AWS update of Week 49 (4 Dec - 10 Dec)

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for OpenTelemetry 1.0.0

Published Date: 2023-12-08 18:04:11+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 specification as a new output format in CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice.

Amazon Textract announces updates to AnalyzeDocument - Forms

Published Date: 2023-12-08 20:13:41+00:00

Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our Forms feature available via the AnalyzeDocument API.

Amazon EC2 C7g and M7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (London)

Published Date: 2023-12-08 22:56:48+00:00

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g and M7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services. Starting today, these instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London).

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Vancouver, Canada

Published Date: 2023-12-08 18:40:52+00:00

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cologix VAN3 data center in Vancouver, Canada. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Vancouver location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the sixth AWS Direct Connect site within Canada and the second site in the Vancouver area.

Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are now available in an additional region

Published Date: 2023-12-08 18:03:49+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 server processors and featuring up to 100Gbps network bandwidth are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

Amazon Redshift announces enhancements to Advisor sort and distribution key recommendations

Published Date: 2023-12-08 21:56:05+00:00

Amazon Redshift announces enhancements to Redshift Advisor to generate smarter and faster sort and distribution key recommendations. With the enhancements, Redshift Advisor uses new machine learning models to make these recommendations sooner, without needing to observe minimum necessary workload. Both sort and distribution key recommendations continue to be applied through Redshift automatic table optimizations, making it easier and faster to achieve better query performance.?

Amazon EC2 adds Service Quotas for AMIs in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-08 21:06:05+00:00

Starting now, Amazon EC2 adds service quotas for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You will see three new quotas in the EC2 section on the Service Quotas console page. The first quota is for the total number of AMIs within your AWS account, the second quota is for the total number of public AMIs within your AWS account, and the third quota is on the number of shares you can have for each AMI. These quotas are added by default for all AWS accounts and do not require any action from you. Each quota is per AWS account per AWS Region.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Cross-Account Metrics Insights

Published Date: 2023-12-08 18:01:53+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Metrics Insights in Cross-Account observability. With Amazon CloudWatch cross-account observability, you can use Metrics Insights to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span multiple accounts within a Region.

Amazon Rekognition improves Face Liveness accuracy and user experience

Published Date: 2023-12-07 18:00:04+00:00

Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness enables application providers to detect in real time if a user accessing a service is a real person or a bad actor attempting to spoof faces to impersonate another identity or evade being recognized. Face spoofs can be presentation attacks (e.g., printed photos presented to a camera) or digital injection attacks (e.g., deep fake videos using software to bypass the camera). Amazon has launched a new version of Rekognition Face Liveness, which improves the model accuracy in detecting attacks and provides a new user interface (UI) to streamline the experience for genuine users.

Amazon SNS now supports configuring delivery status logging with AWS CloudFormation

Published Date: 2023-12-07 21:59:24+00:00

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) enables you to log the delivery status of messages sent from your topic to subscribers. Once configured, log entries are sent to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Logging message delivery status helps you determine whether a message was delivered to an endpoint, what the endpoint response was, and the message dwell time. Now, you can configure your delivery status logging with AWS CloudFormation for new and existing Amazon SNS topics.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights now works with TorQ framework

Published Date: 2023-12-07 21:30:04+00:00

Starting today, customers can run kdb applications built using the TorQ framework directly on Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights.

AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces new controls for managed runtimes

Published Date: 2023-12-07 19:27:23+00:00

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available with new capabilities for enhanced control, visibility, and operational management of the service’s cloud native and fully-managed runtimes. The capabilities include transaction configuration display, import of data sets and display of their metadata, additional monitoring metrics, ad-hoc batch submission, and additional batch utilities. Customers will find them beneficial for use cases related to transaction management, performance monitoring, data set management, and batch operations.

AWS CodeDeploy now provides zonal deployment for Amazon EC2

Published Date: 2023-12-07 22:18:26+00:00

AWS CodeDeploy now provides the ability to deploy your application one Availability Zone (AZ) at a time. Known as zonal deployment, it isolates the blast radius of any adverse in-place application deployments to a single AZ without impacting other AZs within an AWS Region.

AWS Lambda simplifies connectivity to Amazon RDS and RDS Proxy via Lambda console

Published Date: 2023-12-07 18:32:57+00:00

AWS Lambda now allows customers to connect Lambda functions to both Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) and Amazon RDS Proxy directly from the Lambda console. Customers can now use a guided workflow to connect their Lambda function to a new or existing RDS database instance or RDS proxy. As part of the setup, AWS Lambda will now also automatically set up related network settings to enable a secure and scalable connection.

Announcing Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service

Published Date: 2023-12-07 21:19:52+00:00

The Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service is an open-source AWS solution designed for the effortless migration of self-managed OpenSearch and Elasticsearch clusters to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Managed clusters and Serverless collections).

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

Published Date: 2023-12-07 22:04:33+00:00

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

AWS announces new no-code dashboard application to visualize IoT data

Published Date: 2023-12-07 18:04:18+00:00

Today, we are announcing a new open sourced IoT dashboard application built on top of IoT Application Kit. The new IoT dashboard application allows you to visualize and interact with operational data from AWS IoT SiteWise with a drag-and-drop dashboard building experience.?

