Today, Amazon Redshift announced the support for automatically and incrementally refreshable materialized views (MVs) on tables in a zero-ETL integration. This new feature eliminates the need for full refreshes, which previously required re-executing underlying select statements and rewriting all data in the MV. With this launch, you can leverage the power of zero-ETL integrations with automatically and incrementally refreshable MVs, enabling more efficient data updates and faster query responses. This feature automatically keeps MVs up-to-date as the underlying data changes, eliminating the need for manual refresh operations or complex ETL processes. Organizations handling high-volume, dynamic datasets can now access near real-time insights while significantly reducing their operational workload. To learn more and get started with zero-ETL integration, visit the getting started guides for Amazon Redshift. To learn more about refreshing a materialized view, visit the documentation.  

I passed SAA-C03 last Sunday with score of 965. I did Stephane Maarek's course and TD's exam questions on Udemy. My TD's question set scores are as follow (NA means I did not take that set): 1st attempt: 78, 78, 80, 80, NA, 73 2nd attempt: 93, 93, 96, 96, 92, NA https://preview.redd.it/s0htcbcdim6e1.png?width=1180&format=png&auto=webp&s=9f7d6f33694733e7af98b0fab542d6f717bf7e29 I took notes by using mind map and that approach helped me a lot. I know that my notes are the scribbles of my thought process while I was studying but in case someone wants to revise their knowledge before the exam or wants to check what they have missed, hope my mind map will be of help. https://mm.tt/app/map/3471885158?t=lE6MXlXHYC submitted by /u/kaunghm [link] [comments]

Longtime lurker here. First, the proof: https://preview.redd.it/f8q6fymydm6e1.png?width=952&format=png&auto=webp&s=8aa38e2e4da0c960929fc3740a7cef250f9b151e For reference, here's my SA-Associate results: https://preview.redd.it/me3ovzl1em6e1.png?width=965&format=png&auto=webp&s=d190bb7f7cf694972da69804d9c4801f2d4eb4e7 Yep, not sure how I got the same score on both exams, but I'm going off tangent. Below is my summary of how I prepared and my thoughts on the Pro exam. For the Associate exam, I used Stephane's Udemy lectures and practice exams since I had a business Udemy account at work. Total preparation time took about 1 month of serious cramming. Meanwhile, I used Cantrill's course and TutorialDojo practice exams for the Professional exam. Total preparation time took about 3 months. I honestly thought I did not pass the exam after the Professional exam ended. 3 hours is long and by the middle of the exam, I wanted to give up and not going to the bathroom for 3 hours straight was brutal. While I feel relieved that I passed, I already have anxiety about having to re-certify in 3 years time. Anyway, I want to thank this community for the encouragement and I have to say, keep on studying! You got this. submitted by /u/TinySuspicions3 [link] [comments]

I passed the AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty exam and now, hitting a goal for the end of the year, hold all 12 certifications. I started fresh with AWS 2 years ago, picking up the Certified Cloud Practitioner in January 2023. I didn't initially plan on getting all the certifications (I planned to stop after passing the ANS). However, after a games conference in October, I got introduced to some of the uses of ML in video games (a field I'd like to hop over to from web development). I wanted to learn more about it, and the last four AWS Certs I had left seemed like a good way to approach those subjects (AIF, DEA, MLA, MLS), and I certainly learned a lot. I am going to enjoy some time away from the studies and create some projects. submitted by /u/lullalye [link] [comments]

Which ones are better and more representative of the real exam? I’m learning for SA Pro but curious in general. submitted by /u/mad_edge [link] [comments]

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I was planing to take the SAA in December this year. But I recently started a new job in November and decided to focus solely on work for now. I’m thinking of taking the SAA in Q3 2025. The thing is before starting the new job, I purchased Stephen and Tutorial Dojo Qs and spent 2 months to go through all those materials and have all my personal notes ready for review. My concern is that the exam will get updated soon so my notes will be outdated. Does anyone know how often the AWS (esp, SAA) exams get updated? And when the next update cycle is? submitted by /u/proudmelon [link] [comments]

