News For Dev-ops

Amazon EC2 now supports AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (AMD SEV-SNP), a feature on AMD EPYC™ processors, on M6a, C6a, and R6a instance types. The availability of AMD SEV-SNP in EC2 further increases the diversity of options that our customers have to meet the unique requirements of any workload.  Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 11:57PM

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 10:27PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation C5d, M5d and R5d instances, C6id, M6id and R6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance. C6id offers up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB; M6id and R6id offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB. Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 09:27PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers multi-VPC private connectivity that simplifies connectivity and access to your Amazon MSK clusters from your Apache Kafka clients hosted in any VPC or AWS account.   Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 08:33PM

Today, AWS announced Provisioned Capacity for Amazon Athena , a new feature that allows you to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Provisioned Capacity enables you to allocate dedicated compute to mission-critical queries and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. You can add capacity at any time, and pay only for the amount of capacity you specify and time it is active in your account. Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 08:17PM

Amazon S3 now applies two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. This change was first announced on December 13, 2022 , began deploying on April 5, 2023 , and is now applied to all AWS Regions. To learn more about the change, read Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 in the AWS News Blog and Default access settings for new S3 buckets FAQ in the S3 User Guide. Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 06:05PM

Amazon CloudWatch is introducing enhancements to the console experience, which improve data visualizations, cross-console navigation and user experience.  Post Updated on April 28, 2023 at 05:51PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon SageMaker with TensorBoard, which provides a hosted TensorBoard experience. This launch allows you to use TensorBoard to visualize and debug model convergence issues for Amazon SageMaker training jobs.  Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 11:02PM

We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection is now available in Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). Data protection is a feature that leverages pattern matching and machine learning capabilities to detect and protect sensitive log data-in-transit. Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services, in a single, highly scalable service. With log data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, you can now detect and protect sensitive log data in-transit such as, Credit Card Numbers or Government ID’s logged by your systems, and applications. Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 09:37PM

Today Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a new fully managed data ingestion tier that allows you to ingest and process petabyte-scale data before indexing it in OpenSearch-managed clusters or serverless collections. OpenSearch Ingestion provides a no-code capability to filter, transform, redact, and route data prior to indexing it in OpenSearch. OpenSearch Ingestion automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads.  Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 08:57PM

Today, AWS AppSync released enhanced support for TypeScript in JavaScript resolvers, along with integrated support for source maps in bundled JavaScript code. Plus, we’ve released updated guidance to help you during your development process, and we are updating the AppSync utility library to provide better type and generics support. Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 06:57PM

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.20 and RabbitMQ 3.9.27, which include several important fixes and performance optimizations to the previously supported versions. 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. Because Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols, you can more easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code. Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 06:51PM

AWS Lambda now supports Java 17 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Java 17 can take advantage of new language features including Java records, sealed classes and multi-line strings. The Lambda Java 17 runtime also has numerous performance improvements, including optimizations when running Lambda functions on Graviton 2 processors. It supports AWS Lambda Snap Start (in supported Regions) for fast cold starts, and the latest versions of the popular Spring Boot 3 and Micronaut 4 application frameworks. For more information on Lambda’s support for Java 17, see our blog post at Java 17 runtime now available in AWS Lambda . Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 06:21PM

Amazon QuickSight launches two suites of data ingestion APIs, including 1/Ingestion schedule APIs and 2/ Incremental Refresh Configuration APIs. Before enabling the APIs, QuickSight users have to setup their ingestion refresh schedule and lookback window in the console UI manually. The new suite of APIs allows users to define their refresh schedule and incremental refresh configuration programmatically hence help developers to automate and integrate seamlessly. The APIs will also largely speed up the migration to QuickSight from other BI tools. For further details, visit here . Post Updated on April 27, 2023 at 06:46PM

Starting today, Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) T4g instances are available in Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. Amazon EC2 T4g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. T4g instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, such as large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, and virtual desktops. Post Updated on April 26, 2023 at 10:35PM

