News For Dev-ops

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on new and existing RDS instances. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their databases on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 10:58PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to search for and view Voice ID authentication and fraud detection outcomes on the contact detail page, making it easier to take action based on Voice ID results. You can search for contacts based on Voice ID attributes such as authentication status, caller actions (enrollment or opt out), fraud risk status, and fraud risk reason. These details are also available from within the contact detail page for a specific contact. For example, you can search for all contacts categorized as high risk for fraud and then listen to these call recordings in order to identify fraudster patterns or strategies, which can enable you to deploy additional security measures to address. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 09:06PM

Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically change the current status of an agent. Agent statuses are used to determine when an agent is “Available” to be routed contacts in Connect, versus when they are set to “Offline” or a custom status such as “Lunch” or “Break” and should not be routed contacts. Using this API, businesses can now build custom dashboards for contact center managers to change an agents’ current status, for example if an agent has forgotten to change their status to “Offline” when they are done handling contacts for the day. Previously, this functionality was available only via the Amazon Connect Real Time Metrics page. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 08:20PM

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option  with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. This deployment option give you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated fail overs typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 08:14PM

Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is publishing usage metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, so that you can monitor against account-wide service limits. Publishing these usage metrics gives you the operational visibility to manage utilization and alarm as your usage approaches service limits. We added support for 11 service limit metrics: AllocatedStorage, DBInstances, DBClusters, DBSecurityGroups, ReservedDBInstances, DBClusterParameterGroups, DBParameterGroups, ManualSnapshots, ManualClusterSnapshots, DBSubnetGroups, OptionGroups. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 08:20PM

AWS Audit Manager now allows use of custom rules from AWS Config to define custom controls in Audit Manager. Audit Manager users could already import pre-built, managed rules. Now, they are also able to leverage existing Custom Config rules and report these compliance checks directly. In order to do so, they must enable their AWS Config account through their preferred method of Config set up. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 05:16PM

Starting today, AWS customers have access to additional features to manage their EC2 key pairs. Customers can view the creation date and public key material for existing and new key pairs created using EC2 key pairs. Customers will also be able to create ED25519 key pairs in ppk format in addition to pem format and create key pairs using CloudFormation templates. Post Updated on April 29, 2022 at 05:23PM

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to clone the inputs when you deploy an SAP system for use in future deployments. In most cases, the majority of these parameters will remain the same across deployments. Today’s launch eliminates the need to re-enter every parameter manually for subsequent deployments, allowing you to save time and reduce error by instead focusing on the few that make each deployment unique. Post Updated on April 28, 2022 at 11:05PM

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints  for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on April 27, 2022 at 10:53PM

You can now use data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for Redis workloads by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node in addition to storing data in memory. It is ideal for workloads that access up to 20% of their overall dataset regularly, and for applications that can tolerate additional latency when accessing data on SSD. Post Updated on April 27, 2022 at 11:14PM

Today we are launching the ability for AWS Snowball Edge customers to update device certificates for Snowball Edge devices deployed at edge locations. Customers, Solutions Architects, or Account Managers can open a support case with AWS Snow team to request software update package with new device certificate. Customers then use the  existing software update process to apply the new device certificate to their Snow devices. This enables customers to deploy Snowball Edge devices for multiple years without having to replace devices to update their operating certificates. Post Updated on April 27, 2022 at 10:55PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Postgres , version 11 and higher, now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i 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. Post Updated on April 27, 2022 at 08:10PM

You can now build scalable stream chat rooms with built-in moderation options designed to accompany live streaming video using the new Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) stream chat feature. With this feature, streamers and viewers can build community relationships by asking questions and participating in discussions. Amazon IVS chat provides chat room resource management and a messaging API for sending, receiving, and moderating chat messages. Visit the Amazon IVS chat feature page to learn more. Post Updated on April 27, 2022 at 08:09PM

Today, we are announcing an update to AWS Control Tower that includes a change to the Notification Forwarder Lambda to use the Python version 3.9 runtime. This update addresses the planned deprecation of Python version 3.6 runtime. Function invocations continue indefinitely after the runtime version reaches end of support. However, AWS strongly recommends that you migrate functions to a supported runtime version so that you continue to receive security patches and remain eligible for technical support. Please refer to the runtime deprecation policy for additional deprecation details. Post Updated on April 27, 2022 at 08:01PM

