News For Dev-ops

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded the functionality of premigration assessments. A premigration assessment evaluates the source and target databases of a database migration task to help identify any problems that might prevent a migration from running as expected. By identifying and fixing issues before a migration starts, you can avoid delays in completing the database migration. Post Updated on June 30, 2023 at 10:50PM

Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 11:04PM

We are excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Athena to query data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Glacier storage classes. S3 Glacier is a secure and durable service for low-cost data archiving and long-term backup. With this launch, you can use Athena to directly query restored data in the Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Deep Archive storage classes, saving you time by removing the need to move and duplicate data. Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 08:01PM

Amazon DevOps Guru now allows you to use customer managed keys (CMKs) with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). DevOps Guru already provides encryption by default using AWS-owned KMS keys for data stored in DevOps Guru. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer, which can help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization. Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 06:01PM

With today’s release, Amazon Athena and its latest features and benefits are available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. This release expands Athena’s availability in the Middle East to include Bahrain and the UAE. Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 06:01PM

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces monorepo framework support for npm workspaces, Yarn workspaces, pnpm workspaces, Turborepo and Nx. With this release, AWS Amplify Hosting offers fully managed CI/CD deployments and hosting for apps contained within a monorepo (aka monorepository, multi-package repository, multi-project repository, or monolithic repository). Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 06:13PM

We are announcing the general availability of the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent. This feature offers a simple, efficient, and cost-effective way to connect to IP cameras on customer premises, locally record and store video from those cameras, and stream videos to the cloud on a customer-defined schedule for long term storage, playback, and analytical processing.  Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 06:07PM

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the BT 4G/5G network in Manchester. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Manchester to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom. Post Updated on June 29, 2023 at 06:22PM

Customers can now use Apache Flink 1.15 with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to perform ad hoc queries to quickly inspect data streams and build and run stream processing applications in minutes. Post Updated on June 28, 2023 at 10:46PM

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 June 28, 2023 at 09:36PM

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 , the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne). Post Updated on June 28, 2023 at 08:42PM

You can now try Amazon Timestream with a 1-month free trial. First time users now have the opportunity to experiment with and adopt Timestream at zero cost for a duration of one month, while adhering to specific usage quotas. This free trial enables you to evaluate the feature set of Timestream and without any financial commitment. Post Updated on June 28, 2023 at 06:16PM

Today, we are announcing the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on June 27, 2023 at 10:59PM

Today, we are announcing general availability of watchOS and tvOS support for AWS Amplify for Swift (>= v2.12.0)! This launch enables developers to build cloud-connected apps for Apple Watch and Apple TV devices. Developers can now leverage the power of Amplify from one Swift project and build across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS platforms for production workloads. Post Updated on June 27, 2023 at 09:29PM

Amazon Connect Chat now provides additional options to customize the out-of-the-box chat widget, enabling you to add a logo and change fields such as 'System Message', 'Bot', 'Text Input Placeholder', and 'End Chat'. You can also further customize the widget using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to change visual elements like the size of the widget, font size and color so you can easily align the widget with your website branding. Post Updated on June 27, 2023 at 08:08PM

Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you update cluster manager (master node) instance type or instance count without requiring a blue/green deployment, helping you complete the updates faster with the least potential disruption to your cluster operations and without involving any data movement. Post Updated on June 27, 2023 at 06:20PM

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Seoul, Sydney), Middle East (UAE), and South America (Sao Paulo). G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher performance for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference over Amazon EC2 G4dn instances. For training simple to moderately complex machine learning models, they deliver up to 3.3x higher performance than G4dn instances. Post Updated on June 27, 2023 at 06:07PM

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest events from Amazon Security Lake in real-time, reducing the time taken to index your security data in Amazon OpenSearch Service and uncover valuable insights into potential security issues. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers and on- premises into a purpose-built data lake. With this integration, customers can now use the extensive security analytics capabilities and rich dashboard visualizations of Amazon OpenSearch Service to quickly make sense of all their security data. Post Updated on June 26, 2023 at 08:14PM

