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The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region is now available
Update: December 20, 2023 — The list of services available today at launch is now updated with AWS Artifact, AWS Cloud Control API, AWS Directory Services, EC2 Image Builder, and AWS Transit Gateway for a new total of 70 services. Today, we are opening a new Region in Canada. AWS Canada West (Calgary), also known […]
Zonal autoshift – Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues
Today we’re launching zonal autoshift, a new capability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller that you can enable to automatically and safely shift your workload’s traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Availability Zone and shift it back once the failure is resolved. When deploying resilient applications, […]
Three new capabilities for Amazon Inspector broaden the realm of vulnerability scanning for workloads
Today, Amazon Inspector adds three new capabilities to increase the realm of possibilities when scanning your workloads for software vulnerabilities: Amazon Inspector introduces a new set of open source plugins and an API allowing you to assess your container images for software vulnerabilities at build time directly from your continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) […]
Amazon Redshift adds new AI capabilities, including Amazon Q, to boost efficiency and productivity
Amazon Redshift puts artificial intelligence (AI) at your service to optimize efficiencies and make you more productive with two new capabilities that we are launching in preview today. First, Amazon Redshift Serverless becomes smarter. It scales capacity proactively and automatically along dimensions such as the complexity of your queries, their frequency, the size of the […]
Analyze large amounts of graph data to get insights and find trends with Amazon Neptune Analytics
I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Neptune Analytics, a new analytics database engine that makes it faster for data scientists and application developers to quickly analyze large amounts of graph data. With Neptune Analytics, you can now quickly load your dataset from Amazon Neptune or your data lake on Amazon Simple […]
Getting started with new Amazon RDS for Db2
I am pleased to announce that IBM and AWS have come together to offer Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2, a fully managed Db2 database engine running on AWS infrastructure. IBM Db2 is an enterprise-grade relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by IBM. It offers a comprehensive set of features, including strong data […]
AWS Control Tower adds new controls to help customers meet digital sovereignty requirements
Today, we added to AWS Control Tower a set of 65 purpose-built controls to help you meet your digital sovereignty requirements. Digital sovereignty is the control of your digital assets: where the data resides, where it flows, and who has control over it. Since the creation of the AWS Cloud 17 years ago, we have […]
Manage EDI at scale with new AWS B2B Data Interchange
Today we’re launching AWS B2B Data Interchange, a fully managed service allowing organizations to automate and monitor the transformation of EDI-based business-critical transactions at cloud scale. With this launch, AWS brings automation, monitoring, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go pricing to the world of B2B document exchange. Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the electronic exchange of business documents […]