AWS update of Week 47 (20 Nov - 26 Nov)

Recommend actions that increase brand loyalty with Amazon Personalize Next Best Action

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:50+00:00

Amazon Personalize is?excited to announce the new Next-Best-Action recipe to help you recommend actions that your users have a high probability to take in real-time. Expanding beyond the items or content that Personalize has allowed customers to recommend, this new recipe assists you in determining the next best actions to suggest to your individual users that will help in increasing brand loyalty and conversion. Similar to other Amazon Personalize recipes, Next Best Action does not require ML expertise and allows you to integrate personalization seamlessly into your applications.

Announcing the Cost and Usage Dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:50+00:00

Starting today, customers can deploy the Cost and Usage Dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight directly from AWS Billing and Cost Management console. The Cost and Usage Dashboard is backed by a summary view of the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR), and it enables interactive analysis and secure sharing of cost insights with a broader stakeholder group who may not have access to AWS console.

Powered by foundation model, Amazon Transcribe now supports over 100 languages

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:10+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe’s next generation, multi-billion parameter speech foundation model-powered system that expands automatic speech recognition (ASR) to over 100 languages. Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed ASR service that makes it easy for customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Our speech foundation model is trained using best-in-class self-supervised algorithms to learn the inherent universal patterns of human speech across languages and accents.

AWS Config now supports periodic recording: Efficiently scale your change tracking

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:55+00:00

AWS Config announces the launch of periodic recording to track resource configuration changes more efficiently at scale. This launch extends AWS Config’s existing recording capabilities, which?continuously track every change as it occurs. Periodic recording captures the latest configuration changes of your resources once every 24 hours, reducing the number of changes delivered. Both continuous and periodic recording options are priced based on the number of configurations items.

AWS Config launches generative AI-powered natural language querying (Preview)

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:08+00:00

AWS Config introduces a new natural language querying feature powered by generative AI, which simplifies the investigation and search of AWS resource configurations and compliance metadata. Now, you can ask questions in plain language such as "display all EC2 instances with the security group sg-ef678hk" or "show me all non-compliant S3 buckets in my organization." AWS Config will generate the equivalent advanced query written in SQL syntax, which customers can then run as-is, or fine-tune for even more granularity.

Application Load Balancer can authenticate X.509 certificate based identities with Mutual TLS support

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:50+00:00

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Mutual TLS enabling you to authenticate clients while establishing TLS encrypted connections.

Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-powered natural language query generation (in preview)

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:18+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch announces (in preview) natural language query generation powered by generative AI for Logs Insights and Metrics Insights. This feature enables you to easily and quickly generate queries in context of your logs and metrics data using plain language.?By simplifying the query generation process, you can accelerate insights from your observability data without needing extensive knowledge of the query language.

AWS Systems Manager Automation makes it easier to author runbooks with new low-code visual design experience

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:15+00:00

AWS Systems Manager Automation enables you to automate routine operations tasks using runbooks. Starting today, developers can author and edit runbooks using a low-code visual design experience. Simply drag and drop Automation actions and AWS APIs onto a canvas and connect them together as steps to visualize your runbook logic. The visual design experience pre-populates parameters and validates actions in real time so you can build with confidence and efficiency.

Amazon Redshift now support’s multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing (preview)

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:15+00:00

Amazon Redshift now supports multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing in public preview. You can start writing to Redshift databases from multiple Redshift data warehouses in just a few clicks. The written data is available to all warehouses as soon as it is committed. This allows teams to flexibly scale compute by adding warehouses of different types and sizes based on their write workloads’ price-performance needs, isolate compute to more easily meet SLAs, and easily and securely collaborate with other teams.

CloudWatch now supports hybrid and multicloud metrics querying and alarming

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:25+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch now supports data querying from multiple sources, enabling you to gain visibility across your hybrid and multicloud metrics in a single view. With this feature, you can consolidate and visualize metrics from sources such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Azure Monitor, your own custom data sources, and query those metrics in real time, increasing visibility into your application health and helping you resolve critical events faster.