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through two new AWS edge locations in Lima, Peru and Nashville, Tennessee (United States). With the addition of these two edge locations, Global Accelerator is now available through 106 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 21 AWS Regions. Post Updated on April 26, 2023 at 06:06PM

Amazon SageMaker Python SDK is an open source library for training and deploying machine-learning models on Amazon SageMaker. We are excited to announce SageMaker Python SDK now helps data scientists execute any local ML code authored in their preferred IDE and local notebooks along with the associated runtime dependencies as large-scale ML model training jobs with minimal code changes. Post Updated on April 25, 2023 at 10:54PM

We are excited to announce the General Availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor support for MQTT over WebSocket. AWS IoT Core Device Advisor is a cloud-based, fully managed test capability that validates AWS IoT device software for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core. With this update, customers can run all three test suites of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor - qualification, custom, and long duration tests - using Signature Version 4 for MQTT over WebSocket. Signature Version 4 is a protocol for authenticating inbound API requests to AWS services, in all AWS Regions.  Post Updated on April 25, 2023 at 10:54PM

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) , a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports the use of the IN operator in SELECT queries of Cassandra Query Language (CQL). Post Updated on April 25, 2023 at 07:49PM

AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) now supports customer managed permissions so you can author and maintain fine-grained resource access controls for supported resource types . AWS RAM helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts, within your organization or organizational units (OUs), and with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users. With customer managed permissions, you can apply the principles of least privilege, or the minimum permissions required to perform a task. Post Updated on April 25, 2023 at 06:03PM

If you deliver multichannel audio experiences, you can now use AWS Elemental Link UHD to pass through Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus audio to your AWS Elemental MediaLive channel. Post Updated on April 25, 2023 at 06:03PM

Starting today, customers with multiple organizational units (OU’s), and accounts can now create up to 10 AWS Firewall Manager administrator accounts from AWS Organizations service to manage their firewall policies. Customers can delegate responsibility for firewall administration at a granular scope by restricting access based on OU, account, policy type, and region, thereby enabling policy management tasks to be implemented faster and more effectively. Post Updated on April 24, 2023 at 09:03PM

AWS Glue Crawlers extract the data schema and partitions from Amazon S3 and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog, keeping metadata current. Today, AWS Glue Crawler support is expanded to automatically add partition indexes for newly discovered tables that will help analytics services such as Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to optimize partition processing to help with query performance on highly partitioned tables.  Post Updated on April 24, 2023 at 07:34PM

AWS License Manager announces a new feature to upgrade EC2 instances with Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) operating system to Ubuntu Pro. With Ubuntu Pro subscription, customers get five years of Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) on the Ubuntu LTS releases from Canonical. Using this License Manager feature, customers can upgrade their Ubuntu LTS instances in-place to Ubuntu Pro without needing to migrate to a new Ubuntu Pro Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For the use of upgraded EC2 instances with Ubuntu Pro, you will be charged on a per-second basis at the applicable On-Demand or Savings Plan rates for Ubuntu Pro. Post Updated on April 24, 2023 at 08:13PM

Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that helps DevOps engineers investigate and remediate issues in the context of their applications, now supports AWS CDK applications. Customers who use CDK to model their cloud infrastructure can view their CDK constructs grouped as applications in the Application Manager console.  Post Updated on April 24, 2023 at 08:28PM

You can now add data overlays and text annotations in the AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Composer. Data overlay and text annotations provide context in scenes like access to key performance metrics and sensor data, making it easier to navigate your twins and monitor your facilities with AWS IoT TwinMaker. Post Updated on April 24, 2023 at 06:04PM

