News For Dev-ops

Starting today, the EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain) AWS Regions. Hibernation is an Amazon EC2 feature that helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. Customers are not billed for compute time while instances are suspended, only their storage volumes , and applications will resume from right where they left off.  Post Updated on December 29, 2023 at 06:02PM

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Security Improvement Program (SIP) for Enterprise On-Ramp (EOP) customers. SIP empowers you to understand best practices in securing your AWS environment in addition to internal system checks. SIP measures your AWS environment against 90+ critical security best practices and provides tactical level improvement recommendations to improve your security posture. Post Updated on December 28, 2023 at 10:10PM

You can now use projects from your GitLab self-managed instance (GitLab Enterprise Edition, GitLab Community Edition) to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. You can connect your GitLab self-managed instance that is in a VPC or directly accessible using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository. Post Updated on December 28, 2023 at 07:50PM

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. You may now configure and operate MediaPackage using the console or API endpoints in this region. Post Updated on December 28, 2023 at 07:14PM

This is a guest blog post by David Schaefer . David is a freelancing software developer with a focus on functional programming. He's a member of the G-Research Open Source Team. There he works on improving the F# ecosystem, mainly developer tooling. Furthermore, he helps maintaining various F# Open Source projects. It's very common to define algorithms in a recursive way in functional programming. It fits very well with the mindset of avoiding mutation, and often there's no performance downside. The compiler tries to rewrite recursive definitions into more efficient loops during its optimization phase. However, the compiler is not always able to do this transformation into loops. And here is where the danger starts. Stack frames vs. Production Calling a function g from inside a function f normally creates a new stack frame on the call stack of the process. After the function g is done, its stack frame isn't needed anymore and its space can be reused. Now, wit...

With AWS Elemental Mediatailor , you can now begin playback of a Standard Channel Assembly channel outside of the current live window using the time shifting feature. Post Updated on December 27, 2023 at 09:33PM

We are excited to announce the launch of a new easy and secure way to remotely connect to the model training environment in Amazon SageMaker for improved observability and quick debugging. Post Updated on December 27, 2023 at 05:58PM

Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically update the priority of contacts (e.g., voice calls, callbacks, chats, tasks). With this API, you can now update the position of a contact in a queue directly from your custom monitoring dashboards. You can already change a contact’s priority and/or customers position in queue using the ”Change routing priority/age“ flow block in the Amazon Connect web UI. To learn more about the new UpdateContactRoutingData API, see the Amazon Connect API reference guide and UpdateContactRoutingData help documentation. Post Updated on December 27, 2023 at 05:58PM

With zero buffering, customers can deliver data to Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third-party HTTP destinations within seconds enabling real time use cases.  Post Updated on December 26, 2023 at 09:56PM

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, Scala, and R. Today, we are excited to announce that you can set user level permissions for Git repositories in Amazon EMR Studio. Post Updated on December 26, 2023 at 06:23PM

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE) AWS Regions. IAM Roles Anywhere enables workloads that run outside of AWS to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials using the same IAM roles and policies that you have configured for your AWS workloads to access AWS resources. Post Updated on December 26, 2023 at 05:54PM

AWS Neuron is the SDK for Amazon EC2 Inferentia and Trainium based instances purpose-built for generative AI. Today, with Neuron 2.16 release , we are announcing support for Llama-2 70b model inference on Inf2 instances.  Post Updated on December 22, 2023 at 06:22PM

Today, Amazon CloudWatch alarms support AWS Lambda functions as an alarm state change action. Customers can now choose to invoke a Lambda function directly when a CloudWatch alarm changes to an OK, ALARM or INSUFFICIENT_DATA state. This makes it easier for customers to automate custom actions on alarm state changes. Post Updated on December 22, 2023 at 06:08PM

Today, AWS announces two methods to integrate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases with Amazon Bedrock to power generative AI applications. First, Amazon Aurora ML now provides access to foundation models available through Amazon Bedrock directly through SQL. Second, Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports Amazon Aurora as a vector store for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).  Post Updated on December 21, 2023 at 11:01PM

