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…

Amazon CloudWatch now offers interactive incident report generation, enabling customers to create comprehensive post-incident analysis reports in minutes. The new capability, available within CloudWatch investigations, automatically gathers and correlates your telemetry data, as well as your input and any actions…

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the US East (Ohio) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable…