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AWS announces a new cost allocation feature that uses existing workforce user attributes like cost center, division, organization, and department to track and analyze AWS application usage and cost. This new capability enables customers to allocate per-user monthly subscription and on-demand fees of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Business, Amazon Q Developer, and Amazon QuickSight, to respective internal business units. Customers should import their workforce users’ attributes to IAM Identity Center, the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications. After importing the attributes, customers can enable one or more of these attributes as cost allocation tags from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. When users access AWS applications, their usage and cost are automatically recorded with selected attributes. Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) professionals can view and analyze costs in AWS Cost Explorer and AWS CUR 2.0, gaining visibilit

Today, we're announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in all availability zones in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage the scale and flexibility of AWS for running your VMware workloads in the cloud. Amazon EVS lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances, powered by AWS Nitro. Using either our step-by-step configuration workflow or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) with automated deployment capabilities, you can set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours. This rapid deployment enables faster workload migration to AWS, helping you eliminate aging infrastructure, reduce operational risks, and meet critical timelines for exiting your data center. The added availabilit

Amazon Connect provides two new evaluation question types to capture deeper insights on human and AI agent performance. Managers can now create questions that allow multiple answer selections, such as the products that the customer was interested in during a sales conversation. Additionally, managers can capture dates for customer and agent actions within evaluation forms. For example, you can record when a customer applied for a loan and when it was approved. This feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage.

Today, AWS announces PDF export and CSV data download capabilities for AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards. These new features enable you to export your customized dashboards as PDF files for offline analysis and sharing, and download individual widget data in CSV format for detailed examination in spreadsheet applications. With these capabilities, you now have more ways to distribute AWS cost insights across your organization, in addition to sharing dashboards with can-view or can-edit access. Billing and Cost Management Dashboards allows you to export entire dashboards or individual widgets as PDF files directly from the console, eliminating the need for screenshots or manual formatting. The PDF export feature provides formatted reports that maintain consistent appearance and preserve dashboard layouts, making them ideal for sharing with stakeholders dur

Today, we’re announcing enhanced network policy capabilities in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), allowing customers to improve the network security posture for their Kubernetes workloads and their integrations with cluster-external destinations. This enhancement builds on network segmentation features previously supported in EKS. Now you can centrally enforce network access filters across the entire cluster, as well as leverage Domain Name System (DNS) based policies to secure egress traffic from your cluster’s environment. As customers continue to scale their application environments using EKS, network traffic isolation is increasingly fundamental for preventing unauthorized access to resources inside and outside the cluster. To address this, EKS introduced support for Kubernetes NetworkPolicies in the

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region. M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. With this additional region, M7a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Spain, Stockholm, London). These instances can be purchased as Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the M7a instances page.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now automates certificate provisioning and distribution for Kubernetes workloads through AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). Previously, ACM automated certificate management for AWS-integrated services like Application Load Balancers and CloudFront. However, using ACM certificates with applications terminating TLS in Kubernetes required manual steps: exporting certificates and private keys via API, creating Kubernetes Secrets, and updating them at renewal. This integration extends ACM's automation to any Kubernetes workload for both public and private certificates, enabling you to manage certificates using native Kubernetes APIs. With ACK, you define certificates as Kubernetes resources, and the ACK controller automates the complete certificate lifecycle: requesting certificates from ACM, exporting them after validation, updating Kubernetes Secrets with the certificate and private key, and automatically updating those Secrets at renewal. This

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available for EMR on EC2 customers in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Melbourne, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central) AWS Regions. Amazon EMR Managed Scaling automatically resizes the EC2 instances in your EMR cluster for the best performance at the lowest possible cost. With Amazon EMR Managed Scaling, you simply specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters, and Amazon EMR on EC2 automatically resizes your cluster for optimal performance and resource utilization. Amazon EMR Managed Scaling constantly monitors key workload-related metrics and uses an algorithm that optimizes the cluster size for the best resource utilization. Using this algorithm, Amazon EMR can scale the EC2 cluster up during peaks and scale it down during idle periods, reducing

You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in ten additional AWS Regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv). MSK Replicator is a feature of Amazon MSK that enables you to reliably replicate data across Amazon MSK clusters in different or the same AWS Region(s) in a few clicks. With MSK Replicator, you can easily build regionally resilient streaming applications for increased availability and business continuity. MSK Replicator provides automatic asynchronous replication across MSK clusters, eliminating the need to write custom code, manage infrastructure, or setup cross-region networking. MSK Replicator automatically scales the underlying resource

Today, AWS Shield announces multi-account network security management and automated network analysis for network security director, which is currently in preview. AWS Shield network security director provides visibility into the AWS resources in your AWS organization, identifies missing or misconfigured network security services, and recommends remediation steps. With network security director, you can specify a delegated administrator account from which you can start continuous network analysis for multiple accounts or organizational units in your AWS Organization. You can then centrally view each account’s network topology, network security findings, and recommended remediations for missing or misconfigured network security services. You can also easily summarize and report on the network security misconfigurations identified by AWS Shield network security director from within Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console and chat applications. AWS Shield ne