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- November 17, 2025 - AWS Transform - AWS Transform Automates Landing Zone Acceleration Network Configuration
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon DocumentDB - Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon ECS - Amazon ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon EventBridge - Amazon EventBridge introduces enhanced visual rule builder
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon SQS - Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- November 14, 2025 - AWS IoT Services - AWS IoT Services expand support of VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
- November 14, 2025 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
- November 14, 2025 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
- November 14, 2025 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda adds support for Java 25
- November 14, 2025 - AWS Marketplace - Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
- November 14, 2025 - AWS Network Firewall - AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) region
- November 13, 2025 - AWS IoT Core - AWS IoT Core adds location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
- November 13, 2025 - AWS Health - AWS Health enhances Amazon EventBridge to give more flexibility and higher resilience
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon Kinesis Video Streams - Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 G6f instances are now available in additional regions
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
- November 13, 2025 - AWS Network Load Balancer - AWS Network Load Balancer now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
- November 13, 2025 - AWS CloudFormation - AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon RDS - Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15,14.20, and 13.23
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon EventBridge - Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon ECS - Service Connect cross-account support available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
- November 13, 2025 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect now provides metrics on completion of agent performanceevaluations by managers
- November 12, 2025 - AWS Site-to-Site VPN - AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels
- November 12, 2025 - AWS Builder Center - Spaces now available in AWS Builder Center
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - New AWS CUR 2.0 features: EC2 ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML monitoring
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now generally available in four additional AWS regions
- November 12, 2025 - AWS Security Incident Response - Announcing communication preferences for Security Incident Response
- November 12, 2025 - AWS Fault Injection Service - AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failures
- November 12, 2025 - AWS Application Load Balancer - Application load balancer support client credential flow with JWT verification
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 Tables now support Amazon CloudWatch metrics
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus - Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon ElastiCache - Amazon ElastiCache supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon DCV now supports Amazon EC2 Mac instances
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect Cases adds conditional field visibility and dependent options
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer access logs
- November 11, 2025 - AWS Parallel Computing Service - AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm CLI Filter plugins
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon S3 - Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon Keyspaces - Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 C6id and R6id instances are now available in additional regions
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 M8a Instances now available in additional regions
- November 11, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions
- November 10, 2025 - AWS Private Certificate Authority - AWS Private CA now supports post-quantum digital certificates
- November 10, 2025 - AWS Control Tower - AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts
- November 10, 2025 - AWS Backup - AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds support for catalog notifications
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 now supports IPv6 for gateway and interface VPC endpoints
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon MSK - MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost, and with no action required
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon Braket - Amazon Braket notebook instances now support CUDA-Q natively
- November 10, 2025 - Amazon Bedrock - Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now in Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - Console JSON editing w Q Developer
- Amazon CloudWatch - QueryResultsSummary region expansion
- Amazon CloudWatch - Prefix/Select all log groups for OpenSearch PPL/SQL
- Amazon Connect - GetCurrentMetricData enhancement to display count of agents in current state
- Amazon DataZone - Notifications in SMUS
- Amazon GameLift - GA Default Application Improvements
- Amazon OpenSearch Service - OpenSearch AI-powered Forecasting
- Amazon Polly - Expanding Amazon Polly to Asia Pacific (Thailand) region
- AWS App Runner - App Runner IPv6 Support
- AWS Lake Formation - Lake Formation Tag based Access Control for S3 Tables
- AWS Security Incident Response - Integrations with ITSM
- AWS Security Incident Response - Region Expansion - Opt-In Regions
- AWS Security Incident Response - HITRUST Certification
- FreeRTOS - ExpressLink v1.3 feature release
- Amazon CloudWatch - QueryResultsSummary region expansion
- Amazon CloudWatch - Prefix/Select all log groups for OpenSearch PPL/SQL
- Amazon CloudWatch - Synthetics maximum Ephemeral Storage increased
- Amazon OpenSearch Service - OpenSearch AI-powered Forecasting
- Amazon Verified Permissions - Upgrade AVP to support latest version of Cedar
- AWS CloudFormation - Support for nested stacks, Macros and Transforms in service-managed StackSets
- AWS Direct Connect - 4 Byte ASN support
