Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers support for cross-cluster search on existing domains. Cross-cluster search enables you to perform searches and aggregations across multiple domains with a single query or from a single OpenSearch Dashboard interface. With this feature, you can separate heterogeneous workloads into multiple domains, which provides better resource isolation, and the ability to tune each domain for their specific workloads to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of IoT Device Defender ListMetricValues API. Customers can now access historical device-side, cloud-side, and custom metrics from connected devices that belong to a security profile using ListMetricValues API. In addition to viewing the data in the AWS IoT management console, customers now have the flexibility to programmatically monitor and build their own visualization. What’s more, we have made the AWS IoT Device Defender metrics visualization available in Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management. This enhancement enables customers to view the defender metrics together with other device and fleet level data for issue diagnosis and fleet management in Fleet Hub as a one-stop shop. This new API and the integration with Fleet Hub are available in AWS Global Regions where AWS IoT Device Defender and Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management are available.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-cluster replication on existing domains. Cross-cluster replication enables you to automatically copy and synchronize indexes from one domain to another at low latency in same or different AWS accounts or Regions. With cross-cluster replication, you can achieve high availability for your mission critical applications with sequential data consistency.

AWS Amplify Hosting now uses GitHub Apps to obtain access to your GitHub code repositories. The Amplify GitHub App offers all the same features as the existing OAuth app, and additionally gives you complete control over scoping permissions to specific repositories in your account or organization.

Today, we are announcing that Amplify Geo for iOS is now generally available, following the release of Amplify Geo for JavaScript. Amplify Geo for iOS allows developers to add cloud-connected UI components for maps and location search to iOS apps. In addition to AWS Amplify’s features like Auth, DataStore, and Storage, Amplify Geo provides a set of client libraries built on top of Amazon Location Service APIs, and includes cloud-connected map UI components that are based on the popular MapLibre open-source library.

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM).

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. You can easily and effortlessly configure any supported data source to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients with connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting all handled by AppSync, allowing you to focus on your application business use cases and requirements instead of dealing with the complex infrastructure to manage real-time WebSocket connections at scale.

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon FSx Application Programming Interface (Amazon FSx API)   from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet.

AWS Backup enhances its support for Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems by now allowing protection of data on its Persistent 2 deployment type . AWS Backup’s centralized data protection capabilities across AWS services including the ability to create immutable, logically air-gapped backups across AWS Regions and accounts, prove-able compliance, and single-click restore, are now available for Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent 2 file systems.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Athena ACID transactions, a new capability that adds insert, update, delete, and time travel operations to Athena’s SQL data manipulation language (DML). Athena ACID transactions enable multiple concurrent users to make reliable, row-level modifications to their Amazon S3 data from Athena’s console, API, and ODBC and JDBC drivers. Built on the Apache Iceberg table format, Athena ACID transactions are optimized for Amazon S3 storage, support seamless schema evolution, and ensure atomic operations across other services and engines that support the Iceberg table format such as Amazon EMR, Apache Spark , and Apache Flink .