News For Dev-ops

AWS License Manager now offers an organization-wide view of license entitlements for all software purchased in AWS Marketplace and from independent software vendors. Also, administrators can now distribute grants to an organizational unit (OU), in addition to their organization's root or an AWS account. When distributing grants, users have the option to replace grants for the same software that an AWS account might already have.  Post Updated on March 31, 2023 at 10:54PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MB2 data center in Mumbai, India. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions , and AWS Local Zones . Post Updated on March 31, 2023 at 08:50PM

You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Europe (Spain), AWS Europe (Zurich), AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Post Updated on March 31, 2023 at 07:20PM

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible service that monitors and provides alerts on containerized applications and infrastructure at scale. Prometheus is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS. With this release, customers can send up to 500M active metrics to a single workspace after filing a service limit increase request, and can create many workspaces per account, enabling the storage and analysis of billions of Prometheus metrics. To get started, customers can create an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace and increase their workspace active series limits by filing a service limit increase request in AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas . Post Updated on March 31, 2023 at 06:06PM

Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to continuously monitor and profile Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) container runtime activity to identify malicious or suspicious behavior within container workloads. GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring introduces a new lightweight, fully-managed security agent that monitors on-host operating system-level behavior, such as file access, process execution, and network connections. Once a potential threat is detected, GuardDuty generates a security finding that pinpoints the specific container, and includes details such as pod ID, image ID, EKS cluster tags, executable path, and process lineage. GuardDuty EKS Runtime monitoring includes over two dozen new detections at launch, which when combined with GuardDuty EKS Audit Log Monitoring, amounts to more than 50 detections that are tailored to identify threats to Amazon EKS deployments. Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 11:09PM

Today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control, a new capability that provides better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates. Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 11:14PM

Amazon DevOps Guru for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. With this capability, you can resolve RDS for PostgreSQL related performance bottlenecks in minutes rather than days. DevOps Guru for RDS for RDS PostgreSQL supports both reactive insights, anomalous behavior that has already occurred, as well as proactive insights, informing you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 10:10PM

AWS WickrGov is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of AWS Wickr . Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 07:12PM

AWS is pleased to announce two new features in the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool)—Consolidated Report and Enhanced Search—that will enable customers to quickly identify risk themes across their workloads and scale improvements across their organization. Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 08:13PM

AWS WickrGov is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of AWS Wickr . Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 06:08PM

Amazon Omics now supports batch import of variant data into Omics variant stores. You can now import up to 1,000 variant call format (VCF) and genome VCF (gVCF) files in a single variant import job. This simplifies how you bring population scale variant data into Omics and make it available for analysis. Post Updated on March 30, 2023 at 06:02PM

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Europe (Spain) Region. Post Updated on March 29, 2023 at 09:52PM

Amazon SageMaker Python SDK is an open source library for training and deploying machine-learning models on Amazon SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker Python SDK users can now configure default values for parameters such as IAM roles, VPC, and KMS keys. For the full list of supported parameters and APIs, see the SageMaker SDK defaults documentation page . Post Updated on March 29, 2023 at 08:40PM

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate asynchronous Batch Translation is now available in eight additional regions - US West (Northern California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Paris) and Europe (Stockholm). With this expansion, Amazon Translate asynchronous Batch Translation is supported in 15 regions. Now, AWS customers can reach a wider set of users in many geographies that are increasingly expecting to consume media and interact with organizations in the language of their choice. Post Updated on March 29, 2023 at 05:58PM

Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to migrate and modernize your applications in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on March 29, 2023 at 02:27PM

Amazon GuardDuty has added new functionality to its integration with AWS Organizations to make it even simpler to enforce threat detection across all accounts in an organization. Since April 2020, GuardDuty customers can leverage its integrations with AWS Organizations to manage GuardDuty for up to 5,000 AWS accounts, as well as automatically apply threat detection coverage to new accounts added to the organization. In some case, this could still result in coverage gaps, for example, if GuardDuty was not applied to all existing accounts, or if it was unintentionally suspended in individual accounts. Now with a few steps in the GuardDuty console, or one API call, delegated administrators can enforce GuardDuty threat detection coverage for their organization by automatically applying the service to all existing and new accounts, as well as automatically identifying and remediating potential coverage drift. To learn more, see the Amazon GuardDuty account management User Guide . Post Upda...

AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm using AWS Graviton2 is now available in: Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Post Updated on March 28, 2023 at 08:07PM

We are excited to announce that Incident Manager now provides on-call schedules, to help you have 24/7 coverage and responsiveness for critical issue. This extends Incident Manager’s capabilities for incident response, helping operations teams more quickly engage, respond, and resolve application availability and performance issues when they occur. Post Updated on March 28, 2023 at 07:02PM

Amazon Athena has expanded its encryption settings to improve the security of your query results. With today’s launch, you can now ensure all query results are encrypted at or above a level of encryption that you specify. Post Updated on March 28, 2023 at 05:58PM

AWS IoT Core , a cloud service that connects billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, announce a deeper integration with Amazon Sidewalk. With AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk , customers can now easily provision, onboard, and monitor their Amazon Sidewalk devices.  Post Updated on March 28, 2023 at 02:24PM

We are pleased to announce that as of today, new Cost Explorer users will automatically receive the benefit of Cost Anomaly Detection. Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to continuously monitor, detect, and alert customers of unexpected cost increases. The default configuration allows new Cost Explorer users to quickly improve cost controls with zero effort. Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 10:51PM

Amazon Connect agent workspace now provides programmatic step-by-step guidance that agents can use to identify customer issues and then recommends which actions to take to resolve them. Using Flows, the Amazon Connect no-code/low-code drag-and-drop design interface, you can design a guide that presents what the agent should review or do at a given moment during a customer interaction. This guidance helps decrease the time it takes to train new agents and helps all agents become more productive. Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 09:26PM

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces domainless Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Windows containers. This helps customers to easily authenticate applications hosted on Amazon EKS with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) using a portable user identity and a plug-in mechanism to retrieve the gMSA credentials for their Windows containers. Now, customers can run containers that require AD authentication without joining the EKS nodes to the domain, even in case of autoscaling events. Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 10:50PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge) of memory are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region and instances with 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 10:05PM

AWS Glue Crawler now supports enhanced crawl capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions , simplifying running Crawlers with AWS Lake Formation, discovering datasets, and populating schema in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 08:09PM

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of the SAP NetWeaver JAVA Stack application. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of solutions including SAP HANA database, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA in accordance with AWS, SAP, and operating system vendor best practices. Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 06:47PM

Today we are launching the Amazon Chime SDK integration with Amazon Lex for chatbots, enabling builders to develop persistent conversational chat interfaces using a simplified architecture. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and chat capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Lex provides automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies so you can build conversational interfaces.  Post Updated on March 27, 2023 at 05:59PM

Amazon Connect now allows you to use custom task templates using the “Create task” block in Connect Flows, making it easier for agents to capture the right information to create and complete tasks. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. For example, you can create tasks for scenarios such as investigating billing issues or new insurance claims using pre-defined task templates in flows and pre-populate data for agents with the information needed to quickly resolve the issue. Task templates are supported out-of-the box with no need for manual configuration for the Amazon Connect agent workspace. Post Updated on March 24, 2023 at 09:23PM

We are excited to announce the support for EKS clusters with both managed and self-managed node groups when using interactive Spark workloads via managed managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables  customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDEs) such as EMR Studio . Post Updated on March 24, 2023 at 08:25PM

Amazon Detective has increased the daily quota limits for behavior graph data volumes. With the increased limits, Detective can now ingest up to 10 TB per day to help you conduct more comprehensive security investigations and provide broader summaries and visualizations of behaviors in your AWS accounts. Post Updated on March 24, 2023 at 06:36PM

Today we launched new observability features including log patterns, metrics analytics and support for Jaeger traces with OpenSearch 2.5 in Amazon OpenSearch Service . Post Updated on March 24, 2023 at 05:10PM