Amazon S3 Access Grants integrate with identity providers to simplify data lake permissions

Published Date: 2023-11-26 21:08:11+00:00

Amazon S3 Access Grants map?identities in directories such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end-users based on their corporate identity. Additionally, S3 Access Grants log end-user identity and the application used to access S3 data in AWS CloudTrail. This helps to provide a detailed audit history down to the end-user identity for all access to the data in your S3 buckets.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus launches an agentless collector for Prometheus metrics from Amazon EKS

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:25+00:00

We are excited to announce Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector customers can use to collect Prometheus metrics from their workloads running on Amazon EKS. Customers can now enable the discovery and collection of Prometheus metrics from their Amazon EKS applications and infrastructure through the EKS console or through an API call, without having to self-manage agents.

Amazon EFS now supports up to 250,000 IOPS per file system

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:09+00:00

Amazon EFS now supports up to 250,000 read IOPS and up to 50,000 write IOPS per file system, making it easier to power IOPS-intensive file workloads on AWS.

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics now offers generative call summarization (preview)

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:40+00:00

We are excited to announce the preview of generative AI-powered call summarization?in Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics to?boost?contact center agent and manager productivity, and improve customer experience. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, generative call summarization delivers a concise summary of a contact center interaction that captures key components such as why the customer called, how the issue was addressed, and what follow-up actions were identified.

Amazon Personalize now creates themes for recommendations using generative AI

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:35+00:00

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce Content Generator, a new generative AI powered capability that makes recommendations more compelling by identifying thematic connections between recommended items. Content Generator will assist customers in crafting taglines to create a more engaging browsing experience.

Redshift provisioned concurrency scaling and serverless autoscaling now supports Create Table As Select (CTAS)

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:19+00:00

Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster concurrency scaling and serverless autoscaling now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) queries. This allows customers to scale their extract, transform, and load (ETL) and other write workloads with additional compute to more easily meet their SLAs.

Amazon Monitron launches Ex-rated sensors for hazardous locations

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:20+00:00

Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses machine learning to detect abnormal conditions in industrial equipment to enable predictive maintenance. Amazon Monitron includes wireless sensors to capture vibration and temperature data; gateways to automatically transfer data to the AWS Cloud; the Amazon Monitron service that analyzes the data for abnormal machine patterns using ML, and a companion mobile app to set up the devices and receive reports on operating behavior and alerts to potential failures in machinery.

Announcing the general availability of AWS re:Post Private

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:45+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS re:Post Private, a fully managed, secure knowledge service for enterprises to accelerate cloud adoption and improve developer productivity. Using re:Post Private, enterprises can create their own private version of AWS re:Post to collaborate with their company and with AWS. This allows you to streamline collaboration and knowledge sharing within your cloud community through secure community discussion and helps you build reusable knowledge specific to your organization. With re:Post Private, you can up-level builder skills and onboard new team members faster with curated training and technical content from AWS and centralized, scalable knowledge resources. Customers with Enterprise Support and Enterprise On-Ramp Support plans can subscribe to this service.

AWS announces support for large language models in Amazon Redshift ML (Preview)

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:20+00:00

Amazon Redshift enhances Redshift ML to support large language models (LLM). Amazon Redshift ML enables customers to create, train, and deploy machine learning models using familiar SQL commands. Now, you can leverage pretrained publicly available LLMs?in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart aspart of Redshift ML, allowing you to bring the power of LLMs to analytics. For example, you can make inferences on your product feedback data in Amazon Redshift, use LLMs to summarize feedback, perform entity extraction, sentiment analysis and product feedback classification.

Application Load Balancer increases application availability with Automatic Target Weights

Published Date: 2023-11-26 21:34:42+00:00

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Automatic Target Weights (ATW), which uses a new routing algorithm to optimize the amount of traffic sent to each target based on information available to the load balancer. With this initial launch, ALB will adjust the amount of traffic sent to each target based on implicit health information, like 5XX errors and connection errors.

