by Rob Petersen on May 11, 2026 at 8:48 pm

Connecting to Amazon Aurora DSQL requires a different approach than traditional PostgreSQL databases. Instead of long-lived passwords, you use short-lived IAM authentication tokens. Instead of static endpoints, you work with distributed cluster endpoints that route connections across Availability Zones. In this post, you learn how to configure connection strings, set up drivers in Python, Java, and Node.js, and implement best practices for authentication, connection pooling, and lifecycle management with Amazon Aurora DSQL.

by Tinotenda Chemvura on May 11, 2026 at 8:02 pm

Migrating petabytes of data across cloud providers is one of the most operationally demanding tasks an organization can take on. At this scale, simple transfer approaches break down. Teams lose track of what has been copied and what has failed. Transfers stall and require constant manual intervention to restart. In some cases, teams need to

by Kanishk Mahajan on May 11, 2026 at 7:03 pm

Introduction Modernizing applications by upgrading language runtimes, migrating SDKs, and refactoring frameworks is important for cloud adoption but can be labor-intensive at scale. Each repository requires analysis of dependencies and transformation needs; custom transformation logic must be built and validated, and changes are often executed sequentially across codebases. If you have hundreds of applications, this

by Madhav Vishnubhatta on May 11, 2026 at 6:16 pm

FIS is a global leader in financial technology, delivering modern banking and payments solutions to institutions worldwide. Its Total Issuer Solutions business represents one of the largest credit issuing and processing platforms globally, serving clients in more than 75 countries and processing over 40 billion transactions annually. The portfolio combines FIS’s scale, data richness and AI capabilities

by Kunal Pansari on May 11, 2026 at 6:10 pm

As you deploy AI agents into production, establishing secure network connectivity becomes a critical design decision: how do users connect to agents, how do agents connect to other agents, and how do agents reach private resources? Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime provides flexible network connectivity options that let your AI agents securely connect to public and

by Ashley Nelson on May 11, 2026 at 5:58 pm

If you’re looking to strengthen your organization’s security posture on Amazon Web Services (AWS) but aren’t sure where to start, then we’re here to help. Security Activation Days are complimentary, virtual, hands-on workshops designed to help you get practical experience with AWS security services in a single session. What to expect Each Security Activation Day

by Ankush Goyal on May 11, 2026 at 5:57 pm

Introduction AWS Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN is a fully managed service that enables you to establish secure connections between your on-premises networks and AWS using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. When configuring these connections AWS Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN offers two routing options: static and dynamic routing with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). While static routing offers simplicity for

by Jason Polce on May 11, 2026 at 5:32 pm

DNS outages have immediate and severe ripple effects on enterprise infrastructure, yet many Amazon Web Services (AWS) organizations still manage Amazon Route 53 configurations manually instead of using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). Consider a common scenario: an engineer accidentally deletes a critical DNS record while troubleshooting.

by Arun Kumar on May 11, 2026 at 5:22 pm

As organizations scale their AWS environments across multiple accounts and Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs), controlling internet access to cloud resources becomes challenging. With multiple accounts and network paths, maintaining secure network boundaries becomes a priority. A common security pattern is the demilitarized zone (DMZ) architecture, which isolates public-facing services from internal networks to reduce

by Channy Yun (윤석찬) on May 11, 2026 at 4:08 pm

My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and

by Ray Hodges on May 8, 2026 at 3:46 pm

Introduction As modern applications evolve into complex ecosystems of serverless functions, microservices, and event-driven architectures, incident response becomes increasingly challenging. DevOps and SRE teams spend hours manually correlating data across observability tools and troubleshooting issues, racing against SLA deadlines. This reactive firefighting drains productivity, degrades reliability, and delays innovation. AWS DevOps Agent provides an opportunity

by Shayon Sanyal on May 8, 2026 at 2:59 pm

In this post, you’ll learn how to query Amazon S3 Vectors from Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition using standard SQL, and how to combine vector similarity results with relational filters in a single query, for example, finding the most semantically similar products and then filtering by price, stock status, or tenant in one SQL statement.

by Rishabh Dubey on May 8, 2026 at 1:30 pm

In this post, we walk through how linear and canary strategies work in Amazon ECS, how to configure each, and how to set up automatic rollbacks with CloudWatch alarms.

by Rodolfo Brenes on May 7, 2026 at 6:52 pm

Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered AI security, identity and access management, threat intelligence, data protection, and multicloud operations.

by Dan Blaner on May 7, 2026 at 4:19 pm

In this post, we demonstrate how to use AWS Glue to migrate data from an Amazon Aurora database snapshot into an Aurora DSQL cluster.

by Ignatius Lee on May 7, 2026 at 4:03 pm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) achieved three Standar Nasional Indonesia (SNI) certifications for the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region: SNI ISO/IEC 27017:2015, SNI ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and SNI ISO 9001:2015. SNI represents Indonesia’s national standards framework, comprising standards that are broadly applicable across industries within the country. These certifications further demonstrate that AWS services meet nationally recognized

by Mas Kubo on May 7, 2026 at 3:34 pm

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0. This brings the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to address the performance and capability requirements of applications as they grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, such as real-time analytics, AI-driven retrieval, and high-throughput caching. In this post, we explore how these enhancements help customers build faster applications, streamline architectures, and support new real-time and AI-driven workloads.

by Chaitanya Nuthalapati on May 7, 2026 at 3:32 pm

New search capabilities are available in ElastiCache version 9.0 for Valkey. In this post, we walk through the new search capabilities, show how they work together, and build a search and recommendation engine from scratch.

by Chaitanya Nuthalapati on May 7, 2026 at 3:30 pm

Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries, so you can filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in your cache with a single query. This post walks through the use cases that aggregations unlock, and shows how they work by building a faceted browsing engine using Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey.

by Mas Kubo on May 7, 2026 at 3:29 pm

Two years ago, Valkey emerged as a community-driven response to the need for a truly open, vendor-neutral alternative to Redis. In this post, we’ll look back at two years of progress, highlighting the rapid adoption of Valkey, the innovations delivered by the community, and what these developments mean for the future of modern caching and