News For Dev-ops

Starting today, AWS Pricing Calculator will enable you to re-access your previously saved estimate with pricing as on the date you created the estimate, while giving you the option to update the estimate to reflect latest pricing. The new experience will now make it possible for you to track changes to your cost estimates over time. When updating your previously saved estimate to reflect latest pricing, you may have to enter inputs for specific services to account for any new changes made to service estimation logic or the underlying pricing model since the creation of the estimate. To help you stay informed on the factors leading to these changes, we are also launching a Service updates page that records any significant updates made to computation logic of services within the calculator. Post Updated on May 31, 2023 at 10:25PM

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use Application Migration Service to migrate and modernize your applications in these AWS Regions. Post Updated on May 31, 2023 at 10:56PM

AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device with higher storage capacity. The new Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device increases storage capacity on Snow devices from 80TB to 210TB with high performance NVMe storage, enabling customers to simplify multi-petabyte data migrations from on-premises locations to AWS.  Post Updated on May 31, 2023 at 08:58PM

Today, AWS announces the Amazon EventBridge open-source connector for Apache Kafka Connect. This connector allows you to integrate EventBridge into Kafka Connect environments to deliver events from Kafka topics to EventBridge Event Buses. It also includes useful features, such as schema registry support for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON, consuming from multiple Kafka topics, and IAM role-based authentication. Post Updated on May 31, 2023 at 06:14PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEC Inzai data center in Inzai, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Inzai 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 May 30, 2023 at 11:00PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Reads for up to 50% faster query processing compared to previous generation instances on Multi-AZ deployment option with two readable standby database instances. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by MySQL on the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage that’s physically connected to the host server. Complex queries that utilize temporary tables, such as queries involving sorts, hash aggregations, high-load joins, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can now execute up to 50% faster with Optimized Reads on RDS for MySQL. Post Updated on May 30, 2023 at 08:54PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix BG1 Bogotá data center in Bogotá, Colombia. 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 May 30, 2023 at 07:46PM

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus  now enables customers to prepare high-quality, large-scale training datasets to fine-tune foundation models to perform human-like generative AI tasks. It also allows skilled humans to review model outputs to align them with human preferences. Additionally, it enables application builders to customize models using their industry or company data while preparing training datasets. SageMaker Ground Truth Plus provides workflows, labeling interfaces, and a skilled workforce to generate high quality training data to accomplish these tasks in a turnkey fully managed service on behalf of the customer. Post Updated on May 30, 2023 at 06:04PM

Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces now provides support for the DCV Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK allows customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build custom extensions for AppStream 2.0 which is powered by DCV technology. Post Updated on May 30, 2023 at 06:26PM

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the PLDT Vitro Makati 2 data center in Manila, Philippines. 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 May 26, 2023 at 08:50PM

Customers can now use AWS Transfer Family in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Post Updated on May 26, 2023 at 09:15PM

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Post Updated on May 26, 2023 at 06:33PM

We are excited to announce updates to the Amazon GameLift FleetIQ’s ClaimGameServer operation to better handle game session placement decisions. Amazon GameLift FleetIQ optimizes the use of low-cost Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances for cloud-based multiplayer game hosting. With Amazon GameLift FleetIQ, you can leverage your existing Amazon EC2 and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling hosting resources while taking advantage of Amazon GameLift optimizations to deliver inexpensive, resilient game hosting for your players.  Post Updated on May 26, 2023 at 06:45PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore). C7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C7g instances are built for workloads including batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference. Post Updated on May 25, 2023 at 10:58PM

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now maintains read availability through writer node restarts. With today’s launch, reader nodes will continue to serve read requests during a writer node restart, improving read availability in the cluster.  Post Updated on May 25, 2023 at 11:02PM

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka ( Amazon MSK ) is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier 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 more 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 May 25, 2023 at 10:14PM

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering on Graviton2-based R6gd nodes now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis data tiering uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down.  Post Updated on May 25, 2023 at 07:59PM

Today, AWS released new version 1.28 of AWS Copilot with support of a new Static Site pattern, that makes it easier to deploy single page web applications on AWS. AWS Copilot is a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing common application architecture and infrastructure patterns, user-friendly operational workflows, and configuring deployment pipelines. Post Updated on May 25, 2023 at 07:44PM

AWS AppSync enables developers to build serverless, scalable and performant GraphQL APIs that are designed to securely connect their apps to data and events. Today, we announce the general availability of Merged APIs, which enable GraphQL schema composition and federation for AppSync APIs. Post Updated on May 25, 2023 at 05:56PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. Post Updated on May 25, 2023 at 06:28PM

AWS CodeBuild is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. 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 May 24, 2023 at 10:53PM

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides a machine learning powered capability for businesses to help identify top contact drivers by grouping customer conversations into themes. This complements Contact Lens' existing automated contact categorization capabilities that businesses have been using to label contacts for tracking known issues across their contact centers. With theme detection, businesses can discover previously unknown or emerging contact themes from thousands of customer interactions. Businesses can also spot common reasons for customer outreach (e.g. “cancel reservation”, “delayed order”, etc.). They can then take appropriate actions to improve customer experience by expediting issue resolution, and improving IVR options, knowledge base articles, and agent training. Post Updated on May 24, 2023 at 09:35PM

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) announces enhancements to its dedicated IPs (managed) feature. Dedicated IPs (managed) helps customers to grow, manage and maintain their sending reputation via exclusive IP addresses without the heavy lifting associated with provisioning and managing dedicated IPs. With this release, customers can view metrics about their dedicated IPs (managed), getting greater visibility into how their dedicated IPs are performing, can create up to 50 dedicated IPs (managed) pools, and can easily convert their dedicated IP (standard) IPs into dedicated IPs (managed). Post Updated on May 24, 2023 at 07:56PM

Starting today you can package your media streams in Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) format with AWS Elemental MediaPackage. LL-HLS functionality can be used with AWS Elemental MediaLive or AWS Elemental Live v2.25.0, in combination with SCTE-35 for ad insertion workflows, and with SPEKE v2 for multi-key digital rights management (DRM), including key rotation.  Post Updated on May 24, 2023 at 06:04PM

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Asia Pacific South (Hyderabad) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. Post Updated on May 23, 2023 at 11:11PM

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in two additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Middle East (UAE), expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-three. Post Updated on May 23, 2023 at 08:56PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6i and M6i instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System , a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Post Updated on May 23, 2023 at 09:01PM

Amazon Redshift announces support for enhanced transaction controls inside stored procedures which enables you to automatically commit the statements inside the procedure. This new NONATOMIC mode can be used for those applications that would like to handle exceptions inside a stored procedure more smoothly. In addition, the NONATOMIC mode helps prevent disruptions in applications due to an error inside a stored procedure. Post Updated on May 23, 2023 at 07:47PM

AWS Wickr is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers that are subject to HIPAA can use AWS Wickr to communicate with internal stakeholders and external partners while helping to protect against third-party access to personal data, including personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). Post Updated on May 23, 2023 at 06:02PM

Today, AWS Backup is announcing support for restoring resources with tags copied from protected resources. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. This launch allows you to seamlessly extend using tag-based policies for access, cost allocation, compliance, and automation workflows for your restored resources. Post Updated on May 22, 2023 at 10:08PM

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to when native MySQL binlog is enabled. Post Updated on May 22, 2023 at 09:24PM

AWS ParallelCluster 3.6 is now generally available. Key new features include support for automatic health checks for GPU instances and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL8). Other important features in this release include: Ability to customize Slurm settings not managed by ParallelCluster A programmatic interface to manage ParallelCluster using AWS CloudFormation Support for up to 50 queues and a total of 50 compute resources per cluster Tag-based cost monitoring in ParallelCluster UI Support for custom resource tags for queues, head node, and ParallelCluster-managed storage Extended Amazon CloudWatch metrics for disk usage, idle instances, and errors Improved head node resiliency with configurable log rotation Post Updated on May 22, 2023 at 07:55PM

Customers of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) can use CyberArk Secure Cloud Access, Ermetic , and Okta Access Requests for temporary elevated access , also known as just-in-time access. As part of an ongoing collaboration with partners, AWS Identity validated that these solutions integrate with Identity Center and address common customer requirements, such as the ability to request and approve time-bound access, and to audit action logs. Post Updated on May 22, 2023 at 05:59PM

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 3 more AWS regions -Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Africa (Cape Town). Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications.  Post Updated on May 22, 2023 at 06:20PM

