Starting today, you can attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems to access your file data as if it were in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With this new capability, your data in FSx for OpenZFS is accessible for use with a broad range of Amazon Web Services (AWS)…
You can now use sort and z-order compaction to improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets. You typically use Iceberg to manage large-scale analytical datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with AWS Glue Data Catalog or with S3 Tables. Iceberg tables support use cases such as…
Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat…
At AWS re:Inforce 2025 (June 16-18, Philadelphia), AWS Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog delivered the keynote address, announcing new security innovations. Throughout the event, AWS announced additional security capabilities focused on simplifying security at scale and enabling organizations to build more resilient applications in the cloud. Below is a comprehensive roundup…
Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with expanded coverage for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), building upon the capabilities we introduced in our AWS re:Invent 2024 announcement of Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security. Security teams managing Kubernetes workloads often struggle to detect…
AWS Security Hub has been a central place for you to view and aggregate security alerts and compliance status across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. Today, we are announcing the preview release of the new AWS Security Hub which offers additional correlation, contextualization, and visualization capabilities. This helps you prioritize critical security issues, respond at scale…