4/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Backup adds support for search and item-level recovery in 4 additional AWS Regions

Today, AWS Backup announces support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups in 4 additional Regions. This capability allows you to search the metadata of your backups for specific files or objects across your backups and recover up to 5 items at a time, allowing for faster recovery times.\n AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups is added in the following Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). To learn more about AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery, visit the AWS Backup product page, technical documentation, launch blog, and pricing page. For more information on the AWS Backup features available across AWS Regions, see AWS Backup documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.

Announcing Serverless Reservations, a new discounted pricing option for Amazon Redshift Serverless

Amazon Redshift now offers Serverless Reservations for Amazon Redshift Serverless, a new discounted pricing option that helps you save up to 24% and gain greater cost predictability for your analytics workloads. With Serverless Reservations, you can commit to a specific number of Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) for a one-year term, and choose between two payment options: a no-upfront option that provides a 20% discount off on-demand rates, or an all-upfront option that provides a 24% discount.\n Amazon Redshift Serverless allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage clusters with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Now with Serverless Reservations, you can further optimize your compute costs and improve cost predictability of existing and new workloads on Amazon Redshift Serverless. Serverless Reservations are managed at the AWS payer account level and can be shared between multiple AWS accounts, and lets you reduce your compute costs by up to 24% on all Amazon Redshift Serverless workloads in your AWS account. Serverless Reservations are billed hourly and metered per second, offering a consistent billing model (24 hours a day, seven days a week) while maintaining flexibility offered by Amazon Redshift Serverless. Any usage exceeding the specified RPU level is charged at standard on-demand rates. You can purchase Serverless Reservations via the Amazon Redshift console or by invoking the Serverless Reservations API “create-reservation”. Serverless reservations are available in all regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is currently available. To learn more about the Amazon Redshift Serverless pricing options, please refer to the Serverless feature page, Redshift Pricing Site, or documentation.

AWS Deadline Cloud now provides a macOS installer for submitters

AWS Deadline Cloud now provides a macOS installer for integrated submitters for Autodesk Maya, Blender, Keyshot, Maxon Cinema 4D, and SideFx Houdini. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television and broadcasting, web content, and design.\n The new installer makes it easy to get all your artists, across Linux, Windows, and macOS, submitting to your Deadline Cloud farm from within their favorite digital content creation tools. The Deadline Cloud installer also allows you to script silent installations to simplify workstation setup and maintenance. For more information, please visit the Deadline Cloud product page and our AWS Deadline Cloud documentation.

Amazon EBS now supports additional resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports additional resource-level permissions for copying EBS snapshots. When moving your data across Regions, accounts, and Availability Zones, you can copy any snapshot accessible to you to another Region or account, including snapshots created by you or shared with you. With this launch, you have more granular controls to set resource-level permissions for the snapshot copy and selection of the source snapshot. This allows you to control the IAM identities that can copy EBS snapshot from source snapshots, and the conditions that they can use these source snapshots for the snapshot copy operation.\n To meet your specific permission needs on the source snapshots, you can also specify any of 6 EC2-specific condition keys for your CopySnapshot action in your IAM policy: ec2:Encrypted, ec2:VolumeSize, ec2:Owner, ec2:ParentVolume, ec2:SnapshotTime, and ec2:ParentSnapshot. Additionally, you can use global condition keys for the source snapshot. This new resource-level permission model is available in all AWS Regions where EBS snapshots are available. To learn more about using resource-level permissions to copy EBS snapshot, or transitioning to the new resource-level permission model from previous permission model, please visit the launch blog. For more information about Amazon EBS, please visit the product page.

