Any S3-based pipeline created from the AWS CodePipeline console will use an Amazon CloudWatch Event to trigger a pipeline by default, and any edits to an existing S3-based pipeline in the console will migrate your pipeline to use CloudWatch Events. You can also choose not to use push support by changing the detection option in […]

AWS Cloud9 provides a seamless experience for developing serverless applications, allowing you to easily define resources and switch between local and remote execution. Cloud9 also supports local debugging for Node.js Lambda functions. Please go here for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Cloud9 is available.

You can use the <amazon:breath> and <amazon:auto-breaths> tags, or a combination of both, to incorporate breath sounds into your speech output. Automated mode: Amazon Polly inserts breathing sounds automatically into the speech output, to simulate normal breathing without input from you. (You can also set the frequency of these intervals, as well as their volume […]

With this regional launch, Network Load Balancer is now available in 16 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), […]

UPN logon names consist of a username, an “@” symbol, and a UPN suffix. The default UPN suffix in AWS Managed Microsoft AD is your Directory Domain Name System (DNS), such as ‘corp.example.com’. You can add an alternate UPN suffix, such as ‘example.com’, to simplify a user’s logon name. In this example, ‘jsmith@corp.example.com’ can now […]

The AWS Solutions team communicates AWS architectural best practices and develops standardized, automated solutions for the platform. Our offerings currently live on the AWS Answers webpage, where customers can browse common questions by category to find answers in the form of succinct Solution Briefs or comprehensive Solutions, which are AWS-vetted, automated, turnkey reference implementations that […]

Amazon Web Services now offers Amazon Machine Images (AMI) with .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu. These AMIs are packaged and pre-configured with .NET Core 2.0, PowerShell Core 6.0, and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) enabling you to quickly and easily deploy and run .NET Core applications on Amazon EC2.

From a single video input, AWS Elemental MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) […]

With AWS Elemental MediaConvert, you can build video workflows in minutes, rather than weeks or months, and begin generating high-quality video outputs quickly. A comprehensive set of advanced transcoding features lets you create video workflows in the cloud that were previously only attainable on-premises. Now, you can focus on delivering compelling media experiences without the […]

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now make edits to inputs and input security groups used to create live channels. This means existing settings can be quickly and easily updated, enabling you to change configurations while maintaining persistent IP addressing for your ingest points. Inputs can be RTMP push or pull, RTP with forward error […]

With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and packages; and the ‘prefix’ extension to provide the prefix range functions capability. To use the new version, you can create a new Amazon Aurora database instance with just a few clicks in the RDS Management […]

The framework is designed to enable secure communication between your applications running AGL and the AWS Cloud via AWS Greengrass Core using APIs that conform to the AGL security framework. To learn more about this solution, see the AWS Connected Vehicle Solution webpage. For pricing details, see the pricing webpage for each service you will […]

Starting today, you can access your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations programmatically via the AWS Cost Explorer API. RI purchase recommendations are calculated based on your past usage and indicate opportunities for potential cost savings. To tailor your recommendations, you can adjust the RI parameters (e.g., return only recommendations for partial upfront convertible […]

The shm-size parameter allows you to specify the shared memory that a container can use. It enables memory-intensive containers to run faster by giving more access to allocated memory. The tmpfs parameter allows you to mount a temporary volume in memory. This removes the need to store data in your container instance and allows containers […]

AWS Config now supports a new API to fetch the current configuration information for one or more resources that are being recorded in your AWS account. Previously you could retrieve the current resource configuration along with the historical configuration information for one resource at a time. Now you can obtain your current resource configurations for […]

Starting today, Lambda@Edge enables you to further customize the delivery of content stored in an Amazon S3 bucket, by allowing you to access additional whitelisted headers, including custom headers, within origin-facing events. For example, you can configure Amazon CloudFront to cache and forward a country header to your S3 origin, and then use Lambda@Edge to […]

On Udemy, we now offer two digital courses on serverless solutions and architecture. These courses are available exclusively on Udemy for a limited time for 199 USD: Serverless Data Processing on AWS. This course provides introduction to serverless architecture. It will teach you how to build data process architecture using Lambda, Dynamo DB, S3 and […]

To get started, simply call the Kinesis Data Analytics hotspot function from your Kinesis application. The hotspot function automatically builds and trains an appropriate machine learning model to identify subsections of your data streams that need attention. It identifies and reports one or more bounding boxes of these subsections in real-time. Kinesis Data Analytics hotspot detection is […]

Amazon VPC NAT Gateway is now available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), South America (São Paulo), China (Ningxia) operated […]

Amazon SageMaker ml.p3.2xlarge notebook instances are available today in the U.S. East (N. Virginia), U.S. East (Ohio), EU (Ireland), and U.S. West (Oregon) AWS Regions. For more information on pricing of instance types, visit the Amazon SageMaker pricing page.