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now enables direct connection to Snowflake to prepare data and create features for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for ML from weeks to minutes using a visual interface in Amazon SageMaker Studio.  Post Updated on June 26, 2023 at 07:08PM

Amazon Redshift , a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports native integration with ThoughtSpot from the Amazon Redshift Console. Thoughtspot simplifies the exploration and analysis of data in a user friendly environment without the need for complex transformations or technical expertise. Post Updated on June 26, 2023 at 06:01PM

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum per file system throughput on Amazon EFS Provisioned Throughput mode by 3x. With this launch, you now have a cost-effective way to drive up to 10 GiB/s of read throughput and 3 GiB/s of write throughput for workloads including machine learning, data processing, analytics, and transcoding that demand consistent and high levels of throughput performance. Post Updated on June 23, 2023 at 10:05PM

Amazon MQ now supports cross-region data replication for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ. This feature allows you to build regionally resilient messaging applications using continuous asynchronous message replication from a primary broker to a replica broker in a standby AWS region with a few clicks, eliminating the need to use third-party tools or custom code to replicate data between regions. Post Updated on June 23, 2023 at 09:29PM

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces the general availability of support for FIDO2 security keys in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. The FIDO2 specifications rely on public key cryptography, enabling cryptographically secure and phishing-resistant multi-factor (MFA) authentication. Post Updated on June 23, 2023 at 06:38PM

Sensitive data detection feature in AWS Glue can now detect over 250 sensitive entity types from 50 countries out-of-the-box. Post Updated on June 23, 2023 at 06:31PM

AWS Lambda now supports Java 17 as a managed runtime and a container base image in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. 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. 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 June 22, 2023 at 06:54PM

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server , offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Post Updated on June 22, 2023 at 06:08PM

AWS Lambda now supports starting from a specific timestamp when using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) or Self-Managed Kafka as an event source. Previously, Kafka event source mappings could only have starting positions of trim horizon or latest. Now with starting from a timestamp, you can start processing messages at a precise point in time. This is useful for situations like Disaster Recovery, where you need a new consumer to quickly start processing where you previously left off. Post Updated on June 21, 2023 at 10:50PM

Today, AWS Purchase Order Management announces the general availability of ‘Attribute-based & Resource-based access control’ for purchase orders (POs) created in the AWS Console. This launch allows you to tag purchase orders (POs) that are created on AWS Console and control access at a resource level with IAM policies. The AWS console also offers the ability to manage resource tags. Post Updated on June 21, 2023 at 11:05PM

Amazon Redshift offers comprehensive encryption capabilities to protect your data at rest. Now, Amazon Redshift further enhances the experience of encrypting the warehouse with RA3 node types by reducing the overall encryption time and improving the availability of the warehouse during the encryption process. Post Updated on June 21, 2023 at 08:50PM

Today, AWS Application Discovery Service introduces a public API to estimate the cost of running your existing on-premises servers in AWS. Post Updated on June 21, 2023 at 07:14PM

Starting today, customers can create proforma pricing rules to control the application of free tier offers for specific AWS services in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) . Using service-scoped free tier pricing rules, customers can model a proforma chargeback workflow that only shares their always free tier benefits with a targeted set of accounts, those within a specific billing group. For example, a customer can choose to isolate their always free tier offer for AWS Step Functions (4,000 state transitions per month) to a “sandbox” billing group meant for experimentation, simplifying customers’ free tier chargeback model for specific accounts throughout the month. Post Updated on June 21, 2023 at 06:29PM

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors , which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS. Arm-based architectures are known for their higher core counts with better performance per watt and their energy efficiency owing to simple instructions (RISC) that generate less heat, offering better heat dissipation. Post Updated on June 20, 2023 at 10:52PM

