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We are announcing the preview of AWS Data Exchange for AWS Lake Formation, a new feature that enables data subscribers to find and subscribe to third-party data sets that are managed directly through AWS Lake Formation. This feature is intended for data subscribers who want to easily integrate third-party data directly into their data lake as well as data providers who want to use AWS Lake Formation and AWS Data Exchange to help streamline their data licensing operations.  Post Updated on December 01, 2022 at 12:04AM

We are thrilled to announce the new Amazon SageMaker Ready specialization, which validates world-class AWS Partner software products that integrate with Amazon SageMaker and help customers build machine learning solutions. AWS Partners offerings in the specialization include Data Platforms, Data Pre-Processing & Feature Stores, ML Frameworks, MLOps tools, and Business Decisions & Applications. Amazon SageMake r is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that enables data scientists and developers to quickly build, train, and deploy ML models for any use case into a production-ready hosted environment. Post Updated on November 30, 2022 at 11:13PM

Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial machine learning (ML), making it easier for data scientists and ML engineers to build, train, and deploy models using geospatial data. Today, the majority of all data generated contains geospatial information, but only a small fraction of it is used for ML because accessing, processing, and visualizing the data is complex, time consuming, and expensive. Post Updated on November 30, 2022 at 05:36PM

Amazon QuickSight Q now includes artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced automated data preparation, making it fast and straightforward to augment existing dashboards for natural language questions. Preparing data for natural language query takes time and effort. Authors must imagine terms their users will input and manually replicate field names and data type information from their dashboards. Post Updated on November 30, 2022 at 12:16AM

AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Qatar, Guatemala, and Trinidad & Tobago. Post Updated on November 30, 2022 at 12:19AM

Today AWS announces the preview release of AWS Verified Access, a new service that allows you to deliver secure access to corporate applications without a VPN. Built using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles , Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner. Post Updated on November 30, 2022 at 12:17AM

AWS Supply Chain is a cloud-based application that helps supply chain leaders mitigate risks and lower costs to increase supply chain resilience. AWS Supply Chain unifies supply chain data, provides machine learning (ML)–powered actionable insights, and offers built-in contextual collaboration, all of which help you increase customer service levels by reducing stock outs and help you lower costs from overstock. Post Updated on November 29, 2022 at 06:25PM

Amazon Omics is a new purpose-built service that helps healthcare and life science organizations store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data and then generate insights from that data to improve health and advance scientific discoveries. Omics is designed to support large scale analysis and collaborative research so you can store and, together with other AWS services, analyze genome data for entire populations. Amazon Omics also automates provisioning and scaling of bioinformatics workflows, so you can run analysis pipelines at production scale and spend more time on research and innovation. Post Updated on November 29, 2022 at 06:35PM

Today, Amazon QuickSight announces support for two new question types that simplify and scale complex analytical tasks using natural language. Business users type “forecast” to see future trajectories for up to 3 measures simultaneously. “Why” performs contribution analysis to automatically identify key drivers. Post Updated on November 29, 2022 at 05:18PM

Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. Security Lake makes it easier to analyze security data so that you can get a more complete understanding of your security across the entire organization. You can also improve the protection of your workloads, applications, and data. Security Lake automatically gathers and manages all your security data across accounts and Regions. You can use your preferred analytics tools while retaining control and ownership of your security data. Security Lake has adopted the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), an open standard. It helps normalize and combine security data from AWS and a broad range of enterprise security data sources. Now, your analysts and engineers can get broad visibility to investigate and respond to security events and improve your security across the cloud and on premises. Post Updated on November 29,...

AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java delivers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost. Lambda SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda, without having to provision resources or spend time and effort implementing complex performance optimizations.  Post Updated on November 29, 2022 at 04:48AM

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports external performance metrics from four observability partners: Datadog, Dynatrace, Instana, and New Relic. By using externally provided utilization metrics for Amazon EC2 memory, Compute Optimizer can now identify additional savings opportunity, and more performance-aware recommendations for customers that use these products. Post Updated on November 29, 2022 at 04:32AM

Amazon Inspector now supports AWS Lambda functions, adding continual, automated vulnerability assessments for Serverless compute workloads. With this expanded capability, Amazon Inspector now automatically discovers all eligible Lambda functions and identifies software vulnerabilities in application package dependencies used in the Lambda function code. All functions are initially assessed upon deployment to Lambda service and continually monitored and reassessed, informed by updates to the function and newly published vulnerabilities. When vulnerabilities are identified in the Lambda function or layer, actionable security findings are generated, aggregated in the Amazon Inspector console , and pushed to AWS Security Hub and Amazon EventBridge to automate workflows. Post Updated on November 29, 2022 at 04:31AM

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now delivers lower latencies enabling you to power an even broader set of applications with simple, scalable storage on AWS. Post Updated on November 28, 2022 at 09:19PM

AWS Glue now offers custom visual transforms which let customers define, reuse, and share business-specific ETL logic among their teams. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. With this new feature, data engineers can write reusable transforms for the AWS Glue visual job editor. Reusable transforms increase consistency between teams and help keep jobs up to date by minimizing duplicate effort and code. Post Updated on November 28, 2022 at 05:55PM

Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports network reachability analysis between AWS resources across different AWS accounts in your AWS Organization, allowing you to trace and troubleshoot the network reachability across your AWS Organization. Post Updated on November 28, 2022 at 05:56PM

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, that enables organizations to provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Post Updated on November 28, 2022 at 05:30AM

AWS IoT Core , a managed cloud service that lets customers connect billions of IoT devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, announces AWS IoT Core Device Location, a new feature that makes it possible for customers to track and manage IoT devices using their location data, such as latitude and longitude coordinates. Using AWS IoT Core Device Location, customers can optimize business processes, simplify and automate maintenance efforts, and unlock new business use cases. For example, customers’ field service team can stay informed and quickly identify the location of devices that require maintenance action. In an IoT application, Global Positioning Service (GPS) is a commonly applied standard to locate an IoT device. But, not all IoT things, especially battery powered IoT devices, can be equipped with GPS hardware because of its high-power consumption. Therefore, new technologies such as cloud-assisted Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), WiFi, and cellular networ...

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) announced the availability of Rule Lock for Recycle Bin so customers can lock their Region-level retention rules to prevent them from being unintentionally modified or deleted. This new setting adds an additional layer of protection for customers to recover their EBS Snapshots and EC2 AMIs in case of inadvertent or malicious deletions.  Post Updated on November 23, 2022 at 10:23PM

Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. Starting today, customers get multiple improvements and enhancements in Amazon Rekognition Labels for images. In the new update, we have added 600 new labels and improved the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We also introduced Image Properties, for image quality and color detection. Lastly, we have added an ability to filter API results by labels and label categories.  Post Updated on November 23, 2022 at 07:57PM

AWS IoT RoboRunner is an AWS for Robotics service that unlocks new use cases for robotics automation by helping fleets of robots seamlessly work together. AWS IoT RoboRunner reduces the complex development work required to build the applications you need to provide multivendor interoperability. Post Updated on November 23, 2022 at 06:03PM

Authors of Amazon QuickSight can now improve readability of points on maps visual by changing the points style to cluster points. When hundreds of data points are clumped together with many of them so close in proximity that they overlap and are not visible, cluster points makes is it easy for readers to find patterns or identify locations with greater of fewer number of data-points. Post Updated on November 23, 2022 at 06:07PM

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple to run applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, or scaling clusters.  Post Updated on November 22, 2022 at 10:53PM

