AWS update of Week 30 (24Jul - 30Jul)
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Published Date: 2023-07-28 17:03:37+00:00
AWS Wickr now offers Data Retention that extends to both internal and external communications in a Wickr network. A Wickr network administrator can configure and apply Data Retention to all in-network conversations. This includes shared media and files, as well as conversations with guest users, external teams, and other partner networks to help meet internal, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 17:09:37+00:00
Today, Amazon Web Services announces support for deploying to Kubernetes clusters running on Elastic Kubernetes Service from an Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take during a workflow run. This launch allows you to add a “Deploy to Kubernetes cluster“ action to a workflow, providing a simple and repeatable process for deploying updates to Kubernetes clusters running on EKS.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 20:20:37+00:00
AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server workloads in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)and Middle East (UAE) Regions. We are also announcing support for additional languages within AWS Launch Wizard, including Chinese (traditional and simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 17:01:37+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Studio launched support for the ml.G5 GPU instance family in the South America region (S?o Paulo). Customers using ml.G5 instances in?Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks?can leverage up to 3.3x faster performance for machine learning training compared to ml.G4dn instances. This makes them a high performance and cost-efficient solution for interactive model training for use cases such as generative AI foundation model tuning, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender engines.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 19:21:37+00:00
Amazon Route 53 offers domain name registration services, previously supporting 315 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) while providing easy integration with other AWS services. We are excited to announce the recent addition of 14 additional TLDs that you can now register with Route 53: .actor, .airforce, .bet, .degree, .games, .gives, .gmbh, .group, .press, .site, .space, .tech, .store, and .wine. Common use cases for some of these new TLDs include the following:
Published Date: 2023-07-28 17:02:37+00:00
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances, Amazon EC2 M7gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, delivering up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. These Graviton3-based instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth than DDR4. These instances are built on the?AWS Nitro System?and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. C7gd instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. M7gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, and gaming servers. R7gd instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, and real-time big data analytics.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 17:42:37+00:00
Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 18:15:37+00:00
Today,?Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?announces a preview of JSON protocol support, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and memory usage. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 15:38:37+00:00
AWS Lake Formation?is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. Now, you can add an IAM role or user to be a Read-Only Administrator. Using this role, Read-Only Administrators can access metadata and permissions without making changes. This allows Read-Only Administrators to search metadata without needing access the data and to validate permissions without requiring access to make changes to permissions.
Published Date: 2023-07-28 22:03:37+00:00
Amazon EC2 adds templates for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to the?Spot Blueprints?portfolio. With Spot Blueprints, you can generate a reusable quick start template as CloudFormation or Terraform, based on your workload, and use the template to configure a compute environment using?EC2 Spot Instances.?This saves you time learning to use Spot Instances with services like Amazon ECS and start accessing the savings and scale that Spot Instances offer for interruptible workloads.?
Published Date: 2023-07-28 17:30:37+00:00
Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads.?
Published Date: 2023-07-28 19:17:37+00:00
Today, we are announcing the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in AWS Europe (Zurich) region and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. The addition of these 2 regions expands the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS to a total of 25 regions globally, enabling customers to have a faster and more efficient way to migrate to the cloud.??
Published Date: 2023-07-27 17:38:47+00:00
We’re excited to announce the release of two new AWS SimSpace Weaver features.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 20:00:47+00:00
AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.11. Developers can use Python 3.11 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. You can use Python 3.11 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content delivered through Amazon CloudFront.?Powertools for AWS Lambda, a developer toolkit to implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity, also supports Python 3.11.?
