News For Dev-ops

Amazon Connect has expanded to support inbound telephone numbers across 6 additional countries, Iceland, Brunei and Serbia from the Europe (London) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions and Guatemala, Nicaragua and Bolivia from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. With the ability to reach customers across the the globe with Amazon Connect, you can now support inbound calls to more than 77 countries globally. Post Updated on December 30, 2022 at 05:58PM

Amazon Connect has reduced outbound dialing rates to the Caribbean by 21% on average in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. This includes 76% to the Bahamas, 60% to the Cayman Islands, and 56% to Jamaica. Post Updated on December 29, 2022 at 08:30PM

Amazon Connect has expanded to support inbound telephone numbers and national calling across the Caribbean in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. With the ability to reach customers across the Caribbean added to Amazon Connect, you can now support inbound calls to more than 78 countries globally. Post Updated on December 29, 2022 at 09:01PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports creating database instances from a Custom Engine Version (CEV). Customers can use CEV to build a golden image from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with the required Windows operating system (OS) and database customizations, such as custom drivers or third-party software. They can then create RDS Custom for SQL Server instances based on this golden image. Using a CEV allows customers to maintain their preferred baseline configuration of the OS and database. In addition, customers can deploy fleets of RDS Custom for SQL Server database instances with the same configuration. User-initiated recovery actions such as snapshot restores and point-in-time recovery benefit from restoring customizations, which can lead to faster recovery times. Post Updated on December 29, 2022 at 06:11PM

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports 30x higher limits for the number of categorical hyperparameter values that can be searched per tuning job. Post Updated on December 28, 2022 at 10:48PM

Starting today, you can enable RStudio on Amazon SageMaker on your existing Amazon SageMaker Studio domains. This eliminates the administrative burden of decommissioning and re-creating your Studio domains to enable RStudio on SageMaker. You can also select whether all user profiles in the domain have access to RStudio on SageMaker by default or enable it for specific user profiles individually. You can set the type of access your users have in RStudio (i.e., user or administrator access). Post Updated on December 28, 2022 at 09:23PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports updates to encryption in transit on existing cluster resources. You can change the TLS configuration of your Redis clusters without re-building or re-provisioning them or impacting application availability. When enabling encryption in transit, your overall solution can remain connected to Redis clusters. Post Updated on December 28, 2022 at 09:32PM

AWS Config now supports 13 more resource types for services including Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lightsail (Virtual Server), AWS DataSync, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (Amazon FIS), Amazon CloudWatch real-user monitoring (Amazon RUM), and Amazon Backup.  Post Updated on December 28, 2022 at 06:11PM

We are excited to announce the availability of reserved nodes for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis . Reserved nodes allow you to save up to 55% over On-Demand node prices in exchange for a usage commitment over a one- or three-year term. Reserved nodes are complementary to MemoryDB On-Demand nodes and give businesses flexibility to help reduce costs. Reserved nodes can be reserved for one-year or three-year terms with No Upfront, Partial Upfront and All Upfront payment options. Post Updated on December 27, 2022 at 08:22PM

AWS Storage Gateway now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up and managing your hybrid cloud storage workflow with Amazon S3 File Gateway . Using the Storage Gateway management console, you can now quickly create a new file share in a single step and just a few clicks: Choose between configuring an NFS or an SMB file share. Then, connect to a new or existing Amazon S3 bucket. Lastly, finalize your file share access configuration. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you get enhanced wizard instructions and updated in-console help panel information, helping you to seamlessly navigate the file share creation process. Post Updated on December 27, 2022 at 06:02PM

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. 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 resources. 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 December 22, 2022 at 10:21PM

Starting today, we are launching the AWS Network Firewall service in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Post Updated on December 22, 2022 at 10:53PM

AWS Transfer Family announces built-in support for PGP decryption of files uploaded over SFTP, FTPS or FTP to Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS. Customers can now configure and automate decryption of files that are encrypted using PGP keys by their users before upload, making it easy to meet their data protection and compliance requirements when exchanging sensitive data with third parties. Post Updated on December 22, 2022 at 09:12PM