Amazon EC2 adds support for managed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with SQL Server 2022. With these AMIs, you can easily launch SQL Server 2022 on EC2 and take advantage of the fully compliant SQL Server licenses with per-second billing model. The new AMIs are available for both Windows Server and Linux operating systems. In addition, you can use related AWS services such as AWS Launch Wizard and CloudWatch Application Insights to further simplify your SQL Server deployment and management experience on EC2. Post Updated on November 22, 2022 at 09:39PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports payload-based message filtering, expanding the feature set that already supported attribute-based message filtering. With this release, you can apply subscription filter policies to filter out messages based on their contents, unlocking a variety of workloads. You may use this new capability to filter events from 60+ AWS services that publish events to Amazon SNS, including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon CloudWatch. You may also use payload-based message filtering for your cross-account workloads, where subscribers may not be able to influence a given publisher to have its messages published with attributes to Amazon SNS. Post Updated on November 22, 2022 at 09:25PM

Amazon EMR customers can now use AWS Glue Data Catalog from their streaming and batch SQL workflows on Flink. The AWS Glue Data Catalog is an Apache Hive metastore-compatible catalog. You can configure your Flink jobs on Amazon EMR to use the Data Catalog as an external Apache Hive metastore. With this release, You can then directly run Flink SQL queries against the tables stored in the Data Catalog. Post Updated on November 22, 2022 at 08:44PM

AWS Control Tower now displays the compliance status of AWS Config rules deployed outside of AWS Control Tower. This view provides you with visibility into the compliance status of externally applied AWS Config rules in addition to AWS Config rules set up by AWS Control Tower. Post Updated on November 22, 2022 at 06:04PM

Amazon EMR Serverless announces support for reading and writing data in Amazon DynamoDB with your Spark and Hive workflows. You can now export, import, query and, join tables in Amazon DynamoDB directly from your EMR Serverless Spark and/or Hive applications. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database that meets the latency and throughput requirements of highly demanding applications by providing single-digit millisecond latency and predictable performance with seamless throughput and storage scalability.  Post Updated on November 22, 2022 at 06:27PM

AWS Secrets Manager now supports the ability to rotate secrets as often as every four hours, while providing the same managed rotation experience. With this launch, you can now use Secrets Manager to automate the rotation of credentials and access tokens that need to be refreshed more than once per day. This enables greater flexibility for common developer workflows through a single managed service. Additionally, you can continue to utilize integrations with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail to manage and monitor your secret rotation configurations in accordance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. Support for secrets rotation as often as every four hours is provided at no additional cost Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 10:01PM

Amazon CloudFront  now supports continuous deployment, a new feature to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic before deploying changes to all viewers. Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 10:23PM

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the Preview of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can view, analyze and track key trends and metrics in a visualized manner on QuickSight dashboards on AMMP. Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 09:36PM

ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources such as IAM users and roles, and to Amazon Web Services resources, like Lambda functions, to simplify permission management. ABAC support for Lambda functions allows you to scale your permissions as your organization innovates and give granular access to developers without requiring a policy update when a user or project is added, removed or updated. With ABAC support for Amazon Lambda, IAM policies can be used to allow or deny specific Lambda API actions when the IAM principal's tags match the tags on a Lambda function. Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 08:19PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the capability to detect handwritten signatures, e-signatures, and initials on documents such as loan application forms, checks, claim forms and more. AnalyzeDocument Signatures reduces the need for human reviewers and helps customers reduce costs, save time, and build scalable solutions for document processing. Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 06:49PM

Amazon QuickSight  launches an asset management console for administrators. With an interactive UI, administrators can now list and search all account assets regardless of who the owner of these assets are. They can list all the assets a user or group has access to including in a multi-tenant environment. They can perform asset level or bulk actions like transferring assets from one person to another when someone leaves the organization, share assets with other users or revoke asset access. Current supported assets are dashboards, analyses, datasets, datasources and shared folders. Asset management console is available to administrators with access to the QuickSight admin console pages via IAM credentials. For more information, visit here . Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 06:16PM