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduced a new way that you can control access to your resources based on the account, Organizational Unit (OU) or organization in AWS Organizations that contains your resources. AWS recommends that you set up multiple accounts as your workloads grow. Using a multi-account environment has several benefits including flexible security controls by isolating workloads or applications that have specific security requirements. With this new IAM capability, you now can author IAM policies to enable your principals to access only resources inside specific AWS accounts, OUs, or organizations. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 09:04PM

Amazon Lightsail has added two new security features for the Lightsail load balancer: the ability to automatically redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS and the ability to configure the security policy used for TLS termination of the HTTPS requests. With these features, you can easily make your websites more secure, meet compliance goals, achieve better search ranking and high SSL/TLS scores just by configuring a Lightsail load balancer with the Lightsail instances hosting your websites. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 10:57PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB , version 10.4 and higher, now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i 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. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 11:10PM

AWS Backup’s  policy-based data protection capabilities are now available for  Amazon FSx  in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now use AWS Backup to centrally automate backup and restore of your application data stored in Amazon FSx along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and database in the Osaka Region. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 10:50PM

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduced a new way that you can control access to your resources based on the account, Organizational Unit (OU) or organization in AWS Organizations that contains your resources. AWS recommends that you set up multiple accounts as your workloads grow. Using a multi-account environment has several benefits including flexible security controls by isolating workloads or applications that have specific security requirements. With this new IAM capability, you now can author IAM policies to enable your principals to access only resources inside specific AWS accounts, OUs, or organizations. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 07:58PM

Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for user records in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for users by first name, last name, username, routing profile, security profile, agent hierarchies or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all users tagged with a Department:A key value pair. You can also quickly find a list of all users assigned to a specific security profile, routing profile, or agent hierarchy. To learn more about this new API, see the API documentation . Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 03:36PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Bell 5G network in Toronto. Enterprises, application developers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Toronto to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and end-users in Canada. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 04:28PM

With V2 of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), you can now send and receive emails of up to 40MB message size (including the email text, images, attachments, and the MIME encoding). Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 03:35PM

Amazon Nimble Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Deploying Nimble Studio in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience. In just a few hours, you can create a new studio environment in which creative talent can access virtual workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances, with NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), and high-speed storage enabled by Amazon FSx. With support for both Windows and Linux operating systems, artists can work with their creative tools of choice using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) enabling a seamless on-premises to cloud migration. When ready to render images, Nimble Studio allows customers to scale compute resources with AWS Thinkbox Deadline. Post Updated on April 26, 2022 at 12:15AM

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 in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region . 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 April 25, 2022 at 11:43PM

Amazon Redshift RA3 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances with managed storage allow you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently for fast query performance and lower costs, and also enable you to more securely and more easily share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. RA3 is available in three different node types, RA3.16xlarge, RA3.4xlarge, and RA3.xlplus to help you to balance price and performance depending upon your workload requirements. Post Updated on April 25, 2022 at 07:57PM

You can now easily setup AWS Lambda  monitoring and view the health of the Lambda functions via Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights  problems directly from the Amazon CloudWatch  Lambda Insights console. This integration makes it easier to dive deep into issues, troubleshoot problems and reduce mean time to resolution for your Lambda functions. The simple set up and problem analysis of Application Insights now combines with the monitoring details and troubleshooting of Lambda Insights to provide a consolidated view of the health and performance of your Lambda functions running on AWS. Post Updated on April 25, 2022 at 07:57PM

You can now schedule live content into a linear channel created using Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor . You could already re-use transcoded and packaged HLS and DASH streams from your existing video on demand (VOD) catalogs and now you can use live streams from an origin such as AWS Elemental MediaPackage as scheduled sources for a linear channel. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 11:27PM

The Amazon Chime SDK  lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK has achieved FedRAMP High authorization for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. U.S. government agencies and contractors can now use Amazon Chime SDK to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization.  Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 11:09PM

