Amazon QuickSight now supports scaled shared folders for multi-tenant setup that enables you to share QuickSight asset dashboards, analyses, datasets and datasources at scale with all your tenants at once. Prior to this launch, you could share a folder with up to hundred tenants at a time and had to create copies of folders and assets within them. Scaled shared folders are new type of shared folders which can be created and shared using APIs. To learn more, click here .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 RC1 in the Preview Environment and have the same benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. PostgreSQL 16RC1 in the Preview Environment also includes support for logical decoding on read replicas, AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC ), and over 80 PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector, pg_tle, h3-pg, pg_cron, and rdkit.

AWS Step Functions is introducing enhancements to Workflow Studio, a visual workflow designer in the AWS console, which includes a streamlined transition between the visual builder and code, making it faster and easier to build workflows. To get started quickly, you can also choose from a collection of starter projects for common use cases and modify them using Workflow Studio.

AWS AppSync is a managed service that makes it easier to build scalable APIs that connect applications to data. With AppSync, API developers can write resolvers to define the business logic that connects their AppSync GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs to data. Developers use AppSync to interact with data sources like Amazon DynamoDB tables by writing their JavaScript resolvers that are executed on the AppSync JavaScript (APPSYNC_JS) runtime. Now, AppSync provides new functions to interact with DynamoDB tables that simplifies the developer experience in JavaScript resolvers.

The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now generally available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Today we’re excited to announce the release of the AWS SimSpace Weaver SDK for Python to make it easier for simulation developers building Python based simulation projects to integrate with SimSpace Weaver.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports r5 database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has introduced additional usage metrics in Amazon CloudWatch for the following service quotas: ‘Topics per Account’, ‘Filter Policies per Account’, and ‘Pending Subscriptions per Account’. Under the ‘AWS/Usage’ namespace, you can now view the ‘ApproximateNumberOfTopics’, ‘ApproximateNumberOfFilterPolicies’, and ‘ApproximateNumberOfPendingSubscriptions’ metrics to monitor your usage of these Amazon SNS resources. Moreover, using AWS Service Quotas , you can also view your utilization metrics per quota, and create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to notify you when your utilization of a given quota exceeds your configurable threshold. This enables you to more precisely adapt your utilization of Amazon SNS, based on your applied quotas.

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new deliverability feature that helps customers troubleshoot individual email delivery problems, confirm delivery of critical messages, and identify engaged recipients on a granular, single email basis. Senders can investigate trends in delivery performance and see delivery and engagement status for each email sent through SES. This makes it even easier for customers to manage and optimize their delivery and campaign performance using Virtual Deliverability Manager.

Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) and AD Connector are integrating with AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to issue certificates for domain-joined objects that use Active Directory (AD) auto-enrollment. You can use a fully managed AWS Private CA drop-in replacement for your self-managed enterprise CAs without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers. This also enables you to accelerate the migration of AD-aware workloads to AWS.