News For Dev-ops

AWS Step Functions now supports a service integration with Amazon EventBridge , enabling you to send custom events from your Step Functions workflows to an EventBridge event bus without writing custom code. You can now emit custom events from your workflows that allow loosely-coupled applications to react to steps in your business logic, orchestrated by Step Functions. You can also use this integration to send events to applications in a different region or a different account by using EventBridge’s cross-account and cross-region capabilites . Post Updated on May 15, 2021 at 12:15AM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. If you require use of FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules, you can now do so with RDS Data API. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 09:57PM

Today, AWS Premium Support launches Support Automation Workflows (SAW) to enable self-service diagnosis and remediation for AWS customers. Further, we are launching additional advanced runbooks that will be available to Enterprise and Business Support customers for faster issue resolution. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 09:49PM

Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to healthcare and life science applications. We are pleased to launch support for the automatic identification of protected health information (PHI) in your medical transcriptions feature for batch processing. With automatic PHI identification, customers can now reduce the cost, time, and effort spend on identifying PHI content from both live audio streams and static recordings. PHI entities are labeled clearly with each output transcript, making it convenient to build additional downstream processing for a variety of purposes, such as redaction prior to text analytics. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 09:49PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports PostgreSQL 12.5 for production deployment. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. You can deploy Amazon RDS on Outposts to set up, operate, and scale MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL relational databases on-premises, just as you would in the cloud. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 08:53PM

Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Region. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 06:30PM

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cold storage, a fully-managed storage tier that makes it easy for customers to securely store and analyze their infrequently accessed data on-demand, at a lower cost than other storage tiers. You pay for compute only when you need it. Cold storage allows you to retain any amount of data in your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain while reducing cost per GB to near Amazon S3 storage prices. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 05:05PM

Amazon EMR integration with Apache Ranger is now available on EMR 6.3, allowing you to define, enforce, and audit fine-grained data access control. With this feature, you can define and enforce 1/ database, table, and column level authorization policies for Apache Spark and Apache Hive users to access data through Hive Metastore, and 2/ prefix and object level authorization policies when accessing data in Amazon S3 via the Amazon EMR File System (EMRFS), leveraging Amazon CloudWatch to capture auditing logs. Post Updated on May 13, 2021 at 10:30PM

AWS WAF now supports log filtering, enabling you to specify which web requests are logged and which requests are discarded from log after the inspection. You can use log filtering to keep only the information you want to analyze. Log filtering can also help you save on log delivery and storage costs by reducing the amount of log data stored. Post Updated on May 13, 2021 at 09:15PM

Amazon Connect  now allows customers to subscribe to a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (e.g., call is queued) in your Amazon Connect contact center. These events include when a voice call, chat, or task is initiated, queued to be assigned to an agent, connected to an agent, transferred to another agent or queue, and disconnected. Contact events can be used to create analytics dashboards to monitor and track contact activity, integrate into workforce management (WFM) solutions to better understand contact center performance, or to integrate applications that react to events (e.g., call disconnected) in real-time. Amazon Connect contact events are published via Amazon EventBridge , and can be set up in a couple of clicks by going to the Amazon EventBridge AWS console and creating a new rule. Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 10:00PM

Amazon CloudWatch now supports composite alarms in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon CloudWatch composite alarms, you can combine multiple alarms to reduce alarm noise and focus on critical operational issues. You can easily combine multiple alarms together into alarm hierarchies that only trigger once when multiple alarms fire at the same time. This helps you stay focused on finding the root cause of operational issues to reduce system and application downtime.   Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 08:26PM

You can now use Change Calendar to prevent desired-state configuration updates made usingState Manager. Change Calendar and State Manager are both capabilities of AWS SystemsManager. With Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control when changescan be made to your AWS resources. You can use State Manager to define, enforce, and reporton desired state configuration compliance for your infrastructure. With this new integration,you can help ensure that your desired-state configuration updates do not conflict withimportant business activities, such as sales events or new product launches. Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 08:43PM

We’re excited to introduce a curriculum of three free, digital courses that help you accelerate your application development skills with Amazon DynamoDB, described below. Designed for new or experienced database developers and architects interested in learning how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB, these intermediate courses simulate a real application development project.  Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 07:45PM

