Hello everyone here I just obtained my trifecta and looking to get my AWS practitioner within the next few months. Just looking to see what you guys may have used for study resources regarding on preparing for the test as well as any labs that might help. I’m not sure where to start as all the courses currently on udemy are fairly expensive at the moment. If you guys have any advice it is greatly appreciated, thanks submitted by /u/keeponpushin1986 [link] [comments]

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My Cloud Practitioner is expiring at the end of this year, so I figured I might as well go for a new one rather than retesting. I want to do the SAA-C03 and wanted to get some feedback on what resources to use for studying. I was thinking of doing Jon Bonso's course and practice exams should that be enough to pass? Any other recommendations? I also saw this free video from freeCodeCamp and thought about doing that instead. I believe for the Cloud Practitioner I did their video and Bonso's test and that worked well. submitted by /u/GamzorTM [link] [comments]

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Just a bit of background as I see many people with varying study methods. I started studying beginning September, and I have no AWS experience at all, but I have 23 years IT support and Microsoft experience, so concepts are familiar. I was fortunate that my employer gave me access to Udemy and I studied the Neal Davis track and watched the videos on 1.5 speed. I skipped the later 'Hands on Learning' videos purely as the time became an issue before I had to sit the exam. I then took the practice exam and scored 59%. I also took Stephane Maarek's one practice exam and scored 61%, went through the questions to understand my faults and studied those areas again. Then based on the areas I performed poorly in, I rewatched those videos and also worked in the Tutorial Dojo study guide. During the last week, kept looking at areas randomly in the study guide and if something felt unfamiliar, I went and quickly looked at that section again, think of it as scattered learning, makes no sense but my mind would be racing in all directions and suddenly I remember a term but have no idea about any of the detail, then I would go and read up on it. Will not work for everybody, so do what works for you. Lastly, during shopping trips where I had time waiting on my wife or waiting to get the kids from school, I would use Quizlet app on my phone, just to keep the terms fresh in my mind, this also added to the above 'scattered' learning as I would see a term I have not seen in the videos, then I would note it and go study up on it. ​ So exam day, wrote at a center and I did not feel confident, the actual exam feel for me is much the same as Neal Davis and Stephane's practice exams. and I found 1 question that I did not know, the rest was familiar subject matter, and just read carefully and sometimes multiple times to make sure I do not miss anything. In the end, ended with 6 minutes to spare and passed, 784. They were heavy on DB scenarios, so know those well. It is not easy, but also not mind bending mental difficult, study hard and you'll be fine, but I would suggest, take more than a month, it lowers stress. ​ I will definitely take more time next time. submitted by /u/NJAB79 [link] [comments]

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Recently passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam and contrary to the posts here, I find the exam in somewhat in mid-level and not entirely "easy"as other people here are saying. Probably the old version CLF-C01 is easy but definitely not this one. Started my AWS Certification journey this year primarily to upgrade my career from a mere developer to Architect. It's really difficult to apply for Solutions Architect roles without relevant certifications like TOGAF or Solutions Architect Professional so I'm starting from the bottom to kick start my learning. This is also my strategy when I started doing Azure certs, I started with AZ-900 first then AZ-104 then AZ-305. The CLF-C02 certification is a kick-starter for me to really get started in AWS certs, coming for an Azure background. In terms of CLF-C02 exam topics, all items are covered in the official Cloud Practitioner exam guide but you have to know more of the underlying concepts and features for each AWS Service that's enumerated. For example, AWS Cloud Adoption Framework is asked but I also saw questions that ask for its Perspective plus its "Phases" like envision, launch etc... So when you see "Amazon S3" don't just expect it will ask for its mere definition. You have to study its different features like S3 Object Lock, Amazon S3 Object Lambda Access Points etc. The Cloud Practitioner Essentials course provided in the AWS Skill Builder for free is a really good course to take. Also did the video course and practice exams from Tutorials Dojo which covered almost all the topics. Doing the hands-on labs are helpful too which are offered on both platforms. My advice is not to just "wing it" and take the exam without really studying the course materials. It's not just a walk in a park kinda test, but actually has some advanced concepts in AWS Billing, general Cloud Concepts (plus Cloud Native) and more, so studying well for this test is really important. Next stop for me is SAA-C03 exam. submitted by /u/andrewboe [link] [comments]