Automate AWS Control Tower landing zone operations using APIs

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:55+00:00

AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically set up and manage their landing zones. Customers can discover, create, update, and reset their landing zones, as well as manage landing zone customizations, using APIs. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment based on security and compliance best practices. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, and account structure. The landing zone APIs include AWS CloudFormation support, allowing customers to manage their landing zone with infrastructure as code (IaC).

AWS Analytics simplify users’ data access across services with IAM Identity Center

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:55+00:00

AWS Analytics services, including Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3 via S3 Access Grants, now use trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center to manage and audit access to data and resources based on user identity. This new capability passes identity information between connected business intelligence and data analytics applications. Administrators define access to their service based on a common set of users and groups in the customer’s chosen identity provider. Auditors can track users’ access across services. Analytics users benefit from an improved single sign-on experience when accessing data.

AWS announces CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern analysis

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:30+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a suite of machine-learning powered log analytics capabilities in CloudWatch, including automated log pattern analysis and anomaly detection. Using these new capabilities, you will be able to easily interpret your logs, identify unusual events, and use these insights to steer and accelerate your investigation.

AWS CloudFormation introduces Git management of stacks

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:20:20+00:00

AWS CloudFormation now supports Git sync, enabling customers to synchronize their stacks from a CloudFormation template stored in a remote Git repository. A CloudFormation template describes your desired resources and their dependencies so you can launch and configure them together as a stack.?

Introducing Cost Optimization Hub

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:10+00:00

Today we are announcing Cost Optimization Hub, a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations across your AWS Organizations member accounts and AWS Regions, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend.

Amazon Web Services announces Unified Billing and Cost Management console

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:35+00:00

Today, AWS announces a unified Billing and Cost Management console that helps customers make faster, better-informed decisions and manage their AWS cloud finances more efficiently. The unified Billing and Cost Management console combines the previous Billing console and the previous Cost Management console, and features a new home page with insights and recommendations to help customers understand their spend, identify problems, and save money, along with more intuitive navigation and improved getting started resources. With this new console experience, it’s easier to decide where to focus, prioritize what’s most important, and take action.

AWS CloudTrail Lake data now available for zero-ETL analysis in Amazon Athena

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:18:30+00:00

Starting today, AWS CloudTrail Lake data is now available for zero-ETL analysis in Amazon Athena. You can use Athena to query your activity logs in CloudTrail Lake without the operational complexity of moving data or building data processing pipelines. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. Athena is an interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze data in Amazon S3 and other data stores using SQL. Using Athena, security engineers can now correlate activity logs in CloudTrail Lake with application and traffic logs in data stores such as S3 for security incident investigations. Compliance and operation engineers can now visualize activity logs in CloudTrail Lake with Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Managed Grafana for compliance, cost, and usage reporting.

AWS Glue Data Quality announces anomaly detection and dynamic rules

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:40+00:00

AWS Glue announces preview of a new Glue Data Quality capability that uses ML-powered anomaly detection algorithms to detect hard-to-find data quality issues and anomalies. This helps customers proactively identify quality issues and fix them, so that data users can make confident business decisions.

AWS Compute Optimizer introduces customizable rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Instances

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:50+00:00

Today we are announcing customizable EC2 rightsizing recommendations within AWS Compute Optimizer. With this launch you can now adjust both CPU headroom and thresholds, configure a new 32-day lookback period option, and set instance family preferences. These settings can be configured at the organization, account, or regional level.

Announcing Data Exports for AWS Billing and Cost Management

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:05+00:00

Starting today, customers can create exports of their billing and cost management data with custom column selections and row filters using a SQL interface. Exports are delivered on a recurring basis to an Amazon S3 bucket for use with business intelligence or data analytics solutions. Customers can use Data Exports with the new Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0) table, which contains the same information as the pre-existing Cost and Usage Report, but with two new columns, a queryable nested data structure, and a fixed schema.

