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AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order line numbers

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AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order line numbers for AWS Marketplace purchases, simplifying cost-allocation and payment processing. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices.

AWS purchase order support allows customers to provide purchase orders per transaction, which reflect on invoices related to that purchase. Now, customers can associate transaction charges not only to purchase orders, but also to a specific PO line number for AWS Marketplace purchases. This capability is supported during procurement and, for future charges, post-procurement in the AWS Marketplace console. You can also view the purchase order and purchase order line number associated to an AWS invoice in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. Streamline your invoice processing by accurately matching AWS invoices with your purchase order and purchase order line number.

This capability is available today in all AWS Regions  where AWS Marketplace is supported.

To learn about transaction purchase orders for AWS Marketplace, view the AWS Marketplace buyer guide . For information on using blanket purchase orders with AWS, refer to the AWS Billing Documentation .

Customer managed KMS keys now available for Automated Reasoning checks

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AWS announces support for customer managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys in Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This enhancement enables you to use your own encryption keys to protect policy content and tests, giving you full control over key management. Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is the first and only generative AI safeguard that helps correct factual errors from hallucinations using logically accurate and verifiable reasoning that explains why responses are correct.

This feature enables organizations in regulated industries like healthcare, financial services, and government to adopt Automated Reasoning checks while meeting compliance requirements for customer-owned encryption keys. For example, a financial institution can now use Automated Reasoning checks to validate loan processing guidelines while maintaining full control over the encryption keys protecting their policy content. When creating an Automated Reasoning policy, you can now select a customer managed KMS key to encrypt your content rather than using the default key.

Customer managed KMS key support for Automated Reasoning checks is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is offered: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Paris).

To get started, see the following resources:

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager launches security updates notification for Windows

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AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of security updates notification for Windows patching compliance, which helps customers identify security updates that are available but not approved by their patch baseline configuration. This feature introduces a new patch state called “AvailableSecurityUpdate” that reports security patches of all severity levels that are available to install on Windows instances but do not meet the approval rules in your patch baseline.

As organizations grow, administrators need to maintain secure systems while controlling when patches are applied. The security updates notification helps prevent situations where customers could unintentionally leave instances unpatched when using features like ApprovalDelay with large values. By default, instances with available security updates are marked as Non-Compliant, providing a clear signal that security patches require attention. Customers can also configure this behavior through their patch baseline settings to maintain existing compliance reporting if preferred.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Systems Manager is available. To get started with security updates notification for Windows patching compliance, visit the AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager console . For more information about this feature, refer to our user documentation or update your patch baseline with the details here . There are no additional charges for using this feature beyond standard AWS Systems Manager pricing.

Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

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Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a new capability that enables customers to monitor, analyze, and manage EC2 capacity across all of their accounts and regions. This new capability simplifies resource management using a single interface.

EC2 Capacity Manager offers customers a comprehensive view of On-Demand, Spot, and Capacity Reservation usage across their accounts and Regions. The new service features dashboards and charts that present high-level insights while allowing customers to drill down into specific details where needed. These details include historical usage trends to help customers gain a better understanding of their capacity patterns over time, as well as optimization opportunities to guide informed capacity decisions, complete with workflows for implementing these insights. In addition to the updated user interface and APIs, EC2 Capacity Manager allows customers to export data, enabling integration with their existing systems.

EC2 Capacity Manager is available in all commercial AWS Regions enabled by default at no additional cost.

To learn more, visit the EC2 Capacity Manager user guide , read the AWS News Blog , or get started using EC2 Capacity Manager in the AWS console . 

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4 based (c8g,m8g,r8g and r8gd) instances

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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (C8g), general purpose (M8g), and memory optimized (R8g, R8gd) instances.

AWS Graviton4 processors provide up to 30% better performance than AWS Graviton3 processors with c8g, m8g and r8g & r8gd offering the best price performance for compute-intensive, general purpose, and memory-intensive workloads respectively. To learn more about Graviton4 improvements, please see the blog on r8g instances and the blog on c8g & m8g instances.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton4 instances are supported on all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10.

One or more than one Graviton4 instance types are now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 23 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), South America(Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

For region specific availability & pricing, visit our pricing page . To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service and its capabilities, visit our product page .

 

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