Today we’re announcing that the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides customers with more assurance around the secure use and management of their keys. Customers now get assurance that keys are created and used by hardware security modules (HSMs) in KMS that meet Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 requirements. Customers can also choose […]

Also announced today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports CloudWatch Metrics. In addition to CloudWatch debugging logs, you can use Amazon CloudWatch to build dashboards and alarms for key metrics related to the stability and monetization progress of video streams. These metrics include Fill Rate, Ad Server Error Rate, Origin Errors, Manifest Errors, and others. AWS […]

Redshift Spectrum is a feature of Amazon Redshift that extends analytics to data stored in your Amazon S3 data lake, with no loading or transformations needed. Redshift Spectrum supports open data formats, such as Avro, CSV, Grok, Ion, JSON, ORC, Parquet, RCFile, RegexSerDe, SequenceFile, TextFile, and TSV. You can query data across Redshift and S3 […]

The maximum number of tables you can create per cluster is 20,000 for 8xlarge cluster node types, and 9,900 for large and xlarge cluster node types. The limit includes user-defined temporary tables and temporary tables created by Amazon Redshift during query processing or system maintenance. Views are not included in this limit.

You can extend the customization of your notebook instances using the lifecycle configuration option. This feature will allow you to invoke a custom script at designated stages of a notebook instance’s lifecycle – such as every time the notebook instance is instantiated, or just when it is first created.  You also now have the choice […]

AWS CloudTrail makes it easier to search CloudTrail log files using the power of Amazon Athena. Previously, you had to manually create a CloudTrail table using the Athena console or AWS CLI and ensure you had the proper configuration and data definitions to match the CloudTrail log format. Now, from within the CloudTrail console event […]

Amazon Connect integrations are automated deployments that extend the cloud-based contact center functionality provided by Amazon Connect with popular services and solutions from AWS partners.  You can use Amazon Connect integrations to easily set up and manage your contact center in the AWS Cloud with key solutions for customer relationship management (CRM), workforce optimization (WFO), […]

Starting today, you can now use Amazon CloudFront to negotiate HTTPS connections to origins using Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). ECDSA uses smaller keys that are faster, yet, just as secure, as the older RSA algorithm. The smaller keys will also increase the number of TLS handshakes that your origins can process per second, […]

Additionally, we are releasing a JavaScript sample application that showcases usage of the AWS Amplify library and AWS AppSync together along with the Complex Objects feature. This sample showcases a comprehensive solution for a private photo storage application, where users can register and sign-in to an application. Photos can be synchronized across devices where users […]

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides simple, scalable, elastic file storage for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources via Amazon Direct Connect. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. It provides massively parallel access for thousands […]

Beginning today, you can use a new Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming API to update the health status of service instances manually. After you register a service instance with a new custom health check configuration, you can call the new API to mark the service instance healthy and start routing traffic to it. Alternatively, you […]

AWS SAM extends AWS CloudFormation to provide a simplified way of defining the Amazon API Gateway APIs, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon DynamoDB tables needed by your serverless application. The AWS Serverless Application Model is available under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling anyone to adopt and incorporate it into build, deployment, monitoring and management tools […]

Systems that parse or store resource IDs may not work with longer IDs. We strongly recommend that you test your systems in preparation for the switch to longer IDs after June 2018. Additional information including details of how to test your systems and access these AMIs can be found in the FAQs and EC2 documentation.

