AWS update of Week 12 (20Mar-26Mar)
Ankur Patel
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Published Date: 2023-03-24 20:03:39+00:00
We are excited to announce support for defining where a Jupyter Enterprise Gateway (JEG) pod can be deployed when running interactive Spark workloads using 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 integrated development environments (IDEs) such as?EMR Studio.
Published Date: 2023-03-24 19:43:40+00:00
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka?(Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.3.2 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.3.2 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some of the key features include enhancements to fetch from the closest replica and metrics. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for?3.3.2.
Published Date: 2023-03-24 17:10:41+00:00
Today we launched new observability features including log patterns, metrics analytics and support for?Jaeger?traces with OpenSearch 2.5 in?Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Published Date: 2023-03-24 18:36:39+00:00
Amazon Detective has increased the daily quota limits for behavior graph data volumes. With the increased limits, Detective can now ingest up to 10 TB per day to help you conduct more comprehensive security investigations and provide broader summaries and visualizations of behaviors in your AWS accounts.
Published Date: 2023-03-24 20:25:39+00:00
We are excited to announce the support for EKS clusters with both managed and self-managed node groups when using interactive Spark workloads via managed?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 integrated development environments (IDEs) such as?EMR Studio.
Published Date: 2023-03-24 21:23:41+00:00
Amazon Connect now allows you to use custom task templates using the “Create task” block in Connect Flows, making it easier for agents to capture the right information to create and complete tasks. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. For example, you can create tasks for scenarios such as investigating billing issues or new insurance claims using pre-defined task templates in flows and pre-populate data for agents with the information needed to quickly resolve the issue. Task templates are supported out-of-the box with no need for manual configuration for the Amazon Connect agent workspace.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 19:05:25+00:00
Today, AWS announces the release of an allow listing feature that helps you test and enable the new fine-grained IAM permissions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account services.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 19:07:44+00:00
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports per-second billing for both Linux and Windows instances.?Amazon GameLift?is a fully?managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this update, customers will only pay for Amazon GameLift usage in one second increments, with a minimum of 1 minute.?
Published Date: 2023-03-23 20:03:59+00:00
Amazon Simple Notification Service?(Amazon SNS) now supports setting content-type request headers for?HTTP/S notifications. This?enables your topic subscribers to create a DeliveryPolicy that specifies the content-type value that Amazon SNS assigns to their HTTP/S notifications, such as application/json, application/xml, or text/plain. With this launch, applications can receive their notifications in a more predictable format.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 21:53:34+00:00
Deadline 10.2.1 is now generally available and adds new functionality with support for launching and managing Spot Fleets in multiple AWS regions from the same Spot Event Plugin and a new worker version?tag?for instances running on Amazon EC2.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 17:18:39+00:00
Today we are excited to announce the availability of AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. Service Catalog helps you centrally curate and share commonly deployed templates across teams to achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. End-users such as engineers, database administrators, and data scientists can then quickly discover and self-service approved AWS resources that they need to use to perform their daily job functions.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 21:24:04+00:00
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now lets developers combine video from multiple hosts into the source for a live stream. With this feature, Amazon IVS adds a new resource called a stage. A stage is a virtual space where participants can exchange audio and video in real time. You then broadcast a stage to Amazon IVS channels to reach a larger audience. You can also build applications where audience members can be brought “on stage” to contribute to the live conversation.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 17:19:24+00:00
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)?Elastic Clusters are now available in 3 Asia Pacific regions - Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. DocumentDB Elastic Clusters are a new type of DocumentDB cluster that enables you to elastically scale your document database to handle millions of reads and writes per second with petabytes of storage.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 17:09:24+00:00
AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available in the?AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, extending the service footprint to seven AWS Regions.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 17:07:49+00:00
Amazon Aurora?now supports disaster recovery capabilities of Global Database and Cross-Region database cluster snapshot copying in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 17:05:59+00:00
Starting today,?Amazon Security Lake?(Preview) is available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). You can now automatically centralize your security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account.?
