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- AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio adds business metadata and governance to IAM domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports business context, metadata, and data governance for IAM-based domains. This enables users to add business names, descriptions, and READMEs to AWS Glue Data Catalog tables, automatically generate metadata using AI, and create business glossaries for consistent terminology. These features enhance data discovery, access control, and collaboration for data engineers, analysts, and scientists within SageMaker environments.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
AWS Security Agent adds pentest finding verification scripts
AWS Security Agent now automatically generates verification scripts for penetration test findings, allowing security teams to reproduce and validate vulnerabilities. This new capability streamlines the triage process by automating the previously manual steps required for verification, accelerating remediation efforts.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerretailmedia ·
Amazon GameLift Streams adds Generation 6e stream classes for demanding game streaming
Amazon GameLift Streams has launched Generation 6e stream classes featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs and AMD EPYC processors. These new classes offer double the GPU memory and significantly increased memory bandwidth, providing enhanced performance for high-fidelity game streaming and GPU-intensive applications. They are targeted at customers requiring maximum GPU power for AAA game streaming experiences.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS WorkSpaces Linux Migration Now Available
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports migrating Linux WorkSpaces between operating systems, automatically moving user data. This simplifies upgrades and OS transitions for users, reducing manual effort and disruption.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon Keyspaces expands to Malaysia and Thailand regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions. This expansion allows APAC customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and meet data residency requirements. The new regions offer the same features as existing ones, enabling scalable, low-latency applications without managing clusters.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcarefinance ·
AWS Clean Rooms: Mutable Payment Configurations for Collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now allows mutable fine-grained payment configurations, giving customers more control over cost responsibilities with partners after a collaboration is established. This new feature enables specifying authorized payers for specific cost types like SQL queries, PySpark jobs, and ML workloads, adding flexibility for joint data analysis use cases. The update is relevant for organizations using AWS Clean Rooms for collaborative data analysis, particularly those with complex financial arrangements like pharmaceutical companies partnering with healthcare providers.
feature - AWS What's New securityawssnowflakeengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager supports Datadog and Snowflake external secrets
AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Datadog keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens. This feature automates the rotation of third-party credentials, enhancing security and operational efficiency for managing sensitive access keys. The update primarily impacts engineers and architects responsible for managing cloud credentials and secrets across multiple services.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 13 new query commands and functions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has introduced 13 new commands and functions, enhancing log analysis capabilities with string manipulation, encoding/decoding, and parsing functionalities. This update allows engineers to derive deeper insights from logs, addressing common needs for transforming and analyzing diverse log formats. The new features are now available in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature - Azure Updates awsazuregaengineer ·
Azure NetApp Files object REST API now generally available
Azure NetApp Files now offers a generally available Object REST API, providing S3 compatibility. This feature bridges file-based storage and cloud services, allowing existing data to be used in new ways.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineermedia ·
EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, M7i instances launch in AWS Hyderabad region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer improved price-performance and enhanced capabilities for various workloads, including general-purpose applications, gaming, ML, and video streaming. They are suitable for engineers and architects seeking better performance and cost efficiency for their compute needs.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet retries
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically provisions AWS Glue connectors across subnets for data pipeline resilience. This enhancement allows critical data pipelines to retry jobs automatically on alternate subnets during failures without manual intervention, reducing unplanned downtime. It primarily affects engineers and architects responsible for data pipelines on SageMaker, simplifying disaster recovery configurations.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineermedia ·
SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, enabling direct integration with tools like OpenAI SDK, LangChain, and Strands Agents by simply changing an endpoint URL. This new feature removes the need for custom integration code or SDK wrappers, allowing users to leverage existing SDK calls and framework integrations with SageMaker endpoints while retaining control over GPU instances, VPC data, and auto-scaling. The update is available in multiple AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Now Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers with community releases and simplifying operations. This update strengthens security defaults, enforces TLS 1.2/1.3, and improves upgrade confidence with prechecks. The release affects users who manage MySQL databases on AWS and require the latest features or LTS support.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed encryption keys
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) via AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This feature enhances security and compliance for organizations by giving them control over their encryption keys and offering detailed audit trails through CloudTrail. The new capability is now generally available in all AWS Regions where QuickSight is offered.
feature - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock adds request-level usage attribution for InvokeModel APIs
Amazon Bedrock now supports request-level usage attribution for InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs. This feature provides granular visibility into model inference usage across an organization, aiding in cost optimization and internal reporting. It extends existing attribution capabilities, offering a consistent tagging mechanism for inference calls.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Deadline Cloud: Browse Job Attachments in Monitor
AWS Deadline Cloud now allows users to browse job attachment files directly within the monitor interface. This feature simplifies managing input and output files for render jobs by enabling users to view and download individual files, improving asset retrieval without downloading entire job outputs.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.46.0: New resources, fixes, and enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.46.0 introduces several new resources, including those for AWS Bedrock Agent, IAM Access Keys, and Observability Admin. Enhancements improve existing resources like CloudFront distributions and Bedrock Agent runtimes, while bug fixes address issues with S3 bucket configurations and X-Ray resource policies. The `policy_name` change in `aws_xray_resource_policy` is noted as a potential breaking change due to previous incorrect functionality.
feature patch breaking - AWS What's New securityobservabilityawsengineer ·
AWS Security Hub detects unused IAM permissions and credentials
AWS Security Hub now identifies unused IAM permissions, roles, and credentials across your organization, addressing identity risks at scale. This new capability consolidates identity risk findings with existing security posture information in a single console, enabling teams to prioritize remediation based on actual organizational risk. The feature, included with Security Hub Essentials, automatically creates an IAM Access Analyzer in each member account to evaluate access activity and suggest least-privilege policies.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon DocumentDB Serverless now on version 8.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on version 8.0, offering auto-scaling and significant cost savings. Version 8.0 enhances query latency, compression, and introduces improved vector search and expanded MongoDB API compatibility. This benefits developers and architects managing scalable, cost-effective MongoDB-compatible workloads on AWS.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitect ·
AWS Security Hub Extended adds 21 partner solutions across 9 categories
AWS Security Hub Extended now integrates 21 curated partner solutions across nine security categories, including endpoint, identity, and AI security. This expansion offers customers greater flexibility to choose solutions matching their enterprise needs, with unified billing and pricing advantages. The new solutions emit findings in the OCSF schema, aggregating into Security Hub for comprehensive risk identification and response.
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