Amazon Athena  users can now query databases and tables across AWS accounts through built-in support for AWS Glue  Data Catalogs in other AWS accounts. Customers need a central data catalog to enable analysts and data scientists to access their data lake without the complexity of replicating catalog metadata in individual AWS accounts. Today’s release makes it easier to connect AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other accounts using the Athena console or API. Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 07:50PM

We are happy to announce that all AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)  endpoints have been updated to only accept a minimum of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 connections. This update ensures that our customers who run regulated workloads can meet FedRAMP compliance requirements that mandate a minimum of TLS 1.2 encryption for data in transit. Attempts to connect to AWS FIPS endpoints using TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 will result in an HTTP response 5 03 Service Unavailable error . Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 07:09PM

The AWS Solutions team updated Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning , an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers easily generate, test, compare, and iterate on forecasts. The solution allows customers to automatically trigger a workflow to automate the creation of forecasts in Amazon Forecast based on user-provided configuration. The solution then provides automatic visualization using Amazon QuickSight (and optionally Amazon SageMaker Jupyter Notebooks) providing a quick, easy, drag-and-drop interface that displays time series input and forecasted output for any input time series data. Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 07:23PM

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL patch releases are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. To review the changes, visit the documentation history  and for detailed release notes, visit our version documentation . You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation . Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 07:15PM

Starting today, the new EC2 High Memory instances with 6TB, 9TB, and 12TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge, u-9tb1.112xlarge, and u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available for usage with On-Demand (OD) and Savings Plan purchase options. This launch gives customers greater flexibility for instance usage and procurement. Customers can choose from two instances with 6TB of memory - u-6tb1.56xlarge and u-6tb1.112xlarge - both offering 100Gbps network and 38Gbps EBS bandwidth, and with 224 vCPUs and 448 vCPUs, respectively. These new instances provide additional flexibility for customers with memory-bound workloads and helps further optimize workload price/performance. The 9TB and 12TB instances offer 448 vCPUs, 100Gbps network and 38Gbps EBS bandwidth.  Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 06:28PM

Distributed Load Testing on AWS helps you easily simulate thousands of users connecting to your application so that you can better understand your application performance under load. The solution launches and configures containers on AWS Fargate to generate a specified number of transactions per second without having to provision servers. Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 06:40PM

Machine Downtime Monitor on AWS is a new solution that provides a dashboard to industrial customers to help them monitor the health of factory floor equipment, which enables easier identification of machine breakdowns and quicker response, improving asset availability. This solution offers an intuitive interface that allows non-technical users to easily configure machines and get up and running quickly. It also empowers production personnel to respond proactively to production interruptions and maximize asset availability. Post Updated on May 12, 2021 at 06:43PM

At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the preview of AWS SaaS Boost , an open source tool that helps software developers migrate their existing solutions to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. SaaS Boost significantly offloads development effort by accelerating application transformation to SaaS, freeing up software developers to focus on features that differentiate their products. After receiving interest from hundreds of developers in the project, today we’re pleased to announce its public availability on GitHub . All SaaS products need the foundational capabilities to onboard users, provision infrastructure for tenants, monitor consumption trends, configure tenant profiles, integrate with a billing systems, and surface key metrics. These functions are critical for helping SaaS providers to scale. If every SaaS company spent their resources building these capabilities before building their actual applications, it would result in burning finite capital and slowing down their tim...

We are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports partial results stabilization, which further improves the live subtitling experience. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. As Amazon Transcribe processes streaming audio content, it generates partial transcription results until it provides a final transcript for a segment of continuous speech. However, some words or phrases in these partial results might change as Transcribe further understands the context of the audio. Partial results stabilization makes it easier for viewers to read the text output by defining how much the transcript will change during the transcription process.   Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 11:45PM

Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 10:59PM

AWS Lake Formation now supports tagging data lake resources (databases, tables and columns) and creating logical access control policies based on those tags. Tag-based access control (TBAC) decouples policy creation from resource creation which helps data stewards govern large number of databases, tables, and columns by removing the need to update policies every time a new resource is added to the data lake. TBAC ensures that governance can be scaled easily by replacing the policy definition from 1000s of resources down to a small number of logical tags. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 09:23PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports three new application management APIs in preview. RollbackApplication allows you to restore your application to the last running version and application state from the most recent, successful snapshot. ListApplicationVersions allows you to get all application versions and a summary of the associated configurations. DescribeApplicationVersio n gives you the most comprehensive view of the application configuration of a particular version. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 09:20PM

