News For Dev-ops

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR  release 6.8 includes Apache Flink 1.15.1. This feature is available on EMR on EC2. Post Updated on October 31, 2022 at 07:54PM

Amazon EMR release 6.8 now supports Apache Hudi 0.11.1 and Apache Iceberg 0.14.0. You can use these frameworks on Amazon EMR on EC2, and Amazon EMR on EKS as well as on Amazon EMR Serverless . Post Updated on October 31, 2022 at 07:31PM

AWS Launch Wizard now supports for placing Microsoft SQL Server tempdb in instance store volumes during SQL Server deployment on Amazon EC2. With the launch, you can save time and effort by easily configuring tempdb by one click during deployment without needing to manually configuring it after deployment. Post Updated on October 31, 2022 at 05:24PM

You can now monitor the quality of machine learning predictions from Batch Transform jobs in SageMaker using Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor.  Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor provides a fully managed experience to monitor models in production, detect deviations, and take timely actions such as auditing or retraining. Post Updated on October 28, 2022 at 10:56PM

Amazon QuickSight  launches the new capability for Row Level Security (RLS) on Dataset-as-a-Source. This is a follow-up feature to enhance the security level for the current QuickSight Dataset-as-a-Source feature. Previously, if any of the QuickSight parent datasets is RLS-enabled, the creation of a child dataset from that parent dataset was blocked. Now with the new capability, customers can create child datasets with the RLS rules inherated from the parent dataset. When querying the child dataset, QuickSight applies the parent RLS filter on top of the parent data at runtime. For further details, visit here . Post Updated on October 28, 2022 at 10:29PM

Amazon CloudWatch RUM can now send RUM metrics with additional dimensions to CloudWatch. CloudWatch RUM can be used to collect and view your web application’s client-side health and performance. Today, RUM automatically sends aggregated metrics of user session health to CloudWatch Metrics. Now you can add additional dimensions to these default metrics to gain a more granular view of your RUM metrics. Post Updated on October 28, 2022 at 07:46PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)  now supports a new instance event, RDS-EVENT-0230, under the event category of security patching, that will alert you when an operating system update is available for your DB instance. Post Updated on October 28, 2022 at 07:28PM

Today, Amazon Pinpoint announces pool management capabilities within the Amazon Pinpoint console. Pool management, a feature that allows you to group phone numbers and Sender IDs for sending SMS, was released earlier this year as part of our version 2.0 SMS and voice API  and now brings the experience into the Amazon Pinpoint UI for customized configuration. Post Updated on October 28, 2022 at 07:15PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers Tiered storage that brings a virtually unlimited and low-cost storage tier. Tiered Storage lets you store and process data using the same Kafka APIs and clients , while saving your storage costs by 50% or more over existing MSK storage options . Tiered Storage makes it easy and cost-effective when you need a longer safety buffer to handle unexpected processing delays or build new stream processing applications. You can now scale your compute and storage independently, simplifying operations. Post Updated on October 28, 2022 at 06:06PM

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2idn instance, 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 making this instance a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, and big data processing engines. X2idn 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 on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory . Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 11:24PM

Amazon MSK Connect now supports Private DNS hostnames for enhanced security. With Private DNS hostname support in MSK Connect, you can configure connectors to reference public or private domain names. Connectors will use the DNS servers configured in your VPC’s DHCP option set to resolve domain names. You can now use MSK Connect to privately connect with databases, data warehouses and other resources in your VPC to comply with your security needs. Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 08:57PM

AWS Console Mobile Application users can now access AWS CloudShell in the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile App provides AWS CloudShell in a mobile-friendly interface that enables users to run scripts with the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI) to interact with 250+ AWS services while on-the-go. Users also have access to an extended mobile keyboard when using AWS CloudShell in the Console Mobile App. The extended mobile keyboard provides users with key inputs (e.g. tab, ctrl, alt, esc) that are available in the AWS CloudShell console on desktop. The Console Mobile App currently offers AWS CloudShell in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo). Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 07:49PM

Hive users run Metastore check command with the repair table option (MSCK REPAIR table) to update the partition metadata in the Hive metastore for partitions that were directly added to or removed from the file system (S3 or HDFS). When run, MSCK repair command must make a file system call to check if the partition exists for each partition. This step could take a long time if the table has thousands of partitions. In EMR 6.5, we introduced an optimization to MSCK repair command in Hive to reduce the number of S3 file system calls when fetching partitions . This feature improves performance of MSCK command (~15-20x on 10k+ partitions) due to reduced number of file system calls especially when working on tables with large number of partitions. Previously, you had to enable this feature by explicitly setting a flag. Starting with Amazon EMR 6.8, we further reduced the number of S3 filesystem calls to make MSCK repair run faster and enabled this feature by default. Post Updated on Octob...

We are excited to announce the general availability of i4i.metal instance for VMware Cloud on AWS. Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, i4i.metal instance is powered by 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processor with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over i3 instances. This new instance is intended for VMware Cloud on AWS customers looking for an optimal balance of compute, memory, and storage configuration. Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 06:13PM

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5b instance types for Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model, featuring up to 4x the RAM per vCPU of existing R5b instance classes to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs without impacting application performance. R5b memory optimized instances come in various configurations from 2 vCPU to 48 vCPU and memory from 32 GiB to 768 GiB and up to 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. These configurations will allow you to right-size the Oracle workloads. Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 06:15PM

Amazon Redshift  introduces a new way to work on multiple SQL queries by organizing them into a single Notebook with documentation, visualization, and collaboration capabilities. The new SQL Notebook interface available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2 allows users such as data analysts and data scientists to run data analytics more efficiently by keeping relevant queries and the information together for ease of use. Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 06:26PM

AWS Local Zones are now available in Hamburg and Warsaw—the first AWS Local Zones launch in Europe. You can now use AWS Local Zones in these metro areas to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Post Updated on October 27, 2022 at 05:47PM

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer  now supports six additional resource types to help you identify public and cross-account access from outside your AWS account and organization. These six resource types include Amazon SNS topics, Amazon EBS volume snapshots, Amazon RDS DB snapshots, Amazon RDS DB cluster snapshots, Amazon ECR repositories, and Amazon EFS file systems. IAM Access Analyzer now analyzes resource policies, access control lists, and other access controls for these resources to make it easier for you to identify public, cross-account, and cross-organization access. These findings can help you adhere to the security best practice of least privilege and reduce unintended external access to your resources. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 10:58PM

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)  now supports network connectivity disruption as a new FIS action type. Using the new disrupt connectivity action in AWS FIS, you can inject a variety of connectivity issues as part of an AWS FIS experiment. Supported connectivity issues include disrupting all traffic, or, limiting the disruption to traffic to/from a specific Availability Zone, VPC, custom prefix list, or service (including Amazon S3  and DynamoDB ). This helps you validate that your applications are resilient to a total or partial loss of connectivity. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 10:45PM

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search to enable use cases that require reproducibility of hyperparameter tuning. Grid search will cover every combination of the specified hyperparameter values and yield reproducible tuning results. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 08:45PM

The AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring is a new extension for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. The extension helps transform your legacy .NET Framework applications to a modern, cloud-optimized architecture letting you fully leverage the benefits of reduced cost, increased up time, and improved scalability. It extends the functionality of Porting Assistant for .NET with new features, such as testing on AWS environments directly from Visual Studio IDE. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 07:45PM

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports the following new features for WorkSpaces Web Access using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP): Bi-directional audio/video - IT administrators can make video conferencing and other tools that use webcam and microphone available to their end users who use Web Access, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere. Clipboard redirection - Users can copy and paste from their local client to their remote WorkSpace, or vice versa. Clipboard permission can be enabled, disabled, or enabled unidirectionally. Time zone redirection - Administrators and users can now configure their Windows WorkSpace to use the web client's local time zone. This enables administrators and users to improve productivity by making it easier to use applications, such as calendar apps, that utilize their local time. Streaming metrics - Customers can now view streaming metrics such as frame rate, network latency, and download bandwidth inside their WorkSpaces We...

We are excited to announce the support of assigning tags to user-profiles created within Amazon SageMaker. This enables you to track Amazon SageMaker Canvas usage costs categorized by users, departments, lines of businesses, or cost centers. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 06:18PM

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now offers short-lived certificate mode, a lower cost mode of AWS Private CA designed for issuing short-lived certificates. With this new mode, public key infrastructure (PKI) administrators, builders, and developers can save money when issuing certificates with validity periods of 7 days or fewer. If you use certificates to convey privileged access, such as with IAM Roles Anywhere, short-lived certificates may offer better security because they expire quickly rather than relying on the need to revoke certificates with a longer validity period. With today’s launch of short-lived certificate mode, you can now use a private CA with a dedicated mode for issuing those short-lived certificates. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 06:41PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka  (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.3.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.3.1  includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some of the key features include enhancements to metrics and partitioner. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release for stability. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 3.3.1 . Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 06:00PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i and M6i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. C6i instances are an ideal fit for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC). M6i instances are SAP Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications, gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. Post Updated on October 26, 2022 at 06:09PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region and high Memory instances with 18TiB (u-18tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These instances give customers greater flexibility for instance usage and procurement - customers can start using them with On Demand, Reserved Instance, and Savings Plan purchase options. With u-24tb1 and u-18tb1, customers have a choice of 24TiB and 18TiB of memory, respectively - both offering 448 vCPUs, 100Gbps network and 38Gbps EBS bandwidth.  Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 10:56PM

Aurora MySQL 2.11, compatible with MySQL 5.7, is now generally available. Aurora MySQL 2.11 includes security updates and also supports R6i instances powered by 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processors. Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 09:47PM

Today, AWS Batch introduced support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), enabling customers to run their jobs on Amazon EKS clusters as Kubernetes pods. AWS Batch manages the scaling of Kubernetes nodes, placement of pods, and supports job execution using Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon EC2 Spot. Furthermore, Batch respects other workloads on these EKS clusters, and will not place jobs on non-Batch nodes. Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 02:41PM

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 06:21PM

Amazon SageMaker Multi-Model Endpoint (MME) is fully managed capability of SageMaker Inference that allows customers to deploy thousands of models on a single endpoint and save costs by sharing instances on which the endpoints run across all the models. Until today, MME was only supported for machine learning (ML) models which run on CPU instances. Now, customers can use MME to deploy thousands of ML models on GPU based instances as well, and potentially save costs by 90%. Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 07:44PM

CDK For Kubernetes Plus (CDK8s+) is a multi-language class library for defining Kubernetes applications using high level intent based constructs. Customers defining Kubernetes application indicate that maintainability of Kubernetes manifests is challenging; CDK8s+ aims to lower the entry barrier and improve maintainability of Kubernetes manifests by offering a hand crafted construct for each core Kubernetes object, exposing a richer API with reduced complexity. With this launch, CDK8s+ is now generally available and stable for use. This means that the API will remain unchanged and fully supported (no breaking changes), at least until the next major version. CDK8s+ is vended as a separate library for each Kubernetes spec version, all those libraries are now generally available and stable to use. Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 06:17PM

Today, AWS Batch introduced support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), enabling customers to run their jobs on Amazon EKS clusters as Kubernetes pods. AWS Batch manages the scaling of Kubernetes nodes, placement of pods, and supports job execution using Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon EC2 Spot. Furthermore, Batch respects other workloads on these EKS clusters, and will not place jobs on non-Batch nodes. Post Updated on October 25, 2022 at 02:41PM

Amazon CloudWatch RUM (Real User Monitoring) adds the ability for customers to include additional customer-defined metadata attributes as key-value pairs to RUM events when instrumenting their web applications. Additionally, customers are now able to use these self defined attributes as an additional filter when slicing and dicing the data in the AWS Management Console. When combined with pre-defined metadata attributes (eg. browser, device, country) that RUM supports today, customers can see a better classification of different end user activities. Post Updated on October 24, 2022 at 10:19PM

AWS Global Accelerator now offers two new APIs, AddEndpoints and RemoveEndpoints, that allow you to add and remove endpoints behind your accelerator. With these new APIs, you can now configure endpoints behind your accelerators without having to provide the full list of endpoints for adding or removing endpoints. Both AddEndpoints and RemoveEndpoints APIs can accommodate up to 10 endpoints in a single API call. The new APIs help increase scalability and reduce errors when you manage your endpoint workflows with Global Accelerator. You can continue to use the AddEndpointGroup and RemoveEndpointGroup APIs to add and remove endpoint groups, and the DescribeEndpointGroup API to describe all endpoints behind an accelerator. Post Updated on October 24, 2022 at 09:40PM

AWS Batch customers can now submit Fargate type jobs to use up to 16 vCPUs, an approximately 4x increase from before. vCPUs are the primary compute resource in Fargate type Batch job. 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 for Fargate type jobs, also a 4x increase from before. This helps their batch jobs better perform memory-intensive operations on Fargate. Larger vCPU and memory options may also make migration to serverless container compute simpler for jobs that need more compute resources and cannot be easily re-architected into smaller sized containers. Post Updated on October 24, 2022 at 07:29PM

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive helps customers save up to 75% on storage costs for Amazon EBS Snapshots that they rarely access and intend to retain for more than 90 days. Amazon 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 compliance reasons, you can use Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive to store full, point-in-time snapshots at a lower cost than what you would incur if stored in the standard tier. You can also use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots and automatically move them to EBS Snapshots Archive based on your specific policies, further reducing the need to manage complex custom scripts and the risk of having unattended storage costs.  Post Updated on October 24, 2022 at 06:15PM

You can now activate deletion protection for your Amazon Cognito user pools. When you configure a user pool with deletion protection, the pool cannot be deleted by any user. Deletion protection is now active by default for new user pools created through the AWS Console. You can activate or deactivate deletion protection for an existing user pool in the AWS Console, the AWS Command Line Interface, and API. Deletion protection prevents you from requesting the deletion of a user pool unless you first modify the pool and deactivate deletion protection. Post Updated on October 24, 2022 at 06:02PM

Today, we are excited to announce support for dimensionality reduction using principal components analysis (PCA) in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler . Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single visual interface. PCA is a popular technique for analyzing large datasets containing a high number of dimensions per observation and is a helpful statistical technique for reducing the dimensionality of a dataset for use with popular ML algorithms like XgBoost and random forest. Previously, to perform PCA on a data set, data scientists would have to find appropriate libraries and write code to reduce high-dimensional data. Post Updated on October 21, 2022 at 09:17PM

AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows you to export signed query results from Lake to a specified Amazon S3 bucket of your choice. This feature lets you integrate CloudTrail Lake with your downstream workflows for further analysis and visualization purposes, such as query join operations with data sets in Amazon Athena, and dashboards with Amazon QuickSight. Every query result file exported from CloudTrail Lake includes a CloudTrail signature. This signature file, designed to provide security assurance, can help verify any unauthorized modifications to the data exported from CloudTrail Lake. Post Updated on October 21, 2022 at 07:25PM

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Post Updated on October 21, 2022 at 07:03PM

Today, we are excited to launch dark mode as a beta feature in the AWS Management Console. Dark mode is available as a setting for visual mode in Unified Settings. The setting persists for customers across browsers and devices. Post Updated on October 21, 2022 at 06:05PM

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports Access Point aliases to simplify application access to data. Beginning today, you can configure applications to use the Access Point alias in place of the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) when accessing S3 on Outposts buckets. With Access Points, you can create hundreds of unique policies to control access to shared datasets, and applications can access S3 on Outposts buckets by utilizing this alias. Amazon S3 on Outposts Access Point aliases are now available in all AWS Regions where AWS Outposts are available at no additional cost. Post Updated on October 21, 2022 at 06:08PM

Amazon Braket , the quantum computing service from AWS, aims to accelerate research and software development in quantum computing. Today, we are adding support for pulse-level access to superconducting quantum processors from Rigetti Computing and Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) by launching Braket Pulse, a new feature for running pulse-level quantum programs. With this launch, Braket customers have more choice and can dive deeper in their research with the option to code their quantum programs using gates, pulses, or a combination of both. Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 10:44PM

You can now view and filter the list of resources analyzed by Amazon DevOps Guru within the DevOps Guru console. You can view the list of resources on the ‘Analyzed resources’ page and sort and filter by resource name, DevOps Guru tag name (or tag value), CloudFormation stack name, or AWS Service name. You can optionally download the list via CSV file which also includes the Amazon Resource Names (ARN).   Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 10:43PM

AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of language Transform called ‘ AWS::LanguageExtensions ' to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. When declared in a template, the transform enables extensions to the template language in AWS CloudFormation. Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 09:45PM

Starting today, AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow (version 4.7.5) enables customers to streamline the display of AWS Service Catalog portfolios and products by Account and Region in ServiceNow Service Portal. This feature enables ServiceNow Service Portal end users to identify and drill-down to the appropriate AWS Service Catalog product if they have access to shared portfolios from multiple accounts and regions. Previously the drilldown feature was restricted to only portfolio names. This version also includes additional filter navigator modules for open incidents in AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager integration and displays timeline events as comments on the AWS incident in user-readable format. The AWS Support integration now introduces an optional configuration to create the support cases in an intermediate table for customers who want to leverage custom business workflows for managing support cases. The AWS Service Management Connector supports latest Service...

Using AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On), you now have more control over user session management. You can use the console to set customized session lengths (up to 7 days), based on your organization’s security requirements and desired end-user experience. With this feature, you can also terminate sessions, enabling you to manage sessions that are no longer needed or potentially suspicious. Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 09:49PM

Amazon CloudFront now offers three additional data fields in CloudFront real-time logs: Origin first-byte latency, Origin last-byte latency, and autonomous system number (ASN). CloudFront real-time logs contain detailed information about requests delivered by CloudFront such as the HTTP status codes of the response, or whether the response was cached. With the three new data fields, customers can get more granular insights on CloudFront performance while analyzing real-time logs, or in the dashboards created using the logs. The Origin first-byte latency provides the time taken in seconds by the origin server to respond back with the first byte of the response. The Origin last-byte latency indicates the time taken in seconds by the origin server to respond back with the last byte of the response. ASN is a unique number that identifies the network, such as an internet service provider (ISP) network, that provides the viewer IP address.  Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 08:48PM

AWS GovCloud (US) enables U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. By expanding AWS Control Tower to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, AWS Control Tower now provides customers on the GovCloud (US) Region and their partners the ability to architect their secure cloud solutions. Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 08:01PM

Today AWS announced up to 10x faster exports to Amazon S3 for snapshot exports for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition for MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. The performance improvement is automatically applied to all types of database snapshot exports, including manual snapshots, automated system snapshots, and snapshots created by the AWS Backup service. Post Updated on October 20, 2022 at 06:25PM

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 October 19, 2022 at 10:56PM

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights will now auto-generate Application Level Health Dashboards. Application Insights helps you automatically set up monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. With the new health dashboards, you get a centralized view of all aspects of your application, making it easier and faster to view, sort and search your problems. The visual clues will help you take a faster path towards diagnosing and resolving potential issues. Post Updated on October 19, 2022 at 10:31PM

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces the general availability of an increased default quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 6,000 transactions per second, per API action in: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) regions. For Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, the default throughput quota has been increased to 3,000 transactions per second, per API action. This is a twofold increase compared to the current SQS FIFO queue throughput quota. For a detailed breakdown of default throughput quotas per region, see SQS documentation . Post Updated on October 19, 2022 at 08:59PM

AWS Step Functions now provides a new console experience for viewing and debugging your Express Workflow executions that makes it easier to trace and root cause issues in your executions. Post Updated on October 19, 2022 at 07:06PM

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex launches the FreeFormInput built-in slot type. Post Updated on October 19, 2022 at 06:02PM

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) announces the launch of a new model of Dedicated IPs (managed) which helps customers to grow, manage and maintain their sending reputation via exclusive IP addresses without all of the heavy lifting associated with provisioning and managing dedicated IPs. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. Post Updated on October 19, 2022 at 06:20PM

Today, AWS launched the AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a convenient method for AWS Lambda users to retrieve parameters from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. AWS Lambda customers can leverage this extension to improve their application performance as it decreases the latency and the cost of retrieving parameters and secrets. Previously, customers had to initialize either the core library of a service or the entire service SDK inside a Lambda function for retrieving secrets and parameters, now they can simply use the extension. This lightweight and easy-to-use extension caches parameters and secrets, and persists them throughout the lifecycle of the Lambda function. The extension runs inside an isolated execution environment using the same permissions as the role of the user running the Lambda function. Post Updated on October 18, 2022 at 10:59PM

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on October 18, 2022 at 11:14PM

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now provides SDKs for stream chat with support for web, Android and iOS. The Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs support common functions for chat room resource management, sending, and receiving messages, and managing chat room participants. Visit the Amazon IVS chat documentation  to learn more. Using the Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs incurs no additional charges beyond standard Amazon IVS usage costs . Post Updated on October 18, 2022 at 09:21PM

