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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new minor version in January 2025

10 February 2025 @ 6:45 pm

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports this latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor version is SQL Server 2022 CU17 - 16.0.4175.1. This minor version is available in all

Amazon CloudWatch now provides lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL

10 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL instances. This feature helps you identify the root cause behind both ongoing and historical lock contention issues within minutes. The lock contention diagnostics feature is available exclusively in the Advanced mode of CloudWatch Database Insights. With this launch, you can visualize a locking condition in the Database Insights console, which shows the relationship between blocking and waiting sessions. The visualization helps you quickly identify the dominating sessions, queries, or objects causing lock contention. Additionally, this feature persists historical locking data for 15 months, allowing you to analyze and investigate historical locking conditions. You no longer need to manually run custom queries or rely on application logs to diagnose lock contention issues, streamlining the troubleshooting process. You can get started with this feature by enabling the

Amazon EFS now supports up to 10,000 access points per EFS file system

10 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has now increased the access points limit from 1,000 to 10,000 per file system, a 10x increase. This launch makes it even easier for customers to manage application-specific access to shared datasets, enabling them to seamlessly scale access management to thousands of users, on a single EFS file system. Amazon EFS is a fully elastic file storage service that makes it simple to set up and run file workloads in the AWS cloud. Access points are application-specific entry points that enforce a user identity and root directory, and logically isolate data between applications. The new EFS access point limits automatically apply to all file systems and require no action from customers. The new access point limits are immediately available in all commercial AWS regions, except in AWS China Regions. To learn more, see the

AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map

7 February 2025 @ 10:50 pm

AWS Step Functions now supports additional data sources and output options for Distributed Map, enabling more flexible large-scale parallel processing workflows. Distributed map can now process data from JSON Lines (JSONL) and a broader range of delimited file formats stored in Amazon S3. Additionally, distributed map offers new output transformations for greater control over result formatting. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads. With this update, you can more easily iterate over and process diverse datasets using Step Functions distributed map. In addition to existing JSON and comma separated value (CSV) file support, distributed map now supports JSONL, and new delimited file formats, such as semicolon-delimited files and tab-delimited files. This expand

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in Seoul (Asia Pacific) Region

7 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Amazon EC2 U7in-8tb instances are now available in the Seoul (Asia Pacific) region. U7in-8tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), delivering up to 135% more compute performance over existing U-1 instances. U7in-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7in-8tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 60Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.

AWS Config now supports 4 new resource types

7 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

AWS Config now supports 4 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The newly supported resource types are also available in Config rules and Config aggregators. You can now use AWS Config to monitor the following newly supported resource types in all AWS Regions where the supported resources are available: AWS::EC2::VPCBlockPublicAccessExclusion AWS::EC2::VPCBlockPublicAccessOptions AWS::S3Express::BucketPolicy AWS::S3Express::DirectoryBucket To view the complete list of AWS Config sup

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

7 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing endpoints. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their networks stack by running their Data Lifecycle Manager dual-stack endpoints on a network supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, depending on the protocol used by their network and client. Customers create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies to automate the creation, retention, and management of EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The policies can also automatically copy created resources across AWS Regions, move EBS Snapshots to EBS Snapshots Archive tier, and manage Fast Snapshot Restore. Customers can also create policies to automate creation and retention of application-consistent EBS Snapshots via pre and post-scripts, as well as create Default Policies for comprehensive protection for their account or AWS Organization. Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager w

Announcing custom payment schedules for AWS Marketplace Channel Partner private offers

7 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

AWS Marketplace now supports custom payment schedules for private offers, giving Channel Partners the ability to add margins on private offers with installment plans. Channel Partners can now adjust each scheduled payment individually, either through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal or the AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Previously, Channel Partners could only apply a uniform percentage markup across all installments in a private offer. With this update, they can now adjust the payment amount for each installment in the schedule, providing greater flexibility in structuring deals and managing cash flow. Once the buyer accepts and pays their invoices, the Channel Partner and independent software vendor (ISV) will receive their appropriate payment as defined in the offer and resell agreement. This saves Channel Partners significant time and effort, eliminating the need to request margin updates from AWS. Channel Partners can use this feature for all AWS Marketplace

Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs

7 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the Amazon FSx Service APIs. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can standardize their applications and workflows for managing their Amazon FSx resources on the new version of Internet Protocol by using the new dual-stack Amazon FSx Service endpoints. IPv6 support for Amazon FSx Service APIs is available in all commercial, AWS GovCloud (US), and AWS China regions where Amazon FSx is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx user guide.  

AWS WAF Console adds new top insights visualizations in additional regions

6 February 2025 @ 9:00 pm

AWS WAF’s console dashboard now includes richer visualizations that give you insights into the top sources of traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this feature, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations can view a new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard. Customers previously used the all traffic dashboard, a default dashboard that populates visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. As customers strive to continue gaining additional visibility into their traffic, they have requested richer visualizations based on logs in addition to visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. Starting today, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations will have access to this new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard, which includes richer visualizations based on terminating rules, client IPs, URI path, and more. These top insights will enable customers to better understand their security posture, quickly identify anomalies, an