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Amazon CloudFront announces enhancements to its standard access logging capabilities, providing customers with new log configuration and delivery options. Customers can now deliver CloudFront access logs directly to two new destinations: Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon Data Firehose. Customers can select from an expanded list of log output formats, including JSON and Apache Parquet (for logs delivered to S3). Additionally, they can directly enable automatic partitioning of logs delivered to S3, select specific log fields, and set the order in which they are included in the logs. Until today, customers had to write custom logic to partition logs, convert log formats, or deliver logs to CloudWatch Logs or Data Firehose. The new logging capabilities provide native log configurations, eliminating the need for custom log processing. For example, customers can now directly enable features like Apache Parquet format for CloudFront logs delivered to S3 to improve

Amazon Connect now supports nine additional languages for forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling. New languages now supported include: Canadian French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish. These new languages are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling are available. To learn more about Amazon Connect agent scheduling, click here.  

UltraWarm is a fully managed, warm storage tier that’s designed to deliver cost savings on the Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.17+ domains, you can now store k-NN (vector) indexes on UltraWarm storage reducing the cost of serving infrequently access k-NN indexes through warm and cold storage tiers. With UltraWarm storage, you can further cost optimize vector search workloads on the OpenSearch vector engine. To learn more, refer to the documentation.

Amazon CloudFront introduces Anycast Static IPs, providing customers with a dedicated list of IP addresses for connecting to all CloudFront edge locations worldwide. Typically, CloudFront uses rotating IP addresses to serve traffic. Customers implementing Anycast Static IPs will receive a dedicated list of static IP addresses for their workloads. CloudFront Anycast Static IPs enables customers to provide a dedicated list of IP addresses to partners and their customers for enhancing security and simplifying network management across various use cases. For example, a common use case is allow-listing the static IP addresses in network firewalls. CloudFront supports Anycast Static IPs from all edge locations. This excludes Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. CloudFormation support will be coming soon. Learn more about Anycast Static IPs

AWS Compute Optimizer now provides recommendations for Amazon Aurora DB instances. These recommendations help you identify idle database instances and choose the optimal DB instance class, so you can reduce costs for unused resources and increase the performance of under-provisioned workloads. AWS Compute Optimizer automatically analyzes Amazon CloudWatch metrics such as CPU utilization, network throughput, and database connections to generate recommendations for your DB instances running Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition engines. If you enable Amazon RDS Performance Insights on your DB instances, Compute Optimizer will analyze additional metrics such as DBLoad and out-of-memory counters to give you more insights to choose the optimal DB instance configuration. With this launch, AWS Compute Optimizer now supports recommendations for Amazon RDS for MyS

AWS B2B Data Interchange now supports all X12 transactions for versions 4010, 4030, 4050, 4060, and 5010. Versions 4050 and 4060 are new to the service and were not previously available. Each of these transactions and versions are supported for both inbound and outbound use cases, enabling you to migrate a greater number of your bi-directional EDI workloads to AWS. This launch especially benefits customers in the manufacturing, logistics, and financial services industries by enabling them to validate, parse, and transform a wider range of X12 transactions exchanged with their trading partners. Among these new transaction sets supported are those used to reserve shipment capacity, apply for mortgage insurance benefits, and to acknowledge purchase orders, deliveries, and returns. These new X12 transaction sets and versions are available in all AWS Regions that offer B2B Data Int

AWS announces a “1-click move to managed” feature for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that enables you to easily and seamlessly migrate your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB databases to an equivalent Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database. Using the 1-click move to managed functionality on the Amazon RDS console, you can migrate your self-managed databases running on an Amazon EC2 server to a managed Amazon RDS or Aurora database. This feature eliminates the infrastructure set up burden and makes it easy and seamless to re-platform your application’s database workload to Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS leverages Data Migration Service (DMS) homogeneous migration APIs to abstract and automate the entire process, including networking and system configuration, required to initiate and complete the migration. The process is flexible, scalable

Today, AWS has announced new AMIs for Bottlerocket that are preconfigured to use FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic modules, including the Amazon Linux 2023 Kernel Crypto API and AWS-LC. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system purpose-built for running containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. With these FIPS-enabled Bottlerocket AMIs, the host software uses only FIPS-approved cryptographic algorithms for TLS connections. This includes connectivity to AWS services such as EC2 and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Additionally, in regions where FIPS endpoints are available, the AMIs automatically use FIPS-compliant endpoints for these services by default, streamlining secure configurations for con

Today, AWS re:Post Private announces its integration with Amazon Bedrock, ushering in a new era of contextualized knowledge management for customer organizations. This feature transforms traditional organizational knowledge practices into a dynamic system of collaborative intelligence, where human expertise and AI capabilities complement each other to build collective wisdom. At the heart of this integration is re:Post Agent for re:Post Private, an AI-powered assistant that delivers highly contextual technical answers to customer questions, drawing from a rich repository of curated knowledge resources. re:Post Agent for re:Post Private uniquely combines customer-specific private knowledge with AWS's vast public knowledge base, ensuring responses are not only timely but also tai

Today, AWS announces that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports recommendations to help you identify idle AWS resources. With this new recommendation type, you will be able to identify resources that are un-used and may be candidates for turning off or deleting, resulting in cost savings. With the new idle resource recommendation, you will be able to identify idle EC2 instances, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EBS volumes, ECS services running on Fargate, and RDS instances. You can view the total savings potential of stopping or deleting these idle resources. Compute Optimizer analyzes 14 consecutive days of utilization history to validate if resources are idle to provide trustworthy savings opportunities. You can also view idle resource recommendation across all AWS accounts in your organization through the Cost Optimization Hub, with de-duplicated estimated savings with other recommendations on the same resources. For more information about the AWS Regions where Compute Op