Tag: SysAdmin

AWS Amplify introduces two key improvements to its backend tooling: streamlined deployment output using the AWS CDK Toolkit and a new notice system for local development. These updates optimize how developers receive deployment status information and important messages directly in their terminal when executing Amplify commands. These enhancements improve the development experience by focusing on essential information while proactively surfacing critical notices. Frontend developers can now focus on relevant deployment information without the distraction of underlying infrastructure details. The notice system, similar to CDK's approach, delivers important messages about potential issues, compatibility concerns, and other noteworthy items related to Amplify backends, enabling developers to address problems early in the development process. These features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Amplify is supported. To learn more about these developer expe

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) announces automated public TLS certificates for Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront customers can now simply check a box to receive required public certificates to enable TLS when creating new CloudFront content delivery applications. ACM and CloudFront work together to automatically request, issue and associate the required public certificates with CloudFront. ACM will also automatically renew these certificates as long as the certificate is in use and traffic for the certificate domain is routed to CloudFront. Previously, to set up a similar secure CloudFront distribution, customers had to request a public certificate through ACM, validate the domain, and then associate the issued certificate with the CloudFront distribution. This option remains available to customers. ACM uses a domain validation method commonly referred to as HTT

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TB of memory (u-24tb1.112xlarge) are available in the US East (Ohio) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation.

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of next generation high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, delivering up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. I7i instances are ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads such as transactional databases, real-time and NoSQL databases, real-time analytics, AI/ML pre-processing for training, indexing and search engines requiring high ran

Today, AWS announces CloudFront SaaS Manager, a new Amazon CloudFront feature designed to efficiently manage content delivery across multiple websites for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, web development platforms, and companies with multiple brands/websites. CloudFront SaaS Manager provides a unified experience, alleviating the operational burden of managing multiple websites at scale, including TLS certificate management, DDoS protection, and observability. CloudFront SaaS Manager introduces reusable configuration settings, eliminating redundant configurations and allowing customers to maintain consistent settings across their websites. This not only saves time but also reduces the potential for errors in configuration. With CloudFront SaaS Manager, customers benefit from optimal CDN and security defaults, ensuring high performance and secure protections following AWS best practices. Additionally, CloudFront SaaS Manager can automate requesting, issuing, and associ

Writer's enterprise-grade foundation models, Palmyra X5 and X4, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Writer, allowing organizations to leverage enterprise AI capabilities with serverless scalability and cost optimization. Palmyra X5 has a one million token context window, while Palmyra X4 features a 128,000 token context window, both designed for sophisticated business applications. These models, top-ranked on Stanford's HELM benchmark, excel at complex tasks including advanced reasoning, multi-step tool-calling, and built-in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Both models support multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, making them ideal for global enterprise deployments. Organizations can use Palmyra models to automate sophisticated workflows across various industries—financial services teams can analyze extensive market researc

Today, AWS announced a new AWS Client VPN feature that monitors device networking routes, prevents VPN traffic leaks, and strengthens remote access security. The feature continuously tracks your users' device routing tables to ensure outbound traffic flows through the VPN tunnel according to your configured settings. If the feature detects any modified networking route settings, it automatically restores the routes to your original configuration. AWS Client VPN allows admins to configure routes on users' devices to route traffic through the VPN. For example, an admin might configure end users' devices to connect to the 10.0.0.0/24 network using VPN connectivity while the rest of the traffic breaks out locally from the device. However, connected devices could deviate from the organization's configurations, causing VPN leaks. For example, even if you configure traffic to the 10.0.0.0/24 network to go via VPN, users or other clients running on the device can modify settings an

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) now supports modality enablement, modality routing by file type, extraction of embedded hyperlinks when processing documents in Standard Output, and an increased overall document page limit of 3,000 pages. These new features give you more control over how your multimodal content is processed and improve BDA’s overall document extraction capabilities. With Modality Enablement and Routing, you can configure which modalities (Document, Image, Audio, Video) should be enabled for a given project and manually specify the modality routing for specific file types. JPEG/JPG and PNG files can be processed as either Images or Documents based on your specific use case requirements. Similarly, MP4/M4V and MOV files can be processed as either video files or audio files, allowing you to choose the optimal processing path for your content. Embedded Hyperlink Support enables BDA to detect and return embedded hyperlinks found in PDFs as part of

Starting today, in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, you can now deliver events from an Amazon EventBridge Event Bus directly to AWS services in another account. Using multiple accounts can improve security and streamline business processes while reducing the overall cost and complexity of your architecture. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and other AWS services. This launch allows you to directly target services in another account, without the need for additional infrastructure such as an intermediary EventBridge Event Bus or Lambda function, simplifying your architecture and reducing cost. For example, you can now route events from your EventBridge Event Bus directly to a different team's SQS queue in a different account. The team receiving events does not need to learn about or

Starting today, Amazon Q Developer operational investigations is available in preview in 11 additional regions. With this launch, Amazon Q Developer operational investigations is now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Amazon Q Developer helps you accelerate operational investigations across your AWS environment in just a fraction of the time. With a deep understanding of your AWS cloud environment and resources, Amazon Q Developer looks for anomalies in your environment, surfaces related signals for you to explore, identifies potential root-cause hypotheses, and suggests next steps to help you remediate issues faster. The new operational investigation capability within Amazon Q Developer is available at no additional cost during preview