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AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 10:10PM

AWS Resource Access Manager ( AWS RAM ) can now be used for workloads subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 27701 standards. Now, customers in finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors can get insights into the security processes and controls that protect customer data which can be found in the SOC reports, AWS ISO and CSA STAR certificates in AWS Artifact . AWS' alignment with these standards in addition to the independent third-party assessment of these internationally recognized code of practices demonstrates AWS' commitment to the privacy and protection of customers' content. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 06:04PM

The new Dart Signature V4 client allows developers to securely integrate with all 200+ AWS services using signed HTTP requests. This functionality enables Dart developers to make native calls to AWS backends in their Flutter or Dart applications, to make changes to the data or configurations of AWS services. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 05:56PM

AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts so you can try products before you buy them. Previously, customers would either need to commit to a contract before trying the product, or go to third-party websites for free trials offered by software vendors directly. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 09:00PM

AWS Control Tower now gives you the capability to enroll and update member accounts individually, from within your AWS Control Tower landing zone, with a single click. You can update your landing zone, remediate account drift, or enroll an account into a registered organizational unit (OU), in a few streamlined steps. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 05:58PM

Amazon Connect now lets you get started with high-volume outbound communications with just a few clicks, enabling you to begin testing this feature. On the Amazon Connect navigation panel, choose the Telephony page, check the box to Enable high-volume outbound communication, and then choose Save. In a few minutes you will be ready to use this feature. Use high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails to contact from hundreds to millions of customers daily for communications like upcoming delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, and debt collection without having to integrate third-party tools. An optional integrated list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user experiences. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Connect Console. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 06:02PM

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage GraphQL and Real-time APIs, allowing developers to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources via a single API endpoint. With GraphQL, special functions called Resolvers are used to implement business logic linking or “resolving” types, fields, or operations defined in the GraphQL schema with the data in data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, HTTP APIs, and more. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 07:38PM

Amazon Connect now supports high-volume outbound communications in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region , making it easy to contact from hundreds to millions of customers daily for communications like delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Amazon Connect’s high-volume outbound communications for calls, text and emails gives organizations a simple, embedded, cost-effective way to proactively contact customers without having to integrate third-party tools. An optional integrated list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user experiences. With this launch, high-volume outbound calls can now be made to customers in Australia and New Zealand. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Console. Post Updated on May 31, 2022 at 05:20PM

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) provides a Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS) capability to dynamically manage the scaling of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Auto Scaling groups (ASG) on your behalf, so that you can focus on running your containers. Capacity Providers is the compute interface that links your Amazon ECS cluster with your ASG. With Capacity Providers, you can define flexible rules for how containerized workloads run on different types of compute capacity, and manage the scaling of the capacity. Capacity Providers improve the availability, scalability, and cost of running tasks and services on ECS. Starting today, we are simplifying the integration mechanism between Capacity Providers and ASGs by directly integrating with target-tracking scaling policy instead of relying on AWS Auto Scaling scaling plan . Post Updated on May 27, 2022 at 10:15PM

Today, we are excited to announce that the Amazon Genomics CLI v1.5.0 has added support for workflows written in the Common Workflow Language (CWL) using the Toil workflow engine. In addition to CWL, the Amazon Genomics CLI supports workflows written with Workflow Definition Language (WDL), Nextflow, and Snakemake enabling customers to run a wide variety of genomics data analyses like joint calling of genome variants and single-cell RNAseq. Post Updated on May 27, 2022 at 10:30PM

AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, providing a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments. Session Manager, a capability of Systems Manager, provides secure access to managed instances in your cloud, on-premises, or edge devices, without the need to open inbound ports, manage Secure Shell (SSH) keys, or use bastion hosts. Post Updated on May 27, 2022 at 02:47PM

Amazon Lightsail now supports creating deployments for Lightsail container services using the container images on Amazon ECR private repositories. This launch will enable you to run containers with the simplified experience of Lightsail while utilizing the images you may already have in your private ECR repositories, thus enabling greater portability. Post Updated on May 26, 2022 at 10:02PM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the new compute optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances. C6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state drive (SSD) block level storage, and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5d instances. Compared to previous generation instances, C6id instances offer up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB. C6id instances also come with always-on memory encryption by using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Like all modern EC2 instances, C6id instances are built on  AWS Nitro System , a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers most of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. C6id instances are ideal for compute-intensive...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances. M6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state disk (SSD) block-level storage, and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to M5d instances. Compared to previous generation instances, M6id instances offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU and 34% lower cost per TB. M6id instances also come with always-on memory encryption by using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Like all modern EC2 instances, M6id instances are built on  AWS Nitro System , a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers most of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. M6id instances are ideal for workloads that require a ...