Today we are excited to announce the launch of 28 new proactive controls in AWS Control Tower. This launch enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities, allowing you to implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments by blocking non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as AWS OpenSearch Service, AWS Auto Scaling, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon RDS. These new controls help you meet control objectives such as data encryption at rest or limit network access. To see a full list of the new controls, see the controls reference guide .  Post Updated on May 19, 2023 at 09:07PM

Today, AWS Marketplace announced General availability of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can view, analyze and track key trends and metrics in a visualized manner on QuickSight dashboards on AMMP. Post Updated on May 19, 2023 at 08:35PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Canada (Central) region. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance.  Post Updated on May 19, 2023 at 06:54PM

Starting today, the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector supports the discovery of on-premises databases, allowing you to achieve more comprehensive data collection through the deployment of a single tool. Post Updated on May 19, 2023 at 06:01PM

Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically create and manage prompts. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. With this launch, you can now programmatically create new custom prompts, or extract prompts stored within Amazon Connect and add them to your Amazon S3 bucket. Additionally, these APIs support AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation and tagging. To learn more about the new prompt APIs, see the Amazon Connect API reference guide . For more information on AWS CloudFormation, see Amazon Connect Resource Type Reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide. Post Updated on May 19, 2023 at 06:04PM

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on May 18, 2023 at 10:36PM

You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage Amazon Neptune Serverless clusters in all AWS Regions where Neptune Serverless is supported. You can also use CloudFormation templates to perform in-place engine version upgrades for your Neptune clusters. Post Updated on May 18, 2023 at 09:38PM

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now generally available in the Local Zones location in Los Angeles. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. These instances are designed for graphics-intensive applications, machine learning inference, and deliver higher performance for training simple to moderately complex machine learning models when compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances. Post Updated on May 18, 2023 at 07:53PM

AWS DataSync announced support for moving data to and from Amazon S3 compatible storage on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices. Amazon S3 compatible storage delivers secure object storage with high resiliency, increased scale, and an expanded S3 API feature set to rugged, mobile edge, and disconnected environments. Customers storing data and running applications on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices can now use AWS DataSync to more quickly and easily move data between their Amazon S3 compatible storage and AWS Storage services in-region, enabling them to make a second copy of their data in AWS, archive cold data, or move data to and from AWS for ongoing data workflows. Post Updated on May 18, 2023 at 08:45PM

AWS Global Accelerator now supports TCP termination at the edge for IPv6 traffic, in addition to IPv4 traffic. TCP termination automatically improves performance for workloads such as API operations, file uploads, and HTTP workloads. Starting today, customers who use dual-stack accelerators can get the benefits of TCP termination at the edge for both IPv4 traffic and IPv6 traffic.  Post Updated on May 18, 2023 at 06:18PM

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are adding support for VPC connectivity to Private Devices, providing a simple way to connect with endpoints that are accessible only from within a private VPC. The feature supports multiple traffic types, including TCP, UDP, Websockets, and streaming protocols. This new configuration is now available via the AWS API or Console. Post Updated on May 17, 2023 at 09:56PM

Today, AWS announced the general availability of eye gaze direction detection in Rekognition’s Face APIs to support accessibility and safety, validate photos, and help identify where users focus on the screen. The new EyeDirection attribute in Amazon Rekognition DetectFaces and IndexFaces APIs predicts a person’s eye gaze direction yaw (rotation on vertical axis) and pitch (rotation on horizontal axis) angles for each face detected in an image. Post Updated on May 17, 2023 at 06:15PM

Amazon CloudFront announces support for stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error cache control directives, which can improve performance and availability. The stale-while-revalidate directive instructs CloudFront to immediately deliver stale responses to users while it revalidates caches in the background. The stale-if-error directive defines how long CloudFront should reuse stale responses if there’s an error during revalidation, which provides a better user experience. Post Updated on May 17, 2023 at 06:12PM

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 CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. You can easily deploy the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor 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 May 17, 2023 at 06:06PM

Amazon Braket , the quantum computing service from AWS, adds support for Aria, IonQ’s largest and highest fidelity publicly available device to date. With Aria, customers can also experiment with IonQ’s built-in error mitigation techniques for the first time, a key tool to get the most out of today’s noisy quantum hardware. Furthermore, customers can now choose between two trapped-ion devices, including the current IonQ Harmony device, allowing them to compare and contrast quantum hardware characteristics by only changing a few lines of code. Finally, the availability of each IonQ device is now expanded to 15 hours per day on weekdays. Post Updated on May 16, 2023 at 10:10PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports M6i and R6i in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Europe (Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm, Milan, Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain). Post Updated on May 16, 2023 at 09:39PM