You can now target allocation of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts to specific AWS Outpost hosts. With targeted Dedicated Host allocations, you can control the deployment location of your workloads on specific Outposts racks. This allows you to allocate Dedicated Hosts on physical servers closely located on the same Outposts rack to achieve low latency goals. You can also use this feature to spread workloads on hardware across multiple Outposts racks for additional resiliency. Post Updated on June 20, 2023 at 10:49PM

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce a new Logs Insights command, dedup, which enables customers to eliminate duplicate results when analyzing logs. Customers frequently want to query their logs and view only unique results based on one or more fields. You can now use the new dedup command in your Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights queries to view unique results based on one or more fields. For example, you can view the most recent error message for each hostname by executing the dedup command on the hostname field. Post Updated on June 20, 2023 at 09:07PM

AWS Config now supports 21 more resource types for services, including AWS Amplify, AWS App Mesh, AWS App Runner, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon Forecast, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Pinpoint, AWS Signer, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Transfer Family. Post Updated on June 20, 2023 at 06:13PM

AWS Lake Formation now supports accessing Glue Data Catalog databases and tables across Regions. Previously, in order to access the Glue Data Catalog databases and tables from a different Region, you had to replicate the catalog items and/or underlying data from the source Region to the local Region. Now, with the cross-Region support in Lake Formation, you can access the Glue catalog databases and tables from any Region that Lake Formation is available. Each feature of Lake Formation, such as LF-Tags based access control, fine grained access permissions at the row and column level, data filters, and sharing to direct IAM principals across accounts are available with cross-Region table access. Lastly, you can also run queries that join tables between local Region tables and cross-Region tables. Post Updated on June 19, 2023 at 11:06PM

We are excited to announce the addition of Volcano and Apache Yunikorn as job schedulers when running EMR on EKS using Spark operator and spark-submit. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Using a custom job scheduler for Spark jobs enables fine-grained capacity management and faster pod provisioning at scale. Post Updated on June 19, 2023 at 08:32PM

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the integration between AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub . You can now enable over 170 Security Hub detective controls that map to related control objectives from AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower now detects when you disable a control from Security Hub which results in a ‘Drifted’ control state. With this drift detection capability, it is simpler for you to monitor the deployment state of your controls and take appropriate actions to manage the security posture of your AWS Control Tower environment.  Post Updated on June 19, 2023 at 08:59PM

ENA Express now supports 10 new instances: C6a.48xlarge, C6a.metal, M6a.48xlarge, M6a.metal, R6a.48xlarge, R6a.metal, x2idn.32xlarge, x2idn.metal, x2iedn.32xlarge, and x2iedn.metal. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance in two key ways: higher single flow bandwidth and lower tail latency for network traffic between EC2 instances. SRD is a proprietary protocol that delivers these improvements through advanced congestion control, multi-pathing, and packet reordering directly from the Nitro card.  Post Updated on June 19, 2023 at 06:03PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.42 and 8.0.33. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.  Post Updated on June 16, 2023 at 10:53PM

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 7 additional AWS services including Amazon VPC Lattice, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, AWS IoT TwinMaker, and Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion. Post Updated on June 16, 2023 at 10:20PM

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides screen recording capabilities, making it easy for you to help agents improve their performance. With screen recording, you can identify areas for agent coaching (e.g., long contact handle duration or non-compliance with business processes) by not only listening to customer calls or reviewing chat transcripts, but also watching agents’ actions while handling a contact (i.e., a voice call, chat, or task). Screen recording is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) compliant and in scope for System Organization Controls (SOC 1 and SOC 2). Post Updated on June 16, 2023 at 08:20PM

AWS Partners now have deeper insights into their Amazon Web Services (AWS) business through AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard , accessible from AWS Partner Central. The dashboard provides Alliance Leads for partners at the Validated or Differentiated with a 360-degree view of their AWS business, including opportunity pipeline, funding benefits, and pipeline revenue. Post Updated on June 16, 2023 at 07:29PM