AWS License Manager announces support for cross-region, cross-account tracking of commercial Linux subscriptions you run on AWS. This includes subscriptions purchased as part of EC2 subscription-included AMIs, on the AWS Marketplace, or brought to AWS via Red Hat Cloud Access Program. You can track subscription usage by number of instances for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu Pro distributions in the Linux subscriptions tab of the AWS License Manager console.  Post Updated on December 22, 2022 at 08:41PM

AWS IoT Core announces the capability to decode Google Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) encoded messages to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format using the AWS IoT Core Rules Engine , making it easier to use Protobuf directly in your IoT Rule , without the need to invoke a Lambda function to decode the Protobuf message. Post Updated on December 22, 2022 at 07:09PM

AWS Compute Optimizer now delivers recommendations to help customers identify optimal Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)  task CPU and memory configurations for Amazon ECS services running on Amazon ECS services running on AWS Fargate . Post Updated on December 22, 2022 at 07:41PM

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today we are introducing a new account-level vCPU-based quota. The account-level per Region vCPU-based quota allows you to control the maximum number of aggregated vCPUs your applications are able to scale up to within a Region. Configuring such quotas can help you avoid runaway workloads or inefficient queries.  Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 10:52PM

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports a new feature to import your on-premises virtual machine (VM) images to AWS with a console-based experience for generating Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from your VM image that you have built to meet your IT security, configuration management, and compliance requirements. With this new feature in AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator, you can automate the manual tasks like the validation of pre-requisites to save time and effort, specify correct license type for bring-your-own-licenses (BYOL) use, and easily track the status of VM import process in the console.  Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 10:50PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 08:50PM

Amazon Nimble Studio now supports Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots with our new Auto Backup feature, providing a simple and secure data protection solution customized for your Amazon Nimble Studio workstations. Auto Backup is intended for artists and administrators leveraging persistent storage for their workstations who wish to protect that data in the event of a recovery situation, such as data loss or misconfigured software.  Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 09:19PM

We are excited to announce support for full cluster lifecycle automation through GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform for Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A). Previously, the only mechanism for customers to perform full EKS-A cluster lifecycle operations such as provisioning, updates, and deletion was by using an Amazon command-line-interface (CLI) tool “eksctl”. Now, EKS-A supports GitOps and IaC in the EKS-A management cluster so customers can automate EKS-A workload cluster lifecycle operations including cluster creation, update, and deletion.  Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 07:54PM

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Nutanix with AHV Virtualization, which expands the choice of infrastructure options for customers running Kubernetes on-premises. Nutanix enhances the list of deployment options for Amazon EKS Anywhere customers, which already includes bare metal servers, VMware vSphere, and Apache CloudStack. Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 07:52PM

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers fully managed capabilities to stream video and audio in real-time from Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) standards compliant cameras, IoT devices and browsers to the cloud for secured storage, playback and analytical processing. Customers can now use our enhanced WebRTC SDK and cloud APIs to enable real-time streaming as well as media ingestion to the cloud. Post Updated on December 21, 2022 at 05:55PM

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of three new AWS Systems Manager widgets on Console Home. Customers can now view their operational status as soon as they sign in and take necessary action to remediate operational issues with one-click access to AWS Systems Manager features. Post Updated on December 20, 2022 at 10:58PM

Amazon EC2 announces pagination for the EC2 DescribeImages API. It allows you to describe your images over a number of API requests, instead a single one. You can specify a page size when calling the API, which will be used as the upper bound for resources to return in a single request. A pagination token is returned on the response, which you can then include in your next API request to fetch the next page of images. Post Updated on December 20, 2022 at 09:22PM

Starting today, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is available for use in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Post Updated on December 20, 2022 at 06:56PM

AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Bangkok and Kolkata. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Post Updated on December 19, 2022 at 11:12PM

The AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based SDK client and the Transfer Manager for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are now generally available in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x . The CRT-based S3 client is intended for users who want maximized throughput when transfering objects to and from Amazon S3, and the S3 Transfer Manager is a high level transfer utility built on top of CRT-based S3 cleint and provides additional functionalities such as file directories transfer and progress monitoring. Post Updated on December 19, 2022 at 10:33PM