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing is now generally available

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing routes prompts to different foundation models within a model family, helping you optimize for quality of responses and cost. Beginning today, Intelligent Prompt routing is generally available and adds increased configurability, allowing you to configure your router by choosing any two models from a model family and setting the routing criteria for your router. Intelligent Prompt Routing also adds support for new models and now supports the following models:\n

Anthropic’s Claude family: Haiku, Haiku 3.5, Claude Sonnet 3.5 v1, Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2

Meta Llama family: Llama 3.1 8B, 70B, 3.2 11B, 90B and 3.3 70B

Amazon Nova family: Nova Pro and Nova Lite

Learn more in our documentation, blog, and pricing page. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities built in.

Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) Regions.\n These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3-based instances also use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances, enabling you to reduce your carbon footprint in the cloud. To learn more, see Amazon C7gd Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

Introducing a guided visual pipeline builder for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

Today, we’re announcing a new visual user interface for creating and editing Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines on the AWS console. This enhancement introduces a guided visual workflow, automatic permission creation, and enhanced real-time validations to streamline the pipeline development process. The new workflow simplifies pipeline development, reducing setup time and minimizing errors, making it easier to ingest, transform, and route data to Amazon OpenSearch Service. \n The guided visual workflow enables customers to quickly build and modify Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines without manually writing pipeline configurations. The new UI auto-discovers sources and sinks to eliminate context switching and streamlines the construction of intricate processor chains in a pipeline. With automatic permission creation, customers no longer need to manually create separate IAM policies and can use the automatically created unified IAM role for all their sources and sinks. Finally, with enhanced real-time validations, customers can detect runtime errors ahead of time, reducing debugging efforts and improving operational efficiency for smoother deployments.

This feature is available in all the 16 AWS commercial regions where Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is currently available: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), and Europe (Stockholm).

To learn more about this feature, see the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide and the launch blog.

Amazon EC2 R7gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Osaka) Regions.\n R7gd are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3-based instances also use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances, enabling you to reduce your carbon footprint in the cloud. To learn more, see Amazon R7gd Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints

AWS Transfer Family introduces a Terraform module for deploying managed file transfer (MFT) server endpoints backed by Amazon S3. This enables you to leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and streamline centralized provisioning of MFT servers and users at scale.\n AWS Transfer Family provides fully-managed file transfers over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web browser-based interfaces directly into and out of AWS storage services. Using the Terraform module, you can programmatically provision your Transfer Family server endpoints, associated dependencies and customizations in a single deployment. This eliminates time-consuming manual configurations and ensures you maintain consistent, secure implementations that can rapidly scale across departments. The new module provides end-to-end examples to create an SFTP endpoint, integrate with AWS CloudWatch for logging and monitoring, manage user identities for endpoint access, and configure IAM roles for access to S3 buckets where files are stored. Customers can get started by downloading the Terraform module source code on GitHub. To learn more about Transfer Family, visit the product page and user-guide. To see all the regions where Transfer Family is available, visit the AWS Region table.

Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation

Amazon Cognito announces support for OAuth 2.0 refresh token rotation for user pool clients. Refresh tokens are long-lived tokens that allow applications to obtain new access tokens without requiring users to sign in again. With refresh token rotation, you can now configure your user pool clients to automatically replace existing refresh tokens with new ones at regular intervals, which in turn can strengthen your application’s security posture. Instead of previously relying on tokens that remain valid for long periods of time, refresh token rotation reduces the window a compromised refresh token could be used. In addition, refresh token rotates automatically in the background allowing your users maintain uninterrupted access without needing to re-authenticate.\n In absence of refresh token rotation, customers previously had to choose between long-lived tokens for minimizing user friction caused by re-authentication or short-lived tokens for better protection against risks from compromised tokens. Now, with refresh token rotation, customers can achieve seamless user experience while strengthening their application’s security posture by automatically updating user’s refresh tokens. For example, in a collaboration app, while users remain logged in for their 30-day session, their refresh tokens can be updated every few hours upon exchanging for new access and ID tokens, limiting the exposure window of any single token. This feature is available to Amazon Cognito customers using the Essentials or Plus tiers in AWS Regions where Cognito is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, visit the Cognito Refresh Token Developer Guide.

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