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While tens of thousands of customers are successfully using Amazon DynamoDB global tables with eventual consistency, we’re seeing emerging needs for even stronger resilience. Many organizations find that the DynamoDB multi-Availability Zone architecture and eventually consistent global tables meet their requirements, but critical applications like payment processing systems and financial services demand more. For these …

Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables Read More »

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Card. EC2 C8gn instances deliver up to 600Gbps network bandwidth, the highest bandwidth among EC2 network optimized instances. You can use C8gn instances to run the …

New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth Read More »

Every time I visit Seattle, the first thing that greets me at the airport is Mount Rainier. Did you know that the most innovative project at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is named after this mountain? Project Rainier is a new project to create what is expected to be the world’s most powerful computer for training …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Project Rainier, Amazon CloudWatch investigations, AWS MCP servers, and more (June 30, 2025) Read More »

Starting today, you can attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems to access your file data as if it were in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With this new capability, your data in FSx for OpenZFS is accessible for use with a broad range of Amazon Web Services (AWS) …

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access without any data movement Read More »

You can now use sort and z-order compaction to improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets. You typically use Iceberg to manage large-scale analytical datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with AWS Glue Data Catalog or with S3 Tables. Iceberg tables support use cases such as …

New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction Read More »

Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat …

AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025) Read More »

At AWS re:Inforce 2025 (June 16-18, Philadelphia), AWS Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog delivered the keynote address, announcing new security innovations. Throughout the event, AWS announced additional security capabilities focused on simplifying security at scale and enabling organizations to build more resilient applications in the cloud. Below is a comprehensive roundup …

AWS re:Inforce roundup 2025: top announcements Read More »

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with expanded coverage for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), building upon the capabilities we introduced in our AWS re:Invent 2024 announcement of Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security. Security teams managing Kubernetes workloads often struggle to detect …

Amazon GuardDuty expands Extended Threat Detection coverage to Amazon EKS clusters Read More »

AWS Security Hub has been a central place for you to view and aggregate security alerts and compliance status across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. Today, we are announcing the preview release of the new AWS Security Hub which offers additional correlation, contextualization, and visualization capabilities. This helps you prioritize critical security issues, respond at scale …

Unify your security with the new AWS Security Hub for risk prioritization and response at scale (Preview) Read More »

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of a new capability that integrates AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults with Multi-party approval to provide access to your backups even when your AWS account is inaccessible due to inadvertent or malicious events. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services …

AWS Backup adds new Multi-party approval for logically air-gapped vaults Read More »