Deadline 10.2.1 is now generally available and adds new functionality with support for launching and managing Spot Fleets in multiple AWS regions from the same Spot Event Plugin and a new worker version tag for instances running on Amazon EC2. Post Updated on March 23, 2023 at 09:53PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports setting content-type request headers for HTTP/S notifications . This enables your topic subscribers to create a DeliveryPolicy that specifies the content-type value that Amazon SNS assigns to their HTTP/S notifications, such as application/json, application/xml, or text/plain. With this launch, applications can receive their notifications in a more predictable format. Post Updated on March 23, 2023 at 08:03PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports per-second billing for both Linux and Windows instances. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this update, customers will only pay for Amazon GameLift usage in one second increments, with a minimum of 1 minute.  Post Updated on March 23, 2023 at 07:07PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.  Post Updated on March 23, 2023 at 05:02PM

AWS Resilience Hub has added Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) as a supported resource. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. Amazon EKS is a managed service to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises data centers. Post Updated on March 23, 2023 at 04:58PM

Amazon WorkDocs now offers Search Resources API for builders to programmatically search files and folders that you have permissions for. The new Search Resources API provides keyword search and a wide array of search result filtering capabilities. Customers can apply filters such as content type, last modified date range, file owner, and labels. The new WorkDocs Search Resources API is available via AWS CLI, SDK and REST endpoints.  Post Updated on March 22, 2023 at 09:56PM

AWS Batch now enables you to configure ephemeral storage up to 200 GiB in size on AWS Fargate type jobs. This means that you can expand the available ephemeral storage beyond the default value of 20 GiB for your jobs when using Fargate as the compute platform on AWS Batch. With this launch, you no longer need to limit the size of the Docker images to run machine learning inferences or the size of the data sets in the container for data processing to be under 20GiB. You can configure the ephemeral storage to be as large as 200GiB to run larger sized workloads.  Post Updated on March 22, 2023 at 10:09PM

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, enabling you to optimize the performance of your backend application servers while helping to keep your workloads secure. TLS 1.3 on ALB works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to the load balancer. TLS 1.3 is optimized for performance and security by using one round trip (1-RTT) TLS handshakes, and only supporting ciphers that provide perfect forward secrecy. Post Updated on March 22, 2023 at 08:15PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 15. PostgreSQL 15 includes new features such as the SQL standard "MERGE" command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, support for two-phase commit, and row/column filtering for logical replication. The PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for server-side compression with Gzip, LZ4, or Zstandard (zstd) using pg_basebackup. For more details about this release, refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement . You can also enforce SCRAM ( Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism ) password-based authentication for your proxy.  Post Updated on March 22, 2023 at 06:58PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of language Transform called ‘ AWS::LanguageExtensions ' to Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. When declared in a template, the transform enables extensions to the template language in AWS CloudFormation. The language extensions transform expands the functionality of the base CloudFormation JSON/YAML template language. Post Updated on March 22, 2023 at 04:54PM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces Amazon CloudFront expansion in Peru by launching a new edge location in Lima. Customers in Perú can expect up to 50 percent improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location to provide end users faster, more responsive applications. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront , a highly distributed and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video. Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of 450+ points of presence (POPs) and 13 regional edge caches in 90+ cities across 49 countries to deliver content to end users. Post Updated on March 22, 2023 at 06:27PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances , Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances , and Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are available in bare metal size. These sixth-generation network optimized instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They are the first x86-based instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth. These instances deliver up to 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. The instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Post Updated on March 21, 2023 at 10:04PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MC1 data center in Muscat, Oman. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except China Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD),  AWS GovCloud Regions , and AWS Local Zones .  Post Updated on March 21, 2023 at 09:53PM

Starting today, Application Auto Scaling customers can use tags to manage the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions related to their auto scaled resources. Prior to this launch there was no way for customers to control IAM permissions based on custom resource tags. Now, permissions can be centrally managed for all resources tagged with the same key-value pairs. Post Updated on March 21, 2023 at 09:46PM

Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now allows you to view the network reachability between your source and destination in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) through Gateway Load Balancers, AWS Network Firewalls, and AWS PrivateLink services. In addition, you can also check network reachability between a source resource and your specified destination IP address.  Post Updated on March 21, 2023 at 08:10PM