Amazon DevOps Guru  now provides Proactive Insights that helps you to increase availability, improve performance and optimize utilization of your application resources. Proactive monitoring is key to flagging potential issues with your applications and infrastructure early, enabling you to respond quickly and reduce costly downtime. Amazon DevOps Guru uses machine learning (ML) to analyze application resources, configurations and application metrics to identify potential future operational issues to prevent them from impacting your users and increase application uptime. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 08:39PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports 1-click public embedding, a feature that allows you to embed your dashboards into public applications, wikis, and portals without any coding or development. Once enabled, anyone on the internet can start accessing these embedded dashboards with to up-to-date information instantly, without server deployments or infrastructure licensing needed! 1-click public embedding helps you empower your end users with access to insights in seconds. To access this feature in preview please contact quicksight-public-embedding-preview@amazon.com . Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 06:09PM

Today, we are excited to announce general availability of Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference in all AWS Regions where SageMaker is generally available (except the AWS China regions). With SageMaker Serverless Inference, you can quickly deploy machine learning (ML) models for inference without having to configure or manage the underlying infrastructure. When deploying your ML models, simply select the serverless option and Amazon SageMaker automatically provisions, scales, and turns off compute capacity based on the volume of inference requests. With SageMaker Serverless Inference, you pay only for the compute capacity used to process inference requests (billed by the millisecond) and the amount of data processed; you do not pay for idle time. SageMaker Serverless Inference is ideal for applications with intermittent or unpredictable traffic. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 06:33PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the flexibility to specify the data you need to extract from documents using the new Queries features within Analyze Document API. You do not need to know the structure of the data in the document (table, form, implied field, nested data) or worry about variations across document versions and formats. Queries leverages a combination of visual, spatial, and language cues to extract the information you seek with high accuracy. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 06:33PM

Today we are announcing the general availability of 10 new data source connectors for Amazon Athena . With Athena, you can query data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need for ETL scripts to pre-process or copy data. This release expands the number of data sources you can query with Athena and helps analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and developers unlock business value from data stored in databases running on-premises or in the cloud. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 07:19PM

Auto Scaling in AWS Glue  Apache Spark jobs is now generally available. AWS Glue 3.0 can now dynamically scale resources up and down based on the workload. With Auto Scaling, you no longer need to worry about over-provisioning resources for jobs, spend time optimizing the number of workers, or pay for idle workers. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 06:04PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Amplify Studio Figma-to-React code capabilities, giving frontend developers a faster workflow for building full-stack apps. These new capabilities add to existing Amplify Studio backend creation and management capabilities, helping developers accelerate UI development. Typically, there is a lot of back and forth between frontend developers and designers, which can lead to suboptimal end-user experiences because of compromises made to ship on time. With Amplify Studio, developing UI as per design is as easy as “import from Figma, export to code, and extend code with custom logic.” Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 05:42PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS IoT TwinMaker, a service that makes it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, production lines, and equipment. Customers are increasingly adopting digital twins to make better operational and strategic decisions in industries such as smart buildings, manufacturing, construction, energy, power & utilities, and more. With AWS IoT TwinMaker you now have the tools you need to build digital twins to help you monitor and improve your industrial operations. Post Updated on April 21, 2022 at 05:39PM

The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in three additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (London). Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 11:01PM

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) , a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now helps you read and write data in Apache Spark more easily by using the open-source Spark Cassandra Connector . Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 11:16PM

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Quip connector to index and search documents in their Quip repository. Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 11:17PM

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) controllers for Amazon EKS, Amazon ECR, Dynamo DB, Amazon S3, AWS Application Autoscaling, and AWS API Gateway v2 are now generally available. Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 07:16PM

Since our last update in January 2022, AWS CloudFormation Registry has expanded to include support for 35 new resource types (refer to the complete list below) between January and March 2022. A resource type includes schema (resource properties and handler permissions) and handlers that allow API interactions with the underlying AWS or third-party services. Customers can now configure, provision, and manage the lifecycle of these newly supported resources as part of their cloud infrastructure through CloudFormation, by treating them as infrastructure as code. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that 1 new AWS service - AWS Billing Conductor added CloudFormation support on the day of launch. CloudFormation now supports 170+ AWS services spanning over 900 resource types, along with over 40 third-party resource types. Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 07:09PM

Today, AWS Marketplace launched the ability for customers to easily upgrade and/or renew existing commitments for upfront contract pricing for AMI and Container products , which launched in Nov. 2021. Now, buyers can opt-in to auto-renew their existing contracts and/or increase the number of licenses in their commitment, allowing them to keep up with ever-changing business needs and accommodate expanding workloads on AWS. Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 06:51PM

The Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) console and APIs for control and creation of video stream resources are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Frankfurt). Video ingest and delivery are available around the globe over a separate managed network of infrastructure optimized for live video. Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 07:05PM

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces its first points of presence (PoPs) in Indonesia and the Philippines located in Jakarta and Manila. The new edge locations will enable streamers and viewers based in Indonesia and the Philippines to enjoy lower latency, better video quality, and increased capacity. Post Updated on April 19, 2022 at 12:13AM

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the AWS Batch APIs from your virtual private cloud (AmazonVPC) . AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your AWS Batch resources in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink and meet your organization’s security and compliance requirements. To use AWS PrivateLink, create an interface VPC endpoint for AWS Batch in your VPC using the Amazon VPC console, SDK, or CLI. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN , AWS Direct Connect , or VPC Peering . Post Updated on April 18, 2022 at 08:05PM

You can now configure your database connections on Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition  from an allowable list of ciphers. Configurable cipher suites help provide you with more security control over the connection encryption that your database server accepts. Post Updated on April 15, 2022 at 11:03PM

You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Post Updated on April 15, 2022 at 09:50PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose  now supports streaming data delivery to Coralogix, enabling Coralogix users to ingest streaming data without having to manage applications or write code. Post Updated on April 15, 2022 at 09:08PM

Today, we announced the DevSecOps category for the AWS DevOps Competency . These AWS Partners provide DevSecOps products to help customers integrate security policies and guardrails into their CI/CD pipelines. Post Updated on April 15, 2022 at 06:51PM

Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces session scripts for Elastic fleets. Amazon AppStream 2.0 Elastic fleets help customers remove capacity management tasks and reduce costs. Starting today, AppStream 2.0 Elastic fleets provides on-instance session scripts. These scripts simplify common scenarios for AppStream 2.0 Elastic fleets administrators. You can use these scripts to run your own custom actions when specific events occur in users' streaming sessions, for example, custom actions that execute before a user's session starts and/or after session ends. Before the session begins, you can easily configure applications and streaming environments, as well as perform tasks such as collecting application logs, monitoring session information during the session, and application cleanup before the session ends. Session scripts are already available on AppStream 2.0 Always-On and On-Demand fleets. To get started building your own session scripts for Elastic fleets, see Use Session Scripts to...

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for additional statistics such as percentiles on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. Now with these additional statistics you can gain increased visibility on metric patterns and trends, to more effectively monitor the health and performance of your applications. Post Updated on April 14, 2022 at 06:46PM

Read below for the 16 new or updated datasets from Space Telescope Science Institute, DNAStack, National Archives and Records Administration, and others available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories. Post Updated on April 14, 2022 at 08:59PM

If you use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as your identity source with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO), you can now configure your list of users and groups to synchronize from AD into AWS SSO and pause synchronization. With configurable synchronization, you can synchronize users and groups consistent with your data sovereignty requirements. You can also pause synchronization when necessary and synchronize during desired hours. Post Updated on April 14, 2022 at 06:41PM

Today, we announced the Enterprise Container Management category for the AWS Container Competency . These AWS Partners provide container management products to help customers manage container infrastructure and containerized workloads across different environments. Post Updated on April 14, 2022 at 06:32PM

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker Canvas is generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Post Updated on April 14, 2022 at 06:46PM

We are excited to announce the new Amazon CloudFront Ready Program for AWS Partners with software products that integrate with Amazon CloudFront . As customers have shifted to building applications in the cloud, they require the right tools and software solutions to help them build and distribute scalable, highly engaging applications and online experiences. Post Updated on April 14, 2022 at 06:42PM

The Amazon Chime SDK  lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript 3.0 and React Components 3.0 provides developers of web and Electron applications with a simplified developer experience for faster implementation and consistency across popular browsers and Chromium runtimes. Post Updated on April 13, 2022 at 10:52PM

AWS Fargate , the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) , now enables customers to scale applications faster, improving performance and reducing wait time. We have made several improvements over the last year that enable you to scale applications up to 16X faster, making it easier to build and run applications at a larger scale on Fargate. Post Updated on April 13, 2022 at 09:22PM

