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Amazon Redshift announces support for the SUPER data type in Databases with Case-Insensitive Collation

Amazon Redshift announces support for the SUPER data type in databases with case insensitive collation, enabling analytics on semi-structured and nested data in these databases. Using the SUPER data type with PartiQL in Amazon Redshift, you can perform advanced analytics that combine structured SQL data (such as string, numeric, and timestamp) with the semi-structured SUPER data (such as JSON) with flexibility and ease-of-use. This enhancement allows you to leverage the SUPER data type for your structured and semi-structured data processing needs in databases with case-insensitive collation. Using the COLLATE function, you can now explicitly specify case sensitivity preferences for SUPER columns, providing greater flexibility in handling data with varying case patterns. This is particularly valuable when working with JSON documents, APIs, or application data where case consistency isn’t guaranteed. Whether you’re processing user-defined identifiers or integrating data from multiple sources, you can now perform complex queries across both case-sensitive and case-insensitive data without additional normalization overhead. Amazon Redshift support for the SUPER data type in databases with case insensitive collation is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, where Amazon Redshift is available. See AWS Region Table for more details. To learn more about the SUPER data type in databases with case insensitive collation, please visit our documentation.
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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 AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka), Middle East (UAE) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these 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 are ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). I7i instances support torn write prevention feature with up to 16KB block sizes, enabling customers to eliminate database performance bottlenecks. 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 Polly expands Generative TTS engine with additional languages and region support

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of five highly expressive Amazon Polly Generative voices in Austrian German (Hannah), Irish English (Niamh), Brazilian Portuguese (Camila), Belgian Dutch (Lisa), and Korean (Seoyeon). This release follows our October launch of Netherlands Dutch (Laura) Generative voice, bringing our total Generative engine offering to thirty-one voices across twenty locales. Additionally, we have expanded the Generative engine to three new regions in Asia Pacific: Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Amazon Polly is a fully-managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing developers and builders to enable their applications for conversational AI or for speech content creation. All new and existing Generative voices are now available in the US East (North Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. To hear how Polly voices sound, go to Amazon Polly Features. To learn more about how to use Generative engine, go to AWS Blog. For more details on the Polly offerings and use, please read the Amazon Polly documentation and visit our pricing page.
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AWS Transfer Family announces Terraform module to automate scanning of transferred files

AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports deployment of automated malware scanning workflows for files transferred using Transfer Family resources. This release streamlines centralized provisioning of threat detection workflows using Amazon GuardDuty S3 Protection, helping you meet data security requirements by identifying potential threats in transferred files. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web browser- based interfaces for AWS storage services. Using the new module, you can programmatically provision workflows to scan incoming files, dynamically route files based on scan results, and generate threat notifications, in a single deployment. You can granularly implement threat detection for specific S3 prefixes while preserving folder structures post scanning, and ensure that only verified clean files reach your business applications and data lakes. This eliminates the overhead and risks associated with manual configurations, and provides a scalable deployment option for data security compliance. Customers can get started by using the new module from the Terraform Registry. To learn more about Transfer Family, visit the product page and user guide. To see all the regions where Transfer Family is available, visit the AWS Region table.
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Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon 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 for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver 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 I3en instances. I7ie are high density storage optimized instances, ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage with high random read/write performance at very low latency consistency to access large data sets. These instances are available in 9 different virtual sizes and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications expands the regional availability to Italy, Spain, Malaysia, and Israel

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the regional availability for Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. Starting today, AWS customers can deploy their applications and desktops in the AWS Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions and stream them using WorkSpaces Applications. Deploying your applications in a region closer to your end users helps provide a more responsive experience.  Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that provides users with instant access to their desktop applications from anywhere. It allows users to stream applications and desktops from AWS to their devices, without requiring them to download, install, or manage any software locally. WorkSpaces Applications manages the AWS resources required to host and run your applications, scales automatically, and provides access to your users on demand. To get started with Amazon WorkSpaces Applications, sign into the WorkSpaces Applications management console and select one of the AWS Region of your choice. For the full list of Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is available, see the AWS Region Table. AppStream 2.0 offers pay-as-you-go pricing. For more information, see Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Pricing.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds new instance types and configurable storage options

