Amazon Aurora DSQL  now supports index creation on NUMERIC data types. With this enhancement, you can now use NUMERIC columns in both primary keys and secondary indexes, which can improve query performance for workloads that rely on high-precision values such as currency amounts, measurements and statistical data.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of displaying account name in AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. AWS customers now have an easy way to identify their accounts at a glance. Users can now quickly distinguish between accounts visually using the account name that appears in the navigation bar for all authorized users in that account.

AWS customers manage multiple accounts to separate their workloads, such as maintaining distinct accounts for development and production environments or for different business units. Previously, users had to rely on account numbers to identify accounts. With this new feature, all authorized users can quickly identify the account using its name on the navigation bar.

The account name display feature is available at no additional cost in all public AWS Regions. To get started, make sure your administrator has enabled the feature (visit our managed policy documentation ) and sign in to AWS Management Console . 

Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience that consolidates and provides all relevant information needed to connect to a database in one place, making it easier to connect to your RDS databases.

The new console experience provides ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js and other programming languages as well as tools like the psql command line utility. These code snippets are automatically adjusted based on your database’s authentication settings. For example, if your cluster uses IAM authentication, the generated code snippets will use token-based authentication to connect to the database. The console experience also includes integrated CloudShell access, offering the ability to connect to your databases directly from within the RDS console.

This feature is available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB database engines across all commercial AWS Regions.

Get started with the new console experience for database connectivity through the Amazon RDS Console . To learn more, see the Amazon RDS and Aurora user guide

AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, enabling you to centrally manage and scale fine-grained data access permissions and share data securely within and outside your organization.

AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to define where your data resides and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Your users can then access the centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog which describes available data sets and their appropriate usage. Your users can then usethese data sets with their choice of analytics and machine learning services, like Amazon EMR for Apache Spark, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon Athena.

To learn more about Lake Formation, visit the documentation . For AWS Lake Formation Region availability, please see the AWS Region table .

AWS Marketplace now offers a more localized experience for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) customers purchasing Professional Service solutions via AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator.

Customers can now procure Professional Services using localized payment methods and receive invoices from AWS EMEA. This removes previous procurement barriers caused by complex payment remittance processes between different AWS entities, which made it difficult for EMEA customers to purchase Professional Services through AWS Marketplace.

Key benefits include support for SEPA (Single Euro Payment Area) payment methods and invoicing consistency from the same AWS entity covering all AWS Marketplace purchases via AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. This capability is ideal for EMEA customers purchasing consulting, implementation, or managed services through AWS Marketplace. It also benefits organizations that prefer local payment methods such as SEPA direct debit, want to consolidate AWS and Marketplace billing, or are seeking a simpler procurement experience for Professional Services.

This capability is available for EMEA customers who purchase professional services solutions in AWS Marketplace, with AWS EMEA as the Marketplace Operator. To learn more about purchasing Professional Services products in AWS Marketplace and receive invoices issued by AWS EMEA, visit the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide and AWS EMEA Marketplace FAQs . For more information on how to add a bank account for SEPA, see Managing Your SEPA Direct Debit Payment Method in the AWS Billing and Cost Management user guide . 

Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers to power business-critical applications. With this new capability, you can replicate tables across AWS accounts and Regions to improve resiliency, isolate workloads at the account level, and apply distinct security and governance controls.

For multi-account global tables, DynamoDB automatically replicates tables across AWS accounts and Regions. This capability allows you to strengthen fault tolerance and helps ensure applications remain highly available even during account-level disruptions, while allowing customers to align data placement with organizational and security requirements. Multi-account global tables are ideal for customers that adopt multi-account strategies or use AWS Organizations to improve security isolation, enforce data perimeter guardrails, implement disaster recovery (DR), or separate workloads by business unit.

Multi-account global tables is available in all AWS Regions and is billed according to existing global tables pricing .

To get started, see the DynamoDB global tables documentation , and visit the AWS developer guide to learn more about the benefits of using a multi-account strategy for your AWS environment.

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