Tag: SysAdmin

AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event-source-mappings (ESMs) that subscribe to Amazon SQS, a feature that allows you to optimize the throughput of your SQS ESM by provisioning event polling resources that remain ready to handle sudden spikes in traffic. SQS ESM configured with Provisioned Mode scales 3x faster (up to 1000 concurrent executions per minute) and supports 16x higher concurrency (up to 20,000 concurrent executions) than default SQS ESM capability. This allows you to build highly responsive and scalable event-driven applications with stringent performance requirements. Customers use SQS as an event source for Lambda functions to build mission-critical applications using Lambda's fully-managed SQS ESM, which automatically scales polling resources in response to events. However, for applications that need to handle unpredictable bursts of traffic, lack of control

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now includes enhancements that improve service availability during rolling deployments. These enhancements help maintain availability when new application version tasks are failing, when current tasks are unexpectedly terminated, or when scale-out is triggered during deployments. Previously, when tasks in your currently running version became unhealthy or were terminated during a rolling deployment, ECS would attempt to replace them with the new version to prioritize deployment progress. If the new version could not launch successfully—such as when new tasks fail health checks or fail to start—these replacements would fail and your service availability could drop. ECS now replaces unhealthy or terminated tasks using the same service revision they belong to. Unhealthy tasks in your currently running version are replaced with healthy tasks from that same version, indepen

Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now support safer, simpler, and faster updates for your Aurora Global Databases. With just a few clicks, you can create a staging (green) environment that mirrors your production (blue) Aurora Global Database, including primary and all secondary regions. When you’re ready to make your staging environment the new production environment, perform a blue/green switchover. This operation transitions your primary and all secondary regions to the green environment, which now serves as the active production environment. Your application begins accessing it immediately without any configuration changes, minimizing operational overhead. With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery for your applications in case of single Region impairment and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. With this launch, you can perform critical database operations including major and mi

Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets. This capability helps data scientists and analysts search for unstructured data, process it alongside structured datasets, and share transformed datasets with other teams. Data publishers gain additional controls to support analytics and generative AI workflows within SageMaker Unified Studio while maintaining security and governance controls over shared data.  When approving subscription requests or directly sharing S3 data within the SageMaker Catalog, data producers can choose to grant read-only or read and write access. If granted read and write access, data consumers can process datasets in SageMaker and store the results back to the S3 bucket or folder. The data can then be published and automatically discoverable by other teams. This capability is now available in

AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender have expanded support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints and IPv6. Developers can now use AWS PrivateLink to establish VPC endpoints for all data plane operations, management APIs, and credential provider. This enhancement allows IoT workloads to operate entirely within virtual private clouds without traversing the public internet, helping strengthen the security posture for IoT deployments. Additionally, IPv6 support for both VPC and public endpoints gives developers the flexibility to connect IoT devices and applications using either IPv6 or IPv4. This helps organizations meet local requirements for IPv6 while maintaining compatibility with existing IPv4 infrastructure. These features can be configured through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS CloudFormation. The functionality is now generally available in all AWS Regions where the relevant AWS IoT services are offered. For mor

AWS Marketplace now delivers purchase agreement events via Amazon EventBridge, transitioning from our Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) notifications for Software as a Service and Professional Services product types. This enhancement simplifies event-driven workflows for both sellers and buyers by enabling seamless integration of AWS Marketplace Agreements, reducing operational overhead, and improving event monitoring and automation. Marketplace sellers (Independent Software Vendors and Channel Partners) and buyers will receive notifications for all events in the lifecycle of their Marketplace Agreements, including when they are created, terminated, amended, replaced, renewed, cancelled or expired. Additionally, ISVs receive license-specific events to manage customer entitlements. With EventBridge integration, you can route these events to various AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon SNS, maintaining compatibil

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The new endpoints have also been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of distributed systems, microservices, and serverless applications. With this update, customers have the option of using either IPv6 or IPv4 when sending requests over dual-stack public or VPC endpoints. Amazon SQS now supports IPv6 in all Regions where the service is available, including AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. For more information on using IPv6 with Amazon SQS, please refer to our developer guide. 

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces version 8.0, which now offers added support for drivers supporting the MongoDB API versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0. Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 also improves query latency by up to 7x and compression ratio by up to 5x, enabling you to build high-performance applications at a lower cost.  The following are features and capabilities introduced in Amazon DocumentDB 8.0: Compatibility with MongoDB 8.0: Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 provides compatibility with MongoDB 8.0 by adding support for MongoDB 8.0 API drivers. Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 also supports applications that are built using MongoDB API versions 6.0 and 7.0. Planner Version3: New query planner in Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 extends performance improvements to aggregation stage operators, along with supporting agg

AWS Lambda now supports building serverless applications using Rust. Previously, AWS classified Rust support in Lambda as ‘experimental’ and did not recommend using Rust for production workloads. With this launch, Rust support in Lambda is now Generally Available, backed by AWS Support and the Lambda SLA. Rust is a popular programming language, offering high performance, memory efficiency, compile-time code safety features, and a mature package management and tooling ecosystem. This makes Rust an ideal choice for developers building performance-sensitive serverless applications. Developers can now build business-critical serverless applications in Rust and run them in Lambda, taking advantage of Lambda’s built-in event source integrations, fast scaling from zero, automatic patching, and usage-based pricing. Lambda support for Rust is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. For more information, see

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18, starting with PostgreSQL version 18.1. PostgreSQL 18 introduces several important community updates that improve query performance and database management. PostgreSQL 18.0 includes "skip scan" support for multicolumn B-tree indexes and improved WHERE clause handling for OR and IN conditions enhance query optimization. Parallel Generalized Inverted Index (GIN) builds and updated join operations boost overall database performance. The introduction of Universally Unique Identifiers Version 7 (UUIDv7) combines timestamp-based ordering with traditional UUID uniqueness, particularly beneficial for high-throughput distributed systems. PostgreSQL 18 also improves observability by providing buffer usage counts, index lookup statistics during query execution, and per-connection I/O utilization metrics. This release also includes support for the new pgcollection extension, and