Using Amazon S3 Object Lambda , you can add your own code to S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST API requests to modify data as it is returned to an application. You can now use an S3 Object Lambda Access Point alias as an origin for your Amazon CloudFront distribution to tailor or customize data to end users. For example, you can resize an image depending on the device that an end user is visiting from. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:18PM

AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 is now generally available, helping customers easily find, subscribe to, and use third-party data files for faster time to insight, storage cost optimization, simplified data licensing management, and more. This feature is intended for subscribers who want to use third-party data files directly from data providers’ Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, without needing to create or manage data copies, as well as data providers who want to offer in-place access to data hosted in their Amazon S3 buckets. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:32PM

We are excited to announce the support for Graviton3-based instances in Amazon EMR. You can now use Amazon EC2 C7G instances with EMR on EC2 and Amazon EKS. AWS Graviton3 processors are the latest in the AWS Graviton processor family. They provide better compute performance, floating point performance and support DDR5 memory that provides 50% more memory bandwidth as compared to DDR4. Amazon EMR launches support for Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute C7g (Graviton3) instances which improve cost-performance for Apache Spark workloads by up to 13% . You can improve cost-performance of Spark workloads running on EMR on EKS by up to 15% by migrating to Graviton3-based instances. The benchmark used in this post to arrive at the cost-performance improvement is derived from the industry-standard TPC-DS benchmark, and uses queries from the Spark SQL Performance Tests GitHub repo with the following fixes applied. Performance on your workloads may vary and therefore not yield similar cost savi...

Amazon Connect now provides the ability to configure multiple IAM roles that can be assigned to a single user when using SAML 2.0, enabling you to support user access from multiple identity providers simultaneously. For example, if you are migrating identity providers, you can configure multiple IAM roles associated to a single user and that user will be able to access Amazon Connect from both providers. To learn more about configuring IAM roles for SAML 2.0 in Amazon Connect, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide . Post Updated on March 20, 2023 at 10:00PM

AWS Transfer Family, a service that provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), in now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on March 17, 2023 at 09:03PM

AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations now allows you to analyze application binaries, detect incompatibilities, and identify viable modernization pathways such as refactoring and replatforming without assessing your application source code. Strategy Recommendations can now help inspect web application binaries on Windows and Linux Servers and generate incompatibility report that you can leverage to implement viable modernization pathways. Post Updated on March 17, 2023 at 08:54PM

AWS Backup customers can now back up and restore their virtual machines running on VMware vSphere 8. Virtual machines compatible with ESX 3.x and later can use vSphere 8.0. Additionally, AWS Backup gateway now supports backups and restores of virtual machines configured with multiple vNICs (virtual network interface cards). Post Updated on March 17, 2023 at 09:38PM

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports validation to ensure that data is migrated accurately to S3.  Post Updated on March 17, 2023 at 08:42PM

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports ingesting enriched metadata introduced in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs as part of versions 3 to 5 additional to the default fields. This launch includes metadata fields that provide more insights about the network interface, traffic type, and the path of egress traffic to the destination. Post Updated on March 17, 2023 at 06:31PM

AWS CodeBuild’s support for GPU-based workloads now run on an additional 4vCPU 1GPU machine type suited for less-resource intensive workloads. Post Updated on March 17, 2023 at 04:59PM

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud 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 March 16, 2023 at 09:46PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams that enables AWS customers to securely monitor their AWS resources, and respond to operation events in their AWS infrastructure from Microsoft Teams channels where their entire team can quickly review, collaboratively diagnose, and securely run common DevOps commands. Post Updated on March 16, 2023 at 08:39PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of  Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) , our new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. AL2023 provides seamless integration with various AWS services and development tools and offers optimized performance for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Graviton-based instances and AWS Support at no additional licensing cost. Starting with AL2023, a new Amazon Linux major release will be available every 2 years. This cadence provides you with a more predictable release cycle and up to 5 years of support, making it easier for you to plan your upgrades.  Post Updated on March 15, 2023 at 07:26PM

AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Post Updated on March 15, 2023 at 05:03PM

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6a instances and compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. These instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz, and they are built on the AWS Nitro System . M6a instances deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable M5a instances, while C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance than comparable C5a instances. Both instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 10:12PM

