by Alexandra Huides on January 17, 2025 at 3:36 pm

They say old habits die hard, and in the networking world, that sentiment rings especially true when it comes to IPv4. It’s like that guest at a party who refuses to leave, even though the snacks are gone, and everyone’s ready for bed 😉 . Despite the glaring reality of IPv4 exhaustion, its reign persists,

by Steve de Vera on January 16, 2025 at 2:43 am

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), the security of our customers’ data is our top priority, and it always will be. Recently, the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) and our automated security monitoring systems identified an increase in unusual encryption activity associated with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Working with customers, our security

by Krishna Prasad on January 15, 2025 at 6:55 pm

According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the global datasphere is expected to grow from 33 zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025, a staggering five-fold increase. Organizations that leverage distributed architectures generate a significant portion of their data footprint from observability data, including application logs, metrics, and traces, which

by Michael You on January 15, 2025 at 4:40 pm

In this post, we showcase how to use PGRX and PL/Rust to efficiently access and manipulate all built-in PostgreSQL data types in Rust. We demonstrate how to write performant functions that create and serialize JSON objects that include these built-in types. These functions are directly usable in your database and use the newly supported serde and serde_json crates. We also walk through deploying an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instance with PL/Rust enabled, and how PGRX type mapping allows you to use all built-in PostgreSQL types in a JSON object.

by Tim Hall on January 14, 2025 at 9:54 pm

Deploying AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery at scale provides robust protection for your infrastructure. The DRS Settings Tool is an invaluable resource for updating settings across your infrastructure efficiently. In this post, we show you how to setup and use the DRS Settings Tool to update all your Elastic Disaster Recovery source server settings in bulk.

by Tea Jioshvili on January 14, 2025 at 8:39 pm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce a successful completion of the Health Data Hosting (Hébergeur de Données de Santé, HDS) certification audit, and renewal of the HDS certification for 24 AWS Regions. The Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS), the French governmental agency for health, introduced the HDS certification to strengthen the security and protection of

by pmm on January 14, 2025 at 8:30 pm

This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful

by Anshu Bathla on January 14, 2025 at 5:02 pm

In a previous blog post, we introduced the IAM Access Analyzer custom policy check feature, which allows you to validate your policies against custom rules. Now we’re taking a step further and bringing these policy checks directly into your development environment with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (VS Code). In this blog post,

by Sandeep Gunjotikar on January 14, 2025 at 4:07 pm

In this post, we discuss configurations in AWS DMS endpoints and AWS DMS tasks to migrate spatial columns from Oracle to Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible efficiently.

by Xipu Li on January 14, 2025 at 2:48 pm

The CLI struggle is real Command-line tools are meant to simplify infrastructure and DevOps workflows, but the reality is often the opposite. Instead of speeding things up, the vast array of commands, flags, and syntax turns the CLI into a puzzle. Tools meant to enhance productivity have developers endlessly tab-switching between searches, forums, and docs

by Elizabeth Fuentes on January 14, 2025 at 2:26 pm

AWS launches its first cloud Region in Mexico, enabling digital transformation with local infrastructure, delivering low latency, and helping customers meet data residency requirements, backed by a planned $5 billion investment over 15 years.

by Marshall Jones on January 13, 2025 at 6:04 pm

AWS re:Invent 2024 was held in Las Vegas December 2–6, with over 54,000 attendees participating in more than 2,300 sessions and hands-on labs. The conference was a hub of innovation and learning hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. In this blog post, we cover on-demand sessions and major security, identity, and compliance announcements that

by Betty Zheng (郑予彬) on January 13, 2025 at 5:29 pm

As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune —

by Abrom Douglas on January 13, 2025 at 5:20 pm

Amazon Cognito is a developer-centric and security-focused customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that simplifies the process of adding user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your mobile and web applications. Cognito is a highly available service that supports a range of use cases, from managing user authentication and authorization to enabling secure access

by Marco Frattallone on January 10, 2025 at 1:58 pm

Introduction Developers, IT Operators, and in some cases, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for deploying and operating infrastructure and applications, as well as responding to and resolving incidents effectively and in a timely manner. Effective incident management requires quick diagnosis, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions. Diagnosing the root cause can be

by Ankush Goyal on January 9, 2025 at 7:48 pm

Managing DNS configurations across multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts can be a daunting task for network administrators, especially in complex environments with numerous Private Hosted Zones (PHZs) and Amazon Route 53 Resolver rules. Traditionally, they relied on outbound and inbound Route 53 Resolver endpoints to transport DNS

by Suresh Raavi on January 9, 2025 at 7:12 pm

Vacasa is North America’s leading vacation rental management platform, revolutionizing the rental experience with advanced technology and expert teams. In the competitive short-term vacation property management industry, efficient systems are critical. To maintain its edge and continue providing top-notch service, Vacasa needed to modernize its primary transactional database to improve performance, provide high availability, and reduce costs. In this post, we share Vacasa’s journey from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB to Amazon RDS for MySQL, and finally to Amazon Aurora, highlighting the technical steps taken and the outcomes achieved.

by Steve Schmidt on January 9, 2025 at 5:00 pm

Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the Amazon Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles and nearly seven million square feet across the bustling Las Vegas Strip. Keeping all 60,000

by Suresh Samuel on January 8, 2025 at 11:13 pm

Introduction AWS recently announced the general availability of support for cost allocation tags for AWS Transit Gateway. With cost allocation tags, you can tag your AWS resources and see cost breakouts on a per-tag basis. Previously, Transit Gateway supported cost allocation tags for categorizing and allocating Attachment Hours charges only. With this announcement, you can

by Anna McAbee on January 8, 2025 at 10:10 pm

To support our customers in securing their generative AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are excited to announce the launch of a new AWS Skill Builder course: Securing Generative AI on AWS. This comprehensive course is designed to help security professionals, architects, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) engineers understand and implement