AWS launches the AWS Sustainability console, a free, standalone service that shows customers their environmental impact associated with their AWS usage. Expanding on the features from the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) in the AWS Billing console, this new service addresses a critical access barrier by enabling sustainability professionals to view carbon emissions data without requiring billing permissions. Organizations can now ensure the right teams have access to the environmental data.

Like the CCFT, the AWS Sustainability console provides customers their estimated carbon emissions from using AWS, calculated using both market-based (MBM) and location-based (LBM) methods and available by AWS Region, service, and emissions scope (1, 2, 3). The console also delivers additional capabilities including improved customizable visualizations, the ability to set which month your fiscal year starts, customizable CSV reports, and API/SDK access for seamless integration of emissions data into existing reporting workflows.

The AWS Sustainability service is now available in the US East (N. Virginia) region and provides carbon emissions data for all AWS commercial regions. Access the service globally through the AWS Management Console.

 

​AWS launches the AWS Sustainability console, a free, standalone service that shows customers their environmental impact associated with their AWS usage. Expanding on the features from the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) in the AWS Billing console, this new service addresses a critical access barrier by enabling sustainability professionals to view carbon emissions data without requiring billing permissions. Organizations can now ensure the right teams have access to the environmental data. Like the CCFT, the AWS Sustainability console provides customers their estimated carbon emissions from using AWS, calculated using both market-based (MBM) and location-based (LBM) methods and available by AWS Region, service, and emissions scope (1, 2, 3). The console also delivers additional capabilities including improved customizable visualizations, the ability to set which month your fiscal year starts, customizable CSV reports, and API/SDK access for seamless integration of emissions data into existing reporting workflows.
The AWS Sustainability service is now available in the US East (N. Virginia) region and provides carbon emissions data for all AWS commercial regions. Access the service globally through the AWS Management Console.  

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 2.2. This is a major upgrade that brings runtime improvements such as Java 17 support, RocksDB 8.10.0 for better I/O performance, and serialization enhancements. Additionally, Dataset API and Scala APIs are now deprecated. You can create a new application on Apache Flink 2.2 or use in-place version upgrades to adopt the Flink 2.2 runtime for a simpler and faster upgrade to compatible applications.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time across various use cases, including real-time analytics, anomaly detection, and complex event processing. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of Apache Flink applications, allowing developers and data engineers to focus on building and running their streaming applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.

Apache Flink 2.2 is available across AWS regions where Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is offered. You can learn more about Apache Flink 2.2 in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in our documentation. 

 

​Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 2.2. This is a major upgrade that brings runtime improvements such as Java 17 support, RocksDB 8.10.0 for better I/O performance, and serialization enhancements. Additionally, Dataset API and Scala APIs are now deprecated. You can create a new application on Apache Flink 2.2 or use in-place version upgrades to adopt the Flink 2.2 runtime for a simpler and faster upgrade to compatible applications. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time across various use cases, including real-time analytics, anomaly detection, and complex event processing. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of Apache Flink applications, allowing developers and data engineers to focus on building and running their streaming applications without managing the underlying infrastructure. Apache Flink 2.2 is available across AWS regions where Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is offered. You can learn more about Apache Flink 2.2 in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in our documentation.   

AWS Marketplace now offers sellers a streamlined self-service process for refunds and agreement cancellations, reducing the time and effort required to process these requests. This new capability eliminates the need to file support tickets, and gives both sellers and buyers full visibility into the latest status of each request. Buyers can now review and approve cancellation requests directly from the AWS Marketplace console, and see refunds reflected on their charge summary for easier reconciliation. Additionally, Know Your Customer (KYC) verification is now only triggered for invoices that require compliance validation, so sellers can process refunds for KYC-exempt invoices without unnecessary verification delays.

