Tag: SysAdmin

AWS Lambda now supports Provisioned Mode for event source mappings (ESMs) that subscribe to Apache Kafka event sources in the Asia Pacific (Taipei), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Provisioned Mode allows you to optimize the throughput of your Kafka ESM by provisioning event polling resources that remain ready to handle sudden spikes in traffic, helping you build highly responsive and scalable event-driven Kafka applications with stringent performance requirements. Customers building streaming data applications often use Kafka as an event source for Lambda functions, relying on Lambda's fully managed ESM to automatically scale polling resources in response to events. However, for event-driven Kafka applications that need to handle unpredictable bursts of traffic, lack of control over the throughput of ESM can lead to delays in your users' experience. Provisioned Mode for Kafka ESM enables customers to fine-tune the throughput of their Amazon Manag

Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier's people analytics platform, through the model context protocol (MCP). HR business partners, finance managers, and operations leaders can now get governed access to live workforce intelligence from Visier directly within their Amazon Quick workspace without switching tools. After setting up the connection in Quick using Visier’s remote MCP server, you can ask questions in natural language about headcount, attrition, tenure, and open requisitions and receive answers grounded in Visier's governed workforce data model. Vee can also be invoked from automated Quick Flows to run recurring workforce reviews or draft documents. Quick intelligently routes relevant prompts to Vee and returns contextualized answers alongside enterprise knowledge – such as budgets, policies, and plans stored in Quick Spaces – so every answer reflects the full organizational picture. The Visier integration with Amazon Quick

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling seamless communication with resources in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC egress for AgentCore Gateway targets and Identity credential providers are offered in both managed and self-managed configurations. With VPC egress support, customers can now invoke private resources (e.g., EKS-hosted MCP servers) directly from their AgentCore Gateway. Managed VPC egress covers most customer use cases. For more complex networking setups, customers can configure their own VPC Lattice resources. AgentCore Identity VPC egress supports connectivity to Identity Providers (IdPs) running inside a customer’s VPC. This enables two key capabilities: validating inbound access tokens issued by your private IdP and fetching tokens from your IdP for outbound request authentication. Finally, this launch supports private DNS resolution for managed VPC egress

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions, U7in-16TB instances (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) region, and U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-8TB instances offer 8 TiB of DDR5 memory, U7in-16TB instances offer 16 TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-8TB instances deliver 448 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. Both U7in-16TB and U7in-24TB instances deliver 896 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 2

Amazon Connect now provides eight new metrics to measure and improve AI agent performance, including goal success rate, faithfulness score, and tool selection accuracy. These metrics offer visibility into the quality of AI-driven customer interactions, enabling measurement and continuous improvement of AI agent outcomes. With this launch, you can monitor whether AI agents successfully resolved customer requests, assess faithfulness and detect contextual hallucinations. You can also evaluate tool selection and utilization accuracy, and capture customer feedback through thumbs up/down ratings when enabled.  You can access these new metrics through Amazon Connect's AI Agent Performance dashboard, or through the GetMetricDataV2 API and zero-ETL data lake for custom reporting or integration with your existing analytics workflows. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect AI Agents is supported. For more information, see the 

AWS Marketplace sellers can now delete bank accounts directly from the Payment Settings page in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). This new self-service capability addresses a long-standing gap in payment account management, allowing sellers to remove ACH-type and SWIFT-type bank accounts without contacting customer service. This enhancement is particularly valuable for global enterprises and ISVs managing multiple currencies and banking relationships. With this update, sellers gain complete control over their payment account management. Key benefits include the ability to clean up unused accounts, remove failed or outdated banking relationships, and reduce payment routing risks. The feature also includes Last Updated timestamps to help differentiate between modified bank accounts.  To learn more, see the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running custom scripts before and after job submission, giving studios the ability to integrate their pipeline directly into the submission workflow. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, web content, and design. With the new submission scripting capability, you can configure scripts that run automatically as part of every job submission. Pre-submission scripts run before job attachments are uploaded, allowing you to validate job configurations, discover and add additional input files such as textures or caches, modify submission parameters, or enforce studio policies. Post-submission scripts run after the job is created, enabling you to send notifications, update tracking systems, or log submission details. Scripts are defined in a simple YAML or JSON configuration file placed in your job bundle directory or in a

Amazon Athena now offers managed connectors for 12 data sources, including Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake. Managed connectors are AWS Glue Data Catalog federated connectors that Athena creates and manages on your behalf, so you can query data outside Amazon S3 without deploying or maintaining connector resources in your AWS account. With Athena, you can interactively query relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without moving or duplicating data. To get started with managed connectors, you create a connection for your data source in Athena. Athena automatically sets up and manages connector resources on your behalf, registering the data source as a federated catalog in AWS Glue Data Catalog. You can then query the data source alongside your Amazon S3 data and optionally set up fine-grained access controls through AWS Lake Formation. Federated queries with managed connectors are avai

AWS Client VPN now supports native integration with AWS Transit Gateway, simplifying centralized remote access for your end users across multiple VPCs and on-premises, and providing end-to-end source IP visibility. AWS Transit Gateway interconnects your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks, while AWS Client VPN enables secure remote access to AWS and on-premises resources connected through your AWS network. Previously, connecting Client VPN to multiple VPCs required provisioning and managing an intermediate VPC, adding operational complexity as you needed to manage additional resources. Moreover, client source IPs were translated through Source Network Address Translation (SNAT), making it difficult to identify which remote user generated specific traffic and complicating security audits. Native Transit Gateway attachment eliminates the need for an intermediate VPC, letting you provide centralized remote access to multiple VPCs and on-premises netwo

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports Slurm version 25.11, with support for a Prometheus-compatible OpenMetrics endpoint, and introduces new log types including scheduler audit logs. This release of Slurm 25.11 introduces expedited re-queue, which can automatically reschedule jobs affected by node issues at the highest priority to help your workloads recover faster. You can enable a new OpenMetrics endpoint for real-time visibility into jobs, nodes, and scheduling using your existing monitoring tools. AWS PCS can now also send Slurm database daemon (slurmdbd) and REST API daemon (slurmrestd) logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose, helping diagnose accounting issues and debug API integrations. Scheduler audit logs, previously included in operational logs, are now delivered as a dedicated log type, providing independent control over ingestion and storage costs. AWS PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to ru