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AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that simplifies discovering, preparing, moving, and integrating data from multiple sources. AWS Glue 5.1 upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, bringing performance and security enhancements. This release also updates support for open table format libraries, including Apache Hudi 1.0.2, Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, and Delta Lake 3.3.2. Additionally, AWS Glue 5.1 introduces support for Apache Iceberg format version 3.0, adding default column values, deletion vectors for merge-on-read tables, multi-argument transforms, and row lineage tracking. This release extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to write operations - both DML and DDL - for Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL. Previously, this capability was limited to read operations only. AWS Glue 5.1 also adds full-table access control in Apache Spark for A...
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Amazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon Cognito now provides a new admin API operation to reset a user's time-based one-time Password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) configuration. When users lose access to their TOTP device, administrators can remove the device association, allowing the user to enroll a new device on their next sign-in. This removes the need to recreate accounts to recover locked-out users if they lose access to their TOTP device. Customers can maintain MFA enforcement while providing a recovery path. This new capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito is available. To get started, access the AdminDeleteSoftwareToken API using the AWS CLI, SDKs, or APIs. See the developer guide for instructions. Post Updated on August 26, 2026 at 11:00PM
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Amazon GameLift Servers enhanced DDoS Protection now available - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon GameLift Servers now offers Enhanced DDoS Protection, a new layer of protection that defends game servers from common network and transport layer DDoS attacks with no configuration required. Enhanced DDoS Protection is active from the moment you start running game servers on Amazon GameLift Servers , with nothing to enable or opt in to. Enhanced DDoS Protection provides proactive, gaming-optimized traffic shaping mitigations tuned from experience protecting some of the world's largest games, defending against common volumetric attacks at layers 3 and 4 including UDP reflection, SYN floods, and other common DDoS attack vectors. This builds on the baseline network-level protection that AWS Shield Standard provides to all AWS services. For games that require stronger protection against sophisticated or targeted attacks, Amazon GameLift Servers Player Gateway   provides our maximum level of DDoS defense through a relay-based network architecture. These layers work toget...
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Capacity Reservation Resource Groups now support Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity Reservations - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Starting today, you can add Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and interruptible Capacity Reservations to Capacity Reservation Resource Groups. Amazon EC2 offers different reservation offerings such as On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs), interruptible Capacity Reservations, and Capacity Blocks for ML. Previously, a Capacity Reservation Resource Group could only include ODCRs. Now you can add any type of Capacity Reservation to a Capacity Reservation Resource Group, making it easier to launch EC2 instances across your entire portfolio of reserved capacity. To use this feature, create a Capacity Reservation Resource Group, add any Capacity Reservation to it, and then target the group in your launch request. When using EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling groups, you can also specify your prioritization preferences across reservation types, and configure automatic fall back to EC2 On-Demand capacity when there is no capacity remaining across your reservations. There are no additional ch...
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

AWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling private connectivity to Lambda MicroVMs directly from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources without exposing traffic to the public internet. This launch helps regulated workloads in financial services, healthcare, and government meet strict network isolation requirements when building with Lambda MicroVMs.  PrivateLink VPC Endpoints deliver private connectivity to AWS services from your VPC, ensuring that your traffic does not travel over the public internet when communicating with AWS services. Today's launch extends this capability to Lambda MicroVMs. Developers and IT teams needing private connectivity to Lambda MicroVMs can now create PrivateLink VPC Endpoints in their VPC to call MicroVM APIs (for example, to create MicroVM images or launch MicroVMs) and to connect to each MicroVM’s HTTP endpoint. PrivateLink VPC Endpoints for Lambda MicroVMs can be created using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS Clou...
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[MS] Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

I noted some time ago that the Windows 95 anti-piracy hologram had to be redone at the last moment due to a complaint from a government (who remains nameless). They objected to the depiction of naked children on the box, referring to the anti-piracy hologram in which the baby is not wearing a shirt. Since the baby is depicted only from the waist up, they extrapolated that the baby wasn't wearing pants. There was a scramble to produce a new hologram, and just to be safe, in the new hologram the baby is wearing a shirt and overalls. You can find pictures of the "clothed baby" Windows 95 hologram fairly easily, such as one appearing about halfway through Steve Sinofsky's story about getting Office 95 to pass the "Designed for Windows 95" requirements .¹ Harder to find is the original "topless baby" Windows 95 hologram, but recently, I stumbled across a link to a short clip of the original hologram , that shows off the animation. So now you ca...
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Amazon ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now automatically detects and repairs container instances, enabling customers to reduce undetected workload failures and improve application availability without manual intervention. With this launch, Amazon ECS continuously monitors agent connectivity across container instances. Infrastructure events such as EBS volume degradation, host thermal events, or network connectivity failures can sever the ECS agent's connection to the ECS control plane. Amazon ECS now surfaces a new type of container instance health change event (AGENT_CONNECTIVITY) for all compute options: AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, and Amazon ECS on EC2. For ECS Managed Instances and AWS Fargate, ECS automatically performs recovery - automatically draining running tasks and launching replacement capacity while deregistering impaired instances. Customers running workloads on Amazon ECS on EC2, can use this health change event to drive instance replacement ...
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