- AWS Lake Formation - Lake Formation Tag based Access Control for S3 Tables
- November 14, 2025 - AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
- November 13, 2025 - Introducing AWS IoT Core Device Location integration with Amazon Sidewalk
- November 12, 2025 - Introducing Our Final AWS Heroes of 2025
- November 10, 2025 - Secure EKS clusters with the new support for Amazon EKS in AWS Backup
- November 10, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, Jane Goodall Institute research archive, and more (November 10, 2025)
- September 01, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025)
- August 18, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)
- August 15, 2025 - AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row
- August 15, 2025 - Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
- August 13, 2025 - Meet our newest AWS Heroes - August 2025
- August 11, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)
- August 06, 2025 - Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available
- August 06, 2025 - OpenAI open weight models now available on AWS
- August 05, 2025 - Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS
- August 04, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025)
- August 04, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and more (August 4, 2025)
- August 01, 2025 - Introducing Amazon Application Recovery Controller Region switch: A multi-Region application recovery service
- July 31, 2025 - Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available
- July 28, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025)
- July 17, 2025 - Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda
- July 17, 2025 - AWS AI League: Learn, innovate, and compete in our new ultimate AI showdown
- July 17, 2025 - Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS
- July 16, 2025 - Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2025
- July 16, 2025 - Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI
- July 16, 2025 - Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
- July 15, 2025 - Streamline the path from data to insights with new Amazon SageMaker Catalog capabilities
- July 15, 2025 - AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
- July 15, 2025 - Monitor and debug event-driven applications with new Amazon EventBridge logging
- July 15, 2025 - Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)
- July 15, 2025 - Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects
- July 15, 2025 - TwelveLabs video understanding models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
- July 14, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center, Amazon Q, Oracle Database@AWS, and more (July 14, 2025)
- June 05, 2025 - Introducing AWS API models and publicly available resources for AWS API definitions
- June 05, 2025 - Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances
- June 04, 2025 - Introducing our newest 2025 AWS Heroes cohort
- June 02, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora DSQL, MCP Servers, Amazon FSx, AI on EKS, and more (June 2, 2025)
- May 19, 2025 - Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping Amazon ECR images to running containers
- May 19, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)
- May 15, 2025 - New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations
- May 15, 2025 - Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability
- May 15, 2025 - Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform
- May 15, 2025 - AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale
- May 12, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: South America expansion, Q Developer in OpenSearch, and more (May 12, 2025)
- November 07, 2025 - CVE-2025-12829 - Integer Overflow issue in Amazon Ion-C
- November 06, 2025 - CVE-2025-12815 - RES web portal may display preview of Virtual Desktops that the user shouldn't have access to
- November 05, 2025 - Improper authentication token handling in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux
- November 05, 2025 - CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues
- November 10, 2025 - Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS JDBC Wrapper, AWS Go Wrapper, AWS NodeJS Wrapper, AWS Python Wrapper, AWS PGSQL ODBC driver
- August 14, 2025 - CVE-2025-9039 - Issue with Amazon ECS agent introspection server
- August 13, 2025 - CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent component
- August 12, 2025 - [Redirected] Memory Dump Issue in AWS CodeBuild
- August 11, 2025 - Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)
- August 09, 2025 - Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)
- July 24, 2025 - Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)
- July 23, 2025 - AWS-2025-014
- July 16, 2025 - CVE-2025-6031 - Insecure device pairing in end-of-life Amazon Cloud Cam
- June 04, 2025 - CVE-2025-5688 - Out of Bounds Write in FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP
- May 27, 2025 - CVE-2025-5279 - Issue with Amazon Redshift Python Connector and the BrowserAzureOAuth2CredentialsProvider plugin
- March 31, 2025 - Issue with AWS SAM CLI (CVE-2025-3047, CVE-2025-3048)
- March 27, 2025 - Issue with tough, versions prior to 0.20.0 (Multiple CVEs)
- March 24, 2025 - Issues with Kubernetes ingress-nginx controller (Multiple CVEs)
- March 21, 2025 - Issue with the AWS CDK CLI and custom credential plugins (CVE-2025-2598)
- March 04, 2025 - Issue with Temporary elevated access management (TEAM) - CVE-2025-1969
- January 23, 2025 - Issue with AWS Sign-in IAM User Login Flow =E2=80=93 Possible Username Enumeration (CVE-2025-0693)
- January 15, 2025 - Issue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV - (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501)
- December 24, 2024 - Issue with RedShift JDBC Driver, Python Connector and ODBC Driver - (CVE-2024-12744, CVE-2024-12745, CVE-2024-12746)
- December 11, 2024 - Issue with DynamoDB local - CVE-2022-1471
- November 09, 2024 - Issue with data.all (Multiple CVEs)
- November 14, 2025 - Know before you go - AWS re:Invent 2025 guide to Well-Architected and Cloud Optimization sessions
- August 14, 2025 - How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 1: Motivation and feature serving
- August 14, 2025 - How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 2: Feature ingestion