AWS announced an enhanced Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with expanded compute, memory and storage options. The AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized device doubled the compute capacity up to 104 vCPUs, doubled the memory capacity up to 416GB RAM, and is now fully SSD with 28TB NVMe storage. AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is a secure, rugged device that brings AWS computing and storage capabilities, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS Lambda functions, and AWS IAM to your rugged edge environments. Post Updated on October 18, 2022 at 08:53PM

We are announcing the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Workstation for accelerated GPU instances on AWS Marketplace. RHEL Workstation is a cloud-based remote desktop solution that allows end users from anywhere in the world to access a workstation instance to do their work and collaborate with team members. RHEL Workstation is designed for advanced Linux users working on more powerful hardware, and is optimized for activities such as animation, computer-aided design and engineering, scientific research, medical imaging etc. It is delivered via NICE DCV , a secure, high-performance remote display protocol. RHEL Workstation on AWS allows customers to provide high-end hardware capabilities to a distributed workforce, without the need for large capital investments in expensive workstation equipment. Post Updated on October 18, 2022 at 06:36PM

Today, we are excited to announce support to refit transforms with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler . To make data usable by algorithms such as XgBoost, data scientists must transform non-numeric values to numeric values using transforms such as one-hot encoding. Since transforms like one-hot encoding depend on the data, these transforms are frequently referred to as fitted transforms. These transforms must be updated or re-fitted to account for changes in the data as data continues to change over time. Additionally, when working on a sample data set, transforms must be updated to account for changes between a sample data set and the larger data set. Use of transforms like one-hot encoding generates additional information, which needs to be tracked and captured in the data preparation pipeline. Omitting or incorrectly tracking this information can lead to errors in the data preparation process. Without support to refit transforms, many data scientists did not have an easy way to specify ...

Starting today, Amazon Detective automatically groups related GuardDuty findings to help security analysts reduce triage time and create a more comprehensive security investigation. Detective uses machine learning (ML) to group related GuardDuty findings that in insolation may have been ignored but together show the lifecycle of an attack, which can help security analysts identify advanced threats more easily. Available under the Summary page, Detective shows groups of related GuardDuty findings with severity, all affected AWS accounts, and resources. In addition, Detective maps the evolution of findings to tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) from the MITRE ATT&CK framework - a well adopted framework for security and threat detection. Post Updated on October 17, 2022 at 09:01PM

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) now supports higher default quotas to help you scale your environment. With the increased quota you can create and assign up to 2,000 permission sets in an Identity Center instance. You can also assign up to 100,000 users and 100,000 groups to as many as 3,000 applications and accounts (combined) that are accessible via the AWS access portal. Post Updated on October 17, 2022 at 06:03PM

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 SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Post Updated on October 14, 2022 at 09:59PM

Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an existing Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up connection between your RDS or Aurora database and an EC2 instance. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your related network settings to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database. Post Updated on October 14, 2022 at 09:32PM

AWS Glue includes crawler s based on Amazon S3 Event Notifications , a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning only data based on events in Amazon S3. The Glue crawler extracts the data schema and automatically populates the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. By crawling datasets based on S3 events, this reduces the time to insight by making newly ingested data quickly available for analysis with your favorite analytics and machine learning tools. Post Updated on October 14, 2022 at 09:16PM

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)  Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of Open ID Connect (OIDC) support in SAM CLI Pipelines. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. SAM Pipelines make it easier to create continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for serverless applications with Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, and AWS CodePipeline. SAM Pipelines comes pre-packaged with a set of default pipeline templates for all supported systems that showcase AWS best practices for secure, multi-account, and multi-region deployments. Post Updated on October 14, 2022 at 07:38PM

Starting today, we are adding service quotas for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). You will now see three new quotas in the EC2 section on the Service Quotas console page. The first quota is for the total number of AMIs within your AWS account, the second quota is for the total number of public AMIs within your AWS account, and the third quota is on the number of shares you can have for each AMI. These quotas are added by default for all AWS accounts and do not require any action from you. Each quota is per AWS account per AWS Region. Post Updated on October 14, 2022 at 06:03PM

Starting today, all new AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) directories run on Windows Server 2019. For current customers with existing directories, you can simply update with just a few clicks or programmatically via API. With this feature, you can initiate updates for existing directories when it’s most convenient, avoiding peak business hours, for example. Additionally, starting in March 2023, AWS will begin automatically updating any AWS Managed Microsoft AD directories to Windows Server 2019. Post Updated on October 14, 2022 at 06:06PM

AWS Glue  now offers integration with Git, the widely-used open source version control system. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that uses reusable jobs to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks on data sets of nearly any scale. With this feature, customers can use GitHub and AWS CodeCommit to maintain a history of changes to their AWS Glue jobs and apply their existing DevOps practices to deploy them. Before now, customers needed to set up their own integrations with their code versioning systems and build tooling to move jobs from development environments to production environments. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 11:09PM

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resource. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 10:05PM

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling  now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) 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. To see the list of all supported AWS public regions and AWS GovCloud regions, click here . Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 10:43PM