I am so happy to let you know that, I passed the SAA. My preparation is very strange, so wanted to share the story. I wanted to prepare for two weeks and I scheduled the exam at yesterday. Suddenly last Monday I lost a very important and close family member and could not study the whole week. I was so distressed that, I forgot to reschedule the exam. Yesterday, just 2 hours before exam I decided to appear for the exam as a model test as I could not reschedule the exam. For 1.5 hours I was just skimming through so many unknowns from Stephane Maareks lecture slides. This morning I got my result, and I got 748. My preparation: one third of Stephane Maareks video lecture at 2x Skimmed through rest of the slides within 2 hours No practice test I had previous Developer Associate certification which helped me and I think most questions were pretty easy for me. Without preparation, I did not struggle a lot, I knew if I fail I would fail for a very narrow margin, probably would get more that 600. My previous certification helped me as the questions were not like too unknown to me. I knew the services as I previously prepared for AWS Cloud Practitioner exam. I got 4-5 questions from Machine Learning services. Sharing this experience as I think you probably dont need as much preparation you think you need. If you have other AWS certifications or work experience with AWS services, that makes it way easier. submitted by /u/Farhadroni [link] [comments]

**Background: I've been working as an Architect for around 4 years now, with a solid 1 years of experience in AWS. I have already SAA and DVA certificate and these are really help for SAP exam, good background information. **Resources: I mainly relied on Stephane Maarek's course and the slides, which were fantastic. I also watched a few videos from AWS Skill Builder. However, if you have already SAA or any Associate level certificate, you can mainly focus practice exam and take notes for question tricks. My total preparation time was around 1.5 - 2 months. I strongly recommend these practice exam: Stephane Maarek - Practice Exam, total 180 questions, Neal Davis - Practice Exam, total 180 questions, but 30 question per practice really helpful, TD - Practice Exam, total 300 questions. I solved every exam again and again until hit around 80%. **For Exam Tips: Even though I don't encounter it very often, I received 4-5 questions about the Control Tower. The rest very related about practice exams. submitted by /u/ilkemerol [link] [comments]

Preparing for next level... submitted by /u/b-y-f [link] [comments]

Just got the result now. The exam mainly focussed on serverless services. I got questions from Dynamo db-LSI ,GSI,API gateway integration,X-ray, CLI command to start an instance, SAM,Cognito,ALB,Lambda,cloudfront,KMS, cloudformation template. I took stephane Maarek and Adrain Cantril's course.Gave 6 practice tests of Stephane Maarek in Udemy. submitted by /u/thegodfather-- [link] [comments]

Hello, I am preparing for SAA-C03 exam. I am looking at pratice exam on Udemy. There are 2 lecture (Stephane and Neal). Could you give me recommend which one is better and similar as exam test? submitted by /u/dinhthehung [link] [comments]

You can immediate get to know you pass, after todays exam, after the survey, I got grade:pass. And need to wait 5 working days to get detailed result. Are they using that 5 days to check the video if im cheat, correct? submitted by /u/b-y-f [link] [comments]

