Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics, now enables you to discover and collect Prometheus metrics from your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster while ensuring high availability and scalability.
So far, customers who were seeking to benefit from open monitoring in an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster had to set up dedicated infrastructure and deploy, right-size, and scale agents to discover and scrape the Prometheus metrics in the cluster. With this launch, you can configure a Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector to scrape metrics from the JMX exporter and the Node exporter, covering metrics including host-level, JVM-level, as well as broker-related metrics to implement use cases such as message queue health and partition balancing.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector is available in all commercial regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is available. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, visit the user guide or product page.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer access logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer (NLB) access logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns. You can now analyze NLB access logs directly in CloudWatch to gain insights into client connections, traffic distribution, and connection status, helping you identify and troubleshoot network issues faster. With this CloudWatch Logs integration, you can track detailed access patterns using CloudWatch Logs Insights queries, create metric filters for monitoring, and review traffic patterns in real time using Live Tail. NLB access logs can be configured through the integrations tab of your network load balancer in AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs. You can also configure delivery of NLB access logs to Amazon Data Firehose or Amazon S3 with support for Apache Parquet format. NLB access logs delivery to CloudWatch is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions where Network Load Balancer and CloudWatch are available. NLB access logs are charged as vended logs when delivered to CloudWatch Logs and Data Firehose, while delivery to Amazon S3 is free (Parquet conversion is charged at $0.035/GB – N. Virginia). 
To learn more about configuring NLB access logs in CloudWatch Logs, please visit our documentation. For pricing information, see CloudWatch pricing page.
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Amazon DCV now supports Amazon EC2 Mac instances

AWS announces Amazon DCV support for Amazon EC2 Mac instances powered by Apple silicon, bringing high-performance remote desktop capabilities to macOS workloads in the cloud. You can now access your EC2 Mac instances with the same security and performance that Amazon DCV provides across other platforms. This integration is specifically designed for EC2 Mac instances running on Apple silicon processors. With Amazon DCV, you can connect to your EC2 Mac instances from Windows, Linux, macOS, or web clients with support for 4K resolution, multiple monitors, and smooth 60 FPS performance. The support includes essential productivity features like time zone redirection and audio output, making remote Mac development seamless. Amazon DCV’s proven security architecture and optimized streaming protocols ensure your macOS applications run efficiently while maintaining data protection standards. Amazon DCV support for EC2 Mac instances is available in all AWS Regions where EC2 Mac instances are offered. To get started, see the Amazon DCV documentation for installing and configuring DCV server on EC2 Mac instances.
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Announcing communication preferences for Security Incident Response

AWS Security Incident Response now provides customizable communication preferences so you can focus on the updates that matter most to your role. You can choose from various notification types including case changes, membership updates, and organizational announcements. This granular control reduces the previous one-size-fits-all approach where every team member received every update regardless of relevance. You can easily adjust these settings as your role evolves, with smart defaults that work effectively out of the box. This feature is available to all Security Incident Response customers at no additional cost. To configure your communication preferences, visit the Security Incident Response console and select any team member to customize their notification settings.
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AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failures

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now offers two new scenarios that help you proactively test how your applications handle partial disruptions within and across Availability Zones (AZs). These disruptions, often called gray failures, are more common than complete outages and can be particularly challenging to detect and mitigate. The FIS scenario library provides AWS-created, pre-defined experiment templates that minimize the heavy lifting of designing tests. The new scenarios expand the testing capabilities for partial disruptions. “AZ: Application Slowdown” lets you test for increased latency and degraded performance for resources, dependencies, and connections within a single AZ. This helps validate observability setups, tune alarm thresholds, and practice critical operational decisions like AZ evacuation. The scenario works with both single and multi-AZ applications. “Cross-AZ: Traffic Slowdown” enables testing of how multi-AZ applications handle traffic disruptions between AZs. With both scenarios, you can target specific portions of your application traffic for more realistic testing of partial disruptions. These scenarios are particularly valuable for testing application sensitivity to these more subtle disruptions that often manifest as traffic and application slowdowns. For instance, you can test how your application responds to degraded network paths causing packet loss for some traffic flows, or misconfigured connection pools that slow down specific requests. To get started, access these new scenarios through the FIS scenario library in the AWS Management Console. These new scenarios are available in all AWS Regions where AWS FIS is available, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, visit the FIS scenario library user guide. For pricing information, visit the FIS pricing page.
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Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances are now available in Europe (London), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. Additionally, M8gd instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) and R8gd instances are available in Europe (London) AWS Region. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage. Each instance is available in 12 different sizes. They provide up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Additionally, customers can now adjust the network and Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, providing greater flexibility with the allocation of bandwidth resources to better optimize workloads. These instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes. To learn more, see Amazon C8gd instances, M8gd instances, R8gd instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.
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Amazon EC2 C6id and R6id instances are now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C6id instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Milan) and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Africa (Cape Town). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id and R6id are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such as video encoding, image manipulation, other forms of media processing, data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit our product pages for C6id and R6id.
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Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Canada (Central) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). Additionally, torn write prevention feature support up to 16KB block sizes, enabling customers to eliminate database performance bottlenecks. I7i instances also support real-time, high-resolution performance statistics for the NVMe instance store volumes attached to them. To learn more, visit the detailed NVMe performance statistics page. I7i instances are available in eleven sizes – nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare metal sizes – delivering up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. To learn more, visit the I7i instances page.
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Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (Stockholm and Ireland) Regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Europe (Stockholm and Ireland) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-6tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now available in Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), simplifying how you get started and manage updates. Previously, you had to download the Mountpoint package from GitHub, install dependencies, and manually manage updates. Now, when using AL2023, you can install or update to the latest release of Mountpoint with a single command, and mount an Amazon S3 bucket. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is an open source project backed by AWS support, giving AWS Business and Enterprise Support customers 24/7 access to AWS cloud support engineers. To learn more and get started, visit GitHub, the Mountpoint overview page, the installation guide and AL2023 overview page.
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