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Today, AWS announces the general availability of FLAC audio and animated GIF video input sources for AWS Elemental MediaConvert. These new input formats are compatible with all MediaConvert outputs. For example, you can convert lossless FLAC files into compressed audio formats like AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis, or use FLAC files as sidecar audio sources to be joined with video files. Animated GIF inputs can be converted into higher-efficiency video streaming codecs like AVC and HEVC and distributed as standalone MP4 files or adaptive-bitrate streaming packages such as HLS or DASH. Post Updated on February 28, 2023 at 11:02PM

The AWS Serverless Application Model ( SAM ) Command Line Interface (CLI) now announces the preview of sam build support for building and packaging serverless applications developed in Rust. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Developers building serverless applications with Rust used cargo-lambda to build their applications, but cargo-lambda wasn't supported within the SAM CLI build workflow.. Starting today, you can use cargo-lambda in the SAM CLI build workflow for your Rust applications. Post Updated on February 28, 2023 at 09:02PM

Today, we are excited to announce our v1.12.1 AWS SimSpace Weaver app SDK update. This update enables support for AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) and the ability to use temporary credentials to start, stop, and manage simulations. AWS SimSpace Weaver is a fully managed compute service that helps customers deploy large spatial simulations in the cloud. Launched this past re:Invent, SimSpace Weaver allows customers to create seamless virtual worlds with millions of objects that can interact with one another in real time without ever worrying about managing the back-end infrastructure. Post Updated on February 28, 2023 at 07:01PM

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon DocumentDB change streams as an event source. The change streams feature in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) provides a time-ordered sequence of change events that occur within your cluster’s collections. Customers can now consume these events in their serverless applications built on Lambda. Post Updated on February 28, 2023 at 07:23PM

Today we are announcing the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in the AWS Bahrain region. This marks the 23rd AWS region to offer VMware Cloud on AWS, providing customers with a faster and more efficient way to migrate their VMware-based workloads to the cloud. Post Updated on February 28, 2023 at 06:12PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest major version PostgreSQL 15. New features in PostgreSQL 15 include the SQL standard "MERGE" command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, and support for two-phase commit and row/column filtering for logical replication. The PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for new extension pg_walinspect, and server-side compression with Gzip, LZ4, or Zstandard (zstd) using pg_basebackup.  Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. Post Updated on February 28, 2023 at 06:14PM

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now allows you to select a specific window for scheduling a maintenance event. You can use the maintenance window to specify, for example, when your PostgreSQL 10 cluster gets upgraded to PostgreSQL 11. You can set the maintenance window with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or using the latest AWS SDK or CLI . Review the Aurora documentation to learn more.  Post Updated on February 27, 2023 at 10:56PM

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to delete inactive task definition revisions programmatically or via the Amazon ECS console. With this new capability, customers can permanently delete task definition revisions that are no longer needed or contain undesirable configurations, simplifying their resource management and improving security posture. Post Updated on February 27, 2023 at 09:47PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, a feature of Amazon CloudWatch that helps you monitor internet availability and performance metrics between your AWS-hosted applications and application end users. Post Updated on February 27, 2023 at 08:10PM

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it simple to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secure repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better decisions. Post Updated on February 27, 2023 at 06:35PM

AWS Security Hub has released 7 new controls for its AWS Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your cloud security posture management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon ElastiCache . If you have Security Hub set to automatically turn on new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these new controls will run without having to take any additional action. Post Updated on February 24, 2023 at 08:18PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt), AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Region Asia Pacific (Tokyo). C7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C7g instances are built for workloads including batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference. Post Updated on February 24, 2023 at 06:05PM

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 further enhancing the developer experience by providing eight pre-built bot templates, containing 50+ intents, that can be deployed in minutes.  Post Updated on February 23, 2023 at 11:05PM

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Europe (Zurich) 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 February 23, 2023 at 09:22PM

Starting today, Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn instances are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are the first x86-based Amazon EC2 instances to offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth, and 2x higher packet performance over comparable fifth-generation instances.  Post Updated on February 23, 2023 at 06:06PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. These regions are in addition to the existing Asia Pacific (Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), Australia (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm), South America (São Paulo) and US (Northern California, N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon) regions. Post Updated on February 23, 2023 at 06:21PM

AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. Post Updated on February 22, 2023 at 09:41PM

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 Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo). Post Updated on February 22, 2023 at 09:22PM

Today, we are announcing an update for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to use the Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9. This update updates dependency packages and addresses the planned deprecation of Synthetics NodeJS runtime versions 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. Post Updated on February 22, 2023 at 06:00PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports early notifications of Auto minor Version Upgrades (AmVU) for instances via Pending Maintenance Actions (PMA), enhancing usability of AmVU.  Post Updated on February 21, 2023 at 08:10PM

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Telco Network Builder to help communications service providers (CSPs) automate the deployment and management of telco networks on AWS. CSPs want to take advantage of the cost efficiencies, agility, and elasticity of the cloud, but it’s complicated to map traditional network requirements to a cloud environment. To set up a large network, you need to deploy hundreds of compute, storage, and networking components on AWS across thousands of locations. You also need to set up and maintain secure networking between locations, then manage and scale ongoing network operations. Post Updated on February 21, 2023 at 06:01PM

Torn Write Prevention (TWP) is a feature that ensures 16KiB write operations are not torn in the event of operating system crashes or power loss during write transactions. Starting today, this feature is available for AWS customers using instance store on AWS Nitro SSD based EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen storage optimized instances, and in additional Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) regions, a block storage service, when attached to all EC2 Nitro-based instances. Post Updated on February 21, 2023 at 06:12PM

You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon Connect Cases from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the public internet. Post Updated on February 20, 2023 at 07:50PM

AWS ParallelCluster 3.5 is now generally available and expands your choices and flexibility by adding the graphical user interface for AWS ParallelCluster to help you set up, monitor, and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. Other important features in this release include: Enhancements designed to improve visibility for cluster errors during compute node bootstrap, execution of pre and post install script Enhancements designed to improve reliability for compute node reboot Support of long cluster names up to 40 characters Programmatic interface you can use to access AWS ParallelCluster via a Python library Post Updated on February 20, 2023 at 07:59PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you schedule service software and auto-tune updates during off-peak hours, helping you plan deployments to your domain better. In addition, with improved notifications through EventBridge events, and notifications on the OpenSearch Service console, you have better visibility of scheduled updates, when the updates start, and complete. Post Updated on February 20, 2023 at 06:02PM

You can now learn to use Amazon Detective with a new self-paced workshop in AWS Workshop Studio. AWS Workshop Studio is a collection of self-paced tutorials designed to teach practical skills and techniques to solve business problems. Amazon Detective Workshop is designed to teach you how to use the primary features of Detective through a series of interactive modules that cover topics such as security alert triage, security incident investigation, and threat hunting. Together with an updated Amazon GuardDuty Workshop , you can learn how to identify security findings and more quickly analyze and determine the nature and extent of those security issues. Post Updated on February 20, 2023 at 06:31PM

AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports ingestion of events from New Relic via Amazon EventBridge. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management for their selected workloads to help improve operations, increase workload resiliency, and accelerate recovery from critical incidents. Now when your New Relic Workflow creates an event, AWS Incident Detection and Response is notified of this event and starts the response process. You maintain control of the event details you share with AWS Incident Detection and Response. This launch extends the supported event sources for AWS Incident Detection and Response. Post Updated on February 17, 2023 at 08:56PM

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 35 additional AWS services including Amazon EMR Serverless, AWS Clean Rooms, AWS IoT Fleetwise and AWS IoT Roborunner. Post Updated on February 17, 2023 at 07:38PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2023 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 19c and Oracle Database 21c. Post Updated on February 17, 2023 at 06:04PM

Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Post Updated on February 16, 2023 at 10:05PM

AWS Control Tower now provides you with the ability to trace a customization request through the entire AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) workflow. With AFT, Terraform customers can automate the creation of fully functional accounts that grant them access to all the resources they need to be productive. This feature enhancement allows customers to track where their customizations are in the pipeline and enables them to identify and troubleshoot issues more easily. Post Updated on February 16, 2023 at 08:58PM

