AWS update of Week 45 (6 Nov - 12 Nov)

Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing across South America

Published Date: 2023-11-10 19:35:26+00:00

Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Peru in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. This includes reductions of Peru Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 25% from $0.0100/min to $0.0075/min, Toll Free (TFN) minutes by 37% from $0.1920/min to $0.1216min, and Outbound minutes by 55% from $0.0150/min to $0.0067/min.

AWS Device Farm announces upgraded test environment for Android Devices

Published Date: 2023-11-10 18:01:35+00:00

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are rolling out a new backend for our Android mobile device testing that provides reduced test start times, better Remote Access performance, simpler dependency management, and support for the latest software like Appium 2. With just a few changes to your test configuration, you can take advantage of these improvements to get your test results faster and with less effort configuring your environment.

Amazon Connect reduces outbound telephony pricing across Europe

Published Date: 2023-11-10 19:38:23+00:00

Amazon Connect has reduced outbound dialing rates across European countries in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (London) regions. The new rates reflect an 8% reduction in calling to Austria at $0.0360/min, an 11% reduction to Denmark at $0.440/min, a 10% reduction to the Netherlands at $0.0380/min, a 10% reduction to Norway at $0.0800/min, and a 13% reduction to Switzerland at $0.1000/min.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions 2014 GDR, 2016 GDR, 2017 CU31 GDR, and 2019 CU23

Published Date: 2023-11-10 19:01:32+00:00

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.

Amazon Connect prompts configuration page provides CloudTrail coverage

Published Date: 2023-11-10 22:37:45+00:00

Amazon Connect launches a new prompts configuration UI with an enhanced user experience and AWS CloudTrail coverage. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. Now when you add, update or delete a prompt from the Amazon Connect admin website, a record of that activity is available in AWS CloudTrail for visibility, reporting, and compliance. For example, you may notice a discrepancy in the IVR prompt that customers hear when they call your support line. To investigate, you can leverage AWS CloudTrail to answer questions such as, “who saved this recording?” and, “when was this prompt changed?” To learn more about the new prompts page, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and the AWS CloudTrail Documentation.

Amazon Connect supports Representative Numbers in South Korea

Published Date: 2023-11-10 19:36:58+00:00

Amazon Connect has added support for Representative numbers for businesses in South Korea. Amazon Connect supports all five tiers of representative numbers ranging from two concurrent calls for the smallest representative number up to 5000 concurrent calls for the large scale services. Representative numbers are available only in Asia Pacific (Seoul).

Amazon CloudFront announces unified security dashboard

Published Date: 2023-11-10 22:49:40+00:00

With the new security dashboard, you can now enable, monitor, and manage common security protections for your web applications directly from the Amazon CloudFront console. Built for customers that need unified management of their application delivery and security, the interactive security dashboard brings AWS WAF visibility and controls directly to your CloudFront distribution, including visibility into your application’s top security trends, allowed and blocked traffic, and bot activity. Investigative tools like a visual log analyzer and built-in blocking controls make it easy to isolate traffic patterns and block traffic without querying logs or writing security rules.

Amazon EventBridge now supports over 20 new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for event buses

Published Date: 2023-11-10 22:27:12+00:00

Amazon EventBridge now supports 22 additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics that enable you to monitor the performance of your event buses and proactively identify when you may need to increase your service quotas. Publishing events to an event bus now includes metrics such as API latency, event payload size, as well as number of successful, failed, and throttled events. For invocations, where EventBridge delivers an event to a target, such as AWS Lambda, new metrics provide visibility into retries, throttling, and end-to-end latency including the time it takes for a target to respond. These metrics provide deeper insight into your event-driven applications, and allow you to quickly identify and resolve issues as they arise.

Glue Studio Visual now supports interactive data previews

Published Date: 2023-11-10 19:08:31+00:00

Today, AWS Glue Studio announces a faster and embedded interactive data preview experience. With this launch you will be able to attach data preview with each source and transform node of your AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL authoring interface. The new interactive data preview experience starts a new Glue Data Preview session as you open your visual interface and enables you to preview multiple data sets with a single session.