Data plane API logging for Amazon DynamoDB using AWS CloudTrail is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-06 19:36:14+00:00

AWS CloudTrail now supports data plane API logging to monitor, alarm, and archive item-level activity in your Amazon DynamoDB tables, in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS Lambda functions now scale up to 12X faster

Published Date: 2023-12-06 17:59:17+00:00

Starting today, AWS Lambda functions now scale up at a 12x faster rate. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate of 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, up to your account concurrency limit.?

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports replatforming applications to Amazon ECS

Published Date: 2023-12-06 19:23:10+00:00

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator adds support for replatforming .NET and Java applications to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on AWS Fargate to make it easy for you to containerize applications with a guided experience. You can now create an orchestration workflow based on the predefined replatforming template, select the Amazon EC2 instances or application artifacts from Amazon S3, and run the workflow to containerize and deploy your applications on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate for better agility and operational efficiency.

Amazon Aurora MySQL’s support for Microsoft Active Directory authentication available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-06 18:00:05+00:00

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports authentication of database users using Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) regions. You can use Active Directory to authenticate with Amazon Aurora using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory or with your on-premise Active Directory by establishing a trusted domain relationship.

Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-06 21:16:00+00:00

Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC)?zonal shift is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use zonal shift, a capability in Route 53 ARC that helps you to quickly recover from an issue in an Availability Zone (AZ).?

Amazon CloudWatch Logs regular expression filter support now in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-06 18:17:42+00:00

We are excited to announce regular expression support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs filter pattern syntax, making it easier to search and match relevant logs in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers use filter pattern syntax today to search logs, extract metrics using metric filters, and send specific logs to other destinations with subscription filters. With today’s launch, customers will be able to further customize these operations to meet their needs with flexible and powerful regular expressions within filter patterns. Now customers can define one filter to match multiple IP subnets or HTTP status codes using a regular expression such as ‘{ $.statusCode=%4[0-9]{2}% }’ rather than having to define multiple filters to cater to each variation, reducing the configuration and management overhead on their logs.

Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances are now available in 8 additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-06 22:14:47+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Paris, London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Sydney) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

Published Date: 2023-12-06 22:19:10+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, and CPU-based machine learning inference. R6gd instances are built for running memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. The local SSD storage provided on these instances will benefit applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). C6gd and R6gd instances offer up to 3.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage.

Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports RHEL, CentOS, and macOS

Published Date: 2023-12-06 19:31:41+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH), will support RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and macOS in addition to Amazon Linux and Ubuntu.

Amazon QuickSight enhances SPICE ingestion performance by up to 4x with parallel ingestion

Published Date: 2023-12-06 23:10:09+00:00

Amazon QuickSight is?excited to announce the enhancement of SPICE ingestion performance. Given SPICE's support for datasets as large as 1TB or 1 billion rows, previously the ingestion process for large datasets could extend over several hours. The enhancement in ingestion performance leverages the parallel ingestion mechanism to significantly decrease the data refresh time for such large datasets. Users can anticipate a noticeable improvement, with an overall reduction in ingestion time of up to 75%, or 4x improvement in performance, for datasets that previously took more than three hours. Datasets utilizing Customer Managed Key will experience even greater performance enhancements. No alterations to the customer interface are required; the benefits of this feature will be seamlessly activated on the backend upon its launch.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports color space conversion with custom tone mapping

Published Date: 2023-12-05 22:16:00+00:00

You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to apply custom color space conversion to your live video.

AWS Secrets Manager announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement

Published Date: 2023-12-05 18:00:47+00:00

Today, AWS announces an updated Service Level Agreement (SLA) for AWS Secrets Manager, which promises a stronger availability commitment. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make AWS Secrets Manager available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage for each AWS Region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event AWS Secrets Manager does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the AWS Secrets Manager SLA.

Customer Profiles launches calculated attributes that turn customer data into actionable insights

Published Date: 2023-12-05 17:59:24+00:00

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now enables contact center managers to create calculated attributes that turn customer behavior data (e.g., contacts, orders, web visits) into actionable customer insights such as a customer’s preferred channel to drive dynamic routing, personalize IVRs, and provide agents with more relevant customer context. In the Amazon Connect admin website, contact center managers can create calculated attributes in a few clicks to identify recent customer actions (e.g., last order status), patterns of behavior (e.g., preferred channel, frequency of contact), and customer value (e.g., total orders value) without depending on engineering resources. Contact center managers can use calculated attributes with the Customer Profiles Flows block to design personalized customer experiences such as IVRs (e.g., use the last order to pre-emptively offer an IVR menu to check order status), routing (e.g., route to a different queue with the lower wait time for repeat callers), and surface them to agents through step-by-step guides. Calculated attributes are always kept up-to-date based on the latest customer data that Customer Profiles syncs and merges from across Amazon Connect, SaaS applications such as Salesforce, and databases.