Today, we are announcing two new AWS Clean Rooms capabilities to help business and technical users collaborate more easily and at scale. Analysis Builder is a guided UI that helps business users to generate insights without writing any code. Business users can use analysis builder to create and edit queries in their AWS Clean Rooms collaboration, and specify their desired metrics, segments, and filters to get insights in a few steps. AWS Clean Rooms customers can also now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete their collaborations, as well as manage resources such as Configured Tables and Table associations. With support for CloudFormation templates, customers can more easily scale their collaborations for additional partners and use cases. Post Updated on June 16, 2023 at 06:14PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.13, 10.5.20, 10.4.29, and 10.3.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. Post Updated on June 15, 2023 at 11:04PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports physical data migration via Oracle Recovery Manager cross-platform Transportable Tablespaces (RMAN XTTS). As of today, you can migrate sets of tablespaces to RDS for Oracle using Oracle RMAN XTTS to simplify movement of large amounts of data and reduce application downtime for a physical data migration. Post Updated on June 15, 2023 at 11:27PM

Amazon Location Service now supports geofence metadata, allowing customers to associate up to three types of additional information (metadata) to a virtual perimeter of a real-world geographical area known as a geofence. With metadata, developers can enrich their applications with properties about each geofence, such as building floor, area designation, route ID, etc., to address use cases such as finding a different floor inside the same geographic boundary. Post Updated on June 15, 2023 at 10:26PM

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-four.  Post Updated on June 15, 2023 at 08:36PM

Today, Amazon Location Service added support for places categories, allowing developers to request, filter, or group places based on specific categories such as coffee shops or restaurants. Developers can use places categories to improve the relevance of their searches, increase the accuracy of their location-based insights, and improve their customer experience. For example, a developer working on a food delivery website can build a search box that filters on restaurants, autocompletes user inputs, and only suggests results relevant to their customers.  Post Updated on June 15, 2023 at 06:52PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. T4g database instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance, with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. Depending on the database engine, version, and workload, T4g database instances provide up to 36% better price performance over comparable x86-based T3 database instances. Post Updated on June 14, 2023 at 08:19PM

AWS Security Hub has released 6 new security controls, increasing the overall number of controls Security Hub offers to 264. The new controls conduct fully-automatic security checks against services such as Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). To use these controls, you should first turn on the standard they belong to - either Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP) or National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-53 Rev. 5 . If you are already using those standards and have Security Hub set to automatically turn on new controls, these new controls will run without having to take any additional action. Post Updated on June 14, 2023 at 06:39PM

AWS WAF Fraud Control announces Account Creation Fraud Prevention, a managed protection for AWS WAF that is designed to prevent creation of fake or fraudulent accounts. Fraudsters use fake accounts to initiate activities, such as abusing promotional and sign-up bonuses, impersonating legitimate users, and carrying out phishing attacks. These activities can lead to several direct or indirect costs such as damaged customer relationships, reputational loss, and exposure to financial fraud. Account Creation Fraud Prevention protects your account sign-up or registration pages by allowing you to continuously monitor requests for anomalous digital activity and automatically block suspicious requests based on request identifiers and behavioral analysis.  Post Updated on June 13, 2023 at 06:15PM

We are excited to announce the addition of 10 new AWS Security Hub detective controls to the AWS Control Tower controls library. These new controls target services such as Amazon APIGateway, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS WAF. These new controls help you meet control objectives, such as establish logging and monitoring, limiting network access and encrypting data at rest, enhancing your governance posture.  Post Updated on June 12, 2023 at 10:26PM

Today, we are launching preview of the AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads. With this launch, you can more easily perform attribute-level encryption, enabling you to encrypt specific attribute values before storing them in your DynamoDB table. This lets you protect sensitive data in-transit and at-rest, as data cannot be exposed unless decrypted by your application. This new release also lets you easily search on encrypted attributes without decrypting the entire database beforehand. This lets you find the right information quickly to download to your application while your data remains securely encrypted within the database. Post Updated on June 12, 2023 at 09:19PM

AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are designed to host sensitive data, regulated workloads, and address the most stringent U.S. government security and compliance requirements. With today’s release, Route 53 now enables customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions to define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) create, edit, and delete policies for individual or groups of DNS record sets within a Route 53 private hosted zone. Post Updated on June 12, 2023 at 09:16PM

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now supports the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances for clusters launched with Instance Fleets. Allocation strategies let you determine how EMR selects from your specified instance types and Availability Zones to fulfill your desired capacity. Price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy makes Spot allocation decisions based on both spare capacity availability and Spot Instance price. As a result, you can run Spot Instances at a lower price and with a lower interruption rate. Post Updated on June 12, 2023 at 06:59PM

AWS Transfer Family now supports quantum-safe public-key exchange for SFTP file transfers. Quantum-safe public-key exchange helps protect your file transfers from threats such as “harvest now, decrypt later“ attacks that record present day traffic for decrypting once cryptographically relevant quantum computers become available. Post Updated on June 12, 2023 at 06:14PM

Today, AWS is announcing a new service, AWS Payment Cryptography . This service simplifies your implementation of cryptography operations used to secure data in payment processing applications for debit, credit, and stored-value cards in accordance with various payment card industry (PCI), network, and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards and rules. Financial service providers and processors can replace their on-premises hardware security modules (HSMs) with this elastic service and move their payments-specific cryptography and key management functions to the cloud. Post Updated on June 12, 2023 at 05:05PM

We are excited to announce that AWS Config now offers support for excluding resource types from configuration change tracking. This new feature allows you to exclude specific types of AWS resources from inventory tracking and compliance monitoring while still tracking all other supported resource types currently available in AWS Config, including those that will be added in the future. As a result, you can concentrate on critical resources that are subject to your organization's compliance and governance standards. Post Updated on June 09, 2023 at 09:32PM

Starting today, the state-of-the-art Falcon 40B foundation model from Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , SageMaker’s machine learning (ML) hub that offers pre-trained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solution templates to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use this Falcon LLM with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. Post Updated on June 09, 2023 at 09:37PM

Starting today, AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java is available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Paris) and Middle East (Bahrain).  Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 11:17PM

Amazon Timestream announces the general availability of Customer Defined Partition Keys, providing additional flexibility for customers to partition their data based on their needs, and optimizing data collocation for lower query latency. Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 10:26PM

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports real-time data export of unified customer profiles to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream. Companies can enable data streaming and automatically receive data for new profiles and updates to existing profiles into their Amazon Kinesis Data Stream. Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 10:38PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now allows customers to use their own SQL Server installation media when creating an instance. By using Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), customers may leverage their existing SQL Server licenses with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Managed features of RDS Custom for SQL Server include Multi-AZ deployment , point-in-time recovery and more. Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 07:52PM

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for account level data protection policy configuration, you can now create a data protection policy that will be applied to all existing and future log groups within your AWS account.  Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 07:53PM

AWS Control Tower now offers single-region support for Terraform through account factory customization. You can now customize new and existing AWS accounts prior to provisioning them from AWS Control Tower using Terraform open source. With this release, you can now use AWS Control Tower and AWS Service Catalog to define account blueprints using Terraform. The account blueprint describes the specific resources and configurations that are used in an account as a template to scale multiple AWS accounts. Now, customers who prefer using Terraform have the same flexibility and immediate access to the account after it is provisioned. Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 06:14PM

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.  Post Updated on June 08, 2023 at 06:06PM

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides the ability to retrain machine learning (ML) models and automate batch prediction workflows with updated datasets thereby making it easier to constantly learn and improve the model performance and drive efficiency. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML expertise or having to write a single line of code.  Post Updated on June 07, 2023 at 07:29PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB of memory (u-24tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US West (Oregon) Region and instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Post Updated on June 07, 2023 at 06:20PM

