News For Dev-ops

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports three new completion criteria to help you customize your tuning jobs based on your desired trade-off between accuracy, cost, and runtime.  Post Updated on January 31, 2023 at 11:06PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a new connection mode for cross-cluster connection, simplifying the setup required to remote reindex between a local domain and remote VPC domains. Remote reindex enables you to migrate data from a source domain to a target domain. Remote reindex is also useful when you have to upgrade your clusters across multiple major versions.  Post Updated on January 31, 2023 at 10:35PM

Amazon CloudWatch now supports metric extraction from structured logs using Embedded Metric Format (EMF) without requiring customers to provide special header declaration while publishing logs. Post Updated on January 31, 2023 at 09:05PM

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 Ruth and Stephen, two new US English neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices. Post Updated on January 31, 2023 at 07:44PM

Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Regions. Post Updated on January 31, 2023 at 06:08PM

Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new connectors that include Braintree, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle HCM and Zoho CRM. Amazon AppFlow is continually expanding its catalog of connectors to popular SaaS applications and these four new data connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases across marketing, eCommerce, customer service, and more.  Post Updated on January 31, 2023 at 06:22PM

Amazon QuickSight now includes Radar chart as a new chart type. Radar charts (also known as spider charts, polar charts, or web charts) are a way to visualize multivariate data. They are used to plot one or more groups of values over multiple common variables. They do this by providing an axis for each variable, which are arranged radially around a central point and spaced equally. The center of the chart represents the min value and the edge represent the max value on the axis. The data from a single observation are plotted along each axis and connected to form a polygon. Multiple observations can be placed in a single chart by displaying multiple polygons. To learn more, click here . Post Updated on January 30, 2023 at 10:46PM

Today, AWS Snow Family announces a new feature that allows for easy updates to the system software of your AWS Snowcone devices. Now, you can request and download Snow system software updates from AWS. It is now possible to install software updates on your AWS Snowcone device using the AWS Snowball Edge client and without returning the device to AWS. Post Updated on January 30, 2023 at 09:15PM

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index documents of additional data types in addition to the five types previously supported. Post Updated on January 30, 2023 at 08:42PM

Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to host container workloads, now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging when used with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere) bare metal deployments. The added functionality allows customers using Bottlerocket on bare metal to avoid a single point of failure in the network stack and improves network performance. Post Updated on January 30, 2023 at 06:06PM

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports Pause I/O for Amazon EBS volumes as a new FIS action type. With the new fault action, customers with highly available applications can test their architecture and monitoring, such as operating system timeout configurations and CloudWatch alarms, to improve resiliency to storage faults. Customers can observe how their application stack responds, and tune their monitoring and recovery process to improve resiliency and application availability. Post Updated on January 27, 2023 at 10:17PM

We are excited to announce the preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge instances for deploying machine learning (ML) models for inference on Amazon SageMaker. Post Updated on January 27, 2023 at 06:27PM

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Post Updated on January 26, 2023 at 07:28PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now provides analysis on your data to make onboarding easier than ever. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize trains custom models for each customer using their unique data. With this launch, Amazon Personalize now analyzes the data you provide and offers suggestions to assist you in improving your data preparation. Post Updated on January 26, 2023 at 06:01PM

AWS announces the general availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton. The Porting Advisor for Graviton is an open-source command line tool that analyzes source code and generates a report highlighting missing and outdated libraries and code constructs that may require modification along with recommendations for alternatives. It accelerates your transition to AWS Graviton-based instances by reducing the iterative process of identifying and resolving source code and library dependencies. Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 10:32PM

Amazon VPC IP address manager (IPAM) now lets you manage IP addresses in accounts outside of your AWS Organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This simplifies your IP management workflows (e.g., plan, track, and monitor) by enabling you to use a single IPAM across all your AWS accounts. Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 10:28PM

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools for association to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Contiguous CIDR blocks can be used for sequential VPC creation. CIDRs can then be aggregated in a single entry across networking and security constructs like access control lists, route tables, security groups, and firewalls.   Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 09:57PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports data bars for tables. Data bars are essentially bar charts displayed for a given column, where the bar length specifies the magnitude of the cell value relative to the range of values in the same column. Data bars make it easier to read and compare values and quickly spot outliers. You can set data bars for only numeric fields and set color for both positive and negatives values separately. More details can be found here . Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 10:05PM

