Today, AWS announces Cost Explorer historical data retention for accounts in billing groups.   Customers can use AWS Billing Conductor and Billing Transfer to map accounts to billing groups, enabling them to view billing data priced at the pro forma…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to…

Amazon Web Services announces the preview of Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Advanced DNS Security on Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Security administrators can now enforce DNS threat protections from Palo Alto Networks directly on Route 53 DNS Firewall rules,…

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore…

Amazon CloudWatch now lets you ingest metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and query them using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL). You pay per GB ingested, with 15 months of storage included. Custom OTel metrics and AWS vended metrics from more…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about…