Hello Mmebers, recently I have Passed mY AWS exam, any one can guide me what types of projects I can do to practice ? any free intrnship opportuinty ? thanks in advance submitted by /u/PineappleEcstatic471 [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, I’ve seen so many posts here about studying for certifications that drag on for six months (or more!) with no end in sight. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With the right game plan, focus, and accountability, you can crush your certification goals in a fraction of the time. That’s where I come in. I specialize in helping people like you prepare for certifications effectively and efficiently. Whether it’s AWS, OSCP, CISSP, or something else, I’ll work with you to: • Create a custom study plan: We’ll break your goals into manageable steps and focus on what matters most. • Stay accountable: I’ll check in regularly to ensure you stay on track, adjust your plan as needed, and help you push through when motivation dips. • Master key concepts: We’ll prioritize high-impact areas so you’re not wasting time on fluff. • Develop effective habits: I’ll help you build a system that sets you up for success—not just for this certification, but for future ones too. Certifications don’t have to take six months of endless procrastination. With focus and a smart plan, you can see real progress in just a few weeks. Ready to stop spinning your wheels and start getting results? Let’s connect! Shoot me a DM, and we can chat about your goals and how I can help you achieve them faster than you thought possible. Let’s make 2025 the year you level up your skills and career. No excuses—just results. submitted by /u/sailor231323 [link] [comments]

Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and DNS Firewall Advanced in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is a managed service that enables you to block DNS queries made for domains identified as low-reputation or suspected to be malicious, and to allow queries for trusted domains. In addition, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced is a capability of DNS Firewall that allows you to detect and block DNS traffic associated with Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) and DNS Tunneling threats. DNS Firewall can be enabled only for Route 53 Resolver, which is a recursive DNS server that is available by default in all Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and that responds to DNS queries from AWS resources within a VPC for public DNS records, VPC-specific domain names, and Route 53 private hosted zones. DNS Firewall provides more granular control over the DNS querying behavior of resources within your VPCs by letting you create “blocklists” for domains you don’t want your VPC resources to communicate with via DNS, or take a stricter, “walled-garden” approach by creating “allowlists” that permit outbound DNS queries only to domains you specify. With DNS Firewall Advanced, you can also configure rules to alert on or block DNS traffic associated with more advanced DNS threats. Visit the AWS Region Table to see all AWS Regions where Amazon Route 53 is available. Please visit our product page and documentation to learn more about Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall and its pricing.

I am getting Bonso's practice exams on TD and was wondering if I should pair it with his video course on TD or if I should go with Cantril's video course? What are peoples experiences with the two teachers? I was leaning Cantril before seeing Bonso had his own video course and now I am thinking maybe I should go with Bonso for both, which would be the cheaper option as well... submitted by /u/CDmatrix [link] [comments]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 C7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS GovCloud (US) Console.

I am preparing for AWS CCP. I was using recommendations from this sub for preparing. However out of curiosity I asked Meta AI in WhatsApp to ask me CCP question. Here is what happened it started with basic high level questions and at one point I increased the difficulty. It then asked more complex question. Later when I pointed it out, it promptly revised the question difficulty to match the CCP syllabus. I know this may not be the recommended method for preparing. One can maybe leverage it to ask specific topic questions to test the knowledge or to understand where we stand in that particular topic. Any thoughts? submitted by /u/sugarlive [link] [comments]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20241121. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Learn more about the updates and patches in this Extended Support minor version in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your RDS for PostgreSQL databases after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date. You are able to leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.  

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of auto-copy, which simplifies data ingestion from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This new feature enables you to set up continuous file ingestion from your Amazon S3 prefix and automatically load new files to tables in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse without the need for additional tools or custom solutions. Previously, Amazon Redshift customers had to build their data pipelines using COPY commands to automate continuous loading of data from S3 to Amazon Redshift tables. With auto-copy, you can now setup an integration which will automatically detect and load new files in a specified S3 prefix to Redshift tables. The auto-copy jobs keep track of previously loaded files and exclude them from the ingestion process. You can monitor auto-copy jobs using system tables Amazon Redshift auto-copy from Amazon S3 is now generally available for both Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift RA3 Provisioned data warehouses in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see the documentation or check out the AWS Blog.  

Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account management in opt-in Regions (Regions that are disabled by default). Cross-account management helps customers manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations. With cross-account management in AWS Backup, customers can deploy an organization-wide backup policy using their AWS Organizations' management account or delegated administrator account, and help maintain compliance across all organizational accounts while reducing account management overhead. Cross-account monitoring allows you to monitor backup activity across all the accounts in your organization from the management account. For more information on AWS Backup cross-account management, visit the documentation. Get started with AWS Backup today.  