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Single Availability Zone (AZ) deployments. Single-AZ file systems are designed for use cases that do not require the data resiliency model of a Multi-AZ file system, such as running development and test workloads, or storing secondary copies of data that is already stored on premises or in other AWS Regions. Single-AZ file systems provide a lower-cost storage option than Multi-AZ file systems for these use cases, while offering all the same data management capabilities and features. Post Updated on April 13, 2022 at 09:28PM

AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, a fully managed service that offers highly reliable, scalable, performant, and feature-rich file storage built on the open-source OpenZFS file system. Using DataSync, you can easily and securely migrate your on-premises file or object storage to FSx for OpenZFS or perform ongoing transfers of your data between FSx for OpenZFS and your on-premises storage or AWS Storage services. You can also use DataSync to move data between FSx for OpenZFS file systems. Post Updated on April 13, 2022 at 07:44PM

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon Connect Wisdom instances from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the internet. Post Updated on April 12, 2022 at 11:04PM

You can now enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation for Application Load Balancer (ALB) resources, in addition to CloudFront distributions, protected by AWS Shield Advanced. When you protect your resources with AWS Shield Advanced and enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation, patterns associated with layer 7 DDoS events will be identified and isolated by automatically created AWS WAF rules in your web access control lists (ACLs). These rules can be implemented in count mode to observe how they will impact resource traffic and deployed in block mode at any time. You can also view detection, mitigation, and top contributor metrics associated with application layer DDoS events for further investigation or to assess the effect of any mitigations Shield Advanced creates. These capabilities enable you to quickly respond to and mitigate DDoS events that threaten the availability of your applications. Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 09:39PM

AWS Security Hub has released 5 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practices standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled by default. Security Hub now supports 192 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.   Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 10:25PM

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create their own Prefix List in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. A prefix list is a collection of CIDR blocks that can be used to configure VPC security groups and route tables and share it with other AWS accounts using Resource Access Manager (RAM). Customers can easily audit and apply prefix lists across all their accounts to have a consistent security posture and routing behavior. Post Updated on April 11, 2022 at 09:19PM

The AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Scholarship program, in collaboration with Intel and Udacity, opens applications for underserved and underrepresented students in tech globally to gain hands on learning, tailored mentoring, and up to two of 2,500 Udacity Nanodegree scholarships awarded annually. Post Updated on April 11, 2022 at 10:20PM

Today we are announcing support for tagging of Amazon Personalize resources to help simplify organization and cost management of resources. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Tags are labels in the form of key-value pairs that may be attached to individual Amazon Personalize resources to search and filter resources, or allocate costs. For example, if you have multiple campaigns that are linked to different use cases on your website, you can set key as “Website” and value as “Home Page” or “Details page” to understand individual spend for each of the two campaigns. This functionality also allows customers with multi-tenant deployments to track spend among their end customers. Tagging functionality is available for several Amazon Personalize resources such as dataset groups, solutions, campaigns, recommenders, import jobs, batch inference, batch segment jobs and other re...

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ) eligible. AWS SSO is where customers create, or connect, workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts. HIPAA eligibility means that customers subject to HIPAA - including health insurance companies, healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses, government programs that pay for healthcare, military and veterans' health programs, as well as their associates - can now use AWS SSO for authentication and authorization of users who configure or manage AWS workloads that store, process or transmit Protected Health Information (PHI) and users who sign into applications integrated with AWS SSO that utilize PHI. Post Updated on April 11, 2022 at 08:20PM

AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is now authorized as  FedRAMP  Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 09:21PM

AWS Security Hub has released 5 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practices standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled by default. Security Hub now supports 192 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.   Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 10:25PM

You can now enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation for Application Load Balancer (ALB) resources, in addition to CloudFront distributions, protected by AWS Shield Advanced. When you protect your resources with AWS Shield Advanced and enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation, patterns associated with layer 7 DDoS events will be identified and isolated by automatically created AWS WAF rules in your web access control lists (ACLs). These rules can be implemented in count mode to observe how they will impact resource traffic and deployed in block mode at any time. You can also view detection, mitigation, and top contributor metrics associated with application layer DDoS events for further investigation or to assess the effect of any mitigations Shield Advanced creates. These capabilities enable you to quickly respond to and mitigate DDoS events that threaten the availability of your applications. Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 09:39PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i 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.   Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 08:43PM