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and delivers improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. X2iedn instances have a memory to vCPU ratio of 32:1 and are great fit for memory-intensive workloads such as databases and analytics, and big data processing engines. X2iedn instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2iedn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory . Post Updated on February 16, 2023 at 08:43PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for DynamoDB global tables , which means you can enable streaming to an Amazon Kinesis data stream on your DynamoDB global tables with CloudFormation templates. By streaming your DynamoDB data changes to a Kinesis data stream, you can build advanced streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis services. For example, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building, managing, and integrating with Apache Flink and provides built-in functions to filter, aggregate, and transform streaming data for advanced analytics. You also can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to take advantage of managed streaming delivery of DynamoDB table data to other AWS services such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3. Post Updated on February 16, 2023 at 07:20PM

Amazon Cognito identity pools now publishes data events to AWS CloudTrail logs. Customers now have greater visibility into access-related activities for both guest and authenticated users of their applications. Administrators can now configure Amazon CloudWatch Alarms to monitor specific activity on Amazon Cognito identity pools and react based on automated workflows. Customers can record data events in AWS CloudTrail and gain better insight into the identity providers leveraged by users to access AWS resources with Amazon Cognito identity pools. AWS CloudTrail may charge for recording data events.  Post Updated on February 16, 2023 at 06:43PM

The AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now generally available in 4 new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Milan), China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD). With this launch, the AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for MemoryDB is now available in all regions where MemoryDB is generally available. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates customers’ AWS accounts with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas.  Post Updated on February 15, 2023 at 10:13PM

You now have the automated host maintenance feature available for your Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. With automated host maintenance, in the rare event of degradation of a dedicated host, AWS will automatically reboot the EC2 instances running on it onto a newly allocated dedicated host during a scheduled maintenance event, to reduce your application’s downtime and offload undifferentiated heavy-lifting of host maintenance. Post Updated on February 15, 2023 at 09:11PM

Database Activity Streams (DAS) now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server to provide a near real-time stream of database activities for auditing and compliance purposes. You can integrate DAS with your monitoring tools in order to monitor and set alarms for auditing the database activity. You can also connect Amazon Kinesis Data Stream to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to save stream logs in a user readable format to S3 . You can enable DAS with only a few clicks in the AWS Console to provide safeguards for your databases and help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements.  Post Updated on February 15, 2023 at 06:48PM

ENA Express now supports 15 new instances including: C6i.32xlarge, C6i.metal, C6id.32xlarge, C6id.metal, M6i.32xlarge, M6i.metal, M6id.32xlarge, M6id.metal, R6i.32xlarge, R6i.metal, R6id.32xlarge, R6id.metal, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.metal, and im4gn.16xlarge. Customers using these instances today can now enable ENA Express with a simple configuration. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance in two key ways: higher single flow bandwidth and lower tail latency for network traffic between EC2 instances. SRD is a proprietary protocol that delivers these improvements through advanced congestion control, multi-pathing, and packet reordering directly from the Nitro card.  Post Updated on February 15, 2023 at 06:13PM

Today, Workspot announces Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core . You can now provision, deploy, and manage Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core directly from Workspot Control: your single global administration console. You can also use your existing security, PC management tools, and Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) solutions seamlessly extending your current desktop management processes to your new Cloud PCs.  Post Updated on February 14, 2023 at 09:36PM

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere  on Snow, a new deployment option that helps customers create and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS Snow Family devices. EKS Anywhere on Snow is designed to provide Kubernetes cluster provisioning and familiar operational visibility tooling for customers to manage container applications lifecycle running on Snow devices deployed at the edge.  Post Updated on February 14, 2023 at 06:05PM

Amazon GameLift can now publish events to Amazon Simple Notification Service  (Amazon SNS) topics that have server-side encryption (SSE) enabled, for additional protection of events that carry sensitive data. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can now enable server-side encryption to receive player matchmaking and game session queue notifications from the GameLift service.   Post Updated on February 14, 2023 at 06:15PM

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances and Amazon EC2 R7g instances . These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. Compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, they offer up to 2x better floating-point performance, up to 2x faster crypto performance, and up to 3x better machine learning (ML) performance, including support for bfloat16. These Graviton3-based instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth than DDR4, to enable high-speed access to data in memory. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System . M7g instances are built for general purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. R7g instances are used for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. Post Updated on ...