AWS Lambda now supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ. With event pattern content filtering, customers can write complex rules so that their Lambda function is only invoked to process meaningful events. This helps reduce traffic to customers’ Lambda functions, simplifies code, and reduces overall cost. Filtering was already available for SQS, DynamoDB, and Kinesis as event sources for Lambda. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 09:47PM

RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2022.02.2-485.pro2 with enhanced developer productivity and security capabilities. The new capabilities  include an enhanced R help system, improved editor support for the R pipe-bind placeholder and full end-to-end encryption that secures communication between the RStudioServerPro and RSession applications. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 08:00PM

You can now deploy SAP HANA systems with Host Auto-Failover  on AWS. Host Auto-Failover is a fully automated host fault recovery solution for SAP HANA that allows you to add one or more hosts in standby mode to an SAP HANA system. Using Host Auto-Failover, SAP HANA can automatically detect host failures (EC2 instance, OS-level, or SAP HANA) and trigger an automated failover to a standby host, enabling you to automatically recover in minutes. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 06:59PM

AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 alongside SAP S/4HANA,BW/4HANA and NetWeaver on HANA solutions. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 05:48PM

Today we are launching a new feature that provides an option to define flow handling behavior for AWS Gateway Load Balancer. Using this option, customers can now rebalance existing flows to a healthy target, when the target fails or deregisters. This helps reduce failover time when a target becomes unhealthy, and also allows customers to gracefully patch or upgrade the appliances during maintenance windows. Post Updated on October 13, 2022 at 06:05PM

Starting today, Cost Explorer customers will see a new interface in the console to visualize their cost and usage. The new summary widget provides an at-a-glance view of the total and average monthly cost. Customers can also look up specific spend and usage information using the new search function introduced in the table view. Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. You can analyze your data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts) or dive deeper into your costs and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies. Post Updated on October 12, 2022 at 10:40PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Post Updated on October 12, 2022 at 08:35PM

Starting today, in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) , you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between the EC2 instances and an Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS)  or Amazon Aurora  database. Once you have provisioned EC2 instances, you can select a RDS db instance or cluster, and with a single click, complete connectivity configurations to allow traffic from the EC2 instance to the RDS database. Amazon EC2 follows the connectivity best practices and automatically sets up security groups on your behalf, helping to establish a secure connection. Post Updated on October 11, 2022 at 09:06PM

AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early stage companies and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the new AWS Activate to any self-identified startup. Activate is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups through every stage of their journey, from their initial idea, to building a MVP, to securing their first customer, to scaling their business on AWS and beyond. Any startup can join AWS Activate and get instant access to: Post Updated on October 11, 2022 at 06:03PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets  increased the default for three service quotas: number of stack instances per stack set, number of stack sets per management account, and number of concurrent stack instance operations in a single AWS Region per management account. You can now (1) deploy up to 100,000 stack instances per stack set (previously 2,000), (2) create up to 1,000 stack sets in your management account (previously 100), and (3) run up to 10,000 concurrent stack instance operations in a single Region per management account (previously 3,500). See AWS CloudFormation quotas for the latest service quotas. Post Updated on October 11, 2022 at 06:02PM

You can now inject Amazon EC2 Spot Instance  interruptions into your Spot Instance workloads directly from the Amazon EC2 console . In 2021, we launched the ability for you to use AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS)  to simulate what happens when Amazon EC2 reclaims Spot Instances, enabling you to test that your application is prepared for an interruption. Now, we have made this capability available in the Amazon EC2 console. Post Updated on October 10, 2022 at 10:02PM

New versions of the Amazon Chime iOS and Android mobile apps are being rolled out with a new experience designed to improve your Amazon Chime Meetings on mobile devices. This update introduces features that aim to make it easier for you to participate in meetings when you are away from a desk and on the move. The update includes a new roster screen, a new meeting join experience, new meeting controls, performance improvements, and more.  Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 10:26PM

Amazon CloudWatch Logs customers can now run up to 20 concurrent Log Insights queries for their analytic needs. By increasing the number of concurrent queries from 10 to 20, customers can create dashboards with a higher number of Log Insight queries. Additionally, multiple users within the same account can, in the aggregate, execute up to 20 queries at the same time.   Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 10:59PM

You can now connect with partners and independent consultants located in Australia, Bahrain, European Union member states, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Qatar, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates. Quickly find, engage, & get help from partners and independent consultants in these new regions for on-demand work. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 10:10PM

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of additional metadata attributes for tasks running on Amazon EC2 capacity. You can now use the Amazon ECS task metadata endpoint  to retrieve the service name of a task as well as the Amazon VPC ID of Amazon EC2 instance that the task is running on. These additional task metadata attributes provide you increased visibility over your ECS container workloads running on Amazon EC2. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 10:02PM

AWS Global Accelerator  now supports traffic through two new AWS edge locations in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and Kansas City in the United States. With the addition of these two edge locations, Global Accelerator is now available through 104 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 21 AWS Regions . Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 06:02PM

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to Linux AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions. Previously, this feature is only available when streaming Windows applications and desktops. With real-time AV support available in Linux streaming sessions, your users can collaborate using webcams without having to leave their Linux AppStream 2.0 sessions. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 05:33PM

Serverless application developers can now use the new AWS::Serverless::Connector resource available in AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to simplify granting the appropriate level of access to the resources in their application’s infrastructure. With AWS::Serverless::Connector resources, developers describe how data and events need to flow between two resources and the type of access required. AWS SAM will compose purpose-built AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) policies in order to facilitate the interaction defined by the developer in the connector resource. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 05:24PM