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enable you to implement safeguards for your generative AI applications based on your use cases and responsible AI policies. Starting today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds multilingual capabilities with support for Spanish and French languages. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails help you implement safeguards for building safe, generative AI applications by filtering undesirable content, redacting personally identifiable information (PII), and enhancing content safety and privacy. You can configure policies for content filters, denied topics, word filters, PII redaction, and contextual grounding checks to tailor safeguards to your specific use cases and responsible AI policies. With support for Spanish and French languages, a wider set of users in multiple geographies can now use Bedrock Guardrails to build safer generative AI applications based on their use cases and responsible AI policies. To learn more about Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, see the product page and the technical documentation.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now adds support for Graviton3 based r7gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage in six additional regions i.e., Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). AWS Graviton3-based instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance compared to comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3 based r7gd instances have custom-designed processors that enable improved performance for memory-intensive workloads. They offer upto 30 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton3 instances are supported on all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch versions 7.9 and 7.10. Please refer to the Amazon OpenSearch Service pricing page for additional information about instance types supported in different regions and their On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing details. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service, please visit the product page.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs. Amazon EC2 F2 instances, the second-generation FPGA-powered instances, are purpose built to develop and deploy reconfigurable hardware in the cloud. You can use F2 instances to power the next generation of FPGA-accelerated solutions in genomics, multimedia processing, big data, network security/acceleration, and cloud-based video broadcasting. F2 instances are the first FPGA-based instances to feature 16GB of high-bandwidth memory. F2 instances provide up to 8 FPGAs paired with a 3rd generation AMD EPYC (Milan) processor with 3x processor cores (192 vCPU), 2x system memory (2 TiB), 2x NVMe SSD (7.6 TiB), and 4x networking bandwidth (100 Gbps) compared to F1 instances. F2 instances are now available in the US East (N.Virginia) and Europe (London) AWS Regions in f2.12xl, and f2.48xl sizes. To learn more about F2 instances, see Amazon EC2 F2 Instances.

Today we’re excited to announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2024.12. This release makes it possible to configure your Active Directory (AD) dynamically at runtime, allows Amazon Cognito users to launch Linux virtual desktops, and gives administrators the option to configure SSH access to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). RES administrators can now manage AD parameters and enable Cognito users through the RES UI in the new Identity Management page. AD parameters that were once required when deploying RES are now optional and can be changed at any time after deployment. Admins can also add LDAP filters for users and groups to be more targeted about what AD identities get synced to RES. Cognito can now be used as an identity source and login method to either augment or replace the existing Active Directory and Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication. Cognito users can access Linux VDI sessions in the RES environment just like users that access the environment through SSO. Add Cognito users to RES by manually adding them to the RES Cognito User Pool or activating user self registration from the RES UI. This release also gives administrators control over SSH access in the RES environment. SSH access to VDI sessions is now deactivated by default and can be reactivated at any time from the Permission Policy page. See the regional availability page for the list of regions where RES is available. Check out additional release notes on Github to get started and deploy RES 2024.12.

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, an interactive log streaming and analytics capability which provides real-time visibility into your logs, making it easier to develop and troubleshoot your serverless applications. The Toolkit for VS Code is an open-source extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. This extension makes it easier for developers to develop, debug locally, and deploy serverless applications that use AWS. This new integration brings the power of Live Tail directly into the VS Code Command Palette. CloudWatch log events can now be streamed in the VS Code Editor as they are ingested in real-time. You can search, filter, and highlight log events of interest, to aid and accelerate troubleshooting, investigations, and root cause analysis. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail for AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is available in all AWS Commercial regions. To learn more, please visit the documentation. For pricing details, check Amazon CloudWatch Pricing.  

You can now configure holidays and other variances to your contact center Hours of operation with “overrides” in Amazon Connect, using APIs or the admin website. Overrides are exceptions to your contact center’s standard day-of-the-week operating hours. For example, if your contact center opens at 9am and closes at 10pm, but on New Year’s Eve you want to close at 4pm to allow your agents to get home in time to celebrate, you can add an override to do so. When the holiday arrives and you close your contact center early, callers get the after hours customer experience. Hours of operations overrides are supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website. To learn more about the hours of operations, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide.  