Today, Amazon Personalize announces the launch of popularity tuning for its Similar-Items recipe (aws-similar-items). Similar-Items generates recommendations that are similar to the item that a user selects, helping users discover new items in a customer’s catalog based on the behavior of all users and item metadata.  Post Updated on April 21, 2023 at 08:18PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Apache Kafka receiver and exporter in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector to collect metrics and traces from Kafka and send metrics and traces to Kafka . The release includes support for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). Post Updated on April 21, 2023 at 06:14PM

Today, we launched a redesigned opportunity management experience within the AWS Partner Central portal. This launch provides AWS Partners, using APN Customer Engagements (ACE), a faster, simpler and intuitive experience to securely collaborate and co-sell with AWS. The improved experience will enable our partners to drive successful customer engagements for their continued growth and profitability. Post Updated on April 20, 2023 at 10:07PM

Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of Ubuntu Pro on Amazon EC2 in a subscription-included model. You can now easily deploy Ubuntu Pro on-demand instances and purchase Ubuntu Pro Compute Savings Plans from the AWS EC2 console, and get five additional years of Ubuntu security updates from Canonical. You will be charged on a per-second basis for Ubuntu Pro EC2 AMI instances. For any new Ubuntu Pro EC2 AMI deployments, you will now see Ubuntu Pro charges in the Elastic Cloud Compute section of your AWS bill. Post Updated on April 20, 2023 at 09:56PM

The Amazon Chime SDK now supports Hindi and Thai languages for live transcription of WebRTC media sessions. Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Live transcription integrates with Amazon Transcribe to generate live audio transcription for use as subtitles or transcripts.  Post Updated on April 20, 2023 at 09:32PM

Amazon Redshift announces support for MERGE command which enables you to apply source data changes unto Redshift warehouse tables with a simple SQL command. MERGE command allows you to combine a series of DML (Data Manipulation Language) statements into a single statement, . Post Updated on April 20, 2023 at 07:20PM

Amazon Redshift data sharing enables you to share live data across Amazon Redshift data warehouses. Amazon Redshift now supports simplified governance of Amazon Redshift data sharing by using AWS Lake Formation to centrally manage permissions on data being shared across your organization. With the new Amazon Redshift data sharing managed by AWS Lake Formation, you can manage permission grants, view access controls, and audit permissions on the tables and views in the Redshift datashares using Lake Formation APIs and the AWS Console. Post Updated on April 20, 2023 at 05:56PM

AWS Amplify Flutter is announcing the launch of version 1.0.0, expanding support to web and desktop as target platforms. Amplify is a set of tools and services that help frontend web and mobile developers build secure, scalable, fullstack applications. With this release, Flutter developers can target 6 platforms, including iOS, Android, web, MacOS, Linux, and Windows. Developers can build Authentication, API (GraphQL +REST), Storage, and Analytics experiences with Amplify targeting the platforms that matter most to their users.  Post Updated on April 20, 2023 at 06:00PM

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Europe (Spain). Post Updated on April 19, 2023 at 10:46PM

Amazon Comprehend announced that Amazon Comprehend APIs for Document Classification will now use layout of the document in addition to text, to provide higher accuracy.  Post Updated on April 19, 2023 at 10:26PM

Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview) has added an administrative dashboard for Dev Environments. This dashboard enables users with the Space administrator role to centrally view and manage Dev Environments across projects. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs. Post Updated on April 19, 2023 at 09:41PM

AWS Lake Formation and the Glue Data Catalog now extend data cataloging, data sharing and fine-grained access control support for customers using a self-managed Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) as their data catalog. Previously, customers had to replicate their metadata into the AWS Glue Data Catalog in order use Lake Formation permissions and data sharing capabilities. Now, customers can integrate their HMS metadata within AWS, allowing them to discover data alongside native tables in the Glue data catalog, manage permissions and sharing from Lake Formation, and query data using AWS analytics services. Post Updated on April 19, 2023 at 07:40PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and 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 April 19, 2023 at 06:56PM

