AWS update of Week 29 (17Jul - 23Jul)
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Published Date: 2023-07-21 20:20:05+00:00
AWS Lake Formation ?now supports the ability to delegate the creation, management and granting of permissions of Lake Formation Tags (LF-Tags) to non-Lake Formation administrators. With this launch, Lake Formation administrators can give permissions to data stewards and other users to manage LF-Tags.
Published Date: 2023-07-21 17:17:23+00:00
AWS Supply Chain is now generally available in Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland) based on increased customer demand in these regions. With this release AWS Supply Chain is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland).
Published Date: 2023-07-21 21:23:05+00:00
AWS Glue Crawlers ?now?supports Apache Hudi tables, allowing customers to query data in Apache Hudi tables directly from AWS analytics services like?Amazon Athena . Apache Hudi is?an open-source table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to the data lake. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage continuously evolving data sets while maintaining query performance.?
Published Date: 2023-07-21 17:37:05+00:00
Starting today, you can enable Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outpost rack, allowing you to resolve Domain Name Server (DNS) queries locally and enhance the availability and performance of applications running on Outposts rack.
Published Date: 2023-07-21 22:20:05+00:00
AWS AppConfig , a capability of?AWS Systems Manager , announces support for the AWS AppConfig Agent on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). AWS AppConfig allows customers to deploy faster and safer using feature flags and dynamic configuration, decoupling software releases from code deployments. The AWS AppConfig Agent is client-side software that manages configuration data on behalf of customers. Previously, customers needed to manage their own polling and caching of data when running applications on Amazon EC2. Now, the agent takes care of these tasks. With this update, the AWS AppConfig Agent now has native support for the following compute services: AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon EC2.
Published Date: 2023-07-21 20:38:05+00:00
AWS Config supports 65 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: 2023-07-21 21:18:05+00:00
We are excited to announce support for Apache Spark with Java 17 in EMR on EKS. AWS customers can now leverage Java 17 as a supported Java runtime to run Spark workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS, and benefit from Java 17’s language enhancement and performance improvement.?Amazon EMR on EKS ?enables?customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS.
Published Date: 2023-07-21 18:00:05+00:00
You can now enable CloudWatch Contributor Insights on your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services in 6 new regions- Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich) and Middle East (UAE). AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. CloudWatch Contributor Insights analyzes time-series data to report the top contributors and number of unique contributors in a dataset.?
Published Date: 2023-07-21 17:17:07+00:00
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for routing profile and queue resources, in addition to other resources used to configure a contact center like Connect instances, flows, S3 buckets and lambdas. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect routing profiles and queues in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the risk of human error from manual configuration. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed.
Published Date: 2023-07-20 21:14:32+00:00
Amazon Connect Cases now enables agents to easily associate a case with a queue or an individual agent for resolution. Agents can view and filter cases assigned to their queue and managers can directly assign cases to individual agents. Case assignment helps companies’ service and support teams work more efficiently and reduce time to resolve customer questions and issues by clearly tracking case activities and resolution ownership.
Published Date: 2023-07-20 21:17:03+00:00
AWS IoT Device Defender Rules Detect now supports a new disconnect duration metric to monitor the duration of disconnect of each device. With this additional metric, you can track how long a device has been disconnected to learn whether it is operating as expected. You can also configure alarms at predefined threshold levels and be alerted in the case of persistent device connectivity issues.
Published Date: 2023-07-20 21:15:02+00:00
AWS WAF now supports URI path as an aggregation key for rate-based rules, providing customers with enhanced control and simplicity in managing request rates for URI paths. With this feature, customers can track request rates for any URI path and apply rule actions based on the number of requests received.?
Published Date: 2023-07-20 21:30:30+00:00
Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can now leverage?Amazon Forecast , a ML-based time-series forecasting service, without having to learn any new tools or having to create pipelines to move your data.
Published Date: 2023-07-20 21:03:28+00:00
Customers who use?Amazon Simple Notification Service ?(Amazon SNS)?for sending mobile push notifications can now host their applications in twelve additional AWS regions, including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and US East (Ohio).?
Published Date: 2023-07-19 21:20:43+00:00
Amazon Translate ?is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling real time translation of Docx files. With this launch, Real Time Document Translation can synchronously translate HTML, TXT and Docx files, while preserving the source document format. Customers can use the API via SDK, CLI, or the AWS management console to submit a translation request and receive the document back with source formatting intact.
Published Date: 2023-07-19 17:15:43+00:00
Today, AWS announces support for starting?Amazon CodeCatalyst ?workflows based on pull request events in linked GitHub repositories. When a workflow is triggered by a GitHub-based pull request, users will also be able to see the name of the PR that triggered it in the CodeCatalyst workflows UI, and click a link that takes them directly to the pull request in GitHub.
Published Date: 2023-07-19 17:02:43+00:00
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in Middle East (Dubai) and Europe (Zaragoza) regions. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are?SAP-certified ?for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.
Published Date: 2023-07-19 18:36:43+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce “pattern”, a new Logs Insights command which enables customers to more easily identify trends and patterns in their logs. Customers often need to analyze thousands of log lines to identify relevant information. The pattern command uses AWS Machine Learning algorithms to automatically recognize patterns in log data, aggregate related logs and summarize thousands of log lines into a few easy to visualize groupings. Pattern helps customers quickly surface emerging trends, monitor known errors, increase cost visibility by identifying frequently occurring log lines and more.
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Published Date: 2023-07-19 21:39:43+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. With this feature, you can now upgrade your existing workspaces from version 8.4 to 9.4.
Published Date: 2023-07-19 17:15:43+00:00
We're excited to announce significant improvements to the AWS Amplify JavaScript library, by reducing the bundle sizes for our Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics categories. We've improved our codebase so that you get leaner bundles, resulting in faster load times and improved performance for your applications. You can benefit from these improvements by installing or updating to version 5.3.4 or beyond of the Amplify JavaScript library.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 16:11:43+00:00
Starting today, Llama 2 foundation models from Meta are available in?Amazon SageMaker JumpStart , a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 2 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 20:37:43+00:00
On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 21:20:43+00:00
Amazon Lex ?is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access to rich insights and prebuilt dashboards related to Lex conversations, intents, slots, and utterances.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 20:55:43+00:00
Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how long it took for an agent to first greet the customer on chat. For example, using these metrics, customers can create custom dashboards to analyze if an agent’s average handle time is high due to higher than expected agent talk time, and if so, provide agent coaching to improve.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 20:27:43+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in the Europe (Paris) and Middle East (Dubai) regions.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 17:17:43+00:00
Authentication with Microsoft Active Directory for?Amazon Aurora ?with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 17:00:43+00:00
AWS Mainframe Modernization is now?Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant , enabling customers to use AWS Mainframe Modernization for applications that store, process, and transmit information for use cases such as payment processing that are subject to PCI DSS.?
Published Date: 2023-07-17 18:46:03+00:00
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces domainless?Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) ?support for Linux and Windows containers running on Amazon EC2. This integration allows applications hosted on Amazon ECS (on EC2) to easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources. With this launch, customers can run containers that require AD authentication without joining the ECS nodes to the domain, even during autoscaling events.
Published Date: 2023-07-17 20:10:03+00:00
Customers running applications on?Amazon Elastic Container Service ?(ECS) with?AWS Fargate ?can now leverage?Seekable OCI ?(SOCI), a technology open sourced by AWS that helps applications deploy and scale out faster by enabling the containers to start without waiting for the entire container image to be downloaded.?
Published Date: 2023-07-17 20:29:03+00:00
Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Amazon Connect Wisdom is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)?AWS regions . To learn more about Amazon Connect Wisdom, please visit the Amazon Connect Wisdom?website ?or see the?help documentation .
Published Date: 2023-07-17 20:32:03+00:00
We are happy to announce the general availability of the?Lambda Annotations Framework ?for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology.
Published Date: 2023-07-17 19:31:03+00:00
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you now have the option to filter the specific HLS renditions stored in your S3 bucket as well as control the resolution and pixel count of thumbnail jpeg files while using the auto-record to S3 feature. These controls allow customers to control the amount of data stored while recording to optimize storage costs. Additionally, customers can reduce the thumbnail generation interval down to one second (previously 5 second limit) to have lower latency thumbnails for discovery or post processing use cases. These enhancements apply to Amazon IVS Standard and Advanced channel types without additional cost.
Published Date: 2023-07-17 17:19:03+00:00
AWS Elemental MediaPackage ?is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.
Published Date: 2023-07-17 17:38:03+00:00
Amazon Redshift now supports the QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statements, which allows you to apply filtering conditions to the result of a window function without using a subquery. By filtering the results of window functions, you can focus on the desired data segments and derive insights from your data more efficiently.
Published Date: 2023-07-17 17:42:03+00:00
You can now configure ad breaks in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly using cue ad tags in addition to date range when using HLS outputs. When using cue ad tags, Channel Assembly will create the necessary EXT-X-CUE-IN/OUT/CONT markers in the specific HLS outputs. Additionally, you can now also configure asset metadata key/value pairs to be included in the EXT-X-ASSET tag to signal additional content characteristics on a per break basis.
Published Date: 2023-07-17 22:04:03+00:00
AWS Lambda ?event source mappings and?Amazon EventBridge Pipes ?sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values to -5e9 to 5e9 from -1e9 to 1e9. With these new enhanced capabilities, you can now write complex rules that provide additional filtering options when building event-driven applications.
Published Date: 2023-07-18 17:40:43+00:00
Today, AWS announced Windows support on?Karpenter ?(Starting with v0.29.0), the open-source node provisioning and management project. Using Karpenter, customers can now quickly scale their Amazon EKS clusters running Windows with right-sized Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application load. Karpenter helps customers optimize their operational overhead and costs during this process without manually adjusting the compute capacity of their clusters, overprovisioning compute to meet rapidly changing demand, or creating multiple EC2 Autoscaling Groups (ASGs).