AWS Launch Wizard announces support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Now you can use a simple console wizard to deploy SQL Server FCI on Amazon EC2 with FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the shared storage. This feature will save you time and effort replacing a complex manual deployment process with a simple to use, guided wizard that accelerates the migration of your on-premises SQL Server workloads that rely on network-attached storage (NAS) appliances. Post Updated on May 26, 2022 at 09:19PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached  has added support for Memcached version 1.6.12. This version is a cumulative update and contains all changes and improvements between version 1.6.6 to 1.6.12. Post Updated on May 26, 2022 at 07:23PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports encryption of data in transit using Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2. When using encryption in transit, all network traffic between your clients and Memcached cluster are encrypted. Post Updated on May 26, 2022 at 07:24PM

We are excited to announce preview of Amazon EC2 P4de instances, our latest GPU-based instances that provide the highest performance for machine learning (ML) training and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as object detection, semantic segmentation, natural language processing, recommender systems, seismic analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Post Updated on May 26, 2022 at 05:02PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of a new AWS Wavelength  Zone on SK Telecom’s 5G network in Seoul. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in South Korea, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in Daejeon. Post Updated on May 25, 2022 at 06:56PM

Starting today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances in additional regions. 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 May 25, 2022 at 07:28PM

We’re excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Management customers will now be able to create up to 100,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per region. The prior limit was 1,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per region. This new limit will apply to the total number of Jobs created - both continuous and snapshot jobs. Customers that require a large number of Active Jobs - for example, to apply bespoke configurations to thousands of individual targets in parallel – are now unblocked by this upgrade. Post Updated on May 25, 2022 at 05:05PM

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports a new API for creating Grafana API tokens, as well as support for new plugins, Grafana version 8.4, and workspace tags. With CreateWorkspaceApiKey, customers can create Grafana API tokens without having to log into the Grafana workspace console, enabling users to programmatically create, delete, and manage Grafana resources such as dashboards, alerts, and data sources. Amazon Managed Grafana adds support for Github, Moogsoft, Pixie, and Windrose plugins, enabling customers to connect, query, and visualize data from additional data sources. Existing and new Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces now support Grafana version 8.4, with no action required from users. Customers can now tag Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to help simplify organization and cost management of workspaces. Tags are labels in the form of key-value pairs that may be attached to Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to search, filter, or allocate costs. Post Updated on May 24, 2022 at 1...

Today, Amazon EC2 announced the Stop Protection feature that enables customers to protect their instances from accidental stop actions. Previously, customers could protect their instances from unintentional terminate actions by enabling Termination Protection. With Stop Protection, customers with stateful workloads can safeguard data in instance store volume(s) from unintentional stop and terminate actions. Post Updated on May 24, 2022 at 11:21PM

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. With AppSync, you can easily configure data sources to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients. AppSync handles connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting, allowing you to focus on your application business needs instead of managing complex infrastructure. Post Updated on May 24, 2022 at 08:22PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of two additional storage locations for AWS DataSync , an online data movement service that makes it easy to sync your data both into and out of the AWS Cloud. This release expands the number of supported storage locations from 10 to 12, spanning on-premises, edge, and other cloud storage services. With DataSync, you can quickly and securely access your data across various storage locations and move it to AWS to support your workflows, processing, and data retention needs, as well as share and exchange data across more locations. Post Updated on May 24, 2022 at 07:34PM

AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager now supports centralized management and monitoring of global networks across multiple AWS accounts within an organization, created using AWS Organizations. With this feature, Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing a large global network across AWS accounts over a single unified operational dashboard. Post Updated on May 24, 2022 at 08:40PM

