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AWS Lambda event source mappings now support queue consumption mode for Apache Kafka. Using Kafka Share Groups, you can scale consumer parallelism independently of partition count, with per-record acknowledgment,…
A new Anthropic model is now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Haiku 5.5, all three Claude 5.5 models are now available in Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Claude Haiku 5.5 is the…
How to decide between deploying containers on serverless Cloud Run versus managing your own virtual machines on Compute Engine. Learn more: https://g.dev/cloud/what-is-cloud-run (Note: We generated this explainer as…
Starting today, Amazon RDS supports per snapshot billing for Amazon RDS snapshots. Per snapshot billing allows you to get the cost of each individual snapshot. Previously, RDS snapshot charges were aggregated at the…
For organizations that use Amazon Quick, the desktop application now signs users in with the same sign-in method the organization already uses for Quick on the web. Administrators no longer need to register an OIDC…
As the email administrator for your organization’s domain, you receive a Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) aggregate report showing email passing DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)…
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 supports MySQL 8.4.10. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to accept fixes for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of…
AWS Lambda now supports queues for Apache Kafka in self-managed Kafka event source mappings (ESM), for Kafka clusters that customers run themselves and for managed offerings such as Confluent Cloud. Customers can now…
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.46, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. In addition to operational improvements,…
When MySQL commits a large transaction, writing it to the binary log can freeze every other commit on the server for minutes. This post introduces Binary Log Optimization for Large Transactions (BOLT), an AWS…
The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an…
Why analytical queries slow down a production transactional database, and when to use a columnar data warehouse like BigQuery instead. Learn more: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/introduction (Note: We generated…
Amazon Connect Customer now enables you to invoke Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools in customer experience flows through the new 'External Tool' block. With this launch, you can connect flows to third-party…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block, giving you more control over how your customer experience flows react to real-time data changes. In addition to waiting for a Lambda…
Amazon Textract now provides an updated text detection model that improves accuracy, expands language support, and enhances multilingual table extraction. The updated model applies to the DetectDocumentText and…
Amazon Inspector now extends its vulnerability scanning to EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), enabling you to identify software vulnerabilities in your AMIs without launching instances or installing additional software.…
Amazon CloudFront now supports AWS Service Quotas, so you can view, monitor, and request increases for 28 CloudFront quotas from the Service Quotas console or API. Until now, increasing a quota on resources such as…
AWS for Fluent Bit announces version 3.0.0, based on Fluent Bit version 4.1.1 and Amazon Linux 2023. Container logging using AWS for Fluent Bit is now more performant and more feature-rich for AWS customers, including…
Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents,…
On Saturday, October 24, 2026 we conducted a successful exercise demonstrating that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can operate without depending on any infrastructure outside the European Union (EU). This was the…