AWS Control Tower now supports tagging for controls enabled in AWS Control Tower

Published Date: 2023-11-10 22:41:05+00:00

AWS Control Tower customers can now configure tags for the controls that they have enabled in AWS Control Tower. Customers can add, remove, or list tags for the controls in the AWS Control Tower console or by using the tagging APIs. Tags can help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources. You can create tags to categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. AWS Control Tower now supports the following tagging APIs:

• TagResource - This API call adds tags to controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
• UntagResource - This API call removes tags from controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
• ListTagsForResource - This API call returns tags for controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol

Published Date: 2023-11-10 19:40:50+00:00

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases. RDS Proxy allows customers to gracefully scale applications by efficiently reusing database connections. For application using PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol, RDS Proxy can now reuse database connections, resulting in efficient use of database resources.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in ten additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:57:57+00:00

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in ten new AWS Regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), South America (S?o Paulo), Israel (Tel Aviv), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Middle East (UAE).

AWS Health provides improved visibility into planned lifecycle events

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:53:14+00:00

AWS Health introduces new features to help you manage planned lifecycle events, such as Amazon EKS Kubernetes version end of standard support, Amazon RDS certificate rotations, and end of support for other open source software. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and scheduled changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.

AWS Lambda enhances auto scaling for Kafka event sources

Published Date: 2023-11-09 22:49:11+00:00

AWS Lambda launches auto scaling improvements for Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources. With this launch, customers will now experience faster scaling and more consistent throughput when processing Kafka messages with Lambda functions.

Deploy your stack sets faster with ConcurrencyMode in AWS CloudFormation

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:26:05+00:00

AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces a new capability ConcurrencyMode that provides customers a faster deployment experience while balancing deployment safety. Customers control speed and safety of their stack set deployments with concurrency and failure tolerance. Customers define these parameters along with ConcurrencyMode as a part of their StackSetOperationPreferences prior to running a stack set operation. StackSetsOperationPreferences is available with the following six APIs: create-stack-instances, delete-stack-instances, detect-stack-set-drift, import-stacks-to-stack-set, update-stack-set and update-stack-instances. With the ConcurrencyMode parameter, customers can modify existing deployment behavior of stack set operations for faster deployments that decouples concurrency from failure tolerance.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports additional deployment types in seven AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:53:55+00:00

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Multi-AZ file systems in seven additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). Customers can also now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ 2 file systems in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Amazon RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB now supports M5 database instances

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:46:31+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports M5 database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

Amazon GuardDuty introduces new machine learning capability to enhance threat detection for Amazon EKS detections

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:01:10+00:00

Amazon GuardDuty has incorporated new machine learning techniques to more accurately detect anomalous activities indicative of threats to your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. This new capability continuously models Kubernetes audit log events from Amazon EKS to detect highly suspicious activity such as unusual user access to Kubernetes secrets that can be used to escalate privileges, and suspicious container deployments with images not commonly used in the cluster or account. The new threat detections are available for all GuardDuty customers that have GuardDuty EKS Audit Log Monitoring enabled.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Multitenant

Published Date: 2023-11-09 19:44:48+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB.

Amazon SQS announces support for JSON protocol

Published Date: 2023-11-09 22:43:15+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces?support for JSON protocol, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and memory usage. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.?

Amazon Comprehend launches new trust and safety features

Published Date: 2023-11-09 22:20:38+00:00

Amazon Comprehend announced new features to help organizations enhance trust and safety for text-based content. Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that provides pre-trained and custom APIs to derive insights from text. With the new Toxicity Detection and Prompt Safety Classification features, customers can now apply guardrails to moderate user and machine generated content.

Announcing next generation Resiliency Scores for AWS Resilience Hub

Published Date: 2023-11-09 19:25:42+00:00

Today, AWS Resilience Hub announces enhancements to its Resiliency Score capability, which now provides more actionable recommendations customers can implement to improve their application resilience and increase their score. Combined with the Exclude Recommendation capability, customer can emphasize different parts of the Resiliency Score that are most relevant to their application. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) operational recommendations have been added to help improve the resilience posture of your applications which include EKS resources.

Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports self-service Enterprise Subscription purchases

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:38:19+00:00

Amazon EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscriptions can now be purchased through the Amazon EKS console, APIs, and AWS CLI. You can purchase Amazon EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscriptions for 24/7 support from AWS subject matter experts and access to Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages. Amazon EKS Anywhere is an AWS-supported Kubernetes offering with automation tooling to simplify running Kubernetes in on-premises and edge environments.