Amazon Personalize now provides offline model metrics for recommenders enabling you to evaluate the quality of recommendations. A recommender is a resource that provides recommendations optimized for specific use cases, such as “Frequently bought together” for Retail and “Top picks for you” for Media and Entertainment. Offline metrics are metrics that Amazon Personalize generates when you create a recommender. You can use offline metrics to analyze the performance of the recommender's underlying model. Offline metrics allow you to compare the model with other models trained on the same data. The metrics provided include coverage, mean reciprocal rank, normalized discounted cumulative gain (NDCG) and precision. Post Updated on May 24, 2022 at 05:05PM

Today, AWS Marketplace announced general availability of  Offer Acceptance Email Notifications  which will notify users by email when a customer completes an offer subscription. With this launch, customers can now have real-time visibility into Offer Acceptance and Subscription by buyers, allowing them to track the overall progress of an AWS Marketplace transaction. Buyers, ISVs and Channel Partners can now receive relevant details like Agreement ID, Offer ID, and Customer details at the time of subscription, to initiate procurement workflows, internal order creation, revenue recognition and software provisioning/deployment. This feature is available for all AWS Marketplace product types. Post Updated on May 23, 2022 at 11:00PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now authorized as FedRAMP  Moderate in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Post Updated on May 23, 2022 at 09:40PM

The latest generation compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7g instances are generally available. C7g instances are the first instances powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based C6g instances for a broad spectrum of applications such as application servers, microservices, batch processing, electronic design automation (EDA), gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. Post Updated on May 23, 2022 at 10:05PM

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to find insights and relationships like people, places, sentiments, and topics in unstructured text. You can use Amazon Comprehend ML capabilities to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in customer emails, support tickets, product reviews, social media, and more. For example, you can analyze support tickets and knowledge articles to detect PII entities and redact the text before you index the documents in the search solution. Post Updated on May 23, 2022 at 08:25PM

CloudFront now provides the CloudFront-Viewer-TLS header for use with origin request policies. CloudFront-Viewer-TLS is an HTTP header that includes the TLS version and cipher suite used to negotiate the viewer TLS connection. Previously, TLS information was available in CloudFront access logs to analyze previous requests. Now, customers can access the TLS version and cipher suite in each HTTP request to make real-time decisions such as restricting requests with outdated TLS versions. The CloudFront-Viewer-TLS header value uses the following syntax: <TLS version>:<Cipher Suite>. For example, TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256. Post Updated on May 23, 2022 at 07:02PM

AWS Control Tower now supports operational concurrency for all guardrail types, preventive or detective. With this new release you can now enable or disable multiple preventive guardrails without needing to wait for individual guardrail operations to complete. AWS Control Tower provides customers with out-of-the-box preventive and detective guardrails that you can deploy to increase your security, operational, and compliance posture. Post Updated on May 20, 2022 at 06:42PM

Incident Manager , a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces expanded support for runbook automation to speed up incident diagnosis and resolution. AWS Systems Manager  is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, helping you automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. Customers can now build incident runbooks that automatically run remediation actions on the involved resources, such as turning on auto-scaling on a DynamoDB table that is approaching capacity before engaging the on-call engineer. Customers can also invoke additional runbooks directly from the Incident Manager console to help resolve the incident faster. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 10:54PM

The Amazon Chime SDK  lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. The Amazon Chime SDK client libraries for iOS and Android now include video background replacement and blur, which developers can use to reduce visual distractions and help increase visual privacy for mobile users. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 10:49PM

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. Amazon customers can now use The Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index documents from Atlassian Jira. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 11:31PM

Starting today, when you create a new predictive scaling policy, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling  goes back 14 days to generate capacity forecasts for the past dates, enabling you to see how predictive scaling would have scaled your Auto Scaling group. This allows you to quickly decide if the predictive scaling policy is accurate for your applications by comparing the demand and capacity forecasts against the actuals immediately after you create a predictive scaling policy. Previously, you would have had to wait at least a few days after creating the policy to build up sufficient forecast history for the same comparison to determine the forecast accuracy. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 11:04PM

