News For Dev-ops

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)  launched integrated service discovery in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions. Post Updated on September 30, 2022 at 10:48PM

In November 2021, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) introduced EBS Snapshots Archive, a new tier for EBS Snapshots that can 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. Today, we are announcing that you can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automatically move snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager to EBS Snapshots Archive, further reducing the need to manage complex custom scripts and the risk of having unattended storage costs.  Post Updated on September 30, 2022 at 10:03PM

Amazon Connect now publishes metrics for third-party integrations for Wisdom, Tasks, and Customer profiles to Amazon CloudWatch , making it easier to help monitor operational metrics. These integrations enable Amazon Connect customers to ingest data (e.g., purchase history, knowledge content) and/or automate task creation from third-party SaaS applications such as Zendesk, Salesforce, or ServiceNow. You can now collect, view, and analyze operational and utilization metrics, such as number and size of documents ingested by Wisdom from a third-party application like Zendesk. This feature is available out-of-the box and no coding is required to access data through CloudWatch.  Post Updated on September 30, 2022 at 07:50PM

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Data Wrangler enables a unified data preparation and model training  experience with Amazon SageMaker Autopilot in just a few clicks. This integration is now enhanced to include and reuse Data Wrangler feature transforms such as missing value imputers, ordinal/one-hot encoders etc., along with the Autopilot models for ML inference. When you prepare data in Data Wrangler and train a model by invoking Autopilot, you can now deploy the trained model along with all the Data Wrangler feature transforms as a SageMaker Serial Inference Pipeline . This will enable automatic preprocessing of the raw data with the reuse of Data Wrangler feature transforms at the time of inference. This feat...

AWS CloudShell is now generally available in the South America (São Paulo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) regions. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 11:00PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka ( Amazon MSK ) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative applications and less time managing clusters. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 10:02PM

AWS Cloud Control API now supports AWS PrivateLink , providing access for customers to leverage AWS Cloud Control API through private Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints within their virtual private network. Customers can now manage their cloud infrastructure in a consistent manner and use the latest AWS capabilities faster using Cloud Control API’s common application programming interfaces (APIs) through private IP addresses in their Amazon VPC. These customers can use AWS Cloud Control API without having to use public IPs, firewall rules, or an internet gateway. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 09:53PM

AWS Compute Optimizer  now provides cost and performance optimization recommendations for 37 new EC2 instances types , including bare metal instances (m6g.metal) and compute optimized instances (c7g.2xlarge, hpc6a.48xlarge). Additionally, AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes the “Available Mbytes”, “Available Kbytes”, and “Available Bytes” metrics to deliver more accurate EC2 instance recommendations for EC2 Windows instances. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 09:24PM

Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to run container workloads, is now integrated with Amazon Inspector . Customers that have Inspector EC2 scanning already enabled do not need to take any additional action. If Amazon Inspector discovers a vulnerability, it will recommend an update to the version of Bottlerocket that fixes that vulnerability. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 06:01PM

Amazon WorkSpaces Core is a new, fully managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) service that combines the security, global reliability, and cost efficiency of AWS with existing VDI management solutions. WorkSpaces Core removes the need for capacity planning or infrastructure refreshing, and simplifies the provision, deployment, and management of VDI environments. With WorkSpaces Core, you can migrate your on-premises VDI solutions to AWS or deploy in a hybrid environment spanning on-premises resources and WorkSpaces Core infrastructure. Manage your entire user base from a single console without disrupting end users or retraining your IT staff. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 06:18PM

AWS Snow Family now offers the Snow Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for all Snowball Edge and Snowcone jobs. With this launch, customers can get started running edge workloads on Snow devices using the Snow AL2 AMI. The Snow AL2 AMI is maintained and provided by AWS Snow, making it easier for customers who do not want to create their own AMI for Snow devices. Post Updated on September 29, 2022 at 05:31PM

Today, we renamed AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority to AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA). This change helps customers differentiate between AWS Certificate Manager  (ACM) and AWS Private CA . ACM and AWS Private CA have distinct roles in the process of creating and managing the digital certificates used to identify resources and secure network communications over the internet, in the cloud, and on private networks. ACM manages the lifecycle of certificates: creating, storing, deploying, and managing renewals for AWS services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon API Gateway. AWS Private CA enables customers to create customizable private certificates for a broad range of scenarios. AWS services such as ACM, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), IAM Roles Anywhere  and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) can all leverage private certificates from Private CA. It also supports creating private certificate...

