4/16/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for SELinux
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) environments through a pre-configured security policy that allow monitoring in systems where security enforcement is required. This feature benefits customers in regulated industries and government sectors who maintain strict security controls across their Linux infrastructure. These security policies, when applied before CloudWatch Agent installation, help customers maintain their security posture while collecting essential monitoring data.\n This launch enables organizations to deploy the CloudWatch agent in SELinux-enabled environments while maintaining their security posture. It addresses a critical need where enforcing access controls is essential. The pre-configured SELinux configurations allow customers to benefit from AWS monitoring and observability features while helping to adhering to their compliance requirements. This feature helps to simplify the deployment process and reduce the risk of security misconfigurations during agent installation. Amazon CloudWatch agent is available in all public AWS Regions and GovCloud (US). To get started with Amazon CloudWatch agent in Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) environments, see Installing the CloudWatch agent in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.
Amazon Corretto April 2025 Quarterly Updates
Amazon announces quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 24.0.1, 21.0.7, 17.0.15, 11.0.27, 8u452 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.\n Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, Corretto 11, Corretto 17, Corretto 21, or Corretto 24. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt or Yum repo. Feedback is welcomed!
AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers in AWS Mexico (Central) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family for file transfers over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2).\n AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) over SFTP, FTP, FTPS and AS2 protocols. In addition to file transfers, Transfer Family enables common file processing and event-driven automation for managed file transfer (MFT) workflows, helping customers to modernize and migrate their business-to-business file transfers to AWS. To learn more about AWS Transfer Family, visit our product page and user-guide. See the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
Amazon Athena is now available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand)
We are excited to announce that Amazon Athena is now available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand).\n Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze petabytes of data using SQL, without requiring infrastructure setup or management. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto query engines, providing powerful and flexible interactive query capabilities, and supports popular data formats such as Apache Parquet and Apache Iceberg. For more information about the AWS Regions where Athena is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more, see Amazon Athena.
Amazon CloudFront announces Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains
Amazon CloudFront announces Anycast Static IPs support for apex domains, enabling customers to easily use their root domain (e.g., example.com) with CloudFront. This new feature simplifies DNS management by providing just 3 static IP addresses instead of the previous 21, making it easier to configure and manage apex domains with CloudFront distributions.\n Previously, customers had to create CNAME records to point their domains to CloudFront. However, due to DNS rules, root domains (apex domains) cannot point to CNAME records and must use A records or Route53’s ALIAS records. With the new Anycast Static IPs support, customers can now easily configure A records for their apex domains. Organizations can maintain their existing DNS infrastructure while using CloudFront’s global content delivery network to deliver apex domains with low latency and high data transfer speeds. Anycast routing automatically directs traffic to the optimal edge location, ensuring high performance content delivery for end users worldwide. CloudFront supports Anycast Static IPs from all CloudFront edge locations. This excludes Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Standard CloudFront pricing applies, with additional charges for Anycast Static IP addresses. To learn more, visit the CloudFront Developer Guide for detailed documentation and implementation guidance.
Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Dakar
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength in partnership with Sonatel, an affiliate of Orange, in Dakar, Senegal. With this first Wavelength Zone in Sub-Saharan 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 Sonatel, delivers on-demand AWS compute and storage services to customers in West 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 Sonatel, 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.
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