AWS News Blog

This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who […]

AWS RTB Fabric is a fully managed service designed for real-time bidding advertising workloads that enables AdTech companies to connect with their supply and demand partners through a dedicated, high-performance network environment, delivering single-digit millisecond performance and up to 80% lower networking costs compared to standard cloud connections while eliminating the need for colocation infrastructure or upfront commitments.

AWS has expanded its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) to include Scope 3 emissions data alongside updated Scope 1 and 2 emissions, giving customers more insight into their carbon impact. The CCFT now tracks emissions from fuel- and energy-related activities (FERA), IT hardware, buildings, equipment, and transportation. AWS customers can access this information and track changes over time through the AWS Billing console.

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.

AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.

AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity, allowing secure file transfers between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers through your existing VPC infrastructure without exposing endpoints to the internet.

This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]