AWS Glue Visual Job APIs are now generally available, allowing customers to programmatically create, read, update, and delete AWS Glue studio visual jobs. AWS Glue Studio provides an intuitive visual interface for users to author data integration jobs. Customers want to programmatically create visual jobs in AWS Glue Studio so that they could migrate from other ETL tools and copy jobs to other environments. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 08:50PM

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.30, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.27. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols to help you easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 08:24PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to use Amazon Connect Customer Profiles in Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region. When a customer contacts your customer service department, you can now provide your agents and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with up to date information about the customer, enabling faster and more personalized customer service. Customer Profiles brings together customer information (e.g, address, purchase history, contact history) from multiple applications such as Salesforce, Amazon S3, and ServiceNow into a unified customer profile. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 09:36PM

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.9.16, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.9.13. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 08:20PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry  (ADOT) for metrics, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this launch, customers can use OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs in Java, .Net, and JavaScript to collect and send metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and other monitoring destinations supported by the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application and infrastructure monitoring. With ADOT, you can instrument your applications just once to send metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions and use auto-instrumentation agents to collect traces and metrics without changing your code. Use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to instrument your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elasti...

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 minutes. Post Updated on May 19, 2022 at 12:17AM

AWS App Mesh now supports IPv6 allowing customers to support workloads running in IPv6 networks and to invoke App Mesh APIs over IPv6. This helps customers to meet IPv6 compliance requirements, and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications. Post Updated on May 18, 2022 at 08:44PM

AWS Backup  now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. You can now use AWS Backup’s policy-based capabilities to centrally protect Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP along with other AWS services for storage, database, and compute that AWS Backup supports. You can protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems with immutable backups, and generate auditor-ready reports to prove compliance of your data protection policies. Post Updated on May 18, 2022 at 09:35PM

AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems across all your accounts, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data with a few simple clicks. Additionally, you can generate unified auditor-ready reports to demonstrate compliance status of your organizational data protection policies. Post Updated on May 18, 2022 at 09:37PM

Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can leverage Amazon SageMaker , a fully managed machine learning service, without moving your data or learning new skills. Amazon Redshift now supports Amazon SageMaker Linear Learner algorithm for creating models with Amazon Redshift ML. Post Updated on May 18, 2022 at 07:10PM

AWS Resilience Hub now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, and the ability to use Terraform as a source to upload applications. With this expansion of supported resources , you can use Resilience Hub to prepare and protect even more of your applications from disruptions.   Post Updated on May 18, 2022 at 05:16PM

Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for .NET to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the .NET developer platform. Post Updated on May 17, 2022 at 10:58PM

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Predictive scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. (Previously, Predictive Scaling was only available via AWS Auto Scaling Plans and only in public regions .) Support in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to run sensitive workloads by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Post Updated on May 17, 2022 at 10:36PM

Amazon Redshift  has launched support for Snapshot Isolation for concurrent transactions. Amazon Redshift prevents dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and phantom reads according to the SQL standards. The two options that Amazon Redshift offers to serialize transactions are SERIALIZABLE and SNAPSHOT ISOLATION. The SERIALIZABLE option will implement strict serializability, where a transaction could fail if the result could not be mapped to a serial order of the concurrently running transactions. The SNAPSHOT ISOLATION option will allow higher concurrency, where concurrent modifications to different rows in the same table would complete successfully. Under both options, transactions will continue to operate on the latest committed version, or a snapshot, of the database. Post Updated on May 17, 2022 at 10:22PM

Amazon CloudWatch is introducing enhancements to the console experience, which improve dashboard data visualizations and console navigation. The enhancements include new dashboard widgets as well as more options to access frequently used dashboards, log groups and alarms. Post Updated on May 17, 2022 at 06:18PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions - US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over I3 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). I4i metal instances deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 and are designed for databases such as MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, and Redis where low latency local NVMe storage is needed in order to meet application service level agreements (SLAs). Post Updated on May 16, 2022 at 10:29PM

