AWS Backup now allows customers to back up data directly to logically air-gapped vaults, providing enhanced security and recoverability while reducing storage costs. Previously limited to storing copies, air-gapped vaults can now serve as the primary backup target for backup plans, policies, and on-demand backups across supported AWS Regions. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/aws-backup-direct-to-logically-air-gapped-vault/

EC2 Image Builder now natively integrates with AWS Lambda and Step Functions, allowing users to run custom logic and multi-step workflows during image creation. This eliminates the need for complex workarounds, enabling use cases like compliance checks, notifications, and multi-stage security testing directly within Image Builder workflows. These capabilities are available in all AWS regions at no extra cost. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/ec2-image-builde

Amazon Redshift now allows users to write to Apache Iceberg tables, enabling seamless read and write analytics on evolving data lake tables. With full SQL DDL and DML support, users can create, modify, and insert into Iceberg tables while ensuring transactional consistency and schema evolution. This enhancement combines Redshift’s performance with Iceberg’s flexibility for modern data lake workloads. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/aws-redshift-iceberg-writ

Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced now protects against Dictionary-based DGA attacks, where malicious domain names are generated using pseudo-random word combinations to evade detection. With this update, you can monitor and block suspicious DNS queries in real time, applying rules across your VPCs via AWS Firewall Manager, CloudFormation, or Route 53 Profiles. Available in all AWS regions, including GovCloud, this feature strengthens DNS security against sophisti

Scaling your AWS environment requires a strong foundation in multi-account management, and AWS is here to help with the launch of four new AWS Organizations Skill Builder courses. Designed for cloud administrators, solutions architects, security engineers, and DevSecOps professionals, these advanced courses provide the knowledge to tackle complex account governance, security controls, and multi-account strategies at enterprise scale. From setting up delegated administration

In industrial IoT environments, edge computing downtime can be costly and disruptive, making high availability essential. This article walks through how to use Pacemaker, a powerful cluster resource manager, to implement robust high availability patterns for AWS IoT Greengrass, ensuring continuous operations even during hardware failures or network disruptions. The guide covers two key high availability patterns: Active/Passive for maximizing data consistency and Active/Acti

Randall Hunt, CTO of the fast-growing AWS partner Caylent, breaks down why Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ahead of the AI race, outpacing Microsoft and Google in both flexibility and performance. With tools like AWS Bedrock and AgentCore, Caylent is leveraging the best in cloud computing to build powerful AI solutions that meet customers' evolving needs. Hunt explains how AWS’s expansive AI portfolio allows for unmatched customization, fine-tuning, and cost optimization, giving

Atlassian has reversed its initial rejection of Amazon Web Services' Graviton processors and now powers thousands of Jira and Confluence instances on Graviton 4 CPUs. After conducting granular tests and fine-tuning Java Virtual Machine (JVM) settings, Atlassian achieved a 10% reduction in cloud costs and improved system performance. Despite early setbacks, including unexplained performance slowdowns, Atlassian’s recent tests revealed key insights into Graviton's L3 cache beha

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a letter of intent to lease a 10.5-acre plot near Netanya, Israel, for a new data center that could significantly expand its cloud and AI capabilities in the region. The planned facility, set to span 60,000 square meters with a 35-40 MW energy capacity, has the potential to double AWS's current operations in Israel by 2030. The move aligns with AWS's ongoing expansion efforts following the government's Nimbus cloud tender win, despite temp

Amazon’s threat intelligence team has uncovered a sophisticated attack exploiting previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco and Citrix systems. Through its MadPot honeypot service, Amazon detected exploitation attempts targeting Citrix's Bleed Two vulnerability (CVE-2025-5777) and a critical flaw in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) (CVE-2025-20337). The attack involved custom malware that enabled remote code execution on Cisco ISE systems, granting attac