Week 10 (4 Mar - 10 Mar)

AWS HealthImaging enables the import of large DICOM objects and high-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) transfer syntaxes

Published Date: 2024-03-08 21:46:12+00:00

AWS HealthImaging now supports the import of DICOM instances up to 4 GB with up to 20:1 image compression. Customers can now import and store large DICOM instances, such as those generated by digital pathology systems. With this release, HealthImaging also adds support for importing DICOM objects with pixel data encoded in any of the High-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) transfer syntaxes that were recently added to the DICOM standard. Further, HealthImaging now supports import of data in the JPEG Lossless, Nonhierarchical (Process 14) transfer syntax.

AWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI

Published Date: 2024-03-08 18:04:27+00:00

Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora ML now provides access to foundation models available in Amazon Bedrock directly through SQL in the Aurora MySQL 3.06 version.

Application Load Balancer now supports Resource Map in AWS Management Console

Published Date: 2024-03-08 18:00:14+00:00

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Resource Map, a tool in the console that displays all your ALB resources and their relationships in a visual format on a single page, providing you a clear understanding of your ALB architecture.

Amazon SES now offers support for headers when sending email

Published Date: 2024-03-08 20:13:23+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new feature giving customers the ability to set custom headers when sending emails using SES v2 sending APIs. Customers can now set headers for a variety of purposes, including implementing one-click unsubscribe by adding list-unsubscribe headers to emails. Custom headers are set when calling SES v2 sending APIs,and do not require raw email content. This makes it easier to support advanced use cases including those requiring “X-” proprietary header content.?

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.06 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.34) is generally available

Published Date: 2024-03-08 18:01:12+00:00

In addition to security enhancements, bug fixes, and improved data replication performance with binary log (binlog), this release includes new generative AI capabilities and improved cross-region resiliency for Aurora Global Database. With this release, customers can use Aurora MySQL to build scalable generative AI applications, accessing Amazon Bedrock’s foundation models directly through SQL. This release also contains improvements that bolster the cross-region resiliency of Aurora Global Database, enabling secondary regions to seamlessly serve read requests if the primary writer were to become unavailable during an instance restart. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.34 release notes.

Amazon Cognito is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region

Published Date: 2024-03-08 22:33:42+00:00

Amazon Cognito is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

AWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface

Published Date: 2024-03-08 22:35:25+00:00

The new console experience for AWS Cost Categories simplifies the Cost Categories creation workflows. The new user interface uses a split-view panel to improve the process of setting up Cost Categories rules; as well as to provide an interactive preview of the allocation of month-to-date estimated charges based on these rules. The split-view panel allows you to add or edit Cost Category rules; or visualize the effect of the rules on cost allocation, without leaving the consolidated view of all your rules in the rules table. The rules table gives you an overview of all of your Cost Categories rules, their relative prioritization, and the ability to search, filter, and reorder rules by changing their priority.?

AWS WAF now supports larger request body inspections for regional resources

Published Date: 2024-03-08 21:36:22+00:00

Starting today, AWS WAF supports inspecting up to 64KB of the body of incoming HTTP/S requests, for Amazon API Gateway, Cognito user pools, App Runner and AWS Verified Access regional resources. For the resources where this new maximum applies, the default inspection size has also changed from 8KB to 16KB. This new default will be applied to all new and existing WAF web access control lists, without additional charges.

Amazon Managed Grafana launches Enterprise plugins upgrade

Published Date: 2024-03-07 22:53:56+00:00

Amazon Managed Grafana launches Enterprise plugins upgrade, enabling you to access Grafana Enterprise data source plugins such as ServiceNow, Splunk, and New Relic as well as support and training from Grafana Labs. Enterprise plugins are pre-built plugins that enable you to analyze, query, and alert on third-party enterprise systems in your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace without transferring data from your original data store.

Announcing dynamic parameter support for AWS AppConfig Extensions

Published Date: 2024-03-07 20:00:23+00:00

AWS AppConfig now supports dynamic parameters, which enhance the functionality of AppConfig Extensions by allowing you to provide parameter values to your Extensions at the time you deploy your configuration. AWS AppConfig Extensions are customizable actions that AWS AppConfig can invoke during the lifecycle of configuration data. Dynamic parameters empower you to supply inputs at Extension invocation time, rather than when they’re initially associated to your AppConfig resources.