Published Date: 2023-07-27 19:22:57+00:00
We are happy to announce that starting today, you can now retrieve secrets from?AWS Secrets Manager?on?Amazon EMR Serverless?from your Spark and Hive jobs. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 18:57:17+00:00
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports both the .NET Standard and .NET Framework profiles in Unity with the latest update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK.?Amazon GameLift?is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift Server SDK now supports Unity 2022.3, Unreal 4.26, Unreal 5.1, Go language, and custom C++ and C# engines.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 17:44:25+00:00
Today,?Amazon Elastic Container Service?(Amazon ECS) improved the console experience for task definitions workflows. Customers can now use a single page layout to create new and revised task definitions, and also to configure functionality such as container log routing, firelens, container health checks, and more.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 17:37:04+00:00
Today, we launched an in-line editing experience for partner originated opportunities imported to the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) pipeline manager via the bulk channel. Bulk import helps AWS Partners maximize efficiency when utilizing the ACE Pipeline Manager by allowing users to submit up to 250 opportunities at a time.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 20:34:41+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. Starting today, you can deploy RDS Custom for Oracle using?AWS CloudFormation?templates. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 22:20:37+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2C6i, M6i, R6i and C6gn instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect and NAT Gateway in this new Local Zone to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 17:48:22+00:00
We’re excited to announce that developers can now launch simulations with multiple spatial domains to separate different types of simulation logic and better allocate compute resources.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 17:39:43+00:00
AWS Health announces support for delegated administrator, a feature of AWS Organizations that allows you to delegate an account other than the management account to view aggregated AWS Health events on the?AWS Health Dashboard?or programmatically via?AWS Health API. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 20:08:19+00:00
We are happy to announce that AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 15:11:14+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Access and AMB Query. These two services help developers seamlessly interact with public blockchains so they can build scalable applications quickly and securely.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 20:04:22+00:00
Amazon MQ?now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.11, a new minor version release, which includes several fixes and improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ - 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10. With RabbitMQ version 3.11, Amazon MQ is also introducing a default?operator policy?on each virtual host with high availability properties enabled.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 18:09:42+00:00
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports rule-based identity resolution to match and merge similar profiles, helping companies maintain accurate customer information and deliver more personalized customer interactions via agents and automated experiences.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 21:26:05+00:00
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. M6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. M6a instances deliver up to 35% higher price performance compared to M5a instances, and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These instances are built on the?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: 2023-07-27 16:57:42+00:00
AWS Enterprise On-Ramp is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now access an expanded support portfolio including Enterprise On-Ramp, enabling faster cloud adoption, accelerated application migration, and greater cost efficiencies.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 20:06:02+00:00
Amazon MQ?now supports the ability for customers to create and apply configurations to their RabbitMQ broker on Amazon MQ. This feature allows you to define the RabbitMQ?delivery acknowledgement timeout?(consumer_timeout) value and enable operator policies using the RabbitMQ configuration format (Cuttlefish). You can now exert greater control over your RabbitMQ broker and fine tune the performance of your consumer applications or enable and manage high availability operator policies directly through configuration.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 22:10:47+00:00
A New minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on?Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.
Published Date: 2023-07-27 22:04:15+00:00
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core GPUs are available in Europe(Spain) region. G5g instances can be used for graphics intensive and machine learning workloads.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 17:11:07+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?now supports a progress indicator for improved visibility into the storage optimization process. With the progress indicator, you get better visibility into the progress of storage optimization process such as scaling up of storage sizes and changing the storage volumes.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 17:08:27+00:00
AWS CloudFormation?announces looping capability with Fn::ForEach?intrinsic function. With Fn::ForEach, you can replicate parts of your templates with minimal lines of code. You can use Fn::ForEach to simplify your template layout and make it easier and faster for you and your peers to review your code. Fn::ForEach helps reduce human errors such as updating wrong properties or missing out on updating multiple target properties in your template.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 17:06:24+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) will support MySQL 5.7.40. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, this release is fully compatible with MySQL 5.7.40. Previous Aurora MySQL 2.x versions were compatible with MySQL 5.7.12. For more details, refer to the?Aurora MySQL 2?and?MySQL 5.7.40?release notes.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 21:58:32+00:00
Starting today, the Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL 1.0) foundation model from Stability AI is 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 SDXL 1.0 with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 16:11:39+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce AWS HealthScribe, a new HIPAA-eligible service designed to help healthcare software vendors build clinical applications that automatically generate preliminary clinical notes by analyzing patient-clinician conversations. With AWS HealthScribe, you can integrate conversational and generative AI in your application to accelerate clinical documentation workflow and enhance the consultation experience: no machine learning expertise required.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 20:48:57+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle?now supports version 23.1 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for the 19c & 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 23.1, please refer to Oracle’s?documentation.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 17:09:46+00:00
The contact center industry is expanding to meet the needs of their customers. With the rapid growth seen in the industry, more diverse and scalable solutions and products are needed. Essential to supporting the customer and consumer experience is supporting that growth with AWS integrations. The contact center industry can be complex, often addressing multiple needs by customers. Whether it is investments in CRM, advanced workforce engagement or compliance solutions, it’s important that customers know that their investment in Amazon Connect is secure. Validated AWS Partners in the Amazon Connect Ready specialization provide software solutions through Amazon Connect.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 15:47:09+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution, a configurable, machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps organizations match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores. You can get started in minutes using entity resolution workflows that are flexible, scalable, and seamlessly connectable to your existing applications, without any expertise in entity resolution or ML.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 21:27:33+00:00
Starting today, you can enable ROSA from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region.?
