AWS update of Week 20 (15May-21May)
Ankur Patel
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Published Date: 2023-05-19 20:07:53+00:00
Today we are excited to announce the launch of 28 new proactive controls in AWS Control Tower. This launch enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities, allowing you to implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments by blocking non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as AWS OpenSearch Service, AWS Auto Scaling, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon RDS. These new controls help you meet control objectives such as data encryption at rest or limit network access. To see a full list of the new controls, see the?controls?reference guide.?
Published Date: 2023-05-19 17:01:11+00:00
Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial machine learning (ML), making it easier for data scientists and ML engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Today, the majority of all data generated contains geospatial information, but only a small fraction of it is used for ML because accessing, processing, and visualizing the data is complex, time consuming, and expensive.
Published Date: 2023-05-19 17:15:38+00:00
Amazon EventBridge Event Buses now delivers events with lower latencies enabling you to power an even broader set of latency sensitive event-driven applications, especially in industrial and medical applications. Amazon Eventbridge delivers events up to 80% faster than before, as measured by the time an event is ingested to the first invocation attempt.
Published Date: 2023-05-19 17:54:59+00:00
Starting today,?Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Canada (Central) region. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance.?
Published Date: 2023-05-19 17:01:48+00:00
Starting today, the?AWS Application Discovery Service?Agentless Collector supports the discovery of on-premises databases, allowing you to achieve more comprehensive data collection through the deployment of a single tool.
Published Date: 2023-05-19 17:04:20+00:00
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically create and manage prompts. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. With this launch, you can now programmatically create new custom prompts, or extract prompts stored within Amazon Connect and add them to your Amazon S3 bucket. Additionally, these APIs support AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation and tagging. To learn more about the new prompt APIs, see the Amazon Connect?API reference guide. For more information on AWS CloudFormation, see?Amazon Connect Resource Type Reference?in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Published Date: 2023-05-19 19:35:17+00:00
Today, AWS Marketplace announced General availability of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can view, analyze and track key trends and metrics in a visualized manner on QuickSight dashboards on AMMP.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 19:10:33+00:00
Amazon MQ is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 31 regions.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 17:02:08+00:00
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Alfresco PaaS Connector to index and search documents from their Alfresco PaaS repository.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 18:53:35+00:00
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now generally available in the Local Zones location in Los Angeles. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. These instances are designed for graphics-intensive applications, machine learning inference, and deliver higher performance for training simple to moderately complex machine learning models when compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 17:03:48+00:00
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Alfresco Enterprise Connector to index and search documents from their Alfresco Enterprise repository.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 20:47:05+00:00
We are excited to announce that the newly re-designed Amazon EMR console is now available in?AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. Amazon EMR is the cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open-source frameworks such as?Apache Spark,?Apache Hive, and?Presto. The re-designed console introduces a new simplified experience to launch and manage EMR on EC2 clusters, EMR on EKS, and EMR Studio.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 21:13:49+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt, London, Milan, Zurich). These instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz, and are the first x86-based Amazon EC2 instances to offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 17:49:06+00:00
Amazon Athena?has expanded its support for inbound connections via Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints to include?AWS PrivateLink. Starting today, you can now connect to Athena securely and privately using PrivateLink from your?Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?(VPC), in addition to the public IPv6 endpoints that were previously available.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 19:45:44+00:00
AWS DataSync?announced support for moving data to and from Amazon S3 compatible storage on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices. Amazon S3 compatible storage delivers secure object storage with high resiliency, increased scale, and an expanded S3 API feature set to rugged, mobile edge, and disconnected environments. Customers storing data and running applications on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices can now use AWS DataSync to more quickly and easily move data between their Amazon S3 compatible storage and AWS Storage services in-region, enabling them to make a second copy of their data in AWS, archive cold data, or move data to and from AWS for ongoing data workflows.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 20:36:57+00:00
Amazon Detective now helps provide root cause analysis for security findings from eight additional services integrated with?AWS Security Hub. With this expanded capability, you can use Detective to conduct more comprehensive investigations, helping you identify resources, patterns, and the scope of potential security issues.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 21:36:09+00:00
Amazon VPC?IP Address Manager (IPAM)?makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 17:16:22+00:00
We are announcing the availability of AWS User Notifications for AWS Data Exchange. This feature allows data subscribers to configure human-readable notifications for AWS Data Exchange events, such as when a provider publishes a new revision to a data set or when a provider adds a data set to a product. Previously, data subscribers could configure similar notifications by using AWS Data Exchange events sent via Amazon EventBridge and integrating with services such as Amazon Simple Notification Service.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 17:41:58+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle?now supports the April 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 19c.