A bit about my background: 2.5 years of full time experience as a Software Engineer including Frontend, Backend and some AWS too! submitted by /u/Next_Bullfrog_2754 [link] [comments]

Im working towards this but im having doubts because it seems like recruiters only care about professional experience. submitted by /u/Holiday_Ad9679 [link] [comments]

I just passed my SAA-C03 with a score of 853. Just sharing my prep/experiences as this sub has helped a ton for my preparation and I want to return the favor. Seeing inspirational posts of other users passing is what motivates me to get certified ASAP. Background: SWE degree, Developer for ~2 years with limited AWS exposure Materials: Stephane's Udemy Course (Watched all videos + made hand-written notes on the fly) Stephane's Practice Exam Sets (Was averaging around 70%-80% on first try, did all sets two times) TutorialDojo Practice Exam Sets (Averaging around 75%-80% on first try, did all sets two times) Time Used For Preparation: I used about 1.5 months for Stephane's course, then went for a vacation then totally halted my progress for ~2 months. Then continued where I left off and continued grinding practice exams for ~2 months. I think the most important tool you can have in your arsenal is grinding practice exams. The extensivity of AWS services that may be tested is very broad in my opinion, and doing practice exams really identifies which services you may potentially miss out accidentally. For notes, I listed out all of the limitations numbers of AWS services, eg: Lambda Memory, Max execution time, SQS/KDS min/max retention periods and memorised them. All the best! submitted by /u/tjyaooo [link] [comments]

Do you reckon it'll be useful towards my prep for SAA-C003? The questions were much trickier than normal TD question sets. submitted by /u/Queasy_Whole9252 [link] [comments]

I purchased the TD practice exam, and to my understanding, it was supposed to be six practice tests. But maybe I am mistaken because the one that I purchased has 36 quizzes, ranging from 8 to 65 questions per quiz, and one final test. Did I buy the right one? submitted by /u/Potential-Pass-6379 [link] [comments]

I have already scheduled my Solution Architect Associate exam on 30th Dec. Still, the ongoing project conflicts with my studies and I'm thinking that I will not be able to finish studying before the 30th. Is it possible to reschedule the exam with promo after the 31st? or how can I continue with the rescheduling? submitted by /u/Worried-Ad-5807 [link] [comments]

Hi, I am a technology risk manager with 10 years of experience working across Government, Education and Financial sector with most of these 10 years predominantly focussing on tech/security risks associated with cloud platforms like AWS. I have recently finished cloud practitioner and will be going for SAA soon. I also have TOGAF and ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Practitioner certification. Hoping to get some advice on how best to pivot to a cloud/solutions architect role focussing on AWS? How much does SAA cert help with this? Thanks! submitted by /u/Dark-Knight-4694 [link] [comments]

Hi there, i have my exam on Monday. Did stephanes course, dide the topics multiple times except for the hands on I did TD with a score of 76,73,89,84,50 and the Final test 77. What i noticed is that i am really bad at Security, by far i get there the lowest score everytime. I read the solution, get try to find the resources, work on these, take notes. But i dont improve, any tipps and or resources i should look into for the security part? Dont have an idea what to do to get bettwr there.... submitted by /u/Dystanz [link] [comments]

I am happy to share that i passed my AWS SAA C03 yesterday. Thanks to the subreddit and the people who shared their journey in comment boxes. One piece of advice i can offer is: be really really good at time management and keep your ego side while attempting exam. I was left with 35 questions for 36 minutes because of this mistake , in the end i randomly marked answers for 5 questions bcz i was left with 10 seconds. I know most of you guys already know this stuff but still giving a gentle reminder. I also need some advice from you lovely people How can i leverage this in my data scientist journey efficiently? submitted by /u/__luffytaro_ [link] [comments]

Hello! So my company uses AWS (not sure which service, probably redshift) according to my stakeholder. He said he will share what I've done and looking for and he will forward to his contacts inside the company. I am a data analyst recently passed SAA-C03 and would like to have work experience in AWS services. Yep, zero experience in that field. How would I effectively demonstrate what I have learned in an email..? submitted by /u/Joi_trades [link] [comments]

Anyone know if the AWS ML specialty carts will remove questions from their bank from some of the updates/changes they made with SageMaker submitted by /u/Prof-Ponderosa [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm here looking for help with an error that occurs when I try to log into my AWS Skill Builder account and it says "It's our mistake, not yours." I tried to change the password, contacted support and they said there is no account with the email I've been trying to access. I apologize for my English and appreciate some help submitted by /u/Risky-Toma_s [link] [comments]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i-flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to M6i. M7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don't fully utilize all compute resources such as web and application servers, virtual-desktops, batch-processing, and microservices. M7i deliver up to 15% better price-performance compared to M6i. M7i instances are a great choice for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage, such as gaming servers, CPU-based machine learning (ML), and video-streaming. M7i offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology that are used to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads. To learn more, visit the EC2 M7i/M7i-flex instances Page.