Amazon QuickSight pivot tables now support more data than ever before with new the field limits, unlocking advance use cases. The value field well limits have been increased from 20 to 40, and Rows and Columns have been increased from 20 each to a combined limit of 40. For example, if the user has 34 fields in rows then they can add 40-34 = max 6 fields to the column field well. Refer here for more information. Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 09:58PM

Windows Server and SQL Server on Amazon EC2 calculator now supports Dedicated Hosts price estimation. With this feature, you can now generate optimized price estimate for bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios on Dedicated Hosts.  Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 09:10PM

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 06:05PM

We’re excited to announce the ability to change the default AMS response for Config Rules in Accelerate operations plan. With this release, customers can now choose whether they want AMS to remediate, ask for customer approval, or just add to a monthly report on the alerts from AMS supported security Config Rules . By adjusting the default response, you can increase conformance by setting more Config Rules for remediation. When you select remediation of a finding, AMS response is quick and consistent. Findings can also create a case asking for your approval or just be reported during your next Monthly Business Review (MBR). You can set up multiple responses for a Config Rule that are matched to the account and resources based on tags.   Post Updated on January 25, 2023 at 06:23PM

Amazon Aurora now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster or blue environment within Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments. This enables you to use Blue/Green Deployments for minor version upgrades for Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility). Post Updated on January 24, 2023 at 10:31PM

SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning allows you to find the most accurate version of your machine learning model by searching for the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations. Previously, you could only specify environment variables for your algorithm runtime in your SageMaker Training jobs, but not in your tuning jobs. Starting today, you have the flexibility to specify runtime environment variables for your scripts in your CreateTuningJob API.  Post Updated on January 24, 2023 at 08:52PM

Today we are excited to announce the launch of comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower, a set of new features that enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities. You can now programmatically implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments within minutes, so you can more quickly vet, allow-list, and begin using AWS services. With comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower, you can reduce the time it takes to define, map, and manage the controls required to meet your most common control objectives such as enforcing least privilege, restricting network access, and enforcing data encryption. Post Updated on January 24, 2023 at 06:01PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of runtime management controls for AWS Lambda. The operational simplicity of automatic runtime updates is one of the features customers most like about Lambda. This release provides customers running critical production workloads with more visibility and control over when runtime updates are applied to their functions. Post Updated on January 24, 2023 at 06:00PM

You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to add timecode visually into individual video outputs from a MediaLive channel. Post Updated on January 23, 2023 at 09:55PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL  now supports inbound replication from Amazon RDS Single-AZ database (DB) instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. You can use this inbound replication to help migrate your existing Amazon RDS PostgreSQL deployments within minutes to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys, which have one writer instance and two readable standby instances across three availability zones. By creating a Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys as a read replica of your existing RDS PostgreSQL database instance, you can promote the read replica to be your new primary, typically within minutes.  Post Updated on January 23, 2023 at 08:31PM

Amazon Detective now adds visual summaries and analytics about your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs from your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads. This new capability visualizes all network traffic from your EKS workloads and allows you to quickly answer questions like “what ports or network services were in use by my EKS workloads?”, “were there any large data transfers from my EKS workloads?”, and “what IP address were connected to my EKS workloads?” These details help security analysts investigate potential security issues, diagnose unexpected network behavior, and identify other AWS resources that might be affected. Post Updated on January 23, 2023 at 06:06PM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the availability of AWS Shield Advanced in the Middle East (UAE) region. Post Updated on January 20, 2023 at 10:28PM

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver long lasting, persistent chat experiences for your customers. Persistent chats enable customers to resume previous conversations with the context, metadata, and transcripts carried over, eliminating the need for customers to repeat themselves and allowing agents to provide personalized service with access to the entire conversation history. To set up persistent chat experiences, simply provide a previous contact id when calling the StartChatContact API to create a new chat contact. Post Updated on January 20, 2023 at 09:17PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Launch Templates support AWS Systems Manager parameters for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). This simplifies automation and reduces misconfiguration likelihood by eliminating the need to create a new launch template version for every AMI update.   Post Updated on January 20, 2023 at 05:55PM