Amazon RDS for SQL Server on AWS Outposts is now available to all AWS Outposts customers. Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 08:50PM

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) managed node groups now supports Kubernetes node taints, simplifying node lifecycle management for clusters with varying application resource requirements. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 08:52PM

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM Private CA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 22. The Osaka region only supports CAs with the private key stored in a FIPS 140-2 level 2 HSM. To learn more about the key storage certification level see the AWS Private CA Documentation . Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 07:52PM

Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in the EU (Paris and Stockholm) region. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 07:09PM

We’re excited to add seven free, digital training courses to the series of AWS End User Computing Digital Training curriculums . Use these new Amazon WorkSpaces Deep Dive and Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer courses to learn how to administer, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud-based desktops and applications. Designed for desktop or virtual desktop infrastructure managers and IT administrators, these interactive, self-paced courses include presentations, videos, and quizzes.   Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 06:37PM

Amazon Fraud Detector now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring Amazon Fraud Detector resources such as detectors and rules along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure. Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud.   Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 05:11PM

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Boston, Houston, and Miami. Customers can now use these new AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in Boston, Houston, and Miami metro areas. Post Updated on May 11, 2021 at 05:24PM

Today, AWS announces Incident Manager, a new capability of AWS Systems Manager that enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues. Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans that bring the right people and information together. The Incident Manager console provides a unified user interface to view operational data from multiple AWS services and track incident updates, such as alarm status changes and response plan progress. Incident Manager helps you improve service reliability by suggesting post-incident action items, such as automating a runbook step or adding a new alarm. Post Updated on May 10, 2021 at 11:49PM

With the latest release of JDBC and ODBC drivers for Amazon Athena , you can use Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) or Ping Identity’s PingFederate for authentication with compatible business intelligence, SQL, or embedded analytics applications. Post Updated on May 10, 2021 at 10:52PM

Building a business case for the cloud can be a time-consuming process on your own. With Migration Evaluator, organizations can accelerate their evaluation and decision-making for migration to AWS. Quick Insights - a new capability of Migration Evaluator, provides customers with a one-page summary of their projected AWS costs based on measured on-premises provisioning and utilization. This complimentary pre-migration assessment enables customers to rapidly understand the projected cost of running their on-premises estate in the AWS Cloud. Post Updated on May 10, 2021 at 11:20PM

Amazon SageMaker now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for training machine learning models. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. EFA can significantly speed up distributed training on SageMaker at no additional cost. For example, we trained the BERT natural language processing model with SageMaker’s distributed data parallel library on 32 ml.p4d.24xlarge instances. The training was up to 130% faster with EFA compared to Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) . Post Updated on May 10, 2021 at 10:03PM

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports Kantar SNAP watermarking for mezzanine and OTT content delivery. With this feature, audio streams processed by MediaConvert can now be watermarked with unique identifiers that allow for audience measurement across a variety of playback and consumption methods. When enabled, the unique identifier and Kantar account details are transmitted to Kantar during processing to automatically register each piece of media into the audience tracking system. Once the content is watermarked and logged, viewership statistics can be used to make programming decisions, track advertisement exposure, and to guide content investment decisions using Kantar audience measurement technologies. Post Updated on May 10, 2021 at 09:54PM

