AWS News Blog

Category: Announcements

Announcing throughput increase and dead letter queue redrive support for Amazon SQS FIFO queues

With Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume. Today, Amazon SQS has introduced two new capabilities for first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues: Maximum throughput has been increased up to 70,000 transactions per second (TPS) per API action in selected AWS Regions, supporting sending or […]

Replication failback and increased IOPS are new for Amazon EFS

Today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has introduced two new capabilities: Replication failback – Failback support for EFS replication makes it easier and more cost-effective to synchronize changes between EFS file systems when performing disaster recovery (DR) workflows. You can now quickly replicate incremental changes from your secondary back to your primary file system […]

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 […]

Amazon CodeWhisperer offers new AI-powered code remediation, IaC support, and integration with Visual Studio

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code remediation and infrastructure as code (IaC) support for Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered productivity tool for the IDE and command line. Amazon CodeWhisperer is also now available in Visual Studio, in preview. These new enhancements to Amazon CodeWhisperer help to enable faster and more efficient […]

Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Update: December 19, 2023 – You can now send snapshots of your file systems to file systems in another AWS Region or AWS account. The text of this post has been updated to reflect the extra benefits unlocked by these two new capabilities. Today we’re adding to Amazon FSx for OpenZFS the capability to send […]

AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests

Now AWS Lambda scales up to 12 times faster. Each synchronously invoked Lambda function now scales by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until the aggregate concurrency across all functions reaches the account’s concurrency limit. In addition, each function within an account now scales independently from each other, no matter how the functions are invoked. […]