AWS update of Week 32 (7Aug - 13Aug)
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Published Date: 2023-08-11 17:01:02+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle?now supports the July 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c.
Published Date: 2023-08-11 17:01:38+00:00
Amazon QuickSight introduces a new layout option called hierarchy layout for pivot tables. This allows users to view data in a hierarchical manner, where all row fields are presented in a single column with indentation to differentiate between items from different fields. The hierarchy layout optimizes space by reducing the footprint of row fields, creating more room for numeric data and resulting in more organized and compact pivot tables.
Published Date: 2023-08-11 18:47:19+00:00
Amazon EventBridge API Destinations is now available in Europe (Spain, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka, Hyderabad) and Middle East (UAE) regions, making event-driven applications more extensible by allowing you to send events to any HTTP APIs for self-managed or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Authorization is built in so you don’t have to write or manage additional code to authorize their requests.?
Published Date: 2023-08-11 16:58:33+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL?16 Beta 3 is now available in the?Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 in the Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 in Preview Environment also includes support for logical decoding on read replicas, AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC), and over 80 PostgreSQL extensions.?
Published Date: 2023-08-11 21:19:13+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch, the native monitoring and observability service provided by AWS, has added CloudWatch Agent support for the collection of?AWS X-Ray?and?OpenTelemetry traces. Whether you’re already an X-Ray customer, or just getting started with OpenTelemetry, you are now able to collect metrics, logs, and traces with a single agent, simplifying installation, configuration and management of telemetry collection.
Published Date: 2023-08-10 16:58:18+00:00
Today, AWS announces AWS Service Catalog support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. With this launch, customers using Terraform Cloud can provide self-service provisioning with governance to their teams. AWS customers can now use Service Catalog as the single tool to organize, govern, and distribute their Terraform configurations within AWS at scale. Customers can access Service Catalog key features, including cataloging of standardized and pre-approved infrastructure-as-code templates, access control, cloud resources provisioning with least privilege access, versioning, sharing to thousands of AWS accounts, and tagging. End users such as engineers, database administrators, and data scientists simply see the list of products and versions they have access to, and can deploy them in a single action.
Published Date: 2023-08-10 19:59:23+00:00
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager now supports a new policy feature that allows you to ensure AWS WAF web ACLs are exclusively created in AWS accounts with resources in scope. Additionally, AWS Firewall Manager removes web ACLs from AWS accounts that no longer have resources within scope. In the past, AWS Firewall Manager would create web ACLs in all AWS accounts within a policy's scope, even if no resources were in scope. This functionality enables customers to optimize costs associated with unassociated web ACLs and helps customers to effectively scale existing Firewall Manager WAF policies across organizations and accounts.
Published Date: 2023-08-10 17:40:43+00:00
Starting today, you can enable Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-10 17:37:48+00:00
You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.6 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.6 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows.
Published Date: 2023-08-10 17:23:05+00:00
The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery features are now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure - or schema - in a shared, central location. You can download code bindings for those schemas for Java, Python, Typescript, and Golang so it’s easier to use events as objects in your code.
Published Date: 2023-08-10 20:39:28+00:00
Network Load Balancers (NLB) now supports security groups, enabling you to filter the traffic that your NLB accepts and forwards to your application. Using security groups, you can configure rules to help ensure that your NLB only accepts traffic from trusted IP addresses, and centrally enforce access control policies. This improves your application's security posture and simplifies operations.?
Published Date: 2023-08-09 17:50:04+00:00
Amazon Detective has released several enhancements to finding groups visualization that help reduce noise and make your security investigations more effective. These enhancements help cut down on the amount of time it takes to identify root cause and affected resources in potential security issues.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 21:05:49+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL?now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.43 and 8.0.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 16:23:59+00:00
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a?fully managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now supports the ability to free up storage capacity on an FSx file system that has data synchronized with Amazon S3.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 14:11:04+00:00
AWS DataSync?announces expanded support for copying data to and from storage in other clouds. In addition to support for Google Cloud Storage, Azure Files, and Azure Blob Storage, DataSync now supports copying data to and from DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2 Storage, and Oracle Cloud Storage. Using DataSync, you can move your object data at scale between S3-compatible storage on other clouds and AWS Storage services such as?Amazon S3. DataSync makes it fast and simple to migrate your data from other clouds to AWS, archive your data in AWS, or move data to and from other clouds as part of your business workflows.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 20:31:25+00:00
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the US West (Oregon) region. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 17:00:14+00:00
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink in Israel (Tel Aviv) region.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 22:36:37+00:00
Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval?improves data restore time by up to 85%, at no additional cost. Faster data restores automatically apply to the Standard retrieval tier when using Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores begin to return objects within minutes, so you can process restored data faster. Now, whether you are transcoding media, restoring operational backups, training machine learning models, or analyzing historical data, you can easily speed up your data restores from archive.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 14:54:39+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Mountpoint?for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high-throughput access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), lowering processing times and compute costs for data lake applications. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls such as GET and PUT.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 17:05:04+00:00
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) live video output prices for Low-Latency Streaming are now reduced by up to 50%. Per hours rates for video output are cut by up to 50% in South Korea, 46% in India, 43% in Taiwan, 41% in Australia, 30% in South America, 29% in Japan, Hong Kong, and South East Asia, and 4% in North America and Europe.