Published Date: 2023-03-23 17:02:24+00:00
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.?
Published Date: 2023-03-23 16:58:54+00:00
AWS Resilience Hub?has added Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) as a supported resource. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. Amazon EKS is a managed service to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises data centers.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 21:13:34+00:00
Amazon Redshift?launched a new getting started experience with the Amazon Redshift Serverless free trial. This will be the recommended path for first time users in regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is already available, and will replace the Redshift DC2.large based free trial for provisioned clusters. In regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is not yet available, customers can continue to use the two-month free trial of DC2.large node in provisioned clusters.?
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Published Date: 2023-03-22 17:46:39+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler?now supports OAuth based authentication with identity providers including Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, and Ping Federate to access data in Snowflake for machine learning (ML). 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.
Published Date: 2023-03-22 17:06:44+00:00
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Route 53 Resolver Query Logging enables you log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated - including source IP and instance ID - and the responses that were received.
Published Date: 2023-03-22 17:20:54+00:00
AWS Security Hub?is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) AWS Regions. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in those Regions and take advantage of more than 80 security controls to automatically check your security posture.
Published Date: 2023-03-22 21:56:19+00:00
Amazon WorkDocs now offers Search Resources API for builders to programmatically search files and folders that you have permissions for. The new Search Resources API provides keyword search and a wide array of search result filtering capabilities. Customers can apply filters such as content type, last modified date range, file owner, and labels. The new WorkDocs Search Resources API is available via AWS CLI, SDK and REST endpoints.?
Published Date: 2023-03-22 18:58:24+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 15.?PostgreSQL 15?includes new features such as the SQL standard "MERGE" command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, support for two-phase commit, and row/column filtering for logical replication. The PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for server-side compression with Gzip, LZ4, or Zstandard (zstd) using pg_basebackup. For more details about this release, refer to the?PostgreSQL community announcement. You can also enforce SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) password-based authentication for your proxy.?
Published Date: 2023-03-22 16:54:39+00:00
Today,?AWS CloudFormation?has expanded the availability of language?Transform?called ‘AWS::LanguageExtensions'?to Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. When declared in a template, the transform enables extensions to the template language in AWS CloudFormation. The language extensions transform expands the functionality of the base CloudFormation JSON/YAML template language.
Published Date: 2023-03-22 20:15:19+00:00
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, enabling you to optimize the performance of your backend application servers while helping to keep your workloads secure. TLS 1.3 on ALB works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to the load balancer. TLS 1.3 is optimized for performance and security by using one round trip (1-RTT) TLS handshakes, and only supporting ciphers that provide perfect forward secrecy.
Published Date: 2023-03-24 15:20:39+00:00
AWS Batch now enables you to configure ephemeral storage up to 200 GiB in size on AWS Fargate type jobs. This means that you can expand the available ephemeral storage beyond the default value of 20 GiB for your jobs when using Fargate as the compute platform on AWS Batch. With this launch, you no longer need to limit the size of the Docker images to run machine learning inferences or the size of the data sets in the container for data processing to be under 20GiB. You can configure the ephemeral storage to be as large as 200GiB to run larger sized workloads.?
Published Date: 2023-03-22 21:13:49+00:00
You can now use?Amazon S3 Event Notifications?with?Amazon EventBridge?in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to build, scale, and deploy event-driven applications based on changes to the data you store in Amazon S3. This makes it easier to act on new data in Amazon S3, build multiple applications that react to object changes simultaneously, and replay past events, all without creating additional copies of objects or developing new software.?
Published Date: 2023-03-22 18:27:02+00:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces Amazon CloudFront expansion in Peru by launching a new edge location in Lima. Customers in Perú can expect up to 50 percent improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location to provide end users faster, more responsive applications. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by?Amazon CloudFront, a highly distributed and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video.?Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of 450+ points of presence (POPs) and 13 regional edge caches in 90+ cities across 49 countries to deliver content to end users.
