Category: Launch

Starting today, you can check your usage of the AWS Free Tier using the new AWS Free Tier API. You can use the API directly with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or integrate it into an application with the AWS SDKs. The AWS Free Tier program provides you with the ability to explore and […]

You can now consolidate metrics from your hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises data sources using Amazon CloudWatch and process them in a consistent, unified fashion. You can query, visualize, and alarm on any and all of the metrics, regardless of their source. In addition to giving you a unified view, this new feature will help you […]

You can now use cross-region data replication to provide business continuity for your Amazon WorkSpaces users. Snapshots are taken every 12 hours, replicated to the desired destination region, and are used to provide a recovery point objective (RPO) of 12-24 hours. Multi-Region Resilience Review In her 2022 post Advancing business continuity with Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region […]

Today, we are announcing Cost Optimization Hub, a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that makes it easy for you to identify, filter, aggregate, and quantify savings for AWS cost optimization recommendations. With the new Cost Optimization Hub, you can interactively query cost optimization recommendations such as idle resource detection, resource rightsizing, and purchasing […]

Today, I’m happy to announce a new capability, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, to automatically and agentlessly discover and collect Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector consists of a scraper that discovers and collects metrics from Amazon EKS applications and infrastructure without needing to run […]

Today, we are introducing EFS Archive, a new storage class for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) optimized for long-lived data that is rarely accessed. With this launch, Amazon EFS supports three Regional storage classes: EFS Standard – Powered by SSD storage and designed to deliver submillisecond latency for active data. EFS Infrequent Access (EFS […]

December 12, 2023: Post updated to clarify that when a CloudFront function changes the uri value, it doesn’t change the cache behavior for the request or the origin that an origin request is sent to. Amazon CloudFront allows you to securely deliver static and dynamic content with low latency and high transfer speeds. With CloudFront […]

Last week I saw astonishing number of new feature and service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts […]