by Ranjini Menon on November 14, 2025 at 8:57 pm

Today, we’re introducing Amazon RDS Blue/Green support for Aurora Global Database, enabling database upgrades and modifications with minimal downtime. With just a few steps, you can create a blue/green deployment that establishes a fully managed staging (green) environment mirroring the existing production (blue) environment, including the primary and its associated secondary regions of the Global Database.

by Rahul Sahni on November 14, 2025 at 7:27 pm

AWS re:Invent 2025, the premier cloud computing conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), returns to Las Vegas, Nevada, December 1–5, 2025. At AWS, security is our top priority, and re:Invent 2025 reflects this commitment with our most comprehensive security track to date. With more than 80 security aligned sessions spanning breakouts, workshops, chalk talks,

by Micah Walter on November 14, 2025 at 5:45 pm

AWS Lambda’s new provisioned mode for Amazon SQS event source mapping offers dedicated polling resources that provide 3x faster scaling and 10x higher concurrency, enabling lower latency processing, better handling of traffic spikes, and greater control over event processing resources.

by Chi Tran on November 14, 2025 at 12:15 am

Amazon Inspector security researchers have identified and reported over 150,000 packages linked to a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign in the npm registry. This is one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history, and represents a defining moment in supply chain security, far surpassing the initial 15,000 packages reported by Sonatype

by Andrew Gray on November 13, 2025 at 8:38 pm

Today, AWS announces the launch of QUIC protocol support for Network Load Balancer (NLB). This capability enables customers to forward QUIC traffic to their targets with ultra-low latency while maintaining session stickiness using QUIC Connection IDs. In this blog we will provide an overview of QUIC, demonstrate how to enable it using the AWS Console

by Channy Yun (윤석찬) on November 13, 2025 at 7:09 pm

AWS IoT Core Device Location service enables Amazon Sidewalk devices to resolve location data without GPS modules, allowing cost-effective asset tracking solutions using Sidewalk’s network infrastructure.

by Jason Hunter on November 13, 2025 at 5:57 pm

Part 1 of this series showed how to rate-limit calls to Amazon DynamoDB by using Python Boto3 event hooks. In this post, I expand on the concept and show how to rate-limit calls in a distributed environment, where you want a maximum allowed rate across the full set of clients but can’t use direct client-to-client communication.

by Jason Hunter on November 13, 2025 at 5:57 pm

In this post, I present a technique where a Python script making calls to Amazon DynamoDB can rate limit its consumption of read and write capacity units. The technique uses Boto3 event hooks to apply the rate limiting without having to modify the client code performing the read and write calls.

by Vinod Kataria on November 12, 2025 at 9:53 pm

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports VPN connections with up to 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel, a 4x improvement from existing limit of 1.25 Gbps. This increased bandwidth benefits customers who require high-capacity connections for bandwidth-intensive hybrid applications, big data migrations, and disaster recovery architectures. AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that allows you

by Taylor Jacobsen on November 12, 2025 at 8:05 pm

With AWS re:Invent approaching, we’re celebrating three exceptional AWS Heroes whose diverse journeys and commitment to knowledge sharing are empowering builders worldwide. From advancing women in tech and rural communities to bridging academic and industry expertise and pioneering enterprise AI solutions, these leaders exemplify the innovative spirit that drives our community forward. Their stories showcase

by Manuel Mazarredo on November 12, 2025 at 6:31 pm

Today, we’re excited to announce the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) zero operator access posture. Because security is our top priority at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we designed an operational architecture to meet the data privacy posture our regulated and most stringent customers want in a managed Kubernetes service, giving them continued confidence to

by Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi on November 12, 2025 at 5:37 pm

In this post, we explore the use cases for delayed replication, the recovery procedures, and best practices for managing delayed replicas to help ensure your database recovery strategy is both robust and efficient.

by CJ Moses on November 12, 2025 at 2:01 pm

The Amazon threat intelligence teams have identified an advanced threat actor exploiting previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Citrix systems. The campaign used custom malware and demonstrated access to multiple undisclosed vulnerabilities. This discovery highlights the trend of threat actors focusing on critical identity and network access control infrastructure—the systems

by Anshu Vajpayee on November 11, 2025 at 9:34 pm

On Oct 28, 2025, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) introduced a new query planner (NQP) to improve database performance and stability. The redesigned architecture uses improved cost estimation techniques and optimized algorithms for smarter query plan selection.

by Jonathan Kerr on November 11, 2025 at 6:08 pm

Today, we are announcing Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) support for logged batches, a powerful feature that brings atomic, all-or-nothing write operations to your Apache Cassandra-compatible workloads. In this post, we explore the benefits of logged batches, demonstrate how to set up and run them, and discuss important considerations when using logged batches with Amazon Keyspaces.

by Nick Anderson on November 11, 2025 at 3:57 pm

As enterprises pursue digital transformation and smart operations, they’re challenged by the limitations of traditional file systems. Machine-generated data from connected systems and automation has pushed legacy storage solutions beyond their capabilities. In manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, financial services, and other industries, organizations need reliable access to data across globally distributed locations. These organizations face rising

by Puneeth Komaragiri on November 10, 2025 at 9:57 pm

Alight Solutions is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that has focused its operations on integrated benefits administration, healthcare navigation, and employee experience solutions. In this post, we share how Alight Solutions transformed their caching infrastructure using ElastiCache while maintaining strict performance requirements, achieving over 60% cost reduction, 70-80% reduction in operational overhead, migration of gigabytes of data with sub-0.5 millisecond performance for millions of users, and a 99.99% reduction in incident rate.

by Veliswa Boya on November 10, 2025 at 9:30 pm

AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution to back up and restore Kubernetes clusters and application data without requiring custom scripts or third-party tools.

by Patrick Chang on November 10, 2025 at 5:37 pm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that the latest version of Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2025 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in September 2025. The new IRAP report includes four additional AWS services that are now assessed at

by Rajat Jain on November 10, 2025 at 5:17 pm

This guide demonstrates how to use Amazon VPC Lattice to establish secure TCP resource connectivity across multiple AWS accounts in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Organizations environment. We show how to create a service network in a centralized networking account and share it with other accounts to enable secure cross-account database access. Prerequisites For this