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) management APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) . AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your Amazon EKS clusters in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink to help your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges, see the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information. Post Updated on December 19, 2022 at 09:17PM

You can now query Delta Lake tables seamlessly in Amazon Athena, giving you the benefit of increased operational efficiency, improved query performance and reduced cost. Delta Lake is an open-source table format that helps implement modern data lake architectures commonly built on Amazon S3 . Prior to this launch, reading Delta Lake tables in Athena required a complex process of generating and managing additional metadata files. Now you can use Athena to query Delta Lake tables directly without this additional effort. Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 09:36PM

AWS IoT Device Client introduces a new version 1.8 which provides docker images, PowerPC architectures support, and an implementation to use the new “AWS Run-Command” Job Template.  Post Updated on December 19, 2022 at 08:02PM

Today we announce the general availability of Renate , an open-source Python library for automatic model re-training. The library implements continual learning algorithms to train deep neural networks incrementally when new data becomes available. Post Updated on December 19, 2022 at 06:45PM

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies configured using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on operational metrics at scale. It does this without you having to manage the underlying infrastructure required to scale and secure the ingestion, storage, alerting, and querying of metrics. With this feature, customers can now configure VPC endpoint policies in the Amazon VPC console, via Command Line Interface or SDK, or through AWS CloudFormation. These policies can restrict access of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus endpoints to particular AWS accounts, IAM users, and IAM roles. Post Updated on December 19, 2022 at 06:01PM

AWS DataSync now supports the use of tags with task executions. A DataSync task defines where and how data is transferred using AWS DataSync and a task execution is an individual run of a task. With this new feature, you can apply tags each time you execute a task, giving you greater control and management over your task executions. Post Updated on December 16, 2022 at 10:37PM

AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) and Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint (GWLBE) now support end-to-end connectivity using Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Customers can now send IPv6 traffic through Gateway Load Balancers and its endpoints to distribute traffic flows to dual stack appliance targets.  Post Updated on December 16, 2022 at 11:12PM

Today, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is announcing SageMaker Python SDK support for its offline store. Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, search, and share machine learning (ML) features. SageMaker Feature Store offline store contains historical ML features, and you can use it to generate training data sets for training and batch inference. Until today, you had to use Athena and Glue and write ad hoc SQL queries to create these training datasets.  Post Updated on December 16, 2022 at 06:05PM

You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS South America (São Paulo) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and helps support your local data residency obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, and Graphics G4DN instances to meet the needs of your users. Post Updated on December 16, 2022 at 04:40PM

AWS launches Amazon EKS managed node groups for Windows containers to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Windows nodes (running on Amazon EC2 instances) for EKS Kubernetes clusters. With this launch, Windows-based applications will automatically provision and register the Amazon EC2 instances that provide compute capacity. Now customers can create, automatically update, or terminate the Windows nodes for their cluster with a single operation.  Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 10:19PM

AWS Backup adds support for VMware vSphere tags, enabling you to protect your VMware virtual machines (VMs) using tag-based policies, simplifying data protection across your on-premises vSphere and AWS environments. This allows you to import your VMware vSphere tags to AWS, where they can be automatically associated with a backup plan via tag-based policies. Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 10:43PM

With Amazon 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 move data to another storage solution. Starting today, you can use Athena to query real-time streaming data held in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka. Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 10:37PM

Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors for HubSpot, LinkedIn Pages, Productboard, and Recharge provide customers with even more data access capability for use cases such as data lake hydration, analytics and machine learning, and data retention. Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 09:46PM

The Amazon Chime SDK now offers a new resource for builders to get started with CodeSandbox. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers embed intelligent real-time communication capabilities into their applications. CodeSandbox is an online code editor and prototyping tool that makes creating and sharing web apps faster. In one-click, builders using the Amazon Chime SDK for virtual meetings can review ready-made code required to set up a meeting, at the same time, seeing a prototype of the meeting experience in real-time. Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 10:46PM