Published Date: 2023-03-23 21:26:09+00:00
Amazon Elastic Container Services?(Amazon ECS) now provides contextual failure reasons that make it easier to troubleshoot task launch failures when customers use?capacity providers?for auto scaling the compute capacity in their cluster.
Published Date: 2023-03-21 19:19:22+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Clean Rooms, a fully managed analytics service that helps customers collaborate with their partners without sharing or copying one another’s raw data. Companies can create a clean room in minutes, removing the need to build, manage, or maintain their own solutions or move data outside of AWS.?
Published Date: 2023-03-21 20:23:25+00:00
Amazon Web Services announces the ability to run Windows 11 operating system on your Amazon Workspaces hosted on hardware that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud. To do this, you must Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and provide a Windows 11 license. You can now offer a consistent desktop experience to your users when they switch between on-premise and virtual desktop deployments. Earlier, BYOL option was only available for Windows 10 operating system. While Windows Server 10 BYOL WorkSpaces are still supported, you can now choose to run WorkSpaces powered by Windows 11 and benefit from new features such as Trust Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), and Unified Extensible Framework Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot. Windows 11 is supported for Standard, Performance, Power and PowerPro bundles. For the best experience with video conferencing we recommend using Power or PowerPro bundles only.
Published Date: 2023-03-21 18:51:16+00:00
You can now download Corretto 20 from our?downloads page. This latest version supports the most recent OpenJDK feature release and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Published Date: 2023-03-21 20:10:42+00:00
Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer?now allows you to view the network reachability between your source and destination in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) through Gateway Load Balancers, AWS Network Firewalls, and AWS PrivateLink services. In addition, you can also check network reachability between a source resource and your specified destination IP address.?
Published Date: 2023-03-21 22:04:32+00:00
Starting today,?Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances,?Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances, and?Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances?are available in bare metal size. These sixth-generation network optimized instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They are the first x86-based instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth. These instances deliver up to 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. The instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security.
Published Date: 2023-03-21 21:53:46+00:00
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new?AWS Direct Connect?location within the?Equinix MC1?data center in Muscat, Oman. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public?AWS Regions?(except China Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD),?AWS GovCloud Regions, and?AWS Local Zones.?
Published Date: 2023-03-21 21:46:07+00:00
Starting today, Application Auto Scaling customers can use tags to manage the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions related to their auto scaled resources. Prior to this launch there was no way for customers to control IAM permissions based on custom resource tags. Now, permissions can be centrally managed for all resources tagged with the same key-value pairs.
Published Date: 2023-03-20 22:12:06+00:00
We are excited to announce the support for Graviton3-based instances in Amazon EMR. You can now use?Amazon EC2 C7G?instances with EMR on EC2 and Amazon EKS. AWS Graviton3 processors are the latest in the AWS Graviton processor family. They provide better compute performance, floating point performance and support DDR5 memory that provides 50% more memory bandwidth as compared to DDR4. Amazon EMR launches support for Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute C7g (Graviton3) instances which improve cost-performance for Apache Spark workloads by?up to 13%. You can improve cost-performance of Spark workloads running on EMR on EKS by?up to 15%?by migrating to Graviton3-based instances.?The benchmark used in this post to arrive at the cost-performance improvement is derived from the industry-standard TPC-DS benchmark, and uses queries from the?Spark SQL Performance Tests GitHub repo?with the following?fixes?applied. Performance on your workloads may vary and therefore not yield similar cost savings.
Published Date: 2023-03-20 22:00:07+00:00
Amazon Connect now provides the ability to configure multiple?IAM roles?that can be assigned to a single user when using SAML 2.0, enabling you to support user access from multiple identity providers simultaneously. For example, if you are migrating identity providers, you can configure multiple IAM roles associated to a single user and that user will be able to access Amazon Connect from both providers. To learn more about configuring IAM roles for SAML 2.0 in Amazon Connect, see the?Amazon Connect Administrator Guide.