Amazon S3 Metadata is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Amazon S3 Metadata is the easiest and fastest way to help you instantly discover and understand your S3 data with automated,…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide…

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics introduces multi-check blueprints, enabling customers to create comprehensive synthetic tests using simple JSON configuration files. This new feature addresses the challenge many customers face when developing custom scripts for basic endpoint monitoring, which often lack the depth…

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-6. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 38 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now allows maintaining Change Data Capture (CDC) settings and metadata when restoring native database backups. CDC is a Microsoft SQL Server feature that customers can use to record insert, update, and…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports encrypting native backups in Amazon S3 using server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS). When customers create database backup files (.bak files) in their Amazon S3 buckets, the backup…