Starting today, AWS IAM Identity Center  (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) customers can manage the session duration (between 15 mins and 7 days) for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs sessions. With this release, when you set access portal session duration for your organization in IAM Identity Center, it also applies to AWS CLI and SDKs sessions in addition to application and console sessions. Post Updated on November 21, 2022 at 06:11PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the command aliases feature in AWS Chatbot, which allows you to use shortcuts to reference AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands in Slack. Command aliases allows you run frequently used commands quickly and reduces typing errors. With this feature you can now create aliases for your routine AWS CLI commands and run these alias commands directly from your Slack channels. The aliases can be configured to include one or more custom parameters. To use a command alias, you just type “@aws run <alias_name>” in the chat channel. Command aliases run under the configured channel permissions and no additional permissions management is required. Post Updated on November 19, 2022 at 12:12AM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom  for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, now supports the Oracle Multitenant option on Oracle Database (DB) version 19c using Enterprise Edition. With this release, the Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB.   Post Updated on November 18, 2022 at 10:57PM

Today, we are releasing an IBM Db2 data source connector for Amazon Athena . With Athena, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to pre-process or copy data to another storage solution. IBM Db2 is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) designed for efficient storage and analytics on relational, object, and non-relational data. Starting today, you can use Athena to run SQL queries on IBM Db2 . Post Updated on November 18, 2022 at 08:53PM

AWS Transfer Family has successfully completed the Drummond Group pre-certification testing for its Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) managed file transfer capabilities. The pre-certification issued by Drummond Group verifies that the AWS Transfer Family AS2 capabilities have been thoroughly vetted for security and file exchange compatibility with two third-party AS2 solutions. Customers across verticals such as healthcare, retail, financial services, and others that use AWS Transfer Family AS2 endpoints can now have confidence in their ability to successfully exchange AS2 messages with other third-party solutions. Post Updated on November 18, 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 monitoring of flow runs using Amazon Cloudwatch metrics. With this launch AppFlow customers can now use CloudWatch metrics to observe and respond to their Amazon AppFlow flow runs and associated performance and throughput in near real time. Amazon AppFlow flow run metrics available in CloudWatch metrics include number of flow runs started, succeeded and failed, as well as the time taken and the records processed by each run. Post Updated on November 18, 2022 at 06:20PM

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 conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex is excited to launch DTMF-only slot settings and configurable session attributes within the Lex console. Post Updated on November 18, 2022 at 03:52PM

The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now available in preview.  Post Updated on November 17, 2022 at 11:56PM

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce Thai and Hindi language support for streaming audio transcriptions. These new languages expand the coverage of Amazon Transcribe streaming and enable customers to reach a broader global audience. Post Updated on November 17, 2022 at 10:22PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches event notifications via Amazon EventBridge. You can trigger event-driven actions after creating, updating, or deleting your CloudFormation stack sets. You can achieve this without developing or maintaining custom solutions that periodically poll for changes in your CloudFormation stack sets deployments via CloudFormation APIs. With this launch, you can build your event-driven applications across multiple AWS accounts, Organizational Units (OUs), and Regions with AWS CloudFormation StackSets and Amazon EventBridge. Post Updated on November 17, 2022 at 05:44PM

Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports the CONNECT BY SQL construct enabling users to author queries to process hierarchical data in their warehouse. Starting today, you can recursively query the hierarchical data based on parent-child relationship within that data set using the CONNECT BY construct. Post Updated on November 17, 2022 at 02:03PM

We are excited to announce that Incident Manager , a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now simplifies the way you coordinate response when an incident is detected by an Amazon CloudWatch alarm or Amazon EventBridge event. The new coordination capabilities allow you to centrally provide updates, monitor actions, and view status from within the Incident Manager console. Post Updated on November 16, 2022 at 11:43PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server  now supports Cross Region Read Replica. Cross Region Read Replica enables managed disaster recovery capability for mission critical databases by allowing a read replica in another region be "promoted" as a new standalone production database. This feature also supports data proximity by enabling replicas be placed closer to the application users of a given region to reduce read latencies. Additionally, this feature allows Amazon RDS for SQL Server customers to offload their read workload from the primary DB Instance, and also scale out read workloads over a farm of up to five read replicas that can reside in any region. To get started, visit the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide . Post Updated on November 16, 2022 at 10:00PM

