AWS update of Week 39 (25Sep - 1Oct)

Amazon Macie adds support for discovering more types of sensitive data

Published Date: 2023-09-29 18:02:23+00:00

Amazon Macie has introduced new managed data identifiers to expand its capabilities for discovering and identifying Stripe API keys, Google Cloud API keys, Driver’s license numbers (India) and national identification numbers (India) in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Understanding the presence and location of such data in your S3 storage helps you to better plan data security, governance, and privacy of your organization. With over 100+ managed data identifiers, Macie helps protect your sensitive data at scale.

AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-29 18:05:44+00:00

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Windows containers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This feature simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for Amazon ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS.

VPC DNS Query Logging now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-29 17:03:48+00:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. 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.?

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager RDP now supports up to 1080p Resolution

Published Date: 2023-09-29 21:15:22+00:00

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager enables customers to connect to their SSM managed instance through browser based RDP from the SSM Fleet Manager console without opening any inbound ports to the public or any private IPs. In addition to the default resolution of 720p, you can now select resolutions of 600p, 900p and 1080p for your RDP sessions.

Amazon Inspector is now available in additional commercial regions

Published Date: 2023-09-29 17:06:16+00:00

Amazon Inspector is now available in four additional regions including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Europe (Zurich). You can now continuously monitor your Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions, and container images residing in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure in these regions.

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces support for public LoRaWAN networks (GA)

Published Date: 2023-09-29 17:01:26+00:00

Today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces the general availability of public network support for LoRaWAN-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices. With this update, you can now connect your LoRaWAN devices to the cloud using publicly available LoRaWAN networks provided by Everynet, a LoRaWAN network operator, without deploying and operating a private LoRaWAN network. The public LoRaWAN network is provided as a service and operated by Everynet, and by adding this public network support, customers can choose from within the AWS console to use Everynet's network.?

AWS App Runner adds support for Monorepos

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:22:33+00:00

AWS App Runner now supports deploying services from source code repositories that follow a monorepo structure. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. With App Runner build-from-source capability you can offload the build and deployment workflow management to App Runner and deploy services directly from source code. App Runner provides convenient platform-specific managed runtimes. Each one of these runtimes builds a container image from your source code, and adds language runtime dependencies into your application container image.

Amazon Titan Embeddings is now generally available

Published Date: 2023-09-28 14:08:17+00:00

Amazon Titan Embeddings is a text embeddings model that converts natural language text including single words, phrases, or even large documents, into numerical representations that can be used to power use cases such as search, personalization, and clustering based on semantic similarity. Optimized for text retrieval to enable Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases, Amazon Titan Embeddings, enables you to first convert your text data into numerical representations or vectors and then use those vectors to accurately search for relevant passages from a vector database, allowing you to make the most of your proprietary data in combination with other foundation models (FMs).

Generative BI dashboard authoring capabilities for Amazon QuickSight (Preview)

Published Date: 2023-09-28 14:33:14+00:00

Amazon QuickSight customers now have three new Generative business intelligence (BI) capabilities available in preview. First, business analysts using QuickSight can now build visualizations by specifying what they want to see in natural language. For example, “Show me count of orders in 2023 by city as a map” will instantly render a geographic map visualization automatically configured with count of “orders” filtered by 2023. Second, business analysts can build complex calculations in seconds by specifying the expected outcome in natural language, without searching for or experimenting with advanced calculation syntax. Lastly, visualizations on dashboards can be refined and tweaked using natural language prompts, removing hours of tedious point-and-click operations traditionally associated with BI tools.

Announcing the Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unreal Engine

Published Date: 2023-09-28 20:33:18+00:00

We are excited to announce that Unreal Engine (UE) game developers can now more quickly access and integrate with Amazon GameLift with a new standalone plugin for UE. 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 Plugin for Unreal Engine supports UE5, UE5.1, and UE5.2 for Windows and Mac OS.

Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain)

Published Date: 2023-09-28 19:23:38+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

Amazon SNS now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions

Published Date: 2023-09-28 20:28:43+00:00

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports AWS CloudTrail logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions. By logging these data events, you can get details on when and who made API calls to Amazon SNS, thereby enhancing data visibility for security and operations teams, enabling governance, compliance, and operational auditing.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 new EC2 instance types as well as multi-attached EBS volumes

Published Date: 2023-09-28 19:00:48+00:00

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation general-purpose instances (M7g, M7i, M7i-flex, M7a, M6a), compute optimized instances (C7gn, C7g), memory optimized instances (R7g, R7iz, R6id, R6a, X2iezn), storage optimized instances (I4g, I4i), and high-performance-computing (HPC) optimized instances (Hpc7g, Hpc6id). This expands the total EC2 instance types supported by Compute Optimizer to 636.?Additionally, Compute Optimizer now delivers?Elastic Block Store (EBS)?volume recommendations for EBS volumes that are attached to multiple EC2 instances simultaneously.

