You can now use AWS IoT Device Defender Audit to check for devices in your fleet that: (1) have overly permissive permissions (e.g., admin permissions, access to metadata actions, data plane actions, or security auditing services); (2) have access to s… Continue Reading — AWS...

The AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface, SAM CLI, now allows you to deploy applications with a single command: sam deploy. SAM CLI is a deployment toolkit that also allows you to locally build, test, and debug serverless application… Continue Reading — AWS SAM...

AWS Chatbot now supports running AWS commands and actions from Slack. You can retrieve diagnostic information, invoke Lambda functions and create AWS Support cases right from your Slack channels, so your team can collaborate and respond to events faster. AWS Chatbot supports commands using the already...

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Today, AWS announces AppConfig, a new capability within AWS Systems Manager that makes it easy for customers to quickly roll out application configurations across applications hosted on EC2 instances, containers, Lambdas, mobile apps, IoT devices, and … Continue Reading — Simplify application configuration with AWS...

Application Auto Scaling target tracking can now be used to scale your Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets. Target tracking allows you to dynamically scale your applications to automatically maintain a target metric. Using target tracking, AppStream 2.0 custom… Continue Reading — Application Auto Scaling now supports...

Starting today, Amazon EC2 is introducing the ability for customers to choose an Unlimited mode preference using CLI and SDK at the account level for T3, T3a, and T2 instance types. The new API will enable customers to perform a one time action of sett… ...

An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS regions, enabling low latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages. With today’s launch, the feature is supported on the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Aurora. You can create a new Global Database cluster...

Amazon CloudWatch has added three new features to the Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server capability to further enhance observability for your .NET and SQL Server based applications. Continue Reading — CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server now supports Windows Performance Counters,...

AWS Lambda now supports four failure-handling features for processing Kinesis and DynamoDB streams: Bisect on Function Error, Maximum Record Age, Maximum Retry Attempts, and Destination on Failure. These new features allow you to customize responses to… Continue Reading — AWS Lambda Supports Failure-Handling Features for...