Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications. You can use Amazon Cognito for various use cases, from providing your customers to quickly add sign-in and sign-up experiences to your applications and authorization to securing machine-to-machine authentication and enabling role-based access to AWS resources. Today, I’m excited to share a series of significant updates to Amazon Cognito. These enhancements aim to provide you with more flexibility, improved security, and a better user experience for your applications. Here’s a quick summary: A new developer-focused console experience for getting started including the support of integrating with popular application frameworks Introducing Managed Login – a revamped…
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Introducing new capabilities to AWS CloudTrail Lake to enhance your cloud visibility and investigations
Today, I’m excited to announce new updates to AWS CloudTrail Lake, which is a managed data lake you can use to aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by AWS CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. The new updates in CloudTrail Lake are: Enhanced filtering options for CloudTrail events Cross-account sharing of event data stores General availability of the generative AI–powered natural language query generation AI-powered query results summarization capability in preview Comprehensive dashboard capabilities, including a high-level overview dashboard with AI-powered insights (AI-powered insights is in preview), a suite of 14 pre-built dashboards for various use cases, and the ability to create custom dashboards with scheduled refreshes Let’s look into the new features one by one. Enhanced…
Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals
In November 2023, we announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an AWS built-in application performance monitoring (APM) solution, to solve the complexity associated with monitoring performance of distributed systems for applications hosted on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2. Application Signals automatically correlates telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs, to speed up troubleshooting and reduce application disruption. By providing an integrated experience for analyzing performance in the context of your applications, Application Signals gives you improved productivity focusing on the applications that support your most critical business functions. Today we’re announcing the availability of Application Signals for AWS Lambda to eliminate the complexities of manual setup and performance issues required to assess application health for Lambda functions. With CloudWatch Application…
Announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console (preview)
Today, we are announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console in preview. We are rolling out this update by using the latest version of Cloudscape, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) design system used to build intuitive, inclusive, and meaningful AWS experiences at scale. In this post, I describe how the visual update makes it easier for you to scan content, focus on the key information, and find what you are looking for more effectively while preserving the familiar and consistent experience of the AWS Management Console. Improved readability A revised typography scale and improved treatment of headings result in a stronger visual hierarchy, which helps you to better locate and understand your data. A refined use of color…