Amazon Connect now has an updated UI for users, routing profiles and queues that records all changes made as events in AWS CloudTrail. This enables you to look in AWS CloudTrail to identify who took which action, what resources were acted upon, when the event occurred, and other details to help you analyze and respond. Post Updated on April 08, 2022 at 07:07PM

Amazon EventBridge now supports Global endpoints, a simpler and more reliable way for customers to improve the availability of their event-driven applications on AWS. Global endpoint is a new feature that makes it easier for customers to build robust and reliable applications by automatically failing over their event ingestion to a secondary region during service disruptions without the need for manual intervention. Customer can use replication to minimize the data at risk during these service disruptions. Post Updated on April 07, 2022 at 11:26PM

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Post Updated on April 07, 2022 at 11:22PM

Today we are announcing the availability of Map and Location Search UI components for web apps built with React. Amplify Geo, launched last year, enables frontend developers to add location-aware features to their web applications using Amazon Location Service. Developers can now make use of a React component for adding modern mapping features to their React-based web application using a single line of code. Post Updated on April 07, 2022 at 10:51PM

Amazon RDS for SQL Server  now supports SQL Server Agent job replication. With this new feature, SQL Server Agent jobs created, modified, or deleted on the primary instance will be automatically synchronized to the secondary instance in a Multi-AZ configuration. Post Updated on April 07, 2022 at 07:19PM

Amazon Redshift  now supports role-based access control (RBAC), a new enhancement that helps you simplify the management of security privileges in Amazon Redshift. You can use the RBAC feature to control end user access to data at a broad or granular level based on their job role/permission rights and level of data sensitivity. Post Updated on April 07, 2022 at 06:34PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service  now allows you to use custom dictionaries with the IK (Chinese) Analysis plugin. With support for custom dictionaries, you can use your preferred keywords and synonyms with IK Analyzer to tailor search results to suit your business needs. Post Updated on April 07, 2022 at 04:43PM

AWS Lambda  is announcing Lambda Function URLs, a new feature that makes it easier to invoke functions through an HTTPS endpoint as a built-in capability of the AWS Lambda service. You can add Function URLs to new and existing functions in a single click from the console, or in a couple of lines using AWS CloudFormation or the AWS Serverless Application Model. Function URLs are ideal for getting started with buiding web services on Lambda or for common tasks like building web hooks. Post Updated on April 06, 2022 at 11:21PM

AWS Amplify Studio now offers a visual interface for setting up and managing file storage resources, making it easy to store and serve user-generated content (e.g. photos and videos) from web or mobile apps. With Amplify Studio, you can easily create an Amazon S3 bucket, configure file access levels, integrate storage client libraries into your web or mobile app, and manage files in Studio’s drag and drop file explorer. Post Updated on April 06, 2022 at 11:21PM

AWS Amplify Hosting now uses GitHub Apps to obtain access to your GitHub code repositories. The Amplify GitHub App offers all the same features as the existing OAuth app, and additionally gives you complete control over scoping permissions to specific repositories in your account or organization. Post Updated on April 05, 2022 at 10:51PM

Amazon EC2 Console introduces the new and improved launch experience - a quicker and easier way to launch an instance. The new design provides a single page layout allowing you to view all your settings in one location. You no longer need to navigate back and forth between steps to ensure your configuration is correct. The new design also introduces a summary panel, that provides an overview and helps navigate the page.   Post Updated on April 05, 2022 at 11:29PM

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). Post Updated on April 05, 2022 at 10:54PM

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. You can easily and effortlessly configure any supported data source to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients with connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting all handled by AppSync, allowing you to focus on your application business use cases and requirements instead of dealing with the complex infrastructure to manage real-time WebSocket connections at scale. Post Updated on April 05, 2022 at 10:56PM

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Athena ACID transactions, a new capability that adds insert, update, delete, and time travel operations to Athena's SQL data manipulation language (DML). Athena ACID transactions enable multiple concurrent users to make reliable, row-level modifications to their Amazon S3 data from Athena's console, API, and ODBC and JDBC drivers. Built on the Apache Iceberg table format, Athena ACID transactions are optimized for Amazon S3 storage, support seamless schema evolution, and ensure atomic operations across other services and engines that support the Iceberg table format such as Amazon EMR , Apache Spark , and Apache Flink . Post Updated on April 05, 2022 at 11:01PM