Amazon Neptune  is now in scope for FedRAMP  High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Amazon Neptune to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High or Moderate authorization. This also accredits Amazon Neptune as a Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 2 ( DoD SRG IL-2 ) service in these regions. Post Updated on May 16, 2022 at 08:12PM

Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the flexibility to use your existing security and logging accounts, or to have AWS Control Tower create new accounts on your behalf when setting up Control Tower or extending Control Tower governance to your existing AWS environment. The Security account is used as a restricted account that’s designed to give your security and compliance teams read and write access to all accounts in your landing zone. The Logging account works as a repository, storing logs of API activities and resource configurations from all accounts in your landing zone.  Post Updated on May 16, 2022 at 07:56PM

AWS Glue can now connect to Apache Kafka using additional client authentication mechanisms. AWS Glue now supports SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) using either SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) or GSSAPI (Kerberos). Post Updated on May 16, 2022 at 07:09PM

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of AWS support for Kubeflow v1.4. Kubeflow on AWS streamlines data science tasks and helps build highly reliable, secure, portable, and scalable ML systems with reduced operational overheads through integrations with AWS managed services. You can use this Kubeflow distribution to build ML systems on top of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to build, train, tune, and deploy ML models for a wide variety of use cases, including computer vision, natural language processing, speech translation, and financial modeling. Post Updated on May 16, 2022 at 06:40PM

Amazon Lex  provides automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities so you can build applications and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with engaging user experiences. Starting today, you can programmatically provide phrases as hints during a live interaction to influence the transcription of spoken input. For example, when interacting with a banking IVR, a customer might use a nickname (“ Smythe’s checking ”) for the destination account . You can execute business logic to identify all the payee nicknames associated with the caller’s account and supply these as hints, improving transcription of names. Better recognition drives efficient conversations and ultimately increases customer satisfaction. Post Updated on May 13, 2022 at 11:19PM

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in additional regions - Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London, Stockholm, Milan), South America (São Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). X2idn and X2iedn instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These new instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) and deliver up to 50% higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads. Post Updated on May 13, 2022 at 09:42PM

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere now allows you to enable Amazon-curated software packages that extend the core functionalities of Kubernetes on your EKS Anywhere clusters. You can install the Harbor package as a local container registry starting today, with the Emissary-Ingress package and the support for service type load balancing through MetalLB coming in the next few months. More curated packages may be added over time based on customer demand. Post Updated on May 13, 2022 at 06:36PM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of multiple IPv6 classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) blocks in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), enabling customer to attach up to 5 prefixes to their VPCs. Before today, customers could add up to 5 IPv4 CIDR blocks and 1 IPv6 block. With this new feature, customers can now use multiple blocks to build logical separation within their VPCs with independent CIDR blocks. CIDR blocks can be associated from the Amazon provided pool and/or a pool of bring-your-own IPv6 addresses. Post Updated on May 13, 2022 at 02:29PM

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports deletion of underlying canary resources along with the canary deletion. When you delete a canary you can choose whether to also delete related resources created by the canary, thus making canary resources management easier and efficient. Synthetics canaries that run on a defined frequency to monitor the health and performance of your endpoints and APIs creates these resources as part of canary creation step. Post Updated on May 12, 2022 at 10:56PM

AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 16 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Node.js 16 can take advantage of new features such as support for Apple silicon for local development, the timers promises API , and enhanced performance. For more information on Lambda’s support for Node.js 16, see our blog post at Node.js 16.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda . Post Updated on May 12, 2022 at 10:19PM

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring now supports sending mirrored traffic to monitoring appliances behind a Gateway Load Balancer. This feature enables Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring customers to centralize the out-of-band monitoring and inspection of network traffic across AWS accounts and VPCs. Post Updated on May 12, 2022 at 10:23PM

AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) now supports centralized administration and API access from an AWS Organizations delegated administrator account for all member accounts in your organization. This means you can designate an account in your organization that can be used to centrally administer all member accounts. With delegated administration, you can adhere to best practices by reducing the need to use your management account. Post Updated on May 12, 2022 at 05:10PM

AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies for hybrid VMware workloads. With this launch, you can include the VMware Virtual Machines in AWS Backup Audit Manager’s controls to maintain the compliance status of your organizational data protection policies and to generate unified auditor-ready reports for your VMware workloads across VMware Cloud on AWS, on premises, and on AWS Outposts. Post Updated on May 12, 2022 at 04:05PM

Amazon EC2 R5b instances  are now available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. 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 May 11, 2022 at 10:50PM

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now SAP-certified for workloads including S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, BW/4HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and Data Mart Solutions on HANA. Post Updated on May 11, 2022 at 09:06PM

You can now connect over IPv6 to your services hosted in AWS using AWS PrivateLink. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable technology that enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services, services hosted by other AWS accounts (VPC Endpoint Services), third-party SaaS services and supported AWS Marketplace partner services. Post Updated on May 11, 2022 at 09:23PM

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of two new security and compatibility features, NitroTPM, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot in Amazon EC2. These features make it possible for customers to use TPM-dependent applications in their EC2 instances. Post Updated on May 11, 2022 at 04:52PM

AWS Secrets Manager now publishes a metric to Amazon CloudWatch for the number of secrets in your account. With this feature, you can easily review how many secrets you are using in Secrets Manager. You can also set alarms for an unexpected increase or decrease in number of secrets. Post Updated on May 10, 2022 at 09:50PM

New upgrades are now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances, including the availability of the ml.g5 GPU instance family, and Python 3.8 support. Post Updated on May 10, 2022 at 06:51PM

AWS GameKit is now extended to support Android, iOS, and macOS games developed with Unreal Engine. AWS GameKit, launched on March 23, 2022 , gives game developers a powerful tool set to quickly and easily build AWS powered game features directly from the Unreal Editor. With today's update, the AWS GameKit plugin for Unreal Engine now supports developers who are building games for Win 64, Android, iOS, and macOS. Post Updated on May 10, 2022 at 04:20PM

Amazon EC2 now emits notifications to Amazon CloudWatch Events  for a variety of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) actions such as creation, registration and de-registration. With CloudWatch Events (CWE), you can establish rules that initiate programmatic actions in response to these changes. Post Updated on May 09, 2022 at 09:33PM

AWS Step Functions now provides a new console experience for viewing and debugging your workflow executions that makes it easier to search, filter, and root cause issues in your executions. Post Updated on May 09, 2022 at 08:52PM

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus usage metrics are now available in Amazon CloudWatch at no additional charge. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments. With Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics , you can check your Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace usage, and can start to proactively manage your quotas. Post Updated on May 09, 2022 at 06:53PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS X-Ray in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distributed production applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture . With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. Post Updated on May 09, 2022 at 05:01PM

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports batch data retrieval from multiple asset properties with the launch of three new APIs that allow you to retrieve current values (BatchGetAssetPropertyValue), historical values (BatchGetAssetPropertyValueHistory), and aggregated values (BatchGetAssetPropertyAggregates) from AWS IoT SiteWise in a single API request. Post Updated on May 09, 2022 at 06:00PM

Amazon Connect now displays scheduling metrics within the schedule management user experience to help contact center managers efficiently manage their agent’s schedules. Managers can quickly see and take action on key metrics that drive business outcomes, such as the difference between forecasted agent capacity needed and the number of agents scheduled for each 15 or 30 minute time block. These metrics are displayed adjacent to agent schedules allowing managers to make precision adjustments without the need to repeatedly switch between the scheduling and metrics screens, helping them optimize business outcomes while ensuring a balanced agent workload. Post Updated on May 07, 2022 at 12:25AM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn are available in additional regions and bare metal sizes. X2idn instances are now available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2iedn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2idn and X2iedn are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHz and deliver up to 50% higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances. X2idn and X2iedn instances both include up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage and up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth. X2idn offers up to 2 TiB of memory and X2iedn offers up to 4 TiB of memory. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads. X2idn and X2iedn instances are SAP-Certified. Post Updated o...

Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging is generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. Post Updated on May 06, 2022 at 06:27PM

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Frankfurt). Additionally, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt). M6a and C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (code named Milan) processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. M6a instances deliver up to 35% better price performance compared to M5a instances, while C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5a instances. Both M6a and C6a instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. M6a and C6a 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. M6a instances are SAP-Certified and a good fit for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end s...

