8/1/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/4/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon SES introduces tenant isolation with automated reputation policies

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces the ability to provision isolated tenants within a single SES account and apply automated reputation policies to manage email sending. With this enhancement, customers can create multiple tenants in their SES account, each with dedicated configuration sets, identities, and templates. This new feature helps customers detect and isolate deliverability issues within isolated email streams, preserving sender reputation and helping improve inbox placement with mailbox providers.\n When customers specify a tenant while sending an email, SES now provides tenant-level metrics including messages sent, bounce rates, and complaint rates in real-time. If reputation issues are detected, SES can automatically pause the affected tenant to protect other email streams. Customers can control this automation with three reputation policy options: Standard (recommended) which pauses sending for high-impact findings, Strict which pauses for any reputation finding, or None for manual monitoring. SES publishes notifications to Amazon EventBridge when tenant status changes occur or new reputation findings are detected, enabling integration with existing monitoring workflows. These new capabilities are now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is offered. To learn more about working with tenants in Amazon SES, visit the Amazon SES console or refer to the documentation for detailed instructions on creating tenants, configuring reputation policies, and monitoring tenant-level metrics.

AWS Directory Service launches Hybrid Edition for Managed Microsoft AD

Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory customers can extend their existing Active Directory domain into AWS with the new Hybrid Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD. This new capability provides customers with a managed service for their AD infrastructure extended in AWS, enabling a unified Active Directory deployment between on-premises, AWS Cloud and multi-cloud environments.\n Hybrid Edition automatically handles replication and maintenance between your AD environments and AWS. This provides you a simpler way to migrate AD-dependent workloads to the cloud while maintaining your existing AD data. The service preserves all your existing access controls and group policies without requiring permission reconfiguration.

With this new capability, you can easily integrate with AWS services including  Amazon EC2,  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) across multiple AWS accounts. The managed approach significantly reduces operational overhead and allows your team to focus on business priorities while AWS handles the AD infrastructure maintenance. You can also securely share administrator credentials for Hybrid Edition using AWS Secrets Manager, ensuring no human visible credentials.

For information on regional availability of the AWS Directory Service Hybrid Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD, please refer to the AWS Directory Service documentation, which will be updated with the latest availability information.

To learn more about how Hybrid Edition can benefit your organization, review Extend your Active Directory domain to AWS with AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition) blog post or the AWS Directory Service documentation. You can start using Hybrid Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD in the AWS Management Console, through the AWS CLI, or via AWS SDKs.

Amazon S3 Access Points now support tags for Attribute-Based Access Control

Amazon S3 Access Points now support tags for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). S3 Access Points simplify managing data access to your shared datasets in S3 general purpose and directory buckets. With ABAC support, you can add tags to your access points and extend your tag-based permissions to new and existing users, roles, and access points. This helps eliminate frequent AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), S3 bucket, or access point policy updates, simplifying how you scale access governance on your shared datasets.\n To get started with tagging your S3 Access Points, use the AWS Management Console, S3 REST API, AWS CLI, or the AWS SDK. ABAC support for S3 Access Points is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost. To learn more about using tags for access points, visit the S3 User Guide.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.43 and 8.4.6

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.43 and 8.4.6, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 and 8.4.6 in the Amazon RDS user guide.\n You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MySQL instances. 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 MySQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MySQL. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS for MySQL database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances

Starting today, Amazon EC2 customers can now force terminate instances that are stuck in the shutting-down state. EC2 Instances can get stuck in the shutting down state because of rare issues caused by frozen operating system or underlying hardware problems. When customers use force terminate, the instance will first attempt a graceful shutdown process. If unsuccessful within the timeout period, the instance proceeds with a forced shutdown. A forced shutdown may not flush the file system caches and metadata or run shutdown scripts before instance termination. Force terminate allows customers to recover resources associated with stuck instances such as vCPU Quotas or Elastic IP addresses without waiting for AWS intervention, providing greater flexibility in managing EC2 instances.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams expands coverage to three new AWS Regions

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (Amazon KVS) is now available in Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Amazon KVS is a fully managed AWS service that enables you to securely stream, process, and store video and time-encoded data from connected devices. With the region expansion update, organizations operating in these regions can benefit from faster response times, stronger data residency controls, and reduced data transfer expenses.\n Amazon KVS automatically provisions and elastically scales the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video from millions of devices. Using Amazon KVS, you can store, encrypt, and index video data and access their data streams through easy-to-use APIs. Amazon KVS also enables you to quickly build applications for live and on-demand viewing, and take advantage of computer vision and video analytics through integration with other AWS services, including Amazon Rekognition Video and Amazon SageMaker. Moreover, Amazon KVS WebRTC offers fully-managed capabilities to support interactive and real-time peer-to-peer media streaming between web browsers, mobile applications, and connected devices. To learn more, please visit the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams product page and the AWS Region services list for complete regional availability information.

Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) now supports switching AWS Regions for multi-Region application recovery. This automated feature allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch operating your multi-Region application out of another AWS Region. It provides dashboards for real-time visibility and logging that you can use throughout the recovery process. This saves hours of engineering effort and eliminates the operational overhead previously required to complete failover steps, create custom dashboards, and manually gather evidence of a successful recovery for applications across your organization and hosted in multiple AWS accounts. Region Switch supports failover and failback for active-passive multi-Region approaches, and removing and adding an AWS Region for an application with active-active multi-Region approaches.\n ARC Region switch is a highly available solution for multi-Region recovery, and runs independently in each Region it operates in. When you create a Region switch plan, it is replicated to all the Regions your application operates in. This removes dependencies on the Region you are leaving for your recovery.

To get started, build a Region switch plan using the ARC console, API, or CLI. A Region switch plan allows you to create the specific workflow required to recover your applications in another Region. Once created, Region switch will evaluate your plan every 30 minutes to ensure correct configuration and readiness for recovery. When running a test or recovering from an operational event, you can use the ARC dashboard to monitor your applications’ recovery.

ARC Region switch is available in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more, please refer to the ARC Region switch documentation.

Amazon CloudWatch launches natural language query generation for OpenSearch PPL and SQL

Amazon CloudWatch launches natural language query generation powered by generative AI for OpenSearch PPL and SQL query languages in CloudWatch Logs Insights, accelerating logs analysis.\n CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to interactively search and analyze your logs with Logs Insights query language, OpenSearch Service Piped Processing Language (PPL), and OpenSearch Service Structured Query Language (SQL). Customers using OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL can now use plain English to quickly generate queries in the context of their logs without needing extensive knowledge of the query language, reducing time to gather insights. For example, you can ask in plain English “Give me the number of errors and exceptions per hour” or “What are the top 100 source IP addresses by bytes transferred” and the queries will be automatically generated in OpenSearch PPL or SQL, depending on the language selected. The query generator is available in 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). To learn more, view documentation.

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