AWS update of Week 41 (9 Oct - 15 Oct)

Enhance accuracy of pre-trained Rekognition moderation model with Custom Moderation

Published Date: 2023-10-13 20:19:12+00:00

Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Customers across industries, such as social media, gaming, and advertising, use Rekognition’s content moderation capabilities to protect their brand reputation, and enable safe user communities. With Custom Moderation, customers can now enhance the accuracy of the moderation deep learning model on their business-specific data by training an adapter with as few as twenty annotated images in less than hour.

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in new regions

Published Date: 2023-10-13 17:00:36+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Regions Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF).

Announcing ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default for all EC2 instances in an organization

Published Date: 2023-10-13 17:01:01+00:00

AWS customers now have the option to enable Systems Manager, and configure permissions for all EC2 instances in an organization that has been configured to use AWS Organizations, with a single action using Default Host Management Configuration (DHMC). This feature provides a method to help customers ensure core Systems Manager capabilities such as Patch Manager, Session Manager, and Inventory are available for all new and existing instances. DHMC is recommended for all EC2 customers, and offers a simple, scalable process to standardize the availability of System Manager tools.

Announcing Unified Settings for the AWS Management Console in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-10-13 20:07:14+00:00

We are excited to launch Unified Settings for the AWS Console in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. With Unified Settings, settings will persist across devices, browsers, and services. At launch, Unified Settings supports default language, default Region, visual mode, and favorite service display. Default language displays your preferred language across the Management Console, default Region sets the AWS Region each time you sign in or visit a service console, visual mode lets you toggle between the default light mode or dark mode, and favorite service display will show services in the favorites bar with either the service icon and full name or only the service icon.

Amazon EC2 now supports setting AMIs to a disabled state

Published Date: 2023-10-13 18:58:41+00:00

Starting today, customers can disable their unused or obsolete Amazon Machine Images (AMIs; pronounced ah-mee). Disabling an AMI changes its state to disabled, makes the AMI private if it was previously shared, and prevents any new EC2 instance launches from that disabled AMI. Customers creating, managing, and consuming AMIs at-scale can now simplify and streamline their workflows with this new capability.

Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2023-10-13 17:48:07+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Additionally, C7gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney).?

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB supports M6in, M6idn, R6in, R6idn database instances

Published Date: 2023-10-13 21:09:23+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn database (DB) instances for RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. These network optimized DB instances deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, which is 300% more than similar sized M6i and R6i database instances. Enhanced network bandwidth makes M6in and R6in DB instances ideal for write-intensive workloads. M6idn and R6idn support local block storage with up to 7.6 TB of NVMe-based solid state disk (SSD) storage.

Deploy ML models built in SageMaker Canvas to SageMaker real-time endpoints

Published Date: 2023-10-13 21:36:18+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports deploying machine learning (ML) models to real-time inferencing endpoints, allowing you take your ML models to production and drive action based on ML powered insights. SageMaker Canvas is a no-code workspace that enables analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions for their business needs.

Amazon Textract launches Custom Queries to improve information extraction for business-specific documents

Published Date: 2023-10-12 20:19:53+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 Custom Queries, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to adapt the Queries feature and improve extraction accuracy for their business-specific documents. Queries is a feature within the Analyze Document API that lets you extract specific pieces of information from documents using natural language questions. Custom Queries allows customers to quickly adapt the Queries feature to meet their business-specific needs without requiring them to have machine learning expertise.

Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC

Published Date: 2023-10-12 21:02:51+00:00

AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections)??over IPv6, at no additional cost. With this launch, and Lambda’s support for public IPv6 endpoints (inbound connections)?in 2021, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce costs by minimizing the need for translation mechanisms.

Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities

Published Date: 2023-10-12 19:26:47+00:00

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Availability Zone DNS affinity, disable connection termination for unhealthy targets, and UDP connection termination by default.

AWS Step Functions launches Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless

Published Date: 2023-10-12 18:09:42+00:00

AWS Step Functions announces an Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless , adding support for the Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern with 6 EMR Serverless API Actions (CreateApplication, StartApplication, StopApplication, DeleteApplication, StartJobRun, and CancelJobRun).

Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands content summarization and information extraction capabilities

Published Date: 2023-10-12 18:02:37+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a service for business analysts to generate machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) predictions without having to write a single line of code. As announced on October 5, customers can access and evaluate foundation models (FMs) to generate and summarize content.?

AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Seoul, South Korea

Published Date: 2023-10-12 19:06:28+00:00

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ICN10 data center in Seoul, South Korea. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.?

AWS Global Accelerator launches second Edge location in Vietnam

Published Date: 2023-10-12 16:56:58+00:00

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new AWS edge location in Hanoi in Vietnam. This is our second Global Accelerator edge location in Vietnam. With this addition, Global Accelerator is now available through 110 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 28 AWS Regions.