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Post Updated on May 06, 2022 at 04:47PM

Customers use Amazon Rekognition  Face APIs to analyze faces within images and videos at scale without requiring any machine learning expertise. This enables use cases, such as identity verification, photo search, and media analysis. Amazon Rekognition has launched Face APIs version 6 to deliver higher accuracy for the face detection, comparison, and search features. Additionally, face detection latency has been reduced by 70%. Post Updated on May 06, 2022 at 04:32PM

AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. With AWS Lambda support for Amazon EFS, customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 11:11PM

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can give Amazon Lex additional information about how to process speech input by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of domain-specific terms or unique words (e.g., brand names, product names) that are more difficult to recognize. You create the list and add it to the bot definition, so Amazon Lex can use these words when determining the user’s intent or collecting information in a conversation. This allows you to enhance speech recognition and deliver an improved end-user experience. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 11:01PM

The new Amazon ElastiCache  console provides you with an intuitive way to manage ElastiCache resources with simpler navigation and richer contextual information. The new console provides a more consistent look and feel with other AWS service consoles. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 07:25PM

The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale. Joining the existing AWS Panorama Appliance, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device provides customers with another choice in price and performance for computer vision use cases using AWS Panorama. Customers can work with AWS Panorama Partners to build a wide variety of solutions for CV use cases across industries such as transportation, logistics, industrial, hospitality, and more. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 07:39PM

Amazon Braket , the quantum computing service from AWS, is designed to make it easy for customers to conduct scientific research and software development with quantum computers. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs , the capability to combine quantum and classical compute to explore hybrid algorithms, now supports embedded circuit simulators, improving performance by up to 10X or more. By bringing the quantum simulator closer to your classical algorithm you can reduce the simulator round-trip time compared to using Braket’s on-demand circuit simulators. This new capability can help reduce a performance bottleneck when running large volumes of quantum simulation tasks that each use only a relatively small number of qubits, typically up to ~25 qubits. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 05:01PM

AWS Service Catalog Provisioning constructs for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) are now available for builders to create application infrastructure in code that provisions cloud resources from their approved Service Catalog products. Service Catalog builders can now create their AWS CDK applications with approved constructs in familiar programming languages like Typescript and Python directly in their Integrated Development Environment. Using cdk-import , builders can access a library of Provisioning constructs in their local development environment for the AWS Service Catalog products they have access to provision which automatically include the governance that their administrators have configured. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 05:16PM

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 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 05:26PM

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM Private CA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 24. The Jakarta Region supports CAs with the private key stored in a FIPS 140-2 level 2 HSM. To learn more about the key storage certification level see the AWS Private CA Documentation . Post Updated on May 05, 2022 at 02:32PM

AWS Trusted Advisor adds 4 checks automatically ingested from AWS Compute Optimizer . AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks to identify opportunities for you to improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer checks are available in the Business Support, Enterprise Support On-Ramp, and Enterprise Support plans . The new checks are: Post Updated on May 04, 2022 at 11:24PM

Today Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces new APIs and SDKs to help you extract images from your video streams. This fully-managed capability allows customers to request images via API calls or configure automatic image generation based on metadata tags in ingested video.  Post Updated on May 04, 2022 at 08:16PM

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Europe (London) Region. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments. Post Updated on May 04, 2022 at 10:22PM

AWS IoT Secure Tunneling allows customers to access devices that are deployed behind restricted firewalls at remote sites. When a tunnel is created, a pair of client access tokens (CAT) will be generated and used by the source and destination devices to connect to the Secure Tunneling service. Prior to today, a token can be stored and reused, making it susceptible to malicious use. Now single-use tokens will be revoked after a successful connection. When the connection drops, instead of saving CATs to a local device and establishing a token re-delivery method, customers can call the RotateTunnelAccessToken API to deliver a new pair of CATs to the source and destination devices to resume connection with the original device in the predefined tunnel period. Once reconnected, customers can securely access and continue troubleshooting remote devices using Secure Tunneling. Post Updated on May 04, 2022 at 09:46PM

