News For Dev-ops

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. We are excited to announce multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input. The transcripts provide alternate interpretations of the user's speech input. Each transcript is associated with a confidence score that indicates the likelihood of a match. The transcripts along with the confidence scores can be used to enhance the conversation design. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 11:21PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to configure your chat duration from 1 hour to 7 days. This enables you to define how long your customers have to resume a chat interaction before it expires. To configure the duration of chats in Amazon Connect, simply add an optional, new parameter when calling the StartChatContact API to create a new chat contact. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 10:23PM

AWS Lambda has launched improved auto scaling for Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka as event sources to improve performance and help lower costs for customers. Lambda starts with one consumer and checks the OffsetLag metric (measure of backlog at source) every minute and scales up or down every 3 minutes. Lambda allows up to one consumer per partition per topic for a Kafka cluster. Previously, Lambda used to start connection with Kafka clusters at 50% of maximum number of consumers, check for OffsetLag, and scale up consumers every 15 minutes. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 10:38PM

AWS Step Functions Local, a runtime for debugging and testing state machine based workflows locally, is now designed to support mocking for service integrations, allowing you to run state machines without the need to call downstream services. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 07:51PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka  (Amazon MSK) now offers an option to provision storage throughput for Amazon MSK, enabling customers with high throughput workloads to seamlessly scale I/O without having to provision additional brokers. By provisioning up to 1000 MiB/s of throughput to Amazon MSK storage volumes, you can scale I/O requirements past 250 MiB/s without having to provision additional brokers. When configured, you pay a low rate for the amount of storage throughput provisioned in the clusters. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 06:14PM

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a capability of Amazon SageMaker  that accelerates your machine learning workflows with one-click access to popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 16 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 04:42PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now offers improved visibility into the progress of blue/green deployments to your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. This includes visibility into the completion of different steps within an update, such as creation and deletion of instances, and the progress of shard migration. Post Updated on January 31, 2022 at 04:35PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Honeycomb , enabling Honeycomb users to ingest streaming data without having to manage applications or write code. Post Updated on January 28, 2022 at 05:51PM

AWS Systems Manager now supports up to 500 concurrent Automation executions, enabling you to automate operational tasks, such as patching instances on a larger scale. If you enable adaptive higher concurrency, Automation will automatically increase or decrease the concurrency quota based on the scaling requirements. You can enable adaptive higher concurrency from the Automation Preferences tab. Post Updated on January 28, 2022 at 05:41PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports PostgreSQL major version 14. PostgreSQL 14 includes performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities such as long-running queries may be cancelled if the client disconnects, idle sessions can timeout and close, and stored procedures can return data. Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 11:03PM

Amazon EC2 G4dn instances which provide a cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region. Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 11:41PM

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 10:59PM

AWS Resilience Hub , which provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications on AWS, has just launched in 13 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo). Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 08:06PM

AWS IoT Greengrass is now available in Canada (Central) region. AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software. With AWS IoT Greengrass, customers can have their connected devices run AWS Lambda functions, Docker containers, or both, execute predictions based on machine learning models, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices securely – even when not connected to the Internet. Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 06:44PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports comparative (e.g., year-over-year) and cumulative (e.g., year-to-date) time period functions. These new functions allow QuickSight authors to quickly implement advanced date/time calculations without having to use complicated row offsets or pre-computed columns, allowing these calculations to be added in regular business reporting, trend analysis and time series analysis. For further details, visit here . Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 06:47PM

You can now create and update records in SAP ERP (ECC, S/4 HANA) and Business Warehouse (BW, BW/4HANA) with Amazon AppFlow and SAP OData APIs using the Amazon AppFlow SAP OData connector. Today’s release builds upon existing functionality which allows customers to read data from SAP systems as a source using the SAP OData connector. SAP OData connector is now available as a destination for flows as well. Combined, these capabilities provide for powerful bi-directional data movement between AWS and SAP systems, with optional AWS PrivateLink security. Post Updated on January 27, 2022 at 05:39PM

Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. R5b instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and offer up to 60 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 260,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), enabling customers to lift and shift memory intensive applications to AWS. R5b instances provide 3x higher EBS-Optimized performance compared to R5 instances and 2x higher EBS-Optimized performance compared to R6i instances .  Post Updated on January 26, 2022 at 10:44PM

Amazon GuardDuty has expanded coverage to continuously monitor and profile Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster activity to identify malicious or suspicious behavior that represents potential threats to container workloads. Amazon GuardDuty for EKS Protection monitors control plane activity by analyzing Kubernetes audit logs from existing and new Amazon EKS clusters in your accounts. GuardDuty is integrated with Amazon EKS, giving it direct access to the Kubernetes audit logs without requiring you to turn on or store these logs. Once a threat is detected, GuardDuty generates a security finding that includes container details such as pod ID, container image ID, and associated tags. GuardDuty for EKS Protection will be enabled by default for all new and existing GuardDuty accounts, and will not require any additional configuration of GuardDuty or Amazon EKS.  Post Updated on January 26, 2022 at 09:19PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. Post Updated on January 26, 2022 at 10:43PM

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are available. Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all core turbo frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, the fastest in the cloud. X2iezn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, and deliver up to 55% better compute price performance than X1e instances. They are a great fit for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads as well as relational databases that benefit from high single-threaded processor performance and a large memory footprint. The combination of high single-threaded compute performance and a 32:1 ratio of memory to vCPU make X2iezn instances an ideal fit for EDA workloads including physical verification, static timing analysis, power sign-off, and full chip gate level simulation, and database workloads that are license bounded.  Post Updated on January 26, 2022 at 09:33PM

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect  now includes a new custom vocabulary capability that helps businesses improve the accuracy of speech recognition for product names, brand names, and domain-specific terminology by expanding the vocabulary of Contact Lens’ speech-to-text engine.  Post Updated on January 26, 2022 at 08:14PM

Amazon MQ is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) Regions. Post Updated on January 26, 2022 at 06:17PM

Amazon EFS Replication provides you with an easy way to keep an up-to-date copy of your file system in a second AWS Region or within the same Region. Amazon EFS Replication enables you to replicate file data in a few clicks and without requiring you to manually provision additional infrastructure or a custom process to monitor and synchronize data changes. Amazon EFS Replication is designed to meet a recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) of minutes, enabling you to meet your business continuity and compliance requirements. Post Updated on January 25, 2022 at 11:19PM

Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to optimize the delivery of your containerized applications to your global audience by using Lightsail CDN with your Lightsail Container Services. Lightsail containers can be configured as the origin of a Lightsail CDN distribution with just a few clicks from the Lightsail console. Post Updated on January 25, 2022 at 09:05PM

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. Developers can now replace webcam video background with an image to reduce visual distractions and help increase visual privacy. Post Updated on January 25, 2022 at 08:23PM

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS Region . Post Updated on January 25, 2022 at 05:02PM

Customers can now purchase the AWS Panorama Appliance from Amazon.com , Amazon.ca ,  Amazon.co.uk , Amazon.fr , Amazon.de , Amazon.it , and Amazon.es . Post Updated on January 25, 2022 at 05:50PM

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region . Post Updated on January 25, 2022 at 05:05PM

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Post Updated on January 24, 2022 at 10:22PM

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)  now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for workloads running on-premises with Amazon ECS Anywhere. ECS Exec makes it easier for customers to troubleshoot errors, collect diagnostic information, interact with processes in containers during development, and get “break-glass” access to containers to debug critical issues encountered in production. With Amazon Linux 2, customers can now easily use the same AWS-secured operating system on-premises and in the cloud for development and testing. Post Updated on January 24, 2022 at 08:40PM

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Post Updated on January 24, 2022 at 07:25PM

Amazon DocumentDB is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Post Updated on January 24, 2022 at 07:21PM