Amazon Elastic Container Service ( Amazon ECS ) has improved the accuracy of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for Amazon ECS services. Load balancing on Amazon ECS now more accurately routes traffic to running tasks as tasks will be deregistered from the ELB before they enter a stopped state. Furthermore, with these improvements, Amazon ECS also helps your services running on the Fargate Spot capacity provider be more resilient to Spot termination notices. Post Updated on February 13, 2023 at 06:04PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the tcn extension which provides a trigger function that allows you to asynchronously notify listeners of changes to a table. Post Updated on February 13, 2023 at 06:11PM

Today, we are excited to announce the ability to roll back an EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh feature allows you to replace instances in an Auto Scaling group on a rolling basis. With today’s launch, you can use rollback to undo changes an instance refresh made when it fails. Post Updated on February 10, 2023 at 08:21PM

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation applications, and SAP S/4HANA 2022 . This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA 2020 and 2021. Post Updated on February 10, 2023 at 06:12PM

Today, we are introducing a new capability for Amazon EMR on EKS to increase job execution resiliency. Until now, users had to build their own custom job execution retry mechanism outside of Amazon EMR on EKS, to make sure their Spark jobs keep running in case of failure. With this feature, users can now save time and keep their business-critical and long-running streaming workloads running, by having Amazon EMR on EKS automatically re-submit jobs in case of failure. Post Updated on February 09, 2023 at 10:53PM

AWS Lambda has launched three new metrics AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing. Until now, Lambda customers had little visibility into the processing of asynchronous requests and had to rely on Lambda service teams to resolve any processing delays leading to inefficiencies in asynchronous event processing. With these new metrics customers have better visibility into their asynchronous invocations and can track the events sent to Lambda, monitor delays in event processing and take corrective actions if required. Post Updated on February 09, 2023 at 09:07PM

Amazon CloudFront enhanced its Origin Access Control (OAC) feature by adding support for AWS Elemental MediaStore. This enables customers to secure MediaStore origins with improved security, allowing only authorized CloudFront distributions to access them. Customers can now enable AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) on CloudFront requests for MediaStore origins and set when and if CloudFront should sign the requests. Post Updated on February 09, 2023 at 07:38PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in the following six regions - Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). With auto scaling, ElastiCache for Redis automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down. Post Updated on February 08, 2023 at 10:46PM

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Spain) 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 February 08, 2023 at 10:32PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation adds Spotlight tab on the AWS Management Console for CloudFormation to give quick access to curated articles on CloudFormation. You can now find AWS CloudFormation articles from multiple official AWS channels at a single location. You can use this feature to discover the editor’s choice articles from the AWS team on CloudFormation. With this launch, you can find the latest information on CloudFormation features, blogs, and workshops. Post Updated on February 08, 2023 at 08:03PM

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 Kazuha and Tomoko, two new female Japanese neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices. Post Updated on February 08, 2023 at 06:02PM

Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region. Post Updated on February 07, 2023 at 09:47PM

AWS DataSync is now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. You can now use DataSync to copy data between on-premises, edge, or other cloud storage and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services, within each of these new AWS Regions. Post Updated on February 07, 2023 at 06:10PM

Starting today, Graviton3-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in bare metal size. C7g instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, up to 2x faster cryptographic performance, and up to 3x faster CPU-based machine learning (ML) performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, including support for bfloat16. C7g instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4. They are built on the 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. C7g instances are built for workloads including batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference. Post Updated on Feb...

