AWS update of week 4 (23Jan -29Jan)
Ankur Patel
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Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 10 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors enable you to transfer your data from Asana, Delighted, Google Calendar, Intercom, JDBC, PayPal, Pendo, Smartsheet, Snapchat Ads, and WooCommerce. These new connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases such as data lake hydration, analytics and machine learning, and data retention.
Amazon Detective now adds visual summaries and analytics about your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs from your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads. This new capability visualizes all network traffic from your EKS workloads and allows you to quickly answer questions like “what ports or network services were in use by my EKS workloads?”, “were there any large data transfers from my EKS workloads?”, and “what IP address were connected to my EKS workloads?” These details help security analysts investigate potential security issues, diagnose unexpected network behavior, and identify other AWS resources that might be affected.
Following the announcement of?updates to the PostgreSQL database?by the open source community, we have updated?Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition?to support PostgreSQL 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, and 11.18. These releases contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. Refer to the?Aurora version policy?to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10, you must upgrade to a newer major version by January 31, 2023.?
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?for PostgreSQL?now supports inbound replication from Amazon RDS Single-AZ database (DB) instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. You can use this inbound replication to help migrate your existing Amazon RDS PostgreSQL deployments to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys, which have one writer instance and two readable standby instances across three availability zones. By creating a Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys as a read replica of your existing RDS PostgreSQL database instance, you can promote the read replica to be your new primary, typically within minutes.?
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum number of Access Points per file system from 120 to 1,000, enabling you to control file system access permissions across a larger number of applications in multi-tenant environments.
You can now use?AWS Elemental MediaLive?to add timecode visually into individual video outputs from a MediaLive channel.
AWS announces the general availability of runtime management controls for AWS Lambda. The operational simplicity of automatic runtime updates is one of the features customers most like about Lambda. This release provides customers running critical production workloads with more visibility and control over when runtime updates are applied to their functions.
We are excited to announce the launch of comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower, a set of new features that enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities. You can now programmatically implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments within minutes, so you can more quickly vet, allow-list, and begin using AWS services. With comprehensive controls management in AWS Control Tower, you can reduce the time it takes to define, map, and manage the controls required to meet your most common control objectives such as enforcing least privilege, restricting network access, and enforcing data encryption.
SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning allows you to find the most accurate version of your machine learning model by searching for the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations. Previously, you could only specify environment variables for your algorithm runtime in your SageMaker Training jobs, but not in your tuning jobs. Starting today, you have the flexibility to specify runtime environment variables for your scripts in your CreateTuningJob API.?
Amazon MQ?now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.34, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.30. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ?and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols to help you easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code.
Amazon Polly?is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of five new male neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices: Sergio for Castilian Spanish, Andrés for Mexican Spanish, Rémi for French, Adriano for Italian, and Thiago for Brazilian Portuguese.
Amazon Aurora now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster or blue environment within Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments. This enables you to use Blue/Green Deployments for minor version upgrades for Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility).
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region.
We’re excited to announce the ability to change the default AMS response for Config Rules in Accelerate operations plan. With this release, customers can now choose whether they want AMS to remediate, ask for customer approval, or just add to a monthly report on the alerts from AMS supported?security Config Rules. By adjusting the default response, you can increase conformance by setting more Config Rules for remediation. When you select remediation of a finding, AMS response is quick and consistent. Findings can also create a case asking for your approval or just be reported during your next Monthly Business Review (MBR). You can set up multiple responses for a Config Rule that are matched to the account and resources based on tags.??
Now generally available,?Amazon OpenSearch Serverless?is a new serverless option for?Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch Serverless streamlines the process of running petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads. With OpenSearch Serverless, you pay only for the resources consumed.
Windows Server and SQL Server on Amazon EC2?calculator now supports Dedicated Hosts price estimation. With this feature, you can now generate optimized price estimate for bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios on Dedicated Hosts.?
AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas—Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.
Amazon QuickSight pivot tables now support more data than ever before with new the field limits, unlocking advance use cases. The value field well limits have been increased from 20 to 40, and Rows and Columns have been increased from 20 each to a combined limit of 40. For example, if the user has 34 fields in rows then they can add 40-34 = max 6 fields to the column field well. Refer?here?for more information.
Amazon QuickSight now supports data bars for tables. Data bars are essentially bar charts displayed for a given column, where the bar length specifies the magnitude of the cell value relative to the range of values in the same column. Data bars make it easier to read and compare values and quickly spot outliers. You can set data bars for only numeric fields and set color for both positive and negatives values separately. More details can be found?here.
Amazon VPC?IP address manager (IPAM)?now lets you manage IP addresses in accounts outside of your AWS Organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This simplifies your IP management workflows (e.g., plan, track, and monitor) by enabling you to use a single IPAM across all your AWS accounts.
AWS announces the general availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton. The Porting Advisor for Graviton is an open-source command line tool that analyzes source code and generates a report highlighting missing and outdated libraries and code constructs that may require modification along with recommendations for alternatives. It accelerates your transition to AWS Graviton-based instances by reducing the iterative process of identifying and resolving source code and library dependencies.
We are excited to announce that?Amazon Personalize?now provides analysis on your data to make onboarding easier than ever. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize trains custom models for each customer using their unique data.?With this launch, Amazon Personalize now analyzes the data you provide and offers suggestions to assist you in improving your data preparation.
Amazon SageMaker?is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in the region.
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate has achieved?FedRAMP?High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, which are operated by employees who are U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. You can now use AMS Accelerate with workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level.
AWS Storage Gateway?expands availability to the AWS Europe (Spain) and AWS Europe (Zurich) Regions enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.
We are excited to highlight AWS Conversational AI Competency Partners, who enable enterprises to implement high-quality, highly effective chatbot, virtual assistant, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions.
AWS GovCloud (US) Region customers can now use?AWS Compute Optimizer?to reduce costs and improve performance.
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM).?Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools for association to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Contiguous CIDR blocks can be used for sequential VPC creation. CIDRs can then be aggregated in a single entry across networking and security constructs like access control lists, route tables, security groups, and firewalls.??
AWS announced the opening of new AWS Direct Connect locations in Melbourne, Australia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Zurich, Switzerland. By connecting your network to AWS at one of these locations, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle?and?Amazon Aurora?now support Database Activity Streams in AWS regions Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) . Database Activity Streams provides a near real-time stream of database activities to help meet your relational database for compliance and regulatory requirements. When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity Streams can monitor and audit database activity to provide safeguards for your database.
We are excited to announce the preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge instances for deploying machine learning (ML) models for inference on Amazon SageMaker.?
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports Pause I/O for Amazon EBS volumes as a new FIS action type. With the new fault action, customers with highly available applications can test their architecture and monitoring, such as operating system timeout configurations and CloudWatch alarms, to improve resiliency to storage faults. Customers can observe how their application stack responds, and tune their monitoring and recovery process to improve resiliency and application availability.
You can now convert previously saved Simple Monthly Calculator (SMC) estimates in AWS Pricing Calculator.?