We are pleased to announce general availability of inference optimized G6e instances (powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs) and P5e (powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs) on Amazon SageMaker. With 1128 GB of high bandwidth GPU memory across 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, 30 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, 192 vCPUs, and 2 TiB of system memory, ml.p5e.48xlarge instances can deliver exceptional performance for compute-intensive AI inference workloads such as large language model with 100B+ parameters, multi-modal foundation models, synthetic data generation, and complex generative AI applications including question answering, code generation, video, and image generation. Powered by 8 NVIDIA L40s Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors ml.g6e instances can deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to ml.g5 instances. Customers can use ml.g6e instances to run AI Inference for large language models (LLMs) with up to 13B parameters and diffusion models for generating images, video, and audio. The ml.p5e and ml.g6e instances are now available for use on SageMaker in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon). To get started, simply request a limit increase through AWS Service Quotas. For pricing information on these instances, please visit our pricing page. For more information on deploying models with SageMaker, see the overview here and the documentation here. To learn more about these instances in general, please visit the P5e and G6e product pages.  

AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1. PCI DSS is a compliance framework that provides a set of rules and guidelines for safely handling credit and debit card information. PCI DSS standard in Security Hub provides a set of AWS security best practices that support you in protecting your cardholder data environments (CDE). Security Hub PCI DSS v4.0.1 includes 144 automated controls that conduct continual checks against PCI DSS requirements. The new standard is now available in all public AWS Regions where Security Hub is available and in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To quickly enable the new standard across your AWS environment, we recommend you using Security Hub central configuration. This will allow you to enable the standard in some or all of your organization accounts and across all AWS Regions that are linked to Security Hub with a single action. If you currently use PCI v3.2.1 standard in Security Hub, but want to use only v4.0.1, enable the newer version before disabling the older version. This prevents gaps in your security checks. To get started, consult the following list of resources: Learn more about Security Hub capabilities and features in the AWS Security Hub user guide Subscribe to the Security Hub SNS topic to receive notifications about new Security Hub features and controls Try Security Hub at no cost for 30 days on the AWS Free Tier.

Amazon Connect now supports push notifications for mobile chat on iOS and Android devices, improving the customer experience and enabling faster issue resolution. Amazon Connect makes it easy to offer mobile chat experiences using the Amazon Connect Chat SDKs or a webview solution using the communications widget. Now, with built-in push notifications enabled for mobile chat experiences, customers will be proactively notified as soon as they receive a new message from an agent or chatbot, even when they are not actively chatting. Push notifications for mobile chat is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions. To learn more and get started, visit the help documentation or the Amazon Connect website.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for Cassandra’s User Defined Types (UDTs) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. With support for UDTs, you can continue using any custom data types that are defined in your Cassandra workloads in Keyspaces without making schema modifications. With this launch, you can use UDTs in the primary key of your tables, allowing you to index your data on more complex and richer data types. Additionally, UDTs enable you to create data models that are more efficient and similar to the data hierarchies that exist in real-world data. The AWS console enhances the original Cassandra experience by allowing you to easily create and visualize nested UDTs at multiple levels. Support for UDTs is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS offers Amazon Keyspaces. If you’re new to Amazon Keyspaces, the getting started guide shows you how to provision a keyspace and explore the query and scaling capabilities of Amazon Keyspaces.  

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. AWS Graviton4-based R8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 1.5TB) than Graviton3-based R7g instances. These instances are up to 30% faster for web applications, 40% faster for databases, and 45% faster for large Java applications compared to AWS Graviton3-based R7g instances. R8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 R8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.  

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the need to set up and maintain the underlying infrastructure. It is integrated with AWS Firewall Manager to provide you with central visibility and control over your firewall policies across multiple AWS accounts. To see which regions AWS Network Firewall is available in, visit the AWS Region Table. For more information, please see the AWS Network Firewall product page and the service documentation.  