AWS Elemental MediaConvert  now supports creation of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) format in 4K frame sizes and with 10-bit color depth. These enhancements expand the AV1 encoding capabilities of AWS Elemental MediaConvert to enable creation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) 4K content for display on modern, color rich 4K playback devices. With AV1, you can deliver high-quality SD, HD, and now 4K high dynamic range video to mobile and other devices at low bitrates unachievable with traditional formats such as AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). For details on AV1 pricing, please visit the MediaConvert pricing page . Post Updated on January 24, 2022 at 07:47PM

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have added support in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5, 12.9, 11.14, 10.19, and 9.6.24. We have also added support in Amazon RDS on Outposts for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.5 and 12.9. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. This also includes the final release of PostgreSQL 9.6 . Post Updated on January 24, 2022 at 06:15PM

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, a fully managed service that allows customers to define and orchestrate their model building steps as workflows, now allows customers to set concurrency limits on the number of steps which can be executed in parallel. Post Updated on January 21, 2022 at 09:58PM

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is a fully-managed service that allows customers to define and orchestrate their model building steps as workflows. Today, we are happy to introduce a new step type that allows machine learning engineers to run data processing applications using open source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Presto, and Hive on Amazon EMR clusters. Post Updated on January 21, 2022 at 09:31PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR 6.5.0 now includes Apache Iceberg version 0.12. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for large data sets in Amazon S3 and provides fast query performance over large tables, atomic commits, concurrent writes, and SQL-compatible table evolution. With the current release, you can use Apache Spark 3.1.2 on EMR clusters with the Iceberg table format. Post Updated on January 21, 2022 at 07:56PM

Amazon FinSpace managed Spark clusters now support Apache Spark 3.1.2. Apache Spark 3 has query optimization features like dynamic partition pruning to optimize joins such as joining a large fact table of trades with a smaller dimension table of execution centers. It also includes changes to be more compatible with the ANSI SQL standard and features 30 new built-in functions. FinSpace Spark clusters make it simple for analysts to launch, connect, resize and terminate clusters. FinSpace Spark clusters are available in five sizes, so you can select a configuration that is suitable for your workload, and they include a time series analytics library for preparing and analyzing historical financial time series data at petabtyte scale. Post Updated on January 21, 2022 at 05:59PM

AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations  can now recommend Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL  to customers looking to migrate and replatform their Microsoft SQL Server applications on PostgreSQL with little to no code change. Post Updated on January 21, 2022 at 06:40PM

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy across 35 sub-categories and 10 distinct top-level moderation categories . On 11/05/2021, we launched an update with improved model for image moderation that reduces false positive rates across all of the moderation categories, particularly ‘explicit nudity’, without reduction in detection rates for truly unsafe content. Lower false positive rates imply lower volumes of flagged images to be reviewed further, leading to a better experience for human moderators and more cost savings. Post Updated on January 20, 2022 at 06:47PM

Read below for the 19 new or updated datasets from Meta, the Brazilian Space Agency, Radboud University Medical Center, and others available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories. Post Updated on January 20, 2022 at 06:11PM

AWS Security Hub is now integrated with AWS Health and automatically receives security-related findings from AWS Health to provide you with a more complete view of your AWS security posture. AWS Health delivers alerts about your resource performance and the availability of your AWS services and accounts. AWS Health alerts also cover some security topics, and those security-related alerts are now sent to Security Hub. Examples of security-related alerts from AWS Health include alerts about compromised AWS access keys, security alerts about an AWS service (e.g., an older version of a AWS RDS database that needs to be upgraded due to a known vulnerability), or alerts about operational issues associated with an AWS security service (e.g., a regional outage). Post Updated on January 20, 2022 at 06:15PM

AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window, a new feature that allows developers to fine tune Lambda invocation for cost optimization. This feature gives you additional control on batching behavior when processing data from Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources. Post Updated on January 20, 2022 at 06:08PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in Asia Pacific (Osaka) now offers export of snapshot data to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet  format, an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics. The Parquet format is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to text formats. The exported data can be analyzed using AWS tools such as Amazon Athena  and Amazon SageMaker , or an open source big data framework such as Apache Spark . Post Updated on January 20, 2022 at 04:07PM

Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances using EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial Console from the command line interface. Post Updated on January 20, 2022 at 05:17PM

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor and alarm on performance and storage usage metrics for your file systems and volumes. Post Updated on January 19, 2022 at 10:40PM

AWS Panorama is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions.  Post Updated on January 19, 2022 at 06:57PM

Today, AWS Trusted Advisor  adds 111 checks automatically ingested from AWS Security Hub 's  Foundational Security Best Practices . You can find the full list of Security Hub checks here . Post Updated on January 19, 2022 at 08:47PM

Amazon Location Service  now offers request-based pricing for all customer use cases, including those with asset-based applications. For instance, if a developer building a delivery application needs to find the positions (latitude/longitude) associated with delivery addresses, they can pay per address searched. With Amazon Location, there are no upfront fees, no required minimum commitments, and no long-term contracts. Now it’s even easier for developers to add location awareness to their asset-based applications. Post Updated on January 19, 2022 at 05:20PM

Today, Amazon Location Service  added matrix routing, making it easier for customers to quickly calculate driving time and driving distance between multiple origins and destinations. With matrix routing, developers can use a single API request to reduce the latency associated with multiple routing calculations, allowing them to simplify their code, and improve the experience of their customers. For example, an application that plans delivery routes can now use Amazon Location’s matrix routing capabilities to request the driving time and distance for all deliveries for a given period. They can reduce the number of requests and latency by making one request of up to 350 origins by 350 destination to retrieve 122,500 drive times and distances. Post Updated on January 19, 2022 at 05:15PM

AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP S/4HANA 2021, SAP BW/4HANA 2021, SAP HANA SPS06, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)15 SP3. Post Updated on January 19, 2022 at 06:13PM

On January 18th, Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions. Corretto 11.0.14 and 8.322 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto 17 updates will be available shortly after the release is tagged in the OpenJDK 17 repository. Amazon Corretto  is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 10:49PM

Now you can easily and automatically setup monitoring, alarms and dashboards for your Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SharePoint setups running on AWS with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a service that helps customers monitor and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature adds automatic discovery of Active Directory and SharePoint workloads, determines their underlying EC2 resources and sets up the metrics, telemetry and logs for monitoring their health and wellness. Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 06:59PM

AWS Systems Manager now enables you to send notifications or take actions in third-party tools and applications using outbound webhooks. Outbound webhooks offer a simplified way to integrate with many of the tools you use, such as Slack. Now you can invoke an outbound webhook as a step in your Automation runbook to easily integrate with the existing collaboration, monitoring, and incident response tools in your organization. Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 06:47PM

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery  (AWS DRS) now supports automated, scalable failback to vCenter servers. The new DRS Mass Failback Automation client (DRSFA client) offers additional flexibility and speed for large-scale failback. It allows you to fail back multiple vCenter servers to your primary vCenter environment at the same time. Using the DRSFA client, you can fail back all of your Recovery instances or a subset of Recovery instances. Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 06:48PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of four new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Charlotte, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. Wavelength Zones are now available in 17 major cities in the US, including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC. Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 05:31PM

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server , offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and 2017 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 04:43PM

Today we are announcing AWS Outposts is now FedRAMP Moderate authorized for US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and FedRAMP High authorized for GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East).  Post Updated on January 18, 2022 at 05:40PM

Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to utilize CloudFormation templates to provision and manage your dataset and dataset group resources. You can also easily launch and configure dataset and dataset group resources together as a stack, and use a template to create, update, and delete an entire stack as a single unit, as often as you need to instead of managing resources individually. This adds a new convenient way of managing Forecast dataset and dataset group resources in addition to the Forecast Console and AWS CLI/SDK. Post Updated on January 14, 2022 at 09:15PM

Amazon Nimble Studio today supports the ability for administrators to validate their launch profile configurations directly from the console, which can help them enhance the artist’s experience when provisioning a workstation. Post Updated on January 14, 2022 at 06:06PM