Published Date: 2023-05-18 17:18:13+00:00
AWS Global Accelerator?now supports TCP termination at the edge for IPv6 traffic, in addition to IPv4 traffic. TCP termination automatically improves performance for workloads such as API operations, file uploads, and HTTP workloads. Starting today, customers who use dual-stack accelerators can get the benefits of TCP termination at the edge for both IPv4 traffic and IPv6 traffic.?
Published Date: 2023-05-18 20:38:23+00:00
You can now use?AWS CloudFormation?templates to create and manage?Amazon Neptune Serverless?clusters in all AWS Regions where Neptune Serverless is supported. You can also use CloudFormation templates to perform in-place engine version upgrades for your Neptune clusters.
Published Date: 2023-05-17 17:15:53+00:00
Today, AWS announced the general availability of eye gaze direction detection in Rekognition’s Face APIs to support accessibility and safety, validate photos, and help identify where users focus on the screen. The new EyeDirection attribute in Amazon Rekognition DetectFaces and IndexFaces APIs predicts a person’s eye gaze direction yaw (rotation on vertical axis) and pitch (rotation on horizontal axis) angles for each face detected in an image.
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Published Date: 2023-05-17 19:22:42+00:00
Amazon CloudFront announces support for?stale-while-revalidate?and?stale-if-error?cache control directives, which can improve performance and availability. The?stale-while-revalidate?directive instructs CloudFront to immediately deliver stale responses to users while it revalidates caches in the background. The?stale-if-error?directive defines how long CloudFront should reuse stale responses if there’s an error, which provides a better user experience.
Published Date: 2023-05-17 17:06:27+00:00
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that allows you to install and update software on your instances with version control, now allows you to install the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. You can easily deploy the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent across your fleet of AWS Systems Manager managed instances by navigating to the “Third Party” tab in the Distributor console, and selecting to “Install one time” or “Install on a schedule”.?
Published Date: 2023-05-17 20:56:14+00:00
AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are adding support for VPC connectivity to Private Devices, providing a simple way to connect with endpoints that are accessible only from within a private VPC. The feature supports multiple traffic types, including TCP, UDP, Websockets, and streaming protocols. This new configuration is now available via the AWS API or Console.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 17:01:54+00:00
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports patch deployments for instances running Alma Linux versions 8.3-8.7, 9.0-9.1. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch nodes with both security related and other types of updates across your infrastructure. Patch Manager supports a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the?Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 18:04:13+00:00
Today, Amazon Omics announces integration with Amazon EventBridge. This integration means customers can now use Amazon Omics published events as part of their event-driven architecture. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect and route events between AWS services, third-party applications, and customers in their own applications. Within Omics, customers can now receive state changes for asynchronous tasks, such as workflow run and task changes and progress of importing data into sequence and variant stores.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 19:20:27+00:00
AWS Cost Categories has added a new dimension “Usage Type” to its rules. You can now use seven types of dimensions: “Linked Account”, “Charge Type”, “Service”, "Usage Type", “Cost Allocation Tags”, “Region”, and other “Cost Category” while creating cost categories rules.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 21:10:47+00:00
Amazon Braket, the?quantum computing service from AWS, adds support for Aria, IonQ’s largest and highest fidelity publicly available device to date. With Aria, customers can also experiment with IonQ’s built-in error mitigation techniques for the first time, a key tool to get the most out of today’s noisy quantum hardware. Furthermore, customers can now choose between two trapped-ion devices, including the current IonQ Harmony device, allowing them to compare and contrast quantum hardware characteristics by only changing a few lines of code. Finally, the availability of each IonQ device is now expanded to 15 hours per day on weekdays.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 19:05:40+00:00
AWS WAF now supports additional request parameters for rate-based rules, including cookies and other HTTP headers. Additionally, you can now create composite keys based on up to 5 request parameters, providing more granular options for managing and securing web application traffic. With these capabilities, customers can better identify and block malicious traffic patterns while minimizing the impact on legitimate users.?