AWS Amplify is announcing support for Push Notifications for Swift, Android, Flutter, and React Native applications. This means that developers can now use Amplify to set up push notifications when targeting iOS and Android platforms, providing developers and businesses with a way to engage with users and send them timely and relevant information. Post Updated on April 19, 2023 at 06:52PM

Today, AWS Control Tower is available in 7 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is now available in 22 AWS Regions and 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less. Post Updated on April 19, 2023 at 05:59PM

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can view the aggregated Billed resource utilization for each job within an EMR Serverless application, simplifying the cost calculation per job run. Post Updated on April 18, 2023 at 10:31PM

Amazon EMR on EC2 now provides contextual error details that makes it easier to troubleshoot cluster provisioning failures. EMR lets you provision your EMR on EC2 cluster without worrying about managing compute infrastructure or open-source application setup. However, there can be circumstances when your cluster provisioning fails, such as an insufficient EC2 instance capacity error, bootstrap action failure or a VPC-subnet misconfiguration error. With today’s launch, you will now find additional error details in the new EMR console , AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and the AWS SDK. These additional error details are automatically enabled for all EMR versions and no further action is needed. Post Updated on April 18, 2023 at 07:32PM

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces public network support (preview) for LoRaWAN-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems. With this update, customers can now easily connect their IoT devices to the cloud using publicly available LoRaWAN networks provided by Everynet, a global LoRaWAN network operator offering carrier grade networks. Using AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, customers can simply register their devices to the cloud and opt for public network support in the AWS IoT console. Within minutes, they will be able to receive data from registered LoRaWAN devices in their AWS account.  Post Updated on April 18, 2023 at 07:38PM

AWS Backup now offers a simple, cost-effective, and application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2. With this launch, you can centrally automate backup and restore of your SAP HANA application data, in addition to the currently supported AWS services . Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can create and manage immutable backups of SAP HANA databases across all your accounts, help protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data. Post Updated on April 18, 2023 at 06:08PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) events now include tags in the message body, which provide metadata about the resource that was affected by the service event. The message receiver can use these tags to do payload-based parsing with rule matching, enabling workflows such as routing, filtering, and down stream automation. Post Updated on April 18, 2023 at 06:00PM

Using Amazon Connect Customer Profiles inside the agent workspace, agents can now see cases from 3P case management solutions and Connect Cases inside a particular customer profile. Having both customer profile information together with case details in the same window makes it easier for agents to understand the customer context and reduces wasted time switching between applications. Using the cases table inside the Customer Profile, agents can see case information such as status, date last updated, title, and source system. If agents need more detail, they can click on the case to access additional information from the source system. For example, agents handling transfers, can now see the caller’s open case regarding license renewal, quickly assist them without needing to gather more information, and help provide faster issue resolution. As another example, agents can now see repeat callers’ open cases regarding late deliveries and quickly give them an update on the delivery status. ...

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Incident Managers support of Microsoft Teams, extending support to three chat collaboration platforms, Amazon Chime, Slack, and now Microsoft Teams. Post Updated on April 17, 2023 at 06:02PM

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory , also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Post Updated on April 14, 2023 at 07:17PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. Post Updated on April 14, 2023 at 06:10PM

We are excited to highlight AWS Media & Entertainment Competency Partners, who enable enterprises to navigate their media and entertainment workloads to the cloud in an efficient, cost-effective method backed by AWS. Post Updated on April 14, 2023 at 06:16PM

Developers can now use updated video background blur and replacement with improved quality in Amazon Chime SDK client library for JavaScript. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. Video background blur and replacement obscure users’ surroundings to help increase visual privacy.  Post Updated on April 13, 2023 at 10:23PM

We are excited to announce Amazon GameLift now supports games built on Unreal Engine 5 with the latest update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. The latest version of the Amazon GameLift Server SDK 5.0 now supports Unity 2020.3, Unreal 4.26, Unreal 5.0, Go language, and custom C++ and C# engines.  Post Updated on April 13, 2023 at 07:00PM

