With the new Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, your Kubernetes applications can access S3 objects through a file system interface, achieving high aggregate throughput without any changes to your application. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters. As a result, distributed machine learning training jobs in Amazon EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters can read data from Amazon S3 at high throughput to accelerate training times.

Today, AWS announces the Amazon CodeCatalyst Enterprise Tier, a new pricing tier with enhanced features such as custom blueprints and project lifecycle management. The new CodeCatalyst Enterprise Tier increases compute minutes and storage with additional users to ensure your projects scale seamlessly with the size of your developer team.

Amazon Redshift now supports incremental refresh for materialized views on Apache Iceberg and standard AWS Glue tables, eliminating the need for full-refreshes which require the re-execution of the underlying select statements and re-writing the data in the materialized view.

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports the creation, management, and access control of SQL views that support multiple engines. Customers can create SQL views in AWS Glue Data Catalog and query them from SQL engines including Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Spark with Amazon EMR on EC2.

Amazon Redshift announces Multidimensional Data Layouts, a new powerful table sorting mechanism that improves performance of repetitive queries. Unlike traditional sorting methods that sort data based on one or more table columns, Multidimensional Data Layouts sorts data based on the incoming query filters (for example: Sales in a specific region) , which significantly accelerates the performance of table scans. An AWS internal benchmark test shows that MDDL produced a 74% total runtime reduction compared to having no sort key, and a 40% total runtime reduction compared to the best single-column sort key.

Amazon Braket launches Braket Direct, a new program expanding how you can explore quantum computing on AWS, accelerating research and innovation. You can now reserve dedicated capacity on various quantum devices, engage directly with quantum computing specialists, and have early access to next-generation capabilities, including the latest trapped-ion device from IonQ, Forte — publicly available for the first time on AWS.

AWS Application Composer now integrates AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio, making it easier for developers to visually design workflows, connect services, and develop applications using a single visual Infrastructure as Code (IaC) builder. With AWS Application Composer, you can focus on the high-level architecture of your application with deployment-ready infrastructure as code definitions being automatically composed.

Amazon Redshift data lake analytics supports querying nested data in Parquet, ORC, JSON, and Ion file formats. You can now apply AWS Lake Formation FGAC to your nested data, and query with Amazon Redshift data lake analytics. By using DDM in Amazon Redshift, you can protect sensitive data in your data warehouse. you can apply DDM policies to scalar attributes in SUPER data type columns, your SUPER data will be masked based on the masking function defined in masking policies, you can use the full path of SUPER object as input path, and the full path of SUPER object as output path.

Today, AWS announces support for custom blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst, giving teams the ability to define best practices for application code, workflows, and infrastructure. Customers can publish custom blueprints to their CodeCatalyst space and use them to create CodeCatalyst projects, or use a blueprint to apply standards to existing CodeCatalyst projects. CodeCatalyst custom blueprints are available to all Enterprise tier spaces.

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Countdown, a service that enables successful migrations, modernizations, streaming, and go-live events. AWS Countdown helps you throughout the project lifecycle to assess operational readiness, identify and mitigate risks, and offers proven playbooks developed by AWS experts.