On June 2021, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle has launched the additional configurations of the R5 instance in various regions. Post Updated on January 14, 2022 at 06:46PM

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on January 13, 2022 at 08:32PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new Direct Connect location in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now establish network connections from their premises to AWS in the NextDC S2 data center to gain high-performance, secure access to all public AWS Regions (except Regions in China). This is the third Direct Connect location in the Sydney metropolitan area. In Australia, Direct Connect is present in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. The new location offers dedicated 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 100 Gbps connections. Post Updated on January 13, 2022 at 10:00PM

You can now publish the Redis engine log from your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis  clusters to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The Redis engine log provides visibility into the internal operations of the Redis engine, giving additional insight into Redis operations and helping you troubleshoot Redis issues. You can choose to send these logs in either JSON or text format to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose . Post Updated on January 13, 2022 at 09:21PM

Journeys in Amazon Pinpoint can now automatically re-evaluate each journey participant before sending them through a Contact Center activity. In Amazon Pinpoint, journeys are multi-step campaigns that can be used across several channels, including SMS, email, push, and voice. Journeys are intended for customers who have user engagement use cases, and who want to send targeted communications that drive high-value user actions. Post Updated on January 13, 2022 at 08:57PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights  is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. One way to view Performance Insights data is in the AWS Management Console. Performance Insights also provides a public API so that you can query your own data. We are now launching three new API endpoints: GetResourceMetadata, ListAvailableResourceDimensions, and ListAvailableResourceMetrics. These new APIs provide programmatic access to metadata about the metrics collected by Performance Insights. This makes it easier to build richer, more dynamic integrations into your monitoring tool or platform of choice. To learn more about Performance Insights APIs, read “Retrieving metrics with the Performance Insights API” . Post Updated on January 13, 2022 at 07:37PM

Today, AWS Systems Manager announces support for categorizing Amazon owned Command documents for easy discoverability. AWS Systems Manager is the operational hub for AWS, that provides a unified user interface to track and resolve operational issues across AWS applications from a central place. An AWS Systems Manager document (SSM document) defines the actions that Systems Manager performs on your managed nodes. Post Updated on January 13, 2022 at 06:24PM

AWS IoT SiteWise Edge allows you to define edge data storage strategies to prevent loss of operational data while disconnected (up to 30 days) as well as choosing a data upload strategy to the cloud upon re-connection. Application data uploaded to the cloud is often time critical, where values beyond a certain age may not be relevant for short term actions. Conversely, older historical data can be important in diagnosing long term trends and diving deep into equipment operational performance for non-time critical applications. Post Updated on January 12, 2022 at 10:03PM

You can now add nodes to SAP systems deployed with AWS Launch Wizard from within the Launch Wizard console post-deployment if your performance needs increase. This allows you to scale the infrastructure supporting SAP applications (S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, and NetWeaver) deployed with Launch Wizard using the same guided, best-practice-aligned deployment process. Post Updated on January 12, 2022 at 10:21PM

Today, we launched the new Console Home, a customizable home page for the AWS Management Console that offers customers a single place to access the information they need. The new Console Home provides customers the capability to customize their Console Home experience by adding, removing, and rearranging widgets. In some of the widgets, customers can also choose between regular view for a quick summary or an extended view for a more comprehensive overview. Post Updated on January 12, 2022 at 04:18PM

AWS Fargate is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 10:56PM

Today AWS announced the ability to launch Microsoft Windows Server instances up to 65% faster on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers can flag any Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Microsoft Windows Server to launch faster. Once flagged, every instance launched from the AMI will automatically launch faster. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 09:23PM

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Today, we are excited to announce Kendra’s support for query language, allowing customers to use more advanced search terminology and techniques when needed, to retrieve more precise answers. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 09:41PM

AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. Today, we are happy to announce that AppSync now supports eviction of specific entries from AppSync’s built-in server-side cache. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 09:51PM

