AWS update of Week 37 (11Sep - 17Sep)

Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports IP address access restrictions in GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Published Date: 2023-09-15 17:25:53+00:00

Today, AWS announces that using?Amazon CodeCatalyst with source repositories hosted in GitHub is now compatible with IP address access restrictions in GitHub Organizations. This ensures that CodeCatalyst is compatible with all features in GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports managed Apache Flink (Public Preview)

Published Date: 2023-09-15 17:02:01+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports managed Apache Flink, available in public preview. With this launch, customers who already use EMR can run their Apache Flink application along with other types of applications on the same Amazon EKS cluster, helping improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management. For customers who already run big data frameworks on Amazon EKS, they can now let Amazon EMR automate provisioning and management.

AWS Cloud Map now supports AWS PrivateLink

Published Date: 2023-09-15 18:47:12+00:00

AWS Cloud Map now supports AWS PrivateLink. You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access AWS Cloud Map APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your data through public internet. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges. See the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information.?

PostgreSQL 16.0 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Published Date: 2023-09-15 21:36:07+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16.0 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate PostgreSQL 16.0 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16.0 in the Preview Environment and have the same benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. PostgreSQL 16.0 in the Preview Environment also includes support for logical decoding on read replicas, AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC), and over 80 PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector, pg_tle, h3-pg, pg_cron, and rdkit.?

CodePipeline support for GitLab Groups

Published Date: 2023-09-15 21:20:00+00:00

You can now use repositories in your project in a GitLab.com Group to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. Connect your GitLab.com account using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository.

Amplify Studio now offers full support of GraphQL APIs

Published Date: 2023-09-14 21:02:58+00:00

AWS Amplify Studio is excited to announce full support for GraphQL APIs - all developers using GraphQL APIs created either with Amplify Studio or Amplify CLI will now fully have access to all of Studio’s features. This includes Form Builder, Figma to Code UI generation, and Data Manager.

AWS Identity and Access Management provides action last accessed information for more than 140 services

Published Date: 2023-09-14 20:21:45+00:00

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now provides action last accessed information for more than 140 services to help you refine the permissions of your IAM roles. You can review action last accessed information, identify unused permissions, and refine to scope down the access of your IAM roles to only the actions that they use for services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).?

Amazon QuickSight launches pixel based font size and text highlighting for textbox visual

Published Date: 2023-09-14 17:02:06+00:00

Amazon QuickSight introduces pixel-based font sizing for Textbox, a departure from the fixed font sizes ranging from small to X-large. This enhancement empowers authors with unmatched precision, allowing them to finely adjust font sizes based on numeric or pixel values ("14px" or "32px"), granting greater flexibility. Along with this we are also adding text highlighting capabilities, similar to that of Insights visual. You can highlight text to emphasis key data points and insights making it easier to drive user attention precisely where you want it, making your data-driven narratives even more compelling. For more details refer here.

Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i instances

Published Date: 2023-09-14 18:38:13+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids). These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) region

Published Date: 2023-09-14 20:35:19+00:00

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) 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.

Amazon SNS FIFO topics now support message delivery to Amazon SQS Standard queues

Published Date: 2023-09-14 21:52:43+00:00

You can now subscribe Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Standard queues to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) First-In-First-Out (FIFO) topics. Thus, from a single SNS FIFO topic, you can now deliver messages to SQS Standard queues, which offer best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery, as well as to SQS FIFO queues, which support strict ordering and exactly-once delivery. This new capability further decouples message publishers from subscribers, as the SNS topic type no longer dictates the SQS queue type that subscribers ought to use.

Amazon EC2 Is4gen Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region

Published Date: 2023-09-14 16:59:30+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of EC2 storage optimized instances.

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning extends availability into Sydney region

Published Date: 2023-09-14 17:04:10+00:00

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning, one of AWS Supply Chain’s purpose-built supply chain management applications, is now generally available in Australia (Sydney). With this release AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Australia (Sydney).

AWS Supply Chain adds new override retention capability

Published Date: 2023-09-14 17:04:35+00:00

Starting today, manual forecast overrides (i.e. adjustments) made by a demand planner are automatically saved and reapplied from one planning cycle to the next. Demand planners commonly adjust system-generated baseline forecasts for known demand variations. These adjustments, or forecast overrides, reflect seasonality fluctuations, promotions, or other variable that affects the forecast. These adjustments were always entered manually during the new planning cycle. With this release, overrides are remembered and then applied to the re-calibrated system generated baseline forecast. Demand planners can now view and manage forecast overrides across planning cycles in one unified view.

AWS Control Tower is now available in Hyderabad, Spain, UAE, and Zurich Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-14 17:02:40+00:00

Today, AWS Control Tower is available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain and Zurich), and the Middle East (UAE). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 27 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.?

Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-14 18:26:10+00:00

Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in Europe (Zurich) Region. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.

Amazon GuardDuty introduces cluster configurability in EKS Runtime Monitoring

Published Date: 2023-09-14 16:58:36+00:00

Amazon GuardDuty announces a new capability in GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring that allows you to selectively configure which Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters are to be monitored for threat detection. Previously, configurability was at the account level only. With this added cluster-level configurability, customers can now selectively monitor EKS clusters for threat detection or continue to use account level configurability to monitor all EKS clusters in a given account and region.??

AWS Glue Streaming now supports Kinesis Data Streams enhanced fan-out feature

Published Date: 2023-09-14 17:02:21+00:00

AWS Glue Streaming ETL now supports the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) enhanced fan-out feature for Kinesis event sources. Enhanced fan-out allows developers to scale up the number of stream consumers (applications reading data from a stream in real-time) by offering each stream consumer its own read throughput.?

Announcing AWS managed IAM policies for ROSA with hosted control planes

Published Date: 2023-09-14 21:58:16+00:00

Today, we announce the introduction of 11 new AWS managed policies for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes (HCP), which is now in Technology Preview. The AWS managed policies provide narrowly-scoped permissions for the IAM roles that ROSA uses to manage your cluster infrastructure, and ensure that these permissions stay up-to-date with new OpenShift versions.

Amazon EC2 now supports Block Public Access for Amazon Machine Images

Published Date: 2023-09-13 18:13:50+00:00

Amazon EC2 now supports AMI Block Public Access (BPA), an account-wide setting that allows customers to block public sharing of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in a region. Customers managing AMIs at-scale now have a simple and proactive way of safeguarding their AMIs from inadvertent access by unauthorized users.

Announcing post-launch actions framework for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Published Date: 2023-09-13 17:01:30+00:00

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery?(AWS DRS) now allows you to define actions that run automatically after launching recovery instances, empowering you to automate any action you need to run after an instance has successfully launched.

Announcing API Gateway console refresh

Published Date: 2023-09-13 21:40:30+00:00

Today, Amazon API Gateway announces a console experience refresh with usability improvements to REST and WebSocket API workflows, accessibility enhancements, and dark mode support.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv)

Published Date: 2023-09-13 17:27:29+00:00

Starting today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is available in Israel (Tel Aviv) region.

AWS AppSync WebSockets-based subscriptions for real-time updates support nested filtering

Published Date: 2023-09-13 17:25:33+00:00

AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. With AppSync, you can configure data sources to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients. AppSync handles connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting, allowing you to focus on your application business needs instead of managing complex infrastructure. With AppSync, developers can easily specify filtering roles for their subscriptions to target specific connected clients based on the published data.

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2023-09-13 18:04:09+00:00

We are excited to announce support for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) on Amazon EMR on EKS.?Customers can now use AL2023 as the operating system together with Java 17 as Java runtime to run Spark workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS. This provides customers a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run their applications as well as enables them to access the latest enhancements such as kernel, toolchain, glibc, openssl and other system libraries and utilities.

Knowledge base for Amazon Bedrock connects foundation models to your data sources

Published Date: 2023-09-13 17:30:35+00:00

Today, we are announcing knowledge base for Amazon Bedrock in preview that lets you connect your organization’s private data sources to foundation models (FMs) to enable retrieval augmented generation in your generative AI applications to deliver more relevant and contextual FM responses.?

AWS Marketplace introduces new self-service listing feature for SaaS products

Published Date: 2023-09-13 19:55:03+00:00

AWS Marketplace now features a new self-service listing experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal for SaaS products. The new feature enables AWS Marketplace sellers to publish and update SaaS listings more quickly and easily. This feature enables you to directly interact with AWS Marketplace catalog to create, preview, test, and update your product listing without needing AWS Marketplace to manually process your inputs.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless extends auto-scaling to handle high query rates

Published Date: 2023-09-13 18:12:39+00:00

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless?has expanded its auto-scaling capabilities to efficiently handle tens of thousands of query transactions per minute. With this new feature, you can rely on OpenSearch Serverless to help handle unpredictable surges in your search and query traffic.?

Amazon Connect outbound campaigns is now generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-13 18:22:05+00:00

Amazon Connect now supports outbound campaigns in the Europe (Frankfurt) AWS region making it easier to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Communication capabilities include features such as point-of-dial checks, calling controls for time of day, time zone, number of attempts per contact, and predictive dialing with integrated voicemail detection. A list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user contact experiences. With this launch, high-volume outbound calls can now be made to customers in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain from Amazon Connect instances located in Europe (Frankfurt) or Europe (London) AWS regions. Outbound campaigns can be enabled within the AWS Connect Console.

Announcing memory optimized Amazon EC2 R7a instances

Published Date: 2023-09-12 22:21:22+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 R7a instances. R7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to R6a instances.??

AWS IAM Identity Center session duration limit increases from 7 to 90 days

Published Date: 2023-09-12 17:04:45+00:00

AWS IAM Identity Center administrators can now configure the access portal session duration to last up to 90 days. The session duration limit defines how long signed-in users can access the AWS access portal and Identity Center enabled applications before being prompted to re-authenticate.

Custom notifications are now available for AWS Chatbot

Published Date: 2023-09-12 20:50:05+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of custom notifications in AWS Chatbot. Customers can use AWS Chatbot custom notifications to define and add additional information in the notifications to monitor the health and performance of their AWS applications in Microsoft Teams and Slack channels.?

Amazon Redshift announces cross-region data sharing support through AWS Lake Formation

Published Date: 2023-09-12 18:15:54+00:00

Amazon Redshift enables you to use AWS Lake Formation to?centrally manage permissions on data being shared across your organization. Amazon Redshift already supports sharing live data across AWS regions. Amazon Redshift now supports cross-region data sharing via AWS Lake Formation so you can centrally define AWS Lake Formation permissions of Amazon Redshift datashares and restrict user access to objects within a datashare.

Cost Anomaly Detection increases custom anomaly monitor limit to 500

Published Date: 2023-09-12 17:49:41+00:00

Cost Anomaly Detection uses?machine learning to continuously monitor, detect, and alert customers of anomalous spent pattern. Starting today, Cost Anomaly Detection users with a management account will be able to create up to 500 custom anomaly monitors to track spend in their account(s). A custom anomaly monitor allows a user to track AWS spend across either linked accounts, cost allocation tags, or cost categories.

Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Published Date: 2023-09-11 19:54:30+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB.

Amazon Connect Cases now includes author name on comments

Published Date: 2023-09-11 21:44:30+00:00

Amazon Connect Cases now supports displaying the author name for comments that are written on cases. By seeing who added comments to a case, you can more easily track who contributed to the resolution of the case and enable your team to collaborate more effectively.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployment with two readable standbys now supports major version upgrades

Published Date: 2023-09-11 17:42:43+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports major version upgrades. Starting today, you can upgrade your RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys from major version 13.4 and above and 14.5 and above to 15.4 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.

AWS Elemental Link UHD simplifies live video contribution with MediaConnect

Published Date: 2023-09-11 21:13:29+00:00

You can now use AWS Elemental Link UHD to directly contribute live video to AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video. With MediaConnect, you can build live video workflows and securely share high-value live content globally with your partners and customers.

Amazon Connect Cases now supports attachments

Published Date: 2023-09-11 21:38:47+00:00

Amazon Connect Cases now supports uploading attachments to a case, enabling agents to have the information they need at their fingertips in order to resolve cases. Attaching files to a case helps ensure your agents don’t lose track of critical context and information for a customer issue, improving agent productivity and customer satisfaction.

Amazon Connect launches Contact Data Updated event

Published Date: 2023-09-11 17:55:54+00:00

Amazon Connect now allows you to subscribe to the Contact Data Updated event via Contact Event Stream (CES). Business currently subscribes to Contact Event Stream for a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (for example, call is queued) in their Amazon Connect contact center.?

Amazon RDS now supports M6id and R6id database instances

Published Date: 2023-09-11 18:05:18+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now?supports M6id and R6id database (DB) instances for RDS for PostgresSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Amazon RDS M6id and R6id DB instances provide up to a 24% performance improvement and up to a 13% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Amazon RDS M5d and R5d DB instances for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. These instances support local block storage with up to 7.6 TB of NVMe-based solid state disk (SSD) storage.