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. AWS customers can now use the Amazon Kendra Gmail Connector to index and search messages from Gmail. Post Updated on May 16, 2023 at 08:03PM

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 Adobe Experience Manager On-Premise Connector to index and search documents from Adobe Experience Manager. Post Updated on May 16, 2023 at 07:50PM

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 Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Connector to index and search documents from Adobe Experience Manager. Post Updated on May 16, 2023 at 07:36PM

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports patch deployments for instances running Alma Linux versions 8.3-8.7, 9.0-9.1. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch nodes with both security related and other types of updates across your infrastructure. Patch Manager supports a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page . Post Updated on May 16, 2023 at 06:01PM

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of Common Sub-expression Elimination (CSE) - a performance optimization initiative for better query generation for SPICE datasets. The CSE improves QuickSight user experience through pushing down repeated use of complex expressions into intermediate tables hence simplify complex queries, such as for totals/subtotals, top bottom filter, conditional formatting, and “others” bucket for charts, etc. Through the CSE query optimization, customers would observe faster loading dashboards, especially for complex dashboards and time-consuming interactions. Currently, the CSE is released with SPICE datasets only. There is no customer configuration needed, the backend change will seamlessly apply to the QuickSight usage. Post Updated on May 15, 2023 at 09:45PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the tail sampling processor and the group-by-trace processor in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector. ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector for advanced distributed trace sampling use cases.  Post Updated on May 15, 2023 at 08:12PM

Amazon Timestream now enables you to export your query results to Amazon S3 in a cost-effective and secure manner using the new UNLOAD statement. Post Updated on May 15, 2023 at 07:55PM

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to deliver better accuracy and latency. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our Queries feature available via the AnalyzeDocument API.  Post Updated on May 15, 2023 at 06:29PM

AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS IoT Core thing group, thing type and billing group resources. AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources. You can now use an AWS CloudFormation template to pre-configure and deploy AWS IoT Core registry resources for your targeted Internet of Things (IoT) solution in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Post Updated on May 12, 2023 at 09:16PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6g and R6g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta), Europe (Spain), and the Middle East (UAE). Depending on the database engine, version, and workload, Graviton2-based instances provide up to 19% better price/performance than comparable M4 and R4 instances. Post Updated on May 12, 2023 at 07:39PM

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides supervisor alerts on agent performance, enabling businesses to identify contacts (e.g., evaluation score < 50%) that require supervisors follow-up with agents on their team. Supervisors can now do proactive follow-ups with specific agents on their team that require more immediate support instead of waiting for periodic follow-ups with every agent on their team. Post Updated on May 12, 2023 at 06:10PM

Amazon IVS now offers developers the ability to monitor the health of live streams with multiple hosts. Hosts are connected to each other using the stage resource, which allows them to exchange audio and video with each other in real time. This release gives developers building with Amazon IVS the tools needed to better understand what is happening with stage resources and for any participant. Post Updated on May 11, 2023 at 09:42PM

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in two additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Post Updated on May 11, 2023 at 10:01PM

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Post Updated on May 11, 2023 at 07:21PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Management Console Private Access. Private Access is a new security feature that allows customers to limit access to the AWS Management Console from their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or connected networks to a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations. Post Updated on May 10, 2023 at 10:55PM

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot , a low-code machine learning (ML) service which automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models, now supports training with weighted objective metrics in Ensemble mode and also supports eight additional objective metrics. Assigning weights to each data sample in the training data set can improve overall model performance by helping the model learn better, reduce bias towards a particular class, and increase stability.  Post Updated on May 10, 2023 at 10:01PM

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication access to its clusters. With this launch, you can associate IAM users and roles with MemoryDB users and manage their cluster access. Post Updated on May 10, 2023 at 08:57PM

Amazon CodeGuru Security now supports security and code quality scans for Amazon SageMaker Studio and Jupyter notebooks. This new capability assists notebook users in detecting security vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, data leaks, weak cryptography, or missing encryption within the notebook cells. Users can also detect many common issues that affect the readability, reproducibility, and correctness of computational notebooks, such as misuse of ML library APIs, invalid execution order, and nondeterminism. When vulnerabilities or quality issues are identified in the notebook, CodeGuru generates recommendations that enable users to remediate those issues based on AWS security best practices. Post Updated on May 10, 2023 at 07:05PM