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug  big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to introduce SQL Explorer, a feature in your EMR Studio Workspace that allows you to browse the data catalog and run SQL queries on EMR clusters from EMR Studio. This release of SQL Explorer in EMR Studio supports running SQL queries on Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters running Presto version 0.254.1 or higher.  Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 05:15PM

AWS Launch Wizard now creates an AWS Service Catalog product when the SQL Server deployment is complete. You can then use the AWS Service Catalog product for repeated SQL Server deployments on EC2. This feature simplifies your subsequent SQL Server deployments, saves time by reusing associated configuration scripts, and makes the integration with your existing DevOps tools easier. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 05:26PM

You can now use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to specify custom data validation rules for your external tables when querying the Amazon S3 data lake. This enhancement allows you to control how Redshift Spectrum processes data containing unexpected values such as unsupported UTF-8 characters or numeric overflow in your external tables. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 06:19PM

Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle. Customers can now use these new Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or for on-premises installations in these three metro areas. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 06:25PM

Amazon SageMaker training jobs now support ml.g5 instances, powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs.  Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 04:10PM

The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to connect to Amazon ECS containers and issue commands using Amazon ECS Exec . This allows developers to directly interact with containers, such as running commands in or get a shell to an ECS container running on an Amazon EC2 instance or on AWS Fargate, without leaving their IDE. ECS Exec uses the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Session Manager under the hood to establish a connection with the running container. Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 10:47PM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances. These instances are optimized to efficiently run compute-intensive, high performance computing workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics, reservoir modeling, weather simulations, and finite element analysis. Hpc6a instances offer up to 65% better price performance over comparable Amazon EC2 x86 based, compute-optimized instances. With Hpc6a instances, you can significantly lower the cost of your HPC workloads, while taking advantage of the elasticity and scalability of AWS. Post Updated on January 11, 2022 at 12:54AM

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate calls to Amazon Lex V2 APIs from within your VPC and without using public IPs or exposing your traffic to public internet. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without ever leaving the Amazon network, significantly simplifying your internal network architecture. Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 10:20PM

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug  big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today we are excited to announce that data scientists, engineers, and analysts can collaborate in real-time across teams using EMR Studio. Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 08:38PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports Attribute-based access control (ABAC) for API actions including Publish and PublishBatch. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources, such as IAM users and roles, and to AWS resources, like Amazon SNS topics, to simplify permission management. Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 09:35PM

Today, AWS Compute Optimizer launches a new capability that makes it easier for customers to optimize their EC2 instances by leveraging multiple CPU architectures. Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 09:25PM

Following the announcement of updates in MySQL database versions 5.7  and 8.0 , we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL  to support MySQL minor versions 5.7.36, and 8.0.27. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about upgrading your database instances in the Amazon RDS User Guide , and create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database using the latest available minor versions in the Amazon RDS Management Console . Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 05:36PM

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is announcing a new enhancement, a connector for Apache Spark that makes batch data ingestion easier for customers. Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, retrieve, and share machine learning (ML) model features. There are various ways to ingest data into SageMaker Feature Store including the PutRecord API , SageMaker Python SDK’s FeatureGroup.ingest functionality and SageMaker Processing Job . Post Updated on January 10, 2022 at 04:23PM

AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to centrally deploy  AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer (L7) DDoS protections across accounts in your organization. AWS Shield Advanced automatic L7 DDoS protections block application layer DDoS events with no manual intervention needed. With this launch, security administrators for AWS Firewall Manager can now enable automatic L7 DDoS protections across accounts using the Firewall Manager security policy for AWS Shield Advanced. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 10:23PM

Amazon EMR Studio  is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug  big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. With EMR Studio, you get fully managed notebooks based on JupyterLab. JupyterLab is the next-generation web-based user interface for open source Project Jupyter. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio is now upgraded to JupyterLab v3.1.4, providing an enhanced user experience and new usability features. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 11:43PM