Announcing preview of AMB Access Polygon, serverless access to Polygon blockchain

Published Date: 2023-11-26 21:36:47+00:00

Today, AWS announces the preview release of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Access Polygon. Access Polygon will help developers seamlessly interact with the Polygon blockchain, a high-throughput, low fees, EVM-compatible blockchain, so they can build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access Polygon provides serverless access to archive nodes for Polygon Proof of stake (PoS) Mainnet and Mumbai Testnet.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Infrequent Access log class

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:45+00:00

We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA), a new log class for cost-effectively consolidating all your logs natively on AWS, helping to improve visibility into your overall application health. CloudWatch Logs IA offers a subset of CloudWatch Logs' capabilities including managed ingestion, cross-account log analytics, and encryption with a lower per GB ingestion price making Logs IA ideal for ad-hoc querying and after-the-fact forensic analysis on infrequently accessed logs.

ENA Express supports 58 new instances with sizes as small as 16 vCPUs

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:40+00:00

ENA Express now supports 58 new instance types ranging from 16 to 192 vCPUs. With this launch, ENA Express is adding support for 20 new memory optimized instances, 15 new compute optimized instances, 15 new general purpose instances, and 8 new storage instances. Before today, ENA Express supported only the largest instance size, totaling 27 instances as small as 64 vCPUs.??

AWS Step Functions launches optimized integration for Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:15+00:00

Today, AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for Amazon Bedrock, making it easier to integrate generative AI capabilities into Step Functions workflows, accelerating development of generative AI applications. This launch enables you to use Step Functions to orchestrate interactions with foundation models and add in steps for human intervention, without needing to write or maintain integration code. You can leverage Step Functions Workflow Studio to visually develop, inspect, and audit user defined generative AI workflows with ease.?

Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience launches one-way data replication

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:00+00:00

Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience adds cross-region one-way data replication to standby WorkSpaces to help provide improved business continuity for your WorkSpaces users.?You can enable data replication for your standby WorkSpaces, and root and user volume data will automatically replicate from your primary WorkSpaces to your standby WorkSpaces.

AWS Free Tier usage is now available through the GetFreeTierUsage API

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:21:25+00:00

Starting today, customers can now access their AWS Free Tier usage through the AWS SDK, command line, and 3rd party tools at no cost. Using this API, customers can programmatically track free tier usage against monthly usage limits, which allows customers to understand when their free usage will transition to pay-as-you-go pricing each month. This helps avoid unintended charges by comparing forecasted usage to the free tier limit for each service throughout the month. The AWS Free Tier allows customers to explore more than 100 AWS products by offering free usage each month.

Announcing the new Amazon EFS Archive storage class

Published Date: 2023-11-26 20:19:35+00:00

Amazon EFS Archive is a new storage class that is cost-optimized for long-lived file data that is accessed a few times a year or less. With EFS Archive, you now have a cost-effective way to retain even your coldest data so that it’s always available to power new business insights. In addition, as part of this launch, the storage price for the existing Amazon EFS Infrequent Access (IA) storage class is being reduced by 36% to make EFS an even better solution for sharing a wide range of data.

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports Asset model components

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:06:00+00:00

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports Asset model components to help industrial customers create reusable components to derive new asset models and express variations easily.

Amazon EMR Studio now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:01:20+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon CodeWhisperer is available in Amazon EMR Studio. You can use Amazon CodeWhisperer with no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions in Amazon EMR Studio notebooks. CodeWhisperer can generate code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions in real time based on your prompts and existing code.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 optimizes for repeated data access

Published Date: 2023-11-22 23:31:22+00:00

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 can now cache data in Amazon EC2 instance storage, instance memory, or an Amazon EBS volume for repeated data access. This avoids redundant requests to Amazon S3 when you need to read the same data multiple times, which improves both the cost and performance of your application. For example, by using Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and caching data in Amazon EC2 instance storage, you can complete your machine learning training jobs up to 2x faster by avoiding redundant requests to Amazon S3.

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports user-defined unique identifiers

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:05:02+00:00

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports the use of user-defined unique identifiers for asset, asset models, properties and hierarchies. This new feature allows consistency and control using identifiers for assets and asset models in AWS IoT SiteWise, especially for companies that have modeled their industrial equipment in multiple systems or AWS IoT SiteWise instances.