AWS IoT Core , a managed cloud service that lets customers connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, announces support for Shared Subscriptions to its MQTT-based messaging broker service. MQTT is a device-to-device messaging communication standard widely used in IoT applications for device to cloud message delivery. AWS IoT Core supports both MQTT3.1.1 and the newer MQTT5 industry specifications allowing clients with either version to take advantage of this new feature seamlessly. Post Updated on April 13, 2023 at 06:03PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1n instances, which are powered by AWS Trainium accelerators. Building on the capabilities of Trainium-powered Trn1 instances, Trn1n instances double the network bandwidth to 1600 Gbps of second-generation Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv2). With this increased bandwidth, Trn1n instances deliver up to 20% faster time-to-train for training network-intensive generative AI models such as large language models (LLMs) and mixture of experts (MoE). Similar to Trn1 instances, Trn1n instances offer up to 50% savings on training costs over other comparable Amazon EC2 instances. Post Updated on April 13, 2023 at 02:11PM

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon CodeWhisperer. This artificial intelligence (AI) coding companion generates real-time single-line or full function code suggestions in your integrated development environment (IDE) to help you more quickly build software. With general availability, we are excited to introduce two tiers: CodeWhisperer Individual and CodeWhisperer Professional. Post Updated on April 13, 2023 at 02:09PM

Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Post Updated on April 12, 2023 at 10:27PM

Starting today, customers can receive cost data for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks and AWS Batch jobs in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR), enabling you to analyze, optimize, and chargeback cost and usage for your containerized applications. With AWS Spit Cost Allocation Data, customers can now allocate application costs to individual business units and teams based on how containerized applications consume shared compute and memory resources. Post Updated on April 12, 2023 at 08:29PM

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 April 12, 2023 at 07:45PM

Today, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness, a new feature to deter fraud in facial verification. Face Liveness helps customers detect in seconds that real users, and not bad actors using spoofs, are accessing their services. Post Updated on April 11, 2023 at 10:04PM

AWS Config supports 27 new resource types in advanced queries for services including AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Network Firewall, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Post Updated on April 11, 2023 at 09:48PM

You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.5 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.5 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Post Updated on April 11, 2023 at 08:56PM

AWS AppSync is a managed service for building scalable APIs that connect applications to data and events. Developers can now use the new AppSync EventBridge data source target in their AppSync API to easily publish events generated from their applications, such as shopping cart actions, to subscribers of an event bus powered by Amazon EventBridge.  Post Updated on April 11, 2023 at 05:57PM

Today, AWS announces media metrics for AWS Elemental MediaConvert , increasing the information available for transcoding events and associated media assets. Now you can view and act on a broader set of data both during and after transcoding jobs complete. You can use the information available through media metrics to build dashboards with Amazon CloudWatch and to programmatically integrate actions into your workflows via Amazon EventBridge .   Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 11:13PM

AWS is pleased to announce an update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework , which will provide customers and partners with more prescriptive guidance on building and operating in the cloud, and enable them to stay up-to-date on the latest architectural best practices in a constantly evolving technological landscape. Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 10:52PM

Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender (IR) helps customers select the best instance type and configuration (such as instance count, container parameters, and model optimizations) for deploying their ML models on SageMaker. Today, we are announcing deeper integration with Amazon CloudWatch for logs and metrics, python SDK support for running IR jobs, enabling customers to run IR jobs within a VPC subnet of their choice, support for running load tests on existing endpoint via a new API, and several usability improvements for easily getting started with IR. Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 10:35PM