Published Date: 2023-07-26 20:26:33+00:00
Starting today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is available in 5 additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE).
Published Date: 2023-07-26 17:39:03+00:00
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public?AWS Regions?(except those in China),?AWS GovCloud Regions, and?AWS Local Zones.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 15:38:14+00:00
Amazon Bedrock now supports agents, a new, fully managed capability, that enables generative AI applications to complete tasks in just a few clicks – based on organization data and user input without any manual code. Agents for Bedrock orchestrate interactions between FMs, data sources, software applications, and users and automatically execute APIs. Developers can easily integrate the agents and accelerate delivery of generative AI applications saving weeks of development effort.
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Published Date: 2023-07-26 16:55:59+00:00
Today,?AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere?released?credential helper?version 1.0.5 to include support for X.509 certificates and private keys that are stored in macOS and Windows certificate stores. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that manages the process of signing the?CreateSession API?with the private key associated with an X.509 end-entity certificate and calls the endpoint to obtain temporary AWS credentials.?With this release, you can now use IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper to delegate signing operations to keys stored within those OS-specific certificate stores, without those keys ever leaving those stores; which can improve your security posture. In Windows, both CryptoAPI and Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) are supported; in macOS, Keychain is supported.?
Published Date: 2023-07-26 20:36:56+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce?Amazon Transcribe Toxicity Detection, an ML-powered, voice-based toxicity detection capability, which leverages both audio and text-based cues to identify and classify toxic content.?Amazon Transcribe?is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. In addition to text, Transcribe Toxicity Detection uses speech cues, such as tone and pitch, to hone in on toxic intent in speech. Toxic content is flagged and classified across seven categories including sexual harassment, hate speech, threat, abuse, profanity, insult, and graphic. This allows moderators to take focused action rather than reviewing entire conversations.?
Published Date: 2023-07-26 16:03:49+00:00
Today,?AWS Glue?announces that Amazon CodeWhisperer is available in AWS Glue Studio. You can use?Amazon CodeWhisperer?with no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions in AWS Glue Studio notebooks. CodeWhisperer can generate code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions in real time based on your prompts and existing code.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 20:35:26+00:00
Today,?Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)?launched integrated service discovery in Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 17:04:03+00:00
Enterprises undergoing digital transformation often turn to AWS partners with the expertise of running computing workloads in containers. They are looking for partners who can assess their IT environment, consult on potential application migration from on-premise, refactor from running on single compute instances, integrate with other AWS services or software vendors, help with workload deployment, and operate/optimize the service on their behalf. Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate provide scalable, reliable, and secure container orchestration for both Managed and Serverless approaches.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 16:14:42+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications.?They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 6x and lower cost to train ML models by up to 40% compared to previous-generation GPU-based instances.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 15:42:34+00:00
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a simple, scalable, and high-performing?vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. Your developers can use this vector engine to build machine learning (ML)–augmented search experiences and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications without having to manage the vector database infrastructure. You can rely on the vector engine for a cost-efficient, secure serverless environment, which will help your developers seamlessly transition from application prototyping to production.