We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Canvas is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Australia (Sydney) regions. Post Updated on September 28, 2022 at 08:10PM

Amazon S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC) now provides a predictable replication time backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions. S3 RTC helps customers meet compliance or business requirements for data replication, and provides visibility into the replication process with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics. Post Updated on September 28, 2022 at 06:24PM

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 Dropbox connector to index and search documents from Dropbox data source. Post Updated on September 27, 2022 at 10:57PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances , the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Is4gen and Im4gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. They feature up to 30TB of storage with the new AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom-designed by AWS to maximize the storage performance of I/O intensive workloads such as SQL/NoSQL databases, search engines, distributed file systems and data analytics which continuously read and write from the SSDs in a sustained manner. AWS Nitro SSDs enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability in Im4gn and Is4gen instances compared to the third generation of storage optimized instances. These instances maximize the number of transactions processed per second (TPS) for I/O intensive workloads such as relational databases (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), and NoSQL databases (KeyDB, ScyllaDB, Cassandra) which have medium-la...

AWS Cost Categories  now support retroactive application of cost category rules. Previously, while creating a cost category, the rules applied from the start of current month. Similarly, while editing a cost category rule, the changes applied from the start of current month. With this launch, while creating a cost category, you can apply cost category rules starting any month from the previous 12 months. Similarly, while editing a cost category, you can apply cost category rules starting any month from the previous 12 months. These changes will also be reflected in AWS Cost Explorer. Post Updated on September 27, 2022 at 10:08PM

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now provides lifecycle events for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). With Container Insights you can monitor, isolate, and diagnose your containerized applications running on ECS. Now with the addition of lifecycle events, you can easily correlate metrics, logs and events in a single view for more complete operational visibility. Post Updated on September 27, 2022 at 06:45PM

Starting today, you can create budgets using a simplified 1-click workflow for common budgeting scenarios as well as take step-by-step tutorials to learn about creating different kinds of budgets. AWS Budgets  helps you track against expected spend by sending alerts when your cost and usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) thresholds you define, or when your Reserved Instances and Savings Plans' utilization and/or coverage rate drops below a threshold. 1-click templates and tutorials are intended for new and existing users seeking guidance on what budgets they can set to control costs in AWS. Post Updated on September 27, 2022 at 06:14PM

Amazon Connect now has an updated flow designer  UI, that makes it easier and faster to build personalized and automated end-customer experiences. With this launch, you can now easily filter the available blocks to quickly find what you need to build the flow, create color coded connections between blocks, view additional block metadata (e.g., the full text prompt in the Play Prompt block) at a glance, and more . Additionally, with the improved flow language , you can now import and export  flows in your Amazon Connect instance making it easy to interchangeably build and edit between the UI and APIs. Post Updated on September 27, 2022 at 05:35PM

Starting today, you can perform an in-place upgrade of your Amazon Aurora   database cluster from Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) to Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility). Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console  or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Post Updated on September 26, 2022 at 10:01PM

Amazon Textract  is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we’re excited to announce self-service quota management support for Amazon Textract through enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas , a new self-service Amazon Textract quota calculator, and higher default Transactions Per Second (TPS) throughput quotas in select AWS Regions. Below is a detailed description of these new capabilities and enhancements: Post Updated on September 26, 2022 at 07:31PM

AWS App Runner adds Node.js v16 managed runtime for building and running node.js based web applications and APIs. App Runner allows you to deploy your application from source code or a container image directly in the AWS cloud. Regardless of the source type, App Runner takes care of starting, running, scaling, and load balancing your service. App Runner provides convenient platform-specific managed runtimes. Each one of these runtimes builds a container image from your source code and adds language runtime dependencies into your image. App Runner uses the managed runtime to build and deploy your application alleviating the need for you to develop and manage your own Dockerfiles. Post Updated on September 26, 2022 at 05:29PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our text extraction feature available via the DetectDocumentText API. Post Updated on September 23, 2022 at 10:28PM