AWS announces the Software Package Catalog preview. This is a new feature of AWS IoT Device Management that enables IoT customers to register, store, and report system software packages, along with their versions and metadata in a centralized location. With Software Package Catalog, you can now easily track and monitor software package versions throughout their fleet, gain valuable insights from a central dashboard, and perform updates targeting devices with specific software version.  Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 10:44PM

Today, AWS Control Tower announced additional landing zone flexibility. Customers can now select whether AWS Control Tower sets up AWS account access with AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On), or they can self-manage AWS account access with AWS IAM Identity Center or use another method. AWS Control Tower continues to deliver an opinionated configuration following AWS best practices, while recognizing that some customers have existing configurations or bespoke business needs that require deviation from AWS Control Tower’s standard configuration. Customers can opt into Control Tower governed IAM Identity Center directory groups and permissions sets at any time.  Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 11:00PM

In AWS Marketplace, customers can now filter for products with Vendor Insights security profiles that are FedRAMP authorized or in process. With AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights, you can complete third-party software risk assessments in days instead of months. Vendor Insights serves buyers who need help to efficiently validate that third-party software meets their business compliance needs. Vendor Insights also serves sellers who want to showcase their strong security posture, while reducing the operational burden from responding to buyer requests for risk assessment information. Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 10:48PM

Today, AWS Signer and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched image signing, a new feature that enables you to sign and verify container images. You can now use Signer, a managed signing service, to validate that only container images you have approved are deployed in your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters.  Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 09:40PM

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Spark Operator and spark-submit as new job submission models for Apache Spark, in addition to the existing StartJobRun API . With today’s launch, you now have the flexibility to submit your Apache Spark jobs via your preferred submission model on Amazon EMR on EKS without needing to change your application. Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 09:17PM

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now supports path parameters in routes for Lambda and URL service endpoints. Refactor Spaces reduces the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building and operating the AWS infrastructure necessary for incremental refactoring, letting you focus on evolving your applications into microservices. With this launch, Refactor Spaces gives you greater control when creating route paths and subpaths making it easier to route traffic to different service endpoints based on the path parameters you use. Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 07:54PM

We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, a new interactive log analytics experience feature that helps you detect and debug anomalies in applications. You can now view your logs interactively in real-time as they’re ingested, which helps you to analyze and resolve issues across your systems and applications. Post Updated on June 06, 2023 at 08:20PM

You can now import asymmetric and HMAC keys into AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and use them within supported KMS-integrated AWS services and your own applications. Importing your own key gives you direct control over the generation, lifecycle management, and durability of your keys. You can control the availability of your imported keys by setting an expiration period, or deleting and re-importing them at any time. You have greater control over the durability of your imported keys because you can maintain the original version of the keys elsewhere. These additional controls could help you meet your specific compliance requirements if you must generate and store copies of keys outside of AWS. Post Updated on June 05, 2023 at 10:37PM

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service. Post Updated on June 05, 2023 at 09:51PM

AWS Config supports 30 new resource types in advanced queries. The advanced queries feature provides a single query endpoint and a powerful query language to get current resource state metadata without performing service-specific describe API calls. You can use configuration aggregators to run the same queries from a central account across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Post Updated on June 05, 2023 at 07:01PM

Today, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) now makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. This launch allows you to seamlessly migrate your on-premises databases to equivalent target databases on AWS, providing easy and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime and zero data loss. In addition, you can now centrally manage and monitor all your database migrations from AWS DMS. Post Updated on June 05, 2023 at 07:39PM

AWS Trusted Advisor has launched two checks for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) . AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security and fault tolerance, and monitor service quotas. Post Updated on June 05, 2023 at 07:31PM

QuickSight authors can now improve readability of points on maps visuals by changing the point style to heatmap. This new way of displaying points on maps, transforms individual points into a heat layer using color gradation, enhancing the readability of densely plotted, overlapping points.   Post Updated on June 05, 2023 at 06:38PM

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.  Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 10:02PM

