Today, AWS announced four new features for Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (DIT). Customers can now use enhanced smart cropping with custom label detection and advanced composition controls that preserve products, text, logos, and custom objects within cropped images.…

AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2, available through the --v2 flag of the cfn test command in the CloudFormation CLI. Previously, the contract test suite covered only basic scenarios around the CRUD handlers. Contract tests v2 adds deeper test…

Amazon GuardDuty now offers Custom Detection Rules, a library of 35 prebuilt, opt-in rules for CloudTrail management events that let you extend threat detection coverage to match your environment. Custom Detection Rules produces 26 unique finding types mapped to 10…

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational improvements, these minor versions introduce support for post-quantum TLS…

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Amazon MWAA Serverless eliminates the operational overhead of managing Apache Airflow infrastructure by automatically provisioning and scaling compute resources on demand,…

AWS announces user-managed setup (3LO) for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base. Previously, configuring these data sources required generating 2LO credentials on the third-party side, which could be time-consuming and inaccessible for users who…