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. This release also contains new features and improvements such as group role authentication support using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory with the new pg_ad_mapping extension, Amazon Bedrock integration for Generative AI , and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 3.4 . As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora. PostgreSQL 11, you must upgrade to a newer major version by February 29, 2024. Post Updated on December 21, 2023 at 10:55PM

We are thrilled to announce that the  Call for Papers (CFP) for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2024  is now officially open! This is an exciting opportunity for you to share your knowledge, experiences, and innovations with a vibrant and diverse community of developers. About the conference Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the Azure Cosmos DB community. Scheduled for April 16, 2024, this conference marks our fourth year of bringing together the brightest minds in the field. It's not just a conference; it's a celebration of innovation and collaboration in powering today's most advanced modern and AI-driven apps. What to expect This year’s event promises a wealth of knowledge with sessions delivered by both Microsoft and community experts. The conference will be streamed as a one-day 3-hour show, accompanied by additional on-demand sessions. Expect insightful, pre-recorded 15-minute sessions focusing on various aspects of Azure Cos...

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) 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 December 20, 2023 at 10:38PM

Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Post Updated on December 20, 2023 at 11:03PM

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now generates recommendations that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. RDS Performance Insights continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When it detects such conditions, it generates new recommendations that describe the nature of the impending problem, and includes specific actions you can take to mitigate that problem. These recommendations are available to Performance Insights paid tier customers. Post Updated on December 19, 2023 at 10:45PM

Egress 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. This launch allows you to use AWS Network Firewall to decrypt TLS sessions and inspect inbound and outbound VPC traffic without the need to deploy or manage any additional network security infrastructure. Encryption and decryption happen on the same firewall instance natively, so traffic doesn’t cross any network boundaries. Post Updated on December 19, 2023 at 10:06PM

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and events with GraphQL APIs. AppSync allows customers to create APIs that connect to multiple data sources like microservice APIs, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. With AppSync APIs, applications can efficiently fetch data from different sources in one request. Post Updated on December 19, 2023 at 09:28PM

Starting today, AWS Verified Access that allows allows you to provide secure access to your corporate applications without using VPNs is available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US East) Regions . Built  using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles , Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner. Post Updated on December 19, 2023 at 10:38PM

Starting today, AWS India customers can securely save their India issued credit or debit card as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines. Post Updated on December 19, 2023 at 06:02PM

Amazon Redshift customers can now use the identities in their identity provider (IdP), such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Ping, OneLogin, etc., to access Amazon Redshift in a single sign-on experience from Amazon QuickSight or Amazon Redshift Query Editor. Administrators can manage fine grained access to data in Redshift using the users and groups in the organization IdP, and can audit user access in AWS CloudTrail. Post Updated on December 18, 2023 at 10:10PM

Amazon DynamoDB local now supports table deletion protection and the ReturnValuesOnConditionCheckFailure parameter. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test applications by running DynamoDB in your local development environment without incurring any costs. DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection, and it works with your existing DynamoDB API calls.  Post Updated on December 18, 2023 at 10:58PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7a instances are available in Europe (Stockholm) Region, and EC2 Hpc6a instances are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Post Updated on December 18, 2023 at 06:00PM

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches cross-account observability across Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to help you monitor and troubleshoot applications that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS Region. Central Operational Teams managing container administration can now monitor and analyze container health and performance across their organization from a consolidated view and maintain the overall application health status to achieve the best business results. Post Updated on December 18, 2023 at 06:34PM

Today, AWS announces the Auto Query feature in AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Viewer which automates data query configurations that aid in visualizing IoT data in customers’ 3D scenes.  Post Updated on December 15, 2023 at 10:39PM

Today, AWS IoT Core—a managed service that connects billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to AWS—announces the capability of using your own Certificate Authority (CA) certificates when provisioning fleets with AWS IoT Core. Using AWS IoT Core, you can provision your devices with various techniques, such as just-in-time provisioning, just-in-time registration, and fleet provisioning, where each technique serves a dedicated purpose. For example, with fleet provisioning, you can generate and securely deliver X.509 client certificates to your devices when they connect to AWS for the first time. The updated fleet provisioning capability enables you to issue and customize X.509 client certificates using CAs hosted on popular CA services, such as AWS Private CA, external CAs, or your own public key infrastructure (PKI). Post Updated on December 14, 2023 at 11:01PM