Amazon Bedrock is now generally available

Published Date: 2023-09-28 14:06:24+00:00

Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models (FMs), is now generally available. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing FMs from leading AI companies including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon, along with a broad set of capabilities that you need to build generative AI applications, simplifying development while maintaining privacy and security.

AWS Backup for Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre in 7 more Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-28 18:26:28+00:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, and Lustre in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon FSx along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.

Amazon Textract launches Layout feature to extract paragraphs, titles, and more from documents

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:01:11+00:00

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Layout, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to extract layout elements such as paragraphs, titles, lists, headers, footers, and more from documents. Layout will be a new feature type in the Analyze Document API. Customers can use Layout as a stand-alone feature or in combination with other Analyze Document feature types.

AWS Application Migration Service now supports automated agent installation

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:28:08+00:00

Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to prepare your environment for the migration process using the MGN connector directly from the AWS Application Migration Service console.

AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine announces capability to retrieve source IP of an IoT client

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:02:42+00:00

Today,?AWS IoT Core?a fully managed cloud service that lets you connect billions of devices and process trillions of messages, announces a new inline Rule function that enables you to extract the source IP address of the publisher of an IoT message. Once you extract the source IP address, you can send it to other AWS and third-party services for further analytics based on your business needs. For example, you can use the source IP address with location solvers (such as, AWS IoT Core Device Location) to determine the approximate location of an IoT device and build location-based applications, such as asset tracking, video content delivery etc.

DynamoDB global tables is now available in all AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-28 19:27:03+00:00

Amazon DynamoDB global tables is now?available in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE). Customers can now create global tables with replicas in all AWS Regions.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides up to 50% faster forecasting

Published Date: 2023-09-28 20:26:53+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now offers a quicker and more user-friendly way to create machine learning (ML) models for time-series forecasting. With its visual, point-and-click interface, business analysts can easily create accurate ML models for insights and predictions, without writing any code or having prior ML knowledge. Canvas supports multiple use cases — including time-series forecasting used in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and finance — by combining statistical and ML algorithms to generate highly accurate forecasts.?

Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetings

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:07:01+00:00

Amazon Chime's new Waiting Room adds another layer of privacy to all your meetings. Starting today, anonymous users that attempt to join your meeting are sent to the Waiting Room until you or another attendee from your company admits them in. Registered and signed in attendees who are invited still receive auto-calls and join your meetings without going through the Waiting Room.

Amazon Chime SDK now provides improved audio playback across high-loss networks

Published Date: 2023-09-28 22:06:35+00:00

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Now, the Amazon Chime SDK provides loss recovery for up to 100ms of audio, which helps enable smooth playback of audio transmitted across networks with random and burst packet loss.

Amazon EC2 P5 instances are now available in AWS US East (Ohio) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-28 20:44:05+00:00

Amazon EC2 P5 instances which deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications are now available in the US East (Ohio) region.

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:19:12+00:00

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs to help you minimize the cutover downtime during SQL Server database migration to AWS. With this capability, you can now select the transaction log as one of the backup types, create a migration workflow based on the predefined template, and run the workflow step by step to accelerate SQL Server migration and reduce downtime during cutover to AWS.

AWS Partner Funding Portal now supports more funding initiatives

Published Date: 2023-09-28 18:52:34+00:00

With the launch of Partner Initiative Funding in AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), AWS Partners can easily self-access and manage their initiative and agreement funding.

Announcing AWS Amplify JavaScript v6 developer preview

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:31:49+00:00

Today, we are announcing the developer preview of the AWS Amplify JavaScript Library v6 which includes reduced bundle sizes, richer TypeScript support, and integrations with Next.js server-side features. The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library enables frontend developers to connect their web and React Native apps to AWS cloud backends. In this developer preview, Amplify JavaScript now offers richer TypeScript support for the Auth, Analytics, and Storage categories. Apps using this developer preview will be served with smaller bundle sizes. Amplify JavaScript v6 also introduces an integration with Next.js server-side features such as App Router, Middleware, API routes, and server functions.

