Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250213. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide.
Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL databases on Aurora and RDS after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your MySQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date. Learn more about Extended Support in the Amazon RDS User Guide and the Pricing FAQs.
Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for MySQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250213. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL databases on Aurora and RDS after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your MySQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date. Learn more about Extended Support in the Amazon RDS User Guide and the Pricing FAQs. Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for MySQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow now offers an enhanced user interface for improved DNS traffic policy editing. Route 53 Traffic Flow is a network traffic management feature which simplifies the process of creating and maintaining DNS records in large and complex configurations by providing users with an interactive DNS policy management flow chart in their web browsers. With this release, you can more easily understand and change the way traffic is routed between users and endpoints using the new features of the visual editor.
Now, Traffic Flow introduces a clearer way to craft DNS routing policies for many endpoints and multiple routing methods by moving configurations into a new sidebar, providing an undo/redo button, and introducing a new text editor for changing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files right within your browser. The JSON editor also includes syntax highlighting and can be used in conjunction with a new ‘Dark Mode’ theme to show where the policy edits should be made.
The new Traffic Flow experience is available globally, except in AWS GovCloud and Amazon Web Services in China. Traffic Flow pricing information can be found here and these enhancements are offered at no additional cost. To learn more about how to use Traffic Flow, visit our documentation or see this blog post.
Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow now offers an enhanced user interface for improved DNS traffic policy editing. Route 53 Traffic Flow is a network traffic management feature which simplifies the process of creating and maintaining DNS records in large and complex configurations by providing users with an interactive DNS policy management flow chart in their web browsers. With this release, you can more easily understand and change the way traffic is routed between users and endpoints using the new features of the visual editor. Now, Traffic Flow introduces a clearer way to craft DNS routing policies for many endpoints and multiple routing methods by moving configurations into a new sidebar, providing an undo/redo button, and introducing a new text editor for changing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files right within your browser. The JSON editor also includes syntax highlighting and can be used in conjunction with a new ‘Dark Mode’ theme to show where the policy edits should be made. The new Traffic Flow experience is available globally, except in AWS GovCloud and Amazon Web Services in China. Traffic Flow pricing information can be found here and these enhancements are offered at no additional cost. To learn more about how to use Traffic Flow, visit our documentation or see this blog post.
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys.
You can now protect your Amazon FSx file system in logically air-gapped vaults in either the same account or across other accounts and Regions. This helps reduce the risk of downtime, ensure business continuity, and meet compliance and disaster recovery requirements.
You can get started using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. Target Amazon FSx backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as a copy destination in your backup plan. Share the vault for recovery or restore testing with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Once shared, you can initiate direct restore jobs from that account, eliminating the overhead of copying backups first.
AWS Backup support for the three Amazon FSx file systems is available in all the Regions where logically air-gapped vault and respective Amazon FSx file systems are supported. For more information, visit the AWS Backup product page, and documentation.
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. Logically air-gapped vault is a type of AWS Backup vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to reduce recovery time from a data loss event. A logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys. You can now protect your Amazon FSx file system in logically air-gapped vaults in either the same account or across other accounts and Regions. This helps reduce the risk of downtime, ensure business continuity, and meet compliance and disaster recovery requirements. You can get started using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. Target Amazon FSx backups to a logically air-gapped vault by specifying it as a copy destination in your backup plan. Share the vault for recovery or restore testing with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Once shared, you can initiate direct restore jobs from that account, eliminating the overhead of copying backups first. AWS Backup support for the three Amazon FSx file systems is available in all the Regions where logically air-gapped vault and respective Amazon FSx file systems are supported. For more information, visit the AWS Backup product page, and documentation.
Amazon QuickSight a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization is now available in Spain Region. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards can be shared with 10s of 1000s of users without the need to provision or manage any infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites to provide rich, interactive analytics for end-users.
With this launch, QuickSight expands to 23 regions, including: US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Spain, Stockholm, Paris, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan and Zurich), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Beijing, Tokyo and Jakarta), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Africa (Cape Town) and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).
Amazon QuickSight a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization is now available in Spain Region. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards can be shared with 10s of 1000s of users without the need to provision or manage any infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites to provide rich, interactive analytics for end-users. With this launch, QuickSight expands to 23 regions, including: US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Spain, Stockholm, Paris, Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan and Zurich), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Beijing, Tokyo and Jakarta), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Africa (Cape Town) and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). To learn more about Amazon QuickSight, please see our product page, documentation and available regions here.