I recently passed CLF-C02 with 821 points on Sep 26. Only used two places to prepare: AWS Skillbuilder courses Tutorials Dojo for practice exams While preparing I kept my time using Clockify. Here is the screenshot of the related page: ​ The time it took to finish each part ​ Study time for each day Overall it took 33 hours. The first 2 hours were when I didn't know what to do and started from the DevOps road. I still include it because that path had me test CDK and due to that I really understood the CloudFormation well and it helped me a lot. Of these 33 hours, 15 hours were for the courses on Skill Builder, and the rest 18 hours were for the practice exams. On average, on the days I worked, I worked for ~2 hours. For the work days, I tried to solve at least one practice test, while also studying the wrong answers and right answers with the choices I didn't know. The first 6 timed tests take 1.5 hours each. Rest is faster as I remember some of the answers. Also for the work days, we've reached an agreement with my wife that until the exam I need to study some time each day. It costs some family time so I needed to get permission. There is a one-week space between the two chunks. The first half is when I mainly finished my studies and the second one is for practice tests. I didn't look at study material knowingly in this period to let it sit for some time. The knowledge input was too high in the first half. ​ The last page of TD tests These were my last results for the exam so I was quite confident when I entered and when I finished I was expecting at least 900+. Don't know what happened there. Of 65 questions, only 13 of them I wasn't %100 sure. Rest I was %100 sure. Of the 13, only 7 of them I had no idea whatsoever. For 6 of them, I was like 80-90% sure. The exam was mostly as I expected, but one thing caught my eye. There were many CAF questions. A question was directly asking about which of the two below belongs to the security aspect for example. In TD you see those only in the explanations, not as the choices. Also, there was a question asking about Envision, Align, Scale, and the other. So the CAF questions were harder than I expected. To make the data easier to compare with yourself, I should share some of my own background. I work in IT, but nothing related to AWS. So all the information was new to me. But I am very good with exams in general. I was in the top 20 in our national exam when I graduated from high school. At that time we learned a lot of information about how to best approach an exam, about how passing the exam and learning the information for a topic are totally two different things. Most of that information also stuck with me. Anyway, I've learned a lot from the good people of this sub. I hope sharing this data will help some of you with planning and time allocation for the exam preparation. submitted by /u/acibiber53 [link] [comments]

I already knew Pearsonvue was a dumpster fire, but I did not expect this to be so difficult. I keep trying to run a system test and every time I do, I get all the way to the secure browser test and every time I get an error message saying “Oops, something went wrong. Please try again. “ After the third attempt, I get another screen saying to contact Pearson, which I did and surprise, they did nothing to help. I have done everything I can think of. Disabled firewall, opened ports listed in their tech requirements, tried different browsers, deleted and redownload their program more times than I want to remember, deleted and vpn software I had. I probably did more but my brain is mush now. I can go to a testing facility, eventually, but I’m taking multiple certs through Pearson and I would really like to solve this so I don’t always have to go to a facility. Life, you know? Anyway, suggestions/tips/advice would be appreciated. Btw I’m using an Inspiron 3505 laptop hooked to an external monitor(I also tried disconnecting that too), Windows 11, fully up to date. Thanks. Edit: I forgot to add that I do have a second HDD that is fully a Linux drive. Not a partition on the same drive, a completely separate drive inside my laptop. Idk if that has something to do with it? submitted by /u/General-Quail-2120 [link] [comments]

I just failed the Practitioner exam , I thought i was well prepared but somehow it did not work out for me im thinking to skip CCP now and start studying for SAA as im not sure if its really worth it to pay the exam fee again for CCP and also have to wait for 14 days to reschedule not sure if i should study for this again for 14 days or just go for SAA. submitted by /u/Inevitable_Stand6975 [link] [comments]