Starting today Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. Post Updated on May 10, 2021 at 07:11PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning enables you to find the best version of a model by finding the optimal set of hyperparameter configuration for your dataset. Starting today, SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports running up to 100 parallel training jobs for hyperparameter tuning, which gives you a 10X increase of parallel training jobs so you can complete your tuning faster. Additionally, for “Random” search strategy, SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports exploring up to 10,000 hyperparameter configurations, a 20x increase over previous limit of 500, enabling you to improve coverage of search space leading to potentially better predictive performance of your model. Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 10:52PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS Organizations now offers a new console experience that provides you with a more intuitive way to manage your multi-account environment on AWS. You can now more easily navigate through your Organizational Unit hierarchy and perform AWS account management tasks in a streamlined way. The updated interface also gives you easy access to documentation, product information, and resources to assist you in managing your multi-account environment. Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 10:50PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Today, we are launching EMR on EKS support for Pod Templates to make it simple to run Spark jobs on shared EKS clusters. A Pod is a group of one or more containers, with shared storage and network resources, and a specification for how to run the containers. Pod Templates are specifications which determine how each Pod runs. Customers often consolidate multiple applications on a shared EKS cluster to improve utilization and save costs. However, each application may have different requirements. For example, you may want to run performance intensive workloads such as ML model training jobs on SSD-backed instances for better performance, or ad-hoc workloads on Spot instances for lower cost. You can also schedule a separate logging container to forward logs to your existing monitoring application. With this release, you can use Pod Templates with EMR on EKS to configure how to run Spark jobs on shared EKS clusters. Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 11:04PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available. The EBS CSI driver makes it simple to configure and use block storage for applications running in both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on AWS using standard Kubernetes interfaces. Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 10:18PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single visual interface. Starting today, you can use new capabilities of Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler that make it easier and faster to prepare data for machine learning including: cross-account access for Amazon S3, support for up to 1000 columns of data, distributed jobs, and a new SageMaker Data Wrangler notebook experience . Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 09:34PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.15 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.14. Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 07:28PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

CloudWatch Synthetics now supports cron expressions, allowing for flexibility when you schedule canaries to monitor your endpoints. For example, you can run a canary every minute on weekdays between 8 AM and 5 PM. Alternately, you can schedule a canary run for the third Tuesday of the month at 12 PM. Post Updated on May 07, 2021 at 04:14PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon CloudFront announces price cuts of up to 36% in India and up to 20% in the Asia Pacific region (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, & Thailand) for Regional Data Transfer Out to Internet rates. The new CloudFront prices in these regions are effective May 1st, 2021. You can find CloudFront’s updated on-demand pricing on the CloudFront Pricing Page . Post Updated on May 06, 2021 at 10:47PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Today we announced AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Control for Amazon MSK. IAM Access Control is a security option offered at no additional cost that simplifies cluster authentication and Apache Kafka API authorization using IAM role or user policies to control access. By using IAM Access Control, customers no longer need to build and run one-off access management systems to control client authentication and authorization for Apache Kafka, and MSK clusters are secured using  least privileged permissions by default.   Post Updated on May 06, 2021 at 10:54PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in the Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. Post Updated on May 06, 2021 at 07:26PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS Audit Manager now offers three new prebuilt standard frameworks: NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework. These frameworks add to the existing prebuilt frameworks provided in Audit Manager. With this release, you can launch an assessment from any of these frameworks with just a few clicks. Audit Manager will map your AWS resources to the requirements in the framework you choose and start gathering evidence automatically to help you scale your audit capability in the cloud as your business grows. Post Updated on May 06, 2021 at 05:02PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass  is a test automation tool for your IoT devices running AWS IoT Greengrass . Post Updated on May 06, 2021 at 04:53PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon QuickSight can now notify users of changes to important metrics in their dashboards with threshold-based alerts. Readers and authors can set up personalized rules on key metrics in their dashboards and be automatically notified via email when data crosses the defined thresholds, highlighting important changes in their business. For instance, a manager might want to track the sales of their business and know when weekly sales drop below $100,000. To set up an alert, users can go to any QuickSight dashboard and click on a KPI or gauge visual and then use the ‘alert’ icon in order to configure the alert. Threshold alerts are billed per metric processed (which means each time an alert rule is checked) at tiered rates starting at $0.50 per 1000 metrics processed. See details on alerts pricing . Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 06:17PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon Personalize  enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, using the same machine learning technology as used by Amazon.com, without requiring any prior machine learning experience. Using Amazon Personalize, you can generate personalized recommendations for your users through a simple API interface. Amazon Personalize now offers a new set of APIs to enable customers to export the data present in their Users, Items and Interactions Datasets to their own S3 buckets. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 08:36PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

