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Amazon S3 Tables now offer complete support for the Apache Iceberg V3 spec. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-in compaction, maintenance, and engine compatibility.
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches. Filters evaluate before similarity search so scoped queries return more relevant results. Ideal for RAG, agentic apps, and document search.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that join transactional and historical data using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. It supports AWS Glue Data Catalog, S3, and S3 Tables, with optimizations like predicate pushdown and caching for efficient performance.
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a real difference in helping developers and organizations succeed with AWS. This month, we welcome […]
Amazon CloudWatch Omni is the next evolution of CloudWatch — unified observability that brings your applications and AI agents into one reimagined experience, with auto-discovered topology, natural language queries, and AI-guided investigation powered by AWS DevOps Agent.
AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances.
Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a container image or source code; Elastic Beanstalk with service-operated compute creates and operates the environment that runs it.
AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project environments, and simplified team and resource permissions. If their workload evolves, customers can activate advanced features to access the full breadth and depth of AWS in one step, with no migration required.
engineering:Now in Labs: Full-screen messaging on webMessages on web live in small popovers: both the list of messages, and the message window itself. That’s fine for a quick reply, but it gets cramped when you’re keeping up with a lot of conversations, so we built a full-screen version.Full-screen messaging gives your DMs more space: your conversation list on the left, the open conversation on the right. Of course, you can switch between your blogs, start a new chat, send GIFs and images, and block or report a conversation.To try it, enable it in Labs → Full-screen messaging. Once it’s on,…
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.
AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.13, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.
Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions lasting up to 14 days.
On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]
Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-risk operation.
AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local NVMe storage options (C9gd).
AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access controls, and domain scoping, reducing operational risk as certificate lifetimes continue to reduce.
AWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and resume, full lifecycle control, state preservation up to 8 hours, no infrastructure to manage.