AWS update of Week 36 (4Sep - 10Sep)

ROSA now available in the Europe (Spain) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-08 21:41:28+00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Europe (Spain) Region. Starting today, you can enable ROSA from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region.

Amazon Connect launches APIs to programmatically configure views in step-by-step guides

Published Date: 2023-09-08 16:59:15+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically create and manage view resources used in step-by-step guides. View resources define what gets displayed in your agent’s UI during a step-by-step guide. With this launch, you are able to define static and dynamic content in a view, including layouts and style, which enables you to help control the look and feel of your agent’s experience. Additionally, these APIs support AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation, and tagging. To learn more about the new view resource APIs, see the Amazon Connect API reference guide, the Amazon Connect administrator guide, and the Amazon Connect resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation user guide.

Amazon Route 53 now supports AWS-managed prefix lists for health checks

Published Date: 2023-09-08 17:13:11+00:00

Starting today, AWS-managed prefix lists can be used for Amazon Route 53 health checks to simplify the process of limiting inbound traffic to only the IP addresses associated with Route 53 health check servers. These prefix lists are maintained by Route 53 and contain up-to-date IP ranges for Route 53 health check servers.

Amazon SES email receiving service expands to 7 new regions

Published Date: 2023-09-08 19:57:23+00:00

Today we're thrilled to announce that Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is expanding its email receiving capabilities to 7 new regions. This expansion provides businesses and developers who deal with a high volume of emails a robust solution for swift processing. As the email receiver, SES handles underlying mail-receiving operations, such as communication with other mail servers, scanning for spam and viruses, blocking mail from untrusted sources, and accepting mail for recipients in your domain.

AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a

Published Date: 2023-09-08 18:34:35+00:00

AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a. AWS Local Zones is a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today.?

Get programmatic notifications for AWS Marketplace Offer Published events

Published Date: 2023-09-08 21:53:18+00:00

Today, AWS Marketplace announces general availability for programmatic notifications to communicate relevant details to buyers and partners once an AWS Marketplace offer is successfully created and available for subscription. With this launch, buyers and partners can use AWS EventBridge to quickly ingest, filter, transform, and deliver offer lifecycle events to build new applications quickly.?

IAM roles last used and last accessed information available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-08 17:07:59+00:00

IAM roles last used and IAM last accessed information are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. IAM reports the latest timestamp when role credentials were used to make an AWS request. This information makes it easier for you to identify and remove unused roles. IAM also provides the latest timestamp when an IAM user or role used an action. You can use last accessed information to identify unused service and action-level permissions granted to your active roles and refine access for your workloads.?

AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup

Published Date: 2023-09-08 20:48:22+00:00

Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup, allowing specific point-in-time restore within customers’ retention period of up to 35 days. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, Aurora customers using AWS Backup can now meet their Recovery Point Objective (RPO) to a granularity of 1 second.?

AWS Security Hub now supports findings consolidation in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-07 19:13:28+00:00

AWS announces the availability of control and finding consolidation capabilities in AWS Security Hub in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. The consolidated controls view shows all security controls in one place. You can use it to help identify misconfigurations based on severity and number of failed resources, improve your overall security score, and configure each control across standards. This release also includes a matching set of APIs to obtain, list, and update security controls across standards.

Amazon RDS now supports custom data types in Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL

Published Date: 2023-09-07 17:21:52+00:00

Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL now supports building your own custom data types and is available on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL. You can now use Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL to create a new base (or scalar) data type, specify how it is stored, and define functions that support SQL and index operations for this new data type.

Amazon SageMaker now provides a new quick Studio setup experience

Published Date: 2023-09-07 20:50:40+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce the new quick Studio setup for Amazon SageMaker. This new quick setup allows you to create SageMaker Studio with default pre-sets in minutes for individual users.

AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling

Published Date: 2023-09-07 21:40:58+00:00

AWS Step Functions announces the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in your AWS Step Functions workflows to help you identify errors more clearly and provide you with fine-grained control over your retry strategies. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to automate business processes and data processing workloads.