AWS Proton  introduces the Proton dashboard, a centralized view of all Proton resources deployed and managed by AWS Proton. Platform engineers use Proton to define their environment and service infrastructure in AWS - now through the Proton dashboard they can monitor which of their templates are in use and the up-to-date status of their environments and services. Post Updated on November 16, 2022 at 08:12PM

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10, a new release which includes several fixes and improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ, 3.8 and 3.9.  Post Updated on November 16, 2022 at 08:18PM

Today, AWS launched automatic handling of IP address changes for Refactor Spaces Services. Customers use automatic DNS updates to avoid building infrastructure to manage service IP address changes and gain improved operational safety. This new feature lets customers create services using DNS names in the URL and Refactor Spaces automatically re-resolves the DNS name when the DNS time-to-live (TTL) expires (or every 60 seconds for TTLs less than 60 seconds). Post Updated on November 16, 2022 at 07:16PM

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET is an assistive tool that simplifies refactoring monolithic .NET applications into independent microservices. With this new feature, Microservice Extractor helps extract source code segments as microservices or shared libraries from legacy ASP.NET Web Forms and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)-based applications, and ports those directly to modern cross-platform .NET. The new capability enables developers to refactor older, Windows OS-dependent applications with minimal rewrite to newer .NET running on Linux containers, thereby reducing costs and improving performance. Post Updated on November 16, 2022 at 05:53PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of EBS direct APIs in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. Post Updated on November 15, 2022 at 10:24PM

Starting today, you can use AWS Nitro Enclaves in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions.  Post Updated on November 15, 2022 at 09:13PM

Amazon Redshift concurrency scaling is leveraged by thousands of customers to support virtually unlimited concurrent users and queries, and meet their SLAs for BI reports, dashboards and other analytics workloads. In addition to the read queries, Amazon Redshift concurrency scaling is now extended to support scaling of most common write operations performed as part of workloads such as data ingestion and processing. The write workloads support with concurrency scaling is available on Amazon Redshift RA3 instance types. Post Updated on November 15, 2022 at 07:34PM

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of an IoT Device Management feature, browser-based SSH (secure shell) using Secure Tunneling. Secure Tunneling provides customers a secure connection between source and destination devices that are brokered through a cloud proxy service on AWS. To provide secure bi-directional communication between devices, tunnels are authenticated with the cloud proxy service and data transmitted through the tunnel is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). With browser-based SSH, customers can open a SSH tunnel to a targeted device directly from the AWS console and use an embedded terminal without the need for a local proxy. This feature simplifies the onboarding experience significantly because customers no longer need to compile and install a local proxy on the operators' device. This streamlined experience allows customers to easily scale their use of Secure Tunneling for remote tasks such as troubleshooting or conducting rou...

Amazon WorkDocs now offers Delete Previous Versions feature in WorkDocs web client and APIs. This new Amazon WorkDocs web client feature enables end users to delete a previous version(s) of a file that they own, thereby providing greater user controls. The new WorkDocs APIs and SDK also enable site administrators to support the deletion and restoration of deleted versions programmatically. Both end users and site administrators can now manage document versions and individual user data limits proactively and effectively. Post Updated on November 14, 2022 at 10:27PM

AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service designed to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and operate efficiently. re:Post introduces a community leaderboard to recognize top contributors and give re:Post users visibility into the points they have earned and how their contributions rank within and across the community. The leaderboard cultivates a knowledge-sharing community as members unlock new statuses and achieve new rankings. Additionally, the leaderboard showcases top contributors to recognize community members for the time spent answering questions and sharing technical guidance and refreshes their ranking among other members every time they visit the re:Post website. Members can progress in their ranking on the leaderboard by demonstrating and sharing their AWS knowledge. Members can earn points and achieve new statuses when their answers are accepted by a question author, received and endorsed by an expert, or when their questions or answers ...