We are excited to announce support for concurrent account factory actions in AWS Control Tower, allowing you to create, update, or enroll up to five accounts at a time. AWS Control Tower account factory makes it easy for you to provision accounts and automate deployment of AWS resources, roles and policies within those accounts to support a range of business functions across your organization. With this new feature enhancement, you now have the autonomy to create and manage your accounts on-demand, supporting greater automation and decreased operational workload.  Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 08:16PM

Amazon AppFlow , a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source. With this launch, you can now transfer your unstructured data from SharePoint Online to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in just a few clicks. This SharePoint Online integration unlocks many use cases such as uploading documents (e.g. PDFs, Word documents, Excel files, etc.), images, and other information to a data lake or centralized storage built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for applications such as file backup and archival, and help desk management. Post Updated on December 15, 2022 at 07:35PM

Today, we would like to announce enhancements to AWS Mainframe Modernization service including an expansion to 5 new regions and support for AWS CloudFormation, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Key Management Service (KMS) resulting in repeatable deployment, and greater security and compliance. Post Updated on December 14, 2022 at 09:14PM

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) launches a new networking capability called Service Connect in the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) Regions.  Post Updated on December 14, 2022 at 09:08PM

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports accelerated computing over graphics processing unit (GPU) instance types using Nvidia RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark. The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in analytics has increased the need for processing data quickly and cost efficiently with GPUs. Nvidia RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark helps customers leverage the benefit of GPU performance while saving infrastructure costs. With this release, EMR on EKS customer can use the RAPIDS accelerator by simply specifying the Spark-RAPIDS release label when calling EMR on EKS API. Post Updated on December 14, 2022 at 08:09PM

You can now bring machine learning (ML) models built anywhere into Amazon SageMaker Canvas and generate predictions, to address a wide range of business problems. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML experience or having to write a single line of code. Post Updated on December 14, 2022 at 05:59PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatibilie edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL running major version 14. PostgreSQL 14   concists of performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. With this launch, you can enforce SCRAM ( Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism ) password-based authentication for proxy, making connections from your applications more secure. Post Updated on December 13, 2022 at 10:43PM

Amazon EMR Serverless  is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Post Updated on December 13, 2022 at 10:43PM

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Post Updated on December 13, 2022 at 09:18PM

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now detects if your Amazon Aurora database is receiving a significantly larger number of SQL queries and if those queries are reading more data than usual. This new functionality will help you to discover, in the event of degraded database performance, if an application traffic change is the likely cause of the performance degradation. If you use DevOps Guru for RDS, you don’t have to take any specific step in order to use this functionality. As long as you have DevOps Guru for RDS monitoring turned on for your Amazon Aurora databases, this new feature will be available wherever applicable. Post Updated on December 13, 2022 at 06:03PM

Amazon Translate  is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, Amazon Translate launches support for translation of files stored in nested S3 folders. Post Updated on December 13, 2022 at 06:14PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to configure hierarchies and resource tags for users in bulk. You can now optionally assign agent hierarchies and resource tags to each agent using the CSV bulk upload template, available on the user management page. For example, you can import a group of users and assign both a hierarchy to denote which country the users operate in, and a tag like Department:A to indicate which department they work for. To learn more about adding users individually or in bulk, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide .  Post Updated on December 12, 2022 at 09:17PM

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Amazon Translate now supports language detection of input files for batch translations. Post Updated on December 12, 2022 at 07:59PM

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i Instances are now also available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. Post Updated on December 12, 2022 at 05:58PM

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports AWS Fargate workloads running on AWS Graviton Processors . Service Connect simplifies service discovery, connectivity and traffic observability for Amazon ECS and helps you build applications faster by letting you focus on the application code instead of your networking infrastructure. Post Updated on December 09, 2022 at 09:02PM

Amazon SageMaker model training now supports preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge(p4de) instances, powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs and high-performance HBM2e GPU memory. These instances provide the highest performing compute infrastructure currently available for use cases that require training of large language models (LLMs), computer vision (object detection, semantic segmentation) and generative artificial intelligence. Post Updated on December 09, 2022 at 06:07PM