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Published Date: 2023-08-09 14:52:56+00:00
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now enables you to select and update the level of I/O operations per second (IOPS) separately from storage capacity on your file system. This new capability enables you to improve price-performance for IOPS-intensive workloads like SQL Server databases and optimize costs for workloads with IOPS requirements that vary over time like periodic reporting jobs.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 20:30:08+00:00
We are pleased to announce Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless deployments. OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for?Amazon OpenSearch Service?that makes it easier for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. Terraform enables OpenSearch Serverless deployments as infrastructure as code(IaC). Using Terraform for deployments, you can ensure that the configurations are measured and validated, minimizing the chances of errors caused by human oversight.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 14:26:43+00:00
Today,?AWS Backup?announces?the preview of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup Vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 14:59:00+00:00
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, is increasing the per-file system maximum throughput from 2 GB/s to 12 GB/s and maximum I/O operations per second (IOPS) from 80,000 to 350,000, enabling a broader set of performance-intensive workloads.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 19:56:17+00:00
AWS Fargate now supports Process ID (PID) namespace sharing and kernel parameter configuration (sysctl) for applications orchestrated by Amazon ECS. You can now configure the pidMode and the sysctl parameters in your ECS task definition for tasks running on Fargate.?
Published Date: 2023-08-09 15:27:05+00:00
You can now use a Multi-AZ deployment option when creating file systems on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, making it easy to deploy file storage that spans multiple?AWS Availability Zones?(AZs) to support business-critical workloads that require high availability and enhanced durability.
Published Date: 2023-08-09 20:27:59+00:00
Amazon QuickSight?now?supports embedded callback actions that can help you integrate your SaaS application with Amazon QuickSight embedded dashboards and visuals. You can use callback actions to build custom workflows and business logic so that your users can take instant action from the application. Developers can now register to datapoint callbacks (ie. slice in a pie chart, bar on a bar chart) through the Embedding SDK. They can then pass the information about that datapoint (ie. value of the slice) to other parts of their application or other services in their workflow. To learn more about embedded workflows, click?here.
Published Date: 2023-08-08 17:53:21+00:00
AWS Glue?now supports?Amazon CodeWhisperer?in additional regions. 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: 2023-08-08 19:21:51+00:00
Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator offers dual-stack accelerators that enable you to route IPv6 traffic to EC2 endpoints, in addition to dual-stack Application Load Balancer (ALB) endpoints.
Published Date: 2023-08-08 19:30:15+00:00
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis?now supports?online migration?from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache for Redis clusters running in?cluster mode. Online migration simplifies moving data from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache with minimal application disruption. During the migration, ElastiCache replicates cache data from each self-managed Redis source shard to the target ElastiCache cluster. Once initial replication is complete, the two clusters will be kept in sync until you are ready to update your application configuration to use ElastiCache.
Published Date: 2023-08-08 21:52:50+00:00
Amazon Timestream announces the availability of the Amazon Timestream ODBC driver, based on Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity. This new driver allows applications such as Excel, PowerBI, JMP, and more to seamlessly integrate with Timestream's powerful query engine, facilitating the analysis of billions of data points.
Published Date: 2023-08-08 17:02:56+00:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of notifications on the AWS Artifact console. You can now subscribe to notifications and create configurations to get notified when a new report or agreement, or a new version of an existing report or agreement becomes available on AWS Artifact. While creating a configuration, you can choose whether you need notifications on all reports and agreements or a subset of reports, and provide the email addresses of the individuals who would like to receive notifications. Once the recipient verifies their email address, they will start receiving email notifications as per the preferences selected within the configuration. To use notifications on AWS Artifact, you will also need to enable permissions to the?AWS User Notifications?service.?
Published Date: 2023-08-08 17:08:48+00:00
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-08 17:07:16+00:00
Amazon EMR Studio?is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, Scala, and R. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyterlab Notebooks and tools such as Spark UI and YARN Timeline Service to simplify debugging. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio workspaces now supports applying fine-grained data access control with?AWS Lake Formation?when accessing data through EMR on EC2 clusters.
Published Date: 2023-08-07 18:01:57+00:00
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-07 17:00:12+00:00
AWS Security Hub?has released 12 new?security controls, increasing the overall number of controls Security Hub offers to 276. With these new controls, Security Hub now supports three additional AWS services: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Security Hub has also added an additional control against Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). For the full list of recently-released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the?Security Hub user guide.
Published Date: 2023-08-07 17:00:59+00:00
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to?Amazon MSK Serverless?in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Paris), and Europe (London)?AWS Regions.
Published Date: 2023-08-07 17:16:01+00:00
Amazon Connect now provides you the ability to configure routing profiles to exclude all outbound call activity from setting the order in which inbound contacts are assigned to agents. Contact center managers can use this configuration to ensure that agents maintain their position in line to receive inbound calls and do not move to the bottom of the list when honoring their outbound call commitments. As a result, agents will continue to meet their outbound call goals while also receiving a fair share of inbound contacts.
Published Date: 2023-08-07 20:41:27+00:00
Starting today, customers can use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog helps you centrally curate and share commonly deployed templates across teams to achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. End users such as engineers, database administrators, and data scientists simply see the list of products and versions they have access to, and can deploy them in a single action.
Published Date: 2023-08-07 20:20:30+00:00
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now has the capability to deliver live streams with latency that can be under 300 millisecond from host to viewer, to an audience of up to 10,000 viewers.