Amazon Connect Voice ID now enables customers to maintain multiple fraudster watchlists for their Voice ID domains , with each watchlist supporting up to 500 fraudsters. Previously one Voice ID domain only supported one fraudster watchlist for known fraudster detection. With the availability of multiple watchlists, customers can configure which fraudster watchlist within their Voice ID domain is to be used for a specific contact in the Amazon Connect Contact Flow. Voice ID APIs allow customers to specify which watchlist a fraudster will be associated with when registering fraudsters, as well as manage individual fraudsters within watchlists. Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 08:32PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports nested conditions within Row Level Security (RLS) tags where you can combine AND and OR conditions to simplify multi-tenant access patterns. You can use RLS with tag-based rules to restrict access to a dataset when embedding dashboards for anonymous users. Previously, you could combine RLS tags using AND condition with a value you assign to the tags at run time. To learn more about setting up row level security using session tags with the OR condition click here . Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 07:03PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Reads for up to two times faster query processing compared to previous generation instances. 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 two times faster with Optimized Reads on RDS for PostgreSQL. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by PostgreSQL on the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, thereby reducing your traffic to Elastic Block Storage (EBS) over the network. Refer to our recent blog post to learn more about performance improvements using local disk based database instances for workloads that have highly concurrent read/write processing. Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 07:05PM

Starting today, customers can deploy their workloads on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate in a manner compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2. FIPS is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 06:02PM

Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help detect suspicious DNS traffic indicative of potential attempts by malicious actors to evade detection when performing activities such as exfiltrating data, or using command & control servers to communicate with malware. Post Updated on April 10, 2023 at 06:03PM

AWS Lambda functions can now progressively stream response payloads back to the client, including payloads larger than 6MB, helping you improve performance for web and mobile applications. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing infrastructure. Post Updated on April 07, 2023 at 10:39PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the Multi-AZ deployment model, which provides enhanced availability and durability. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service for applications that require customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom lets you automate database administrative efforts for legacy, custom, and packaged apps so you can focus on more strategic, business-impacting activities. Post Updated on April 07, 2023 at 06:05PM

Following the open source community announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.7, 13.10, 12.14, and 11.19. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you decide how often and how to plan your upgrade. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 11, you must upgrade to a newer major version by January 31, 2024. Post Updated on April 07, 2023 at 05:59PM

You can now subscribe to Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus from AWS on Windows 10 and Windows 11 Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Amazon WorkSpaces Core instances. The new offering makes it easier for customers to use the Office suite of applications on WorkSpaces Core.  Post Updated on April 06, 2023 at 09:14PM

We are excited to launch the AWS Cloud Operations Competency. AWS Cloud Operations covers five fundamental solution areas: Cloud Governance, Cloud Financial Management, Monitoring and Observability, Compliance and Auditing, and Operations Management. The new competency enables customers to select validated AWS Partners who offer comprehensive solutions with an integrated approach across multiple areas.  Post Updated on April 06, 2023 at 07:11PM

AWS Proton now allows customers to sync their service specifications from a Git repository. Customers use Proton as a self-service template system to define and update infrastructure. Now, customers can sync Proton service configurations like compute size and target deployment environment directly from GitHub or Bitbucket. Post Updated on April 06, 2023 at 07:09PM

Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses machine learning to detect abnormal conditions in industrial equipment and enable predictive maintenance. Amazon Monitron includes purpose-built sensors to capture vibration and temperature data; gateways to automatically transfer data to the AWS Cloud; and a mobile and web application for system setup, analytics, and notification.  Post Updated on April 06, 2023 at 06:17PM

Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that allows you to install and update software on your instances with version control, now allows you to install the New Relic Infrastructure Monitoring agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. You can easily deploy the New Relic Infrastructure Monitoring agent across your fleet of AWS Systems Manager managed instances by navigating to the “Third Party” tab in the Distributor console, and selecting to “Install one time” or “Install on a schedule”.  Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 06:09PM

The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controller for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now generally available. Customers can provision and manage MemoryDB resources using the ACK service controller. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 10:47PM

Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Middle East (UAE) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions. With this launch, customers can deploy their stack sets to and from these newly supported AWS Regions. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 09:14PM

