4/4/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/7/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Route 53 adds public authoritative DNS service to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

The Amazon Route 53 authoritative DNS service for public hosted zones is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. With today’s release, AWS customers and AWS Partners who rely on public DNS for their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now take advantage of most of the features they have come to expect of Route 53 in commercial AWS Regions.\n Previously, customers used Route 53 authoritative DNS served from commercial AWS Regions for routing traffic to their applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can serve DNS queries to your public hosted zones from locations within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and without dependency on commercial AWS Region accounts. Features include authoritative DNS query logging, DNSSEC signing on AWS GovCloud (US) public hosted zones, and support for all Route 53 routing types except for IP-based routing. It also includes alias records to the following other AWS services: Amazon API Gateway, Amazon S3, Amazon VPC endpoints, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) load balancers. Getting started with Route 53 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions is easy. All customers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can use Route 53 authoritative DNS via the AWS Management Console and API in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. For more information, visit the Route 53 documentation or review migration recommendations in the Route 53 Developer Guide. For details on pricing, visit section Authoritative DNS on the Route 53 pricing page.

Announcing new AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing model with lower VOD ad insertion costs

Today, we are launching two significant updates to AWS Elemental MediaTailor pricing:\n A new VOD ad insertion usage type priced at a 50% discount to live. The new pricing model aligns better with how streaming providers monetize their content. By pricing VOD ad insertion at 50% of the cost of live workflows, you can expand your ad-supported VOD libraries more cost-effectively using MediaTailor. Elimination of the $0.75 per 1000 ads pricing tier, so live ad insertion now has a single tier at $0.50 per 1000 ads. By removing the tiered pricing model of 1 to 5M insertions and greater than 5M insertions per month, this makes it easier for you to predict your bill and get started with MediaTailor. The following summary illustrates the changes: Previously, ad insertion pricing was tiered:

$0.75 per 1,000 ad insertions for the first 5 million insertions per month

$0.50 per 1,000 ad insertions for volumes exceeding 5 million per month

Under the new pricing model:

Live streaming ad insertions: $0.50 per 1,000 insertions

VOD streaming ad insertions: $0.25 per 1,000 insertions

Both rates now apply regardless of volume. The new pricing is effective immediately and will be applied automatically to your bill. Customers willing to make minimum commitments of more than 60 million ad insertions per month qualify for additional discounted pricing. Contact us or your account manager to learn more. This new pricing structure is available in all AWS Regions where MediaTailor is available. To learn more, please visit the MediaTailor product page.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports new minor version for SQL Server 2019

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 - 15.0.4430.1). This minor version includes performance improvements and bug fixes, and is available for SQL Server Developer, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 for details.\n We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor version to benefit from the performance improvements and bug fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS Custom User Guide. This minor version is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is available. RDS Custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom for SQL Server supports two licensing models: License Included (LI) and Bring Your Own Media (BYOM). By using Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), customers can use their existing SQL Server licenses with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. See Amazon RDS Custom Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.

Amazon SES now offers attachments in sending APIs

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for adding attachments to emails when sending via SES simple sending v2 APIs. Customers can add attachments such as PDF documents to emails, or include images for rendering inline in email content without requiring image downloads. This makes it easier to send richer email content with the convenience of the SES sending APIs.\n Previously, customers could send email content such as text and HTML through SES simple sending APIs. Customers did not have to worry about creating the email data structure which is actually sent to mailbox providers. However, if customers wanted to attach documents or include inline images, they had to use more complex APIs requiring construction of the email document structure prior to sending. Now, customers can add attachments in any of the SES supported MIME types (such as PDF, Word, and GIF), without knowledge of how MIME messages are constructed. This decreases code complexity and reduces time to implement sending over SES. SES supports attachments in all AWS Regions where SES is available. For more information, see the documentation for working with email attachments in SES.

Amazon EKS Adds Support for Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers Bottlerocket FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) AMIs for EKS managed node groups, helping customers to meet federal compliance requirements while leveraging the security of Bottlerocket and the operational benefits of EKS managed node groups.\n Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system optimized for running containers that follows a minimal, immutable design for enhanced security and performance. The FIPS-enabled Bottlerocket AMIs for EKS include FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules and are configured by default to use FIPS-enabled AWS service endpoints, making it easier for customers in regulated industries to run containerized workloads while maintaining compliance with federal standards. This feature is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West). There are no additional charges for using Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs with EKS managed node groups beyond standard EKS and EC2 pricing.

To learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation for the Bottlerocket FIPS AMI.

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