Introducing the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch

Published Date: 2023-11-22 23:31:52+00:00

The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch delivers high throughput for PyTorch training jobs that access and store data in Amazon S3. PyTorch is an open source machine learning framework widely used by AWS customers to build and train machine learning models. The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch automatically optimizes S3 read and list requests to improve data loading and checkpoint performance for your training workloads. Saving machine learning training model checkpoints is up to 40% faster with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than saving to Amazon EC2 instance storage.

Amazon QuickSight launches a new redesigned analysis experience

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:09:45+00:00

Amazon QuickSight launched a new analysis experience, enabling a more intuitive and efficient way for authoring dashboards on QuickSight. With the new analysis experience, QuickSight is redesigning the core workflows for authors to be more intuitive, scalable, and efficient. The new analysis experience includes

• 3-pane layout that provides a clear and organized workspace for easy navigation between data, visualization building, and object properties. This includes updates to pane components, new vertically organized field wells, drag and drop fields, add/edit workflow, visual type selector redesign, and the Properties pane.
• The analysis toolbar providing access to essential authoring, editing, and pane-management functions with just a click, allowing authors to work more efficiently across the analysis experience.

AWS IoT SiteWise announces a new storage tier for industrial data

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:11:15+00:00

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports warm storage, a fully-managed storage tier that makes it easy for customers to securely store and access industrial data needed for analytics use cases such as business intelligence dashboards and machine learning applications. The warm storage tier allows customers to retain large amounts of historical data at near Amazon S3 cost per GB storage prices. Data stored in the warm tier is optimized for retrieval using AWS IoT SiteWise query API.

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports multi-variate anomaly detection with Amazon Lookout for Equipment

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:06:55+00:00

Today, AWS IoT SiteWise is launching multi-variate anomaly detection of industrial assets via integration of historical and real-time equipment data with Amazon Lookout for Equipment. Anomaly detection helps industrial customers quickly identify and visualize changes in equipment or operating conditions thus unlocking Predictive Maintenance use cases.

AWS IoT TwinMaker launches new features to improve the digital twin entity modeling experience

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:12:30+00:00

AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories and industrial equipment. We are launching three new features in entity modeling to enable customers model, deploy, and scale their digital twins faster and more efficiently.

Amazon S3 Batch Operations now manages buckets or prefixes in a single step

Published Date: 2023-11-22 23:30:56+00:00

Amazon S3 Batch Operations can now manage objects within an S3 bucket, prefix, suffix, or more, in a single step. When creating an S3 Batch Operation, customers can specify the objects on which to perform the operation. Now, you have the option to instead specify an entire bucket, prefix, suffix, creation date, or storage class. Amazon S3 Batch Operations will then quickly apply the operation to all the matching objects and notify you when the job completes.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches cross-account access with AWS Lambda

Published Date: 2023-11-22 23:33:43+00:00

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports resource-based policies, so you can process data ingested into a stream in one account with an AWS Lambda function in another account. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless real-time data streaming service that can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Together with Kinesis Data Streams and Lambda, you can build a completely serverless data streaming pipeline.

AWS IoT SiteWise now support bulk import, export and update of metadata

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:08:50+00:00

AWS IoT SiteWise now support bulk import, export, and update industrial equipment metadata. The new bulk APIs for metadata help customers to import their asset model data from diverse systems such as historians in AWS IoT SiteWise at scale.

Logs support now available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:52:34+00:00

Today, we are announcing the general availability of logs in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this launch, customers can use the ADOT collector and supported OpenTelemetry SDKs (for Java, JavaScript, .NET, and Python) to collect and send logs to Amazon CloudWatch and backends supporting OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) such as Amazon OpenSearch (AOS).

