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You can now use your China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account

Amazon Web Services, Inc. now supports China UnionPay credit cards for creating new AWS accounts, eliminating the need for international credit cards for customers in China.

To use China UnionPay for creating your AWS account, enter your address and billing country in China, then provide your local China UnionPay credit card details and verify your personal identity or business license. All subsequent AWS charges will be billed in Chinese Yuan currency, providing convenient payment experience for customers in China.

To get started, select China UnionPay as your payment method when creating a new AWS account. For more information on using China UnionPay credit cards with AWS, visit Set up a Chinese yuan credit card.
 

 

​Amazon Web Services, Inc. now supports China UnionPay credit cards for creating new AWS accounts, eliminating the need for international credit cards for customers in China. To use China UnionPay for creating your AWS account, enter your address and billing country in China, then provide your local China UnionPay credit card details and verify your personal identity or business license. All subsequent AWS charges will be billed in Chinese Yuan currency, providing convenient payment experience for customers in China. To get started, select China UnionPay as your payment method when creating a new AWS account. For more information on using China UnionPay credit cards with AWS, visit Set up a Chinese yuan credit card.    

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Certificate-Based Authentication is now available on Amazon AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets

Amazon AppStream 2.0 improves the end-user experience by adding support for certificate-based authentication (CBA) on multi-session fleets running the Microsoft Windows operating system and joined to an Active Directory. This functionality helps administrators to leverage the cost benefits of the multi-session model while providing an enhanced end-user experience. By combining these enhancements with the existing advantages of multi-session fleets, AppStream 2.0 offers a solution that helps balance cost-efficiency and user satisfaction.

By using certificate-based authentication, you can rely on the security and logon experience features of your SAML 2.0 identity provider, such as passwordless authentication, to access AppStream 2.0 resources. Certificate-based authentication with AppStream 2.0 enables a single sign-on logon experience to access domain-joined desktop and application streaming sessions without separate password prompts for Active Directory.

This feature is available at no additional cost in all the AWS Regions where Amazon AppStream 2.0 is available. AppStream 2.0 offers pay-as-you go pricing. To get started with AppStream 2.0, see Getting Started with Amazon AppStream 2.0.

To enable this feature for your users, you must use an AppStream 2.0 image that uses AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after February 7, 2025 or your image is using Managed AppStream 2.0 image updates released on or after February 11, 2025.
 

 

​Amazon AppStream 2.0 improves the end-user experience by adding support for certificate-based authentication (CBA) on multi-session fleets running the Microsoft Windows operating system and joined to an Active Directory. This functionality helps administrators to leverage the cost benefits of the multi-session model while providing an enhanced end-user experience. By combining these enhancements with the existing advantages of multi-session fleets, AppStream 2.0 offers a solution that helps balance cost-efficiency and user satisfaction. By using certificate-based authentication, you can rely on the security and logon experience features of your SAML 2.0 identity provider, such as passwordless authentication, to access AppStream 2.0 resources. Certificate-based authentication with AppStream 2.0 enables a single sign-on logon experience to access domain-joined desktop and application streaming sessions without separate password prompts for Active Directory. This feature is available at no additional cost in all the AWS Regions where Amazon AppStream 2.0 is available. AppStream 2.0 offers pay-as-you go pricing. To get started with AppStream 2.0, see Getting Started with Amazon AppStream 2.0. To enable this feature for your users, you must use an AppStream 2.0 image that uses AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after February 7, 2025 or your image is using Managed AppStream 2.0 image updates released on or after February 11, 2025.    

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Announcing fine-grained access control via AWS Lake Formation with EMR on EKS

We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR on EKS. This enables you to enforce full FGAC policies (database, table, column, row, and cell-level) defined in Lake Formation for your data lake tables from EMR on EKS Spark jobs. We are also sharing the general availability of Glue Data Catalog views with EMR on EKS for Spark workflows.

Lake Formation simplifies building, securing, and managing data lakes by allowing you to define fine-grained access controls through grant and revoke statements, similar to RDBMS. The same Lake Formation rules now apply to Spark jobs on EMR on EKS for Hudi, Delta Lake, and Iceberg table formats, further simplifying data lake security and governance.

AWS Glue Data Catalog views with EMR on EKS allows customers to create views from Spark jobs that can be queried from multiple engines without requiring access to referenced tables. Administrators can control underlying data access using the rich SQL dialect provided by EMR on EKS Spark jobs. Access is managed with AWS Lake Formation permissions, including named resource grants, data filters, and lake formation tags. All requests are logged in AWS CloudTrail.