NICE DCV releases version 2023.1 with support for WebAuthn redirection

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:19:08+00:00

NICE DCV version 2023.1 introduces new features and enhancements, such as a new Windows display driver which optimizes the graphics pipeline and reduces the overall CPU usage. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

Amazon RDS for MySQL delivers up to 3X higher write throughput at no additional charge

Published Date: 2023-11-09 19:50:14+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now?delivers up to 3X higher write throughput at no additional charge, starting with RDS for MySQL version 8.0.35. If you're running RDS for MySQL version 8.0.34 or lower, you can upgrade to RDS for MySQL version 8.0.35 to benefit from this performance improvement. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Amazon SNS increases default FIFO topic throughput by 10x to 3,000 messages per second

Published Date: 2023-11-09 19:02:17+00:00

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) First-In-First-Out (FIFO) topics now support 3,000 messages per second, per topic. All existing and future FIFO topics now have this new quota by default, with no configuration change required. To benefit from maximum throughput in FIFO topics where message order is strictly maintained within each message group, distribute your messages evenly over a large number of message group IDs, as messages from different message groups are delivered in parallel.

Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:42:22+00:00

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots, an account-wide security setting that allows customers to block public sharing of EBS Snapshots in an AWS Region. Customers managing EBS Snapshots at scale now have a simple and proactive way of safeguarding their data from inadvertent access by unauthorized users.

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces Neural Search

Published Date: 2023-11-09 20:17:29+00:00

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Neural Search on OpenSearch 2.9, enabling builders to create and operationalize semantic search applications with reduced undifferentiated heavy-lifting. For years, customers have been building semantic search applications on OpenSearch k-NN, but they’ve been burdened with building middleware to integrate text embedding models into search and ingest pipelines. Amazon OpenSearch Service customers can power Neural Search through integrations with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock enabling semantic search pipelines that run on-cluster.?

News and Events Feature in AWS Partner Central

Published Date: 2023-11-09 22:50:55+00:00

Introducing News and Events in AWS Partner Central.?The new feature curates top stories, announcements, and events in the Partner Central home page.

Amazon Redshift launches MaxRPU, a new compute cost control setting for Redshift Serverless

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:01:23+00:00

Amazon Redshift announces MaxRPU, a new compute cost control setting for Amazon Redshift Serverless. With MaxRPU, you can optionally specify an upper compute threshold to control data warehouse costs at any point in time by selecting the maximum compute level that Redshift Serverless can scale per workgroup.

AWS Lambda adds support for Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2023-11-10 21:27:22+00:00

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. This runtime has a significantly smaller deployment footprint than Amazon Linux 2 runtimes, and provides updated versions of common libraries such as glibc. The Amazon Linux 2023 runtime will also be used as the basis for future Lambda runtime releases, such as Node.js 20, Python 3.12, Java 21, and .NET 8. For more information, see our blog post at Amazon Linux 2023 runtime now available on AWS Lambda.

Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwarding

Published Date: 2023-11-09 23:12:44+00:00

Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now lets you forward write requests from a secondary to a primary Region, simplifying writing from multiple Regions and making it easier to develop globally distributed applications. With this launch, write forwarding is now available on both Aurora Global Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:11:46+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are available in AWS Region Canada (Central) and AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These instances are built with AWS Graviton3 processors and the AWS Nitro System. 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.?

AWS Batch array jobs now support array size environment variable

Published Date: 2023-11-09 21:08:43+00:00

AWS Batch now exposes array size as a container environment variable of an array child job. With this feature, customers can use array size in the logic of their applications (e.g. to divide data between jobs for parallel processing).

AWS Application Discovery Service adds support for communication through network proxy

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:08:18+00:00

Starting today, the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector adds support for routing all communication to AWS through either an HTTP or HTTPS proxy. This allows you to deploy the collector within environments without a direct route to AWS.

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports RDS Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys

Published Date: 2023-11-09 22:14:35+00:00

Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), now supports RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. Amazon RDS Proxy allows applications to pool and share connections established with the database, improving database efficiency and application scalability.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-11-09 18:20:33+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Extended Protocol Support for AWS IoT SiteWise Edge through EasyEdge

Published Date: 2023-11-09 20:01:03+00:00

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of extended industrial protocol support for AWS IoT SiteWise. Through a new integration with AWS Partner Domatica, customers can now ingest data from 10 additional industrial protocols including Modbus (TCP & RTU), Ethernet/IP, Siemens S7, KNX, LoRaWAN, MQTT, Profinet, Profibus BACnet, and Rest interfaces, in addition to native OPC UA support. Previously, ingesting data from these protocols required acquiring, provisioning, and configuring infrastructure and middleware for data collection resulting in additional cost and time to value.