AWS CodePipeline supports starting a pipeline execution with source revision overrides

Published Date: 2023-11-22 23:34:17+00:00

AWS CodePipeline announces the ability to start a pipeline execution with source revision overrides. Until today, a manually started pipeline execution would automatically select the “latest revision” for each source in the pipeline. The “latest revision” depended on the source action type. For example, for a CodeCommit source, the HEAD commit reference in the configured repository and branch was used, and for Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) source, the latest digest of the configured image repository and tag was used. Now, when you start a pipeline execution, you can override the source revisions for the source actions in your pipeline.?

AWS Entity Resolution is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:15:31+00:00

AWS Entity Resolution is now a HIPAA eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to now use AWS Entity Resolution to match, link, and enhance patient records spread across multiple data stores such as electronic health records (EHRs), diagnostic laboratories, claims, insurance, and billing platforms.

AWS IoT SiteWise announces Query API for metadata, and telemetry data retrieval

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:06:00+00:00

We are announcing the launch of data retrieval query API (ExecuteQuery) to allow customers to access asset metadata and telemetry data for both operational and analytical use cases. With the new ExecuteQuery API customers can retrieve metadata and time-series data from asset models, assets, measurements, metrics, transforms, and aggregates using SQL-like query statements in a single API request.

AWS IoT SiteWise supports ingestion of buffered and batched measurement data

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:09:50+00:00

Today, we are announcing the launch of a new feature in AWS IoT SiteWise that allows cost-efficient and scalable ingestion of time-series data needed for analytical use cases. Until now, customers have used AWS IoT SiteWise streaming ingestion APIs to ingest telemetry data for real-time use cases within milliseconds. With this new feature, customers can now buffer time-series data streams at the edge before ingesting to the cloud. This lowers ingestion cost for data needed in the cloud within minutes instead of milliseconds. For example, data needed for machine learning applications and BI analytics dashboards that only need to be updated every 15 minutes. The combination of the two ingestion mechanisms allows customers to configure efficient ingestion pipelines for data needed for real-time and analytical applications.

Introducing the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency

Published Date: 2023-11-22 22:56:12+00:00

We are excited to announce the launch of the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology (AMT) Competency designed to highlight Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency in the AMT industry.

Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 4 new AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-11-22 19:12:20+00:00

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Studio is?now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka), and Europe (Milan).

AWS Lake Formation data filters now support permissions on nested data

Published Date: 2023-11-21 19:03:35+00:00

AWS Lake Formation now allows customers to apply permissions on subfields of their nested tables using data filters. Permissions can be granted on more granular fields such as on particular columns inside of structs. Permissions on nested fields provide customers more fine grained permissions to better match their business needs with greater flexibility to how they structure their data.

AWS Security and MSSP Specializations now included in AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights

Published Date: 2023-11-22 23:37:40+00:00

AWS Marketplace sellers with a Security Specialization or a Level 1 Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Specialization can now add these Specializations to their Vendor Insights security profiles. These are in addition to already available certifications for SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights helps streamline the complex third-party software risk assessment process by enabling sellers to make security and compliance information available to buyers through AWS Marketplace.?

Amazon QuickSight supports SPICE capacity auto-purchase

Published Date: 2023-11-21 23:29:23+00:00

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of SPICE capacity auto-purchase feature, offering an improved solution for the automatic management of SPICE capacity. Previously, customers had to manually purchase SPICE capacity, and insufficient capacity could lead to data ingestion failures, hindering the intended use of QuickSight. Now, customers can effortlessly opt in to the capacity auto-purchase with just one click. This new SPICE auto-purchase capability eliminates the need for customers to estimate usage and manually purchase SPICE capacity each time. Instead, they can seamlessly ingest data and use SPICE worry free, as QuickSight will automatically acquire the necessary capacity to meet their usage requirements. For further details, visit here.

Amazon CloudFront announces CloudFront KeyValueStore, a globally managed key value datastore

Published Date: 2023-11-21 23:30:50+00:00

Amazon CloudFront announces general availability of CloudFront KeyValueStore, a global, low-latency, key value datastore. KeyValueStore allows you to retrieve key value data from within CloudFront Functions making functions more customizable by allowing independent data updates. The key value data is available across all CloudFront edge locations and provides a highly efficient, in-memory, key-value store with fast reads from within CloudFront Functions. With KeyValueStore you can now implement lookup use cases such as feature flags, A/B testing, and storing environment variables with low latency.