Hello can anyone share a personal note they’ve taken from this course please. I keep getting the feel my notes aren’t capturing a lot and that seeing someone else’s work who’s taken the course and passed the exam would go a long way for me thanks submitted by /u/Active-Ask-3524 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone I recently passed so I wanted to share my experience taking the exam for anyone who needed it! First and foremost, it was very tough for someone of my experience. My second cert after my SAA-C02, and I took that back in September. I had hands on experience but after I got the SA I just had family issues so I really didn't get to study again until May. So I've studied consistently for 2 months straight and got the cert. Here are my materials! - Stephane Mareek AWS Security Specialty Course and Practice Exams! ( Mostly Updated) - Neal Davis AWS Security Specialty Course and Practice Exams (Mostly Updated) - Tutorials Dojo AWS Security Specialty Practice Exams (Most definitely Worth It) So to start freaking CloudFormation man, people had said it was nice part of the exams (5 - 10Q's in my experience) but I didn't really think I needed it bad. I was thoroughly mistaken please take it seriously, go on the AWS website and just study Cloudformation because it wasn't updated to par on Stephane's and Neals courses. Which I brings to my next point of why I said "mostly updated" for Neals and Stephane's course. That's the only Service I feels wasn't updated yet in both of the gentleman's great courses! I waited for more people take it but I just went ahead and did it, I felt confident in the hours I put in. EXAM: (Outside of cloudformation) a very familiar looking to my Practice Exams. Maybe for about 3 questions asked something I never seen before but that's it. Services you should know S3, KMS (inside out), GuardDuty, Cloudformation, Config, Systems Manger, Secrets Manager, Cognito, ( IAM and Policies, SCPs, Permission Boundaries Inside and out), Cloufront, CloudWatch and CloudTrail (inside and Out), WAF, SG, NACL, (EC2 is heavier on Pexams than the test.) How to store your logs depending on what you're doing and what to query them with, etc is good to know. What to rotate your keys with depending on the situations and where to store them. How to protect logs in your bucket and control access to it. Neals Course was a great course and all you depending on your experience, he is just straight to the point and going to have everything you need for that exam. He's not as over the top as Mareek but like as said based upon your experience. By absolute far the best material of any course is Neals 'Exam Cram' section, If anyone is taking anyone else's course I recommend getting Neals just for that! If you watch those videos consistently you will get at least 60% on any practice exam/Exam you take! Stephanes Course was the one I spent the most time with due to my experience, he tries to cover every little thing and has a hands on for damn near every service which is great for me! He's very detailed but sometimes had information that I didn't see on anyone else exam, but he flat out amazing! Both those gentleman's exams are amazing and I think you should have both! Neals offers more questions and variety. While Stephane offers deep thinking and question that are little more seeded. Tutorials Dojo question look at more like the exams ,they have the most questions, and great breakdown of there sections so you can focus on a section you maybe struggling in. Please feel free to ask me anything I'd like to help out, just as you guys did me! submitted by /u/Acceptable_Spring1 [link] [comments]

This may be long for some, boring for some, tldr at bottom. A year ago, I worked a cloud SE role at a big name company. My team and I used AWS, and while I was gifted this golden chance at becoming skilled in AWS, I didn't do it justice (a mix of indiscipline and being thrown in the deep end during a WFH situation) and slowly got shunted towards a more customer oriented data analysis role. I soon quit my job to pursue my masters (not because I didn't like my new role). I felt incompetent as an SE (maybe impostor syndrome or maybe because I actually sucked). However, out of all the things I dabbled in so far, I did take a liking to AWS/Cloud/DevOps and wanted to pursue my career in it after graduating. During my first year, I did apply for internships and I got 3-4 interviews but I was not able to clear them because anyone who interviewed me could tell that my profile seemed much more impressive on the resume than in person. So, since I did not have an internship for the summer, I planned to study for the AWS SAA-C03 certification and develop enough competency to defend my work experience and job title in my resume. Due to the focusing issues I have had and continue to have, it took me 2 whole months to find Adrian's 70 hour course. I had to push the exam by another month, and exhaust both rescheduling attempts at once so I don't push the exam again thereby forcing me to study. After finishing the course, I attempted my first TD exam and scored 52%. I didn't expect much more. I then went through notes I found online and attempted the exam again only to get 52% again. I again went through the notes (each time took 3 days or so) and this time I was actually enjoying attempting the paper and appreciating what they were asking me. However, I only scored 49%, which has me worried. With less than 15 days to the exam I had to make 50% into a 75% at least. I again went through the notes, but every time, I went through the notes (they were comprehensive), I learnt so many new things, like I was not catching them in my previous read throughs. I attempted the exam, which I again found fun, and scored 60%. This is also when I got covid and fell sick for a week. With just a week left, I attempted my 5th exam and got 60% again. I felt hopeless, 60% to 75% was not likely. I then went through all the previous tests I attempted and the notes again and just understood more and more and loved this field more and more. I took my 6th and final test 2 days before the exam date and scored 77%. The exam day itself was the craziest bit. Everyone on here had suggested to take it at a centre but I realized this only after booking and obviously I couldn't change the test mode after that. My exam started at 4:15 and instead of ending at 6:30, it ended at 7:30. My application CRASHED 16 TIMES. Every four questions I attempted, it would crash. Oh god, the stress in writing an exam when you're fearing the application crashing/it actually crashing. I powered through it somehow and today I got my AWS badge - 786. The exam questions felt much easier than the TD practice tests. I was also a little annoyed that I learned so many different services but was only asked maybe half of them (The TD tests felt like they made me think more). A big thanks to everyone who has created content for people pursuing this journey. People like me entering the world of AWS and the tech world in general are only able to do so because people like you have put stuff on the internet for us to act as guardrails. Also, if anyone could suggest what kind of career paths open up for me now. I don't mind coding but I like this architecture kind of stuff more. I know that as a grad student I am not going to get hired as a Solutions Architect right off the bat, so what roles should I be on the look out for? Platform eng/infra eng/cloud eng/SRE/sec eng or are these roles interchangeable? What should I add to my tech stack along with AWS? Should I learn Kubernetes/dockers/build projects using AWS services or just leetcode (since they are only going to hire for general SE roles for grads)? How long before the AWS services stop entering my dreams? TL;DR Felt incompetent and wanted to be good at something under the SE field. Took an at home test for SAA-C03 which was miserable as the app crashed 16 times. Passed with a 786. What are the next steps? submitted by /u/marioagario123 [link] [comments]