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for frozen collections in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. With support for frozen collections, the primary keys in your tables can contain collections, allowing you to index your tables on more complex and richer data types. Additionally, using frozen collections, you can create nested collections. Nested collections enable you to model your data in a more real-world way and efficient manner. The AWS console extends the native Cassandra experience by giving you the ability to intuitively create and view nested collections that are several levels deep. Support for frozen collections is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS offers Amazon Keyspaces. If you’re new to Amazon Keyspaces, the getting started guide shows you how to provision a keyspace and explore the query and scaling capabilities of Amazon Keyspaces.

We are excited to announce the general availability of new multilingual streaming speech recognition models (ASR-2.0) in Amazon Lex. These models enhance recognition accuracy through two specialized groupings: one European-based model supporting Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and another Asia Pacific-based model supporting Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. These Amazon Lex multilingual streaming models leverage shared language patterns within each group to deliver improved recognition accuracy. The models particularly excel at recognizing alphanumeric speech, making it easier to accurately understand customer utterances that are often needed to identify callers and automate tasks in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications. For example, the new models better recognize account numbers, confirmation numbers, serial numbers, and product codes. These improvements extend to all regional variants of supported languages (for example, both European French and Canadian French will benefit from this enhancement). Additionally, the new models demonstrate improved recognition accuracy for non-native speakers and various regional accents, making interactions more inclusive and reliable. These models are now the standard for supported languages in Amazon Lex, and customers simply need to rebuild their existing bots to take advantage of these improvements. The new ASR-2.0 models are now available in all regions that support Amazon Lex V2.  

Today, Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) announces the availability of Global Endpoints, a feature for resilient sending through two commercial AWS Regions. Global Endpoints works with SES APIv2 and allows customers to choose a primary and secondary Region which accommodate email sending workloads in an equal split under normal circumstances. If either region suffers an impairment, traffic shifts away from the affected Region towards the other, ensuring that email sending continues. Unlike manual multi-region setups, Global Endpoints simplifies the synchronization of verified identities, approved sending limits, and configuration sets between the two chosen Regions. By working in a load-balanced manner, both Regions have active IP addresses ready for any customer email sending activity, and no manual effort is required to redistribute sending jobs during outages. Customers make use of a multi-region endpoint ID in place of an individual Region endpoint ID, without needing to make changes to their sending configurations. The feature also works with existing SES features, such as Dedicated IPs and Virtual Deliverability Manager. Global Endpoints is available across all commercial AWS Regions where SES sending is already available. A new blog describing the solution in detail is available here, and you can also click here for more information about Global Endpoints and to begin the simple, guided onboarding process for initial setup.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Spain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon M7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.  

tl;dr We have a number of people sharing new / free practice exams from udemy on this subreddit recently. Please beware of these offers and do your own due diligence to make sure these are not exam dumps masquerading as practice exams. If you really dont know how to validate the credibility of these new exams - stick to well known authors / resources from authorized AWS Training partners for now In the last few weeks I am noticing a sudden influx of new practice exams on Udemy and folks pushing these across our subreddit. You will find them post on comments as "hey I used this to pass my exam" or "here is a voucher for a free exam - you will find it useful" Most of the exams are from authors who are brand new to the platform and/or have very few other courses. They are almost all with zero reviews / 10's of students registered. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with that and we want to encourage new / independent authors (everyone starts somewhere!) etc - there is something really worrying me about these practice exams. Here are some of the Yellow Flags I see The folks who push these practice exams have no credible reddit profile. All their posts are comments on other posts pushing these practice exams. They do not generally engage with the community or have no history of engaging here on this community or on r/aws . Many are brand new accounts or accounts with very little in terms of engagement on reddit - so look to be created just to push these practice exams. It is VERY hard to create a new practice exam. Writing a decent question, answers and then linking to the documents take a significant amount of time. Most of these practice exams already have 5 x 65 questions - assuming there is minimal overlap - that is 250+ questions which all take time and somehow these authors are able to push these out with 5 full practice exams. In some cases the authors also have 10's of courses all with low reviews / recently published covering multiple There is very little to zero actual review / feedback. In some cases even posts where they say "I used this to pass" - there is no review / no pass post etc. Now Udemy reviews are a bit like shopping reviews where vendors provide you a freebie if you post positive reviews - do take that with a pinch of salt but if something has 10 students and zero reviews - its probably not the only resource to rely upon Some of these people posting initially claim to have used the exam and then claim to be part of the exam provider etc - all seems very disingenious to me None of these authors come up on this subreddit, introduce themselves, link to their profile elsewhere and show why we should really trust them on these exam questions being good / better than others we already have. So my ask of new community members is this - Just because something is free doesnt mean its good - if you are new to AWS you have no way of gauging if these practice exams are going to really help you or not till you take the real exam. - Please do your own due diligence on the authors, their profile, pedigree sort to say to make sure that you are not falling for questions copied from elsewhere or the same set of questions being sold by multiple authors or worse - exam dumps being published on Udemy. - EDIT : For those who spot these warning signs - please follow guidance from our mods to report the comment / post using Rule 4 or Rule 8 (see comment below from one of the mods saying this is okay) The worst thing we can do is dilute the training scene for AWS with large number of exam dumps on udemy becoming popular. And my ask of these udemy authors is that they come up and show us the real person behind the scene, where they sourced the questions and also who they are and why we should trust them. We can then rally behind these as a community. submitted by /u/madrasi2021 [link] [comments]