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 Confluence Cloud Connector to index and search documents from Confluence Cloud. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 06:51PM

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 SharePoint OnPrem Connectors (2013, 2016, 2019) and Subscription Edition to index and search messages from SharePoint OnPrem. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 06:52PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service announces security analytics that provides new threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features. These capabilities help you to detect and investigate potential security threats that may disrupt your business operations or pose a threat to sensitive organizational data.  Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 06:34PM

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports S3 Replication on Outposts. This extends S3’s fully managed approach to replication to S3 on Outposts buckets, helping you meet data residency and data redundancy requirements. With local S3 Replication on Outposts, you can create and configure replication rules to automatically replicate your S3 objects to another Outpost, or to another bucket on the same Outpost. During replication, your S3 on Outposts objects are always sent over your local gateway (LGW), and objects do not travel back to the AWS Region. S3 Replication on Outposts provides an easy and flexible way to automatically replicate data within a specific data perimeter to address your data redundancy and compliance requirements. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:05PM

We are pleased to announce the alpha release of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high throughput access, lowering compute costs for data lakes on Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and LIST. It is ideal for read-heavy data lake workloads that process petabytes of data and need Amazon S3’s high elastic throughput to scale up and down across thousands of instances. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:29PM

Using Amazon S3 Object Lambda , you can add your own code to S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST API requests to modify data as it is returned to an application. You can now use an S3 Object Lambda Access Point alias as an origin for your Amazon CloudFront distribution to tailor or customize data to end users. For example, you can resize an image depending on the device that an end user is visiting from. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:18PM

AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 is now generally available, helping customers easily find, subscribe to, and use third-party data files for faster time to insight, storage cost optimization, simplified data licensing management, and more. This feature is intended for subscribers who want to use third-party data files directly from data providers’ Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, without needing to create or manage data copies, as well as data providers who want to offer in-place access to data hosted in their Amazon S3 buckets. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:32PM

Amazon Chime SDK now supports Amazon Voice Focus background noise reduction for telephone carrier deployments. Amazon Voice Focus is an award-winning, machine-learning based noise suppression algorithm that reduces unwanted environmental noises like wind, barking dogs, keyboard typing, and car horns from phone calls. Now telecom providers can deploy background noise reduction, at scale, across their voice network for both landline and mobile subscribers. Post Updated on March 14, 2023 at 05:03PM

Amazon Neptune now supports graph summary API to help you understand important metadata about your property graphs (PG) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs. Starting with engine version 1.2.1.0, you can use the graph summary API for fast access to summary data about your graph. Post Updated on March 13, 2023 at 09:56PM

Today, Amazon Neptune adds support for Slow Query Logs to help identify queries that need performance tuning. You can now identify slow-running queries and log runtime details for these queries’ key performance indicators such as query execution time, and response codes to Amazon CloudWatch Logs . Post Updated on March 13, 2023 at 09:35PM

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Europe (Zurich) Region. Post Updated on March 13, 2023 at 06:19PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Auckland, New Zealand. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Auckland location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones . Post Updated on March 10, 2023 at 11:47PM

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now supports IPv6, allowing you to forward traffic to and resolve traffic from on-premises Domain Name System (DNS) servers with IPv6 addresses.  Post Updated on March 10, 2023 at 10:59PM

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Post Updated on March 10, 2023 at 09:35PM

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on March 10, 2023 at 07:35PM

Amazon Connect now provides a new API to programmatically access trailing 14 days of historical agent and contact metrics data. This new API extends the capabilities of current GetMetricData API, that provides historical metrics data only for the last 24 hours, provides new metrics (e.g., number of contacts disconnected or callbacks attempted) and the ability to filter metrics with more granularity. For example, using the GetMetricDataV2 API, businesses can now build custom analytics dashboards to understand how many contacts were disconnected by an agent or because the customer hung up.  Post Updated on March 10, 2023 at 06:02PM

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.17, which includes several important fixes and performance optimizations to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.10.10. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols to help you easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. Post Updated on March 09, 2023 at 11:05PM

