authentication states across their ecosystem, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. This capability is now available for all Swift applications using Amplify Swift. To learn more about implementing shared authentication state using keychain access groups in your Swift applications, visit the Amplify documentation for keychain sharing in Swift.
AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports conversions from IBM Db2 for z/OS to Amazon RDS for Db2
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion is a fully managed feature of DMS that automatically assesses and converts database schemas to formats compatible with AWS target database services. Today, we are excited to announce that Schema Conversion now supports conversions from IBM Db2 for z/OS to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Db2.\n Using Schema Conversion, you can automatically convert database objects from your IBM Db2 for z/OS source to an Amazon RDS for Db2 target, including stored procedures, functions, views, and other database structures. This is especially valuable for mainframe migrations as it simplifies complex processes by resolving syntax differences and compatibility issues between environments. Schema Conversion also provides detailed assessment reports to help you plan and execute your migration effectively. To learn more refer to using IBM Db2 z/OS as a source for AWS DMS Schema Conversion and using IBM Db2 for z/OS as a source for AWS DMS. For AWS DMS Schema Conversion regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table.
AWS announces new upgrades to the Amazon Q Business Slack and Teams Integrations
Today, AWS announced upgrades to the Amazon Q Business Slack and Teams integrations. The upgrades include the ability to create multiple Amazon Q Business integrations within a Slack workspace or Teams organization, free text feedback support, improved response and source formatting, and the support for larger file attachments with user queries.\n With the support for multiple integrations, customers can now deploy and test up to ten integrations at a time in their Slack workspace or Teams organization and maintain separate integrations for testing, production, and different user groups. With the ability to monitor feedback, customers can review their users’ satisfaction and collect valuable feedback to help improve their applications’ performance and accuracy. With the improvements to response and source formatting and larger file attachments, users can enjoy a more seamless experience when accessing Amazon Q Business in the context of their conversations and when sharing Amazon Q Business’s responses through Slack and Teams messages. These new features are available on the Amazon Q Business Slack and Teams integrations in all regions where Amazon Q Business is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Q Business product page or review the documentation for detailed setup instructions and feature descriptions.
Announcing Terraform support for AWS Parallel Computing Service
Today, we are announcing Terraform support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). Customers can now use Terraform to create and manage their PCS clusters.\n PCS makes it easier to run and scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. PCS already supports managing your HPC environments through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS CloudFormation, and AWS APIs. With this release, customers can now define and deploy their PCS infrastructure using the HashiCorp Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, and manage clusters through their existing Terraform workflows. This integration is enabled through the Terraform AWS Cloud Control Provider. To get started with using Terraform with PCS, please refer to an example PCS implementation recipe, as well as the Terraform Provider documentation. To learn more about PCS overall, please refer to the service documentation.
Amazon Corretto 24 is now generally available
Corretto 24 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.\n Corretto 24 is an OpenJDK 24 Feature Release, which will be supported through October, 2025. OpenJDK 24 introduces enhanced performance with two new experimental features: the Generational Shenandoah garbage collector, designed to improve sustainable throughput, load-spike resilience, and memory utilization, and Compact Object Headers, designed to improve heap usage by shrinking object headers from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. Additionally, this release includes Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking, designed to improve startup time by making the classes of an application instantly available, Synchronize Virtual Threads without Pinning, designed to eliminate nearly all cases of virtual threads being pinned to platform threads, Quantum-Resistant Module-Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism, designed to be secure against future quantum computing attacks. For more information about the features in OpenJDK 24, a detailed description can be found on its Project page. Amazon Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open source license. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 24. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt or Yum repo.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Demonstration experiment of an abnormal image detection system for railway cars using large-scale multimodal AI
- Time series forecasting with LLM-based foundational models and scalable MLOps on AWS
- Introducing the AWS-generated AI case study “Creating a seamlessly generated AI chatbot linked to Slack and successfully reduced work time by a total of 1,750 minutes” by Sunbridge Co., Ltd.
- Build AWS Step Functions workflows more easily on Visual Studio Code
- AWS Weekly — 2025/3/17
- Weekly Generative AI with AWS — 2025/3/17
- [Event Report & Material Release] AWS Media Industry Study Meeting Report