Announcing daily disbursements for AWS Marketplace sellers

Published Date: 2023-09-07 19:32:42+00:00

AWS Marketplace now enables sellers to set disbursement preferences to receive their outstanding balances on a daily basis, granting increased flexibility. While AWS Marketplace sellers, including independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners, were previously limited to monthly disbursements on a specific day, now sellers can select between daily and monthly disbursements. For the monthly disbursement option, sellers can also select what day of the month they want to receive their disbursements.

New Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP capabilities simplify managing file systems using ONTAP CLI

Published Date: 2023-09-07 17:10:17+00:00

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is announcing two additional capabilities that make it even easier for you to secure and audit access to your file systems: you can now create additional ONTAP file system administrator users for your file system and you can use Active Directory credentials to access the ONTAP CLI.

Introducing Amazon EC2 R7iz instances

Published Date: 2023-09-07 19:28:52+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of memory-optimized, high CPU performance Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) R7iz instances. R7iz instances are the fastest 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud with 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo frequency. They deliver up to 20% better performance than previous generation z1d instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient and flexible cloud services with enhanced security, isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. R7iz instances are ideal for front-end Electronic Design Automation (EDA), relational databases with high per-core licensing fees, financial, actuarial, data analytics simulations, and other workloads requiring a combination of high compute performance and high memory footprint.

Amazon Detective adds Amazon EKS security investigations to AWS Workshop Studio

Published Date: 2023-09-07 20:18:28+00:00

You can now learn how to use Amazon Detective to conduct security investigations for threats detected in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and AWS security findings in the latest Amazon Detective Workshop Studio. These new modules will help you understand how to dive deep quickly on container threats but also broaden your investigations to services beyond Amazon GuardDuty.

Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler for dynamic content support

Published Date: 2023-09-07 19:27:17+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 Web Crawler to index and search pages, including dynamic pages from web sites they have authorization to crawl from.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds new Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Published Date: 2023-09-07 20:23:05+00:00

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect has additional metrics for improved visibility into your video streams and upfront error detection. The new metrics indicate consecutive packet drops, consecutive packets not recovered, jitter, latency, and up time. You can easily monitor your live video stream source metrics in the AWS Management Console, via Amazon CloudWatch, or via the API.?

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.5, 10.6.15, 10.5.22, 10.4.31

Published Date: 2023-09-07 21:16:27+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.5, 10.6.15, 10.5.22 and 10.4.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

AWS Backup launches resource exclusion for AWS CloudFormation stack

Published Date: 2023-09-06 18:52:00+00:00

Today, AWS Backup announces support for AWS CloudFormation resource exclusion, allowing you to exclude resources from your application backups. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Now, when assigning resources to backup plans, you can exclude specific resources within your CloudFormation stacks, optimizing cost on non-critical resources.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern syntax support

Published Date: 2023-09-06 19:01:51+00:00

We are excited to announce regular expression support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs filter pattern syntax, making it easier to search and match relevant logs. Customers use filter pattern syntax today to search logs, extract metrics using metric filters, and send specific logs to other destinations with subscription filters. With today’s launch, customers will be able to further customize these operations to meet their needs with flexible and powerful regular expressions within filter patterns. Now customers can define one filter to match multiple IP subnets or HTTP status codes using a regular expression such as ‘{ $.statusCode=%4[0-9]{2}% }’ rather than having to define multiple filters to cater to each variation, reducing the configuration and management overhead on their logs.

Amazon Location Service is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-06 21:02:14+00:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Location Service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Location Service is a location-based service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to their applications without compromising on data quality, user privacy, or cost. With Amazon Location Service, you retain control of your location data, protecting your privacy and reducing enterprise security risks. Amazon Location Service provides a consistent API across commercial location-based service data providers (Esri and HERE), as well as popular open data source OpenStreetMap, all managed through one AWS console.

AWS WAF Bot Control now protects against distributed proxy-based attacks

Published Date: 2023-09-06 21:20:02+00:00

AWS WAF Bot Control for Targeted Bots now offers predictive Machine Learning (ML) technology to provide protection against distributed, proxy-based attacks. AWS WAF previously launched AWS Bot Control for Targeted Bots which provides protection against sophisticated bots that attempt to evade detection. Now, AWS WAF Bot Control for Targeted Bots can also be used to define block, challenge and Captcha rules against distributed bot attacks, such as attacks using residential and mobile proxies.

Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-06 21:57:49+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id instances are available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. C6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.

Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports Multi Model Endpoints for PyTorch

Published Date: 2023-09-06 21:19:52+00:00

SageMaker Multi-Model Endpoint (MME) is?a fully managed capability that allows customers to deploy 1000s of models on a single SageMaker endpoint and reduce costs. Until today, MME was not supported for PyTorch models deployed using TorchServe. Now,?customers can use MME to deploy 1000s of?PyTorch models using TorchServe to reduce inference costs.

Amazon MSK is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-06 16:54:38+00:00

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters.?

Amazon EC2 M6i and R6i instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) region

Published Date: 2023-09-06 19:04:36+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6i and R6i instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 M6i and R6i instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. They offer up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-06 18:42:42+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.?

VPC DNS Query Logging now available in five new AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-06 16:57:16+00:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. Route 53 Resolver Query Logging enables you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated - including source IP and instance ID - and the responses that were received.?

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-05 20:12:11+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS Trusted Advisor adds 1 new fault tolerance check

Published Date: 2023-09-05 17:25:09+00:00

AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new fault tolerance check for events that fail processing during asynchronous invocations with AWS Lambda. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security and fault tolerance, and monitor service quotas.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-05 21:47:51+00:00

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports h3-pg for geospatial indexing

Published Date: 2023-09-05 17:16:31+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the h3-pg extension, which provides an API to H3, an open-source hexagonal, hierarchical geospatial indexing system. With this extension, you can perform different kinds of spatial analysis over large datasets, including efficient indexing and lookups, modeling flow through a grid, and applying machine learning models over your geospatial data stored in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

AWS SAM CLI announces local testing and debugging support on Terraform projects

Published Date: 2023-09-05 20:17:38+00:00

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the launch of SAM CLI local testing and debugging on HashiCorp Terraform. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and version cloud and on-premises resources safely and efficiently.

AWS Partner network launches new AWS Automotive Competency

Published Date: 2023-09-05 17:04:51+00:00

We are excited to announce the launch of the AWS Automotive Competency designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in the automotive industry. AWS Automotive Competency Partners have shown their AWS competency across at least one of eight automotive strategic workloads: 1/Autonomous Mobility (AM), 2/Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), 3/Connected Mobility, 4/ Sustainability, 5/Digital Customer Experience (DCE), 6/Product Engineering, 7/Manufacturing, and 8/Supply Chain.?

Amazon MWAA expands support for customer compliance with ISO and IRAP

Published Date: 2023-09-05 18:08:18+00:00

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) has added certifications for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP). Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed.?

Amazon CloudWatch adds Amazon EKS control plane logs as Vended Logs

Published Date: 2023-09-05 17:01:36+00:00

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) control plane logs are now classified as Vended Logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Vended Logs are specific AWS service logs natively published by AWS services on behalf of the customer and available at volume discount pricing.?

AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing for G4dn and P3 instances

Published Date: 2023-09-05 21:28:32+00:00

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 11 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include accelerated computing instance families (G4dn, P3). The newly launched recommendations help customers discover opportunities to optimize their Machine Learning (ML), High-performance computing (HPC), and graphically intensive workloads.?

Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities now support Notebook with GPU-based Instances

Published Date: 2023-09-05 21:08:15+00:00

You can now use the geospatial image within SageMaker Studio’s notebook with GPU-based instances. Support for GPU-based instances with the geospatial image makes it easier for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data.??

Amazon Personalize simplifies implementation by extending column limits

Published Date: 2023-09-05 21:23:46+00:00

Amazon Personalize now?makes it easier to implement machine learning powered personalization by reducing the need for experimentation with increased dataset column limits. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. Some customers experiment with multiple iterations of their datasets in order to optimize model performance while fitting within column limits on datasets. With this launch, we increased column limits to reduce the need for experimentation and accelerate implementation. Customers can now bring double the number of columns to their Items datasets (100 columns) and five times as many columns to their Users datasets (25 columns). With these increases, customers can now bring more of their data and allow Personalize to optimize model performance on their behalf.