AWS News Blog
Category: Events
IAM Access Analyzer Update: Extending custom policy checks & guided revocation
New custom policy checks for critical resources, public access detection, and guided revocation to remove unused permissions – proactively securing AWS environments with tailored analysis and actionable insights.
AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users
Fortify your AWS account security with new passkey MFA and mandatory root user MFA. Experience seamless authentication while bolstering protection against unauthorized access.
AWS Pi Day 2024: Use your data to power generative AI
Updated 20 March: I added a phrase in the original text to mention that the AWS SDKs for Rust and Kotlin now support Amazon S3 Express One Zone. 1/9/2025: Updated first link to Pi Day page. Today is AWS Pi Day! Join us live on Twitch, starting at 1 PM Pacific time. On this day […]
Use AWS Fault Injection Service to demonstrate multi-region and multi-AZ application resilience
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) helps you to put chaos engineering into practice at scale. Today we are launching new scenarios that will let you demonstrate that your applications perform as intended if an AWS Availability Zone experiences a full power interruption or connectivity from one AWS region to another is lost. You can use […]
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, […]
IDE extension for AWS Application Composer enhances visual modern applications development with AI-generated IaC
Today, I’m happy to share the integrated development environment (IDE) extension for AWS Application Composer. Now you can use AWS Application Composer directly in your IDE to visually build modern applications and iteratively develop your infrastructure as code templates with Amazon CodeWhisperer. Announced as preview at AWS re:Invent 2022 and generally available in March 2023, Application Composer is […]
Amazon SageMaker Studio adds web-based interface, Code Editor, flexible workspaces, and streamlines user onboarding
Today, we are announcing an improved Amazon SageMaker Studio experience! The new SageMaker Studio web-based interface loads faster and provides consistent access to your preferred integrated development environment (IDE) and SageMaker resources and tooling, irrespective of your IDE choice. In addition to JupyterLab and RStudio, SageMaker Studio now includes a fully managed Code Editor based […]
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) […]