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 10:13PM

Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6g instances are now available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. The C6g instances are ideal for compute-intensive applications such as high performance computing, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based machine learning inference acceleration. Additionally, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and Europe (Paris). R6gd instances deliver up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances, and are ideal for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files. The Amazon EC2 C6g and R6gd instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver best price performance in EC2. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 06:22PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6a instances are available in are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System , a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), web servers, micro-services, multi-player gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 05:27PM

Starting today, you can control access to specific applications within your Amazon AppStream 2.0 stacks based on SAML 2.0 attribute assertions. In addition, your SAML 2.0 federated user identities can access multiple AppStream 2.0 stacks from a single SAML 2.0 service provider (SP) application. Previously, each stack required a separate service provider application configured in your SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP). These features will allow you to streamline access control to your AppStream stacks and reduce the number of fleets and images that need to be maintained due to application access restrictions. For example, from a single SAML 2.0 SP application in your IdP relaying to a single AppStream 2.0 stack, you can entitle users belonging to one group to one set of applications, and another group to a different set of applications. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 04:10PM

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched the ability to monitor repository pull statistics through Amazon CloudWatch . The new pull statistics helps you to monitor usage patterns or identify anomalous behavior by observing image pull requests per repository. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 04:14PM

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) of AWS IoT Core that allows customers to connect wireless devices to the AWS cloud using the low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) technology. Now, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports two new features, Downlink Queue Management and Network Analyzer, to help customers manage and monitor communications between devices and the cloud. Downlink Message Management feature allows customers to schedule, delete and even purge downlink messages, and Network Analyzer can be used to monitor the messages and help troubleshoot issues related to uplink or downlink events. Post Updated on January 07, 2022 at 04:22PM

Starting today, customers can use Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations to reserve capacity for cluster placement groups. With cluster placement groups, customers can launch EC2 instances into logical groups within a segment of the network with high bisection bandwidth, thus getting low latency and high throughput between instances inside the cluster. Cluster placement groups are beneficial for customers with workloads that require tightly coupled node-to-node communication, such as high-performance computing (HPC) workloads or in-memory databases like SAP HANA. With the addition of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for cluster placement groups, customers can get the assurance of reserved capacity as they scale compute resources within their cluster. Post Updated on January 06, 2022 at 10:27PM

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) now supports JSON output format for QLDB Exports, in addition to existing Amazon Ion output format. Customers can select JSON when requesting an export and will receive journal data in newline-delimited JSON format. Post Updated on January 06, 2022 at 04:46PM

CloudWatch Logs now makes it easier for AWS Organizations customers to manage CloudWatch Logs Subscription Filter destination access policies. Subscription Filters are a feature that allow you to deliver log data in real-time to services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or Amazon Lambda. Subscription Filters are also used to share log data with other AWS accounts. You can now use your Organization ID or Organization Path in destination access policies. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 09:28PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), EU (Milano), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 11:18PM

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications with one-to-one and group meetings. Amazon Chime SDK meetings are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to move workloads into the cloud while addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 09:57PM

AWS announces the general availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake that allows you to aggregate, immutably store, and query your activity logs for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 09:10PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the October 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c. October 2021 Path Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 07:09PM

AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region . For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List . Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 10:51PM

We are announcing the general availability of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift, a new feature that enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange that they can query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse in minutes. Data providers can list and offer products containing Amazon Redshift data sets in the AWS Data Exchange catalog, granting subscribers direct, read-only access to the data stored in Amazon Redshift. This feature empowers customers to quickly query, analyze, and build applications with these third-party data sets. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 08:41PM

The AWS Snowcone  service is now available for customer orders in AWS Europe (London) adding to our growing list of regions already offering Snowcone including, AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), South America (Sao Paulo), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and US West (San Francisco). AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family  of edge computing, edge storage, and data migration devices. Snowcone is now available in both hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) in AWS Europe (London). Both device models are portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and are able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcones to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline by shipping the device to AWS, or online by using AWS DataSync  on Snowco...

