Application Load Balancer (ALB) now offers Target Optimizer, a new feature that allows you to enforce a maximum number of concurrent requests on a target. With Target Optimizer, you can fine-tune your application stack so that targets receive only the…

Today, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling announced a new strategy, ReplaceRootVolume, within instance refresh. This feature allows customers to update the root volume of an EC2 instance without stopping or terminating the instance, while preserving other associated instance resources. The capability…

Application map in Amazon CloudWatch now supports un-instrumented services discovery, cross-account views, and change history, helping SRE and DevOps teams monitor and troubleshoot their large-scale distributed applications. Application map now detects and visualizes services not instrumented with Application Signals, providing…

AWS Organizations Tag Policies announces Reporting for Required Tags, a new validation check that proactively ensures your CloudFormation, Terraform, and Pulumi deployments include the required tags critical to your business. Your infrastructure-as-code (IaC) operations can now be automatically validated against…

Amazon EC2 now provides Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ancestry that enables you to trace the complete lineage of any AMI, from its immediate parent through each preceding generation back to the root AMI. This capability gives you complete transparency into…