AWS IoT Core introduces support for headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:30:11+00:00

Today, AWS IoT Core?a fully managed cloud service that lets you connect billions of devices and process trillions of messages, supports headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action. You can use Kafka headers to send additional metadata from IoT devices to a self-managed Apache Kafka cluster or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), without modifying the original IoT message payload.?

Amazon RDS adds Oracle SE2 License Included option for R6i, R5 and T3 in additional regions

Published Date: 2023-09-28 18:18:19+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers Oracle Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI) purchase option in additional AWS Regions and for additional instance classes. R6i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Middle East (UAE), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon). R5 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne), and Europe (Spain). T3 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE).?

Amazon SQS announces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for scalable access permissions

Published Date: 2023-09-28 17:26:24+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support?for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling customers to bolster their overall security postures with a flexible and scalable access control solution. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.?

Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now available in additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-27 19:02:00+00:00

Starting today, EC2 Instance Connect is also available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) regions. Amazon EC2 Instance Connect is a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH).

Amazon S3 now provides the Last-Modified time for delete markers using S3 Head and Get APIs

Published Date: 2023-09-27 17:07:49+00:00

Amazon S3 now provides the Last-Modified time of delete markers in the response headers of S3 Head and Get APIs. For buckets that use S3 Versioning, when a customer issues a delete request without a versionId specified, S3 adds a delete marker on the latest version of the object to protect data from accidental deletions. With Last-Modified information added to S3 Head and Get API response headers for delete markers, customers can more easily track changes in their buckets.

Analyze multi-account app health with CloudWatch Application Insights

Published Date: 2023-09-27 16:59:58+00:00

Customers can now monitor and troubleshoot application environments that span multiple accounts (within a region) using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights helps customers gain actionable insights for their application environments by making it easier for them to set up and monitor, recognize problems, and use data to make decisions. With this release, customers can analyze and correlate cross-account telemetry data and problems through a centralized view of the monitoring results across their accounts.

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.11.20

Published Date: 2023-09-27 17:02:16+00:00

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.11.20, which includes several fixes and improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ - 3.11.16. If you are running earlier versions of RabbitMQ, such as 3.10, 3.9 or 3.8, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.11. This can be accomplished with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. We also encourage you to enable automatic minor version upgrades on RabbitMQ 3.11 to help ensure your brokers take advantage of future fixes and improvements in 3.11.

AWS WAF now supports JA3 Fingerprint Match

Published Date: 2023-09-27 20:44:07+00:00

AWS WAF now supports JA3 match, enabling customers to inspect incoming requests’ JA3 fingerprints. Customers can use the JA3 match to implement custom logic to block malicious clients or allow requests from expected clients only.?

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides improved visibility into Auto-Tune actions

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

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides new Auto-Tune metrics and improved Auto-Tune events that give you better visibility into the cluster performance optimizations made by Auto-Tune.

AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region

Published Date: 2023-09-27 20:53:12+00:00

Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports changing the server-level collation

Published Date: 2023-09-27 17:01:09+00:00

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports changing the server-level collation when creating a new DB Instance. If the collation is not specified the default server-level collation will continue to be SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. To learn more about which collations are supported please visit the RDS Custom for SQL Server User Guide.

Amazon MSK now supports fully managed data delivery to Amazon S3 using Kinesis Data Firehose

Published Date: 2023-09-27 19:20:06+00:00

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now integrates with Amazon MSK to offer a fully managed solution that simplifies the processing and delivery of streaming data from Amazon MSK Apache Kafka clusters into data lakes stored on Amazon S3. With just a few clicks, Amazon MSK customers can continuously load data from their desired Apache Kafka clusters to their Amazon S3 bucket, eliminating the need to develop or run their own connector applications.?

AWS Telco Network Builder is now available in 5 new AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-27 18:34:55+00:00

Today, we are announcing that AWS Telco Network Builder is now available in 5 new regions across Asia, America and Europe. AWS Telco Network Builder is now generally available in 5 additional regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (Sao Paulo).?

AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter identifies the most issue-prone resources

Published Date: 2023-09-27 18:07:59+00:00

Starting today, OpsCenter, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, offers a new insight which automatically identifies resources with the most open operational issues (OpsItems). This insight helps cut through event noise, so that customers can focus their efforts on fixing their most issue-prone resources.

Amazon CloudFront announces security recommendations

Published Date: 2023-09-27 19:26:13+00:00

You can now better protect your CloudFront distributions with AWS WAF security recommendations in the CloudFront console. CloudFront conveniently displays additional security rules for your distributions based on elements of your CloudFront configuration including path patterns or your origin type. Simply select the rules you’d like to enable and CloudFront automatically adds those rules to your AWS WAF configuration.

Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDB

Published Date: 2023-09-26 19:49:06+00:00

Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments. You can export changed data ranging from a few megabytes to terabytes with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, an API call, or the AWS Command Line Interface. Choose a DynamoDB table that has point-in-time-recovery enabled, specify an export time period for which you want incremental data, choose your target Amazon S3 bucket, and export.

AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-09-26 21:46:06+00:00

AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS HealthOmics 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. By removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting, customers can generate deeper insights from omics data to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.

Amazon Braket now provides real-time visibility into quantum task and hybrid job queues

Published Date: 2023-09-26 17:01:45+00:00

Amazon Braket, is?a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to get started with quantum computing. Starting today, customers can have real-time visibility into device queue lengths and the individual queue positions for their Quantum Tasks and Hybrid Jobs, providing greater transparency into when their workloads will run.

Amazon QuickSight launches contextual row subtotals for pivot tables

Published Date: 2023-09-26 17:00:25+00:00

Amazon QuickSight introduces the ability to add contextual row subtotals in pivot tables for easier understanding and improved presentation. Authors can now customize subtotal labels by appending the group name, enabling clearer association and understanding. For instance, if the current group is "North America," users can rename their subtotals as ‘North America Total,’ ‘Total for North America,’ or ‘Total North America.’

Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2023-09-26 20:20:22+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors, which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS.

Amazon EMR Serverless introduces application-wide default job configurations

Published Date: 2023-09-26 18:48:29+00:00

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that helps 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. We are happy to announce that starting today, you can set default configurations at the application level, allowing you to maintain consistent settings for all Spark and Hive jobs submitted under the same application.

QuickSight now supports tagging users for cost allocation

Published Date: 2023-09-26 16:58:00+00:00

Amazon QuickSight and AWS Billing now support tagging users with the TagResource and RegisterUser APIs. With this launch, administrators can tag users and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate user based costs by team, department or application.

AWS Global Accelerator now supports endpoints in four additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-26 17:34:53+00:00

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in four additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv), expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-eight.?

AWS Lake Formation launches Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog

Published Date: 2023-09-26 22:08:48+00:00

Today, AWS Lake Formation announces the general availability of Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature provides you the flexibility to selectively enable Lake Formation for databases and tables in your AWS Glue Data Catalog. Before this launch, you had to move all existing users of a table into Lake Formation in a single step, which required a certain amount of coordination among data owners and data consumers. With the Hybrid Access Mode, you now have an incremental path wherein you can enable Lake Formation for a specific set of users without interrupting other existing users or workloads.

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.5.1

Published Date: 2023-09-26 18:45:15+00:00

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.5.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.5.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key features include the introduction of new rack-aware partition assignment for consumers. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 3.5.1.?

Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches permission for agents to view their own contacts

Published Date: 2023-09-26 19:16:35+00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports a new permission to provide agents with access to only the contacts that they handled, within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect has permissions that enable contact center managers to access contacts handled by agents in their teams and evaluate agent performance. With this launch, agents can securely search for their own contacts and review their recordings and transcripts alongside performance evaluations submitted by managers.

Amazon Chime SDK now supports sending WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Published Date: 2023-09-26 16:56:06+00:00

Amazon Chime SDK media pipelines now enable the sending of Amazon Chime SDK WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. With the Amazon Chime SDK, developers can add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Sending WebRTC session audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams provides developers access to the audio for live analysis during the session.?

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.28

Published Date: 2023-09-26 21:37:37+00:00

Kubernetes 1.28 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.28. Starting today, you can create new 1.28 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.28 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool.

AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering

Published Date: 2023-09-26 16:59:31+00:00

AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering by job definition status. AWS Batch customers filtering job definitions by ACTIVE or INACTIVE status will now receive smaller DescribeJobDefinitions API response improving performance of the API and AWS Batch Management Console.

Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints are now available in six new regions

Published Date: 2023-09-26 17:01:20+00:00

Amazon Chime SDK lets?developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications. Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints used to create and manage meetings are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) regions.

AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resources

Published Date: 2023-09-26 20:40:58+00:00

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc launches expanded resource support for AWS Application Composer, from 13 to all 1000+ resources supported by AWS CloudFormation. This launch allows you to drag any resource required for your use case onto an interactive diagram-like canvas where an editor provides auto completion and validation as you configure each service. With AWS Application Composer, you can focus on the high-level architecture of your application while the canvas assists with configuration and maintains deployment-ready infrastructure as code definitions.?