- August 14, 2025 - Deploy LLMs on Amazon EKS using vLLM Deep Learning Containers
- August 01, 2025 - Maximizing Business Value Through Strategic Cloud Optimization
- July 18, 2025 - Implement monitoring for Amazon EKS with managed services
- July 14, 2025 - How Scale to Win uses AWS WAF to block DDoS events
- June 02, 2025 - Analyze media content using AWS AI services
- May 19, 2025 - How Smartsheet boosts developer productivity with Amazon Bedrock and Roo Code
- May 15, 2025 - Revolutionizing agricultural knowledge management using a multi-modal LLM: A reference architecture
- May 12, 2025 - Implement event-driven invoice processing for resilient financial monitoring at scale
- April 18, 2025 - How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture
- April 17, 2025 - Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
- April 14, 2025 - Build and operate an effective architecture review board
- March 20, 2025 - Master architecture decision records (ADRs): Best practices for effective decision-making
- March 20, 2025 - Pilot light with reserved capacity: How to optimize DR cost using On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- February 17, 2025 - Realizing twelve-factors with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- February 05, 2025 - Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis
- January 13, 2025 - TVS Supply Chain Solutions built a file transfer platform using AWS Transfer Family for AS2 for B2B collaboration
- December 06, 2024 - Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming Gmb
- December 02, 2024 - Let's Architect! Serverless developer experience in AWS
- October 16, 2024 - Automating multi-AZ high availability for WebLogic administration server with DNS: Part 2
- October 11, 2024 - How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints
- October 04, 2024 - How Banfico built an Open Banking and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) compliance solution on AWS
- September 23, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
- September 25, 2024 - Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
- September 25, 2024 - Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
- September 23, 2024 - Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- September 18, 2024 - Hybrid Cloud Journey using Amazon Outposts and AWS Local Zones
- August 07, 2024 - Network perimeter security protections for generative AI
- August 06, 2024 - Spring 2024 SOC 2 report now available in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
- August 06, 2024 - Hardening the RAG chatbot architecture powered by Amazon Bedrock: Blueprint for secure design and anti-pattern mitigation
- August 05, 2024 - SaaS authentication: Identity management with Amazon Cognito user pools
- August 01, 2024 - Introducing the Maori Data Lens for the Well-Architected Framework
- July 31, 2024 - Let's Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems
- July 19, 2024 - Simplify and automate bill processing with Amazon Bedrock
- November 14, 2025 - AWS re:Invent 2025: Your guide to security sessions across four transformative themes
- November 14, 2025 - Amazon Inspector detects over 150,000 malicious packages linked to token farming campaign
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access design
- November 12, 2025 - Amazon discovers APT exploiting Cisco and Citrix zero-days
- August 14, 2025 - Spring 2025 PCI 3DS compliance package available now
- August 13, 2025 - 177 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification
- August 11, 2025 - Malware analysis on AWS: Setting up a secure environment
- August 11, 2025 - Amazon EC2 defenses against L1TF Reloaded
- July 31, 2025 - Implementing Defense-in-Depth Security for AWS CodeBuild Pipelines
- July 31, 2025 - Secure file sharing solutions in AWS: A security and cost analysis guide: Part 2
- July 31, 2025 - Secure file sharing solutions in AWS: A security and cost analysis guide, Part 1
- July 30, 2025 - How to migrate your Amazon EC2 Oracle Transparent Data Encryption database encryption keystore to AWS CloudHSM
- July 28, 2025 - How to automatically disable users in AWS Managed Microsoft AD based on GuardDuty findings
- July 17, 2025 - Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda
- July 17, 2025 - AWS AI League: Learn, innovate, and compete in our new ultimate AI showdown
- July 17, 2025 - Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS
- July 16, 2025 - Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2025
- July 16, 2025 - Announcing Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI
- July 16, 2025 - Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Securely deploy and operate AI agents at any scale (preview)
- July 15, 2025 - Streamline the path from data to insights with new Amazon SageMaker Catalog capabilities
- July 15, 2025 - AWS Free Tier update: New customers can get started and explore AWS with up to $200 in credits
- July 15, 2025 - Monitor and debug event-driven applications with new Amazon EventBridge logging
- July 15, 2025 - Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview)
- July 15, 2025 - Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects
- July 15, 2025 - TwelveLabs video understanding models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
- July 14, 2025 - AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Builder Center, Amazon Q, Oracle Database@AWS, and more (July 14, 2025)
- June 06, 2025 - 2025 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with three new Regions
- June 06, 2025 - How to use on-demand rotation for AWS KMS imported keys
- June 05, 2025 - Many voices, one community: Three themes from RSA Conference 2025
- June 03, 2025 - Implementing just-in-time privileged access to AWS with Microsoft Entra and AWS IAM Identity Center
- June 02, 2025 - A deep dive into data protection sessions at AWS re:Inforce 2025
- May 14, 2025 - Introducing the AWS User Guide to Governance, Risk and Compliance for Responsible AI Adoption within Financial Services Industries
- May 13, 2025 - Protect against advanced DNS threats with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
- May 13, 2025 - AI lifecycle risk management: ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for AI governance
- May 13, 2025 - Mapping AWS security services to MITRE frameworks for threat detection and mitigation
