AWS Glue introduces automatic version upgrades, a capability that keeps your Apache Spark jobs current on the latest AWS Glue runtime without manual coordination. Staying current on supported runtimes gives your jobs the latest security patches, performance improvements, and support…

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault now supports Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive. Logically air-gapped vaults are a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and AWS Organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from…

Amazon Cognito now supports OAuth 2.0 token exchange (RFC 8693). Amazon Cognito helps you add sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web applications, mobile applications, and AI agents. With token exchange, a service or AI agent acting on a…

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports enhanced snapshots, a capability that lets you capture, export, and restore application state across Apache Flink applications and AWS Regions, so you can run blue/green deployments, easily migrate self-managed workloads to Amazon…

AWS Graviton5-based R9g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and MySQL compatibility, and for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.   Graviton5-based R9g instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports M8id and R8id instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, and include local NVMe SSD storage. They scale up to 384…