AWS DMS adds support for Amazon Relational Database Service for Db2 as a target endpoint

Published Date: 2023-12-05 21:50:18+00:00

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has added Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Db2 to its supported target endpoints. This update streamlines the migration of self managed Db2 workloads to Amazon RDS for Db2. As a managed service, Amazon RDS for Db2 simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of Db2 databases in the cloud.

Amazon Rekognition launches Face APIs version 7 for improved accuracy and lower latency

Published Date: 2023-12-05 18:23:08+00:00

Amazon Rekognition’s face-based features enable customers to analyze faces in images and videos at scale. Customers can use these features to support their various use cases, such as identity verification and media analysis. Today, Amazon Rekognition has launched Faces version 7. This version further improves accuracy and lowers latencies for near real-time face detection , compare , and search features.?

Amazon Connect adds an additional 24 contact and agent metrics to access programmatically

Published Date: 2023-12-05 17:59:45+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides an additional 24 contact and agent performance metrics (e.g., agent answer rate, idle time, contact handle time) in the GetMetricDataV2 API , which were previously only available in the historical metrics UI. With these contact and agent metrics, businesses can create custom dashboards to help supervisors identify coaching opportunities for agents such as high hold times, low contact answer rate, etc.

Amazon Connect launches new capabilities for measuring answered or abandoned contacts

Published Date: 2023-12-05 17:57:25+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides the ability for businesses to define custom time thresholds between 1 second and 7 days for measuring the number of contacts answered or abandoned within a certain time duration in the real-time metrics page. For example, with these thresholds you can measure the number of contacts that abandoned within 4 seconds (also known as short abandons) to identify customers who picked the wrong IVR option or dialed the wrong number.

AWS Announces Amazon Q is available in preview on the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS

Published Date: 2023-12-05 21:07:48+00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the public preview of Amazon Q in the AWS Console Mobile Application. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS can now use Amazon Q, the generative AI assistant in the AWS Console Mobile App to ask questions about AWS services, and receive concise, reliable answers in a mobile-friendly user interface with voice input and output capabilities. Amazon Q in the AWS Console Mobile App is also available for Android (announced on 11/28/23).

AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports image overlays for individual outputs

Published Date: 2023-12-05 22:15:58+00:00

You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to apply image overlays to individual outputs from a MediaLive channel.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports filtering by tags in AWS GovCloud (US)

Published Date: 2023-12-04 21:49:41+00:00

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports the ability to filter your rightsizing recommendations by tags in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This includes tag keys, tag key and value pairs, or combinations of both. Tag filtering will be available on these rightsizing recommendations pages: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services on AWS Fargate.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for comprehensive data preparation capabilities

Published Date: 2023-12-04 20:09:19+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports comprehensive data preparation capabilities powered by Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. You can now import tabular, timeseries, image, and text data from 50+ data sources, generate Data Quality and Insights reports, and transform data using 300+ built-in operators to build and use machine learning (ML) models all without writing any code. Through this integration, you can accelerate data preparation for ML from weeks to minutes using SageMaker Canvas.

AWS Resilience Hub expands support for customer compliance with ISO and SOC

Published Date: 2023-12-04 22:01:01+00:00

AWS Resilience Hub has added certification for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and System and Organization Controls (SOC). Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed.

Amazon Redshift extends SUPER data type column size support to 16 MB

Published Date: 2023-12-04 18:03:33+00:00

Amazon Redshift now supports storing large objects, up to 16MB in size, in SUPER data type. When ingesting from JSON, PARQUET, TEXT, and CSV source files, you can load semi-structured data or documents as values in SUPER data type up to 16MB. Before this enhancement, you could load semi-structured data or documents in SUPER data type only up to 1MB.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights now supports a wider set of customer kdb applications

Published Date: 2023-12-04 21:23:17+00:00

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights customers can now create kdb clusters of type General Purpose, featuring support for an increased set of kdb functions and data storage configurations from within a single kdb process. This enables a wider set of customer applications and process to run directly on Managed kdb Insights.

Announcing new AWS AI Service Cards - to advance responsible AI

Published Date: 2023-12-07 15:24:16+00:00

We are excited to announce new AWS AI Service Cards, a resource to increase transparency and help customers better understand our AWS AI services, including how to use them in a responsible way. AI service cards are a form of responsible AI documentation that provides customers with a single place to find information on the intended use cases and limitations, responsible AI design choices, and best deployment and operation best practices for our AI Services. They are part of a comprehensive development process we undertake to build our services in a responsible way with fairness, explainability, veracity and robustness, governance, transparency, privacy andsecurity, safety, and controllability.

Amazon Redshift announces general availability of row-level security enhancements

Published Date: 2023-12-04 17:25:37+00:00

Amazon Redshift announces CONJUNCTION TYPE support for row-level security (RLS) policies and RLS support on standard views and late binding views, which enables you to apply granular access controls and ensure that users can only access rows that they are authorized to see, even when the underlying data evolves or user permissions change.?