Amazon Verified Permissions now provides an enhanced visual mode for schema editing

Published Date: 2023-11-21 19:02:10+00:00

Amazon Verified Permissions now provides customers with a new visual schema editor, in addition to the existing JSON editor, in the Verified Permissions console. Customers can now visualize the relationships between the entities used to model principals, resources and actions.

AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized

Published Date: 2023-11-21 23:31:10+00:00

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) I/O-Optimized, a new storage configuration for database clusters that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing write throughput and reducing latency for customers’ most demanding workloads. With Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized, there are zero charges for read and write I/O operations—you only pay for your database instances and storage usage, making it easy to predict your database spend up front. Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized offers up to 40% cost savings for I/O-intensive applications where I/O charges exceed 25% of the total Amazon DocumentDB database spend.

Amazon DocumentDB now supports no-code machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Published Date: 2023-11-21 19:32:00+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now integrates with Amazon SageMaker Canvas to enable no-code Machine learning (ML) with data stored in Amazon DocumentDB. Customers can now build ML models for regression and forecasting needs and use foundation models for content summarization and generation using data stored in Amazon DocumentDB without writing a single line of code. The new integration removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting when customers connect and access data in Amazon DocumentDB and accelerates ML development with a no-code experience.

Amazon S3 server access logging now supports automatic date-based partitioning

Published Date: 2023-11-21 23:04:10+00:00

Amazon S3 server access logging now supports automatic date-based partitioning for log delivery. Amazon S3 server access logging provides detailed records for requests made to your S3 buckets including object size, total time, turn-around time, HTTP referer, and more. Now, with date-based partitioning, Amazon S3 automatically generates either event time or delivery time prefixes when delivering access logs to your destination bucket, which allows services like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum to improve performance and reduce cost when querying logs.

Amazon Elastic Block Store announces io2 Block Express volumes available on all EC2 Nitro instances

Published Date: 2023-11-21 19:11:58+00:00

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) announced that io2 Block Express volumes are available on all EC2 instances built on the Nitro system. All new io2 volumes used with EC2 Nitro instances will automatically benefit from the latest generation of EBS storage server architecture designed to deliver consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. With a single io2 Block Express volume, customers can achieve 256,000 IOPS, 4GB/s of throughput, and storage capacity of 64 TiB. io2 Block Express has the lowest p99.9 I/O latency and the best outlier latency control among major cloud providers, making it the ideal choice for the most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2.

AWS Amplify launches next generation of backend building capabilities

Published Date: 2023-11-21 20:11:48+00:00

Today, AWS Amplify announces a public preview of its code-first developer experience (Gen 2), enabling developers to build full-stack apps using TypeScript. Gen 2 shifts to a code-first approach that allows developers to express app requirements - data model, business logic, authorization rules - in TypeScript. The necessary cloud infrastructure is automatically deployed based on the app code, without explicit infrastructure definitions.

Apache Flink is now generally available for Amazon EMR on EKS

Published Date: 2023-11-21 19:29:13+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce that Apache Flink is now generally available for Amazon EMR on EKS. With Apache Flink for Amazon EMR on EKS, customers can transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink, an open-source framework for stateful computations over data streams. Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment option for Amazon EMR that makes it easy for customers to run their big data applications and data lake analytics workloads on EKS. Customers already using Amazon EKS can run their Apache Flink application along with other types of applications on the same Amazon EKS cluster, helping improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management.

EC2 Image Builder now supports image lifecycle management and deletion

Published Date: 2023-11-21 19:16:35+00:00

Customers can now manage the lifecycle of their custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Container images created on EC2 Image Builder. Customers can save costs by deleting unused images that accumulate storage charges on AWS. You no longer have to keep track of their custom images distributed across AWS accounts and AWS regions, and manually retire them as the images become outdated. With this launch, we provide customers an automated way to identify and remove outdated images, avoiding accidental usage of those images.?