Published Date: 2023-05-16 18:41:12+00:00
With AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now initialize playback sessions with query parameter metadata that will be written into the personalized manifests as query parameters for subsequent manifest requests.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 19:03:13+00:00
Amazon Kendra?is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. AWS customers can now use the Amazon Kendra Gmail Connector to index and search messages from Gmail.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 18:36:59+00:00
Amazon Kendra?is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Adobe Experience Manager Cloud Connector to index and search documents from Adobe Experience Manager.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 18:50:55+00:00
Amazon Kendra?is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Adobe Experience Manager On-Premise Connector to index and search documents from Adobe Experience Manager.
Published Date: 2023-05-16 20:39:17+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?now supports M6i and R6i in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Europe (Ireland, London, Paris, Stockholm, Milan, Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney), Canada (Central), South America (S?o Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain).
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:01:29+00:00
AWS Clean Rooms is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling covered entities and their business associates to use AWS Clean Rooms to process, maintain, and store protected health information. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS Clean Rooms for workloads that are subject to HIPAA compliance.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 20:45:18+00:00
Amazon QuickSight?is excited to announce the launch of Common Sub-expression Elimination (CSE) - a performance optimization initiative for better query generation for SPICE datasets. The CSE improves QuickSight user experience through pushing down repeated use of complex expressions into intermediate tables hence simplify complex queries, such as for totals/subtotals, top bottom filter, conditional formatting, and “others” bucket for charts, etc. Through the CSE query optimization, customers would observe faster loading dashboards, especially for complex dashboards and time-consuming interactions. Currently, the CSE is released with SPICE datasets only. There is no customer configuration needed, the backend change will seamlessly apply to the QuickSight usage.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:07:19+00:00
Today, Amazon Omics announces a new capability for direct data ingestion to Omics storage. Omics storage enables customers to store FASTQ, BAM, and CRAM files at a cost-effective price at scale. Previously, Omics had an asynchronous batch upload process for bulk loading of sequence readsets. This new capability adds a simple synchronous upload capability. The multi-part direct upload APIs will now allow customers to upload their data directly to the sequence store. This functionality allows customers to integrate existing processing pipelines and/or sequencers to directly write their outputs to a sequence store. Additionally, the transfer manager utility has been updated so that customers can directly upload large files with a single python command.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:04:44+00:00
Today, Amazon Omics announces the availability of Ready2Run workflows, a set of pre-built workflows from third-party software companies and open-source pipelines. With just a few clicks or a single API call, customers can run pre-built pipelines to perform primary analysis such as converting base calls to FASTQ files, secondary analysis such as gene expression or variant calling, and tertiary analysis such as protein structure prediction. Ready2Run workflows are priced-per-run to give customers predictable pricing. We are launching with 35 Ready2Run workflows, which are a combination of workflows built by Element Biosciences, NVIDIA, and Sentieon Inc, as well as popular open-source pipelines developed by the life sciences community.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:12:28+00:00
AWS Config supports 62 new resource types in advanced queries. The advanced queries feature provides a single query endpoint and a powerful query language to get current resource state metadata without performing service-specific describe API calls. You can use configuration aggregators to run the same queries from a central account across multiple accounts and AWS Regions.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:06:41+00:00
Today, Amazon Omics announces support for NVIDIA T4 and a10 graphical processing units (GPUs) for Omics workflows. Omics private workflows allows customers to bring their own workflow scripts and specify the compute resources that they need for each task in their workflow. Customers can now enable NVIDIA T4 and a10g GPUs for use in Omics private workflows to support accelerated and AI-based genomics analysis with NVIDIA Parabricks and open-source protein folding pipelines.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:03:13+00:00
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports patch deployments for instances running Ubuntu 22.04. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch nodes with both security related and other types of updates across your infrastructure. Patch Manager supports a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the?Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 18:55:13+00:00
Amazon Timestream now?enables you to export your query results to Amazon S3 in a cost-effective and secure manner using the new UNLOAD statement.
Published Date: 2023-05-15 17:29:27+00:00
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to deliver better accuracy and latency. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our Queries feature available via the AnalyzeDocument API.?
Published Date: 2023-05-15 19:12:14+00:00
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the tail sampling processor and the group-by-trace processor in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector. ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector for advanced distributed trace sampling use cases.?