AWS IoT Device Management Jobs now supports a new Job execution retry configuration, enabling developers to increase success rates of large scale deployments by ensuring automatic redeployment of failed job executions. Instead of having to manually identify and redeploy to devices that fail, customers can now define a maximum number of retries in the ‘Job Execution Retry Configuration’ for each Job rollout or deployment, along with the criteria to trigger the retry behavior. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 10:39PM

Amazon EMR on EKS now provides additional error messages as part of the DescribeJobRun API to enable you to easily debug your failed jobs. With this release, EMR on EKS provides detailed error messages, information which we determined to be the underlying reason for the job failure, in state details in DescribeJobRun API response. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 07:15PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now offers machine learning based anomaly detection for historical data to identify trends, patterns, and seasonality in the past data. Anomaly detection for historical data enables customers to derive valuable insights from past data, and take appropriate actions to improve the overall efficiency of their applications. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 07:20PM

Amazon EMR on EKS supports Custom Images - a functionality that helps customers customize the Docker container image used for running Apache Spark applications on Amazon EMR on EKS. Now, you can now use the Custom Images feature to customize container images for AWS Graviton-based instances. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 07:24PM

We are announcing the general availability of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift, a new feature that enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange that they can query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse in minutes. Data providers can list and offer products containing Amazon Redshift data sets in the AWS Data Exchange catalog, granting subscribers direct, read-only access to the data stored in Amazon Redshift. This feature empowers customers to quickly query, analyze, and build applications with these third-party data sets. Post Updated on January 05, 2022 at 05:09PM

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue  is now available in preview. This feature uses pattern matching and machine learning to automatically detect PII at both the column and cell levels during an AWS Glue job run. AWS Glue includes options to log the type of PII and its location and immediately take remedial action as necessary. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 09:37PM

Previews are now available for AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks, two new serverless features of AWS Glue that help simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Interactive Sessions enable data engineers to interactively explore and prepare data. Glue Studio Job Notebooks provide serverless notebooks with minimal setup so developers can get started quickly. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 09:19PM

Amazon EMR on EKS  supports Custom Images  - a functionality that helps customers customize the Docker container image used for running Apache Spark applications on EMR on EKS. Today, EMR on EKS open-sourced a Custom Image Validation Tool  that allows customers to run an automated suite of tests to validate their customized docker container image. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 06:38PM

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) now enables customers to launch Hyperledger Fabric 2.2 fully managed networks with advanced chaincode management and data sharing features. AMB is a fully managed service that allows customers to set up and manage scalable private blockchain networks with just a few clicks. AMB eliminates the overhead required to create the blockchain network and automatically scales to meet the demands of thousands of applications running millions of transactions. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 07:25PM

AWS Storage Gateway  now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway , enabling you to backup and archive data from Dell EMC NetWorker and Veeam Backup & Replication to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A running on Microsoft Windows Server 2019. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 07:51PM

You can now run OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.1 on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service). The new version includes several improvements such as cross-cluster replication support for clusters running OpenSearch, anomaly detection for historical data, and improved alerting. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 07:17PM

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) announces the release of Version 1.0 (v1.0) of the Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin, an open source plugin for cert-manager that offers a secure certificate authority solution for Kubernetes containers. ACM Private CA is AWS’s managed and highly available private CA service, and cert-manager is a widely-adopted solution for TLS certificate management in Kubernetes. Customers who use cert-manager for certificate lifecycle management can use this plugin with ACM Private CA to improve security over the default cert-manager CA, which stores keys in plaintext in server memory. v1.0 of the plugin replaces v0.3.1 released in July 2021 and is production ready with new features, maintenance improvements, and bug fixes. With this release, we've added automated end-to-end integration testing that runs with each software change. This means any plugin changes from now on are automatically tested before being released. Thi...

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched new clusters and task definitions creation workflows in the new management console. Customers can now use the new simplified workflows that provide flexible defaults and allow for configuration of observability features for container applications. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 04:56PM

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart  helps you quickly and easily solve your machine learning problems with one-click access to over 300 popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 17 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 04:42PM

Starting today, AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Post Updated on January 04, 2022 at 04:24PM

AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Post Updated on January 03, 2022 at 10:52PM