FreeRTOS version 202104.00 includes a new managed over-the-air update (OTA) library, coreMQTT-Agent library and the AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics feature as generally available. Developers can use these libraries to update firmware, manage IoT device fleets, design multi-threaded applications, and monitor fleet metrics for their IoT devices. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 06:32PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the current long term support (LTS) version of Puppet Enterprise for its fully managed service. Customers are upgraded automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 08:16PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Now, with AWS Systems Manager, IT administrators can clone runbooks and other Systems Manager documents such as Command documents. Using this feature, you can quickly create a copy of your existing runbooks or publicly available managed documents and update them based on your use case. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 11:12PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Today we are announcing the general availability (GA) of Amazon DevOps Guru – a machine learning (ML) powered service that gives you a simpler way to measure and improve an application’s operational performance and availability and reduce expensive downtime. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 07:22PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data at scale. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 07:28PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Porting Assistant for .NET is now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension. With this release, developers can access Porting Assistant for .NET directly from the Visual Studio IDE to assess incompatibilities and be more productive with an integrated experience for porting their .NET applications. Along with rich source code editing features provided by the IDE, this extension provides developers with feedback on lines of code that need to be modified to make the source code compatible with .NET Core. Developers can now run automated porting and take advantage of continuous assessment of incompatibilities as they make updates to the code. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 06:12PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers instances from the AWS Graviton2 instance family. Instance types include general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g, R6gd). Customers can enjoy up to 38% improvement in indexing throughput, 50% reduction in indexing latency, and 30% improvement in query performance when compared to the corresponding x86-based instances from the current generation (M5, C5, R5). Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 06:01PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Today, we are reducing the price of metric samples ingested by up to 84% for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor containerized applications at scale. With AMP, you can use the open source Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) to monitor the performance of containerized workloads on AWS or on-premises. AMP automatically scales the ingestion, storage, and querying of operational metrics (from, for example, your Amazon Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters) as workloads grow or shrink, and is integrated with AWS security services such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS PrivateLink, and AWS CloudTrail to enable fast and secure access to data. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 10:18PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon Translate is a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers real-time, high-quality, affordable and customizable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate has increased the concurrent API limits for batch translation jobs from 10 to 1000. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 10:17PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Starting May 1st 2021, all data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that stays within an Availability Zone (AZ) is now free. All data transfer over a VPC Peering connection that crosses Availability Zones will continue to be charged at the standard in-region data transfer rates . You can use the Availability Zone-ID  to uniquely and consistently identify an Availability Zone across different AWS accounts. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 04:17PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Host Resource Groups , which is a logical collection of Dedicated Hosts that you can manage as a single entity, now support AWS CloudFormation , allowing customers to create Host Resource Groups using CloudFormation templates and automate EC2 Dedicated Host management. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 08:52PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Today, we are excited to announce support for customer-managed customer master keys to encrypt your code repositories in Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. Customer-managed customer master keys allow you to create, own, and manage your encryption keys, giving you more control over how you manage the security of your CodeGuru Reviewer code. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 08:58PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in Colombia, Macao, and Puerto Rico. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 05:59PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces the ability for customers to pause and resume Journeys — being able to temporarily halt the execution of message sends. Previously, customers needed to stop and recreate their Journey entirely if there was a situation such as: a conflicting campaign, a seasonal event, or an issue. Journeys are multi-step campaigns that can be executed across SMS, email, and push messages. Journeys are intended for customers with user engagement use cases, and want to send targeted messaging to their users to drive high value actions. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 05:58PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

DevOps Automation Springboard is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. DevOps Automation Springboard offers customers the ability to address their deployment needs as they move to the AWS Cloud. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a DevOps CI/CD pipeline; static code analysis; application build, testing, and security scanning; and deployment. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 06:02PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. This is now the 9th Ground Station connected to the AWS Global Network. Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 07:40PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Starting today, AWS Nitro Enclaves and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves are available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions . Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 09:16PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS Data Provider for SAP version 4.0 is now available in all commercial regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions . Post Updated on May 05, 2021 at 08:47PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports policy conditions to help manage permissions for AWS services that access your resources. Many AWS services require access to your internal resources to perform tasks, and they often use their own service identity called a service principal to achieve this. Using the new service principal conditions, it is simple to author rules that enforces a rule for all your service principals, or excludes service principals from certain permission rules that are intended only for your own identities. Post Updated on May 04, 2021 at 04:57PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon FinSpace is a new fully managed data management and analytics service that makes it easy to store, catalog, and prepare financial industry data at scale, reducing the time it takes for financial services industry (FSI) customers to find and access all types of financial data for analysis from months to minutes.   Post Updated on May 03, 2021 at 11:55PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

