4/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/25/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
The Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports additional capabilities for third-party applications including the ability make outbound calls, accept, transfer, and clear contacts, and update agent status. These enhancements allow you to integrate applications that give agents more intuitive workflows. For example, agents can now initiate one-click outbound calls from a custom-built call history interface that presents their most recent customer interactions.\n Third-party applications are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US-West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London). To learn more and get started, see our admin guide and developer guide.
AWS AppSync Events now supports data source integrations for channel namespaces
Starting today, AWS AppSync Events, a fully managed service for serverless WebSocket APIs with full connection management, now supports data source integrations for channel namespaces. This new feature enables developers to associate AWS Lambda functions, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon Aurora databases, and other data sources with channel namespace handlers to process published events and subscription requests. Developers can now connect directly to Lambda functions without writing code and leverage both request/response and event modes for synchronous and asynchronous operations.\n With these new capabilities, developers can create sophisticated event processing workflows by transforming and filtering published events using Lambda functions, or save batches of events to DynamoDB using the new AppSyncJS batch utilities for DynamoDB. This integration enables complex interactive flows, making it easier for developers to build rich, real-time applications with features like data validation, event transformation, and persistent storage of events. By simplifying the architecture of real-time applications, this enhancement significantly reduces development time and operational overhead for front-end web and mobile development. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS AppSync is offered, providing developers worldwide with access to these powerful new integration capabilities. Powertools for AWS Lambda new AppSync Events integration are also now available to easily write your Lambda functions. To learn more about AWS AppSync Events and channel namespace integrations, visit the launch blog post, the AWS AppSync documentation, and the Powertools for Lambda documentation (TypeScript, Python, .NET). You can get started with these new features through the AWS AppSync console.
AWS AppConfig now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS AppConfig now supports dual-stack endpoints, facilitating connectivity through Internet Protocol Version 6. The existing AWS AppConfig endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility.\n The continuous growth of the internet has created an urgent need for IPv6 adoption, as IPv4 address space reaches its limits. Through AWS AppConfig’s implementation of dual-stack endpoints, organizations can execute a strategic transition to IPv6 architecture on their own timeline. This approach enables companies to satisfy IPv6 regulatory standards while preserving IPv4 connectivity for systems that have not yet moved to IPv6 capabilities. IPv6 support for AWS AppConfig resources is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, use the AWS AppConfig Getting Started Guide, or read more at Understanding IPv6 support for AWS AppConfig.
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute based access control
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principal and session tags to simplify data access, grant creation, and maintenance. With ABAC, you can manage permissions using dynamic business attributes associated with user identities.\n Previously, SageMaker Lakehouse granted access to lakehouse databases and tables by directly assigning permissions to specific principals such as IAM users and IAM roles, a process that could quickly become unwieldy as the number of users grew. ABAC now allows administrators to grant permissions on a resource with conditions that specify user attribute keys and values. This means that any IAM principal or IAM role with matching principal or session tag keys and values will automatically have access to the resource making the experience more efficient. You can use ABAC though the AWS Lake Formation console to provide access to IAM users and IAM roles for both in-account and cross-account scenarios. For instance, rather than creating individual policies for each developer, administrators can now simply assign them an IAM tag with a key such as “team” and value “developers” and provide access to all developers with a single permission grant. As new developers join with the matching tag and value, no additional policy modifications are required. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Lakehouse is available. To get started, read the launch blog and read ABAC documentation.
With this launch, VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Europe (Spain) Region.\n VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) by analyzing your network configurations.For example, Reachability Analyzer can help you identify a missing route table entry in your VPC route table that could be blocking network reachability between an EC2 instance in Account A that is not able to connect to another EC2 instance in Account B in your AWS Organization. VPC Network Access Analyzer allows you to identify unintended network access to your resources on AWS. Using Network Access Analyzer, you can verify whether network access for your VPC resources meets your security and compliance guidelines. For example, you can create a scope to verify that the VPCs used by your Finance team are separate, distinct, and unreachable from the VPCs used by your Development team. For more information on features, visit documentation for VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer. For pricing details, refer to the Network Analysis tab on the Amazon VPC Pricing Page.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- 3rd AWS Japan Generated AI Frontier Meet Up ~A Place for Learning and Connection~ Event Report
- Pixtral Large is now available on Amazon Bedrock
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Updates on upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront, etc. (April 21, 2025)
AWS News Blog
- In the works – New Availability Zone in Maryland for US East (Northern Virginia) Region
- Enhance real-time applications with AWS AppSync Events data source integrations
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS for Industries
- Measuring Brain Injury in Critically Ill Children: How AI Helps Enable Early Detection
- Analyzing historical mining data with Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Enterprise-grade natural language to SQL generation using LLMs: Balancing accuracy, latency, and scale
- AWS Field Experience reduced cost and delivered low latency and high performance with Amazon Nova Lite foundation model
- Combine keyword and semantic search for text and images using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service