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server , a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now provides additional performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and an enhanced monitoring dashboard with performance insights and recommendations. You can use the new metrics and dashboard to right-size your file systems and optimize performance and costs. Post Updated on September 22, 2022 at 10:34PM

Amazon Polly  is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Europe (Paris) Region. Post Updated on September 22, 2022 at 06:10PM

We are excited to launch the AWS Smart City Competency to provide best-in-class partner recommendations to our customers and broader market. With cities at the front line of economic, social, and global challenges such as energy and water use, traffic management, sanitation, and sustainability, the quest to build cities that “work” is increasingly reliant on technology solutions. Many AWS Partners leverage the power of AWS Cloud to innovate and deploy meaningful smart city solutions for these challenges , including urban data platforms to help cities gain insights for data-driven decision making; innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and delivery of urban infrastructure such as water, waste, transport, energy, and lighting; and most importantly, solutions to deliver better government services to all urban citizens. Post Updated on September 22, 2022 at 06:16PM

Amazon CloudWatch Evidently adds support for Client Side Evaluations (CSE) for AWS Lambda, powered by AWS AppConfig . Evidently is an application performance monitoring (APM) capability that makes it easier for customers to introduce experiments and launches in their application code. Powered by AppConfig Extensions , Evidently CSE allows application developers to generate feature-evaluations in single-digit milliseconds from within their own Lambda functions. AWS AppConfig, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows customers to configure, validate, and deploy feature flags to more safely and quickly update application behavior. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 10:19PM

Amazon Comprehend customers can now extract the sentiments associated with entities from text documents in real-time using the newly released synchronous API. Targeted Sentiment synchronous API enables customers to derive granular sentiments associated with specific entities of interest  such as brands or products without waiting for batch processing. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 10:27PM

Customers now have the option to view Service Health events on the AWS Health Dashboard in their local time and date. The AWS Health Dashboard  is the single place for customers to get relevant and timely information to help manage events in progress, prepare for planned activities, and provide information on accounts and services. This feature is intended for customers who want to localize timestamps displayed in the messaging and meta data of Service Health events displayed on the AWS Dashboard by selecting a preferred time zone. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 09:43PM

AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kazakhstan and Serbia. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 07:57PM

AWS CloudFormation  has expanded the availability of event notifications in Amazon EventBridge  to the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. You can use these event notifications to build and scale loosely-coupled event-driven applications. You can trigger actions in real-time when CloudFormation stacks or the resources within stacks are created, updated, or deleted without writing single-use custom codes or developing new software. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 09:32PM

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports definition of asset measurement units at the asset level, enabling customers to use a single asset model for machines reporting measurements in different units. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 06:31PM

Today, we’re pleased to announce that Amazon SageMaker Autopilot has added a new training mode that supports model ensembling powered by AutoGluon . For moderately large datasets (< 100MB), ensemble training mode builds machine learning (ML) models with high accuracy quickly - up to 8x faster than the current hyper parameter optimization (HPO) training mode with 250 trials. Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best ML models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. The current HPO mode uses a combination of hyper parameter values to maximize the accuracy of a single model. However, in cases when a single model is unable to capture the complex characteristics of data, combining (or ensembling) the predictions from diverse models can significantly improve overall model accuracy.  Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 06:02PM

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it simple for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 06:13PM

Amazon S3 on Outposts  now supports versioning, helping you to locally preserve, retrieve, and restore each version of every object stored in your buckets. Versioning objects makes it easier to recover from both unintended user actions and application failures. After you enable versioning for your S3 on Outposts bucket, all variants of an object are stored in the same bucket, and are distinguishable by a versionId. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 06:03PM

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery  (AWS DRS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on September 21, 2022 at 05:32PM

AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling now provides support for multiple simultaneous TCP connections, unlocking new use cases for advanced troubleshooting on remote devices. Secure Tunneling allows customers to establish bidirectional communication to remote devices using SSH, VNC or RDP. Now with multiple simultaneous TCP connections, customers can establish tunnels to access HTTP-based applications that typically make several connections for assets like images, javascript, and css. For example, you can now remotely access a web application that is running on a device to gain real-time telemetry or perform administrative tasks in a web-based GUI. Post Updated on September 20, 2022 at 10:49PM