AWS Lambda makes it easier to troubleshoot errors and timeouts of Init and Restore phase

Published Date: 2023-11-08 20:17:53+00:00

AWS Lambda now makes it easy to monitor and troubleshoot Lambda function failures by reporting errors and timeouts during initialization and restore phases of the Lambda function lifecycle to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

AWS announces Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Optimized Reads

Published Date: 2023-11-08 21:23:02+00:00

AWS announces Amazon Aurora Optimized Reads for Aurora PostgreSQL, a new price-performance capability available on new r6gd and r6id instances that delivers up to 8x improved query latency and up to 30% cost savings compared to instances without it, for applications with large datasets that exceed the memory capacity of a database instance.

Deploy SAP applications programmatically using AWS Launch Wizard APIs

Published Date: 2023-11-08 23:04:08+00:00

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP applications using APIs in single-node, multi-node, and high availability architectures. This gives you the choice to use Launch Wizard APIs (through the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK) client or CLIs) or the existing console-based experience while still taking advantage of the built-in automation and best practices that Launch Wizard provides.

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Ingestion is now generally available

Published Date: 2023-11-08 19:07:24+00:00

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers fully managed capabilities to stream video and audio in real-time from Web Real-time Communication (WebRTC) standards compliant cameras, IoT devices and browsers to the cloud for secure storage, playback and analytical processing. Customers can now use our enhanced WebRTC SDK and cloud APIs to enable real-time streaming as well as media ingestion to the cloud.

Amazon Lex introduces Selective Conversation Log Capture for Amazon Lex V2

Published Date: 2023-11-08 17:58:26+00:00

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (chatbots), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.?

AWS Application Migration Service supports AWS App2Container Replatforming

Published Date: 2023-11-08 19:09:16+00:00

Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for Replatforming workloads using AWS App2Container (A2C). You can now use Application Migration Service to replatform applications running on migrated servers into Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS App Runner. The new feature provides support for replatforming .NET and Java based applications, including containerizing .NET framework based applications to Windows containers, and replatforming JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Java, and .NET core applications to Linux containers. For each migrated server, you can generate application container images, Dockerfiles, and CloudFormation artifacts required to deploy to Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS App Runner.

AWS Audit Manager introduces framework for generative AI on Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2023-11-08 18:02:23+00:00

Available today, AWS Audit Manager customers can now access a prebuilt standard framework to help gain visibility into how their generative AI implementation on Amazon Bedrock is?working against AWS recommended best practices. With this framework, Amazon Bedrock customers can now start auditing their generative AI usage and automating evidence collection, providing a consistent approach for tracking AI model usage and permissions, flagging sensitive data, and alerting on issues.

AWS App Runner is now available in London, Mumbai, and Paris AWS regions

Published Date: 2023-11-08 18:36:22+00:00

AWS App Runner expands availability to the AWS Europe (London), AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and AWS Europe (Paris) regions, enabling customers to build, deploy, and run web applications and API services in AWS cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure.

QuickSight launches FLOAT data type support for SPICE datasets

Published Date: 2023-11-08 23:06:23+00:00

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of FLOAT data type support for SPICE datasets. Before we enable FLOAT data type, SPICE only supports FIXED decimal data type. FIXED decimal data type provides the benefit of exact mathematical operations, but since it only supports four decimal places, and rounding while ingesting data and performing calculations, it causes accuracy and overflow problems. The new FLOAT, i.e. floating-point numeric data type, provides approximately 16 significant digits of accuracy. These significant digits can be on either side of the decimal point, thus allowing numbers with more accuracy as well as larger range. If users are working with very small numbers (close to zero), they can use approximately 15 digits to the right of the decimal point. This helps avoid the problem of truncation and is consistent with other products’ results. Additionally, with a maximum value of approximately 1.8*10^308, the possibility of an overflow error is effectively minimized. SPICE has added this data type without sacrificing performance, so customers can continue to experience the same super-fast performance they’ve come to expect. For further details, visit here.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports exporting dashboards to CloudWatch

Published Date: 2023-11-08 18:00:53+00:00

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now allows you to export metrics dashboards from your Amazon RDS instance to Amazon CloudWatch. You can export both the pre-configured and custom metrics dashboards. With this feature, it is now easier to view and set alarms on Amazon RDS Performance Insights metrics from Amazon CloudWatch, and integrate these metrics with other Amazon CloudWatch metrics on the same dashboard with just a few clicks in the console.

