AWS
Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider.
- AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. This expansion brings AWS infrastructure closer to end-users in the region, enabling lower latency and supporting data residency requirements. Organizations can now leverage this zone for compute, storage, and networking services, including specific EC2 instance types and S3 storage classes, to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support federated permissions with IAM Identity Center
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support federated permissions with IAM Identity Center across multiple AWS Regions. This enhancement allows web apps to be created in regions beyond where IAM Identity Center is enabled, improving reliability and reducing latency for users by leveraging IAM Identity Center's multi-Region replication. Administrators can manage permissions using existing IAM Identity Center configurations, and users can sign in with their current credentials.
feature - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds inference data capture to S3
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports data capture for inference workloads, automatically logging request/response payloads to S3. This new capability provides visibility into production generative AI model behavior for drift detection, troubleshooting, and dataset building, eliminating the need for custom logging pipelines.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineerenergy ·
Amazon MWAA adds support for Apache Airflow 3.2
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow 3.2, introducing features like data-aware scheduling and enhanced Human-in-the-Loop capabilities. This upgrade offers data engineering teams more precise control over data pipelines and improves developer productivity. Users can launch new environments or upgrade existing ones on MWAA to leverage these advancements.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
Amazon Inspector Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Amazon Inspector, an automated vulnerability management service, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. This expansion extends its security scanning capabilities for EC2 instances, container images, and Lambda functions to customers in this region. It helps users discover workloads, assess vulnerabilities, and receive security findings automatically.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon ECS Adds Pause and Continue Controls for Service Deployments
Amazon ECS now allows pausing and continuing service deployments at specific stages, enabling manual approvals, operational checks, or custom automation. This feature, integrated via PAUSE lifecycle hooks and the ContinueServiceDeployment API, enhances control over native deployment strategies, benefiting engineers and architects managing containerized applications on AWS.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Grafana adds dual-stack connectivity
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports dual-stack connectivity, allowing workspaces to communicate over both IPv4 and IPv6. This feature simplifies network management by eliminating the need for overlapping address spaces and aids in the transition to IPv6, which is increasingly important due to IPv4 address exhaustion. The update benefits organizations looking to streamline their network infrastructure and prepare for future connectivity needs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Console Adds Local Zones to Region Selector
AWS Local Zones are now integrated into the Region selector within the AWS Management Console, offering a consolidated view and streamlined navigation for managing resources across global infrastructure. This enhancement aims to simplify operations for customers utilizing multiple Local Zones, directly linking them to their parent Region's console page for resource management.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
AWS Glue zero-ETL now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations have expanded to the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, simplifying data pipelines and reducing latency for analytics and ML workloads. This feature provides managed integrations for common ingestion and replication use cases, eliminating the need for customers to build and maintain complex ETL pipelines.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
Lightsail CDN supports IPv6-only instances as origins
Amazon Lightsail CDN distributions now support IPv6-only instances as origins, previously only supporting IPv4 or dual-stack. This allows customers to serve content from cost-effective IPv6-only instances to all users, regardless of their network's IPv6 connectivity, enhancing performance and accessibility.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineerautomotive ·
Amazon EVS Doubles Host Limit to 32 per Environment
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports up to 32 ESXi hosts per environment, a doubling of the previous limit. This change allows for larger, more consolidated VMware Cloud Foundation domains, reducing operational overhead for managing multiple environments. The update is available across all EVS regions and benefits users needing to scale their VMware deployments on AWS.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS SAM CLI Adds CloudFormation Language Extensions Support
AWS SAM CLI now supports CloudFormation Language Extensions, allowing developers to define reusable resource templates locally. This eliminates the need to choose between reducing IaC duplication and using SAM CLI's local development workflow, accelerating iteration and reducing debugging time by processing extensions in memory. Developers working with serverless applications on AWS and utilizing SAM CLI for local development will benefit from this update.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerhealthcare ·
Amazon Redshift adds ALTER TABLE and writes for Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift now supports writing directly to Apache Iceberg tables via AWS Glue Data Catalog and can modify Iceberg table schemas using ALTER TABLE DDL statements. This streamlines data pipelines by enabling in-place schema modifications, reducing complexity and latency previously associated with updating Iceberg table structures. The new capabilities benefit engineers and architects working with federated data lakes, particularly those using Iceberg tables with AWS Lake Formation.
feature - AWS What's New mlawsengineer ·
SageMaker Studio supports GPU capacity reservation via Flexible Training Plans
Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports GPU capacity reservations for its IDEs using Flexible Training Plans (FTP). This feature provides predictable access to high-performance compute resources and can reduce costs by up to 65% compared to on-demand instances. Affected users are developers and ML engineers working within SageMaker Studio who require consistent access to GPUs for their workloads.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager Agent Adds Pre-fetching and IAM Role Assumption
AWS Secrets Manager Agent now supports pre-fetching secrets at startup and assuming IAM roles for retrieval. Pre-fetching reduces application startup latency and optimizes costs by using the BatchGetSecretValue API, while IAM role assumption enables secure cross-account secret access. These features enhance security and reduce operational overhead for developers managing secrets.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs increases query result limit to 100,000
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now allows retrieving up to 100,000 results per query using the Logs Insights query language, up from the previous limit of 10,000. This change enables users to analyze larger datasets directly and utilize features like pattern matching and visualization on the full result set without splitting queries. The GetQueryResults API has also been updated to support pagination, affecting engineers and architects working with log data.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.45.0: New Observability and SecurityHub resources
This release of the Terraform AWS Provider introduces several new resources for AWS Observability and Security Hub, along with enhancements for Lambda functions and Secrets Manager. These updates allow engineers to manage new AWS capabilities, improve Lambda runtime support, and streamline secret version management, impacting users of these specific AWS services managed via Terraform.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.44.0: New resources, DynamoDB index no longer experimental
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.44.0 introduces several new resources, including data sources for AWS Glue Catalog and list resources for various services. The `aws_dynamodb_global_secondary_index` resource is now out of experimental status and subject to backwards compatibility guarantees. These updates provide Terraform users with expanded capabilities for managing AWS infrastructure.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.43.0: New resources and bug fixes
This release of the Terraform AWS Provider introduces several new data sources and resources, including those for AWS Security Hub and EC2 Network Insights. Enhancements focus on resource identity support across various services and an update for AWS Bedrock Agent Core. A notable bug fix addresses plan-time errors with CloudWatch metric alarms, and improvements were made to ECS Express Gateway Service error handling. This update impacts users managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0 Adds New Resources and Features, Includes Breaking Change
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0 introduces multiple new data sources and resources, including support for EC2 service links, API Gateway v2, and various AWS services. A breaking change in the `aws_mq_configuration` resource now correctly deletes configurations, requiring the `mq:DeleteConfiguration` IAM permission. This release impacts engineers managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform who need to be aware of the breaking change and can leverage the new resources for expanded capabilities.
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