Published Date: 2023-07-26 20:59:05+00:00
Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces Graphics G5 instances, which are built on?the?EC2 G5 family, designed to cater to graphics-intensive applications and machine learning workloads. Amazon EC2 G5 instances feature NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs and 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. These instances can be used 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: 2023-07-25 17:35:22+00:00
Starting today, customers can easily understand and validate their Savings Plans recommendations through new visual graphs. The new hourly graphs show On-Demand spend alongside the recommended Savings Plans commitment, providing insight into estimated savings, Savings Plans coverage, and Savings Plans utilization. This helps customers understand how their Savings Plans apply to each hour of spend without having to invest time and resources in building models to analyze their spend.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 17:04:16+00:00
The Amazon Chime SDK now provides additional options to customize the layout of video sent to streaming services or captured to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers have more flexibility to tailor the composited layout to suit their use case with either landscape or portrait orientation and stylize video tiles with borders, active speaker highlight, configurable aspect ratio and corner radius.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:39:29+00:00
Amazon Web Services customers can now get detailed health metrics and analysis of their multi-application deployments residing in the same instance with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights helps customers gain actionable insights for their application environment and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use data to make decisions.?
Published Date: 2023-07-25 23:43:01+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a new HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while reducing infrastructure costs.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:34:34+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Canvas?now provides the ability to train machine learning (ML) models with different objective metrics, allowing you to gain a more comprehensive understanding on the model's strengths and weaknesses. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML expertise or having to write a single line of code.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:08:05+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Canvas?now?supports sharing machine learning (ML) models with Amazon QuickSight, enabling analysts to build models in Canvas and generate predictions to build dashboards in QuickSight. This extends the ML/Analytics integrated solution between Canvas and QuickSight for analysts to build models, generate predictions, enrich them with interactive dashboards, and use insights for effective business decisions, without writing a single line of code.?
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:55:59+00:00
Amazon EMR Serverless?is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can store logs for your EMR Serverless Spark and Hive applications in Amazon CloudWatch.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 17:04:56+00:00
Amazon Personalize launches a new integration with self-managed OpenSearch that enables customers to personalize search results for each user and assists in predicting their search needs. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within OpenSearch helps customers to leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and add personalization to OpenSearch search results, without any ML expertise.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 17:06:33+00:00
Today,?AWS IoT Core?announces the general availability of?MQTT support for Device Location. IoT Core Device Location feature allows customers to obtain devices’ location data and build location based applications even when devices don’t have a built in GPS. With IoT Core Device Location feature, customers can use advanced cloud based location solvers, such as Wi-Fi scan, Cellular scan, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) scan, and reverse IP look-up to determine geo-coordinates of their IoT devices for use cases such as map visualization, historical route tracking, and Geo-fencing.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 17:02:55+00:00
AWS Elemental MediaLive?is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:01:04+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports Document Queries, a ready-to-use model powered by Amazon Textract. Document Queries allows you to specify the data you want to extract from structured documents using natural language, without requiring prior knowledge of the document’s structure (table, form, fields, nested data). This eliminates the need for manual processing and searching within extracted data, saving you time and reducing human-error.?
Published Date: 2023-07-25 23:36:00+00:00
AWS Glue for Apache Spark?now?supports native connectivity to Snowflake, which enables users to read and write data from Snowflake without the need to install or manage Snowflake connector libraries. In addition, AWS Glue Studio has new visual ETL capabilities available for Snowflake source and targets to save time when authoring data pipelines for Snowflake. AWS Glue Studio enables ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developers to visually transform data with a no-code, drag-and-drop interface. With this new connector and visual capabilities, ETL developers can read and write data into Snowflake more effectively using AWS Glue.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 23:17:09+00:00
AWS Glue Studio?now supports?Amazon Redshift Serverless?as a data source or target out-of-the-box. AWS Glue Studio enables ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developers to visually transform data with a no-code, drag-and-drop interface. Glue’s visual interface saves the developer time authoring, running, and monitoring highly scalable ETL jobs. Developers can pull data from a variety of data sources including AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and?Amazon Redshift. With this new feature, developers can read and write data into Amazon Redshift Serverless more effectively.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:09:42+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Canvas?now supports five new data transforms, enabling you to better prepare and analyze your data before building machine learning (ML) models. Data is the foundation of machine learning and transforming raw data to make it suitable for ML model building and generating predictions is key to better insights. Starting today, SageMaker Canvas allows you to change the type of data in your columns between numeric, text, and datetime, while also displaying the associated feature for that data type such as binary and categorical. This gives you the flexibility to manually change the type of data in your columns based on the features. The ability to choose the right data type ensures data integrity and accuracy prior to building ML models. As an example, using a datetime data type ensures only valid dates are stored in that particular column.?