Amazon Corretto 19 is now generally available. This version supports the latest OpenJDK feature release and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 19 from our downloads page . Post Updated on September 20, 2022 at 10:11PM

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on Outposts, which enable you to run highly available Kubernetes clusters in on-premises environments. Post Updated on September 20, 2022 at 05:40PM

Amazon Polly  is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Hiujin, Amazon Polly’s first Cantonese speaking, neural text to speech (NTTS) voice Post Updated on September 20, 2022 at 05:26PM

Amazon Redshift customers use the system table/views (STL/SVL) to get insight into query executions for their performance and auditing needs. These system table/views are powered by system logs and generated by Amazon Redshift cluster. Amazon Redshift enhances the system log durability and now allows the users to fetch up to seven days of system log data irrespective of instance type, cluster size and workload on the cluster. The system logs are now also persisted across the pause and resume of your cluster. Post Updated on September 19, 2022 at 11:09PM

If you deliver experiences with immersive audio and high dynamic range (HDR) video, you can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to encode Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision in your channel. Post Updated on September 19, 2022 at 10:07PM

Amazon RDS Proxy , a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) , now supports  Amazon RDS for SQLServer  running on major versions 2014 and later. Using Amazon RDS Proxy, customers can make applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. Post Updated on September 19, 2022 at 09:36PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS release 6.7.0 and onwards includes the ability to run Apache Spark SQL scripts through the StartJobRun API. Spark SQL is a Spark module for structured data processing. Unlike the Spark DataFrame API, Spark SQL interfaces provide Spark with more information about the structure of both the data and computation being performed. Internally, Spark SQL uses this extra information to perform additional optimizations. With this release, you can run Spark SQL queries and Spark SQL-based ETL pipelines directly through Amazon EMR on EKS’ StartJobRun API. Post Updated on September 19, 2022 at 06:58PM

Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for installing and periodically updating the CloudWatch Agent. With this new launch, you can now easily deploy and keep up to date the CloudWatch Agent in instances across accounts and Regions at scale with a few clicks. Post Updated on September 19, 2022 at 06:52PM

AWS Batch has increased the job report retention period from 24 hours to 7 days. This means that you can now query the details for AWS Batch jobs that were completed up to 7 days ago. With this longer retention period, you no longer need to worry about jobs disappearing after a day. You can query jobs a few days after submitting them, and have greater visibility over the jobs that you submitted throughout the week. Post Updated on September 16, 2022 at 09:53PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.17, 10.4.26 and 10.3.36. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. Post Updated on September 16, 2022 at 09:11PM

AWS App Runner now supports Amazon ECR  images from any AWS region to create or update App Runner services. App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. With App Runner you can deploy your application from source code or a container image directly in the AWS cloud. Regardless of the source type, App Runner takes care of starting, running, scaling, and load balancing your service. Post Updated on September 16, 2022 at 08:58PM

AWS Fargate customers can now configure Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods to use up to 16 vCPUs, an approximately 4x increase from before. vCPUs are the primary compute resource in ECS tasks and EKS pods. Larger vCPUs enable compute-heavy applications like machine learning inference, scientific modeling, and distributed analytics to more easily run on Fargate. In addition, customers can now provision up to 120 GiB of memory on Fargate, also a 4x increase from before. This helps batch workloads, extract, transform, load (ETL) jobs, genomics, and media processing applications better perform memory-intensive operations on Fargate. Larger vCPU and memory options may also make migration to serverless container compute simpler for applications that need more compute resources and cannot be easily re-architected into smaller microservices. Post Updated on September 16, 2022 at 08:47PM

AWS IoT TwinMaker introduces new features to improve the performance of data panels powered by the TwinMaker Grafana Plugin. For a complete list of features, see the changelog on AWS IoT TwinMaker App in Grafana. A few key features included in this new version are: Customers can now define the maximum number of alarms that are retrieved by the Get Alarms Query , which provides a way to configure payload size. The Get Property Value History by Entity query and Get Property Value History by Component Type query now support template variables such as propertyName. This enables developers to create dynamic time-series data panels that will display different properties/metrics based on selected entities. Post Updated on September 16, 2022 at 06:02PM

