Kategorie: Amazon AWS

AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. With AWS WAF, you can control access to your content. Based on conditions that you specify, such as the IP addresses that requests originate from or the values of query strings, your protected resource responds to requests either with the requested content, with an HTTP 403 status code (Forbidden), or with a custom response. To see the full list of regions where AWS WAF is currently available, visit the AWS Region Table. For more information about the service, visit the AWS WAF page. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS WAF Pricing page.
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Amazon OpenSearch UI supports CMK and increased metadata size

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs) and increased size for OpenSearch UI metadata. Amazon OpenSearch UI is a managed service for dashboarding and operational analytics that provides a unified view across multiple data sources, including OpenSearch domains and collections, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Security Lake. You can now create new OpenSearch UI applications with metadata encrypted with your own CMKs, helping organizations meet regulatory and compliance requirements. This launch also increases the metadata size limit for saved objects in OpenSearch UI, enabling you to create and store complex queries, extensive visualizations, and large-scale dashboards. CMK support and increased metadata size are available in all regions that OpenSearch UI is available. Learn more at Amazon OpenSearch UI Developer Guide.
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Amazon Connect dashboards now support filtering metrics based on custom business dimensions

Amazon Connect dashboards now support filtering metrics based on custom business dimensions such as business divisions, product lines, or customer segments. Using predefined attributes, you can create business dimensions to filter metrics helping you customize the dashboards based on your unique business need. For example, if your queue handles contacts across product lines, you can filter metrics by product line to compare handle times and determine where agents need product training. Amazon Connect dashboards are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
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Amazon Connect expands automated agent performance evaluations to 5 additional languages

Amazon Connect now automates agent performance evaluations in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish using generative AI. Managers define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated evaluations with justifications in their preferred language. Performance evaluations also supports cross-language evaluation and can complete assessments in English, even when the conversation is in another language. This enables multilingual contact centers to use a standardized evaluation framework across languages. This feature is supported in 8 AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). For information about Amazon Connect pricing, please visit our pricing page. To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage.
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MiniMax-M2 is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

MiniMax-M2 is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, providing customers with immediate access to deploy this efficient open-source model in minutes. With SageMaker JumpStart, you can quickly discover, evaluate, and deploy MiniMax-M2 using either SageMaker Studio’s intuitive interface or the SageMaker Python SDK for programmatic deployment.
MiniMax-M2 redefines efficiency for agents. It’s a compact, fast, and cost-effective MoE model (230 billion total parameters with 10 billion active parameters) built for elite performance in coding and agentic tasks, all while maintaining powerful general intelligence.
To learn more about deploying foundation models with SageMaker JumpStart, deployment options with the SDK, and best practices for implementation, refer to our documentation.
MiniMax-M2 is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo).
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Amazon MSK expands Standard Brokers and Express Brokers to Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. Customers can create Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters in this region starting today. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. Amazon MSK offers two types of Apache Kafka provisioned broker – Standard brokers and Express brokers. Standard brokers offer the most flexibility to configure your cluster’s performance. You can configure availability, durability, throughput, and latency. You also control the storage configurations on your cluster and are responsible for managing storage provisioning and utilization. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, up to 5x more partitions per broker, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to Standard brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes. You can now create an MSK provisioned cluster with Standard or Express brokers in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region through the Amazon MSK console or the Amazon CLI. To get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.
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Oracle Database@AWS is now available in three additional AWS Regions

Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in three additional AWS Regions – US-East-2 (Ohio), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), and AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo). Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to access database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers. With this launch, customers in the EU and Japan with in-region data residency requirements can easily migrate on-premises Oracle Exadata applications to AWS. With this expansion, AWS customers can run OCI Exadata Database Service, OCI Autonomous Database on Dedicated Infrastructure, and OCI Autonomous Recovery Service in five Regions – US-East-1 (N.Virginia), US-West-2 (Oregon), US-East-2 (Ohio), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), and AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo). To use these services, request a private offer from Oracle through the AWS Marketplace, and use AWS Management Console to setup database resources. To learn more, visit Oracle Database@AWS overview and documentation.
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AWS Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations

AWS Transform now supports automatic network conversion from hybrid data centers, eliminating manual network mapping for environments running both VMware and non-VMware workloads. The service now analyzes VLANs and IP ranges across all exported source networks and maps these to AWS constructs like Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, and security groups. AWS Transform for VMware is an agentic AI-powered service that automates the discovery, planning, and migration of VMware workloads, accelerating infrastructure modernization with increased confidence. The service extends support to hybrid data centers by analyzing exported data from application mapping tools such as modelizeIT to automatically generate Infrastructure as Code and provision AWS networking resources. This feature is available in all AWS Transform target Regions. To learn more, visit the AWS Transform product page, read the user guide, or get started in the AWS Transform web experience.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.5 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL Innovation Release 9.5 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.5 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment which provides the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MySQL 9.5 is the latest Innovation Release from the MySQL community. MySQL Innovation releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. MySQL Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next innovation minor, whereas MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) Releases, such as MySQL 8.0 and MySQL 8.4, are supported by the community for up to eight years. Please refer to the MySQL 9.5 release notes and Amazon RDS MySQL release notes for more details. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment supports both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments on the latest generation of instance classes. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots created in the Preview Environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the Preview Environment. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced the same as production RDS instances created in the US East (Ohio) Region. For further information, see Working with the Database Preview Environment. To get started with the Preview Environment from the RDS console, navigate here.
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AWS Secrets Manager announces improved secret sorting capabilities

Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces enhanced secret sorting capabilities in the Secrets Manager console and for ListSecrets API. You can now sort secrets by name, last changed date, last accessed date, and creation date—expanding beyond the previous creation date-only option. Secrets Manager is a fully managed service that helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. This enhancement improves secret discovery by providing flexible sorting options across multiple dimensions through both Secrets Manager console and APIs. The new sorting capabilities are available in Secrets Manager console and ListSecrets API in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a list of regions where Secrets Manager is available, see the AWS Region table.
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