Today, AWS IoT Core a fully managed cloud service that lets you connect billions of devices and process trillions of messages, supports headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action . You can use Kafka headers to send additional metadata from IoT devices to a self-managed Apache Kafka cluster or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), without modifying the original IoT message payload. 

Today, we are announcing the developer preview of the AWS Amplify JavaScript Library v6 which includes reduced bundle sizes, richer TypeScript support, and integrations with Next.js server-side features. The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library enables frontend developers to connect their web and React Native apps to AWS cloud backends. In this developer preview, Amplify JavaScript now offers richer TypeScript support for the Auth, Analytics, and Storage categories. Apps using this developer preview will be served with smaller bundle sizes. Amplify JavaScript v6 also introduces an integration with Next.js server-side features such as App Router, Middleware, API routes, and server functions.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers Oracle Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI) purchase option in additional AWS Regions and for additional instance classes. R6i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Middle East (UAE), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon). R5 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne), and Europe (Spain). T3 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE). 

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, and Lustre in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon FSx along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.

With the launch of Partner Initiative Funding in AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), AWS Partners can easily self-access and manage their initiative and agreement funding.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation general-purpose instances (M7g, M7i, M7i-flex, M7a, M6a), compute optimized instances (C7gn, C7g), memory optimized instances (R7g, R7iz, R6id, R6a, X2iezn), storage optimized instances (I4g, I4i), and high-performance-computing (HPC) optimized instances (Hpc7g, Hpc6id). This expands the total EC2 instance types supported by Compute Optimizer to 636. Additionally, Compute Optimizer now delivers Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume recommendations for EBS volumes that are attached to multiple EC2 instances simultaneously.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

Amazon DynamoDB global tables is now available in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE). Customers can now create global tables with replicas in all AWS Regions.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now offers a quicker and more user-friendly way to create machine learning (ML) models for time-series forecasting. With its visual, point-and-click interface, business analysts can easily create accurate ML models for insights and predictions, without writing any code or having prior ML knowledge. Canvas supports multiple use cases — including time-series forecasting used in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and finance — by combining statistical and ML algorithms to generate highly accurate forecasts. 

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports AWS CloudTrail logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions. By logging these data events, you can get details on when and who made API calls to Amazon SNS, thereby enhancing data visibility for security and operations teams, enabling governance, compliance, and operational auditing.