With this launch, sellers can request refunds or cancellations from the Agreements page in the seller portal or programmatically through the AWS Marketplace Agreement APIs. These requests are pre-populated with agreement and invoice data and processed automatically. Sellers can then track every request from submission through completion. Billing adjustments are processed automatically without requiring buyer approval, allowing sellers to refund charges on paid invoices or reduce outstanding balances on unpaid invoices. For agreement cancellations, sellers submit a request and share an approval link directly with the buyer, who has seven days to respond before the cancellation proceeds automatically. All parties receive email and Amazon EventBridge notifications for every status change, enabling integration with their operational workflows. For Channel Partner Private Offer agreements, the channel partner initiates the refund or cancellation request, and the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) receives notifications for visibility.

Seller self-service refunds and agreement cancellations are available in all commercial AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is supported.

To learn more, see Refunds and cancellations in the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide. For information about responding to seller-initiated cancellation requests and tracking refunds, see Refunds and cancellations in the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide.

 

​AWS Marketplace now offers sellers a streamlined self-service process for refunds and agreement cancellations, reducing the time and effort required to process these requests. This new capability eliminates the need to file support tickets, and gives both sellers and buyers full visibility into the latest status of each request. Buyers can now review and approve cancellation requests directly from the AWS Marketplace console, and see refunds reflected on their charge summary for easier reconciliation. Additionally, Know Your Customer (KYC) verification is now only triggered for invoices that require compliance validation, so sellers can process refunds for KYC-exempt invoices without unnecessary verification delays. With this launch, sellers can request refunds or cancellations from the Agreements page in the seller portal or programmatically through the AWS Marketplace Agreement APIs. These requests are pre-populated with agreement and invoice data and processed automatically. Sellers can then track every request from submission through completion. Billing adjustments are processed automatically without requiring buyer approval, allowing sellers to refund charges on paid invoices or reduce outstanding balances on unpaid invoices. For agreement cancellations, sellers submit a request and share an approval link directly with the buyer, who has seven days to respond before the cancellation proceeds automatically. All parties receive email and Amazon EventBridge notifications for every status change, enabling integration with their operational workflows. For Channel Partner Private Offer agreements, the channel partner initiates the refund or cancellation request, and the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) receives notifications for visibility. Seller self-service refunds and agreement cancellations are available in all commercial AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is supported. To learn more, see Refunds and cancellations in the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide. For information about responding to seller-initiated cancellation requests and tracking refunds, see Refunds and cancellations in the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide.  

Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in 17 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Mexico (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), and US West (N. California).

Amazon S3 Vectors is the first cloud object storage with native support for storing and querying vectors. It delivers purpose-built, cost-optimized vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. S3 Vectors is designed to provide the same elasticity, durability, and availability as Amazon S3. With a dedicated set of APIs, you can store and query up to two billion vectors per vector index and elastically scale to 10,000 vector indexes per vector bucket without provisioning any infrastructure. Infrequent queries return results in under one second, with frequent queries resulting in latencies as low as 100 milliseconds. S3 Vectors is natively integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases so you can reduce the cost of using large vector datasets for RAG.

With this expansion, S3 Vectors is now available in 31 AWS Regions. For pricing details, visit the S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the product page and documentation.

 

​Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in 17 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Mexico (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), and US West (N. California).
Amazon S3 Vectors is the first cloud object storage with native support for storing and querying vectors. It delivers purpose-built, cost-optimized vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. S3 Vectors is designed to provide the same elasticity, durability, and availability as Amazon S3. With a dedicated set of APIs, you can store and query up to two billion vectors per vector index and elastically scale to 10,000 vector indexes per vector bucket without provisioning any infrastructure. Infrequent queries return results in under one second, with frequent queries resulting in latencies as low as 100 milliseconds. S3 Vectors is natively integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases so you can reduce the cost of using large vector datasets for RAG.
With this expansion, S3 Vectors is now available in 31 AWS Regions. For pricing details, visit the S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the product page and documentation.  

Businesses want to send one-time passcodes (OTPs) because they are often the easiest and fastest way for customers to verify who they are. However, businesses are often surprised when it takes weeks or months to get phone numbers, complete carrier registrations, and set up sender IDs. Today, AWS announces AWS End User Messaging Notify to change all of this. Within minutes, a developer can use phone numbers and sender IDs owned by AWS to power their OTP use case and start sending right away.

