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With synthetic monitors in Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring, you can now determine whether a network performance issue on a path that crosses an AWS Transit Gateway inter-Region peering connection is caused by the AWS network. This helps network operators and application developers cut the time spent isolating the source of degradation on these paths. Previously, for synthetic monitors, the network health indicator (NHI) covered only paths that connect through AWS Direct Connect. With this release, synthetic monitors extend it to paths that reach a destination in a peered Region over Transit Gateway inter-Region peering. For these paths,…
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Today, AWS announces that Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor synthetic monitoring now provides its network health indicator (NHI) for paths that reach a destination across an AWS Transit Gateway inter-Region peering connection. Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor is a fully managed service that measures packet loss and latency for the hybrid network paths connecting your AWS-hosted applications to your destinations. The NHI helps network operators and application developers rapidly determine whether an observed degradation is within the AWS network. Previously, the NHI covered only paths that connect through AWS Direct Connect. With this launch…
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AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 File Gateway. Previously, FIPS endpoints for File Gateway were available only over the public internet. Now you can keep FIPS-compliant traffic on the private AWS network, making it easier to use Storage Gateway for regulated workloads. With this launch, your File Gateway can reach the Storage Gateway service endpoints privately through a FIPS interface VPC endpoint in your VPC. You can also create NFS and SMB file shares that reach Amazon S3 through an S3 FIPS interface endpoint, enabling FIPS-compliant private connectivity for your end-to-end…
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) ad insertion using HLS Interstitials. MediaTailor is a channel assembly and personalized ad insertion service for video providers that monetizes live streams, linear channels, and video-on-demand content. With this launch, video providers can insert ads into low-latency live streams while holding the reduced latency their viewers expect. LL-HLS reduces live latency by delivering partial segments and letting players hold a playlist request open until the next segment part is ready, which requires media playlists to be cacheable at the content delivery network (CDN…
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Today, we're announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Europe (Spain), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage the scale and flexibility of AWS for running your VMware workloads in the cloud. Amazon EVS lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances, powered by AWS Nitro. You can set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours, enabling rapid workload migration to AWS to help you eliminate aging infrastructure, reduce operational ris…
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Amazon Connect Customer now gives contact center managers the ability to set specific capacity limits for different kinds of work. Previously, concurrency settings were applied at the channel level so all contacts within a channel were treated the same regardless of complexity or effort required. With this launch, managers can classify Task and Email contacts into workload types based on complexity, priority, or business function, each with its own concurrency and interruption rules. For example, a manager can configure agents to handle up to 3 simple, low-effort Tasks concurrently while limiting complex, high-attention Tasks to 1 at a time.…
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AWS Lambda now supports AWS Graviton5-powered C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances on Lambda Managed Instances. You can now run your Lambda functions on the latest generation of Graviton processors, delivering up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-powered instances. AWS Lambda Managed Instances lets you run Lambda functions on your AWS EC2 instances while maintaining Lambda's operational simplicity. With Lambda Managed Instances, you can access specialized compute configurations and drive cost efficiency through EC2 pricing advantages, without managing infrastructure. Lambda Managed Instances fully manages all infrastructu…
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The Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows. The desktop app brings the full power of Amazon Quick to your computer, working directly with your local files and staying connected to your calendar, email, and business apps in the background. Quick keeps your conversations, context, and agents synchronized across the desktop and mobile applications, so work you start on one surface carries over to the other, enabling you to work wherever you want. Additionally, with this release, Amazon Quick agents run continuously in the background, even after you close your computer, so long-running work keeps making progress…
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Volume Clones now supports copying EBS volumes across AWS accounts with re-encryption. You can copy EBS volumes to any AWS account, re-encrypting with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account. This enables organizations that separate production and development workloads into different accounts to copy data across those account boundaries. With cross-account copy, you can clone a production database volume into an isolated development account, giving developers a fresh copy of production data to experiment with safely. This capability also supports teams that require encryption …
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AWS Transform is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, enabling government agencies and regulated organizations to plan and execute large-scale migrations to AWS. With this launch, customers operating in AWS GovCloud (US) can use the migration capabilities of AWS Transform to automate server migrations within an isolated environment designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads. AWS Transform in this Region supports migrating servers to both AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) as target Regions. Organizations migrating VMware, bare metal, Hyper-V, or database workloads can use AWS Transform to automate s…
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Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention, allowing you to apply write-once-read-many (WORM) protection to objects whose required retention period starts with a future event, such as a contract closing or an audit completing. You place an event hold with a retention duration on an object and S3 protects the object while the hold is in place. When you release the hold, S3 retains the object for the duration you specified. Unlike legal holds, which end protection immediately upon removal, event holds provide WORM compliance for the required retention period after the triggering event, so you can meet event-based retention requireme…
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Amazon EC2 now enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported instance types, unsupported instance types, or both — and any launch attempt on a non-permitted instance type is automatically blocked. AMI owners now have a built-in way to prevent launches on instances that are not compatible with their AMIs. This reduces the risk of failed launches due to incompatible instance-AMI pairings. By default, an AMI can be launched on any instance type, so existing workflows remain unaffected until restrictions are explicitly applied. This feature is available in all AWS Regions at no add…