News For Dev-ops

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

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

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

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

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

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

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