AWS CloudTrail announces the ability to use your own Customer Managed KMS Keys (CMK) to encrypt the activity logs stored in CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail has always provided encryption by default using AWS owned KMS keys for all data stored in CloudTrail Lake. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer to your activity logs to help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization. Post Updated on November 11, 2022 at 08:07PM

NICE DCV version 2022.2 introduces multiple new features, such as support for Mac computer Retina displays and time zone redirection. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Post Updated on November 11, 2022 at 07:26PM

AWS IoT Device Defender , a fully managed service for auditing and monitoring devices connected to AWS IoT, now supports a new audit check for revoked intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). If a CA revokes an intermediate CA because it is potentially compromised, then all certificates issued by that intermediate CA are also potentially compromised and invalid. This new audit check identifies active device certificates issued by a revoked intermediate CA, and helps customers review and replace these active device certificates. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 10:47PM

The Amazon Time Sync Service is now available over the Internet. Built on Amazon's network infrastructure, the Amazon Time Sync Service utilizes a global fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic reference clocks in AWS regions to deliver current time readings of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) global standard. Previously, Amazon Time Sync was available through EC2 instances. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 10:46PM

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides two additional state-of-the-art foundational models, Bloom for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation. Customers can access newly added models through the SageMaker Python SDK APIs and SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 08:50PM

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. 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. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page . Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 08:45PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL  now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 08:39PM

Amazon WorkSpaces now offers an API to quickly modify the streaming protocol on your existing WorkSpaces without requiring you to go through migrate WorkSpace process. This feature will allow you to retain the root volumes after you switch your WorkSpaces streaming protocol from PC-over-IP (PCoIP) to WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) or vice-versa. End users of WorkSpaces can now easily take advantage of WSP features like Webcam and Smart Card support. WorkSpaces administrators will benefit from this feature because they will not have to manage custom images and bundles configured solely for the purpose of utilizing multiple streaming protocols supported by WorkSpaces. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 06:11PM

AWS Lambda now enables Lambda Extensions to collect enhanced monitoring and observability data about your function execution through the new AWS Lambda Telemetry API. The Telemetry API provides a simple interface for extensions to receive logs, platform traces, and function invocation-level metrics directly from Lambda. Today, you can benefit from these enhanced capabilities by utilizing Telemetry API enabled extensions from these AWS Partner Network (APN) partners: Coralogix, Datadog, Dynatrace, Lumigo, New Relic, Sedai, Serverless.com, Site24x7, Sumo Logic, Sysdig, and Thundra. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 05:59PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports a higher default quota for subscription filter policies. With the increased quota, you can now have up to 10,000 subscription filter policies per account, and can apply up to 200 subscription filter policies per topic. By default, topic subscribers receive every message published to a topic. With subscription filter policies, subscribers can filter out unwanted messages, simplifying their architecture and optimizing the utilization of their resources. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 07:33PM

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database  by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition  to support PostgreSQL 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, and 11.17. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 2.2. Refer to the Aurora version policy  to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10, you must upgrade to a newer major version by January 31, 2023. Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 05:56PM

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 , the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (Bahrain). Post Updated on November 10, 2022 at 07:45PM

Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. Post Updated on November 09, 2022 at 06:07PM

Starting today, you can request EC2 instances based on your workload’s network bandwidth requirements through attribute-based instance type selection. Post Updated on November 09, 2022 at 06:13PM

AWS Config now supports 14 more resource types for services including AWS IoT Events, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EventBridge, EC2 Image Builder, AWS DataSync, AWS Glue, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Post Updated on November 09, 2022 at 06:27PM

Starting today, you can configure the set of instance types used when requesting EC2 capacity with attribute-based instance type selection. Post Updated on November 09, 2022 at 06:10PM

