Tag: SysAdmin

We would like to announce the general availability of Amazon Q Developer Java upgrade transformation CLI (command line interface). Using the CLI, customers can invoke Q Developer’s transformation capabilities from the command line and perform Java upgrades at scale. The following capabilities are available: Java application upgrades from source versions 8, 11, 17, or 21 to target versions 17 or 21 (now available in CLI in addition to IDE) Selective transformation with options to choose steps from transformation plans, and libraries and versions to upgrade The ability to convert embedded SQL to complete Oracle-to-PostgreSQL database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) With this launch, the capabilities are now available in the AWS Regions US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt). They can be accessed in the command line, on Linux and Mac OS. For more details, please visit

Today we announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2025.06, which introduces significant improvements to instance bootstrapping, security configurations, and logging capabilities. This release streamlines the RES deployment process, enhances security controls for infrastructure hosts, adds Amazon CloudWatch logging for virtual desktop instances (VDI), and provides new customization options. RES 2025.06 features a streamlined bootstrapping process that accelerates infrastructure and VDI launch times. The improved process also enables customers to create RES-ready Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) without requiring an active RES deployment, making it easier to apply patches and customizations. Enhanced security configurations for infrastructure hosts now have more granular permissions, helping reduce security risks from compromised hosts. Additionally, a new Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration, enabled by default, centralizes VDI logs to simplify troubleshooting

Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces automatic interpolation of input parameters for Nextflow private workflows, eliminating the need for manual parameter template creation. This enhancement intelligently identifies and extracts both required and optional input parameters directly from workflow definitions, along with their descriptions. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. With this new feature, customers can launch bioinformatics workflows more quickly since they no longer need to manually identify, define, and validate each workflow parameter. This also helps reduce configuration errors that can occur when parameters are incorrectly specified or omitted. For specialized requirements, customers can still provide custom parameter templates to over

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. C7i instances are supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. C7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are a great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology that are used to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, these new instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density—the highest available in the cloud for storage optimized instances—and deliver up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, these instances achieve up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to existing I3en instances. Additionally, the 16KB torn write prevention feature, enables cust

Starting today, you can enable Amazon CloudWatch metric (ResolverEndpointCapacityStatus) to monitor the status of the query capacity for Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) associated with your Route 53 Resolver endpoint in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The new metric enables you to quickly view whether the Resolver endpoint is at the risk of meeting the service limit for query capacity, and take remediation steps like instantiating additional ENIs to meet the capacity needs. Before today, you could enable CloudWatch to monitor the number of DNS queries that were forwarded by Route 53 Resolver endpoints, over a default five-minute interval, and make further estimations on when your endpoints will meet the query limits. With this launch, you can now enable the new metric to get direct alerts on the current status of your Resolver endpoint capacity, without requiring you to make additional estimations for calculating capacity of each endpoint. The status is reported for ea

AWS Firewall Manager announces security policy support for enhanced application layer (L7) DDoS protection within AWS WAF. The application layer (L7) DDoS protection is an AWS Managed Rule group that automatically detects and mitigates DDoS events of any applications on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer (ALB) and other AWS services supported by WAF. AWS Firewall Manager helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and managing rules. Working with AWS Firewall Manager, customers can provide defense in depth policies to address the full range of web site protections from the newly released AWS WAF (L7) DDoS protections to non-HTTP based threats to web site infrastructure. By looking at the totality of a web-sites’ technology stack, customers can define and deploy all the needed protections. AWS Firewall Manager support for application layer (L7) DDo

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of a new resource-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation capability for Application Load Balancers (ALB). This new WAF DDoS protection is directly integrated with ALB as an on-host agent to detect and mitigates DDoS attacks from known malicious sources within seconds while maintaining service quality for legitimate traffic. The WAF resource-level DDoS protection for ALBs is built on upon existing IP reputation rule group to provide rapid protection against known attack sources through static rules. This feature efficiently rate limits the traffic based on both direct client IP addresses and proxy networks by inspecting DDoS indicators in X-Forwarded-For (XFF) headers. Resource-level DDoS protection for ALBs can be configured to be active at all times or to be active only during

We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Middle East (UAE) region. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that simplifies application deployment and management on AWS. The service automatically handles deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring, allowing developers to focus on writing code. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions. To get started on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, see the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

Amazon Cognito introduces AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) support in Cognito Managed Login. This new capability allows customers to protect their Managed Login endpoints configured in Cognito user pools from unwanted or malicious requests and web-based attacks. Managed Login, a fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience that customers can personalize to align with their company or application branding, now offers an additional layer of protection against threat vectors through integration with AWS WAF web access control lists (web ACLs). This integration provides customers with powerful new capabilities to safeguard their applications against malicious attacks. With AWS WAF support, you can now define rules that enforce rate limits, gain visibility into web traffic to your applications, and allow or block traffic to Cognito Managed Login based on your specific business or security requirements. Additionally, the AWS WAF integration enables you to optimize c