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to three times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database, together with increased scalability, durability, and security. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page, and see the AWS Region […]

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to three times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database, together with increased scalability, durability, and security. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page, and see the AWS Region […]

Amazon Elasticsearch Service delivers Elasticsearch’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads. When creating an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain, you can now select Elasticsearch version 6.2. All Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains using Elasticsearch 6.2 are bundled with Kibana 6.2, the corresponding version of the open-source visualization […]

With these regional launches, M5 instances are available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt) Regions. M5 instances are available in 6 sizes, […]

With these regional launches, C5 instances are available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. C5 instances are available in […]

With Teradici’s PC-over-IP (PCoIP) technology, video editors modify content on a remote workstation, avoiding large data transfers to a local machine. An Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G3 GPU instance is a robust, low-cost model for graphics-heavy workloads. Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) gives administrative access to the environment, and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft […]

Starting today, you can use the Reserved Instance (RI) Coverage report in AWS Cost Explorer to better understand and manage your Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon ElastiCache reservations, in addition to your Amazon EC2 RIs. The RI Coverage report allows you to visualize the percentage of running instance hours that are covered by RIs […]

Inter-Region VPC Peering allows VPC resources like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) databases and AWS Lambda functions running in different AWS Regions to communicate with each other using private IP addresses, without requiring gateways, VPN (Virtual Private Network) connections or separate physical hardware. Built on the same horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly […]

Today, we are excited to announce that customers can deploy Gluon models to their AWS DeepLens device. Gluon, is an open source deep learning interface which allows developers of all skill levels to prototype, build, train and deploy sophisticated machine learning models for the cloud, devices at the edge and mobile apps. 

Amazon Inspector is an on-demand security assessment service that helps AWS customers validate the security configurations of the applications and operating systems deployed in their Amazon EC2 environments. Inspector gives customers the flexibility to check EC2 instances for vulnerabilities and evaluate their instance configurations against security benchmarks any time they need. Inspector offers rules packages […]

The plugin is available for all new domains on Amazon Elasticsearch Service running Elasticsearch version 5.1 and above. The plugin is automatically installed when the Elasticsearch cluster is set up, enabling developers to directly refer to it in their index mappings without needing any prior installation steps.  Amazon Elasticsearch Service is available across 17 regions […]

Thinkbox Deadline now supports Cinema4D for Linux and OSX, in addition to Windows OS. This new feature makes it possible to spin up Linux instances with Cinema4D, helping to make your rendering workloads more cost-effective. You can submit jobs from the Deadline monitor or from within Cinema 4D by installing the integrated submission script, or […]

Amazon SNS message filtering now supports both numeric and string matching. Specifically, string matching operators allow for exact, prefix, and “anything-but” comparisons, while numeric matching operators allow for exact and range comparisons. You can leverage this new set of operators to further simplify pub/sub messaging architectures by offloading to SNS message filtering logic from subscribers, […]

Amazon Chime is introducing new, frustration-free pricing to make it easier to buy and use Amazon Chime. With this new approach to pricing, you only pay for users that host meetings, on the days they host them, while attendees remain free. Usage fees are $3.00 per user per day, with a cap of $15.00 per […]

Previously, the ECS service scheduler relied on the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to report container health status and to restart unhealthy containers. This required you to configure your ECS Service to use a load balancer, and only supported HTTP and TCP health-checks.  Now, in addition to supporting ELB health checks, Amazon ECS integrates with Docker […]

AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, provision, and operate cloud resources on AWS, now allows customers to customize the look and feel of the console. Customers can brand their AWS Service Catalog console to match their internal applications, making the user experience more seamless when moving […]

Redshift Spectrum, a feature of Amazon Redshift, enables you to use your existing Business Intelligence tools to analyze data stored in your Amazon S3 data lake. For example, you can now directly query JSON and Ion data, such as client weblogs, stored in S3 to gain deeper insights from the data. To learn more about […]

Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables you to manage administrative permissions in your managed directory more easily. You can now grant administrative permissions to users from your existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) by adding these users to the new AWS delegated AD security groups […]

The AWS Solutions team communicates AWS architectural best practices and develops standardized, automated solutions for the platform. Our offerings currently live on the AWS Answers webpage, where customers can browse common questions by category to find answers in the form of succinct Solution Briefs or comprehensive Solutions, which are AWS-vetted, automated, turnkey reference implementations that […]

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on AWS. With WorkSpaces, you can provision virtual, cloud-based desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. Education institutions can use WorkSpaces to deliver critical course software and materials to […]

File Gateway enables on-premises applications to access objects in S3 as files. File contents and metadata are cached locally for optimal performance. The refresh cache operation synchronizes the local cache with S3. The new Amazon CloudWatch Event occurs when a refresh cache operation finishes. Combined with file upload notification events, it enables you to automate […]

Availability Zones located in AWS Regions (physical locations) consist of one or more discrete data centers, each of which has redundant power, networking and connectivity, and is housed in separate facilities. Each Availability Zone (AZ) has multiple Internet connections and power connections to multiple grids. 