I did the exam earlier today and received the email hour ago. The exam is really really harder for me, than the TD practice exams and I didn't thought I will pass the exam. I did TD exams twice. In first rount I did it in review mode while taking notes. I got 55%-65%. In second round I did TD exams in timed mode and I scored 70%-85%. Today in my SAA I passed with 743 score. I think if you go through TD exam well, you can pass the SAA. Total learning took 1 month and two weeks. before taking the TD practice test I watch Stephen's course with taking notes. Good luck for all who are hope to do the exam. submitted by /u/scorp12scorp12 [link] [comments]

The relief when I received the congratulations email, wheew thanks to the ongoing discussion in this sub I made it. TD exams are the truth and like everyone has said million times before, review the questions and understand the answers what also helps is those diagrams that that they attach on the review section, also going through Cantril videos after TD you realise the things you missed and it all kind of connect. I have a background in networking, so network related information was easy to grasps during my studying and I believe if you have a background in IT there’s one topic that you will master. My first score in TD was in the 50% and that shook me I wont lie and then I started pushing harder was fluctuating between 68%-80%. submitted by /u/Spirited_Weird_7497 [link] [comments]

Amazon MQ now supports AWS PrivateLink (interface VPC endpoint) to connect directly to the Amazon MQ API in your virtual private cloud (VPC) instead of connecting over the internet. When you use AWS PrivateLink, communication between your VPC and Amazon MQ API is conducted entirely within the AWS network, providing an optimized secure pathway for your data. An AWS PrivateLink endpoint connects your VPC directly to the Amazon MQ API. The instances in your VPC don't need public IP addresses to communicate with the Amazon MQ API. To use Amazon MQ through your VPC, you can connect from an instance that is inside your VPC, or connect your private network to your VPC by using an AWS VPN option or AWS Direct Connect. You can create an AWS PrivateLink to connect to Amazon MQ using the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) commands. To learn more about using AWS PrivateLink, see the Amazon MQ developer guide, Creating an Interface Endpoint, and the Amazon MQ release notes.

Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) announces the availability of Deterministic Easy DKIM (DEED), a new form of global identity which simplifies the use of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) management for SES first-party sender customers and independent solution vendors (ISVs). DEED expands the existing Easy DKIM solution from SES and enables it to work across all commercial AWS Regions, instead of being limited to just one. While Easy DKIM required domain name system (DNS) lookups to be made in the Region where the identity was verified, DEED expands that capability so customers can use the same identity across multiple Regions without making any DNS setup changes. Customers now have less risk of manual DNS management errors. At launch, the main use case for DEED is for large customers with multinational operations and a need to have shared access to core domain identities for SES sending from multiple worldwide subsidiaries. ISVs also need to be able to operate smoothly on behalf of their customers, including when moving activity into new Regions. DEED allows them to make those changes without requiring the primary domain owner to make DNS changes themselves. SES DEED is available across all commercial AWS Regions where SES sending is already available. A new blog post is available here to discuss the feature in greater detail. Click here for more information about Deterministic Easy DKIM and to begin the simple, guided onboarding process for initial setup.