Fine-grained access control for Apache Spark batch jobs on EMR on EKS is available with the EMR 7.7 release in all regions where EMR on EKS is available. To get started, see Using AWS Lake Formation with Amazon EMR on EKS.
 

 

​We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained data access control (FGAC) via AWS Lake Formation for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR on EKS. This enables you to enforce full FGAC policies (database, table, column, row, and cell-level) defined in Lake Formation for your data lake tables from EMR on EKS Spark jobs. We are also sharing the general availability of Glue Data Catalog views with EMR on EKS for Spark workflows.
Lake Formation simplifies building, securing, and managing data lakes by allowing you to define fine-grained access controls through grant and revoke statements, similar to RDBMS. The same Lake Formation rules now apply to Spark jobs on EMR on EKS for Hudi, Delta Lake, and Iceberg table formats, further simplifying data lake security and governance. AWS Glue Data Catalog views with EMR on EKS allows customers to create views from Spark jobs that can be queried from multiple engines without requiring access to referenced tables. Administrators can control underlying data access using the rich SQL dialect provided by EMR on EKS Spark jobs. Access is managed with AWS Lake Formation permissions, including named resource grants, data filters, and lake formation tags. All requests are logged in AWS CloudTrail. Fine-grained access control for Apache Spark batch jobs on EMR on EKS is available with the EMR 7.7 release in all regions where EMR on EKS is available. To get started, see Using AWS Lake Formation with Amazon EMR on EKS.    

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Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.8

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.8. You can now create new clusters using version 3.8 with either KRAFT or ZooKeeper mode for metadata management or upgrade your existing ZooKeeper based clusters to use version 3.8. Apache Kafka version 3.8 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key new features include support for compression level configuration. This allows you to further optimize your performance when using compression types such as lz4, zstd and gzip, by allowing you to change the default compression level. For more details and a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.8.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you can spend more time innovating on streaming applications and less time managing Apache Kafka clusters. To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.

Support for Apache Kafka version 3.8 is offered in all AWS regions where Amazon MSK is available.

 

​Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.8. You can now create new clusters using version 3.8 with either KRAFT or ZooKeeper mode for metadata management or upgrade your existing ZooKeeper based clusters to use version 3.8. Apache Kafka version 3.8 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key new features include support for compression level configuration. This allows you to further optimize your performance when using compression types such as lz4, zstd and gzip, by allowing you to change the default compression level. For more details and a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.8. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you can spend more time innovating on streaming applications and less time managing Apache Kafka clusters. To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide. Support for Apache Kafka version 3.8 is offered in all AWS regions where Amazon MSK is available.  

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AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EC2 deployment support

AWS CodePipeline introduces a new action to deploy to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This action enables you to easily deploy your application to a group of EC2 instances behind load balancers.

Previously, if you wanted to deploy to EC2 instances, you had to use CodeDeploy with an AppSpec file to configure the deployment. Now, you can simply use this new EC2 deploy action in your pipeline to deploy to EC2 instances, without the necessity of managing CodeDeploy resources. This streamlined approach reduces your operational overhead and simplifies your deployment process.

To learn more about using the EC2 deploy action in your pipeline, visit our tutorial and documentation. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page. This new action is available in all regions where AWS CodePipeline is supported, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.
 

 

​AWS CodePipeline introduces a new action to deploy to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This action enables you to easily deploy your application to a group of EC2 instances behind load balancers. Previously, if you wanted to deploy to EC2 instances, you had to use CodeDeploy with an AppSpec file to configure the deployment. Now, you can simply use this new EC2 deploy action in your pipeline to deploy to EC2 instances, without the necessity of managing CodeDeploy resources. This streamlined approach reduces your operational overhead and simplifies your deployment process. To learn more about using the EC2 deploy action in your pipeline, visit our tutorial and documentation. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page. This new action is available in all regions where AWS CodePipeline is supported, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.    

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, 13.20

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, and 13.20. Please note, this release supports the versions released by the PostgreSQL community on February, 20,2025 to address the regression that was part of the February 13, 2025 release. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community.

You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments for RDS for PostgreSQL using physical replication for your minor version upgrades. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 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 PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, and 13.20. Please note, this release supports the versions released by the PostgreSQL community on February, 20,2025 to address the regression that was part of the February 13, 2025 release. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments for RDS for PostgreSQL using physical replication for your minor version upgrades. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.    

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AWS Database Migration Service now supports Multi-ENI networking for homogeneous migrations.

Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports the Multi-ENI networking model and Credentials Vending System for DMS Homogenous Migrations.

Customers can now choose the Multi-ENI connection type and use the Credentials Vending System, providing a simplified networking configuration experience for secure connectivity to their on-premises database instances.

For information see documentation for AWS DMS Homogeneous Migrations. For AWS DMS regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table.
 

 

​Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports the Multi-ENI networking model and Credentials Vending System for DMS Homogenous Migrations. Customers can now choose the Multi-ENI connection type and use the Credentials Vending System, providing a simplified networking configuration experience for secure connectivity to their on-premises database instances.
For information see documentation for AWS DMS Homogeneous Migrations. For AWS DMS regional availability, please refer to the AWS Region Table.    

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Desglose de datos de IA: manejar negocios riesgosos en la mitad del tiempo

febrero 21, 2025

Desglose de datos de IA: manejar negocios riesgosos en la mitad del tiempo

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Toda empresa debe ser capaz de evaluar dónde y cómo se cometen los errores. Supongamos que un cliente bancario experimenta retrasos cuando solicita un nuevo préstamo. Esa insatisfacción significa que los empleados de servicio al cliente, a su vez, dedican un tiempo valioso a lidiar con quejas y consultas. Averiguar por qué se producen esos retrasos y solucionar el problema puede afectar de manera directa al resultado final.  Para una institución como el Banco de Queensland de Australia, con unos pocos miles de empleados que atienden a 1,4 millones de clientes, identificar los riesgos pasados por alto es fundamental para reducir errores costosos en el futuro. Para ello, utiliza un método común de resolución de problemas: el análisis de la causa raíz. «El proceso es esencial para mantener altos estándares de satisfacción del cliente y excelencia operativa», dice Bernadette Demasi, jefa de programas de socios de Bank of Queensland para Group Tech. Pero también requiere muchos recursos. Nuestros investigadores de Microsoft se asociaron con el banco para explorar cómo la IA podría mejorar la velocidad y la eficiencia.  Sus hallazgos: El acceso a la IA, junto con el desarrollo rápido personalizado y dirigido, puede ayudar a diagnosticar esos problemas finales de manera más rápida y precisa.

Lo que hicimos: Nuestros investigadores dieron acceso a Copilot a 14 personas, mientras que un grupo de control de 21 no lo tenía. Se les pidió a los participantes que analizaran un «evento de riesgo» simulado (retrasos en la aprobación de préstamos) y se les asignó la tarea de identificar y catalogar las posibles razones de la demora. 

Debido a que sabemos que hay una curva de aprendizaje con la IA, también queríamos ver si brindar orientación específica podría ayudar a los usuarios de Copilot a comenzar a trabajar. El grupo de tratamiento recibió consejos sobre la optimización de tareas específicas, incluidos prompts de ejemplo que animaban a pedir respuestas narrativas («imagínate contar la historia…») y «frases para pensar en voz alta» («imagina que lo piensas con un colega…»).

Una vez finalizados ambos grupos, el equipo de investigación comparó la calidad de los análisis y el tiempo que tardó cada grupo en escribirlos.

Lo que descubrimos: Los analistas que utilizaron Copilot pudieron determinar la causa raíz un 51,8% más rápido, un resultado notable. De hecho, más de la mitad de los analistas con acceso a la IA completaron la tarea más rápido que el analista más rápido sin acceso a la IA. A pesar del tamaño más o menos pequeño de la muestra, las diferencias de rendimiento entre los grupos de tratamiento y control fueron tan pronunciadas y uniformes que los resultados son significativos a nivel estadístico. 

Los banqueros trabajan el doble de rápido con Copilot

En un estudio de Microsoft en Bank of Queensland, los analistas que utilizaron Copilot fueron capaces de terminar un análisis difícil un 51,8% más rápido que los que no lo tenían.

También vimos que los analistas con acceso a Copilot tuvieron resultados consistentes de alta calidad en comparación con la calidad más variable de los usuarios que no lo eran. Y el uso de la IA mejoró de manera significativa la eficacia y la claridad de los análisis.

Los resultados de la encuesta también sugieren que los usuarios de IA tuvieron una experiencia mucho mejor. Más de un tercio de los analistas con Copilot encontraron la tarea menos agotadora que los que no lo tenían, lo que sugiere que Copilot redujo de manera significativa su carga cognitiva. Otros resultados positivos fueron aún más uniformes: el 93% del grupo de tratamiento estuvo de acuerdo en que Copilot mejoró la calidad de su análisis de causa raíz y redujo el esfuerzo involucrado en completarlo. Todos los participantes con acceso a Copilot coincidieron en que les ayudó a responder preguntas sobre los factores que contribuyen al evento de riesgo y que, en el futuro, no querrían hacer este tipo de análisis sin él.

