AWS News Blog

Just a few weeks ago, I told you about 7 new languages supported by Amazon Translate, our fully managed service for machine translation. Well, here I am again, announcing no less than 22 new languages and variants, as well as 6 additional AWS Regions where Translate is now available. Introducing 22 New Languages And Variants That’s […]

A few years ago, we identified a need for an internal service to enable us to make configuration changes faster than traditional code deployments, but with the same operational scrutiny as code changes. So, we built a tool to address this need and now most teams across AWS, Amazon.com, Kindle and Alexa use this configuration […]

Building and deploying secure applications is critical work, and the threat landscape is always shifting. We’re constantly working to reduce the pain of maintaining a strong cloud security posture. Today we’re launching a new capability called AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF that helps you protect your applications without needing to create or manage the […]

Today, we are happy to announce that Java and .NET support inside the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) (CDK) is now generally available. The AWS CDK is an open-source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources through AWS CloudFormation. AWS CDK also offers support for TypeScript and Python. With the AWS […]

Just as we did for the recent AWS Storage Day, we are making several pre-re:Invent announcements related to AWS IoT Core. Here’s what I’ve got for you today: Secure Tunneling – You can set up and use secure tunnels between devices, even if they are behind restrictive network firewalls. Configurable Endpoints – You can create […]

AWS IoT Greengrass extends cloud capabilities to edge devices, so that they can respond to local events in near real-time, even with intermittent connectivity. Today, we are adding two features that make it easier to build IoT solutions: Container support to deploy applications using the Greengrass Docker application deployment connector. Collect, process, and export data streams from […]

When you manage access to resources on AWS or many other systems, you most probably use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). When you use RBAC, you define access permissions to resources, group these permissions in policies, assign policies to roles, assign roles to entities such as a person, a group of persons, a server, an application, […]

Today, Amazon Redshift announced support for a new native data type called GEOMETRY. This new type enables ingestion, storage, and queries against two-dimensional geographic data, together with the ability to apply spatial functions to that data. Geographic data (also known as georeferenced data) refers to data that has some association with a location relative to […]