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Microsoft (MS) Yammer Connector to index and search messages from MS Yammer. Post Updated on January 19, 2023 at 09:50PM

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for cross-account Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can include metrics that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS region in a single Metric Stream. This helps to reduce the number of streams needed to collect metrics for a common destination.  Post Updated on January 19, 2023 at 09:35PM

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched a new console experience for all users. The new Amazon ECS console makes it easier to deploy containerized applications, and configure load balancing, networking, and monitoring. The new Amazon ECS console also provides users with new workflows for effective operations and troubleshooting. Post Updated on January 19, 2023 at 06:08PM

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for cross-account Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can include metrics that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS region in a single Metric Stream. This helps to reduce the number of streams needed to collect metrics for a common destination.  Post Updated on January 19, 2023 at 05:50PM

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR  has made it 30% faster to launch an EMR on EC2 cluster in a private subnet. Customers can get the faster cluster start-up times by simply relaunching their EMR on EC2 private subnet clusters. No further action is needed. Post Updated on January 18, 2023 at 10:30PM

The Amazon Chime SDK now supports up to 250 webcam video streams per WebRTC session. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Every WebRTC attendee can enable webcam video and view any combination of up to 25 webcam video streams from other attendees. Post Updated on January 18, 2023 at 09:40PM

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs in the AWS Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions to create EBS snapshots of their block storage data regardless of where it resides, including on-premises.  Post Updated on January 18, 2023 at 07:53PM

AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and US East (Ohio) regions. You may now configure and operate MediaTailor using the console or API endpoints within these new regions. Post Updated on January 18, 2023 at 06:34PM

Starting today, customers can create SKU pricing rules in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) . An AWS SKU uniquely combines product (service code), Usage Type, and Operation for an AWS resource. Using SKU pricing rules, customers can change the rate for any resource running in their environment. For example, an AWS partner can use a SKU pricing rule to give a specific discount to their customer(s) for all c5.2xl EC2 instances running in us-east-1. Another use case could have an internal Cloud Center of Excellence team give a specific discount to their teams on EC2 (using a service-specific pricing rule for EC2) in combination with a SKU pricing rule for all EBS volumes which defaults to the public on demand rate, replicating the Savings Plans discounting method. Post Updated on January 18, 2023 at 06:36PM

On January 17, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18, 8u362 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 10:57PM

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum number of Access Points per file system from 120 to 1,000, enabling you to control file system access permissions across a larger number of applications in multi-tenant environments. Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 10:39PM

AWS Network Firewall now supports IPv6 for dual stack subnets so you can filter IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows to and from the public internet, on-premises network, or any endpoint in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now, you can use AWS Network Firewall to protect your IPv6 workloads on AWS. Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 10:47PM

Amazon CloudWatch now provides enhanced visibility into errors in Embedded Metric Format (EMF), with two new error metrics (EMFValidationErrors & EMFParsingErrors).  Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 08:30PM

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Cape Town region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including monitoring, incident detection and management, security, patch, backup, and cost optimization. Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 07:10PM

Today, we released two new AWS managed policies for Amazon Detective. AWS managed policies make it easier for users to gain the proper level of permissions to leverage the service for security investigations. AWS managed policies are maintained by AWS to reduce work for customers in managing access permissions for users in specific job roles. For more information on AWS managed policies, you can read AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide. Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 07:41PM

Now deploy patch policies across AWS accounts and AWS Regions using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager and AWS Organizations. Post Updated on January 17, 2023 at 06:39PM

Amazon CloudFront now supports the “Cloudfront-viewer-header-order” and "Cloudfront-viewer-header-count" headers, enabling customers to track the total number of HTTP headers sent with each request, as well as the order in which the headers were sent. Customers can use the two headers to detect and identify request patterns and compare them to the expected and legitimate patterns. This, used in conjunction with other access control rules, can help customers detect and block any attempts to spoof requests. Post Updated on January 13, 2023 at 08:14PM

AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports the ability to create more than one enclave per EC2 instance. AWS Nitro Enclaves is an Amazon EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their EC2 instances. Post Updated on January 13, 2023 at 06:57PM

AWS Security Hub is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in the Middle East (UAE) Region and take advantage of 108 security controls to automatically check your security posture in the Region. Post Updated on January 13, 2023 at 06:07PM

AWS Lambda now supports setting Maximum Concurrency to the Amazon SQS event source. Maximum Concurrency for SQS as an event source allows customers to control the maximum concurrent invokes by the Amazon SQS event source. When multiple Amazon SQS event sources are configured to a function, customers can control the maximum concurrent invokes of individual SQS event source.  Post Updated on January 12, 2023 at 09:59PM

Today, AWS Resource Groups is launching a new feature that emits lifecycle events when resources are added or removed from your groups and when resource groups are created, updated or deleted. These events allow you to initiate automated, event driven workflows for your applications. For example, with these events you can automate initiation of common operational tasks such as installing software packages, creating backups, or creating Amazon Elastic Block Store snapshots. Post Updated on January 12, 2023 at 09:32PM

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Microsoft Teams Connector to index and search messages and other entities from Microsoft Teams. Post Updated on January 12, 2023 at 08:43PM

AWS Config now supports 22 more resource types for services including Amazon MQ, AWS AppConfig, AWS Cloud9, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Fraud Detector, AWS IoT, AWS IoT Analytics, Amazon Lightsail (Virtual Server), AWS Elemental MediaPackage, Amazon Route 53 Recovery Readiness, AWS Resilience Hub, and AWS Transfer. Post Updated on January 12, 2023 at 07:25PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports Optimized Reads for up to 2X faster query processing compared to previous generation instances. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by the MariaDB server on the NVMe SSD-based block-level instance storage that’s physically connected to the host server. Complex queries that utilize temporary tables, such as queries involving sorts, hash aggregations, high-load joins, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can now execute up to 2X faster with Optimized Reads on RDS for MariaDB. Post Updated on January 11, 2023 at 11:15PM

Today Amazon Pinpoint is launching a new web form experience in the Amazon Pinpoint console to help make it easier for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon SNS customers to register SMS Sender IDs in Singapore. Customers are no longer required to create a support ticket to register Sender IDs for Singapore. A Sender ID is an alphanumeric originator that identifies the sender of an SMS message, e.g. “AMAZON”.  Post Updated on January 11, 2023 at 09:07PM

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now delivers up to 3x faster machine learning (ML) model training time, enabling rapid prototyping and faster time-to-value for business outcomes. SageMaker Canvas is a visual 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 January 11, 2023 at 06:37PM

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. Post Updated on January 10, 2023 at 10:54PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports restoring database (DB) snapshots taken from Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys to Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby. You can now use the DB snapshot restore capability to create new MySQL or PostgreSQL DB instances for your development or test environments. Post Updated on January 10, 2023 at 10:29PM

Amazon Location Service adds a new data source in Southeast Asia, GrabMaps, offering maps, search, and routing. Developers building applications in Southeast Asia can display their data on local up-to-date maps, use search boxes to locate end-user addresses and points of interest, and calculate routes using real-time traffic conditions. Post Updated on January 10, 2023 at 09:42PM

Today we are announcing support for tags in IAM policies to allow granular control over access to Amazon Personalize resources and operations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Tags are labels in the form of key-value pairs that can be attached to individual Amazon Personalize resources to manage resources, or allocate costs. With this launch, customers can also perform tag based access control for Amazon Personalize resources and operations such as modify, update or delete. For example, you can limit access to delete or update operations to specific individuals to avoid any accidental impact to your production environment. This functionality also allows customers with multi-tenant deployments to partition access to resources across their end customers. This functionality is available for several Amazon Personalize resources such as dataset groups, solutions, campaign...