You can now use tags to better track and manage your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity solution that enables customers to connect to other services hosted on AWS using a secure and scalable method while keeping network traffic private. Post Updated on September 15, 2022 at 10:33PM

We are excited to announce that registration for the FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan (EMP) is now open. FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS EMP subscriptions allow embedded developers to receive critical bug fixes and security patches on their chosen FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) version for up to 10 years beyond the end of its initial support period . During the subscription period, developers will receive notifications for upcoming patches on FreeRTOS libraries, allowing them to systematically plan their product maintenance activities. This helps developers to secure their microcontroller-based devices for years, save operating system upgrade costs, and reduce the risk associated with patching their devices. Post Updated on September 15, 2022 at 08:41PM

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Incident Detection and Response, that offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management for their selected workloads. AWS Incident Detection and Response is designed to help you improve your operations, increase workload resiliency, and accelerate your recovery from critical incidents. AWS Incident Detection and Response leverages the proven operational, enhanced monitoring, and incident management capabilities used internally by AWS teams and externally by AWS Managed Services (AMS). Post Updated on September 15, 2022 at 08:33PM

Amazon AppFlow , a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports deleting records in Salesforce . Customers of Amazon AppFlow may now execute Amazon Appflow flows which delete targeted records in a destination Salesforce instance. This new capability enhances Amazon AppFlow’s connector for Salesforce which already supports write methods such as Insert, Update, and Upsert. Post Updated on September 15, 2022 at 06:37PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle  now supports the instance store for temporary tablespaces and the Database Smart Flash Cache (flash cache) for M5d and R5d instances. M5d and R5d instances are ideal fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. Post Updated on September 14, 2022 at 10:35PM

You can now use Apache HTTP webservers  with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves. Post Updated on September 14, 2022 at 08:55PM

We are excited to introduce two new enhancements to AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect , Custom Metrics and Dimensions support. ML Detect now supports monitoring of custom metrics , allowing you to evaluate operational health parameters that are unique to your fleet. Besides setting static alarms manually with Rules Detect, you can now use machine learning to automatically learn your fleet's expected behaviors on custom metrics. Further, with the new Dimensions filter  support for ML Detect, you can define attributes to evaluate more precise metrics in your ML security profile. Post Updated on September 14, 2022 at 09:35PM

AWS Transfer Family now supports up to ten host keys per SFTP server. In addition, ED25519 and ECDSA key types are now supported for server host keys. Previously, AWS Transfer Family only supported one host key per server, and only the RSA key type. Post Updated on September 14, 2022 at 05:37PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights ’ Top SQL tab shows the SQL queries that are contributing the most to database load. Starting today, we are increasing the top SQL queries displayed in Amazon RDS Performance Insights from 10 to 25. Amazon RDS Performance Insights  is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Amazon Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 11:15PM

Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This expansion into a new AWS Region allows you to provision WorkSpaces closer to your users, providing a more responsive experience. Additionally, you can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet changing demand, without the cost and complexity of on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 09:08PM

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.  Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 07:32PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Stockholm) region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. The local SSD storage provided on these instances will benefit applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files. Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 05:59PM

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. SageMaker Studio comes with fast start, collaborative notebooks. You can quickly launch notebooks in Studio, easily dial up or down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even share your notebook as a link in few simple clicks. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now come with built-in integration with  AWS Glue Interactive Sessions . Data scientists and data engineers can use the serverless Apache Spark runtime environment managed by AWS Glue Interactive Sessions to interactively prepare data at scale right in their Studio notebooks. Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 06:01PM

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon FSx for Lustre. Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 05:33PM

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Europe (Paris) region. X2idn and X2iedn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (code named Ice Lake), 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. 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 deliver up to 45% more SAPS than comparable X1 instances and are SAP-Certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2idn and X2iedn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardw...

