Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports assigning a public IPv4 address from a CIDR block to an accelerator resource in another account.

You can now use GitLab and GitLab Self Managed as the source provider for your CodeBuild projects. You can initiate builds from changes in source code hosted in your GitLab repositories.

AWS is pleased to announce 4 new industry and domain specific lenses to the Lens Catalog within the AWS Well-Architected Tool. This update gives customer access to additional expert-authored lenses so they can better tailor their reviews to focus on industry-specific and technology-focused topics most relevant to their business

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports clock synchronization within microseconds of UTC on Amazon EC2 instances in the US East (N. Virginia) region.

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock securely connects foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available on Knowledge Bases. The Claude 3 family of models is the next generation of state-of-the-art models from Anthropic. 

AWS announces the availability of Reserved Instances for Amazon Aurora Optimized Reads for Aurora PostgreSQL. Optimized Reads is a price-performance capability available on r6gd and r6id instances that delivers up to 8x improved query latency and up to 30% cost savings compared to instances without it, for applications with large datasets that exceed the memory capacity of a database instance. Reserved Instances are appropriate for steady-state database workloads and offer significant savings over On-Demand Instances improving these savings. 1-year Reserved Instances provide discounts up to 27% and 3-year Reserved Instances provide discounts of up to 47% over On-Demand Instances. Reserved Instances provide flexibility across instance sizes and cluster configuration options. 

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for Dynatrace as a compatible security tool. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AWS AppFabric to ingest enriched and normalized audit logs from 25 supported applications to Dynatrace and take advantage of its extended threat detection and response capabilities. 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now offers developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations greater choice for transcoding their media in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) region. Starting today, you can configure and submit MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints in the Middle East (UAE) region.

Starting today, AWS Graviton-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gn instances are available in bare metal size. Amazon EC2 C7gn instances feature the new 5th generation AWS Nitro Cards and deliver the highest network bandwidth, the best packet-processing performance, and the best price performance for network-intensive workloads. C7gn instances offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 3x higher packet-processing performance per vCPU versus comparable current generation x86-based network optimized instances. Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities to scale performance and throughput while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads. Workload examples include network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports x2iezn instances. These instances are designed to deliver high EBS-optimized throughput and IOPS to enhance performance of Oracle database workloads that require high IO and that process large data sets in memory. Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle customers, with right-sizing, can migrate their database instances to smaller-sized x2iezn instances and still meet their workload throughput, IOPS, and memory requirements, saving on compute and database licensing costs.