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra S3 Connector to index and search documents from S3 hosted in their VPC.  Post Updated on January 10, 2023 at 07:41PM

AWS CloudShell is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS CloudShell for workloads that are subject to HIPAA compliance. Post Updated on January 10, 2023 at 06:08PM

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 January 09, 2023 at 11:21PM

AWS Network Firewall now supports reject as a firewall rule action so you can improve performance of latency-sensitive applications and improve internal security operations. Post Updated on January 09, 2023 at 10:23PM

Amazon S3 Storage Lens now offers lower pricing tiers for customers with 25 billion or more objects, making continuous monitoring of large storage footprints more cost effective. Customers with hundreds of billions of objects will now see progressively lower prices, saving up to 40% on organization-wide storage monitoring. Post Updated on January 09, 2023 at 10:35PM

You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive with a POIS (placement opportunity information system) to condition and react to in-band SCTE-35 signals in your sources. Post Updated on January 09, 2023 at 09:38PM

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now produces predictive scaling policy forecasts 4x per day, up from 1x per day prior to now. Reducing our forecast interval from 24 hours to 6 hours produces more accurate predictive scaling policies that quickly adapt to changing demand trends. All customers will benefit from this new default for predictive scaling. Customers use predictive scaling policies to scale out the capacity of their Auto Scaling groups based on forecasted demand, improving application availability, and alleviating the need for costly capacity buffers to accommodate spikes in demand. Post Updated on January 06, 2023 at 10:28PM

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 excited to announce that EMR Serverless now allows you to customize images for Apache Spark and Hive. This means that you can package application dependencies or custom code in the image, simplifying running Spark and Hive workloads. Post Updated on January 06, 2023 at 07:55PM

AWS App Runner now supports retrieving secrets and configuration data stored in AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store in an App Runner service as runtime environment variables. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. Many web applications and APIs access sensitive information such as database credentials and API keys to connect to downstream systems. Some developers prefer to decouple the management of sensitive information from application code to improve code re-usability and reduce operational overhead of updating and re-building application code to update secrets and configuration data. Now, you can securely reference secrets and configuration data stored in Secrets Manager and SSM Parameter Store as runtime environment variables in your App Runner service. This allows you to manage your sensitive information separate from the applic...

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Region US West (Oregon). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. They are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF). Post Updated on January 05, 2023 at 10:04PM

AWS released a newer version of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Installer (v1.21). This version introduces support for the Rocky Linux v9.0 and OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 operating systems. Post Updated on January 05, 2023 at 07:25PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6i instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Osaka), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town). R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. These instances come with always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME) and are built on AWS Nitro System . The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. R6i instances are SAP Certified and are built for workloads such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached and Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark clusters). Post Updated on January 05, 2023 at 06:00PM

Starting today, Amazon CloudWatch Logs is removing the 5 requests per second log stream quota when calling Amazon CloudWatch Logs PutLogEvents API. There will be no new per log stream quota. With this change we have removed the need for splitting your log ingestion across multiple log streams to prevent log stream throttling. Post Updated on January 04, 2023 at 09:47PM

Amazon Aurora MySQL Version 3 (Compatible with MySQL 8.0) now offers support for Backtrack. Backtrack allows you to move your database to a prior point in time without needing to restore from a backup, and it completes within seconds, even for large databases. Post Updated on January 04, 2023 at 07:11PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions around the world. With Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, you can capture item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables as a Kinesis data stream with a single click in the DynamoDB console, or by using the AWS API, CLI or CloudFormation templates. Post Updated on January 04, 2023 at 08:21PM

AWS Glue Studio Job Notebooks provide interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Job Notebooks also provide a serverless, built-in interface for AWS Glue Interactive Sessions, a feature of AWS Glue that allows customers to run interactive Apache Spark workloads on demand. Post Updated on January 04, 2023 at 06:14PM

Today, Amazon Neptune announced a new open-source low-code visual exploration tool, the graph-explorer , that is available under the Apache-2.0 license. With this launch, customers can effortlessly browse either labeled property graphs (LPG) or Resource Description Framework (RDF) data in a graph database and discover connections between data without having to write graph queries.  Post Updated on January 03, 2023 at 10:27PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. Post Updated on January 03, 2023 at 07:54PM

Amazon CloudFront now supports the removal of response headers using response header policies, giving customers a native capability to remove specified headers served from CloudFront. This new capability, along with the existing ability to add and override headers, provides comprehensive flexibility for customers to customize response headers. Post Updated on January 03, 2023 at 06:27PM