AWS update of Week 17 (24Apr-30Apr)
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Published Date: 2023-04-28 20:45:38+00:00
AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances are now generally available for?Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. You can launch these database instances when using?Amazon RDS for MySQL,?Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and?Amazon RDS for MariaDB.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 18:56:38+00:00
Amazon Connect has reduced prices for direct-inward dial (DID) rates for South Korea in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. This includes claimed DID phone numbers reduced by 89% from $0.8/day to $0.0864/day and DID inbound minutes by 97% from $0.0736/min to $0.0020/min.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 18:23:38+00:00
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. Since inception, Amazon Managed Grafana maintained a single version offering across all workspaces globally. With this release, you can select an Amazon Managed Grafana supported version to create a new workspace. Version 9.4 includes several new features to further enhance your experience in Amazon Managed Grafana including, but not limited to: plugin enhancements to support CloudWatch cross-account querying, OpenSearch serverless, querying multiple asset properties from AWS IoT Sitewise, query result reuse and async queries for Athena; Prometheus and Loki query builders make it even easier to create and modify queries for your data sources; Service accounts that provide a secure and efficient way to automate tasks within your Grafana instance.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 18:20:38+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure access to your corporate applications without using a VPN. Built based on?AWS Zero Trust?principles,?you can use Verified Access to implement a work-from-anywhere model with added security and scalability.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 19:09:38+00:00
Today, AWS announces the expanded support of?AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)?for?Amazon EC2?with a new SSM document to the fill disk of EC2 instances. FIS is a fully managed service which allows you to run experiments to test how your applications behaves during an impairment, and helps you improve application performance, observability, and resilience. The new disk fill document consumes disk space to see how the application behaves when disk space is unavailable.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 17:04:38+00:00
You can now use?Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints?for hybrid cloud configurations in the Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 18:56:38+00:00
Amazon Connect has reduced pricing for the Japan toll-free inbound minute rate by 46% from $0.1482/min to $0.08/min in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 19:33:50+00:00
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.??
Published Date: 2023-04-28 17:05:37+00:00
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.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 16:51:38+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch is introducing enhancements to the console experience, which improve data visualizations, cross-console navigation and user experience.?
Published Date: 2023-04-28 20:27:38+00:00
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.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 19:17:38+00:00
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.
Published Date: 2023-04-28 22:57:38+00:00
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.?
Published Date: 2023-04-28 21:27:38+00:00
Amazon EMR?is excited to announce that?Amazon EMR Serverless?is now?available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-04-27 18:37:38+00:00
Today, Amazon Location Service added support for long distance matrix routing, making it easier for customers to quickly calculate driving time and driving distance between multiple origins and destinations, no matter how far apart they are. Developers can now make a single API request to calculate up to 122,500 routes (350 origins and 350 destinations) within a 180 km region or up to 100 routes without any distance limitation.
Published Date: 2023-04-27 17:21:38+00:00
AWS Lambda now supports Java 17 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. 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, including optimizations when running Lambda functions on Graviton 2 processors. It supports AWS Lambda Snap Start (in supported Regions) for fast cold starts, and the latest versions of the popular Spring Boot 3 and Micronaut 4 application frameworks. For more information on Lambda’s support for Java 17, see our blog post?at?Java 17 runtime now available in AWS Lambda.
Published Date: 2023-04-27 21:42:38+00:00
Fleet Manager now enables a console-based management experience for Windows instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This feature provides customers a full graphical interface to setup secure connections to and manage Windows instances. You no longer need to install additional software, set up additional servers, or open direct inbound access to ports on the instance.
Published Date: 2023-04-27 21:09:38+00:00
AWS Network Firewall now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for ingress VPC traffic in 8 additional regions for a total of 10 regions. Starting today, you can use AWS Network Firewall to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt inbound TLS traffic in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Frankfurt), South America (Sao Paulo), and US East (N. Virginia).
Published Date: 2023-04-27 17:46:38+00:00
Amazon QuickSight?launches two suites of data ingestion APIs, including 1/Ingestion schedule APIs and 2/ Incremental Refresh Configuration APIs. Before enabling the APIs, QuickSight users have to setup their ingestion refresh schedule and lookback window in the console UI manually. The new suite of APIs allows users to define their refresh schedule and incremental refresh configuration programmatically hence help developers to automate and integrate seamlessly. The APIs will also largely speed up the migration to QuickSight from other BI tools. For further details, visit?here.
Published Date: 2023-04-27 20:37:37+00:00
We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection is now available in Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). Data protection is a feature that leverages pattern matching and machine learning capabilities to detect and protect sensitive log data-in-transit. Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services, in a single, highly scalable service. With log data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, you can now detect and protect sensitive log data in-transit such as, Credit Card Numbers or Government ID’s logged by your systems, and applications.
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Published Date: 2023-04-27 17:57:38+00:00
Today, AWS AppSync released enhanced support for TypeScript in JavaScript resolvers, along with integrated support for source maps in bundled JavaScript code. Plus, we’ve released updated guidance to help you during your development process, and we are updating the AppSync utility library to provide better type and generics support.
Published Date: 2023-04-27 22:02:38+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon SageMaker with TensorBoard, which provides a hosted TensorBoard experience. This launch allows you to use TensorBoard to visualize and debug model convergence issues for Amazon SageMaker training jobs.?
Published Date: 2023-04-27 19:57:38+00:00
Today Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a new fully managed data ingestion tier that allows you to ingest and process petabyte-scale data before indexing it in OpenSearch-managed clusters or serverless collections. OpenSearch Ingestion provides a no-code capability to filter, transform, redact, and route data prior to indexing it in OpenSearch. OpenSearch Ingestion automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads.?