Amazon Detective has improved it’s search capability by adding support for case insensitivity with security findings and entities. You can now conduct security investigations without having to search for exact upper or lowercase characters. For example, if you wanted to search for “Admin” or “admin” logins, you can use either term to show results for all admin logins across data sources that store text such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty findings, and Amazon EKS audit logs. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 05:43PM

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds Graphical User Interface (GUI) support for the Linux Image Assistant tool. With this launch, you can now create Linux AppStream 2.0 images in the similar easy way you create Windows AppStream 2.0 images. The new tool gives you step-by-step visual guidance throughout the entire process, greatly reducing the complexity of creating Linux AppStream 2.0 images. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 05:39PM

The AWS JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL is now generally available for use with your Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition database clusters. This wrapper driver is designed to work with the PostgreSQL community driver  and provide improved failover handling for clustered databases such as Aurora PostgreSQL. The AWS JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL is drop-in compatible with your existing applications because it adds failover functionality alongside the community driver, reducing the need for you to make application changes. This release replaces the standalone AWS JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL previously released as a preview. Post Updated on October 07, 2022 at 04:37PM

AWS Storage Gateway  increases the maximum supported virtual tape size on Tape Gateway  from 5 TiB to 15 TiB, enabling you to store more data on a single virtual tape and reducing the number of tapes you need to manage. Additionally, this enhancement makes migrating long-term retention data stored on physical tapes to AWS easier by enabling you to copy data from Linear Tape-Open (LTO) generation 1 to generation 7 tapes to a virtual tape in AWS. Post Updated on October 06, 2022 at 10:40PM

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Mexico in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions by 69% for DID Inbound calls from $0.0070 to $0.0022 per minute, 61% for Toll Free Inbound calls from $0.055 to $0.021 per minute and 77% for Outbound calls from $0.033 to $0.0075 per minute. Post Updated on October 06, 2022 at 06:03PM

AWS Config now supports 15 more resource types including AWS DataSync, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), AWS AppSync, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EC2, and AWS AppConfig. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Post Updated on October 06, 2022 at 05:31PM

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer policy generation has expanded support to identify actions used from over 140 services to help developers create fine-grained policies based on their AWS CloudTrail access activity. New additions include actions from services such as AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Queue Service. When developers request a policy, IAM Access Analyzer gets to work and generates a policy by analyzing their AWS CloudTrail logs to identify actions used. For example, developers using AWS CloudFormation to set up resources need to provide CloudFormation permissions to create resources. They can use policy generation to create a fine-grained policy and limit CloudFormation role’s permissions to only those necessary to deploy a given template. The generated policy makes it easier for developers to grant only the required permissions to run their workloads. Post Updated on October 05, 2022 at 10:57PM

AWS Local Zones are now available in Delhi and Taipei. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Post Updated on October 05, 2022 at 10:33PM

We’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Clarify supports online explainability by providing explanations for machine learning (ML) model’s individual predictions in near real-time on live endpoints. SageMaker Clarify gives ML developers greater visibility into their training data and models so they can identify potential bias and explain predictions. ML models may consider some feature inputs more strongly than others when generating predictions. SageMaker Clarify provides scores detailing which features contributed the most to your model’s individual prediction after the model has been run on new data. These details can help determine if a particular input features has more influence on the model predictions than expected. You can view these details for each prediction in real-time via online explainability or get a report in bulk that utilize batch processing of all the individual predictions. This new feature reduces latency for explanations from minutes to seconds or less. ...

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 , the next version of Aurora Serverless, now supports AWS CloudFormation . You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy and modify Aurora Serverless v2 along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure in a secure, efficient, and repeatable manner. To learn more, read the AWS CloudFormation user guide . Post Updated on October 05, 2022 at 08:22PM

As of November 23, 2021, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) supported Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys ( SSE-SQS ) to protect sensitive data. Today, Amazon SQS announces SSE-SQS encryption by default for newly created queues. SSE-SQS can help you build security-sensitive applications to support your encryption compliance and regulatory requirements. Post Updated on October 05, 2022 at 06:18PM

Amazon S3 Object Lambda  now supports adding your own code to S3 HEAD and LIST API requests, in addition to S3 GET requests. With S3 Object Lambda, you can modify the data returned by S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more. Now, you can also use S3 Object Lambda to modify the output of S3 LIST requests to create a custom view of all objects in a bucket and S3 HEAD requests to modify object metadata such as object name and size. With this update, S3 Object Lambda now uses AWS Lambda functions to automatically process the output of S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST requests. Post Updated on October 04, 2022 at 07:09PM

IAM Access Analyzer policy validation  helps you author secure and functional policies. Now, we are extending policy validation to role trust policy to make it easier to author and validate the policy that determines who can assume a role. The new IAM console experience for role trust policy guides you to add each element of the policy, such as the list of available actions for role trust policies, and offers context specific documentation. As you are authoring your policy, IAM Access Analyzer policy validation evaluates the policy for any issues to make it easier for you to author secure policies. This includes new policy checks specific to role trust policies, such as validating the format of your identity provider. Prior to saving the policy, IAM Access Analyzer generates preview findings for the external access granted by the role trust policy. This helps you review external access, such as access granted to a federated identity provider, and ensure only the intended access is ...