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender and the secure tunneling feature of AWS IoT Device Management in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, providing flexibility to customers and extending the service footprint to an additional location in the Middle East besides AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.  Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 11:54PM

Ingress Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for AWS Network Firewall is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS Network Firewall is available today, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch, you can use AWS Network Firewall to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt TLS traffic originating from the internet, another VPC, or another subnet. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 10:03PM

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance versus comparable x86-based storage optimized instances, and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. Based on AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom built by AWS and reduce both latency and latency variability, I4g instances are optimized for workloads that perform a high mix of random read/write and require very low I/O latency, such as transactional databases (Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) and real-time analytics such as Apache Spark. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 10:04PM

AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query their audit and security logs for auditing, security investigations and operational troubleshooting, now supports all Presto SQL SELECT query functions for easy and flexible queryability of data . This new release includes support for popular query functions such as REGEXP_EXTRACT for sophisticated pattern matching such as finding all S3 requests made on a specific S3 bucket prefix, and UNNEST an array such as resources to query over its objects like resourceType. With this release, you can also add comments within the query for better readability. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 09:48PM

AWS IoT SiteWise now provides the ability for customers to automatically compute aggregated asset property values every 15 minutes. Customers can now get aggregated values for asset properties, metrics and transforms (mathematical expressions that map asset properties' data points from one form to another) for every minute, 15-minute, hour, and day. AWS IoT SiteWise computes commonly used statistical aggregates such as average, count, maximum, minimum, standard deviation, and sum over multiple time intervals. Customers can map data streams and define static or computed equipment and process properties across all facilities so they're readily available for analysis. For non-numeric properties, such as Strings and Booleans, AWS IoT SiteWise computes only the count aggregate. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 09:00PM

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Paris). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 07:48PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports advance use cases for scatterplots with new options like support for visualizing unaggregated data, new ‘label’ field well and performance improvements. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 06:41PM

You can now use Amazon Athena to query tables created with Apache Hudi 0.12.2 which includes support for improved scalability of queries accessing data sets in Amazon S3 data lake. The updated integration enables you to use Athena to query Hudi 0.12.2 tables managed via Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Apache Hive or other compatible services. Post Updated on May 09, 2023 at 06:05PM

Amazon QuickSight now supports State Persistence for embedded dashboards (and consoles) for registered users. Embedded QuickSight dashboards now remember filter selections between visits when accessed as a registered QuickSight user. Registered users can also Bookmark specific views of the embedded dashboard, making it simple to access your preferences from one convenient location. For example, you can create a Bookmark for an embedded dashboard with a specific filter setting that differs from the original dashboard. This allows you to quickly switch between relevant views without having to re-initializing the filters. You can enable Bookmarks and State Persistence using the GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser API. To learn more about, please visit our documentation . Post Updated on May 08, 2023 at 10:21PM

Today, Amazon QuickSight announces the general availability of managing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connections via public APIs and an enhanced UX with Multi-AZ support. APIs enable you to create, update, delete, list and describe VPC connections. This launch enables you to create private VPC connections as part of your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) efforts with full support for AWS CloudFormation. Post Updated on May 08, 2023 at 10:15PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Post Updated on May 08, 2023 at 07:39PM

Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure way to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters, is now available in AWS China regions. Customers can now share data to provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups in the same account and different accounts, as long as they are within the same region. Redshift Data Sharing enables instant, granular, and high-performance data access across Redshift clusters without the need to copy or move data. Redshift Data Sharing provides live access to the data so that your users always see the most up-to-date and consistent information as it is updated in the data warehouse. Redshift Data Sharing can be used on your Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters at no additional cost. Post Updated on May 08, 2023 at 06:40PM

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are adding support for Rooted Android devices in our private device fleets. With Rooted Android devices, customers will be able to perform advanced testing with expanded device access, including more metrics, battery benchmarking, and increased access to the device file system. Post Updated on May 05, 2023 at 10:30PM