Innovación inclusiva: el papel de la IA en la accesibilidad y la neurodiversidad
Publicado en Microsoft Source Asia.
Cuando Anthony Moufarrege habla de accesibilidad, sus palabras llevan el peso de la experiencia vivida. Como coordinador de diversidad e inclusión en Australia Post y alguien que tiene parálisis cerebral, así como distonía leve y dislexia, Moufarrege entiende que incluso los pequeños ajustes en el lugar de trabajo pueden marcar una gran diferencia.
«Existe la idea errónea de que los ajustes en el lugar de trabajo deben ser grandes o complejos, pero los pequeños cambios también pueden tener un impacto profundo para alguien con una discapacidad», dice. «Estos cambios pueden proporcionar igualdad de oportunidades y permitirles prosperar junto a sus pares sanos».
Por ejemplo, todo el mundo puede experimentar los beneficios más obvios de la IA, como los resúmenes de las reuniones y la posibilidad de hacerle más preguntas después de una llamada. Para la mayoría, esto es tan solo un ahorro de tiempo útil, pero para una persona con una discapacidad física que ha pasado toda su carrera con la conversión de voz a texto para transcribir notas de reuniones de memoria, el impacto es mucho más profundo.
Para Moufarrege, las herramientas de IA generativa como Microsoft 365 Copilot no son solo potenciadores de la productividad, sino que son facilitadores de la inclusión y el empoderamiento.
Anthony Moufarrege, coordinador de diversidad e inclusión, Australia Post
«Como persona con dislexia, considero que la función de revisión gramatical de Copilot es invaluable. Me ayuda a garantizar que mi trabajo sea correcto a nivel gramatical, lo que me permite producir resultados profesionales y pulidos de manera eficiente», explica.
«Ya no tengo que dedicar tiempo extra después de las reuniones para organizar mis notas y pensamientos porque puedo consultar las transcripciones de las reuniones en cualquier momento, lo que también reduce la carga mental que suelen experimentar las personas neurodiversas como yo».
Moufarrege comparte cómo Copilot ha abierto la comunicación para sus colegas sordos o con discapacidad auditiva, tanto en reuniones virtuales como en persona.
«No era un caso de uso en el que yo pensara en un inicio, pero cuando me reúno con estos colegas en persona, hablo a través de la aplicación Copilot en mi teléfono y transmitirá el mensaje en texto», dijo Moufarrege.
Australia Post comenzó a adoptar Copilot en octubre de 2023 como parte del Programa de Acceso Temprano (EAP, por sus siglas en inglés) de Microsoft, que incluía a miembros de su Grupo de Recursos para Empleados Accessibility Matters. Después de una prueba exitosa, Australia Post ahora se ha expandido a 3 mil licencias.
Copilot también se ofrece ahora dentro del programa de Ajuste en el Lugar de Trabajo de Australia Post. Este programa garantiza que todos los miembros del equipo tengan acceso a un proceso simple y digno para acceder a los ajustes que los apoyen en su carrera.
Potenciar la individualidad y la innovación
Julian Ockford es planificador de operaciones ferroviarias en la empresa de servicios profesionales GHD. Como alguien con dislexia, Julian antes se esforzaba por cada palabra cuando escribía cosas como correos electrónicos o informes. El uso de Copilot le ha ayudado a escribir con más claridad y confianza, a la vez que aprende su estilo individual de comunicación, que Julian dice que es valioso para asegurarse de que se mantiene auténtico para él.
«También me siento más preparado para las reuniones que antes porque puedo usar la IA para buscar de manera rápida en todo el contenido y las conversaciones de la organización para asegurarme de que no me he perdido nada. Ayuda a destilar el contenido hasta obtener detalles manejables y eliminar el ruido», dijo Ockford.
«De manera reciente tuve que crear un informe técnico de seguridad. En lugar de dedicar mucho tiempo a buscar en documentos anteriores, lo que puede ser abrumador, en especial si eres neurodiverso, utilicé Copilot para revisar informes similares y resumirlos en una plantilla nueva y simplificada. Esto incluía todas las cláusulas clave, lo que me ahorró horas o incluso días de trabajo, pero lo más significativo fue que redujo la carga mental que a menudo experimento».