What are the absolute best resources to pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification. I am taking a class at my university for this and I also have the Udemy course from Stephane Maarek. Is this enough? submitted by /u/DarkestDragons [link] [comments]

I have finally decided to go for the AWS SA certification to build up my confidence in AWS. Wish me luck! A few questions: Mock exams - good idea or not? Should I try them or just go for whitepapers and user guides? Is 1 month enough time for prep doing it for maybe several hours a week and given that I already been using AWS for 5 or so years? Edit: I cannot consume YouTube as study material so it is going to be just reading and trying. submitted by /u/otanikotani [link] [comments]

People say good projects are the way to go when it comes to cloud and a mix of certs. If I don't have a college degree how many certs should I try to achieve? All advice thoroughly appreciated! EDIT: For reference as well I have my AWS SAA and SCS. And looking at more of a cloud engineer role. Should your cert path or cloud journey be based on what role you're looking to get? submitted by /u/Acceptable_Spring1 [link] [comments]

Hey, ​ so I passed the SCS-C01 i guess that was the OG one but it has been 3 years and i need to reset the whole thing again which is kind of annoying i wish they followed Azure exams and just allowed you to reset it with a few new questions instead of the whole thing again, i guess they want money? ​ Anyway, i was wondering if any if you lovely people have done the exam recently and can do a comparison of the old one to see what i need to study for again? submitted by /u/Snoo51352 [link] [comments]

After what feels like an eternity getting to grips with Big Data concepts from scratch and zero practical experience, I am proud to say I've passed it on the first try. I took this straight after SAA-C03 and I have to say, the difficulty is ramped up quite a bit. This isn't helped by the fact I didn't actually check the syllabus before signing up. I thought it was going to focus on core data engineering concepts from the title alone, and was not expecting such a big focus on streaming analytics. My Prep Experience I have never tried so many different prep providers for a single exam, And this is coming from someone who has passed the CFA (notorious for low passing rates). I have also not found a community that is actively taking the Analytics Specialty as compared to say, SAA and DVA. This has made the Analytics Specialty the most irritating paper I have ever prepped for in my life. A Cloud Guru was a washout... I passed SAA-C03 with ACloudGuru and their demos, so I thought they would be adequate for this cert as well. I was dead wrong. The lessons were woefully short and were not geared at exam prep much. After a full round of going through their walk through of the curriculum I found myself completely unprepared for their practice exam. Maarek gave me the foundation... I then switched to Maarek on Udemy and found the content was covered at greater depth. Their illustrations about which service integrates directly with which are SUPER IMPORTANT for the exam, as the most common "gotcha" would be an option that introduces two similar sounding services like Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose as options, but only one of them would feed into the other technology in the scenario. While a major improvement from ACG, that was still not enough as I was scored mid 60's on their practice exam. ...But TutorialsDojo was the crucible I needed Then I took the advice of this sub and bought TutorialsDojo, which proved to be the missing piece in the equation. I STILL scored mid 60's on all 3 of their tests, and was panicking with less than a week to go before my exam appointment. But their review explanations and links to resources were top notch. After dilligently going through each incorrect answer, I compiled the relevant explanations from TD, and supplemented them with the official documentation to form the definitive pile of notes I would pore over till exam day. This worked as it forced me to focus on my weak points, which is the point of the exam. The questions do not require super intimate knowledge of a few technologies, but they require you do not have major misconceptions about all of the technologies. Exam Experience I found the TD questions to be somewhat trickier and lengthier than what I experienced on exam day, i.e. TD does a good job of prepping you as long as you seek to understand and internalize WHY each option is right or wrong. Their screenshots of the AWS Console and illustrations also help, as services like EMR can be rather involved to spin up on your own, and a run through of what you see on the console really helps you to picture the solution. Off Tangent Rant My bloody is boiling because AWS dropped the Data Engineering Associate cert recently, and having nothing to do after a week of annual leave spent poring over Tutorial Dojo, I took the diagnostic test cold, without any study of the recommended materials. I almost passed it. I wish I had been a little more patient this year and waited for the Data Engineering Associate cert to come out, as I feel it would have been more relevant and manageable for me. I do not have much use case for streaming analytics in my department. Hope this helps others who are suffering from lack of guidance just as I did! submitted by /u/iancwm [link] [comments]