Database Activity Streams creates Kinesis data streams in on-demand mode

Published Date: 2023-11-07 22:37:58+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Database Activity Streams captures events from the database, encrypts them, and uploads the records to an Amazon Kinesis data stream within your account. The default behavior is that Database Activity Streams creates a Kinesis data stream in provisioned mode upon start. Starting today, once you enable Database Activity Streams, we will create a Kinesis data stream in on-demand mode instead of provisioned mode. This change will only apply to any new Database Activity Streams enablements. This will not affect existing Kinesis data streams. If you wish to move from on-demand mode to provisioned mode, you can do so through the Kinesis Console or APIs.

AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces scenarios and scheduled experiments

Published Date: 2023-11-07 22:40:18+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of scenarios and scheduled experiments?for AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS).??Scenarios define events or conditions that customers can apply to test the resilience of their applications, such as the interruption of compute resources on which the application is running. Scenarios are created and owned by AWS, and minimize undifferentiated heavy lifting by providing you with pre-defined targets and fault actions (e.g., gradually increase CPU load from 90% to 100% for Amazon EC2 instances) for possible application impairments.

AWS Config launches inventory and compliance dashboards

Published Date: 2023-11-07 19:30:37+00:00

AWS Config announces new inventory and compliance dashboards for AWS Config aggregators, which offer essential insights like the 'Summary of Compliance by Resources', 'Top 10 accounts with noncompliant resources', 'Comparison of running vs. stopped EC2 instances by type', and 'EBS Volumes by volume type and size'.

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for pre-script and post-script automation of EBS Snapshots

Published Date: 2023-11-07 20:59:29+00:00

Customers can now use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate pre-scripts and post-scripts on their Amazon EC2 instances to protect their workloads with application-consistent Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots. This capability works in conjunction with AWS Systems Manager Agent and AWS Systems Manager Documents (SSM documents) and comes with AWS-provided templates to make it easy for customers to automate the creation of application-consistent EBS Snapshots, including for self-managed databases.

AWS Cost Management now provides purchase recommendations for Amazon MemoryDB Reserved Nodes

Published Date: 2023-11-07 17:59:57+00:00

Starting today, you can access recommendations in AWS Cost Explorer to help you purchase Amazon MemoryDB reserved nodes. MemoryDB reserved nodes allow you to save up to 55% over On-Demand node prices in exchange for a usage commitment over a one or three-year term. Now with these new recommendations, you can purchase MemoryDB reserved nodes in minutes, making it even easier to optimize your MemoryDB spend.

Build ML models w/ advanced configurations, gain Model Leaderboard visibility on SageMaker Canvas

Published Date: 2023-11-07 19:25:53+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a no-code workspace that enables analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions for their business needs. Starting today, Canvas supports advanced model build configurations such as selecting training method (Ensemble/Hyper parameter optimization) and algorithms, customizing training/validation data split ratio, and setting limits on autoML iterations and job run time, thus allowing users to customize model building configurations without having to write a single line of code. This flexibility can provide more robust and insightful model development. Non-technical stakeholders can use the no-code features with default settings, while citizen data scientists can experiment with various ML algorithms and techniques, helping them understand which methods work best for their data and optimize to ensure the model's quality and performance.

AWS announces general availability of Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift

Published Date: 2023-11-07 22:35:44+00:00

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift?is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift to analyze petabytes of transactional data from Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition.?Within seconds of transactional data being written into Aurora, the data is available in Amazon Redshift. You don’t need to build and maintain complex data pipelines to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations. Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available for Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Provisioned and Amazon Redshift Serverless and RA3 instance types.

AWS adds ability for shared Windows AMIs users to enable faster launching

Published Date: 2023-11-07 18:29:04+00:00

Today, AWS announces the ability for customers to enable Windows Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to launch faster when the images are shared with them from another account. Prior to this, faster launching for Windows AMIs could only be enabled by the AMI owner, but now the recipient of the shared AMI can enable it as well and customize the parameters based on their need with a few simple actions.?

Amazon ElastiCache now supports network-optimized C7gn Graviton3-based nodes

Published Date: 2023-11-07 20:20:32+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache now supports network-optimized Graviton3-based C7gn nodes. ElastiCache C7gn nodes feature the new 5th generation AWS Nitro Cards and enable you to achieve the highest network bandwidth across ElastiCache node families for network-intensive workloads.?

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver persistent chat experiences for your customers

Published Date: 2023-11-06 18:00:06+00:00

Amazon Connect now offers a new flow block to enable persistent chats, making it easier to deliver long lasting chat experiences for your customers. Persistent chats enable customers to resume previous conversations with the context, metadata, and transcripts carried over, eliminating the need for customers to repeat themselves and allowing agents to provide personalized service with access to the entire conversation history.