With Notify, you set up a configuration with your brand name, turn on SMS, voice, or both, and begin sending OTP messages to over 200 countries using ready-to-use templates. You can customize your brand name, code format, and how long a code stays valid. Every API call includes built-in SMS fraud protection through AWS End User Messaging SMS Protect at no extra cost, catching and blocking suspicious traffic before messages incur costs. Spend limits give you another layer of protection by pausing delivery if your account hits its set threshold.

AWS End User Messaging Notify is available in all AWS Regions where AWS End User Messaging is available.

To get started, visit the AWS End User Notify user guide.

 

 

​Businesses want to send one-time passcodes (OTPs) because they are often the easiest and fastest way for customers to verify who they are. However, businesses are often surprised when it takes weeks or months to get phone numbers, complete carrier registrations, and set up sender IDs. Today, AWS announces AWS End User Messaging Notify to change all of this. Within minutes, a developer can use phone numbers and sender IDs owned by AWS to power their OTP use case and start sending right away.
With Notify, you set up a configuration with your brand name, turn on SMS, voice, or both, and begin sending OTP messages to over 200 countries using ready-to-use templates. You can customize your brand name, code format, and how long a code stays valid. Every API call includes built-in SMS fraud protection through AWS End User Messaging SMS Protect at no extra cost, catching and blocking suspicious traffic before messages incur costs. Spend limits give you another layer of protection by pausing delivery if your account hits its set threshold.
AWS End User Messaging Notify is available in all AWS Regions where AWS End User Messaging is available.
To get started, visit the AWS End User Notify user guide.
   

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available, providing automated quality assessment for AI agents. Evaluations enables developers to monitor agent quality through continuous evaluation of production traffic, validate changes through testing workflows, and measure agent performance against defined expectations. AgentCore Evaluations offers two evaluation types. Online evaluation continuously monitors agent performance in production by sampling and scoring live traces. On-demand evaluation enables teams to test agents programmatically, supporting regression testing in CI/CD pipelines and interactive development workflows.

Teams can evaluate agents using 13 built-in evaluators for response quality, safety, task completion, and tool usage. Developers can also use Ground Truth to measure agent performance against expectations, including reference answers for response validation, behavioral assertions for session-level goals, and expected tool execution sequences. For domain-specific requirements, teams can configure custom evaluators using their choice of prompts and model for LLM-based evaluation, or implement custom logic in Python or JavaScript through Lambda-hosted functions for code-based evaluation. Evaluations integrates with AgentCore Observability for unified monitoring and real-time alerts.

AgentCore Evaluations is available in nine AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland).
Learn more about Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations through the documentation, and get started with the AgentCore Starter Toolkit

 

​Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available, providing automated quality assessment for AI agents. Evaluations enables developers to monitor agent quality through continuous evaluation of production traffic, validate changes through testing workflows, and measure agent performance against defined expectations. AgentCore Evaluations offers two evaluation types. Online evaluation continuously monitors agent performance in production by sampling and scoring live traces. On-demand evaluation enables teams to test agents programmatically, supporting regression testing in CI/CD pipelines and interactive development workflows. Teams can evaluate agents using 13 built-in evaluators for response quality, safety, task completion, and tool usage. Developers can also use Ground Truth to measure agent performance against expectations, including reference answers for response validation, behavioral assertions for session-level goals, and expected tool execution sequences. For domain-specific requirements, teams can configure custom evaluators using their choice of prompts and model for LLM-based evaluation, or implement custom logic in Python or JavaScript through Lambda-hosted functions for code-based evaluation. Evaluations integrates with AgentCore Observability for unified monitoring and real-time alerts. AgentCore Evaluations is available in nine AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland). Learn more about Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations through the documentation, and get started with the AgentCore Starter Toolkit  

Today, AWS Deadline Cloud introduces three powerful new fleet scaling options that give you greater flexibility in managing your render farm capacity and performance: worker idle duration, standby worker count, and scale out rate. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps creative teams efficiently manage and scale their rendering workloads in the cloud.

