5/8/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/9/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure, is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Amazon DocumentDB provides scalability and durability for mission-critical MongoDB workloads, supporting millions of requests per second and can be scaled to 15 low latency read replicas in minutes without application downtime. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, AWS Backup and more.\n To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please visit the Amazon DocumentDB product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability. You can create a Amazon DocumentDB cluster from the AWS Management console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or SDK.

Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes

Amazon Connect now has new pricing models for external voice transfer and Contact Lens with external voice systems. The new pricing models have independent pricing for external voice connectors and external voice minutes and are effective for all customers from May 1, 2025.\n External voice transfer directly transfers voice calls and metadata from Amazon Connect to another voice system, so you can use Amazon Connect telephony and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) to help improve customer experience. Each external transfer connector is now $3,100 per month and each external voice transfer is $0.005 per minute. Contact Lens with external voice enables Connect Contact Lens contact records, call recording, real-time and post-call analytics, and agent evaluations with your existing voice system to help improve customer experience and agent performance. Each external voice connector is now $3,100 per month and each external voice minute is $0.012 per minute. Standard Contact Lens conversational analytics and performance evaluation charges apply when used with external voice. Amazon Connect external voice transfer and Contact Lens with external voice are available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. To learn more about Amazon Connect and other voice systems, review the following resources:

Amazon Connect website and pricing

External voice transfer - Amazon Connect Administrator Guide

Contact Lens with external voice - Amazon Connect Administrator Guide

AWS Security Incident Response is now available in three additional AWS Regions

AWS Security Incident Response is now available to customers in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo). You can now use these additional regions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events.\n With AWS Security Incident Response, you can enhance your organization’s overall security posture and incident response readiness. AWS Security Incident Response offers three core features: monitoring and triaging of security findings from Amazon GuardDuty and third-party tools through AWS Security Hub; integrated communication and collaboration tools to streamline security escalation and response; and access to self-managed security investigation tools and 24/7 support from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT), who can assist you in investigating, containing, eradicating, and recovering from security events. The AWS CIRT has years of experience helping customers recover from security events, building up deep institutional knowledge based on real-world scenarios. For more information, please visit the AWS Security Incident Response page and documentation for more information. See the Supported Configurations page for regional and language support.

AWS Shield Advanced is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield Advanced provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency from DDoS attacks. Also, it provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. To learn more visit, the AWS Shield Advanced product page.\n For a full list of AWS regions where AWS Shield Advanced is available, visit the AWS Regional Services page. AWS Shield Advanced pricing may vary between regions. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS Shield Pricing page.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. This release also includes updates for PostgreSQL extensions such as pg_repack 1.5.1, pg_logical 2.4.5 and others.\n You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments for RDS for PostgreSQL using physical replication for your minor version upgrades. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Brisbane, Australia

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEXTDC B2 data center near Brisbane, Australia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Brisbane and the eight AWS Direct connect location within Australia. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.\n The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet. For more information on the over 148 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

Amazon SageMaker AI enhances Amazon Q Developer with custom code suggestions and workspace context

Today, AWS announces significant enhancements to Amazon Q Developer in Amazon SageMaker AI Jupyter Lab, introducing customization of code suggestions based on private code repositories and the ability to include entire workspace context for improved code assistance. These new features empower organizations to leverage their proprietary code and improve the relevance of code suggestions, ultimately enhancing developer productivity and code quality within Jupyter Lab environments.\n With the new customization feature, Amazon Q Developer can now assist with software development in ways that conform to your team’s internal libraries, proprietary algorithmic techniques, and enterprise code style. An Amazon Q Developer customization is a set of elements that enables Amazon Q to provide suggestions based on your company’s code-base. This ensures that code suggestions, both inline and chat based, align perfectly with your organization’s specific coding practices and standards. Additionally, the workspace context enables Amazon Q Developer to locate files, understand how code is used across multiple files, and generate code that leverages multiple files, including those that aren’t currently opened. This contextual awareness results in more accurate and relevant code assistance, helping developers better understand their entire project structure before they start coding. Users can access the workspace features through the chat interface, ensuring a seamless development experience that takes into account the full scope of their project. These enhancements to Amazon Q Developer in Amazon SageMaker AI Jupyter Lab are now available in All Regions where Amazon SageMaker AI is offered. To learn more about these new features see documentation.

Amazon SQS now supports FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint

Amazon SQS now supports VPCE endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. You can now easily use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon SQS for regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module.\n FIPS compliant endpoints help companies contracting with the US federal government meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in supported regions. To create an interface VPC endpoint that connects to an Amazon SQS FIPS endpoint, see Internetwork traffic privacy in Amazon SQS. The new capability is available in all AWS Commercial Regions in the United States and Canada. To learn more about FIPS 140-3 at AWS, visit FIPS 140-3 Compliance.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.8

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.8 compatibility, bringing significant improvements and new features. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific additions such as support for the ltree extension, the btree_gist extension, and improved query performance.\n Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database offers capabilities such as distributed query planning and transaction management, removing the need for you to create custom solutions or manage multiple databases to scale. As your workloads increase, Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database adds additional compute resources while staying within your specified budget, so there is no need to provision for peak, and compute automatically scales down when demand is low. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm). For pricing details, visit Amazon Aurora pricing. To learn more, read the Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database documentation and get started by creating an Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database in only a few steps in the Amazon RDS console.

AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 32 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.\n If you are new to AWS Control Tower, you can launch it today in any of the supported regions, and you can use AWS Control Tower to build and govern your multi-account environment in all supported Regions. If you are already using AWS Control Tower and you want to extend its governance features to the newly supported regions in your accounts, you can go to the settings page in your AWS Control Tower dashboard, select your regions, and update your landing zone. Once you update all accounts that are governed by AWS Control Tower, your landing zone, managed accounts, and registered OUs will be under governance in the new regions. For a full list of Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage or see the AWS Control Tower User Guide.

AWS CodePipeline now supports Secrets Manager and more configurations in Commands action

AWS CodePipeline now enables you to use AWS Secrets Manager credentials in your Commands actions by specifying the secrets as environment variables in the action declaration. Additionally, Commands actions now support Windows commands and larger instance types, allowing you to run more complex workloads and accelerate execution times. To learn more about these new capabilities, visit our documentation.\n For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page. This feature is available in all regions where AWS CodePipeline is supported.

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