We are introducing a new kind of parameter in Amazon QuickSight that will help users create interactive experiences in their dashboards. With Dataset Parameters, authors can optimize the experience and load time of dashboards that are connected-live to external SQL-based sources. When readers interact with their data, the selection and actions they make in controls, filters and visuals can be propagated to the data sources via live, custom, parameterized SQL queries. By mapping multiple Dataset Parameters to Analysis parameters, users can create a wide variety of experiences using controls, user actions, parameterized URLs, and calculated fields, as well as create dynamic visuals’ titles, descriptions, bookmarks, emails and PDF reports. Post Updated on May 05, 2023 at 06:02PM

Today, we are announcing cross-Region backup support for Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. With cross-Region backups, you can store a copy of your backup data in AWS Regions other than where your primary backups are stored, helping you meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the with a few simple clicks. Post Updated on May 05, 2023 at 06:13PM

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for filtering by metric name on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can now select the specific metrics you want to stream, providing additional filtering controls.  Post Updated on May 05, 2023 at 06:07PM

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in two additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Post Updated on May 04, 2023 at 10:52PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS CodePipeline in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Post Updated on May 04, 2023 at 09:29PM

AWS VSS application-consistent backups now allows customers to take application-consistent backups while PowerShell Logging is enabled. AWS VSS application-consistent backups now incorporates a parallel processing ability that enables its EC2 Windows customers achieve successful VSS backups in a broader range of environments. With this launch, customers will see improved compatibility between VSS and applications such as antivirus and application monitoring that require PowerShell logging to be enabled.  Post Updated on May 04, 2023 at 10:40PM

We are excited to announce the addition of self-hosted Jupyter notebooks as another mechanism to run interactive workloads via 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 an integrated development environments (IDEs) such as EMR Studio . Post Updated on May 04, 2023 at 08:25PM

Zonal shift for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller is now available in all standard AWS Regions.  Post Updated on May 04, 2023 at 06:12PM

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build scalable, performant APIs that connect applications to data and events. Today, we announce the general availability of Private API support for AWS AppSync. With Private APIs, you can now create GraphQL APIs that can only be accessed from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (“VPC”). Post Updated on May 03, 2023 at 10:23PM

AWS is pleased to announce an enhancement to the AWS Well-Architected (WA) Tool integration with AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry (AR). This integration allows customers to now filter their AWS Trusted Advisor checks based on resources defined within application, helping surface the most relevant checks in the Well-Architected console. Post Updated on May 03, 2023 at 07:59PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the pgvector extension to store embeddings from machine learning (ML) models in your database and to perform efficient similarity searches. Embeddings are numerical representations (vectors) created from generative AI that capture the semantic meaning of text input into a large language model (LLM). pgvector can store and search embeddings from Amazon Bedrock , Amazon SageMaker , and more. Post Updated on May 03, 2023 at 07:36PM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of of Push Notifications for the AWS Console Mobile Application . You can now use AWS User Notifications to create actionable push notifications from AWS services, such as CloudWatch, to be delivered to your mobile device when a resource requires your attention. You can then receive push notifications, and learn more about events while on-the-go without needing to return to your computer. If you want to see more detail about a notification from your device’s lock screen, you can simply tap the notification, authenticate, and be directed to the relevant details screen inside the app. Post Updated on May 03, 2023 at 06:11PM

Amazon Neptune  is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region on engine versions 1.2.1.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, and T3 instance types in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on May 02, 2023 at 08:07PM

AWS Health now publishes service health events to Amazon EventBridge. Previously, you could receive only account-specific events on this channel. Now, you can also receive events about the overall health of AWS services. This enables you to get a full picture of service issues that might affect the performance of your applications.  Post Updated on May 02, 2023 at 06:34PM

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Replication is now available in 10 more AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), in addition to the 19 AWS Regions and 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where it was previously supported. With this launch, EFS Replication is available in all AWS Regions where EFS is supported. Post Updated on May 02, 2023 at 06:00PM

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler  reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, exploration, cleansing, and processing from a single visual interface. Post Updated on May 01, 2023 at 09:32PM

Amazon Redshift ra3.xlplus instances are now available in the Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. Amazon Redshift ra3 instances with Redshift Managed Storage (RMS) allow you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently for fast query performance and to optimize costs. It also enables you to more securely and more easily share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. Amazon Redshift ra3.16xlarge and ra3.4xlarge instances are already available in those regions. With this announcement, we will be launching ra3.xlplus instance types in those regions. Post Updated on May 01, 2023 at 06:39PM