AWS Supply Chain now offers Work Order Insights to provide order level visibility of maintenance related materials from sourcing to delivery and making it easier for customers to execute planned maintenance and repairs.

Today, Amazon Athena released a new JDBC driver that improves the experience of connecting to, querying, and visualizing data from your preferred SQL development and business intelligence applications. The new JDBC driver is simple to upgrade and can improve performance for applications that consume large query results by reading results from Amazon S3.

AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to authenticate with multi-VPC enabled Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters over AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). This allows you to easily establish IAM secured cross-account connectivity between Lambda functions and Amazon MSK clusters.

Today, AWS launched new IAM Identity Center APIs to manage user assignments to supported AWS and cloud applications. Together with the previously available APIs, this release allows customers to automate the management of account and application access, streamlining how customers scale with IAM Identity Center.

AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Java 21. This runtime is based on the latest long-term support release of AWS Corretto, Amazon’s distribution of the Open JDK. Developers can use Java 21 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available.

Automation, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, enables you to automate routine operations tasks using runbooks. Today, AWS Systems Manager announces enhanced automation actions such as loops, runbook variables, type transformations, and output filtering. This launch simplifies the runbook authoring experience and eliminates the need to to write custom scripts to perform these actions.

You can now view applied quota values for resources within each of your Amazon Connect instances using AWS Service Quotas . When requesting a quota adjustment, Service Quotas allows you to indicate the Amazon Connect quota, desired value, and (where applicable) the instance to apply the adjustment to. For example, if you are planning to onboard a new workload to your existing contact center, you can now easily identify if you have sufficient quota capacity in your existing Amazon Connect instance to configure additional agents, phone numbers, flows, queues, or other resources. By leveraging AWS Service Quotas, you can quickly understand your applied service quota values for these resources, and then request quota increases in a few clicks.

AWS Fargate adds support AWS Graviton2 Processors in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. This launch adds even more choice to help you optimize performance and cost for running your containerized workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with AWS Fargate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, AWS Graviton2 Processors are available for your workloads running with AWS Fargate in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now offers observability of SAP Sybase ASE database. Application Insights helps customers gain insights for their SAP and non-SAP applications, databases and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use data to make decisions. This launch adds to the list of already supported SAP workloads such as SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver applications. 

Today, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server announced Point in Time Recovery (PITR) support for up to 1000 databases, an improvement over the previous limit of 100 databases. PITR enables users to restore databases to specific point in time within their retention period, ensuring enhanced disaster recovery capabilities.