QuickSight Embedding SDK is a Javascript library that allows developers to integrate analytics functionality into their products and applications. The SDK version 2.0 supports TypeScript, ES6 (async/await) syntax, and utility features that enable developers to quickly build analytics experiences within their applications.  Post Updated on March 09, 2023 at 09:19PM

Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPU). Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPU and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously the minimum base capacity required to run serverless was 32 RPU. With the new lowered base capacity minimum of 8 RPU, you now have even more flexibility to support diverse set of workloads of small to large complexity based on your price performance requirements. Post Updated on March 09, 2023 at 06:04PM

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports authentication of database users using Microsoft Active Directory. You can use Active Directory to authenticate with Amazon Aurora using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory or with your on-premise Active Directory by establishing a trusted domain relationship. Post Updated on March 08, 2023 at 11:14PM

Deletion protection is now available for Amazon DynamoDB tables in all AWS Regions. DynamoDB now makes it possible for you to protect your tables from accidental deletion when performing regular table management operations. When creating new tables or managing existing tables, authorized administrators can set the deletion protection property for each table, which will govern whether a table can be deleted. The default setting for the deletion protection property is disabled. When the deletion protection property is enabled for a table, the table cannot be deleted, irrespective of whether any AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions policies allow deletion of the table. When deletion protection is disabled for a table, authorized administrators can delete the table if allowed by IAM permissions policies. The deletion protection property can be set through the AWS Management Console, AWS API, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, or AWS CloudFormation. Post Updated on March 08, 2023 at 09:36PM...

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Writes enabling up to 2x higher write throughput at no additional cost. This is especially useful for RDS for MariaDB customers with write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming. Post Updated on March 08, 2023 at 07:03PM

AWS Config now supports 18 more resource types for services, including AWS Device Farm, AWS Budgets, Amazon Lex, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, AWS RoboMaker, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Lookout for Metrics, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage. Post Updated on March 08, 2023 at 06:04PM

AWS announces the general availability of the Open Data Maps feature for Amazon Location Service . Open Data Maps is a new data provider option for the Maps feature based on OpenStreetMap (OSM), a geospatial data source supported by a global community. Developers can now easily access reliable and up-to-date OSM data with no upfront investment or specialized geospatial knowledge. In addition to the commercial data provider options from Esri, HERE, and GrabMaps, Open Data Maps now gives developers more choices to integrate maps into their applications, enabling them to leverage OSM’s flexible licensing terms and continuously improving data quality. Post Updated on March 08, 2023 at 05:49PM

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now has enhanced color processing features along with support for new color formats. As High Dynamic Range (HDR) content becomes more common, the ability to convert between Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and HDR has also become important. While high-value content is commonly created using HDR color, most legacy, user-generated, and mass-produced content is created in SDR. Post Updated on March 07, 2023 at 09:19PM

AWS Glue now supports Streaming ETL in version 4.0, a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades data integration engines, including an upgrade to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and to Python 3.10 . Post Updated on March 07, 2023 at 09:52PM

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I3 bare metal instance is now also available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon EC2 I3 instances (i3.metal) provides your applications with direct access to the compute and memory resources of the underlying next generation AWS hardware and software infrastructure. Post Updated on March 07, 2023 at 10:27PM

Today, AWS launches the 2023 season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League - where developers of all skill levels advance their knowledge of machine learning (ML) and compete in the world’s first global autonomous racing league! Post Updated on March 07, 2023 at 09:53PM

AWS Resource Explorer supports 12 more resource types from services including Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda, and Amazon ElastiCache. Post Updated on March 07, 2023 at 06:16PM

You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions . Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor V2, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools by providing a web-based application that allows you to focus on exploring your data without managing your infrastructure. Post Updated on March 07, 2023 at 06:01PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka ( Amazon MSK ) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters.  Post Updated on March 06, 2023 at 10:34PM

AWS Lambda now supports configuring up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for functions in 6 additional regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE). This feature makes it easier to build and run data intensive workloads with Lambda functions. Post Updated on March 06, 2023 at 07:01PM

AWS IoT Device Management Jobs add the capability for customers to schedule their remote actions within a maintenance window. Job scheduling allowed customers to define the start and end time of a job rollout. Following today's launch, Customers can configure the maintenance window recurrence on daily, weekly or monthly schedule (e.g. “Monday-Wednesday-Friday”) or define a customized recurrence for Continuous Jobs . Devices that are added to target groups receive job execution notifications only within the pre-configured maintenance window duration without requiring any changes on device-side software. Customers with devices located in different time zones can also utilize this feature in combination with Dynamic Thing Groups and Device Shadow to schedule Job executions according to the local time of their devices ( see this blog ). With Maintenance Window configuration, customers can automate device software updates to their enterprise or industrial assets based on devices' ...

