Kategorie: Amazon AWS

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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AWS Billing Conductor now supports custom rates and usage tier pricing configurations

AWS Billing Conductor now lets you define custom rate pricing for AWS services, including defining custom usage tiers to configure rates by the desired usage volume. 
Customers and Partners using AWS Billing Conductor to model commercial agreements with subsidiaries, affiliates, or end customers can now more easily reflect their negotiated pricing on pro forma billing data. Using SKU-scoped pricing rules, you can enter a custom rate and configure usage tier thresholds — instead of marking up or down from the public on-demand rates tied to pre-defined AWS usage tiers. 
By configuring exact rates and tier breaks directly in a pricing rule, you no longer need to calculate percentage-based markups or markdowns against public on-demand pricing to model your commercial agreements. This gives you precise control over your pro forma billing configuration.
Custom rates and custom usage tiers configuration via SKU-scoped pricing rules is available in all commercial AWS Regions, excluding the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To learn more, visit the AWS Billing Conductor product page, or review the User Guide.
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AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections

AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for 10G and 100G dedicated connections
AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated network connectivity from on-premises environments to AWS. Customers value the flexibility of AWS Direct Connect’s pay-as-you-go pricing, paying only for the port hours and data transfer out (DTO) they use, with no upfront commitment or long-term contracts. For workloads with large, sustained DTO, the per-gigabyte charges vary from month to month, making monthly costs challenging to predict as traffic grows. Flat-rate pricing for 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections introduces a single fixed monthly price that eliminates DTO charges within the selected pricing tier. This pricing model is designed for network architects, enterprise IT teams, and FinOps practitioners who need predictable, fixed-line-item network budgeting. With a fixed monthly price,  you can grow your use of AWS without worrying about increasing data transfer bills.
With flat-rate pricing, you pay a single fee based on your connection bandwidth and the geographical scope of your connectivity. With five geographic tiers ranging from same-metro to global coverage, customers can select the scope that matches their traffic patterns and pay one consistent monthly rate regardless of data volume. Flat-rate pricing also introduces the port-pair concept, a new way to provision dedicated connections with inbuilt resiliency. A port-pair is two dedicated connections on different devices or locations that share the same bandwidth and geographical connectivity scope. One connection carries your traffic while the other stands by for redundancy. The second connection is included at no additional charge. Port-pairs are recommended but optional.
Flat-rate pricing is available at all AWS Direct Connect locations across all commercial AWS Regions (China Regions excluded) and applies exclusively to Dedicated Connections. The pricing model is configured per connection and gives customers the flexibility to switch billing mode on connections at any time.
To learn more about flat-rate pricing tiers, port-pair configurations, and eligibility requirements, visit the AWS Direct Connect Flat-Rate Pricing, User Guide and Pricing Guide pages.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Monitor cost anomalies directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Detected Anomalies widget

Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for the Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now review cost anomalies alongside cost and usage, budgets, cost efficiency, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and cost anomalies in a single, tailored dashboard.
The Detected Anomalies widget displays the number of anomalies detected and their total cost impact relative to your month-to-date spend, giving you immediate context on each anomaly’s scale. For each anomaly, you can review the cost impact, root cause, and duration. Choose a look-back period of 30, 60, or 90 days, and filter by severity, service, account, and region so that each dashboard shows the anomalies most relevant to that account. By adding one or more Detected Anomalies widget to a BCM Dashboard, finance teams and cloud administrators can monitor anomalies from their existing cost management workflows.
The widget links directly to the AWS Cost Anomaly Detection console so you can easily investigate an anomaly and record your assessment. It is fully integrated with dashboard exports and can be included in scheduled email reports or downloaded as a CSV or PDF for offline analysis. It is also included with cross-account dashboard sharing.
The Detected Anomalies widget for BCM Dashboards is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge. To learn more, visit our User Guide.
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AWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-in

AWS root user sign-in is now served across US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon), with sign-in traffic distributed across all three Regions. This change reduces reliance on US East (N. Virginia) and improves resiliency during service disruptions. AWS automatically routes your root user sign-in to a supported Region without requiring you to select a Region or change how you sign in. This improvement is available now for all AWS accounts.
In AWS CloudTrail, ConsoleLogin events for root user sign-ins are recorded in the Region that processed the sign-in request. To maintain full visibility into root user sign-in activity, update your monitoring and alerting to cover US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon).
To learn more, see the AWS Sign-In documentation and the CloudTrail ConsoleLogin event reference.
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Amazon Connect Customer now enables agents to bid on preferred shifts

Amazon Connect Customer now enables agents to bid on preferred shifts, giving them more control over their work schedules. Schedulers first establish agent ranking either by uploading a CSV file or generating a randomized ranking. Connect Customer then uses forecasted demand and shift profiles to generate available shifts and presents them to agents to rank. For example, in a Monday–Friday 6AM–10PM shift profile with 9-hour shifts, required shifts are 6AM–3PM (500 agents), 9AM–6PM (800 agents), and 1PM–10PM (600 agents). Once the bidding window closes, Connect Customer automatically assigns each agent to their highest-ranked available shift while using agent ranking as a tiebreaker. Shift bidding gives agents a structured way to influence their own schedules, while reducing the time schedulers spend on manual shift assignments, improving both agent satisfaction and scheduling efficiency.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Customer agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect Customer agent scheduling, click here.
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Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language in Amazon Q Console

AWS CloudTrail, a service that records API activity across your AWS account for security auditing, compliance, and operational troubleshooting, now integrates with Amazon Q Console to help you investigate your AWS account activity using natural language. You can ask Amazon Q Console questions about your CloudTrail configuration, query your logged events for security investigations, and troubleshoot operational issues without writing queries or manually parsing log files.
With this integration, you can ask Amazon Q Console to check whether your CloudTrail trails are properly configured, identify gaps in your logging coverage, and confirm which data event sources you are tracking. You can investigate security concerns by asking who accessed a specific IAM role, what changes were made to your VPC configuration, or whether there were unauthorized access attempts in the past week. For operational troubleshooting, you can ask Amazon Q Console to find who created or deleted specific resources, identify which API calls are generating errors, trace activity from a specific IP address, or determine why your bill spiked. Amazon Q Console can query your CloudTrail trails, associated CloudWatch log groups, and event data stores on your behalf, providing answers grounded in your actual account activity rather than generic documentation. 
This integration is available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Q Console is supported. To get started, open Amazon Q in AWS Management Console and ask questions about your CloudTrail configuration or account activity. For more information, visit the AWS CloudTrail documentation.
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