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AWS Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions adds ad response hooks

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional lifecycle hooks for monetization functions: post ad decision server (ADS) response, and pre manifest insertion. MediaTailor is a video service that personalizes and inserts ads into live and on-demand streams. Monetization functions run customer-defined logic at defined points in an ad-personalized playback session, removing the need for a middleware tier between MediaTailor and the ADS.
The post ADS response hook runs after MediaTailor parses an ADS response and resolves all Video Ad Serving Template (VAST) wrappers, before ads are selected and transcoded. Customers use it to call a secondary ad source when the primary ADS returns less demand than the ad break can hold, remove ads that their content or brand policies do not permit, and add house ads or promotions from their own marketing systems. The pre manifest insertion hook runs at the last point before MediaTailor returns the ad pod to the viewer, and receives every newly personalized ad break in a single invocation. Customers use it as a final check on what is about to play, including inserting a personalized slate when a break cannot be filled any other way. Pre-built recipes in the MediaTailor console give customers a starting point for each of these use cases. Both hooks are fail-open: on a timeout, expression error, or resource limit, MediaTailor discards the function output and continues with default ad insertion, so viewer playback is unaffected.
The new hooks are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more, see Monetization Functions in the AWS Elemental MediaTailor User Guide and the MediaTailor pricing page. To get started, sign in to the AWS Elemental MediaTailor console.
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Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core now support Graphics G7 bundles, built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. Graphics G7 delivers up to 2.1x better performance for graphics-intensive workloads compared to previous generation Graphics G6 bundles. Four bundle sizes are available, ranging from 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and one GPU up to 48 vCPUs, 192 GB of memory, and two GPUs.
With Graphics G7, you can run demanding professional applications such as CAD/CAM, 3D rendering, scientific visualization, video editing, and AI-assisted design workflows at higher fidelity and frame rates. Each GPU provides 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, enabling larger and more complex 3D scenes and models. Graphics G7 bundles are available with Windows, including bring-your-own-license, and support both AlwaysOn and AutoStop running modes.
Graphics G7 bundles are available for both WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon). Additional Regions will be added as availability expands.
To get started, select a Graphics G7 bundle when creating a workspace in the Amazon WorkSpaces console, or through your Workspaces Core partner solution. For more information on available instance types, see WorkSpaces Personal Instance Families. To learn more about G7 GPU capabilities, visit the EC2 G7 Instance Types page. For pricing details, see Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Pricing or Core Bundles Pricing.
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Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics now supports tag-based access control

Amazon Connect Customer now supports tag-based access control for custom metrics, so you can govern which users and roles can view, create, or modify each custom metric.
As more teams across your organization adopt custom metrics, they end up editing the same shared library. Without controls, one person can change a metric that other teams count on. The usual fix is to give only a handful of people permissions to custom metrics, but that shuts out every other team that wants to start using them.  
Now you can tag each metric, then use those tags to set access: a team gets full control of their own metrics, view-only access to another team’s, and no visibility into the metrics you restrict. Search follows the same access rules, so people only see the metrics they’re allowed to view or manage.
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New AWS experience helps builders get started and ship faster

Builders can now sign up for a new simplified experience that makes it faster to turn ideas into running code on AWS. AWS services provide an array of configuration options so that the largest enterprises can customize settings for their distinct needs. Until now, builders with a new project idea had to decide among these options and configure their AWS environment before beginning to build. The new experience reduces setup effort by simplifying sign-up and automatically configuring an initial project with sensible defaults so builders can begin implementing their idea immediately.
When you sign up, you can use your existing Google, GitHub, Apple, or Amazon credentials. For most new customers, no credit card is required and you will receive up to $200 in free credits as part of the AWS Free Tier. Once signup is complete, you can connect your coding agent to AWS with a single prompt that automatically installs the AWS CLI and the Agent Toolkit for AWS. Your coding agent connects to your project and uses built-in guidance to deploy resources using best practices.
As your project expands, you can invite team members to collaborate with you by email. When a team member accepts your invitation, their project access is configured automatically. Similarly, many of the AWS resources you create can access resources in other AWS services automatically because the new IAM role manager capability is enabled for your projects. When you’re ready to upgrade to a paid plan, you can set a monthly spend limit for your project based on your usage patterns so that you stay within your budget. If a project’s usage reaches its spend limit, your project is paused for that month. You can create additional projects with one click, each with its own spend limit and distinct team members. At any time, you can activate advanced features without migration or downtime, enabling you to use additional features such as multiple AWS Regions and custom governance controls.
To try the new experience, create a new AWS account. To learn more, see AWS reimagines the getting started experience on the AWS News Blog.
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AWS Client VPN is now supporting MacOS 27 Golden Gate

AWS Client VPN now supports MacOS 27 Golden Gate client with versions 6.0+ You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest MacOS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded here. AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects your remote workforce to AWS or on-premises networks. It supports desktop clients for MacOS, Windows x64, Windows Arm64 and Ubuntu-Linux. With client version 6.0 onwards, Client VPN now supports the latest MacOS  Golden Gate 27.0. It already supports Mac OS version 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, and 26.0, Windows 10 (x64) and Windows 11 (Arm64 and x64), and Ubuntu Linux 22.04 and 24.04 LTS versions. To learn more about Client VPN:

Visit the AWS Client VPN product page
Read the AWS Client VPN documentation
Read the AWS Client VPN user guide

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