Now you can use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI to enable AWS X-Ray tracing in your AWS SAM templates automatically, without manually authoring your AWS SAM templates. This makes it easier to centrally manage AWS X-Ray tracing across your Lambda functions in your serverless application. Post Updated on May 04, 2022 at 05:23PM

Amazon Relational Database Service  (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL announces support for PostgreSQL 14 with three levels of cascaded read replicas, 5 replicas per instance, supporting a maximum of up to 155 read replicas per source instance. You can now create Single-AZ or Multi-AZ cascaded read replica DB instances in same region or any one cross region from another read replica instance, enabling you to build a more robust disaster recovery architecture. Post Updated on May 04, 2022 at 05:10PM

Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. We launched EBS Snapshots Archive in 17 commercial regions in November, 2021, to help you save up to 75% on storage costs for EBS Snapshots that you intend to retain for more than 90 days and rarely access. EBS Snapshots are incremental in nature, storing only the changes since the last snapshot. This makes them cost-effective for daily and weekly backups that need to be accessed frequently. If you have snapshots that you access every few months or years, and would like to retain them long-term for legal or regulatory reasons, you can use EBS Snapshot Archive to store full, point-in-time snapshots at a lower cost than what you would incur if stored in the standard tier. Post Updated on May 03, 2022 at 11:01PM

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to see all standard Kubernetes API resource types running on your Amazon EKS cluster using the AWS Management Console . This makes it easy to visualize and troubleshoot your Kubernetes applications using Amazon EKS. Post Updated on May 03, 2022 at 11:18PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights now makes it easier for you to see the database performance metrics for the exact timeframe you want to analyze, by choosing a custom time window within your retention period. Previously, you could only see metrics in Performance Insights by choosing relative time intervals such as the past 1 hour, the past 24 hours, etc. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. This helps non-experts to measure database performance with an easy-to-understand dashboard that visualizes database load. With one click, you can add a fully-managed performance monitoring solution to your Amazon Aurora clusters and Amazon RDS instances. Amazon RDS Performance Insights automatically gathers all necessary performance metrics and visualizes them in a dynamic dashboar...

In the latest release of the AWS AppConfig  Lambda Extension, there is support for Arm/Graviton2 processors. Using AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager , customers can easily create feature flags or other dynamic/runtime configuration and safely deploy updates. The AWS AppConfig Lambda Extension allows customers to access this feature flag and dynamic configuration data in Lambda functions. Post Updated on May 03, 2022 at 10:13PM

Amazon Managed Blockchain  (AMB) announces general availability of Goerli Testnet (Goerli), a proof-of-authority test network for Ethereum. As a fully managed service, AMB's support of Goerli provides customers a stable testing environment for their distributed applications ahead of Ethereum’s upcoming consensus upgrade (The Merge), without having to manage complicated blockchain infrastructure. Post Updated on May 03, 2022 at 09:59PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports 10,000 data points for Line charts. With this update, line chart performance has been improved to support 10,000 data points from the earlier 2500 data point limit and introduces other minor bug fixes. Post Updated on May 03, 2022 at 05:58PM

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential code defects that are difficult to find and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we’re announcing the support of file/folder suppression for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, a new feature that allows customer to prevent CodeGuru Reviewer from surfacing findings on certain parts of their codebase. Post Updated on May 02, 2022 at 11:03PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to programmatically stop queued callbacks using the StopContact API. Queued callbacks reduce the time callers have to wait by enabling them to provide a phone number to be called back when an agent becomes available. In some situations, customers can end up calling repeatedly and registering for multiple callbacks. You can now use the StopContact API to prevent duplicate callback requests, improving customer experience and reducing contact center costs as callers will no longer receive multiple callbacks for the same issue. To learn more, see the API documentation . Post Updated on May 02, 2022 at 10:13PM

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 May 02, 2022 at 10:09PM

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on May 02, 2022 at 10:02PM

Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS ) on AWS Outposts now supports manual and automatic storage scaling. AWS Outposts  is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. With Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts , you can deploy managed DB instances in your on-premises environments. Post Updated on May 02, 2022 at 06:53PM