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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.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
SageMaker Studio adds data quality rule authoring and evaluation
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now integrates AWS Glue Data Quality, enabling users to author and evaluate data quality rules directly within the studio. This feature helps catch data issues early in pipelines, benefiting data engineers, analysts, and data scientists by ensuring data integrity for downstream workloads.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS open sources ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter
AWS announced version 0.1 of ExtendDB, an open source project that allows developers to use the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. This enables running DynamoDB-compatible workloads locally, on-premises, or at the edge without rewriting application code, benefiting developers and architects for local development, testing, and hybrid deployments.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Billing Conductor adds visibility for billing transfer invites
AWS Billing Conductor now shows accounts that accepted billing transfer invites but lack pro forma billing data access. This feature helps customers identify and close visibility gaps, ensuring proper cost data configuration. Daily notifications via EventBridge and User Notifications are also available for accepted transfers missing billing groups.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transform network modernization advances migration speed
AWS Transform adds a new modernization engine that optimizes network constructs and identifies conflicts before provisioning, reducing manual review from days to instant guidance. The service also accepts network configurations in any format, accelerating migration regardless of the source tool. These features are now available in all AWS Transform target regions.
feature - 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.
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