AWS update of Week 9 (27Feb-5Mar)
Ankur Patel
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Published Date: 2023-03-03 18:31:28+00:00
AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easier for you to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources. CloudShell uses your AWS Console credentials for pre-authentication. Common development tools are pre-installed so that no local installation or configuration is required. With CloudShell, you can run scripts with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), define infrastructure with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), experiment with AWS service APIs using the AWS SDKs, or use a range of other tools to help you increase your productivity.?
Published Date: 2023-03-03 20:03:14+00:00
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Hamburg, Germany. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public?AWS Regions?(except those in China),?AWS GovCloud Regions, and?AWS Local Zones.
Published Date: 2023-03-03 19:59:52+00:00
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports time-weighted average (timeweightedavg) and time-weighted standard deviation (timeweightedstdev) functions that make it easier to automatically factor in the numerical levels of a particular variable, as well as the amount of time spent in that variable. With the new time-series functions, process engineers can define metrics for time-series data that isn’t regularly sampled and get a representative view of their operations.
Published Date: 2023-03-03 21:55:50+00:00
Starting today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) lets you add a VPC endpoint using AWS PrivateLink that connects through the AWS KMS Regional endpoint that has been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 program. With this new launch, you can easily use AWS PrivateLink with AWS KMS for those regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic module.
Published Date: 2023-03-03 17:46:21+00:00
We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include compute optimized (C6g), general purpose (M6g), and memory optimized (R6g) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, and R6g is available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Europe (Milan) regions.
Published Date: 2023-03-02 20:41:05+00:00
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).
Published Date: 2023-03-02 18:05:18+00:00
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) continues to increase compatibility with MongoDB, and now offers added support for MongoDB 5.0 drivers with Amazon DocumentDB 5.0. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB API based workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, index, and query JSON data.
Published Date: 2023-03-02 21:21:10+00:00
AWS Step Functions?Distributed Map is now available in Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain and Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Australia (Melbourne) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-03-02 18:47:11+00:00
Today?Amazon Timestream?launched Batch Load, a new feature for ingesting batched time series data into Timestream. Batch Load provides customers with a robust, serverless, and scalable solution to migrate data from CSV files stored in S3 directly into Timestream. With Batch Load, customers specify one or more source files, the target Timestream database and table, and a data model to apply. Batch Load then automatically and reliably ingests the data in parallel. Learn more by visiting the?5-minute Batch Load demo video?or the?developer guide below.
Published Date: 2023-03-02 21:52:39+00:00
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka?(Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.3.2 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.3.2 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some of the key features include enhancements to fetch from the closest replica and metrics. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for?3.3.2.
Published Date: 2023-03-02 22:35:38+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) regions. Blue/Green Deployments help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases.?
Published Date: 2023-03-02 18:45:44+00:00
AWS Control Tower announces a new progress tracker that depicts milestones and related statuses of the landing zone setup and upgrade process. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is a starting point from which you can deploy workloads and applications. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using AWS best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, monitoring, and account structure.?
Published Date: 2023-03-01 20:11:55+00:00
Amazon Lightsail now offers Amazon Lightsail for Research, a new offering that makes it simple for you to accelerate your research using the power of the cloud. Lightsail for Research provides access to analytical applications such as Scilab, RStudio, and Jupyter running on powerful virtual computers in just a few clicks.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 22:58:41+00:00
Amazon Detective finding groups now include a dynamic visual representation of Detective's behavior graph to emphasize the relationships between security findings and the associated entities within a finding group. This addition makes it easier for customers to triage potential security issues with at-a-glance visuals that include finding types, severity levels, associated account(s), and linkages within the Detective behavioral graph that can be used to investigate related activity within a finding group.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 20:35:29+00:00
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports an increased On-Demand write throughput limit to 1 GB/s, a 5x increase from the current limit of 200 MB/s. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store streaming data at any scale. On-Demand is a capacity mode for Kinesis Data Streams that automates capacity management, so that you never have to provision and manage the scaling of resources. In the On-Demand mode you pay for throughput consumed rather than for provisioned resources, making it easier to balance costs and performance.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 21:30:25+00:00
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS?now supports?Proactive Insights, a new set of findings that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. With Proactive Insights, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When such conditions are detected, Proactive Insights will generate a finding that describes the nature of the impending problem, and specific actions you can take to mitigate it. Proactive Insights are available for Amazon DevOps Guru customers, with no additional setup or configuration needed. Proactive Insights are supported for Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL database engines at the moment.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 20:49:19+00:00
Starting today,?Amazon Neptune Serverless?has lowered its minimum scaling requirements to 1 Neptune Capacity Unit (NCU) from 2.5 NCUs. This brings down the cost of running Neptune Serverless by reducing the resources used by up to 2.5X when the graph database is not actively responding to user queries. With a 1 NCU minimum, you could save on your graph database by using Neptune Serverless.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 18:15:04+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Token-Based Access (TBA) for fully managed Ethereum nodes. TBA provides a more convenient way for customers to connect to their Ethereum nodes from popular blockchain development tools.??
