AWS

AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now allows offline source transformation, enabling migration from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL without a live database connection. The service converts storage objects using AWS DMS and handles code objects like stored procedures through an interactive, agentic experience. Enterprises can upload SQL Server DDL files to assess complexity and generate customizable migration plans directly.

• Migrate SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL without requiring a live connection to the source database.
• Upload DDL files directly to assess database and stored procedure complexity before migration.
• AWS DMS handles storage object conversion while an agentic tool manages stored procedure code.
• Enables offline modernization for legacy .NET applications and their dependent SQL Server databases.

AWS Resilience Hub now generates pre-configured resilience tests tailored to your service architecture and resilience policy. Leveraging AWS Fault Injection Service, these tests inject controlled faults to validate recovery against objectives like zone or region impairments. The system automatically targets relevant resources, executes the faults, and evaluates pass or fail outcomes based on alarms and recovery metrics.

• Automated test generation aligns with your specific resilience policy and architecture
• Validates recovery for critical scenarios including AZ/region outages and dependency failures
• Integrates with FIS to execute controlled fault injection without manual scripting
• Provides immediate pass/fail results based on defined recovery objectives and alarms

AWS Lambda has increased the maximum number of event pollers for Provisioned Mode Amazon SQS event source mappings from 2,000 to 10,000. This fivefold increase allows workloads to scale up to 100,000 concurrent invocations. The update is designed to support mission-critical applications requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time order processing and IoT telemetry ingestion. Users can now configure minimum and maximum pollers to optimize throughput for demanding event-driven architectures.

• SQS Provisioned Mode poller limit increased 5x from 2,000 to 10,000.
• Supports up to 100,000 concurrent Lambda invocations for high-scale workloads.
• Optimizes throughput for latency-sensitive apps like financial pipelines and IoT.
• Enables finer control over min/max pollers for predictable performance.

AWS has moved the IAM Policy Simulator directly into the IAM console, replacing the previous standalone interface. The updated tool now allows testing of Service Control Policies (SCPs) alongside identity and resource policies. This integration provides platform teams with greater flexibility to model complex permission scenarios before deployment.

• Simulator is now native to the IAM console, centralizing identity management workflows.
• New capability to test Service Control Policies (SCPs) in simulations.
• Enables validation of SCP hierarchy interactions with identity and resource policies.
• API access retains support for testing specific condition keys.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers version 3.7, featuring enhanced performance for vector search and improved search relevance capabilities. The update introduces 1-bit scalar quantization on Faiss and Lucene engines to reduce storage and memory usage without sacrificing accuracy. Additional features include faster vector retrieval via doc values without reindexing and new Search Relevance Workbench tools for evaluating hybrid search quality.

• Run OpenSearch 3.7 on Amazon OpenSearch Service starting today.
• Use 1-bit scalar quantization on Faiss/Lucene to cut vector storage and memory costs.
• Retrieve vectors faster using doc values with no reindexing required.
• Leverage new Search Relevance Workbench metrics and CSV uploads for quality control.
• Access automated query recommendations and finished-queries cache via Query Insights.

AWS Direct Connect now exposes BGP route details for private, transit, and public virtual interfaces. Users can inspect accepted and advertised routes, including AS paths and BGP communities, directly in the console or via the ListVirtualInterfaceRoutes API. This capability simplifies troubleshooting hybrid network routing issues and verifying route propagation.

• View accepted and advertised BGP routes for all VIF types in the console.
• Inspect AS paths and BGP community values for detailed traffic analysis.
• Access route data programmatically via the ListVirtualInterfaceRoutes API.
• Use this feature to verify route propagation and troubleshoot connectivity.