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AWS Batch now supports resource aware scheduling

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/aws-batch-resource-aware-scheduling/

AWS Batch now supports job scheduling that takes into account consumable resources (CRs) such as third-party license tokens, database access bandwidth, budgetary limits, and more. With resource aware scheduling you can set up sets of tokens...

Amazon EC2 announces Time-based Copy for AMIs

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/amazon-ec2-time-based-copy-amis

Amazon EC2 announces the general availability of Time-based Copy for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Similar to Time-based Copy for EBS snapshots , this feature enables customers to meet their compliance objectives by ensuring that AMIs are copied...

Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing in Vietnam

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/amazon-connect-reduces-telephony-pricing-vietnam/

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Vietnam in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. This includes price reductions of Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 95% from $0.0815/min to $0.004/min, and Outbound minutes by 44% from $0.0896/min to...

Monitor and observe apps across multiple accounts with Application Signals

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/monitor-observe-apps-across-multiple-accounts-application-signals

CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications now supports the ability to monitor your applications' services and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)...

Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/amazon-ec2-f2-instances-asia-pacific-sydney/

Starting today, the FPGA-powered Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. F2 instances are the second generation of FPGA powered instances and are the first to feature an FPGA with 16 GB of high bandwidth...

Amazon RDS now provides visibility into IAM DB Authentication metrics and logs

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/amazon-rds-visibility-iam-db-authentication-metrics-logs

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) IAM Database Authentication (IAM DB Auth) now provides enhanced observability through metrics and logs. It enables customers to investigate and resolve authentication issues when connecting to RDS...

AWS CodeBuild now supports merging parallel test reports and new compute options

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/aws-codebuild-merging-parallel-test-reports-compute-options/

You can now automatically merge your tests reports into a consolidated report when you execute test cases in parallel. This enhancement also allows you to select a mix of on-demand instances, reserved capacity fleets, or Lambda compute resources...

AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/aws-chatbot-named-amazon-q-developer/

AWS Chatbot is now called Amazon Q Developer. The new name recognizes the integration of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, in Microsoft Teams and Slack to manage and optimize AWS...

Amazon Connect now supports interactive welcome messages when starting chats

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/02/amazon-connect-interactive-welcome-messages-starting-chats

Amazon Connect Chat now enables you to greet customers with interactive messages when starting chats, delivering contextual and personalized experiences that improve engagement and self-service resolution rates. For example, when a customer visits...