Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification. You can now write semi-structured data like JSON directly to S3 Tables without defining a fixed schema in advance, allowing you…

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Organizations from…

AWS Glue Data Quality now supports a new Distribution Analyzer that generates frequency distribution profiles for your data. Using this new Distribution Analyzer in the Data Quality Definition Language (DQDL), you can generate histograms for numeric columns and value distributions…

AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection for Catalog-based data quality evaluations and the ability to write evaluation results to AWS Glue Data Catalog (GDC) tables. These capabilities work across both ETL jobs and Catalog evaluations, giving you a…

Amazon Neptune Database now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, enabling customers to use AWS resource tags and IAM principal tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control access to Neptune data-plane operations. Neptune…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports restoring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled SQL Server databases on Multi-AZ instances and instances configured with a read replica in the same region, using native backup and restore. Previously, TDE-enabled…