Published Date: 2023-07-25 18:46:19+00:00
AWS Transfer Family?launches Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) connectors, a fully-managed and low code capability to securely and reliably copy files at scale between remote SFTP servers and?Amazon S3. Files transferred using SFTP connectors are stored in Amazon S3, enabling you to unlock value from data using analytics, data lakes or AI/ML services in AWS.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:40:22+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Canvas?now?supports the ability to provide a custom output location in Amazon S3 for machine learning (ML) artifacts, such as trained models, explainability reports, and prediction results allowing you to organize and structure your output directory in a way that aligns with your specific needs and preferences. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML expertise or having to write a single line of code.?
Published Date: 2023-07-25 19:24:25+00:00
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of automatic mounting of?AWS Glue Data Catalog, making it easier for customers to run queries in their data lakes. You no longer have to create an external schema in Amazon Redshift to use the data lake tables cataloged in AWS Glue Data Catalog. Now, you can query data lake tables directly from?Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2?or your favorite SQL editors.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 19:13:57+00:00
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces support for Network Load Balancers (NLBs) as a supported resource type in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can now use Internet Monitor to get visibility about internet performance and availability for user traffic directed to specific NLBs. Internet Monitor also supports monitoring Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Amazon CloudFront distributions, and Amazon WorkSpaces directories.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 20:41:24+00:00
Amazon EMR?is excited to announce a new feature that enables user authentication to EMR on EC2 clusters using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) based credentials. This feature allows administrators to configure EMR on EC2 clusters to authenticate corporate identities in their Active Directory (AD) using LDAP. With this launch, AD users are synced to the EMR on EC2 cluster automatically when LDAP authentication is enabled. This simplifies authentication to EMR clusters for administrators by eliminating the manual steps to sync users and/or implementing application-specific LDAP configuration.?
Published Date: 2023-07-25 17:23:49+00:00
Starting today, customers can choose to automatically associate all newly created accounts (or any accounts invited to their AWS Organization) with an?AWS Billing Conductor?billing group. By enabling auto-account association, customers can reduce the steps needed to implement a custom chargeback model. For example, organizations can use the feature to automatically associate all newly created accounts with a default billing group, ensuring all accounts are included in their internal chargeback workflow. Partners can use the feature to automatically associate all new accounts to a default billing group, allowing them to bill their customers for all relevant usage without missing any charges.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 21:51:38+00:00
AWS DataSync?support for copying data to and from Azure Blob Storage is now generally available. Using DataSync, you can move your object data at scale between Azure Blob Storage and AWS Storage services such as?Amazon S3. AWS DataSync supports writing to block blobs and can read from all blob types within Azure Blob Storage. It can also be used with Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 23:17:34+00:00
AWS Glue Studio?Visual ETL jobs now let you use?DataBrew Recipes?as steps in the flow of transformations. AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL is a no-code job authoring UI for ETL developers with a flow-diagram interface.?AWS Glue DataBrew?is a no code?data preparation tool for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI. The new integration between the two makes it simpler to deploy and scale DataBrew jobs and gives DataBrew users access to AWS Glue features not available in DataBrew. The integration also works in code-based jobs.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 18:59:19+00:00
Amazon QuickSight?launches new API capabilities that allow you to programmatically export Paginated PDF Reports and CSV content. With these new APIs, you can export and customize content by passing parameters and session tags for Anonymous users. Optionally as part of the API call you can specify your own S3 destination to where the content should be exported.
