News For Dev-ops

AWS Step Functions now supports a service integration with Amazon EventBridge , enabling you to send custom events from your Step Functions workflows to an EventBridge event bus without writing custom code. You can now emit custom events from your workflows that allow loosely-coupled applications to react to steps in your business logic, orchestrated by Step Functions. You can also use this integration to send events to applications in a different region or a different account by using EventBridge’s cross-account and cross-region capabilites . Post Updated on May 15, 2021 at 12:15AM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. If you require use of FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules, you can now do so with RDS Data API. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 09:57PM

Today, AWS Premium Support launches Support Automation Workflows (SAW) to enable self-service diagnosis and remediation for AWS customers. Further, we are launching additional advanced runbooks that will be available to Enterprise and Business Support customers for faster issue resolution. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 09:49PM

Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to healthcare and life science applications. We are pleased to launch support for the automatic identification of protected health information (PHI) in your medical transcriptions feature for batch processing. With automatic PHI identification, customers can now reduce the cost, time, and effort spend on identifying PHI content from both live audio streams and static recordings. PHI entities are labeled clearly with each output transcript, making it convenient to build additional downstream processing for a variety of purposes, such as redaction prior to text analytics. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 09:49PM

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports PostgreSQL 12.5 for production deployment. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. You can deploy Amazon RDS on Outposts to set up, operate, and scale MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL relational databases on-premises, just as you would in the cloud. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 08:53PM

Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Region. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 06:30PM

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cold storage, a fully-managed storage tier that makes it easy for customers to securely store and analyze their infrequently accessed data on-demand, at a lower cost than other storage tiers. You pay for compute only when you need it. Cold storage allows you to retain any amount of data in your Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain while reducing cost per GB to near Amazon S3 storage prices. Post Updated on May 14, 2021 at 05:05PM