You can now create a single AMI that can boot on both Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Legacy BIOS. Post Updated on March 06, 2023 at 06:07PM

Starting today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) lets you add a VPC endpoint using AWS PrivateLink that connects through the AWS KMS Regional endpoint that has been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 program. With this new launch, you can easily use AWS PrivateLink with AWS KMS for those regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic module. Post Updated on March 03, 2023 at 09:55PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Hamburg, Germany. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions , and AWS Local Zones . Post Updated on March 03, 2023 at 08:03PM

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports time-weighted average ( timeweightedavg ) and time-weighted standard deviation ( timeweightedstdev ) functions that make it easier to automatically factor in the numerical levels of a particular variable, as well as the amount of time spent in that variable. With the new time-series functions, process engineers can define metrics for time-series data that isn’t regularly sampled and get a representative view of their operations. Post Updated on March 03, 2023 at 07:59PM

AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easier for you to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources. CloudShell uses your AWS Console credentials for pre-authentication. Common development tools are pre-installed so that no local installation or configuration is required. With CloudShell, you can run scripts with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), define infrastructure with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), experiment with AWS service APIs using the AWS SDKs, or use a range of other tools to help you increase your productivity.  Post Updated on March 03, 2023 at 06:31PM

We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include compute optimized (C6g), general purpose (M6g), and memory optimized (R6g) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, and R6g is available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Europe (Milan) regions. Post Updated on March 03, 2023 at 05:46PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) regions. Blue/Green Deployments help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases.  Post Updated on March 02, 2023 at 10:35PM

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Post Updated on March 02, 2023 at 08:41PM

AWS Control Tower announces a new progress tracker that depicts milestones and related statuses of the landing zone setup and upgrade process. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is a starting point from which you can deploy workloads and applications. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using AWS best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, monitoring, and account structure.  Post Updated on March 02, 2023 at 06:45PM

Amazon Detective finding groups now include a dynamic visual representation of Detective's behavior graph to emphasize the relationships between security findings and the associated entities within a finding group. This addition makes it easier for customers to triage potential security issues with at-a-glance visuals that include finding types, severity levels, associated account(s), and linkages within the Detective behavioral graph that can be used to investigate related activity within a finding group. Post Updated on March 01, 2023 at 10:58PM

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) supports MySQL 8.0.26. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.26 includes several changes, such as enhanced tablespace file segment page configuration and new aliases for certain identifier names. For more details, please review Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.26 release notes. Post Updated on March 01, 2023 at 09:48PM

Amazon Lightsail now offers Amazon Lightsail for Research, a new offering that makes it simple for you to accelerate your research using the power of the cloud. Lightsail for Research provides access to analytical applications such as Scilab, RStudio, and Jupyter running on powerful virtual computers in just a few clicks. Post Updated on March 01, 2023 at 08:11PM

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports an increased On-Demand write throughput limit to 1 GB/s, a 5x increase from the current limit of 200 MB/s. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store streaming data at any scale. On-Demand is a capacity mode for Kinesis Data Streams that automates capacity management, so that you never have to provision and manage the scaling of resources. In the On-Demand mode you pay for throughput consumed rather than for provisioned resources, making it easier to balance costs and performance. Post Updated on March 01, 2023 at 08:35PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cross Region Automated Backups with encryption. The Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups feature enables disaster recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backup retention period. This allows you to quickly resume operations in the event that the primary AWS Region becomes unavailable. If you've enabled encryption on the source RDS for SQL Server DB instance, you can use this feature to copy encrypted DB snapshots to regions outside of the primary AWS region. Post Updated on March 01, 2023 at 08:44PM