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers enhanced flexibility features that provide customers with more choices for compute and configurable storage volume. Customers can also import their custom EC2 AMIs to create Amazon WorkSpaces images. These new capabilities help customers better match resources to their specific application requirements while optimizing costs. The service now includes 100+ additional compute instance types and sizes across all supported instance families, including general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, and accelerated options. Customers can also customize storage volumes ranging from 200GB to 500GB, and utilize their own Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs along with their preferred image customization tools. With these enhancements, customers can now match their computing resources to exactly what their applications need while controlling costs effectively. Organizations can choose the right instance type for each use case – whether it’s basic office applications running on cost-efficient general-purpose instances, or demanding CAD software requiring powerful compute-optimized instances. The ability to select storage size options allows customers to use additional storage based on their application needs. All of this customization is available while maintaining the simplicity of a fully managed service, eliminating the complexity of infrastructure management. These new capabilities are now generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is supported. The enhanced features follow WorkSpaces Applications’ standard pay-as-you-go pricing model. For detailed pricing information, visit the Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Pricing page. To learn more about these new features, visit the Amazon WorkSpaces Applications documentation.
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Amazon Route 53 DNS Firewall adds protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks

Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced to monitor and block queries associated with Dictionary-based Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) attacks, that generate domain names by pseudo-randomly concatenating words from a predefined dictionary, creating human-readable strings to evade detection. Route 53 DNS Firewall Advanced is an offering on Route 53 DNS Firewall that enables you to enforce protections to monitor and block your DNS traffic in real-time based on anomalies identified in the domain names being queried from your VPCs. These include protections for DNS tunneling and DGA attacks. With this launch, you can also enforce protections for Dictionary-based DGA attacks, which is a variant of the DGA attack, where domain names are generated to mimic and blend with legitimate domain names, to resist detection. To get started, you can configure one or multiple DNS Firewall Advanced rule(s), specifying Dictionary DGA as the threat to be inspected. You can add the rule(s) to a DNS Firewall rule group, and enforce it on your VPCs by associating the rule group to each desired VPC directly or by using AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), AWS CloudFormation, or Route 53 Profiles. Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced support for Dictionary DGA is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about the new capabilities and the pricing, visit the Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall webpage and the Route 53 pricing page. To get started, visit the Route 53 documentation.
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AWS Backup extends delegated administrator support to 17 additional AWS Regions

You can now designate delegated administrators for AWS Backup in 17 additional AWS Regions, enabling assigned users in member accounts to perform most administrative tasks.
Delegated administrators are now supported in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). Delegated administration enables organizations to designate a central AWS account to manage backup operations across multiple member accounts, streamlining governance and reducing administrative overhead. Additionally, you can now use AWS Backup Audit Manager cross-Region and cross-account delegated administrator functionality in these Regions, empowering delegated administrators to create audit reports for jobs and compliance for backup plans that span these Regions.
For more information on the AWS Backup features available across AWS Regions, see AWS Backup documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.
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Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports Resolver query logging configurations

Today, AWS announced support for Resolver query logging configurations in Amazon Route 53 Profiles, allowing you to manage Resolver query logging configuration and apply it to multiple VPCs and AWS accounts within your organization. With this enhancement, Amazon Route 53 Profiles simplifies the management of Resolver query logging by streamlining the process of associating logging configurations with VPCs, and without requiring you to manually associate them with each VPC. Route 53 Profiles allows you to create and share Route 53 configurations (private hosted zones, DNS Firewall rule groups, Resolver rules) across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts. Previously, Resolver query logging required you to manually set it up for each VPC in every AWS account. Now, with Route 53 Profiles you can manage your Resolver query logging configurations for your VPCs and AWS accounts, using a single Profile configuration. Profiles support for Resolver query logging configurations reduces the management overhead for network security teams and simplifies compliance auditing by providing consistent DNS query logs across all accounts and VPCs. Route 53 Profiles support for Resolver query logging is now available in the AWS Regions mentioned here. To learn more about this capability and how it can benefit your organization, visit the Amazon Route 53 documentation. You can get started by accessing the Amazon Route 53 console in your AWS Management Console or through the AWS CLI. To learn more about Route 53 Profiles pricing, see here. 
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