I am in the midst of a career change and really want to pivot to tech. I have completed my AWS cloud practioner and currently almost ready to book my AWS solutions architect associate exam. Is there any tips I can use before my exam. I have completed a full course and now using Neal’s course on Digital cloud to review everything. I have taken extensive notes and used youtube as well. I am now starting exam practice. I got 30/65 on my first attempt and 39/65 on my second attempt. It’s been a month of me studying for this after 3 months of the Cloud practioner. The detail of the SAA C03 questions throw me off. Has anyone here taken this exam recently? How was the real exam? And what mark out of 65 do you reckon would be a good pass? I assume like 55+/65 not sure. Pls help:/ thank you! submitted by /u/NewToCloud [link] [comments]

I came from a Microsoft background and I have multiple MS Certification as the SQL 2016 BI development, SQL 2016 Admin, PL-300, DP-100 and recently the DP-203 certification. I would try the new AWS with the Data Analytics study materials or better go to the cloud foundation first? submitted by /u/Axel_1994 [link] [comments]

I just took the SAA-03 exam yesterday night and boy oh boy - I can’t believe it - I passed y’all. That exam wasn’t easy, if that’s an intermediate exam it makes me wonder what an expert exam will look like. The most important tip I have for you is to answer questions based on eliminating. This applies more to those you do not know or are not sure about the answers. I wasn’t confident after taken the exam coupled with fact that’s I did the exam I. The house and everything that could go wrong went wrong. The exam was scheduled for 6:45 but I couldn’t start till 8:30 because of technical difficulties. When it finally started I just wasn’t in the best mood to take the exam anymore; and yes the proctor guy kept interrupting me . I tell you it was just a mess for me. Finally, finishing the exam and it ending abruptly just didn’t wouldn’t make anyone feel confident at all. I am very happy and would have to start applying for jobs now. LoL submitted by /u/mickdon [link] [comments]

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager enables customers to connect to their SSM managed instance through browser based RDP from the SSM Fleet Manager console without opening any inbound ports to the public or any private IPs. In addition to the default resolution of 720p, you can now select resolutions of 600p, 900p and 1080p for your RDP sessions.

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Windows containers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This feature simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for Amazon ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS.

Amazon Macie has introduced new managed data identifiers to expand its capabilities for discovering and identifying Stripe API keys, Google Cloud API keys, Driver’s license numbers (India) and national identification numbers (India) in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Understanding the presence and location of such data in your S3 storage helps you to better plan data security, governance, and privacy of your organization. With over 100+ managed data identifiers, Macie helps protect your sensitive data at scale.

Amazon Inspector is now available in four additional regions including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Europe (Zurich). You can now continuously monitor your Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, and container images residing in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure in these regions.

Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Route 53 Resolver Query Logging enables you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated - including source IP and instance ID - and the responses that were received. 

Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces the general availability of public network support for LoRaWAN-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices. With this update, you can now connect your LoRaWAN devices to the cloud using publicly available LoRaWAN networks provided by Everynet, a LoRaWAN network operator, without deploying and operating a private LoRaWAN network. The public LoRaWAN network is provided as a service and operated by Everynet, and by adding this public network support, customers can choose from within the AWS console to use Everynet's network. 

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Now, the Amazon Chime SDK provides loss recovery for up to 100ms of audio, which helps enable smooth playback of audio transmitted across networks with random and burst packet loss.

Amazon EC2 P5 instances which deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications are now available in the US East (Ohio) region.

We are excited to announce that Unreal Engine (UE) game developers can now more quickly access and integrate with Amazon GameLift with a new standalone plugin for UE. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unreal Engine supports UE5, UE5.1, and UE5.2 for Windows and Mac OS.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports AWS CloudTrail logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions. By logging these data events, you can get details on when and who made API calls to Amazon SNS, thereby enhancing data visibility for security and operations teams, enabling governance, compliance, and operational auditing.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now offers a quicker and more user-friendly way to create machine learning (ML) models for time-series forecasting. With its visual, point-and-click interface, business analysts can easily create accurate ML models for insights and predictions, without writing any code or having prior ML knowledge. Canvas supports multiple use cases — including time-series forecasting used in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and finance — by combining statistical and ML algorithms to generate highly accurate forecasts. 

Amazon DynamoDB global tables is now available in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE). Customers can now create global tables with replicas in all AWS Regions.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation general-purpose instances (M7g, M7i, M7i-flex, M7a, M6a), compute optimized instances (C7gn, C7g), memory optimized instances (R7g, R7iz, R6id, R6a, X2iezn), storage optimized instances (I4g, I4i), and high-performance-computing (HPC) optimized instances (Hpc7g, Hpc6id). This expands the total EC2 instance types supported by Compute Optimizer to 636. Additionally, Compute Optimizer now delivers Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume recommendations for EBS volumes that are attached to multiple EC2 instances simultaneously.

With the launch of Partner Initiative Funding in AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), AWS Partners can easily self-access and manage their initiative and agreement funding.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, and Lustre in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon FSx along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers Oracle Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI) purchase option in additional AWS Regions and for additional instance classes. R6i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Middle East (UAE), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon). R5 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne), and Europe (Spain). T3 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE). 

Today, we are announcing the developer preview of the AWS Amplify JavaScript Library v6 which includes reduced bundle sizes, richer TypeScript support, and integrations with Next.js server-side features. The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library enables frontend developers to connect their web and React Native apps to AWS cloud backends. In this developer preview, Amplify JavaScript now offers richer TypeScript support for the Auth, Analytics, and Storage categories. Apps using this developer preview will be served with smaller bundle sizes. Amplify JavaScript v6 also introduces an integration with Next.js server-side features such as App Router, Middleware, API routes, and server functions.

Today, AWS IoT Core a fully managed cloud service that lets you connect billions of devices and process trillions of messages, supports headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action. You can use Kafka headers to send additional metadata from IoT devices to a self-managed Apache Kafka cluster or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), without modifying the original IoT message payload. 

Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to prepare your environment for the migration process using the MGN connector directly from the AWS Application Migration Service console.

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling customers to bolster their overall security postures with a flexible and scalable access control solution. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. 

AWS App Runner now supports deploying services from source code repositories that follow a monorepo structure. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. With App Runner build-from-source capability you can offload the build and deployment workflow management to App Runner and deploy services directly from source code. App Runner provides convenient platform-specific managed runtimes. Each one of these runtimes builds a container image from your source code, and adds language runtime dependencies into your application container image.

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs to help you minimize the cutover downtime during SQL Server database migration to AWS. With this capability, you can now select the transaction log as one of the backup types, create a migration workflow based on the predefined template, and run the workflow step by step to accelerate SQL Server migration and reduce downtime during cutover to AWS.