Published Date: 2023-07-25 23:27:04+00:00
Amazon Redshift?today announces the preview release of Apache Iceberg support, enabling users to run analytics queries on Apache Iceberg tables within Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse service used by tens of thousands of customers. Whether your data is stored in operational data stores, data lakes, streaming engines or within your data warehouse, Amazon Redshift helps you quickly ingest, securely share data, and achieve the best performance for the best price. Apache Iceberg, one of the most recent open table formats, has been used by many customers to simplify data processing on rapidly expanding and evolving tables stored in data lakes.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 18:22:43+00:00
Starting today, users can experience a simplified visual layout when they access AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning from their browser. This new user interface features an enhanced onboarding experience, simplified forecast settings, a unified demand plan, and streamlined workflows for forecast overrides and demand plan finalization. This reduces the time it takes for new users to onboard and finalize forecast.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 18:39:29+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.0 and recommends that customers migrate Synthetics canaries to the latest runtime version. Runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.0 includes updates to third-party dependency packages (Puppeteer v19.7.0 and Chromium v111.0.5563.146).
Published Date: 2023-07-24 18:42:58+00:00
AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning now logs the record of actions taken by a user to AWS CloudTrail, a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Using AWS CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, retain, and respond to the record of actions taken by a user in AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 21:47:41+00:00
Amazon Omics has added run queuing to the Omics workflow. Amazon Omics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. With workflow run queuing, you are now able to queue up to thousands of workflow runs, and the service will process the runs at a rate defined by your service quota limits.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 20:55:47+00:00
Today,?AWS CloudFormation StackSets?launches a new API ListStackInstanceResourceDrifts, and adds a new filter in?ListStackInstances?to improve visibility to resource and stack instance drift information. A resource or stack instance is considered drifted when it’s actual configuration differs from its expected configuration. You can now use ListStackInstanceResourceDrifts to list and filter resources in a stack instance according to drift status. Similarly, you can use the drift status filter in ListStackInstances to check for stack instance drift in a stack set. With this launch, you can access these aggregated drift information through?your?management or delegated administrator AWS account.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 19:44:18+00:00
We are excited to announce that?Amazon EMR?has?launched two new capabilities that enhances the scaling experience for Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters: a new retry mechanism for faster scaling of your Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters running Presto or Trino; and faster scale-down of Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters by enforcing the data redundancy requirements. These capabilities are automatically enabled for clusters running Amazon EMR 6.12 or higher releases and no action is needed from your end.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 18:41:29+00:00
Starting today, you can now easily apply multiple overrides on a demand forecast, eliminating the need to create and select from multiple overrides before publishing a demand forecast. With this release, you can apply multiple overrides, enabling users to apply overrides at different products simultaneously. When you make an override, the override adjustment is aggregated upwards in the hierarchy as well as disaggregated to lower levels of the forecast hierarchy.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 19:28:34+00:00
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports document compression using the LZ4 compression algorithm. Compressed documents in Amazon DocumentDB are up to 7x smaller than uncompressed documents. Compressed documents require less storage space and IO operations during database reads and writes, leading to lower storage and IO costs.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 21:48:26+00:00
AWS Marketplace sellers can now add additional certifications to their Vendor Insights security profiles, including PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. These are in addition to already available certifications for FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights helps streamline the complex third-party software risk assessment process by enabling sellers to make security and compliance information available through AWS Marketplace. Buyers can more quickly discover products in AWS Marketplace that meet their security and certification standards by searching for and accessing vendor insights profiles.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 20:41:33+00:00
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 Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Neptune, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon DocumentDB. These new controls help you meet control objectives such as establish logging and monitoring, encrypt data at rest, or improve resiliency. To see a full list of the new controls, see the controls?reference guide.
Published Date: 2023-07-24 20:38:00+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now makes it easier to share, discover and access feature groups across AWS accounts. This new capability promotes collaboration and minimizes duplicate work for teams involved in ML model and application development, particularly in enterprise environments with multiple accounts spanning different business units or functions.?