Today, Amazon HealthLake is excited to announce three new capabilities that simplify health data interoperability for customers using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Launching in preview, Amazon HealthLake now supports SMART on FHIR, patient access APIs, and FHIR bulk data access. SMART on FHIR authorizes users and applications to securely access FHIR data, patient access APIs power patient and provider facing applications, and FHIR Bulk Data Access APIs enable the secure exchange of health data. These new capabilities, combined with existing Amazon Healthlake APIs, help EHRs, ISVs, and SIs enabling healthcare organizations to rapidly build applications that conform to patient access rules from ONC and CMS. Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 05:59PM

You now have the option to create an Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) channel using the new Advanced-HD or Advanced-SD channel types, in addition to the original Basic or Standard channel types. Similar to Standard channels, Advanced channel types provide multiple qualities of output, allowing better playback quality across a range of devices and network conditions. Advanced channel types allow you to select “transcode presets” that are designed to match the multiple qualities of output to network performance and viewing devices. Advanced channel types allow available renditions to be capped at a maximum quality level: HD (720p) for Advanced-HD and SD (480p) for Advanced-SD. Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 06:05PM

Today, AWS Marketplace launched fine-grained IAM permissions to enable AWS Marketplace sellers to precisely control access to various features in AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). AWS Marketplace sellers, including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and channel partners, can now provide granular access to data and various features such as controlling which users can update tax information in AMMP within their organizations. This launch will enable granular permissions management for sellers in AMMP and will have a consistent authorization model across all AWS services that work with IAM. Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 06:15PM

Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announces Event Orchestration capability for AFD customers by integrating with Amazon EventBridge . This integration is available at no additional cost to customers. Event Orchestration is vital in fraud management after predicting fraud risk. It coordinates actions & responses to mitigate risks, generate alerts, manage workflows and enable integration with fraud prevention tools. Implementing effective event orchestration can help organizations engage customers in self-service resolution of risk, thereby reducing fraud operations costs and preserving customer trust. Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 07:13PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports converting existing Oracle Database 19c instances from the non-multitenant to the multitenant database architecture. DB instances using the multitenant architecture consist of a container database (CDB) with a single pluggable database (PDB). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB. Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 06:12PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Serverless , which automatically provisions and scales migration resources to make database migrations easier. With AWS DMS Serverless, you can replicate data across a wide variety of popular database and analytics engines and services, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and more. AWS DMS Serverless manages the undifferentiated database migration work, minimizing the need for you to manually estimate, provision, monitor, and scale resources. You can now start your migrations within hours and save money by paying only for the data migration resources you use. Post Updated on June 02, 2023 at 04:58PM

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MSK , self-manged Apache Kafka and Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ as event sources in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (UAE). This gives customers more choices for how they want to send messages to Lambda. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages from these event sources connected to an event source mapping. Post Updated on June 01, 2023 at 08:33PM

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes registry.k8s.io , the new upstream Kubernetes container image registry, as a supported upstream for pull through cache repositories. With today's release, customers can configure a rule that is designed to automatically sync images from the upstream Kubernetes registry to their private ECR repositories. Post Updated on June 01, 2023 at 08:03PM

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing with Amazon SNS FIFO topics . You can now view traces that flow through Amazon SNS FIFO topics to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, in addition to traversing the application topology in Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens. You can use Amazon SNS FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon SQS FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. You can enable AWS X-Ray active tracing using the Amazon SNS SetTopicAttributes API, Amazon SNS Management Console, or via AWS CloudFormation. Post Updated on June 01, 2023 at 07:28PM

Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. Post Updated on June 01, 2023 at 06:02PM

Amazon Detective now supports security investigations for Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring , GuardDuty RDS Protection , and Lambda Protection . GuardDuty and Detective are part of a broad set of fully managed AWS security services that help customers identify potential security risks, so they can respond quickly, freeing security teams to focus on tasks with the highest value. Post Updated on June 01, 2023 at 06:03PM