Tag: SysAdmin

AWS Lambda now supports scheduled scaling for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances, using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This capability allows you to define one-time or recurring schedules that proactively adjust your function's capacity limits ahead of expected traffic, to meet your performance targets during peak periods and avoid costs during idle periods. Lambda Managed Instances lets you run Lambda functions on managed Amazon EC2 instances with built-in routing, load balancing, and autoscaling. Capacity scales between your configured minimum and maximum execution environment limits based on traffic. Previously, customers with predictable traffic patterns, such as business-hours applications or marketing events, were required to manually adjust capacity limits ahead of known demand changes or build custom automation to manage scaling on a schedule. With scheduled scaling, you can now define schedules that proactively adjust your function’s capacity limits ahe

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler expands its AWS SDK integrations with 13 additional services and 619 new API actions across new and existing AWS services, including AWS Lambda Managed Instances. You can now schedule direct invocations of a broader set of AWS services without writing custom integration code. EventBridge Scheduler is a serverless scheduler that allows you to create, run, and manage billions of scheduled events and tasks across more than 270 AWS services, without provisioning or managing the underlying infrastructure. With this expansion, you can now schedule a broader set of AWS API actions directly from Scheduler, including scaling Lambda managed instances up or down on a time-based schedule for precise control over capacity provisioning. These enhancements are now generally available in all AWS Regions where AWS EventBridge Scheduler is available. Specific services and API actions are subject to the availability of the target service in the AWS Region

Today, AWS announces the release of full repository code review, a new capability in AWS Security Agent that performs deep, context-aware security analysis of your entire codebase. Unlike traditional static analysis tools that match code against known vulnerability patterns, full repository code review reasons about your application's architecture, trust boundaries, and data flows to surface systemic vulnerabilities that pattern-matching tools miss. When vulnerabilities are found, the scanner generates code remediation, specific fixes tied to the exact file and line, so teams can identify and remediate security vulnerabilities faster than ever before. This capability is available at no additional charge for existing AWS Security Agent customers during the preview. AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities are advancing rapidly. AWS Security Agent

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the SageMaker Python SDK v3, including new capabilities for Lake Formation access controls and Apache Iceberg table properties configuration. Feature Store is a fully managed repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning models. Data scientists can now use the modern, modular SDK v3 interfaces to manage feature groups with fine-grained access control and optimized offline storage. Data scientists can use the SageMaker Python SDK v3 to manage feature groups with streamlined workflows and reduced boilerplate. With Lake Formation integration, data scientists can enforce column-level and row-level access control on offline store data through an opt-in setting at feature group creation. With Iceberg properties support, data scientists can configure additional table properties such as compaction and snapshot expiration directly through the SDK to optimize storage and query performance. These capabilities allow dat

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift when using the open source Karpenter project for compute provisioning. ARC helps you manage and coordinate recovery for your applications across AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs). With this launch, you can better maintain Kubernetes application availability by automating the process of shifting in-cluster network traffic away from an impaired AZ. Customers increasingly deploy highly available applications in Amazon EKS across multiple AZs to eliminate a single point of failure. With ARC zonal shift, you can temporarily mitigate an AZ impairment by redirecting in-cluster network traffic away from the impacted AZ. For a fully automated experience, authorize AWS to manage this on your behalf using ARC

Amazon Connect Customer now enables you to embed Cases and Customer Profiles into custom agent applications, helping agents access case details and customer context alongside the tools they already use to resolve issues. Developers can use the Amazon Connect SDK to bring native Connect experiences into custom applications, reducing the need to build and maintain these capabilities from scratch. The Amazon Connect SDK is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Customer is available. To learn more and get started, visit the administrator guide and developer guide.

Previously, the Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan supported a single usage allowance, and customers who outgrew it needed to contact us to discuss custom pricing options. Now, the Premium plan offers a range of self-service monthly usage levels ranging from 500 million to 6 billion requests and 50 TB to 600 TB, so customers can scale within the plan as their applications grow. Enterprises and mid-sized businesses whose baseline traffic previously made them ineligible for flat-rate plans can now adopt the Premium plan at a usage level that fits their application. You select your Premium plan usage level in the CloudFront console, see your new monthly flat-rate price instantly, and can change your usage level at any time with no commitment required. All Premium plan features are included at every usage level. Flat-rate plans provide a single monthly price covering content delivery, AWS WAF and DDoS protection, bot manage

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of RG instances, a new generation of provisioned cluster nodes powered by AWS Graviton processors that deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes — enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine. This eliminates the need for Redshift Spectrum's separate scanning fleet and its associated per-terabyte charges. Whether you're running structured data warehouse workloads on Redshift Managed Storage or querying open-format data lake tables in Amazon S3, RG instances deliver significant performance improvements — up to 2.2x as fast as RA3 instances for data w

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in AWS US East (N. Virginia) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids). These instances deliver up to 2x better performance compared to P5en instances for AI training. Customers can use P6-B200 instances to interactively develop and fine-tune large foundation models, including LLMs, mixture of experts models, and multi-modal reasoning models. These instances enable efficient experimentation with larger models directly in JupyterLab or CodeEditor environments for generative AI applications such as enterprise copilots and content generation across text, images, and video. Visit developer guides for instructions on setting up and using 

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 P4de instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Singapore) and Europe (Frankfurt) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. Amazon EC2 P4de instances are powered by 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB high-performance HBM2e GPU memory, 2X higher than the GPUs in our current P4d instances. The new P4de instances provide a total of 640GB of GPU memory, which provide up to 60% better ML training performance along with 20% lower cost to train when compared to P4d instances. The improved performance will allow customers to reduce model training times and accelerate time to market. Increased GPU memory on P4de will also benefit workloads that need to train on large datasets of high-resolution data. Visit developer guides for instructions on setting up and using JupyterLab and&nbs