Published Date: 2023-04-27 17:51:38+00:00
Amazon MQ?now?provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.20 and RabbitMQ 3.9.27, which include several important fixes and performance optimizations to the previously supported versions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Because Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols, you can more easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code.
Published Date: 2023-04-26 17:14:38+00:00
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides a set of evaluation capabilities (GA) that enable contact center managers to create evaluation forms with criteria (e.g., agent adherence to talk scripts or compliance with sensitive data collection practices) that can be scored using Contact Lens’ machine learning powered speech analytics, and view aggregated agent performance results. Contact centers can also use public APIs to ingest data (e.g., customer satisfaction scores, sales records, etc.) from third-party sources such as CSAT survey tools or CRM systems, and have all relevant agent performance data and insights across cohorts of agents over time, in a single easy-to-use web interface.
Published Date: 2023-04-26 17:06:38+00:00
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through two new AWS edge locations in Lima, Peru and Nashville, Tennessee (United States). With the addition of these two edge locations, Global Accelerator is now available through?106 Points of Presence?globally and supports application endpoints in?21 AWS Regions.
Published Date: 2023-04-26 21:35:38+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) T4g instances are available in Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. Amazon EC2 T4g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. T4g instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, such as large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, and virtual desktops.
Published Date: 2023-04-25 21:23:38+00:00
We are announcing the general availability of?AWS DataSync Discovery, giving you visibility into on-premises storage performance and utilization, and providing recommendations to simplify and accelerate data migration to AWS. DataSync Discovery enables you to understand your on-premises storage performance and capacity through automated data collection and analysis. It helps you quickly identify data to be migrated and evaluate suggested AWS Storage services that align to your performance and capacity needs. Capabilities added since preview include support for NetApp ONTAP 9.7, recommendations at cluster and storage virtual machine (SVM) levels, and discovery job events in?Amazon EventBridge.
Published Date: 2023-04-25 17:03:38+00:00
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) now supports customer managed permissions so you can author and maintain fine-grained resource access controls for?supported resource types. AWS RAM helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts, within your organization or organizational units (OUs), and with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users. With customer managed permissions, you can apply the principles of least privilege, or the minimum permissions required to perform a task.
Published Date: 2023-04-25 17:03:38+00:00
If you deliver multichannel audio experiences, you can now use?AWS Elemental Link UHD?to pass through Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus audio to your AWS Elemental MediaLive channel.
Published Date: 2023-04-25 21:54:37+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Python SDK?is?an open source library for training and deploying machine-learning models on Amazon SageMaker. We are excited to announce SageMaker Python SDK now helps data scientists execute any local ML code authored in their preferred IDE and local notebooks along with the associated runtime dependencies as large-scale ML?model training jobs?with minimal code changes.
Published Date: 2023-04-25 18:49:38+00:00
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a?scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports the use of the IN operator in SELECT queries of Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
Published Date: 2023-04-25 21:54:37+00:00
We are excited to announce the General Availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor support for MQTT over WebSocket.?AWS IoT Core Device Advisor?is a cloud-based, fully managed test capability that validates AWS IoT device software for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core. With this update, customers can run all three test suites of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor - qualification, custom, and long duration tests - using Signature Version 4 for MQTT over WebSocket. Signature Version 4 is a protocol for authenticating inbound API requests to AWS services, in all AWS Regions.?
Published Date: 2023-04-24 18:34:11+00:00
AWS Glue Crawlers?extract?the data schema and partitions from Amazon S3 and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog, keeping metadata current. Today, AWS Glue Crawler support is expanded to automatically add partition indexes for newly discovered tables that will help analytics services such as Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to optimize partition processing to help with query performance on highly partitioned tables.?
Published Date: 2023-04-24 20:35:10+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Support in Korean in all commercial regions. Customers can now select Korean, in addition to Chinese, English, and Japanese as their preferred language to interact with our team of support engineers and customer service representatives. Customers will receive personalized support in the language of their choice with predictable response times as per their?Support plan?at no additional cost.
Published Date: 2023-04-24 17:04:10+00:00
You can now add data overlays and text annotations in the AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Composer. Data overlay and text annotations provide context in scenes like access to key performance metrics and sensor data, making it easier to navigate your twins and monitor your facilities with AWS IoT TwinMaker.
Published Date: 2023-04-24 19:13:11+00:00
AWS License Manager?announces a new feature to upgrade EC2 instances with Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) operating system to Ubuntu Pro. With Ubuntu Pro subscription, customers get five years of Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) on the Ubuntu LTS releases from Canonical. Using this License Manager feature, customers can upgrade their Ubuntu LTS instances in-place to Ubuntu Pro without needing to migrate to a new Ubuntu Pro Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For the use of upgraded EC2 instances with Ubuntu Pro, you will be charged on a per-second basis at the applicable?On-Demand?or?Savings Plan?rates for Ubuntu Pro.
Published Date: 2023-04-24 19:48:11+00:00
Starting today,?Amazon EC2 High Memory instances?with 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.
Published Date: 2023-04-24 20:03:11+00:00
Starting today, customers with multiple organizational units (OU’s), and accounts can now create up to 10 AWS Firewall Manager administrator accounts from AWS Organizations service to manage their firewall policies. Customers can delegate responsibility for firewall administration at a granular scope by restricting access based on OU, account, policy type, and region, thereby enabling policy management tasks to be implemented faster and more effectively.
Published Date: 2023-04-24 19:28:11+00:00
Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that helps DevOps engineers investigate and remediate issues in the context of their applications, now supports AWS CDK applications. Customers who use CDK to model their cloud infrastructure can view their CDK constructs grouped as applications in the Application Manager console.?