These new options give you direct control over balancing rendering speed and efficiency. Configurable worker idle duration allows you to specify how long workers remain available after completing a job, eliminating wait times between job submissions and speeding up artist’s iteration workflow. Standby worker count maintains a pool of pre-warmed, idle workers that are immediately available at job submission so your renders start right away. Scale out rate lets you configure how quickly your fleet scales, up to 500 workers per minute, giving you the control you need to match your infrastructure needs.

These flexible scaling controls are now available in AWS Deadline Cloud. To learn more, visit the AWS Deadline Cloud documentation.

 

​Today, AWS Deadline Cloud introduces three powerful new fleet scaling options that give you greater flexibility in managing your render farm capacity and performance: worker idle duration, standby worker count, and scale out rate. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps creative teams efficiently manage and scale their rendering workloads in the cloud. These new options give you direct control over balancing rendering speed and efficiency. Configurable worker idle duration allows you to specify how long workers remain available after completing a job, eliminating wait times between job submissions and speeding up artist’s iteration workflow. Standby worker count maintains a pool of pre-warmed, idle workers that are immediately available at job submission so your renders start right away. Scale out rate lets you configure how quickly your fleet scales, up to 500 workers per minute, giving you the control you need to match your infrastructure needs.
These flexible scaling controls are now available in AWS Deadline Cloud. To learn more, visit the AWS Deadline Cloud documentation.  

Today we are announcing the release of Aurora DSQL connectors for .NET (Npgsql) and Rust (SQLx) that make it easy to build .NET and Rust applications on Aurora DSQL. The connectors streamline authentication and eliminate security risks associated with traditional user-generated passwords by automatically generating tokens for each connection, ensuring valid tokens are always used while maintaining full compatibility with existing Npgsql and SQLx features.

The connectors handle IAM token generation, SSL configuration, and connection pooling, enabling customers to scale from simple scripts to production workloads without changing their authentication approach. They also provide opt-in optimistic concurrency control (OCC) retry with exponential backoff, custom IAM credential providers, and AWS profile support, making it easier to develop client retry logic and manage AWS credentials.

To get started, visit the Connectors for Aurora DSQL documentation page. For code examples, visit our GitHub pages for the .NET connector and Rust connector. Get started with Aurora DSQL for free with the AWS Free Tier. To learn more about Aurora DSQL, visit the webpage.

 

​Today we are announcing the release of Aurora DSQL connectors for .NET (Npgsql) and Rust (SQLx) that make it easy to build .NET and Rust applications on Aurora DSQL. The connectors streamline authentication and eliminate security risks associated with traditional user-generated passwords by automatically generating tokens for each connection, ensuring valid tokens are always used while maintaining full compatibility with existing Npgsql and SQLx features. The connectors handle IAM token generation, SSL configuration, and connection pooling, enabling customers to scale from simple scripts to production workloads without changing their authentication approach. They also provide opt-in optimistic concurrency control (OCC) retry with exponential backoff, custom IAM credential providers, and AWS profile support, making it easier to develop client retry logic and manage AWS credentials. To get started, visit the Connectors for Aurora DSQL documentation page. For code examples, visit our GitHub pages for the .NET connector and Rust connector. Get started with Aurora DSQL for free with the AWS Free Tier. To learn more about Aurora DSQL, visit the webpage.  

AWS Transform custom now offers seven new AWS-managed transformations to help you modernize code at scale. These transformations address common modernization scenarios across multiple languages and frameworks.

Generally available transformations includes comprehensive codebase analysis transformation, enabling you to generate hierarchical, cross-referenced documentation covering architecture, business logic, and technical debt, with actionable insights on outdated components and maintenance concerns. The Node.js version upgrade transformation is now generally available and includes comprehensive library upgrade support, enabling you to upgrade Node.js applications from any source version to any target version with full dependency modernization.