Published Date: 2023-03-01 20:44:05+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server?now supports Cross Region Automated Backups with encryption. The Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups feature enables disaster recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backup retention period. This allows you to quickly resume operations in the event that the primary AWS Region becomes unavailable. If you've enabled encryption on the source RDS for SQL Server DB instance, you can use this feature to copy encrypted DB snapshots to regions?outside of the primary AWS region.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 18:27:49+00:00
Amazon EMR Serverless?is a serverless option in?Amazon EMR?that makes it easy for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce that you can use your own Customer Managed Keys (CMK) with?AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)?to encrypt EMR Serverless application logs when stored in managed storage and in Amazon S3 buckets.
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Published Date: 2023-03-01 21:48:16+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) supports MySQL 8.0.26. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.26 includes several changes, such as enhanced tablespace file segment page configuration and new aliases for certain identifier names. For more details, please review?Aurora MySQL 3?and?MySQL 8.0.26?release notes.
Published Date: 2023-03-01 18:09:54+00:00
Amazon Comprehend announced self-service flywheel APIs to simplify the retraining and version management of custom Comprehend models.?
Published Date: 2023-03-01 18:07:40+00:00
AWS App Runner expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), AWS Europe (Frankfurt), and AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions, enabling customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and API services in AWS cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 22:39:31+00:00
Amazon Inspector now supports code scanning of Lambda functions, expanding the existing capability to scan Lambda functions and associated layers for software vulnerabilities in application package dependencies. With this expanded capability, Amazon Inspector now also scans the custom proprietary application code within a Lambda function for code security vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, data leaks, weak cryptography, or missing encryption based on AWS security best practices. When code vulnerabilities are identified in the Lambda function or layer, Inspector generates actionable security findings along with impacted code snippets and remediation guidance. All findings are aggregated in the?Amazon Inspector console, routed to AWS Security Hub, and pushed to Amazon EventBridge to automate workflows.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 21:08:14+00:00
Today, AWS Private Certificate Authority (Private CA) released sample AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) scripts and AWS CloudFormation stack templates to help you create Certificate Authorites (CAs) that issue Matter Device Attestation Certificates (DACs). Matter is a new standard for smart home security and device interoperability. Matter uses X.509 digital certificates to identify devices. Matter certificates can be issued only by CAs that comply with the Matter PKI Certificate Policy (CP). You can use the AWS CDK and CloudFormation samples to help you configure Matter-compliant CAs. The samples not only construct the CA, but they also create the configuration and auditing infrastructure needed to help you comply with the Matter PKI CP. This includes AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles & permissions, log configuration & retention policies.?