SV1, the on-demand state vector simulator on Amazon Braket , now supports the computation of gradients using the adjoint differentiation method, enabling customers to reduce runtime and save costs for their quantum machine learning and optimization workloads. With this launch, customers simulating variational quantum algorithms with a large number of parameters, such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA), can now seamlessly incorporate adjoint gradient computation either directly from the Braket Python SDK  or API, or through PennyLane , an open-source software framework built for quantum differentiable programming. Post Updated on December 09, 2022 at 06:15PM

EC2 Auto Scaling customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math to customize the metrics they use with Target Tracking policy without actually having to publish and pay for customized metrics. Customers can use both arithmetic operators (such as +, -, /, and *) and mathematical functions (such as Sum and Average) to easily create custom metrics based on existing CloudWatch metrics. Target Tracking, like other EC2 Auto Scaling policies, helps customers maintain high availability while reducing costs by auto scaling their environments to meet changing demand. Specifically, Target Tracking works like a thermostat: it constantly changes the capacity of an Auto Scaling group to maintain the specified metric at a customer-defined target level. Today’s release makes it easier and cheaper to configure Target Tracking with custom metrics. Post Updated on December 08, 2022 at 11:00PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports even larger SPICE datasets on the Enterprise Edition. Today, all new SPICE datasets can accommodate up to 1 billion rows (or 1TB) of data in the Enterprise Edition and 25 million rows (or 25GB) for Standard Edition. Before the launch, each SPICE dataset could hold up to 500 million rows and 500GB of data. Customers who want to use QuickSight's rich visualizations to explore very large datasets had to rely on data engineers to manually orchestrate data between QuickSight and another data store, which made it challenging to access and analyze very large datasets quickly. With billion-row support in SPICE, it’s easier to connect to data stores and ingest data into SPICE. Users now have greater autonomy to visually analyze large datasets directly in QuickSight, without coordinating with engineering teams to manually orchestrate data among services. See here for details. Post Updated on December 08, 2022 at 10:33PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Logz.io, enabling Logz.io users to ingest streaming metrics and logs without having to manage applications or write code.  Post Updated on December 08, 2022 at 09:26PM

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions . VPC IPAM makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads.  Post Updated on December 08, 2022 at 06:04PM

AWS Config now supports configuration recorder as a configuration item. Configuration recorder must be enabled before AWS Config can detect changes to your resource configurations and capture these changes as configuration items. With this launch, you can now monitor configuration changes to the configuration recorder in your AWS account.  Post Updated on December 08, 2022 at 07:12PM

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to create feature groups in the offline store in Apache Iceberg table format. The offline store contains historical ML features, organized into logical feature groups, and is used for model training and batch inference. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets such as the offline store. It manages large collections of files as tables and supports modern analytical data lake operations optimized for usage on Amazon S3. Post Updated on December 07, 2022 at 10:55PM

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models (CLM) now support German and Japanese languages in both batch and streaming mode. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to use pre-existing data to build a custom speech engine for your specific batch and streaming transcription use cases. No prior machine learning experience is required to create your CLM. Post Updated on December 07, 2022 at 10:12PM

Amazon Cognito is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Post Updated on December 07, 2022 at 08:30PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation Hooks launches wildcard resource type for Hook configurations enabling customers to match multiple resources types. Customers can use wildcards to define resources targets for building flexible Hooks. Such Hooks can activate for resource types which are not explicitly known when the Hook was created. For example, customers can use AWS::ECR::* wildcard to define a Hook that triggers for all resource types under Amazon ECR.  Post Updated on December 07, 2022 at 06:08PM

AWS Snow Family Large Data Migration Manager (LDMM) is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Snow Large Data Migration Manager enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge devices. You can now easily plan and monitor your jobs from a minimum of 500 Terabytes to Petabytes scale data migrations. Post Updated on December 06, 2022 at 10:13PM

Today, AWS IoT Device Defender launched  a new audit check AWS IoT policy potentially misconfigured to identify certain potential misconfigurations in IoT policies. Security misconfigurations such as overly permissive policies can be a major cause of security incidents. With this new audit check in AWS IoT Device Defender, you can now more easily identify flaws, troubleshoot issues, and take the necessary corrective actions.  Post Updated on December 06, 2022 at 10:46PM

