8/4/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/5/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide VPC flow logs enablement

Amazon CloudWatch now allows customers to automatically enable Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs to CloudWatch logs across their AWS Organization. Customers can create enablement rules in CloudWatch Telemetry Config that automatically creates flow logs for both existing and newly created VPCs matching the rule scope, ensuring consistent monitoring coverage.\n With today’s launch, customers can scope rules that apply to the whole organization, specific accounts, or specific resources based on resource tags to standardize the configuration of VPC flow logs. For example, the central DevOps team can create an enablement rule to automatically turn on flow logs to CloudWatch logs for VPCs with a specific tags, e.g., env:production, and help maintain complete visibility into network traffic patterns. Enablement rules use AWS Config Service-Linked recorders to discover resources that meet the rule criteria and automatically enable them to ingest logs. CloudWatch’s telemetry auto-enablement capability is available in the following AWS commercial regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). Customers incur charges for configuration items of resource types using enablement rules, according to AWS Config Pricing. Ingestion of VPC Flow Logs will be billed as vended logs as per CloudWatch Pricing. To learn more about org-wide VPC flow log enablement, visit the Amazon CloudWatch documentation.

Amazon Lightsail is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. This expansion brings the power and simplicity of Lightsail to customers in Indonesia and surrounding regions.\n With this launch, customers in Indonesia and nearby countries can now enjoy lower latency and better performance for their applications while meeting local data residency requirements. The new Region provides access to Lightsail’s features such as instances, managed databases, containers, load balancers and more, all with the same simple, predictable pricing that Lightsail customers love. Lightsail is available in these AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). To learn more about Regions and Availability Zones for Lightsail, please refer to the documentation. You can use this Region through the Lightsail Console (accessed from AWS Console), AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS SDKs.

AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) region

Customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) 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.

AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm SPANK plugins

Today, AWS announced that AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) supports SPANK (Slurm Plug-in Architecture for Node and job [K]control) plugins, enabling you to extend and modify how Slurm schedules and processes your high performance computing (HPC) workloads without modifying Slurm directly.\n Using SPANK plugins, you can now integrate AWS PCS with container technologies, implement custom monitoring of memory and I/O patterns, and dynamically modify job launches to enhance resource management. For example, you can use Enroot and Pyxis plugins to seamlessly run containerized machine learning and HPC workloads using images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Docker Hub, NVIDIA NGC, or other container registries. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS PCS is available. You can implement SPANK plugins by installing and configuring them on the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that power your AWS PCS compute nodes. The plugins will be dynamically loaded at runtime when jobs launch, providing a low-effort approach to extend Slurm’s functionality. To learn more about using SPANK plugins with AWS PCS, see the AWS PCS User Guide.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver accelerates performance and supports SELinux

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now accelerates performance for repeatedly accessed data, adds support for Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) mount options, and simplifies logging and permissions management.\n The latest version of the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver (v2) introduces four key capabilities. First, it adds support for caching data across multiple pods. By using the new caching capabilities in Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver v2, you can finish large-scale financial simulation jobs up to 2x faster by eliminating the overhead of multiple pods individually caching the same data. Second, you can now run your Kubernetes applications on SELinux-enabled environments like Red Hat OpenShift. Third, it lets you use Amazon EKS Pod Identity to simplify how you manage access policies across Amazon EKS clusters, including cross-account access. Fourth, it simplifies how you access logs and get insights into your mounts by using kubectl, a command line tool.

To upgrade to Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI v2 driver, you can follow the installation guidance. You can install, configure, and update the CSI driver in the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), EKS Application Programming Interface (API), and AWS CloudFormation. For details on supported file system operations, visit the documentation.

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