AWS Backup now offers a new Backup Vault Lock console experience that provides you a more intuitive way to configure your vault lock details. AWS Backup Vault Lock allows you to deploy and manage your vault’s immutability policies, protecting your backups from accidental or malicious deletions. Depending on your data retention needs, with AWS Backup Vault Lock, you can set governance mode or compliance mode to configure your vault’s immutability policies with greater flexibility and multiple levels of security. Under governance mode, users with the appropriate role-based permissions can test and change retention policies or even remove the lock completely. In compliance mode, the user can specify a lock date after which the vault is locked immutably. Once locked, the acceptable retention periods cannot be changed and the lock cannot be disabled even by the root user. With this feature, the console also provides you with visibility into into your vaults’ lock status and facilitate...

Amazon S3 Object Lambda  now supports adding your own code to S3 HEAD and LIST API requests, in addition to S3 GET requests. With S3 Object Lambda, you can modify the data returned by S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more. Now, you can also use S3 Object Lambda to modify the output of S3 LIST requests to create a custom view of all objects in a bucket and S3 HEAD requests to modify object metadata such as object name and size. With this update, S3 Object Lambda now uses AWS Lambda functions to automatically process the output of S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST requests. Post Updated on October 04, 2022 at 07:09PM

Amazon Nimble Studio now provides a Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Windows Server 2022 in the  AW S Marketplace that contains the same pre-installed software as our existing AMIs. Nimble Studio users can further customize this baseline AMI for studio specific workflows. Microsoft Windows Server 2022 helps studios take advantage of the latest Windows features and support of content creation software, such as Epic’s Unreal Engine and Adobe Creative Cloud. The complete list of features and improvements are available in the official Microsoft documentation for Windows Server 2022 here . The supported Windows Server 2022 AMI is an addition to our supported Windows Server 2019 AMI and Linux AMI. Post Updated on October 04, 2022 at 06:01PM

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has introduced two new networking metrics; 1) Network Address Usage and 2) Peered Network Address Usage. These new metrics will help network administrators plan for expansion of their VPC architecture while proactively managing service quotas. Post Updated on October 04, 2022 at 06:00PM

AWS IoT SiteWise has increased quota limits for Assets and Asset Models to support larger and more complex equipment representations, and allow customers to perform bulk operations on resources. Post Updated on October 04, 2022 at 05:55PM

IAM Access Analyzer policy validation  helps you author secure and functional policies. Now, we are extending policy validation to role trust policy to make it easier to author and validate the policy that determines who can assume a role. The new IAM console experience for role trust policy guides you to add each element of the policy, such as the list of available actions for role trust policies, and offers context specific documentation. As you are authoring your policy, IAM Access Analyzer policy validation evaluates the policy for any issues to make it easier for you to author secure policies. This includes new policy checks specific to role trust policies, such as validating the format of your identity provider. Prior to saving the policy, IAM Access Analyzer generates preview findings for the external access granted by the role trust policy. This helps you review external access, such as access granted to a federated identity provider, and ensure only the intended access is ...

You can now set an EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) by default. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that requires session-oriented requests to add defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. IMDSv2 requires a PUT request to initiate a session to the instance metadata service and retrieve a token. To set your instances as IMDSv2-only, you previously had to configure Instance Metadata Options during instance launch or update your instance after launch using the ModifyInstanceMetadataOptions API. Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 11:09PM

Amazon Connect Cases provides built-in case management capabilities that make it easy for your contact center agents to create, collaborate on, and quickly resolve customer issues that require multiple customer conversations and follow-up tasks, all without having to build custom applications or integrate with third-party products. Cases provides your agents with a unified timeline view of all activities and customer information associated with a case, including individual tasks that can be assigned and tracked across multiple agents. Additionally, case information can be used to answer customer questions in self-service IVR and chatbot interactions. Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 09:01PM

AWS customers have been using Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS to run and optimize their Microsoft Windows Server workloads. ECS and EKS-optimized Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Windows Server have traditionally leveraged Mirantis Container Runtime (formerly Docker Engine – Enterprise) as the default runtime framework. AWS has now migrated all the latest (September 2022) container-optimized Windows Server AMIs to use Docker Community Edition (CE). This change is to help customers avoid additional costs to get support, bug fixes and security patches for Mirantis Container Runtime with the Microsoft announcement to transfer support for Mirantis Container Runtime to Mirantis at the end of September 2022. Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 09:40PM

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports quicker set up of time-series forecasting models with simplified administration of required permissions. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click service that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 10:15PM

AWS is excited to announce the launch of a new hands-on course on Coursera for business analysts - “ Practical Decision Making using No-Code ML on AWS ," featuring Amazon SageMaker Canvas . Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 09:04PM

We’re pleased to announce that AWS IoT TwinMaker has released a new Application Kit that will help IoT application developers build customized web applications for their digital twins. This Application Kit is a part of the open-source UI components library for IoT application developers - AWS IoT Application Kit . Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 08:59PM

AWS Security Hub  now publishes announcements through Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in AWS GovCloud (US), helping you stay up to date with the latest feature releases and announcements. To receive announcements about new AWS Security Hub features, subscribe to the  AWS Security Hub SNS topic  in your preferred Region. Post Updated on October 03, 2022 at 08:50PM