Amazon SWF  has launched a new console experience, making it easier for you to manage SWF workflows with more visibility and control. Post Updated on September 13, 2022 at 05:45PM

AWS Security Hub  has launched a new control for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP)  to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). This control conducts fully-automatic checks against security best practices for AWS Auto Scaling. If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, the control is enabled for you automatically. Security Hub now supports 224 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS. Post Updated on September 09, 2022 at 10:31PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize  is increasing service limits and quotas for existing and new customers, making it easier to deploy Personalize at scale. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Prior to this launch, limits on the use of certain Personalize resources and the rate of data import API calls were set at the AWS account level. For example, customers could use a maximum of 10 filters at a given time in their AWS account. Similarly, customers were limited to 1,000 PutEvent requests per second for their AWS account. With this launch, Personalize transitioned these limits and others from an account level to a dataset group (DSG) level. Customers can now have up to 10 filters and 1,000 PutEvents per second, per DSG. You can create up to 5 dataset groups per account, meaning you can create a total of 50 filters and 5,000 PutEvents per second for ...

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink  now publishes three new container-level metrics to Amazon CloudWatch: CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization of Flink Task Managers. Task Managers are the worker nodes of a Flink application that perform the data processing. These new metrics provide enhanced visibility to Task Manager resource usage and can be used to easily scale applications running on Kinesis Data Analytics. Post Updated on September 09, 2022 at 08:19PM

Amazon SageMaker enables customers to deploy ML models to make predictions (also known as inference) for any use case. You can now deploy large models (up to 500GB) for inference on Amazon SageMaker’s Real-time and Asynchronous Inference options by configuring the maximum EBS volume size and timeout quotas. This launch enables customers to leverage SageMaker's fully managed Real-time and Asynchronous inference capabilities to deploy and manage large ML models such as variants of GPT and OPT. Post Updated on September 09, 2022 at 08:06PM

Amazon QuickSight  now supports ‘Missing Data’ control for both line and area charts. Previously, line charts only supported ‘missing data’ treatment for datetime fields. Now, we have added support for categorical data as well for both line and area charts. Instead of displaying broken lines (default behavior), Authors can also choose to display broken lines as either continuous lines by directly connecting to the next available data point in series or interpolate these missing values with zero and display a continuous lines. More details can be found here . Post Updated on September 09, 2022 at 06:04PM

Today Amazon WorkDocs, a fully managed product for creating, sharing, and enriching digital content, announced the General Availability of an Apple Silicon (M1, M2) compatible WorkDocs Drive. Apple Silicon support for WorkDocs makes it easy for customers with Apple Silicon MacBooks to install and sync WorkDocs files on their devices. Post Updated on September 09, 2022 at 05:05PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)  is launching a public preview of message data protection, a new set of capabilities for Amazon SNS Standard Topics  that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and data protection policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange high volumes of data. Post Updated on September 09, 2022 at 12:03AM

AWS Security Hub  has released 2 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP)  to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled for you automatically. Security Hub now supports 225 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS. Post Updated on September 08, 2022 at 10:08PM

Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect  is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. Post Updated on September 08, 2022 at 08:27PM

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. SageMaker Studio is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to enable administrators to monitor and audit user activity and API calls from Studio notebooks, SageMaker Data Wrangler and SageMaker Canvas. Starting today, you can configure SageMaker Studio to also record the user identity (specifically, user profile name ) in CloudTrail events thereby enabling administrators to attribute those events to specific users, thus improving their organization's security and governance posture. Post Updated on September 08, 2022 at 06:21PM

QuickSight Q is now available in four new regions (in addition to six existing regions) - Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) and Canada (Central). AWS customers can signup for QuickSight in these four new regions in addition to existing regions, details can also be found at AWS QuickSight Q regions . Get started with a free trial of Amazon QuickSight Q . Post Updated on September 08, 2022 at 06:16PM

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning practitioners get started on training and deploying machine learning models quickly. These algorithms and models can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data including tabular, image, and text. Post Updated on September 08, 2022 at 05:13PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Tokyo). C6id, M6id and R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% better price performance than their 5th generation counterpart instances. Post Updated on September 08, 2022 at 05:36PM

Starting today, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis  is generally available in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Paris) and Europe (Milan). Post Updated on September 07, 2022 at 10:40PM

