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Multi-Region keys: A new approach to key replication in AWS Payment Cryptographyby Ruy Cavalcanti on September 16, 2025 at 7:44 pm
In our previous blog post (Part 1 of our key replication series), Automatically replicate your card payment keys across AWS Regions, we explored an event-driven, serverless architecture using AWS PrivateLink to securely replicate card payment keys across AWS Regions. That solution demonstrated how to build a custom replication framework for payment cryptography keys. Based on
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OSPAR 2025 report now available with 170 services in scope based on the newly enhanced OSPAR v2.0 guidelinesby Joseph Goh on September 16, 2025 at 3:16 pm
We’re pleased to announce the completion of our annual AWS Outsourced Service Provider’s Audit Report (OSPAR) audit cycle on August 7, 2025, based on the newly enhanced version 2.0 guidelines (OSPAR v2.0). AWS is the first global cloud service provider in Singapore to obtain the report using the new OSPAR v2.0 guidelines. The Association of
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Migrating from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue/green deploymentsby Mike Rizzo on September 16, 2025 at 2:42 pm
In this post, we explore the migration path from AWS CodeDeploy to Amazon ECS for blue/green deployments, discussing key architectural differences and implementation considerations. We examine three different migration approaches – in-place update, new service with existing load balancer, and new service with new load balancer – along with their respective trade-offs in terms of complexity, risk, downtime, and cost.
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Navigating Amazon GuardDuty protection plans and Extended Threat Detectionby Nisha Amthul on September 15, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Organizations are innovating and growing their cloud presence to deliver better customer experiences and drive business value. To support and protect this growth, organizations can use Amazon GuardDuty, a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior across your AWS environment. GuardDuty uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and anomaly
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AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Managementby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on September 15, 2025 at 5:53 pm
AWS was named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms in two consecutive years positioned highest on “Ability to Execute”, and for Container Management in three years positioned furthest for “Completeness of Vision”.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents 1M+ downloads, Cloud Club Captain, AI Agent Hackathon, and more (September 15, 2025)by Channy Yun (윤석찬) on September 15, 2025 at 4:45 pm
Last week, Strands Agents, AWS open source for agentic AI SDK just hit 1 million downloads and earned 3,000+ GitHub Stars less than 4 months since launching as a preview in May 2025. With Strands Agents, you can build production-ready, multi-agent AI systems in a few lines of code. We’ve continuously improved features including support
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Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instancesby Sébastien Stormacq on September 12, 2025 at 4:30 pm
AWS has launched new EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances based on Apple M4 Mac mini, offering improved performance over previous generations and featuring up to 48GB memory and 2TB storage for iOS/macOS development workloads.
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Implement network connectivity patterns for Oracle Database@AWSby Sameer Malik on September 11, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Oracle Database@AWS (ODB@AWS) is an offering you can use to access Oracle Exadata infrastructure managed by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers. You can use ODB@AWS to migrate your Oracle Exadata workloads to AWS while maintaining the same performance and features as your on-premises Oracle Exadata deployments. You benefit from
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Introducing universal installers for AWS CLI v2 on macOSby Andrew Asseily on September 11, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the availability of universal macOS installers for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2. What’s new Starting with AWS CLI v2 version 2.30.0, the AWS CLI installers will provide universal binary support for macOS that works natively on both Apple silicon and Intel processors with a single download.
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Extending deployment pipelines with Amazon ECS blue green deployments and lifecycle hooksby Olly Pomeroy on September 11, 2025 at 7:02 pm
In this post, we explore how Amazon ECS’s native support for blue/green deployments can be extended using lifecycle hooks to integrate test suites, manual approvals, and metrics into deployment pipelines.
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Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDEby Micah Walter on September 11, 2025 at 6:06 pm
AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent improvements to the Lambda development experience, including the console to IDE integration and remote debugging capabilities we launched in July 2025, continuing our commitment to simplify serverless development on AWS.
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Build centralized cross-Region backup architecture with AWS Control Towerby Chris Falk on September 11, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Managing data protection at scale is a critical challenge for the modern enterprise. As organizations grow, their data becomes increasingly distributed, making it difficult to implement consistent backup policies that ensure comprehensive coverage. IT teams must balance competing needs of compliance requirements, resource protection, and operational efficiency – all while struggling to validate and orchestrate
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Kubernetes right-sizing with metrics-driven GitOps automationby Hari Charan Ayada on September 11, 2025 at 3:17 pm
In this post, we introduce an automated, GitOps-driven approach to resource optimization in Amazon EKS using AWS services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Bedrock. The solution helps optimize Kubernetes resource allocation through metrics-driven analysis, pattern-aware optimization strategies, and automated pull request generation while maintaining GitOps principles of collaboration, version control, and auditability.
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Overview of security services available in AWS Dedicated Local Zonesby Lakshmi VP on September 10, 2025 at 6:29 pm
When modernizing applications, customers in regulated industries like government, financial, and research face a critical challenge: how to transform their systems while meeting strict digital sovereignty and security compliance requirements. A common misconception tied to this is that data must be moved to an AWS Region to fully use Amazon Web Services (AWS) security services.
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Launches Refactorby Natalie White on September 10, 2025 at 5:19 pm
We are excited to announce a new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) feature that makes it easier and safer to refactor your infrastructure as code. CDK Refactor aims to preserve your AWS resources as you rename constructs, move resources between stacks, and reorganize your CDK applications – operations that previously risked resource replacement. When writing
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Data consistency with AWS DMS data resyncby Suchindranath Hegde on September 9, 2025 at 5:56 pm
In this post, we deep dive into AWS Database Migration Service Data Resync, a feature that was introduced in DMS version 3.6.1 to detect and resolve data inconsistencies during database migrations, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
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Deploy Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB instances with AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraformby Trevor Bonas on September 9, 2025 at 5:53 pm
In this post, we show how you can use AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to automate Timestream for InfluxDB instance deployment and teardown.
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How to build highly available Kubernetes applications with Amazon EKS Auto Modeby Doruk Ozturk on September 9, 2025 at 5:49 pm
In this post, we explore how to build highly available Kubernetes applications using Amazon EKS Auto Mode by implementing critical features like Pod Disruption Budgets, Pod Readiness Gates, and Topology Spread Constraints. Through various test scenarios including pod failures, node failures, AZ failures, and cluster upgrades, we demonstrate how these implementations maintain service continuity and maximize uptime in EKS Auto Mode environments.
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Introducing an Interactive Code Review Experience with Amazon Q Developer in GitHubby Sundaresh Iyer on September 8, 2025 at 9:28 pm
Code reviews are one of the most valuable rituals in software development. They help ensure quality, maintain consistency, and foster growth as engineers. But they’re also one of the most time consuming steps in the software development lifecycle. A common pattern I’ve seen is a developer opening a pull request (PR), receiving automated or peer
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Stream Amazon DynamoDB table data to Amazon S3 Tables for analyticsby Nihilson Gnanadason on September 8, 2025 at 8:07 pm
In this post, we demonstrate how to stream data from DynamoDB to Amazon S3 Tables to enable analytics capabilities on your operational data.