AWS Verified Access supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in US and Canada Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-26 21:24:51+00:00

AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure VPN-less access to your corporate applications, now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to help you protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Verified Access for regulated workloads. Companies contracting with the US and Canadian federal governments can now meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in these Regions.?

AWS Glue Studio now supports custom icons

Published Date: 2023-09-26 20:06:51+00:00

AWS Glue now supports custom icons for custom visual transforms. Custom visual transforms let customers define, reuse, and share business-specific ETL logic among their teams. Reusable transforms increase consistency between teams and help keep jobs up to date by minimizing duplicate effort and code.?

Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports one-time monitoring jobs for quick troubleshooting

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:12:24+00:00

You can now use Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor to run a single execution of a monitoring job, enabling you to get results for your machine learning and data performance on demand. Running a monitoring job on-demand provides you the flexibility to monitor specific aspects of your ML as required and allows adaptability for situations with irregular monitoring needs, such as troubleshooting.

Amazon EC2 R7g and M7g Instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region

Published Date: 2023-09-25 20:54:51+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g and M7g instances in Europe (Stockhom). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region

Published Date: 2023-09-25 20:11:48+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Zurich) region. These instances are built on the 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 QuickSight now supports freeze/unfreeze columns in Tables

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:23:08+00:00

Amazon QuickSight now supports the ability to freeze columns in Tables. Both Authors and Readers can freeze columns to affix columns in place while scrolling horizontally, ensuring it remains visible and accessible even as other columns move out of view. The frozen column is moved left until it reaches another frozen column, maintaining its fixed placement.

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now available in three additional regions

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:09:54+00:00

Amazon EventBridge Pipes is now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions, providing a simpler, consistent, and cost-effective way to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers when building event-driven architectures. You can use Pipes to connect your applications with data from sources including Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Managed Streaming Kafka, self-managed Kafka, and Amazon MQ. EventBridge Pipes supports the same 20+ targets as the EventBridge Event Bus, such as Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SNS, Amazon ECS, and event buses themselves.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the (Hong Kong) region

Published Date: 2023-09-25 18:34:30+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now enables supervisors to manage in-progress contacts

Published Date: 2023-09-25 18:27:11+00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports the ability to transfer, reschedule or end in-progress contacts on the contact details page within the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect Contact Lens enables supervisors to search for and view in-progress and completed contacts across voice, chat and task channels. With this launch, supervisors can perform actions on in-progress contacts using the Amazon Connect UI, enabling them to end stale or inactive contacts in different channels, and reschedule or redistribute tasks across agents.

You can now generate human-readable sample data with NoSQL Workbench

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:29:55+00:00

Prototyping your application’s data model with Amazon DynamoDB has just gotten simpler with sample data generation using NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB. The ability to generate sample data enables you to create realistic demos and test your application access patterns under conditions that closely simulate a production environment. You can use NoSQL Workbench to generate sample data to visualize if your data model design and item collections will fulfill your application’s access patterns. During application development you will also want to test that your application can function and handle use cases with enough data. NoSQL Workbench helps you generate the volume and variety of data that you will need to test your code. You can directly deploy your data models with sample data to Amazon DynamoDB and DynamoDB local, or download the sample data as a CSV file for later use.

Amazon EC2 Serial Console now available in additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-09-25 20:39:25+00:00

Starting today, the interactive EC2 Serial Console is now also available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) regions. EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance. It provides a one-click, text-based access to an instances’ serial port as though a monitor and keyboard were attached to it. This access can be used for interactive troubleshooting.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports searching for in-progress contacts

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:10:59+00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports the ability for contact center managers to search and view in-progress contacts across voice, chat, and task channels within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, managers can search and view completed contacts on the contact search page to monitor contact quality and agent performance. With this launch, managers can search and view in-progress contacts enabling them to view real-time conversational analytics (e.g., customer sentiment) and take actions (e.g., transfer tasks across agents).

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports JSON schema validation

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:28:04+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB now supports schema validation with $jsonSchema operator. You can now attach schema validation rules to a DocumentDB collection that are validated during inserts and updates to the collection.

Amazon Redshift announces role-based access control support in workload management (WLM)

Published Date: 2023-09-25 20:51:38+00:00

Amazon Redshift now adds support for role-based access control in workload management (WLM). With this support, when your Amazon Redshift users run queries in the database, their queries are routed to the query queue that is associated with their user role.?

AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Beijing and Ningxia Regions in China

Published Date: 2023-09-25 17:14:28+00:00

AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With the addition of these regions, IAM Identity Center is now available in 28 regions globally.