Meet the AWS News Blog team!

By Dustin Ward

Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS News Blog as of December last year, the AWS News Blog team will keep sharing the most important and impactful AWS product launches the moment they become available. I want to quote Jeff’s last comment on the future of the News Blog again: Going forward, the…

Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling…

Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are launching IPv6 support for Amazon API Gateway across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs, in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now configure REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, and custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call API…

Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS WAF integration with AWS Amplify Hosting. Web application owners are constantly working to protect their applications from a variety of threats. Previously, if you wanted to implement a robust security posture for your Amplify Hosted applications, you needed to create architectures using Amazon CloudFront distributions with…