Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions

By Dustin Ward

Modern applications increasingly require complex and long-running coordination between services, such as multi-step payment processing, AI agent orchestration, or approval processes awaiting human decisions. Building these traditionally required significant effort to implement state management, handle failures, and integrate multiple infrastructure services. Starting today, you can use AWS Lambda durable functions to build reliable multi-step applications…

New capabilities to optimize costs and improve scalability on Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Oracle

By Dustin Ward

Managing database environments demands a balance of resource efficiency and scalability. Organizations need flexible options across their entire database lifecycle, spanning development, testing, and production workloads with diverse storage and compute requirements. To address these needs, we’re announcing four new capabilities for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to help customers optimize their costs as…

Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

By Dustin Ward

Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans, customers have been able to lower the cost of running sustained workloads while maintaining the flexibility to manage usage across accounts, resource types, and AWS Regions. Today, we’re extending this flexible pricing model to AWS managed database services with the launch of Database Savings Plans, which help…

Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re expanding Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one place and with reduced data duplication and costs. This enhancement means that CloudWatch can automatically normalize and process data to offer consistency across sources with built-in support for Open…

New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a fundamental shift in how AWS Support helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to proactive issue prevention. This evolution introduces new Support plans that combine AI-powered capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise. The new and enhanced plans help you identify and address potential issues before they impact your business operations, helping…

Amazon OpenSearch Service improves vector database performance and cost with GPU acceleration and auto-optimization

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing serverless GPU acceleration and auto-optimization for vector index in Amazon OpenSearch Service that helps you build large-scale vector databases faster with lower costs and automatically optimize vector indexes for optimal trade-offs between search quality, speed, and cost. Here are the new capabilities introduced today: GPU acceleration – You can build vector databases…