Starting today, customers can create custom line items in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC)  that span across multiple billing periods. For customers who want to apply consistent discounts or fees to specific billing groups , recurring custom line items remove the need to create a new custom line item each month for the same purpose. For example, customers can use a flat recurring custom line item to distribute credits or use percent-based recurring custom line items to apply a managed service fee or tax. ABC applies recurring custom line items at the beginning of each new billing period. Post Updated on November 09, 2022 at 06:16PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength  on the Vodafone 4G/5G network in Manchester, United Kingdom. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in the U.K, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in London. Post Updated on November 09, 2022 at 02:14PM

You can now register domain names and auto-configure domain name systems (DNS) on Amazon Lightsail . Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for users who need a secure, high-performance and reliable virtual private server (VPS) solution with a simple management interface and predictable pricing. With the addition of domain registration, Lightsail users are able to create a unique online address for their website or web application to establish their own personal or business identity on the internet. With domain registration, users also get Lightsail’s DNS management functionality. Post Updated on November 08, 2022 at 11:27PM

You can now accelerate repeat queries in Amazon Athena with Query Result Reuse, a new caching feature released today. Repeat queries are SQL queries submitted within a short period of time and produce the same results as one or more previously run queries. In use cases like business intelligence, where interactive analysis in a dashboard can cause multiple identical queries to be run, repeat queries can increase time to insight as each query needs time to read and process data before returning results to the user. Post Updated on November 08, 2022 at 10:35PM

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports exporting logs to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets encrypted using Server side encryption with KMS (SSE-KMS) keys. Post Updated on November 08, 2022 at 09:13PM

You can now use AWS Certificate Manager  (ACM) to request and use Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) P-256 and P-384 Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates to secure your network traffic. TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and to establish the identity of websites over the internet as well as resources on private networks. ACM lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private TLS certificates. You can learn more about ECDSA security, performance and compatibility in this AWS Security blog post . Post Updated on November 08, 2022 at 09:22PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Redis 7. This release brings several new features to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis: Post Updated on November 08, 2022 at 08:04PM

AWS Private 5G is a managed service that makes it easier to deploy, operate, and scale your own private mobile network, with all required hardware and software provided by AWS. To set up a private mobile network and connect devices, AWS delivers and maintains the following required components: small-cell radio unit, subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), and mobile network software running in the AWS cloud. Today, we are pleased to announce support for scaling your network anytime you need by ordering additional small-cell radio units to extend coverage or additional SIMs to connect more devices. Post Updated on November 07, 2022 at 10:21PM

Amazon SageMaker Canvas  announces support for correlation matrices for advanced data analysis, thereby expanding capabilities to get insights from your data prior to building ML models. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.   Post Updated on November 07, 2022 at 09:25PM

AWS is pleased to announce the availability of two new features in the AWS Well-Architected Tool  (AWS WA Tool)—integrations with AWS Trusted Advisor  and AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry —that will help you more easily discover the information needed to answer Well-Architected review questions and shorten your review time. Post Updated on November 07, 2022 at 08:46PM

Amazon ElastiCache  clusters now support the IPv6 protocol, allowing clients to connect to ElastiCache clusters using IPv6. You can now configure your cluster to accept only IPv6 connections or to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 connections. This allows you to work to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and more efficiently integrate with existing IPv6-based applications. Post Updated on November 07, 2022 at 08:42PM

Amazon Redshift Serverless , which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additional AWS regions US West (Northern California) and Europe (Paris). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications. Post Updated on November 07, 2022 at 06:30PM

Sensitive data detection and processing in AWS Glue can now detect PII and other sensitive data specific to United Kingdom (UK) and Japan. Post Updated on November 07, 2022 at 06:24PM

Starting today, you can remove your AWS account from launch permissions for an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that was directly shared with your AWS account. You can leverage this capability, for example, to reduce the likelihood of launching an EC2 instance with an unused or deprecated AMI that was shared with you earlier. Post Updated on November 04, 2022 at 09:13PM