Lo que significa: Completar los análisis de causa raíz mejoró la capacidad de Bank of Queensland para identificar y gestionar riesgos, y el uso de Copilot ha reducido de manera significativa el tiempo de análisis de la empresa. Estiman que equipar a mil empleados con Copilot podría mejorar la productividad tanto que equivale a añadir 120 nuevos empleados. «Agregar capacidad a través de la IA nos permite trabajar a través de las limitaciones de recursos y ayuda a nuestros equipos a obtener la capacidad de concentrarse en trabajos de mayor valor», dice Demasi. 

Igual de importante: los resultados indican que no basta con dar a su gente acceso a la IA sin ninguna orientación. Para obtener grandes resultados, deben trabajar junto con sus equipos para dar instrucciones específicas sobre cómo adoptar la tecnología, apoyándolos para que superen los límites sobre cómo usarla de la mejor manera posible.

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Amazon EC2 G6e instances now available in Stockholm region

Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Europe (Stockholm) region. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases.

Customers can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio. Additionally, the G6e instances will unlock customers’ ability to create larger, more immersive 3D simulations and digital twins for spatial computing workloads. G6e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 1.536 TB of system memory, and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. Developers can run AI inference workloads on G6e instances using AWS Deep Learning AMIs, AWS Deep Learning Containers, or managed services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Batch, and Amazon SageMaker.

Amazon EC2 G6e instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm) regions. Customers can purchase G6e instances as On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, or as part of Savings Plans.

To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the G6e instance page.

 

​Starting today, the Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs is now available in Europe (Stockholm) region. G6e instances can be used for a wide range of machine learning and spatial computing use cases. Customers can use G6e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio. Additionally, the G6e instances will unlock customers’ ability to create larger, more immersive 3D simulations and digital twins for spatial computing workloads. G6e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 1.536 TB of system memory, and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. Developers can run AI inference workloads on G6e instances using AWS Deep Learning AMIs, AWS Deep Learning Containers, or managed services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Batch, and Amazon SageMaker. Amazon EC2 G6e instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm) regions. Customers can purchase G6e instances as On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, or as part of Savings Plans. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the G6e instance page.  

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AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices

Today, AWS announces the introduction of Backup Payment Methods for AWS invoices in all commercial AWS Regions. This feature enables customers to set up alternate payment methods that will be automatically charged for their invoices if the primary payment method fails. This will help customers make timely invoice payments without the need for manual intervention or last-minute payment updates.

There are several benefits this feature brings to AWS customers. Firstly, it reduces the risk of missed or late payments due to issues with the primary payment method. Backup payment method provides peace of mind, knowing that there’s a fallback payment method in place for invoice payments, reducing the risk of failed invoice payments. This can help maintain uninterrupted access to AWS services and avoid potential service disruptions. Secondly, it saves time and effort for customers by eliminating the need to manually update payment details or coordinate with their finance and accounting teams to settle invoices when the primary method fails.

To get started with Backup Payment Methods, customers can access their AWS Console and navigate to the billing section. From there, they can set their preferences for backup payment methods at any time. For more information on how to set up and manage Backup Payment Methods, please visit the AWS Billing and Cost Management documentation page or contact your AWS account representative.

 

​Today, AWS announces the introduction of Backup Payment Methods for AWS invoices in all commercial AWS Regions. This feature enables customers to set up alternate payment methods that will be automatically charged for their invoices if the primary payment method fails. This will help customers make timely invoice payments without the need for manual intervention or last-minute payment updates. There are several benefits this feature brings to AWS customers. Firstly, it reduces the risk of missed or late payments due to issues with the primary payment method. Backup payment method provides peace of mind, knowing that there’s a fallback payment method in place for invoice payments, reducing the risk of failed invoice payments. This can help maintain uninterrupted access to AWS services and avoid potential service disruptions. Secondly, it saves time and effort for customers by eliminating the need to manually update payment details or coordinate with their finance and accounting teams to settle invoices when the primary method fails. To get started with Backup Payment Methods, customers can access their AWS Console and navigate to the billing section. From there, they can set their preferences for backup payment methods at any time. For more information on how to set up and manage Backup Payment Methods, please visit the AWS Billing and Cost Management documentation page or contact your AWS account representative.