El director de tecnología de GHD, Andrew Kaddatz, dice que la compañía se centra en crear un entorno que permita a todos los empleados prosperar. Esto incluye a la comunidad de accesibilidad y neurodiversidad, así como a las personas que tienen una discapacidad temporal, como una operación de hombro que restringe la capacidad de escribir. Kaddatz dice que han visto un impacto claro para que estas personas puedan volver al trabajo más rápido.
También explica que la empresa ha adoptado un modelo basado en la facilitación en lugar de prescribir cómo se deben utilizar herramientas como Copilot.
«Nuestro equipo incluye a muchas personas curiosas, en particular científicos e ingenieros, que prosperan con la exploración autodirigida», dijo Kaddatz. «La libertad de experimentar y compartir sus experiencias crea un sentido de orgullo y colaboración. Es esta flexibilidad la que impulsa muchos de los beneficios de bienestar y accesibilidad que vemos en Copilot».
Sin embargo, el ingeniero geotécnico principal de GHD, Martin Griffin, advierte que el uso de la IA no debería disminuir su identidad en el trabajo, de modo que de repente suene o trabaje como todos los demás.
Martin Griffin, ingeniero geotécnico principal de GHD
«Cuando Copilot estuvo disponible por primera vez, fui cauteloso. Como alguien con autismo y discapacidad, considero mi forma diferente de pensar como un superpoder y algo que es único para mí, que puedo aportar al equipo y a resolver problemas. Por lo tanto, este concepto de tratar de ‘arreglarlo’ con IA no me sentó bien: debe tratarse de mejorar lo que ya traemos», dijo Griffin.
«Soy un pensador visual, por lo que por lo general empiezo con una imagen o un mapa mental y construyo texto a partir de él. Un caso de uso que me ha parecido interesante es el uso de Copilot para convertir contenido de PowerPoint en Word o viceversa, mientras se acorta o alarga con rapidez para que funcione con mi forma de pensar».
Poner a las personas en primer lugar
El potencial de la IA generativa para crear lugares de trabajo más accesibles e inclusivos es en especial crítico en Australia, donde hay 5,5 millones de personas (más del 21 por ciento de la población) con discapacidad.
«El mejor consejo que puedo ofrecer es que escuchen a su gente», dijo Moufarrege. «Cuando tienen la oportunidad de compartir sus experiencias y expresar lo vitales que son los ajustes en el lugar de trabajo para su éxito, podemos impulsar un cambio significativo que nos permita tener las mismas oportunidades que todos los demás».
AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling customers to build and run their ETL workloads closer to their data sources in these regions.
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration simpler so you can analyze your data and put it to use in minutes instead of months.
AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling customers to build and run their ETL workloads closer to their data sources in these regions. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration simpler so you can analyze your data and put it to use in minutes instead of months. To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and our documentation. For AWS Glue region availability, please see the AWS Region table.
Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Pro) to AWS GovCloud (US-West) – an isolated U.S. sovereign region for managing sensitive data and controlled unclassified information.
Government customers, technology partners, and entities with highly-regulated enterprise requirements now have access to Amazon Nova’s powerful AI capabilities including: Amazon Nova Micro, a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at a very low cost; Amazon Nova Lite, a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs to generate text outputs; and Amazon Nova Pro, a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. These models support over 200 languages, text and vision fine-tuning, and easy integration with proprietary data and applications through Amazon Bedrock features such as Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Bedrock Agents.
Today, Amazon announces the expansion of Amazon Nova understanding models (Amazon Nova Lite, Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Pro) to AWS GovCloud (US-West) – an isolated U.S. sovereign region for managing sensitive data and controlled unclassified information. Government customers, technology partners, and entities with highly-regulated enterprise requirements now have access to Amazon Nova’s powerful AI capabilities including: Amazon Nova Micro, a text-only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at a very low cost; Amazon Nova Lite, a very low-cost multimodal model that is lightning fast for processing image, video, and text inputs to generate text outputs; and Amazon Nova Pro, a highly capable multimodal model with the best combination of accuracy, speed, and cost for a wide range of tasks. These models support over 200 languages, text and vision fine-tuning, and easy integration with proprietary data and applications through Amazon Bedrock features such as Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Amazon Bedrock Agents. To learn more about Amazon Nova foundation models, see the Amazon Nova models page and to learn about the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region, see the AWS GovCloud (US) page. To get started with Amazon Nova on Amazon Bedrock, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.
AWS CodeBuild now supports registering self-hosted runners at GitHub organization or enterprise level. Additionally, you can assign your self-hosted runners to specific runner groups for enhanced security and access control. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment.
Organization and enterprise level runners provide centralized management across multiple repositories. Runner groups offer additional security control with granular repository access policies. You can also configure webhook filters on your CodeBuild projects to allow or deny workflow jobs from specific GitHub organizations or repositories.
This feature is available in all regions where CodeBuild is offered. For more information about the AWS Regions where CodeBuild is available, see the AWS Regions page.
To get started, configure runner scope and group in your CodeBuild projects. CodeBuild will automatically register your runners to the correct destination. To learn more about using CodeBuild self-hosted runners, visit the CodeBuild runner tutorial.
AWS CodeBuild now supports registering self-hosted runners at GitHub organization or enterprise level. Additionally, you can assign your self-hosted runners to specific runner groups for enhanced security and access control. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Organization and enterprise level runners provide centralized management across multiple repositories. Runner groups offer additional security control with granular repository access policies. You can also configure webhook filters on your CodeBuild projects to allow or deny workflow jobs from specific GitHub organizations or repositories. This feature is available in all regions where CodeBuild is offered. For more information about the AWS Regions where CodeBuild is available, see the AWS Regions page. To get started, configure runner scope and group in your CodeBuild projects. CodeBuild will automatically register your runners to the correct destination. To learn more about using CodeBuild self-hosted runners, visit the CodeBuild runner tutorial.
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 3 additional regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. With this launch, DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Redshift is available.
Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications, break data silos in your organization, and gain significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. Now you can run enhanced analysis on your DynamoDB data with the rich capabilities of Amazon Redshift, such as high performance SQL, built-in ML and Spark integrations, materialized views with automatic and incremental refresh, and data sharing. Additionally, you can use history mode to easily run advanced analytics on historical data, build lookback reports, and build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from DynamoDB, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code.
The Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central), in addition to previously supported regions. For a complete list of supported regions, please refer to the AWS Region Table where Amazon Redshift is available.
To learn more, visit the getting started guides for DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift. For more information on using history mode, we encourage you to visit our recent blog post here.
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 3 additional regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion enables customers to run high-performance analytics on their DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. With this launch, DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon Redshift is available. Zero-ETL integrations help you derive holistic insights across many applications, break data silos in your organization, and gain significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. Now you can run enhanced analysis on your DynamoDB data with the rich capabilities of Amazon Redshift, such as high performance SQL, built-in ML and Spark integrations, materialized views with automatic and incremental refresh, and data sharing. Additionally, you can use history mode to easily run advanced analytics on historical data, build lookback reports, and build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from DynamoDB, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code. The Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central), in addition to previously supported regions. For a complete list of supported regions, please refer to the AWS Region Table where Amazon Redshift is available. To learn more, visit the getting started guides for DynamoDB and Amazon Redshift. For more information on using history mode, we encourage you to visit our recent blog post here.
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports up to five integrations from the same Aurora cluster. This enhancement allows customers to create multiple zero-ETL integrations between a single Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster and same or different Amazon Redshift warehouses, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in data analytics workflows.
With this new capability, customers can now seamlessly replicate data from a single Aurora PostgreSQL cluster to multiple Redshift environments without the need for complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes. This feature is particularly beneficial for organizations that require different data views or aggregations for various analytical purposes, such as departmental reporting, regional analysis, or specific project requirements. By supporting multiple integrations, customers can maintain a single source of truth in Aurora while distributing relevant data subsets to different Redshift warehouses, optimizing both storage and query performance.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is available for Aurora PostgreSQL version 16.4 and higher in the regions listed here.
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports up to five integrations from the same Aurora cluster. This enhancement allows customers to create multiple zero-ETL integrations between a single Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL cluster and same or different Amazon Redshift warehouses, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in data analytics workflows. With this new capability, customers can now seamlessly replicate data from a single Aurora PostgreSQL cluster to multiple Redshift environments without the need for complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes. This feature is particularly beneficial for organizations that require different data views or aggregations for various analytical purposes, such as departmental reporting, regional analysis, or specific project requirements. By supporting multiple integrations, customers can maintain a single source of truth in Aurora while distributing relevant data subsets to different Redshift warehouses, optimizing both storage and query performance. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is available for Aurora PostgreSQL version 16.4 and higher in the regions listed here. To learn more and get started with zero-ETL integration, visit Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and the getting started guides for Aurora and Amazon Redshift.