AWS Snowball devices are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on September 07, 2022 at 09:29PM

We are excited to announce that you can now add up to 10 measures and 10 dimensions when setting up your detector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics . With this launch you can now include more measures and dimensions in a single detector, which allows you to get insights on root causes and causality across all the measures and dimensions that you have selected. Post Updated on September 07, 2022 at 05:58PM

We are excited to announce two new widgets (Latest announcements and Recent AWS blog posts) are available on AWS Console Home. Using these widgets, you can more easily learn about new AWS capabilities and get the latest news about AWS launches, events, and more. The AWS blog posts and launch announcements shown are related to the services used in your applications. Post Updated on September 06, 2022 at 09:31PM

We are excited to announce that you can now filter your data by its dimensions while using Amazon Lookout for Metrics . Amazon Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning (ML) to automatically monitor the metrics that are most important to businesses with greater speed and accuracy than traditional methods used for anomaly detection. The service also makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies like unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment transaction failures, increases in new user sign-ups, and many more. Post Updated on September 06, 2022 at 08:46PM

An additional 5 AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controllers have graduated to generally available status. Customers can now provision and manage AWS resources using ACK controllers for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), and AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Post Updated on September 06, 2022 at 06:36PM

Amazon DynamoDB transactions  enable coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within and across tables. The maximum number of actions in a single transaction has now increased from 25 to 100. Post Updated on September 06, 2022 at 06:28PM

Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for routing profiles in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for routing profiles by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all routing profiles containing “sales” in the description. To learn more about this new API, see the API documentation . Post Updated on September 02, 2022 at 11:03PM

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now provides Alert Manager & Ruler logs to help customers troubleshoot their alerting pipeline and configuration in Amazon CloudWatch Logs . 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. The Alert Manager allows customers to group, route, deduplicate, and silence alarms before routing them to end users via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). The Ruler allows customers to define recording and alerting rules, which are queries that are evaluated at regular intervals. With Alert Manager and Ruler logs, customers can troubleshoot issues in their alerting pipelines including missing Amazon SNS topic permissions, misconfigured alert manager routes, and rules that f...

AWS Fargate , the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) , is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Fargate allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Fargate makes it easier to scale applications and helps improve security through application isolation by design. Post Updated on September 02, 2022 at 05:59PM

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation  for instance creation. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy Amazon Connect instances—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use AWS CloudFormation to deploy Amazon Connect instances along with other resources within the instance, including users, quick connects, and contact flows. For more information, see Amazon Connect Resource Type Reference  in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide. Post Updated on September 02, 2022 at 04:43PM

Starting today, customers now have the option of using Enterprise On-Ramp Support  or Enterprise Support  to satisfy the prerequisite for ordering AWS Outposts . With the addition of Enterprise On-Ramp Support, customers now have more flexibility in selecting the AWS Support plan that best suits their Outposts workloads and support needs. Post Updated on September 01, 2022 at 07:58PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor version 14.4. We recommend you upgrade to this latest minor version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs from prior versions of PostgreSQL. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. Post Updated on September 01, 2022 at 06:24PM

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Post Updated on September 01, 2022 at 06:10PM

Inspector has added Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019, 2022 support for continual EC2 vulnerability scanning. Customers that have Inspector EC2 scanning already enabled and the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent installed and configured, do not need to take any additional actions. Windows instances will now automatically and continually be scanned for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. New customers can get started  with Inspector with a single click in the AWS Management Console to start assessing for software vulnerabilities in their EC2 instances, both Windows and Linux, along with their container images in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). A complete list of operating systems supported by Inspector can be found here . Post Updated on September 01, 2022 at 06:26PM

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory , also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector  are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Post Updated on September 01, 2022 at 05:28PM

AWS is launching additional APIs to create, read, update and delete users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). The new APIs expand existing capabilities to help reduce administrative effort and save time, and provide greater visibility into the users and groups that are available in IAM Identity Center. You can use the APIs for provisioning, de-provisioning or updating users and groups programmatically in a scalable manner. The new Identity Center directory APIs enable you to retrieve users and their group memberships from the Identity Center directory for audit and reconciliation purposes. Post Updated on September 01, 2022 at 05:30PM