RStudio on Amazon SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. Data scientists and developers can launch the familiar RStudio integrated development environment (IDE) in a single click to build, train, and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker . You can elastically dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even switch to programming using Python on Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks . All your work, including code, datasets, repositories, and other artifacts are synchronized between the two environments. You can bring your current RStudio license to Amazon SageMaker at no additional charge to quickly get started. Starting today, you can now automate the process of creating domains and adding user profiles for RStudio on SageMaker using AWS CloudFormation . Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 11:23PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL - Compatible edition major version 13. PostgreSQL 13  includes many new features and performance enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, better query planning when using extended statistics, parallelized vacuuming of indexes, and incremental sorting. Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 11:16PM

Starting today, you can add resource records to your Amazon Route 53 hosted zones beyond the free tier limit using pay-as-you-go pricing. Previously, Route 53 customers could add a maximum of 10,000 resource records to any hosted zone for free. Customers who required more than 10,000 resource records in a hosted zone had to contact AWS Support to request a custom pricing plan. With this launch, customers can add resource records beyond the 10,000-record free tier without requiring a custom pricing plan. Now, any resource records you add to a hosted zone beyond the 10,000-record free tier will automatically be charged at the rate of $0.0015 per resource record per month, making it easier to scale your resource records up or down as needed. Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 11:20PM

In addition to the existing Amazon Pinpoint console capabilities, the Amazon Pinpoint API 2.0 provides customers increased control over their SMS and voice sending and configuration. Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 09:41PM

You can now run OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.2 on Amazon OpenSearch Service. This version includes a new observability interface in OpenSearch Dashboards, improvements to several other features such as anomaly detection, k-NN, and SQL/PPL. Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 09:30PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 09:46PM

Amazon Connect now supports scheduled syncs of Zendesk for its AppIntegrations data service. AppIntegrations enable Amazon Connect customers to download data from third-party SaaS apps like CRMs, quality management, billing software, and order management solutions. You can now use Zendesk to download knowledge articles via scheduled syncs and surface them in the Amazon Connect agent application as Wisdom  article recommendations, to help agents quickly resolve caller issues, while boosting their productivity. Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 09:38PM

You can now use Amazon EKS , Amazon EKS Distro  and Amazon EKS Anywhere  to run Kubernetes version 1.22. Highlights of Kubernetes version 1.22 release includes external credential providers, server-side apply, and bound service account token volumes graduating to stable, and warning mechanisms for deprecated API usage. You can find more details about Kubernetes 1.22 release in the EKS blog post and in the Kubernetes project release notes . Post Updated on April 04, 2022 at 09:35PM

Starting today, all public AMIs will have the deprecation time set to two years after their creation date. This means that public AMIs that are more than two years old will by default be deprecated. Once an AMI is deprecated, it will no longer appear in DescribeImages API calls for users that aren’t the owner of the AMI. Deprecating an AMI only reduces the visibility of the AMI in untargeted searches, but continues to be usable and available to you. Users of a deprecated AMI can continue to launch instances and describe the deprecated AMI using its ID. Post Updated on April 01, 2022 at 11:57PM

AWS Glue DataBrew customers are now able to clean and transform data stored in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format, a widely used data format for storing Hive data. When creating a dataset in AWS Glue DataBrew, you can now use ORC files in addition to already supported Apache Avro, Apache Parquet, Microsoft Excel, CSV, and JSON file formats.   Post Updated on April 01, 2022 at 11:07PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Global Datastore in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure cross-Region replication. Using Global Datastore, you can write to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one Region and have the data available for read in two other cross-Region replica clusters, thereby enabling low-latency reads and disaster recovery across Regions. Post Updated on April 01, 2022 at 11:05PM

Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces is offering APIs that allow you to customize your users Amazon WorkSpaces experience with your logo, login message, and help links on the WorkSpaces client login page. Using your own brand provides a familiar look and feel when users access your WorkSpaces. Adding your own help links makes it easy for users to access support resources within your organization.   Post Updated on April 01, 2022 at 11:10PM