AWS App Runner adds 7 new compute configurations to the App Runner service settings. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. With App Runner, you do not have to manage any load balancers and auto-scaling groups. When you create an App Runner service, you select a compute configuration, a combination of vCPU and compute memory, for your web application or API, and define maximum concurrency, the maximum number of concurrent requests one application instance can process. App Runner automatically scales your application instances based on concurrent requests that your App Runner service receives. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 07:50PM

Amazon S3 adds a new Amazon CloudWatch metric that can be used to diagnose and correct S3 Replication configuration issues more quickly. The OperationFailedReplication metric, available in both the S3 console and in Amazon CloudWatch, gives you per-minute visibility into the number of objects that did not replicate to the destination bucket for each of your replication rules. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 07:33PM

Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS Resource Explorer now supports export and download of search results in comma-separated values (CSV) format. You can use this new capability to export resource search results from the AWS Resource Explorer console and continue your workflow in third-party applications that support CSV import. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 07:07PM

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region , an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud for customers who have U.S. federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. With this launch, you can deploy general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, accelerated computing, storage optimized, graphics pro, graphics-g4, and graphics pro-g4 streaming instances in both the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions to help meet the needs of your users. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 06:33PM

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 the entire portfolio of Amazon Polly's Neural and Standard voices in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Post Updated on April 05, 2023 at 06:31PM

AWS CodeBuild is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. Using CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use. Post Updated on April 04, 2023 at 10:48PM

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 OneDrive Connector to index and search messages from Microsoft OneDrive. Post Updated on April 04, 2023 at 10:18PM

With Amazon Athena , you can use your SQL knowledge to query nearly 30 popular AWS and third-party data stores - in addition to data stored in an Amazon S3 data lake - all without learning a new language, developing scripts to extract and duplicate data, or managing infrastructure. Starting today, you can now create and query views on these data sources, which include relational databases, streaming sources, and cloud object stores, for use cases such as interactive analysis and business intelligence reporting. Post Updated on April 04, 2023 at 08:12PM

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports migration of SAP HANA based systems configured with High Availability configurations, as well as the standalone migration of SAP HANA databases. Post Updated on April 04, 2023 at 06:25PM

Starting today you will receive notifications for your On-Demand Capacity Reservations that are utilizing less than 20% of Amazon EC2 instances in the reservation. These alerts will be delivered to you through AWS Health Dashboard , Cloudwatch Events and email, without any action required from your side and at no additional cost to you. Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 10:36PM

AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) now applies a tiered, account-based pricing model for all accounts assigned to an ABC billing group (effective June 1, 2023). The pricing change replaces prior ABC pricing, which relied on the volume of proforma billing records generated. The number of running resources in your account does not affect the new account-based pricing model. Along with the pricing model change, ABC's free tier policy has also been updated as a free trial of 62 days (2 months), rather than the previous limit on usage records. For existing ABC customers, the new free tier policy takes effect on April 1, 2023. For new ABC customers, including those who've tried the service, but don't have an active billing group as of April 1, 2023, the free tier trial begins when they add accounts to an ABC billing group. Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 10:21PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Bulk Document Uploader feature in the Textract Console that enables customers to quickly evaluate the capabilities of Textract on their own set of documents without writing any code.  Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 08:22PM

AWS Config now supports 23 more resource types for services, including Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon Connect, Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon EventBridge, Amazon HealthLake, AWS IoT TwinMaker, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, Amazon Lookout for Vision, AWS Network Manager, Amazon Pinpoint, AWS RoboMaker, and Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 07:55PM

SageMaker Canvas now supports 45+ data sources that can be used for no-code ML including Amazon Athena and 3rd party SaaS applications such as Snowflake, Salesforce, and SAP OData. Canvas is a point-and-click interface that enables analysts to generate ML predictions without requiring ML experience or having to write a single line of code. Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 06:52PM

Amazon SWF now supports AWS PrivateLink allowing you to run workflows from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. Post Updated on April 03, 2023 at 06:01PM