AWS announces Search Pipelines for OpenSearch

Published Date: 2023-10-11 18:33:40+00:00

Search Pipelines, a new feature in OpenSearch 2.9, make it easy to build query and result processing pipelines. This lets you build search query and result processing as a composition of modular processing steps without complicating your application software.

Announcing Link Your Bank Account for SEPA direct debit payments in Germany

Published Date: 2023-10-11 18:53:55+00:00

Link Your Bank Account allows you to add a bank account immediately after becoming an AWS customer. New customers with a Germany billing address can now pay AWS invoices with a bank account that supports the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) standard. Prior AWS payments are no longer required to add SEPA direct debit payment method.

AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports SAP HANA

Published Date: 2023-10-11 17:00:28+00:00

You can now use AWS Systems Manager Application Manager to perform operational activities with SAP HANA databases in addition to command line interfaces. AWS Systems Manager for SAP also now supports highly available SAP HANA deployments.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region

Published Date: 2023-10-11 17:06:33+00:00

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.

New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumes

Published Date: 2023-10-11 17:14:20+00:00

Starting today, we are introducing a new Amazon CloudWatch metric called Attached EBS Status Check to monitor if one or more Amazon EBS volumes attached to your EC2 instances are reachable and able to complete I/O operations. With this new metric, you can now quickly detect and respond to any EBS impairments that may potentially be impacting the performance of your applications running on Amazon EC2 instances.?

Amazon Linux announces support for Ansible and Corretto 21 with AL2023.2

Published Date: 2023-10-10 17:01:55+00:00

Today we are announcing the availability of Ansible and Corretto 21 on Amazon Linux 2023 as a part of second quarterly update.

Announcing pgactive: Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS

Published Date: 2023-10-10 17:03:14+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of pgactive: Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL,?available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL. pgactive lets you use asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances to provide additional resiliency and flexibility in moving data between database instances, including writers located in different AWS Regions, for the purposes of maintaining availability for operations like switching write traffic to a different instance.

Amazon QuickSight adds total positioning options for pivot table

Published Date: 2023-10-10 16:56:34+00:00

Amazon QuickSight now supports total positioning option for both rows and columns in pivot tables, providing authors added flexibility to style and present tabular data according to their specific use cases and individual needs. Additionally, it makes it easier to compare and view totals which could otherwise be multiple scrolls or pages away.?

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports ad break discovery in Channel Assembly

Published Date: 2023-10-09 18:05:39+00:00

With AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly you can now detect ad break markers that exist within VOD sources and insert ads at those existing times.

AWS Glue now supports GitLab, BitBucket in its Git integration feature

Published Date: 2023-10-09 17:00:58+00:00

AWS Glue now supports GitLab and BitBucket, alongside GitHub and AWS CodeCommit, broadening your toolset for managing data integration pipeline deployments. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simpler to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development.

Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud console

Published Date: 2023-10-09 20:20:23+00:00

You can now launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor directly from the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) console. Internet Monitor provides visibility into how internet issues impact the performance and availability for your application hosted on AWS. To use Internet Monitor, you create a monitor and associate it with one or more resources: VPCs, Network Load Balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, or Amazon WorkSpaces directories.

Amazon QuickSight now supports running queries as an IAM role for Redshift data sources

Published Date: 2023-10-09 17:40:47+00:00

Amazon QuickSight now supports connection to Redshift data with an IAM role. By connecting to data in QuickSight with an IAM role, administrators can enhance data security by using fine-grained IAM access policies for Redshift data sources.

AWS Organizations now supports service control policies (SCPs) in AWS China Regions

Published Date: 2023-10-09 18:55:22+00:00

Starting today, you can use service control policies (SCPs) to set permission guardrails with the fine-grained controls used in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This feature makes it easier to meet the specific requirements of your organization’s governance rules.

New features for cdk8s include synthesize and import Helm charts and resolve cloud tokens

Published Date: 2023-10-09 18:01:27+00:00

AWS unveils new capabilities for cdk8s, allowing seamless synthesis of applications into Helm charts on one hand, and native import of existing Helm charts into cdk8s applications on the other. In addition, cdk8s can now interpret deploy-time tokens of the AWS CDK and CDK For Terraform, all during the cdk8s synthesis phase. Helm stands out as a widely embraced solution for the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications. By converging cdk8s and Helm, users can enjoy a unified workflow for creating and deploying Kubernetes manifests. With the recent addition to the "cdk8s synth" command, you can transform a cdk8s app directly into a Helm Chart, ready to be integrated with Helm deployments.?

AWS Verified Access is now available in two additional AWS regions

Published Date: 2023-10-09 21:10:08+00:00

Starting today, AWS Verified Access that allows you to provide secure access to your corporate applications without using VPNs is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions. Built using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles, Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner.