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AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) in China and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Private CA is a fully managed certificate authority service that makes it easy to create and manage private certificates for your organization without the operational overhead of running your own CA infrastructure. OCSP enables real-time certificate validation, allowing applications to check the revocation status of individual certificates on-demand rather than downloading Certificate Revocation List (CRL) files. With OCSP support, customers in these Regions can implement more efficient certificate validation with minimal bandwidth, typically requiring a few hundred bytes per query, versus downloading large Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) that can be hundreds of kilobytes or larger. This enables real-time revocation checks for use cases such as validating int

Today, AWS announces SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing support for Amazon SageMaker Studio, reducing container startup times by 30-50% when using custom images. Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated, browser-based environment for end-to-end machine learning development. SageMaker Studio provides pre-built container images for popular ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn that enable quick environment setup. However, when data scientists need to tailor environments for specific use cases with additional libraries, dependencies, or configurations, they can build and register custom container images with pre-configured components to ensure consistency across projects. As ML workloads become increasingly complex, these custom container images have grown in size, leading to startup times of several minutes that create a bottlenecks in iterative ML development where quick experimentation and rapid prototyping are essential.

Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch your multi-Region applications to operate out of another AWS Region and achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment to your applications. Region switch saves hours of engineering effort and eliminates the operational overhead previously required to complete failover steps, create custom dashboards, and manually gather evidence of a successful recovery for applications across your organization and hosted in multiple AWS accounts. Today, we are announcing three new Region switch capabilities: AWS GovCloud (US) support: ARC Region switch is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Plan execution reports: Region switch now automatically generates a comprehensive report from each plan execution and saves it to an Amazon S3 bucket of your choice. Each report includes a detailed timeline of

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now offers enhanced observability for your snapshot exports to Amazon S3, providing detailed insights into export progress, failures, and performance for each task. These notifications enable you to monitor your exports with greater granularity and enables more predictability. With snapshot export to S3, you can export data from your RDS database snapshots to Apache Parquet format in your Amazon S3 bucket. This launch introduces four new event types, including current export progress and table-level notifications for long-running tables, providing more granular visibility into your snapshot export performance and recommendations for troubleshooting export operation issues. Additionally, you can view export progress, such as the number of tables exported and pending, along with exported data sizes, enabling you to better plan your operations and workflows. You can subscribe to these events through Amazon Simple Notification Service (S

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers images powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2025, enabling customers to launch streaming instances with the latest features and enhancements from Microsoft’s newest server operating system. This update ensures your application streaming environment benefits from improved security, performance, and modern capabilities. With Windows Server 2025 support, you can deliver the Microsoft Windows 11 desktop experience to your end users, giving you greater flexibility in choosing the right operating system for your specific application and desktop streaming needs. Whether you're running business-critical applications or providing remote access to specialized software, you now have expanded options to align your infrastructure decisions with your unique workload requirements and organizational standards. You can select from AWS-provided public images or create custom images tailored to your requirements using Image Builder. Support

AWS announces Cost Allocation tags support for account tags across AWS Cost Management products, enabling customers with multiple member accounts to utilize their existing AWS Organizations account tags directly in cost management tools. Account tags are applied at the account level in AWS Organizations and automatically apply to all metered usage within tagged accounts, eliminating the need to manually configure and maintain separate account groupings in AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Budgets, and Cost Categories. With account tag support, customers can analyze costs by account tag directly in Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports (CUR 2.0 and FOCUS). Customers can set up AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alerts on groups of accounts without configuring lists of account IDs. Customers can also build complex cost categories on top of account tags for further categorization. Account tags enable cost allocation for untaggable resources including re

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers a restart API for both InfluxDB versions 2 and 3. This new capability enables customers to trigger system restarts on their database instances directly through the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI, to streamline operational management of their time-series database environments. With the restart API, customers can perform resilience testing to validate their application's behavior during database restarts and address health-related issues without requiring support intervention. This feature enhances operational flexibility for DevOps teams managing mission-critical workloads, allowing them to implement more comprehensive testing strategies and respond faster to performance concerns by providing direct control over database instance lifecycle operations. Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB restart capability is available in all

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports blueprint instruction optimization, enabling you to improve the accuracy of your custom field extraction using just a few example document assets with ground truth labels. BDA automates the generation of insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos for your GenAI-powered applications. Blueprint instruction optimization automatically refines the natural language instructions in your blueprints, helping you achieve production-ready accuracy in minutes without model training or fine-tuning. With blueprint instruction optimization, you can now bring up to 10 representative document assets from your production workload and provide the correct, expected values for each field. Blueprint instruction optimization analyzes the differences between your expected results and the Data Automation inference results, and then refines the natural language instructions to improve extraction accurac

Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter, enabling you to create and manage resources such as instances, volumes, and subnets using consistent zone identifiers. AZ IDs are consistent and static identifiers that represent the same physical location across all AWS accounts, helping you optimize resource placement. Prior to this launch, you had to use an AZ name while creating a resource, but these names could map to different physical locations. This mapping made it difficult to ensure resources were always co-located especially when operating with multiple accounts. Now, you can specify the AZ ID parameter directly in your EC2 APIs to guarantee consistent placement of resources. AZ IDs always refer to the same physical location across all accounts, which means you no longer need to manually map AZ names across your accounts or deal with the complexity of tracking and aligning zones. This capability is now available for resources including instances, lau

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers support for Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleets, enabling Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and central IT organizations to stream Ubuntu desktop applications to users while leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the AWS Cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is a fully managed, secure desktops and applications streaming service that provides users with instant access to their desktops and applications from anywhere. Within Amazon WorkSpaces Applications, Elastic fleet is a server less fleet type that lets you stream desktop applications to your end users from an AWS-managed pool of streaming instances without needing to predict usage, create and manage scaling policies, or create an image. Elastic fleet type is designed for customers that want to stream applications to users without managing any capacity or creating WorkSpaces Applications images. To get started sign into the