We are excited to announce the general availability of job templates in Amazon EMR on EKS . Job templates allow you to create and store templates to configure Spark applications parameters. This helps you ensure consistent settings across applications by reusing and enforcing configuration overrides in data pipelines. Post Updated on November 04, 2022 at 08:02PM

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in twelve additional regions. This deployment option gives you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances. Post Updated on November 04, 2022 at 06:52PM

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless  in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Regions . Post Updated on November 04, 2022 at 06:38PM

Amazon Connect now has an updated UI for quick connects that records all changes made as events in AWS CloudTrail. This enables you to look in AWS CloudTrail to identify who took which action on a quick connect, when the event occurred, and other details to help you analyze and respond. Post Updated on November 04, 2022 at 04:41PM

You can now use data tiering for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for MemoryDB by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node, in addition to storing data in memory. Data tiering is ideal for workloads that access up to 20% of their overall dataset regularly, and for applications that can tolerate additional latency when accessing data on SSD. Post Updated on November 03, 2022 at 08:06PM

Today, we are excited to announce operations support for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 through AWS Managed Services (AMS) Operations on Demand (OOD). This new offering reduces the undifferentiated heavy lifting by offloading database operations such as patching and backup to highly skilled AMS resources. With this launch, customers can now bring their existing SQL Server licenses (BYOL) to EC2 and take advantage of AMS to operate more efficiently. Post Updated on November 03, 2022 at 09:05PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) recently launched the public preview of message data protection . Amazon SNS message data protection is a new set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content 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. Now, with the general availability launch, you can de-identify data within a message payload in real-time via data redaction, or masking. Post Updated on November 03, 2022 at 06:49PM

Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Copilot version 1.23 with support for AWS App Runner private services. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. By default, App Runner services are accessible publicly over the internet. Now, with private services you can restrict network access to your internal websites, APIs, and applications to originate from within your Amazon VPC. Post Updated on November 03, 2022 at 05:07PM

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 Laura, a new female Dutch neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voice. Post Updated on November 02, 2022 at 07:07PM

AWS ParallelCluster 3.3 is now generally available and introduces a new feature for compute resource optimization. With this new feature, you can map a compute resource to a list of Amazon EC2 instance types with an allocation strategy to optimize compute capacity for your HPC jobs. Other features include updates that support dynamically mounting shared storage, Slurm accounting, and Amazon EC2 on demand capacity reservations (ODCR). Post Updated on November 02, 2022 at 05:17PM

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service  (Amazon SES) launched Virtual Deliverability Manager, a new feature that helps customers monitor and increase their email delivery success rates. Customers can use this feature to optimize their email sending campaigns and sending configuration, to reduce the likelihood that mailbox providers (such as Gmail or Yahoo) will mark their email messages as spam. Post Updated on November 02, 2022 at 06:00PM

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP HANA databases using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volumes in single node, multi-node, and high availability (HA) deployment patterns. Post Updated on November 01, 2022 at 10:13PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Analyze ID is a specialized API within Textract that extracts data from identity documents, such U.S. Driver Licenses and U.S. Passports. Today, we are pleased to announce updates to our Analyze ID extraction API. Post Updated on November 01, 2022 at 10:05PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. AnalyzeExpense is a specialized API within Textract that understands the context of invoices and receipts and automatically extracts relevant data such as vendor name and invoice number. Today, we are pleased to announce major enhancements to AnalyzeExpense that include support for new fields and higher accuracy for existing fields. Post Updated on November 01, 2022 at 08:00PM

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows administrative access to the operating system. Starting today, RDS Custom for SQL Server provides a simple way to scale your database disk storage as needed. With storage scaling, RDS Custom for SQL Server simplifies the burdensome process of storage configuration as your database size grows. Post Updated on November 01, 2022 at 05:42PM