We encourage you to upgrade your RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the RDS Management Console. We have enabled the upgrade paths from SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016 to SQL Server 2017; if you’re on SQL Server 2008, please upgrade to any […]

Instant access policy updates are available on all supported Elasticsearch versions (1.5, 2.3, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5 and 6.0) and in all supported regions. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is available in 17 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), AWS GovCloud (US), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, […]

With the new AWS Service Catalog AutoTags, provisioned resources will be tagged with the unique identifiers for Portfolio, Product, and User. This provides a set of tags that reflect the AWS Service Catalog structure of portfolios, products, and users that customers have configured in the catalog. AutoTags do not count against the customer’s 50-tag limit. […]

You can deploy the connector from your own AWS account in less than an hour. After deployment, you can easily establish near real-time managed feeds for selected data, get your data to Amazon S3, keep it current, and explore and analyze your data with AWS analytics services such as Amazon Elasticsearch (Amazon ES) with Kibana […]

Previously, you had to write compliance checks as scripts in Systems Manager to receive configuration compliance information. Now, you can use InSpec to create custom configuration compliance profiles, written in InSpec’s human readable Domain Specific Language (DSL). You can also use prebuilt profiles created by the InSpec community. For example, you can run scans using […]

AWS Snowball is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using storage appliances designed to be secure for physical transport. Using Snowball helps to eliminate challenges that can be encountered with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Beyond […]

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than the typical MySQL database, together with increased scalability, durability, and security. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page, and see the AWS Region […]

Amazon Connect is now compliant with SOC (System & Organization Control) measures. SOC Reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party audits of AWS controls. These audits ensure that the appropriate safeguards and procedures are in place to protect against […]

Previously, Chef compliance scans could only be run on nodes with a Chef agent installed. Now, you can run Chef compliance scans on nodes that are not managed by Chef, giving you the ability to scan your entire system.  AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate will automatically update your Chef Automate version. However, Chef Client updates […]

AWS Batch is a fully managed service that automatically provisions compute resources and optimizes the workload distribution based on the volume and resource requirements of submitted jobs. It eliminates the need to install or manage batch computing software. You only pay for the AWS resources (e.g. Amazon EC2 instances) you create to store and run […]

Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to use AWS Batch as an event target to run batch computing workloads. Amazon CloudWatch Events enables you to respond quickly to application availability issues or configuration changes that might impact performance or security by notifying you of AWS resource changes in near-real-time. You simply write rules to indicate which […]

Containers running on the AWS Fargate Launch Type now meet the criteria for ISO, PCI, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 compliance along with the criteria for HIPAA eligibility. This means container workloads on AWS Fargate can now process regulated financial data or protected health information (PHI).

Customers can now launch and run SQL Server Enterprise on t2.xlarge and t2.2xlarge instance types and enjoy fully supported Microsoft software licenses bundled with Amazon EC2. Buying from AWS with Microsoft licensing included has many benefits: Pay as you go with no upfront costs or long-term investments AWS managed Windows image AWS managed licensing compliance […]

Your actual realized IOPS may vary from the amount you provisioned based on your database workload, instance type, and database engine choice. Refer to the Factors That Affect Realized IOPS section of the documentation to learn more. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in […]

AWS SMS is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. It allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. To learn more, visit AWS Server Migration Service (SMS).

With this new region, Amazon Polly is now operating at sixteen AWS regions worldwide. You can learn more about our growing footprint at the Global Infrastructure page. In the meantime, we encourage our government customers and their partners to take advantage of the new AWS GovCloud (US) region for Amazon Polly. For more information about […]

You can apply a retention policy to your WorkDocs site using the Administrator console. Simply set the number of days you would like files and folders to be retained in the recovery bin settings. When files and folders are deleted by a user, they are stored in the user’s recycle bin for 30 days. At […]