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS regions. Post Updated on February 06, 2023 at 09:10PM

Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction with up to 1 second granularity from structured logs using Embedded Metric Format (EMF). Customers can now provide an optional “StorageResolution” parameter within EMF specification logs with a value of 1 or 60 (default) to indicate the desired resolution (in seconds) of the metric.  Post Updated on February 06, 2023 at 08:32PM

You can now make changes to an AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel closer to the live edge. When a channel is running and content is playing, it is often necessary to amend the schedule quickly in reaction to unplanned or non-determined events. For example, cutting from a live source to a VOD source after a live event has concluded or adjusting what source plays for an upcoming program a few minutes before it begins. From today, you can make certain program updates in a channel’s schedule to take effect 60 seconds or more in the future.  Post Updated on February 06, 2023 at 07:58PM

Change Calendar, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now helps customers view their operational events, such as maintenance windows, state manager associations, and planned automation executions alongside their business-critical events. Using Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control the changes made to your AWS resources during events, such as public marketing promotions and when you expect high demand on your resources. To help you get a comprehensive view of operational changes, Change Calendar integrates with other Systems Manager capabilities, such as Automation, Maintenance Windows, State Manager, and Change Manager, and pre-populates your Change Calendar with the operational events view. This new feature automatically displays operational events alongside your business-critical events to help customers become aware of restricted periods while scheduling new tasks. Post Updated on February 06, 2023 at 06:02PM

AWS Glue Crawlers support MongoDB to extract the data schema and automatically populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. Today we are expanding the support to include MongoDB Atlas . This feature makes it much simpler to bring the managed MongoDB Atlas metadata into the AWS Glue Data Catalog, so that data engineers can integrate MongoDB Atlas data with S3 based data lakes and extract meaningful insights.  Post Updated on February 06, 2023 at 06:07PM

Amazon EC2 now supports replacing the root volume on a running EC2 Mac instance, enabling you to restore the root volume of an EC2 Mac instance to its initial launch state or to a specific snapshot, without requiring you to stop or terminate the instance. You can now reset the EC2 Mac instance back to a known state, while still retaining any local data, networking configurations, and IAM instance profiles. You can also leverage this capability to quickly provision fresh macOS environments on your EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts without triggering the host scrubbing workflow. Post Updated on February 03, 2023 at 09:40PM

The Amazon Chime SDK now provides a native client library for Windows applications to connect to WebRTC media sessions. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web, mobile applications, and now, Windows applications.   Post Updated on February 03, 2023 at 10:43PM

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the launch of sam list command, helping developers access information about deployed resources while they are testing their SAM applications. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications.  Post Updated on February 03, 2023 at 05:56PM

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports decoding audio from sources with Dolby E compressed tracks. Dolby E supports delivery of eight discrete audio source channels in a PCM (pulse code modulated) stereo pair. With this feature you can deliver content with different language tracks and/or high channel count spatial audio from a single high-quality source. This is useful for international syndication of sports and events where commentary and immersive audio are present. Post Updated on February 02, 2023 at 10:45PM

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in the Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. Post Updated on February 02, 2023 at 10:07PM

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory , also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions. Post Updated on February 02, 2023 at 06:01PM

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for instance management, in addition to previously launched CloudFormation support for instance creation and data storage APIs. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to manage Amazon Connect instances for associating Lex bots (and Lex v2), Lambda functions, Security keys, and Approved origins —along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.  Post Updated on February 01, 2023 at 10:26PM

Amazon Omics now supports AWS PrivateLink and AWS CloudFormation. You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon Omics APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges. See the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information. With CloudFormation support, you can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete your Amazon Omics resources. This helps you automate and standardize DevOps processes across your AWS accounts and AWS Regions for Amazon Omics. Post Updated on February 01, 2023 at 08:13PM

AWS App Runner now supports incoming requests based on HTTP 1.0 protocol for applications running on App Runner. Post Updated on February 01, 2023 at 07:30PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets adds a new parameter in DescribeStackSet API to improve visibility to the list of Regions where a given stack set is deployed. You can now access the list of Regions directly through your management or delegated administrator AWS account . Post Updated on February 01, 2023 at 06:03PM