You now can use the AWS SDK for Java 2.x with DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of  Amazon DynamoDB . With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test applications by using a version of DynamoDB running in your local development environment without incurring any additional costs. DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection, and it works with your existing DynamoDB API calls.  To learn more about the AWS SDK for Java 2.x, see the official AWS SDK for Java - Version 2  on GitHub . For more information about DynamoDB local, see  Setting Up DynamoDB Local (Downloadable Version) . Post Updated on May 03, 2021 at 10:47PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Post Updated on May 03, 2021 at 11:11PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL  now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to set up automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. These backups are encrypted using an AWS KMS customer master key in the destination Region. Post Updated on May 03, 2021 at 11:25PM https://ift.tt/31Uzw8n

Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now adds support for Recursive Common Table Expression (CTE). Starting today, you can use a Recursive CTE on your Redshift cluster to query hierarchical data such as organizational charts where employees reports to other employees (managers), or multi-level product orders where a product consists of many components, which in turn consist of other components. Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 10:19PM on https://ift.tt/3h2D0zw

Amazon CloudFront announces the general availability of CloudFront Functions, a new serverless edge compute capability. You can use this new CloudFront feature to run JavaScript functions across 225+ CloudFront edge locations in 90 cities across 47 countries. CloudFront Functions is built for lightweight HTTP(S) transformations and manipulations, allowing you to deliver richer, more personalized content with low latency to your customers. Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 10:07PM on https://ift.tt/3b12bi9

We are excited to announce that you can now hierarchically delete resources in Amazon Forecast at a parent level without having to locate the child resources. You can stay focused on building value adding forecasting systems and not worry about trying to manage individual resources that are created in your workflow. Amazon Forecast uses machine learning (ML) to generate more accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Amazon Forecast brings the same technology used at Amazon.com to developers as a fully managed service, removing the need to manage resources or rebuild your systems. Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 10:35PM on https://ift.tt/33eWedf

The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce now enables customers to extend their Contact Control Panel (CCP) with customizable buttons called CTI Actions. These buttons can be configured in Salesforce and used to simplify common agent actions. For example, you can add a button that transfers calls to a manager, start and stop recordings, automate case creation, or start a customer refund process. CTI Actions are configured in the CTI Adapter’s Actions Admin panel to execute CTI Flows which are process blocks that enable you to easily design agent workflows within our Salesforce integration. There are no technical skills required and customers can easily configure an end to end agent workflow in Salesforce Lightning and Classic.  Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 08:37PM on https://ift.tt/339lDFh

S3 Object Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions . With S3 Object Lambda you can add your own code to S3 GET requests to modify and process data as it is returned to an application. For the first time, you can use custom code to modify the data returned by standard S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more. Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 08:39PM on https://ift.tt/2RoFc9D

Cloud Assessment and Design is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Atos, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. Cloud Assessment and Design leverages the Atos Cloud Assessment Tool (ACAT) to transform a customer’s IT landscape in their journey to the cloud with a detailed approach and business use case. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers application discovery and analysis, blueprint design, framework deployment, and migration execution. Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 06:08PM on https://ift.tt/3eaJ7Qt

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now automatically detects duplicate customer profiles in your Amazon Connect Customer Profiles domain and allows you to review the results by using Identity Resolution APIs (preview). Identity Resolution uses machine learning to detect duplicate profiles based on similar name, email address, and phone number. For example, two or more profiles—with spelling mistakes such as “John Doe” and “Jhn Doe,” or different casing email addresses such as “JOHN_DOE@ANYCOMPANY.COM” and “ johndoe@anycompany.com ,” or different phone number formats such as “555-010-0000” and “+1-555-010-0000”, can be detected as belonging to the same customer “John Doe” and merged into a unified profile by using the MergeProfiles API . Post Updated at May 03, 2021 at 06:12PM on https://ift.tt/2RmFKgg