- May 12, 2025 - Monitoring and optimizing the cost of the unused access analyzer in IAM Access Analyzer
- May 12, 2025 - Implementing safety guardrails for applications using Amazon SageMaker
- April 17, 2025 - Announcing AWS Security Reference Architecture Code Examples for Generative AI
- April 17, 2025 - How to help prevent hotlinking using referer checking, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront
- April 15, 2025 - How to support OpenID AuthZEN requests with Amazon Verified Permissions
- March 24, 2025 - Use AWS service reference information to automate policy management workflows
- March 18, 2025 - 2024 H2 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers
- March 18, 2025 - AWS completes the annual UAE Information Assurance Regulation compliance assessment
- March 17, 2025 - AWS KMS CloudWatch metrics help you better track and understand how your KMS keys are being used
- February 21, 2025 - From log analysis to rule creation: How AWS Network Firewall automates domain-based security for outbound traffic
- February 07, 2025 - Enhancing telecom security with AWS
- February 06, 2025 - 2024 PiTuKri ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 17 services in scope
- February 06, 2025 - 2024 FINMA ISAE 3000 Type II attestation report available with 179 servicesnin scope
- February 05, 2025 - AWS renews MTCS Level 3 certification under the SS584:2020 standard
- February 05, 2025 - How AWS Network Firewall session state replication maximizes high availability for your application traffic
- February 03, 2025 - Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications - part 2
- January 16, 2025 - Preventing unintended encryption of Amazon S3 objects
- January 14, 2025 - AWS achieves HDS certification for 24 AWS Regions
- January 14, 2025 - How to implement IAM policy checks with Visual Studio Code and IAM Access Analyzer
- January 13, 2025 - AWS re:Invent 2024: Security, identity, and compliance recap
- January 13, 2025 - How to monitor, optimize, and secure Amazon Cognito machine-to-machine authorization
- December 19, 2024 - AWS completes the CCCS PBHVA assessment with 149 services and features in scope
- December 19, 2024 - 2024 ISO and CSA STAR certificates now available with two additional services
- December 19, 2024 - Updated PCI DSS and PCI PIN compliance packages now available
- December 19, 2024 - Fall 2024 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports now available with 183 services in scope
- December 18, 2024AWS named Leader in the 2024 ISG Provider Lens report for Sovereign Cloud - Infrastructure Services (EU)
- December 16, 2024 - Enforce resource configuration to control access to new features with AWS
- December 16, 2024 - AWS KMS: How many keys do I need?
- December 13, 2024 - Generative AI adoption and compliance: Simplifying the path forward with AWS Audit Manager
- December 12, 2024 - Introducing the AWS Network Firewall CloudWatch Dashboard
- December 11, 2024 - Securing the future: building a culture of security
- December 10, 2024 - Introducing an enhanced version of the AWS Secrets Manager transform:AWS::SecretsManager-2024-09-16
- December 10, 2024 - AWS-LC FIPS 3.0: First cryptographic library to include ML-KEM in FIPS 140-3 validation
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- Modernization - What's Taking So Long
- MongoDB Atlas for Government Datasheet
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- Why the Document Data Model
- Introduction to MongoDB - You don’t need a separate database to support transactions, rich search, or Gen AI. The world’s most popular document database is now the world’s most versatile developer data platform. - Learn More About MongoDB
- MongoDB Atlas for Government - The most innovative cloud database service on the market, providing the versatility needed to modernize legacy applications and support the unique requirements and missions of the U.S. Government - in a secure, fully-managed, dedicated FedRAMP authorized environment. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas for Government
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- MongoDB Atlas Database - Multi-Cloud database service - The most advanced cloud database service on the market, with unmatched data distribution and mobility across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built-in automation for resource and workload optimization, and so much more. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Database
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- MongoDB Integrations - discover integrations and solutions from MongoDB partners to help you build and run modern applications. - Learn More MongoDB Integrations
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- Mainframe Modernization - Modernize key applications from the mainframe to a modern data platform without impacting your core systems. - Learn More About Mainframe Modernizations
- Developer Data Platform - Innovate fast at scale with a developer data platform, an integrated set of database services that share a unified developer experience. - Learn More About Developer Data Platform
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AWS
- August 07, 2024 - Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application
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- August 02, 2024 - OSPAR 2024 report now available with 163 services in scope
- August 01, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
- August 01, 2024 - AWS completes the first GDV joint audit with participant insurers in Germany
- July 30, 2024 - How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
- July 29, 2024 - AWS revalidates its AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities
- July 29, 2024 - Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake - Part 2
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs (AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs(AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 10, 2024 - AWS achieves third-party attestation of conformance with the SecureSoftware Development Framework (SSDF)
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 2
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- July 08, 2024 - Context window overflow: Breaking the barrier
- July 08, 2024 - Centrally manage VPC network ACL rules to block unwanted traffic using AWSFirewall Manager
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