AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer

Today, we’re announcing that AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer. This new integration brings together the development of workflows and application resources into a unified visual infrastructure as code (IaC) builder. Now, you can have a seamless transition between authoring workflows with AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio and defining resources with AWS Application Composer. This announcement allows you to create and manage all resources at any stage of your development journey. You can visualize the full application in AWS Application Composer, then zoom into the workflow details with AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio—all within a single interface. Seamlessly build workflow and modern application To help you design and build modern applications, we launched AWS Application Composer in March 2023.…

Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters

Starting today, you can use Amazon EKS Pod Identity to simplify your applications that access AWS services. This enhancement provides you with a seamless and easy to configure experience that lets you define required IAM permissions for your applications in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters so you can connect with AWS services outside the cluster. Amazon EKS Pod Identity helps you solve growing challenges for managing permissions across many of your EKS clusters. Simplifying experience with Amazon EKS Pod Identity In 2019, we introduced IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA). IRSA lets you associate an IAM role with a Kubernetes service account. This helps you to implement the principle of least privilege by giving pods only the permissions they…

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS

Today, I’m happy to announce a new capability, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, to automatically and agentlessly discover and collect Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector consists of a scraper that discovers and collects metrics from Amazon EKS applications and infrastructure without needing to run any collectors in-cluster. This new capability provides fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring and alerting with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. One of the significant benefits is that the collector is fully managed, automatically right-sized, and scaled for your use case. This means you don’t have to run any compute for collectors to collect the available metrics. This helps you optimize metric collection costs to monitor your…

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available

“Data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, and I couldn’t agree more. A common pattern customers use today is to build data pipelines to move data from Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift. These solutions help them gain insights to grow sales, reduce costs, and optimize their businesses. To help you focus on creating value from data instead of preparing data for analysis, we announced Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift at AWS re:Invent 2022 and in public preview for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition in June 2023. Now generally available: Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift Today, we announced the general…