Tag: SysAdmin

Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Budgets widgets in BCM Dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your cost management console with the views that matter most to your organization. You can now monitor AWS Budgets alongside Cost Explorer reports and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization reports, all in a single, tailored dashboard. Previously, reviewing budget performance required navigating to a separate console page. Now, finance teams and cloud administrators can add one or more Budgets widgets to any BCM Dashboard, displaying budget name, budgeted amount, actual spend, and forecasted amount. You can filter budgets by name, threshold, and budget type, directly within the widget, and choose which budgets appear on each dashboard, reducing the time spent switching between console pages and enabling faster budget monitoring across teams. Budget widgets are fully integrated with dashboard export capabilities, a

Today, AWS IoT Core launches two new MQTT connection management APIs, GetConnection and ListSubscriptions, enabling you to easily access MQTT client connection and subscription information for your Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These APIs help you troubleshoot connectivity issues, monitor client behavior, and audit connection patterns across your device fleet. The GetConnection API gives you visibility into an IoT device connection by retrieving detailed connection information, including connection status, MQTT session details, and optional socket-level data such as source and target IP addresses, ports, and client VPC endpoint ID, controlled via granular IAM policies. The ListSubscriptions API complements this by returning all t

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub, a central location in the AWS console that helps platform engineering and site reliability teams assess and strengthen the resilience of their critical workloads running on AWS. This new update expands on AWS Resilience Hub’s existing experience for meeting resilience objectives by introducing a new application model, dependency discovery, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting. With the next generation of Resilience Hub, teams model applications using a three-level hierarchy — systems, user journeys, and services — that reflects how these applications deliver business value. Through dependency discovery assessments, maintain up-to-date visibility into the AWS services, internal endpoints, and third-party endpoints that your services rely on. A generative AI-powered failure mode assessment analyzes your services

AWS Organizations now automatically emits CloudTrail events to your management account whenever accounts join or leave your organization. These new events—AccountJoinedOrganization and AccountDepartedOrganization—provide security teams and cloud administrators with enhanced visibility into organizational membership changes, helping detect unauthorized activities and potential security incidents that previously could go unnoticed.  The AccountJoinedOrganization event captures how an account joined an organization (Created or Invited) and the join timestamp, while the AccountDepartedOrganization event records how an account departed —Left for accounts that departed voluntarily, Removed for accounts removed by the management account, or  Cleaned for accounts that were permanently closed along with the departure timestamp.  You can leverage these

Amazon Connect Customer now supports generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in eight additional language families: Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Post-contact summaries also now support non-US variations of English, including British English, Australian English, and other regional locales, ensuring summaries reflect locally appropriate spelling and terminology. Generative AI-powered post-contact summaries provide agents and managers with concise, structured overviews of customer conversations across voice, chat, and email channels, eliminating the need to read full transcripts. With this expansion, organizations can automatically generate summaries in the language of the conversation, helping agents complete after-contact work faster and enabling managers to review contacts across languages. For example, a global support organization can now generate post-contact summaries for calls handled in French, German, or Japanese, g

AWS  now offers Claude Opus 4.8 -- Anthropic's most capable generally available model to date -- delivering meaningful advances across agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and long-running autonomous tasks for developers and enterprises building production AI applications. Claude Opus 4.8 can perform longer autonomous runs, deeper reasoning, and consistency to be trusted with production work. For coding, the Opus 4.8 reads codebases like an engineer, plans before it edits, and holds context across long sessions in real repositories. For agentic tasks, it is better at finding paths around obstacles instead of stalling, recovering from its own errors, and knowing when to ask for help versus when to keep going. For knowledge work, it better synthesizes across long documents and complex sources, self-checks its output, and delivers structured deliverables that hold up to review. Customers have two ways to access Claude Opus 4.8: Amazon Bedrock and Claude Pla

Today, AWS announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector engine designed for customers building agents. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless auto scales 20x faster than its predecessor and provisions resources in seconds to meet the demands of even the most unpredictable agentic workflows. With scale-to-zero and pay-per-usage pricing, customers can now save up to 60% compared to the cost of provisioning Opensearch clusters for peak loads. The next generation of OpenSearch Serverless introduces complete decoupling of compute and storage through a new shared storage layer. This means customers can scale compute up and down independently, reducing costs during low-traffic periods while maintaining instant readiness for traffic spikes. To simplify network connectivity, OpenSearch Serverless now offers two resource-based endpoints - a collection level endpoint and a regional endpoint whic

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports the ability to set up streaming resources powered by Windows Desktop operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Customers can now bring their existing Windows Desktop licenses to support their eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, delivering a consistent and familiar desktop experience as users move between on-premises and virtual desktop environments. With BYOL support on WorkSpaces Applications, the operating system is hosted on hardware dedicated to the customer's AWS account, enabling customers to stream Windows desktop applications and full desktop experiences at scale. Customers benefit from cost savings by bringing their existing Windows Desktop OS licenses, eliminating OS fees so they only pay for compute and streaming infrastructure. When the local device and the streaming session both run the same Windows Desktop OS, users apply the same workflows, shortcuts, and navigation in both environments. Th

Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. DynamoDB Streams captures time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications in DynamoDB tables, enabling real-time data processing and event-driven architectures. This enhancement allows government agencies and organizations with federal compliance requirements to establish private connectivity between their VPCs and DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints without exposing traffic to the public internet. This capability helps customers meet strict federal compliance and regulatory requirements while simplifying their network architecture. By keeping all traffic within the AWS network infrastructure, organizations can securely process real-time data streams, implement compliant change data capture (CDC) solutions, and build event-driven architectures that adhere to federal security standards. Government agencies operating in GovCloud regions

AWS IoT Core now supports the ability to send point-to-point messages to any connected device, providing better visibility into message delivery and lower messaging cost. AWS IoT Core is a fully managed service that securely connects IoT devices to the AWS cloud, and enables bi-directional messaging between IoT devices and cloud services. Previously, sending messages to a single IoT device required publishing to a topic subscribed by the device, with no built-in way to confirm delivery from the receiving device. With the SendDirectMessage API, you can send a message directly to any device connected to AWS IoT Core, and opt-in to receive delivery acknowledgement from the device. AWS IoT Core also uses the delivery acknowledgement to provide detailed API response codes and emit Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into message deliv