Published Date: 2023-02-28 18:00:30+00:00
AWS Lambda Powertools, an open-source developer library, now supports?.NET?to help you incorporate?Well-Architected Serverless best practices?into your .NET Lambda function code as early and as fast as possible.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 19:01:54+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce our v1.12.1 AWS SimSpace Weaver app SDK update. This update enables support for AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) and the ability to use temporary credentials to start, stop, and manage simulations. AWS SimSpace Weaver is a fully managed compute service that helps customers deploy large spatial simulations in the cloud. Launched this past re:Invent, SimSpace Weaver allows customers to create seamless virtual worlds with millions of objects that can interact with one another in real time without ever worrying about managing the back-end infrastructure.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 21:12:34+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB?now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.12, 10.5.19, 10.4.28 and 10.3.38. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 20:54:59+00:00
Today, we launched Autocomplete suggestions for AWS Marketplace search. With this feature, users that visit the AWS Marketplace website or console would get search suggestions within the search bar as they type. User queries show up as bolded prefixes within the Autocomplete suggestions which they can select to complete their query and see the results on the main results page. The suggestions are sorted by relevance and tells what’s available, how to spell difficult terms, and what others are searching for.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 21:02:54+00:00
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) now announces the preview of sam build support for building and packaging serverless applications developed in Rust. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Developers building serverless applications with Rust used cargo-lambda to build their applications, but cargo-lambda wasn't supported within the SAM CLI build workflow.. Starting today, you can use cargo-lambda in the SAM CLI build workflow for your Rust applications.
Amazon Redshift announces general availability of ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS in GROUP BY clause
Published Date: 2023-02-28 18:43:36+00:00
Amazon Redshift?now supports new SQL functionalities including ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS, to simplify building multi-dimensional analytics applications. ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS simplifies data warehouse migrations by offering the commonly used syntax across databases.?
Published Date: 2023-02-28 18:12:49+00:00
Today we are announcing the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in the AWS Bahrain region. This marks the 23rd AWS region to offer VMware Cloud on AWS, providing customers with a faster and more efficient way to migrate their VMware-based workloads to the cloud.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 19:23:09+00:00
AWS Lambda?now supports?Amazon DocumentDB?change?streams as an event source. The change streams feature in Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) provides a time-ordered sequence of change events that occur within your cluster’s collections. Customers can now consume these events in their serverless applications built on Lambda.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 23:02:59+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of FLAC audio and animated GIF video input sources for AWS Elemental MediaConvert. These new input formats are compatible with all MediaConvert outputs. For example, you can convert lossless FLAC files into compressed audio formats like AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis, or use FLAC files as sidecar audio sources to be joined with video files. Animated GIF inputs can be converted into higher-efficiency video streaming codecs like AVC and HEVC and distributed as standalone MP4 files or adaptive-bitrate streaming packages such as HLS or DASH.
Published Date: 2023-02-28 18:14:28+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?for?PostgreSQL now supports the latest major version PostgreSQL 15. New features in PostgreSQL 15 include the SQL standard "MERGE" command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, and support for two-phase commit and row/column filtering for logical replication. The PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for new extension pg_walinspect, and server-side compression with Gzip, LZ4, or Zstandard (zstd) using pg_basebackup.?Please refer to the?PostgreSQL community announcement?for more details about the release.
Published Date: 2023-02-27 22:28:50+00:00
AWS Service Catalog customers can now disassociate and delete their AWS Service Catalog products in one-action, making it easier to update and manage their catalog of AWS resources.
Published Date: 2023-02-27 20:10:38+00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, a feature of Amazon CloudWatch that helps you monitor internet availability and performance metrics between your AWS-hosted applications and application end users.
Published Date: 2023-02-27 22:19:11+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, a low-code machine learning (ML) service which automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models based on your data, now supports selection of underlying training algorithms while creating an Autopilot experiment. The ability to select algorithms provides you the flexibility to customize your AutoML journey and complete experiments much faster.
Published Date: 2023-02-27 21:47:24+00:00
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS)?now?enables customers to delete inactive task definition revisions programmatically or via the Amazon ECS console. With this new capability, customers can permanently delete task definition revisions that are no longer needed or contain undesirable configurations, simplifying their resource management and improving security posture.
Published Date: 2023-02-27 18:35:34+00:00
AWS Lake Formation?is a service that makes it simple to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secure repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better decisions.
Published Date: 2023-02-27 22:56:28+00:00
Amazon Aurora Serverless?v1 now allows you to select a specific window for scheduling a maintenance event. You can use the maintenance window to specify, for example, when your PostgreSQL 10 cluster gets upgraded to PostgreSQL 11. You can set the maintenance window with just a few clicks in the?AWS Management Console?or using the latest?AWS SDK or CLI. Review the?Aurora documentation?to learn more.?