Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports Fault Injection Service (FIS) actions for Kinesis API errors. Customers can now test their application's error handling capabilities, retry mechanisms (such as exponential backoff patterns), and CloudWatch alarms in a controlled environment. This allows…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces URL and Host Header rewrite capabilities for Application Load Balancer (ALB). This feature enables customers to modify request URLs and Host Headers using regex-based pattern matching before routing requests to targets. With URL and Host…

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Europe (Ireland) 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…

Claude Haiku 4.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers near-frontier performance matching Claude Sonnet 4's capabilities in coding, computer use, and agent tasks at substantially lower cost and faster speeds, making state-of-the-art AI accessible for scaled…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 4.1, introducing Queues as a preview feature, a new Streams Rebalance Protocol in early access, and Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR). Along with these features, Apache Kafka version…

AWS Backup now provides schedule preview for backup plans, helping you validate when your backups are scheduled to run. Schedule preview shows the next ten scheduled backup runs, including when continuous backup, indexing, or copy settings take effect. Backup plan…