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.25, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. If you are running earlier versions of RabbitMQ, such as 3.10, 3.9 or 3.8, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.10.20 or higher. This can be accomplished with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console . We also encourage you to enable automatic minor version upgrades on RabbitMQ 3.10.25 to help ensure your brokers take advantage of future fixes and improvements. Post Updated on December 14, 2023 at 07:18PM

Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots provides an additional layer of security for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots and helps prevent unauthorized access and potential misuse of snapshot data. Starting today, you can manage Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots settings for your account using AWS CloudFormation templates. Post Updated on December 14, 2023 at 06:00PM

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models.  Post Updated on December 13, 2023 at 10:07PM

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports generating CloudFormation templates in the AWS console to help you provision and manage the configuration of your pipes in a centralized and repeatable manner. You can generate templates from your existing pipes to provision the same pipes in other regions or accounts, or, jump-start the creation of different pipes by customizing the generated templates. Combine the templates you generate with those of other services to create AWS CloudFormation stacks , which allows you to provision the AWS services your application requires with pipes connecting them together. Post Updated on December 13, 2023 at 10:04PM

We are excited to announce streaming API support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, making it possible to programmatically view, search and filter relevant log events in real-time. You can now view your logs interactively in real-time as they’re ingested within your own custom applications or dashboards inside or outside of AWS. Post Updated on December 13, 2023 at 06:05PM

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Post Updated on December 13, 2023 at 06:39PM

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Metrics Insights in Cross-Account observability. With Amazon CloudWatch cross-account observability, you can use Metrics Insights to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span multiple accounts within a Region. Post Updated on December 12, 2023 at 05:56PM

Amazon Athena now supports trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center to manage and audit access to data and resources based on user identity. This new capability passes identity information between connected business intelligence and data analytics applications, providing data analysts with a seamless single sign-on experience and admins with end-to-end data access traceability. Administrators define access via AWS Lake Formation to their data sets in Glue Data Catalog based on a common set of users and groups in the customer’s chosen identity provider. Auditors can track users’ data access across their Athena query workflows.  Post Updated on December 11, 2023 at 09:53PM

AWS AppConfig now supports AWS PrivateLink , which allows customers to leverage feature flags and dynamic configuration from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the public internet. Post Updated on December 11, 2023 at 06:00PM

AWS Lambda now offers additional concurrency metric, ClaimedAccountConcurrency, that reports the sum of used unreserved concurrency, allocated reserved concurrency and provisioned concurrency. With this launch, AWS Lambda customers can now track the amount of overall concurrency in their account that is available for on-demand executions.  Post Updated on December 11, 2023 at 06:20PM

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g and M7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services. Starting today, these instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London). Post Updated on December 08, 2023 at 10:56PM

Amazon Redshift announces enhancements to Redshift Advisor to generate smarter and faster sort and distribution key recommendations. With the enhancements, Redshift Advisor uses new machine learning models to make these recommendations sooner, without needing to observe minimum necessary workload. Both sort and distribution key recommendations continue to be applied through Redshift automatic table optimizations, making it easier and faster to achieve better query performance.  Post Updated on December 08, 2023 at 09:56PM

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Metrics Insights in Cross-Account observability. With Amazon CloudWatch cross-account observability, you can use Metrics Insights to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span multiple accounts within a Region. Post Updated on December 08, 2023 at 06:01PM

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd and R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (Stockholm) and Europe (Spain) regions. Additionally, C7gd instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm).  Post Updated on December 07, 2023 at 10:04PM

Today, we are announcing a new open sourced IoT dashboard application built on top of IoT Application Kit. The new IoT dashboard application allows you to visualize and interact with operational data from AWS IoT SiteWise with a drag-and-drop dashboard building experience.  Post Updated on December 07, 2023 at 06:04PM

Centralizing Data with Delta Lake and Azure Databricks Introduction Companies commonly face challenges in centralizing their data to establish a single source of truth throughout the organization. This centralization is required for generating reports, alerts, and analytics that drive business decisions. While a unified data management platform is a frequent goal, each organization encounters distinct challenges in its development, such as: Data Source Management: Bringing together scattered data is like solving a puzzle. Concurrency Handling: Managing data tasks simultaneously requires strategic coordination. Simplifying Updates: Updates should be seamless, but complexities often arise. This blog reveals our practical approach, the challenges we encountered, and the innovative solutions that paved the way for data centralization. Section 1: Why We Did It? The Need for Centralization As part of our collaborative engagement with a customer, the primary business imperative...