Those transformations available in early access include Java performance optimization transformation helps you analyze Java Flight Recorder (JFR) profiling data to detect CPU and memory hotspots and anti- patterns, then applies targeted code fixes to reduce resource usage and improve efficiency. The Log4j to SLF4J migration transformation allows you to remediate Log4j logging dependencies by migrating to the SLF4J logging framework. Also available in early access is the Angular to React migration transformation transforms Angular applications to React. The Angular version upgrade transformation enables you to upgrade Angular applications to the latest version. Finally, the Vue version upgrade transformation upgrades your Vue.js applications to the latest version.

AWS-managed transformations are validated by AWS and can be customized to meet your organization’s specific requirements. All transformations benefit from continual learning, automatically improving quality from every execution.

To get started, install the AWS Transform CLI and run atx custom def list to see all available transformations. For more information, see AWS-Managed Transformations.
AWS Transform custom is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

 

​AWS Transform custom now offers seven new AWS-managed transformations to help you modernize code at scale. These transformations address common modernization scenarios across multiple languages and frameworks. Generally available transformations includes comprehensive codebase analysis transformation, enabling you to generate hierarchical, cross-referenced documentation covering architecture, business logic, and technical debt, with actionable insights on outdated components and maintenance concerns. The Node.js version upgrade transformation is now generally available and includes comprehensive library upgrade support, enabling you to upgrade Node.js applications from any source version to any target version with full dependency modernization. Those transformations available in early access include Java performance optimization transformation helps you analyze Java Flight Recorder (JFR) profiling data to detect CPU and memory hotspots and anti- patterns, then applies targeted code fixes to reduce resource usage and improve efficiency. The Log4j to SLF4J migration transformation allows you to remediate Log4j logging dependencies by migrating to the SLF4J logging framework. Also available in early access is the Angular to React migration transformation transforms Angular applications to React. The Angular version upgrade transformation enables you to upgrade Angular applications to the latest version. Finally, the Vue version upgrade transformation upgrades your Vue.js applications to the latest version. AWS-managed transformations are validated by AWS and can be customized to meet your organization’s specific requirements. All transformations benefit from continual learning, automatically improving quality from every execution.
To get started, install the AWS Transform CLI and run atx custom def list to see all available transformations. For more information, see AWS-Managed Transformations. AWS Transform custom is available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).  

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now publishes certificate authority (CA) utilization metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing visibility into your CA usage. AWS Private CA enforces service quota limits on the number of certificates a CA can issue and the number of CAs you can create per Region. The new metrics track the number of certificates issued by each CA and the total number of CAs in each Region, enabling you to monitor usage against these quotas and proactively manage CA lifecycle to maintain high availability.

With these metrics, you can configure CloudWatch alarms to prevent quota-related service disruptions. For example, you can set alarms to trigger automation that replaces a CA approaching its certificate issuance quota and transitions certificate issuance to a new CA. This is particularly important when using AWS services that rely on AWS Private CA certificates, such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS Service Connect, and Amazon WorkSpaces.

The utilization metrics are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Private CA is available. To learn more about AWS Private CA metrics, see the AWS Private CA User Guide. 

 

​AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now publishes certificate authority (CA) utilization metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing visibility into your CA usage. AWS Private CA enforces service quota limits on the number of certificates a CA can issue and the number of CAs you can create per Region. The new metrics track the number of certificates issued by each CA and the total number of CAs in each Region, enabling you to monitor usage against these quotas and proactively manage CA lifecycle to maintain high availability. With these metrics, you can configure CloudWatch alarms to prevent quota-related service disruptions. For example, you can set alarms to trigger automation that replaces a CA approaching its certificate issuance quota and transitions certificate issuance to a new CA. This is particularly important when using AWS services that rely on AWS Private CA certificates, such as Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS Service Connect, and Amazon WorkSpaces.
The utilization metrics are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Private CA is available. To learn more about AWS Private CA metrics, see the AWS Private CA User Guide.