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now supports creating data models directly from sample data model templates to help you design data schemas for your workloads. You can use this feature to get familiar with NoSQL data modeling best practices when building your applications on DynamoDB. Post Updated on December 06, 2022 at 10:10PM

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now includes a guided DynamoDB Local installation process to streamline setting up your DynamoDB local development environment. You can use this new feature to build, test, and deploy workloads on DynamoDB more quickly. Post Updated on December 06, 2022 at 10:11PM

Amazon Neptune Workbench is now available in  Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Starting today, you can use the Neptune Workbench to create Neptune notebook instances in these regions for visualizing graph data in Neptune, accessing tutorials, and running code samples using an interactive coding environment. Post Updated on December 06, 2022 at 09:15PM

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use AWS IAM Identity Center to centrally manage workforce access to workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level. Post Updated on December 06, 2022 at 06:16PM

Starting today, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides automatic encryption of data in transit between Nitro-based compute instances and new FSx for ONTAP file systems. Post Updated on December 05, 2022 at 10:54PM

AWS Security Hub now integrates with AWS Control Tower , allowing you to pair AWS Security Hub detective controls with AWS Control Tower proactive or preventive controls and manage them together using AWS Control Tower. AWS Security Hub controls are now mapped to related control objectives in the AWS Control Tower control library, providing you with a holistic view of the controls required to meet a specific control objective. This combination of over 160 detective controls from AWS Security Hub, with the AWS Control Tower built-in automations for multi-account environments, gives you a strong baseline of governance and off-the-shelf controls required to scale your business using new AWS workloads and services. This combination of controls also helps you monitor whether your multi-account AWS environment is secure and managed in accordance with best practices, such as the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard. Post Updated on December 05, 2022 at 10:32PM

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning. Studio comes with built-in integration with Amazon EMR so that data scientists can interactively prepare data at petabyte scale using frameworks such as Apache Spark right from Studio notebooks. We’re excited to announce that SageMaker Studio now supports applying fine-grained data access control with AWS Lake Formation when accessing data through Amazon EMR. Post Updated on December 05, 2022 at 05:52PM

Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager enables you to centrally deploy and monitor FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF) across all AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) in your AWS organization. With this release, customers now have a single firewall management solution to deploy and manage both AWS native firewalls and FortiGate CNF firewalls. Post Updated on December 02, 2022 at 11:06PM

AWS AppConfig has released an agent for container runtimes that makes the use of feature flags and runtime configuration simpler, with improved performance. Customers that use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Docker, or Kubernetes can now use the AWS AppConfig Agent to manage the calls from their containerized application to the AWS AppConfig service. Previously, customers needed to manage their own retrieval and caching of configuration data when using a container runtime. Now, by using the AWS AppConfig Agent, the agent will do this for them. This agent will query AWS AppConfig for configuration data and make it available locally. It will also handle polling and caching logic on behalf of customers. Applications will make local HTTP calls to the AWS AppConfig Agent, thus seeing performance improvements when retrieving configuration data. Post Updated on December 02, 2022 at 06:05PM

Amazon Comprehend announced single-step APIs that customers can now use to classify and extract entities of interest from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and images. Post Updated on December 02, 2022 at 12:44AM

AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service that provides customers the technical guidance they need to innovate faster and improve operational efficiency with AWS services. re:Post has integrated with AWS Builder ID to provide re:Post users an additional sign-in method to join the community without an AWS account. Additionally, users can link multiple logins with AWS Management Console or AWS Builder ID so that community contributions live in a single re:Post profile. re:Post integration with AWS Builder ID and the ability to link multiple logins to a single re:Post profile allow users to keep their contributions, points earned, and reputation status on re:Post, even if they transfer to a new role or organization. Post Updated on December 01, 2022 at 05:54PM

AWS Application Composer helps developers simplify and accelerate architecting, configuring, and building serverless applications. You can drag, drop, and connect AWS services into an application architecture by using AWS Application Composer’s browser-based visual canvas. AWS Application Composer helps you focus on building by maintaining deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC) definitions, complete with integration configuration for each service. Post Updated on December 01, 2022 at 05:16PM