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the enhancement of SPICE ingestion performance. Given SPICE's support for datasets as large as 1TB or 1 billion rows, previously the ingestion process for large datasets could extend over several hours. The enhancement in ingestion performance leverages the parallel ingestion mechanism to significantly decrease the data refresh time for such large datasets. Users can anticipate a noticeable improvement, with an overall reduction in ingestion time of up to 75%, or 4x improvement in performance, for datasets that previously took more than three hours. Datasets utilizing Customer Managed Key will experience even greater performance enhancements. No alterations to the customer interface are required; the benefits of this feature will be seamlessly activated on the backend upon its launch. Post Updated on December 06, 2023 at 11:10PM

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH), will support RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and MacOS in addition to Amazon Linux and Ubuntu. Post Updated on December 06, 2023 at 07:31PM

Amazon Connect now provides the ability for businesses to define custom time thresholds between 1 second and 7 days for measuring the number of contacts answered or abandoned within a certain time duration in the real-time metrics page. For example, with these thresholds you can measure the number of contacts that abandoned within 4 seconds (also known as short abandons) to identify customers who picked the wrong IVR option or dialed the wrong number. Post Updated on December 05, 2023 at 05:57PM

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights customers can now create kdb clusters of type General Purpose, featuring support for an increased set of kdb functions and data storage configurations from within a single kdb process. This enables a wider set of customer applications and process to run directly on Managed kdb Insights. Post Updated on December 04, 2023 at 09:23PM

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports comprehensive data preparation capabilities powered by Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler . You can now import tabular, timeseries, image, and text data from 50+ data sources, generate Data Quality and Insights reports, and transform data using 300+ built-in operators to build and use machine learning (ML) models all without writing any code. Through this integration, you can accelerate data preparation for ML from weeks to minutes using SageMaker Canvas. Post Updated on December 04, 2023 at 08:09PM

Amazon Redshift now supports storing large objects, up to 16MB in size, in SUPER data type. When ingesting from JSON, PARQUET, TEXT, and CSV source files, you can load semi-structured data or documents as values in SUPER data type up to 16MB. Before this enhancement, you could load semi-structured data or documents in SUPER data type only up to 1MB. Post Updated on December 04, 2023 at 06:03PM

Starting today, you can now hibernate Amazon EC2 C7a, C7i, R7a, R7i and R7iz instances. Hibernation is an Amazon EC2 feature that helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. Customers are not billed for compute time while instances are suspended, and your applications will resume from right where they left off. Post Updated on December 01, 2023 at 08:08PM

AWS AppConfig , a feature of AWS Systems Manager , announces four new features available in the latest release of the AWS AppConfig Agent . The Agent now supports writing feature flags and configuration data to a file on local disk in a location that the customer specifies. Secondly, to improve resiliency, the Agent can be configured to write its own local backup of the latest version of configuration data, and use that backup if there is a network issue or outage that prevents the Agent from reaching the AWS AppConfig service. Also, the Agent now allows engineers to test configuration changes in their local environments. Finally, this version of the Agent allows a customer to map different AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions for different Configuration Profiles, which enables fine-grained security for configuration data. Post Updated on December 01, 2023 at 06:01PM

Today, FreeRTOS announces the availability of modular and composable Over-The-Air update (OTA) libraries that make it easy for you to configure and customize the system update process for your Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Using FreeRTOS OTA libraries, you can quickly build connected products capable of seamlessly processing remote firmware update tasks, thus allowing you to manage and maintain your device fleet to be up to date. With the new update, you can now configure FreeRTOS open source OTA libraries in small batches for better flexibility as compared to using a large library that may require base-code modification. For example, to retain operational integrity and continuity of your deployed IoT devices, you can now configure your modular FreeRTOS libraries to first require the device to be in a ‘safe’ or ‘commissioning’ mode and only then accept and process software update messages.  Post Updated on December 01, 2023 at 06:03PM