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon EKS

Published Date: 2023-11-06 18:26:48+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now delivers enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with out-of-the-box detailed health and performance metrics, including container level EKS performance metrics, Kube-state metrics and EKS control plane metrics for faster problem isolation and troubleshooting.

AWS Service Management Connector introduces AWS Health and AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter integrations in Jira Cloud

Published Date: 2023-11-06 22:43:47+00:00

Starting today, you can now integrate AWS Health events to receive operational and account information, prepare for scheduled changes, and manage events directly within Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.?

AWS Fargate now enables Amazon ECS tasks to selectively leverage SOCI

Published Date: 2023-11-06 22:45:34+00:00

Customers running applications with more than one containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI) to lazily load specific container images within the Amazon ECS task definition. This eliminates the need to generate SOCI indexes for smaller container images within the task definition, while still getting the benefits of SOCI with larger container images, improving the overall application deployment and scale-out time.

Amazon EC2 D3 instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2023-11-06 22:14:30+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (Zurich) region.

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.7 and deferrable operators

Published Date: 2023-11-06 22:41:18+00:00

You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.7 environments and execute deferrable operators on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.7 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

AWS CodeBuild now supports AWS Lambda compute

Published Date: 2023-11-06 22:16:03+00:00

AWS CodeBuild customers can now use AWS Lambda to build and test their software packages. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages.

Amazon MSK adds check for too many partitions to AWS Trusted Advisor

Published Date: 2023-11-06 21:43:22+00:00

AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new fault tolerance check for too many partitions per broker on Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). AWS Trusted Advisor helps you optimize costs, increase performance, improve security and resilience, and operate at scale in the cloud.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Milan) Region

Published Date: 2023-11-06 22:31:55+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Milan) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS Health enhances integration via AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow

Published Date: 2023-11-06 23:00:39+00:00

Starting today, you can now integrate AWS Health events to receive operational and account information, prepare for scheduled changes, and manage events directly within ServiceNow. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources. It also supports the organization view which allows you to receive a feed of health events across your organization by setting up one EventBridge rule and monitors AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge.

AWS Control Tower is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Published Date: 2023-11-06 20:56:34+00:00

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 28 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 SES now offers 60 days of metric history in Virtual Deliverability Manager

Published Date: 2023-11-06 21:50:56+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) extended the duration during which customers can access their engagement metrics in the Virtual Deliverability Manager dashboard. Now customers can see delivery and engagement rates for up to 60 days prior, helping customers monitor sending performance and troubleshoot unexpected drops in delivery and engagement rates. This extra history makes it easier to identify trends, compare unusual events with a broader baseline, and reduce the timing dependencies for identifying problems requiring investigation.

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Published Date: 2023-11-06 19:30:04+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). The addition of this region expands the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS to 26 regions globally, enabling more customers to accelerate their migration to the cloud.

AWS Lambda supports faster polling scale-up rate for Amazon SQS as an event source

Published Date: 2023-11-06 20:53:35+00:00

AWS Lambda now supports up to 5x faster polling scale-up rate (adding up to 300 concurrent executions per minute) for spiky Lambda workloads configured with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as an event source using Lambda event source mapping or Amazon EventBridge Pipes. This enables customers building event-driven applications using Lambda and SQS queues (standard or first-in, first-out) to achieve more responsive scaling during a sudden burst of messages in their queues, and reduces the need to duplicate Lambda functions or SQS queues to achieve faster message processing.

Amazon SQS announces Amazon EventBridge Pipes console integration

Published Date: 2023-11-06 19:08:34+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an integration with Amazon EventBridge Pipes in the SQS service console, making it easier to send messages from your SQS queue to one of over 14 AWS service targets, including Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SNS, Amazon ECS, Amazon EventBridge event buses, or another SQS queue. The EventBridge Pipes integration also supports the EventBridge API Destinations target which uses API calls to send your SQS messages to software as a service (SaaS) applications or your own applications within or outside AWS.

EC2 Image Builder adds Amazon Linux 2023 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS managed image support

Published Date: 2023-11-06 19:28:10+00:00

EC2 Image Builder, a service that makes it easier and faster to build, customize and maintain Virtual Machine images, now supports additional Operating Systems - Amazon Linux 2023 and Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS). Customers can use these new managed images as a base image for their image pipelines to create and manage custom images, similar to the process for supported Windows and Linux operating systems.