Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their MemoryDB service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions.

With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their MemoryDB quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets.

Service Quotas for MemoryDB is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where MemoryDB is available.

To learn more about Service Quotas and how to manage your MemoryDB quotas, visit the Service Quotas User Guide or the Amazon MemoryDB product page.

 

​Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their MemoryDB service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their MemoryDB quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Service Quotas for MemoryDB is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where MemoryDB is available. To learn more about Service Quotas and how to manage your MemoryDB quotas, visit the Service Quotas User Guide or the Amazon MemoryDB product page.  

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i.

C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. With C7i-flex instances, you can seamlessly run web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and more. For compute-intensive workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage C7i instances.

C7i-flex instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances.
 

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. With C7i-flex instances, you can seamlessly run web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and more. For compute-intensive workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage C7i instances. C7i-flex instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances.    

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is expanding its Spot allocation strategy options to include capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price and price-capacity-optimized, in addition to the existing default capacity-optimized strategy.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Customers can now enjoy additional allocation strategy options for Spot instances on Elastic Beanstalk such as capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price, and price-capacity-optimized strategies. The capacity-optimized-prioritized strategy allows users to prioritize instance types while still focusing on available capacity, ideal for workloads with specific instance preferences. The lowest-price strategy requests your Spot Instances using the lowest priced pools to maximize cost savings. The price-capacity-optimized strategy balances both price and capacity availability, offering a middle ground for users seeking to optimize costs without compromising too much on the likelihood of interruptions.

These strategies are available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

For more information on Spot allocation strategies and Elastic Beanstalk please see our developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.
 

 

​AWS Elastic Beanstalk is expanding its Spot allocation strategy options to include capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price and price-capacity-optimized, in addition to the existing default capacity-optimized strategy. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Customers can now enjoy additional allocation strategy options for Spot instances on Elastic Beanstalk such as capacity-optimized-prioritized, lowest-price, and price-capacity-optimized strategies. The capacity-optimized-prioritized strategy allows users to prioritize instance types while still focusing on available capacity, ideal for workloads with specific instance preferences. The lowest-price strategy requests your Spot Instances using the lowest priced pools to maximize cost savings. The price-capacity-optimized strategy balances both price and capacity availability, offering a middle ground for users seeking to optimize costs without compromising too much on the likelihood of interruptions. These strategies are available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions. For more information on Spot allocation strategies and Elastic Beanstalk please see our developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.    

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their ElastiCache service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions.

With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their ElastiCache quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Customers will also benefit from visibility into quota usage for all on-boarded quotas via Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics, allowing for better resource planning and management.

Service Quotas for ElastiCache is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

To learn more about Service Quotas and how to manage your ElastiCache quotas, visit the Service Quotas User Guide or the Amazon ElastiCache product page.

 

​Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Service Quotas. This enhancement provides customers with improved visibility and control over their ElastiCache service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual interventions. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their ElastiCache quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Customers will also benefit from visibility into quota usage for all on-boarded quotas via Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics, allowing for better resource planning and management. Service Quotas for ElastiCache is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about Service Quotas and how to manage your ElastiCache quotas, visit the Service Quotas User Guide or the Amazon ElastiCache product page.  

Today, Amazon MSK announced the availability of four additional instance sizes of Graviton3-based M7g instances for Express Brokers. With this launch, you now have seven different instance sizes to choose from to host Express Brokers in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), ranging from large to 16xlarge.

Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes.

Learn more here.
 

 

​Today, Amazon MSK announced the availability of four additional instance sizes of Graviton3-based M7g instances for Express Brokers. With this launch, you now have seven different instance sizes to choose from to host Express Brokers in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), ranging from large to 16xlarge. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes. Learn more here.    

The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool is now available on a dedicated page in the AWS Billing console, under Cost and Usage Analysis. It is no longer in the Cost and Usage Reports page, as this page is being deprecated.

The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool supports customers on their sustainability journey. When signed into the AWS Billing console, customers can view their carbon emissions data for the past 36 months by geographical location and by AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). All other services are reported as Other. They can also measure changes in their carbon footprint over time, as they deploy new resources in the cloud.

To learn more about the Customer Carbon Footprint tool, visit the product page or review the User Guide. Current AWS customers can visit the AWS Billing console to start using this tool as they progress on their sustainability journey.
 

 

​The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool is now available on a dedicated page in the AWS Billing console, under Cost and Usage Analysis. It is no longer in the Cost and Usage Reports page, as this page is being deprecated. The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool supports customers on their sustainability journey. When signed into the AWS Billing console, customers can view their carbon emissions data for the past 36 months by geographical location and by AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). All other services are reported as Other. They can also measure changes in their carbon footprint over time, as they deploy new resources in the cloud. To learn more about the Customer Carbon Footprint tool, visit the product page or review the User Guide. Current AWS customers can visit the AWS Billing console to start using this tool as they progress on their sustainability journey.    

AWS Marketplace now supports the collection of Swiss Value Added Tax (VAT) on sales by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to customers located in Switzerland. This allows ISVs registered for Swiss VAT to simplify and streamline their tax operations on AWS Marketplace in Switzerland. In addition, AWS Marketplace now supports Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland, a new feature that enables ISVs to associate multiple VAT registrations with a single seller account. These features make it easier for global ISVs to do business in Switzerland by simplifying their tax management.

With this launch, ISVs will no longer be required to manually manage the Swiss VAT for their sales in Switzerland. ISVs can now also add a new supplemental Swiss VAT registration number to their seller account which will be taken into account in connection with their sales to customers in Switzerland. AWS Marketplace will calculate, collect and remit the Swiss VAT to the ISVs, and provide a detailed tax report to help ISVs meet their tax obligations.

Tax Collection for Switzerland is available for all ISVs registered with Swiss VAT and when transacting via the AWS Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Marketplace Operator. For Multiple Tax Profiles, ISVs can opt-in to add, update, view and manage their supplemental Swiss VAT registration associated with their account using the AWS Marketplace Management portal or the API operations for Tax Settings.

To learn more, please visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.
 

 

​AWS Marketplace now supports the collection of Swiss Value Added Tax (VAT) on sales by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to customers located in Switzerland. This allows ISVs registered for Swiss VAT to simplify and streamline their tax operations on AWS Marketplace in Switzerland. In addition, AWS Marketplace now supports Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland, a new feature that enables ISVs to associate multiple VAT registrations with a single seller account. These features make it easier for global ISVs to do business in Switzerland by simplifying their tax management. With this launch, ISVs will no longer be required to manually manage the Swiss VAT for their sales in Switzerland. ISVs can now also add a new supplemental Swiss VAT registration number to their seller account which will be taken into account in connection with their sales to customers in Switzerland. AWS Marketplace will calculate, collect and remit the Swiss VAT to the ISVs, and provide a detailed tax report to help ISVs meet their tax obligations. Tax Collection for Switzerland is available for all ISVs registered with Swiss VAT and when transacting via the AWS Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Marketplace Operator. For Multiple Tax Profiles, ISVs can opt-in to add, update, view and manage their supplemental Swiss VAT registration associated with their account using the AWS Marketplace Management portal or the API operations for Tax Settings. To learn more, please visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.    

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you filter which logs you want to capture. You can choose specific log types like Ad Server Interactions or individual events like Ad Server Responses, helping reduce costs and complexity by only collecting the data you need. To enable this feature, you add filtering parameters to your session requests to customize logging for each playback session.

Please see the MediaTailor User Guide for further details.

Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more about MediaTailor, please visit the product page.
 

 

​AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you filter which logs you want to capture. You can choose specific log types like Ad Server Interactions or individual events like Ad Server Responses, helping reduce costs and complexity by only collecting the data you need. To enable this feature, you add filtering parameters to your session requests to customize logging for each playback session. Please see the MediaTailor User Guide for further details. Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more about MediaTailor, please visit the product page.    

Today, AWS is announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager support for cross-account, cross-Region reports in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and recovery activities. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs.

AWS Backup Audit Manager is available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. To learn more about AWS Backup Audit Manager, visit the product page and documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.
 

 

​Today, AWS is announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager support for cross-account, cross-Region reports in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and recovery activities. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup Audit Manager is available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. To learn more about AWS Backup Audit Manager, visit the product page and documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.    

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account.

Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability. To learn more about OpenSearch Serverless, see the documentation.

 

​We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability. To learn more about OpenSearch Serverless, see the documentation.