AWS X-Ray now supports data events in AWS CloudTrail

Published Date: 2024-03-07 22:09:10+00:00

AWS X-Ray announces support for logging eight new data and one new management event APIs in AWS CloudTrail, enabling you to have full visibility across every AWS X-Ray API action in your AWS account for operational and security best practices. AWS X-Ray provides developers with end-to-end tracing capabilities to help debug distributed applications and quickly identify performance bottlenecks.

CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for streaming of daily metrics

Published Date: 2024-03-07 18:04:52+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for streaming of daily metrics on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. You can use Metric Streams to send metrics to your data lake on Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or AWS Partner solutions including Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace and Sumo Logic. This new capability provides additional metrics for streaming, adding daily metrics with timestamps up to two days old.

AWS AppFabric now supports Box and IBM Security? Verify

Published Date: 2024-03-07 18:01:02+00:00

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for two new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications: Box and IBM Security? Verify. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 25 SaaS applications, aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs, and audit end-user access across their SaaS apps. This launch expands AWS?AppFabric supported applications used across an organization.

AWS HealthLake expands search parameter support

Published Date: 2024-03-07 23:01:45+00:00

Today, AWS HealthLake added 28 new search parameters needed for payor workflows. HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service offering healthcare companies a complete view of individual and patient population health data using Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) API based transactions to securely store and transform their data into a queryable format at petabyte scale. With this release, customers can now use over 1,400 search parameters to enrich their healthcare software applications.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

Published Date: 2024-03-08 22:20:56+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances.

Announcing new Amazon VPC DHCPv6 setting to adjust IPv6 preferred lease time

Published Date: 2024-03-07 22:50:26+00:00

Today, Amazon VPC added a new feature to its DHCP option set called IPv6 preferred lease time setting, which allows customers to adjust the frequency of IPv6 lease renewals. This feature gives customers the option to increase the preferred lease time of IPv6 address assignments on Amazon EC2 Nitro instances to minimize the number of IPv6 lease renewals and prevent possible renewal failures. This setting applies to both dualstack and IPv6-only Amazon EC2 Nitro instances in the VPC.

Accelerate no-code ML with a refreshed homepage in Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Published Date: 2024-03-07 18:33:02+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a no-code tool to build, customize and deploy machine learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) models. Amazon SageMaker Canvas now features a revamped home page that helps customers get started with their ML and GenAI journey faster. You can view and understand the core capabilities the moment you land in SageMaker Canvas, and thus you can reach the most relevant user journey for you, faster.

AWS Wickr achieves FedRAMP High authorization

Published Date: 2024-03-07 18:00:17+00:00

AWS Wickr has achieved FedRAMP High authorization in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. You can now use Wickr to help protect communications that are subject to FedRAMP High requirements.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for time-series workloads up to 10TB

Published Date: 2024-03-07 18:03:06+00:00

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless can now scan and search up to 10TB of time series data which includes one or more indexes within a collection. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. With the support for much larger datasets than before, you can further enhance unlocking valuable operational insights and make data driven decisions to troubleshoot application downtime, improve system performance, or identify fraudulent activities.?

Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region

Published Date: 2024-03-06 22:50:04+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe(Paris).

Introducing the AWS Generative AI Competency Partners

Published Date: 2024-03-06 18:01:36+00:00

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the AWS Generative AI Competency designed to feature AWS Partners that have shown technical proficiency and a track record of continuing success with customers while implementing generative AI technology powered by AWS. The AWS Generative AI Competency includes APN Technology Partners and APN Services Partners. Software path partners have shown their proficiency in either Generative Ai Applications, Foundation Models & App Development, or Infrastructure & Data. Services path partners have shown proficiency in end-to-end generative AI consulting.

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region

Published Date: 2024-03-06 18:22:52+00:00

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect anomalous behavior and security threats in this additional Region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Amazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express for consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability

Published Date: 2024-03-06 19:08:07+00:00

Today, AWS announces the availability of next-generation Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io2 Block Express storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes provide consistent sub-millisecond latency for mission critical workloads.

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports security certificate rotation

Published Date: 2024-03-06 21:57:54+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports database security certificate rotation. Security certificates provide an extra layer of security by validating the connection made to Amazon RDS database instances and clusters.

Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd metal instances are now available

Published Date: 2024-03-06 21:14:48+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd metal instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and?are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. C7gd instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), and ad serving. M7gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads such as application servers, and microservices. R7gd instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, and real-time big data analytics.

AWS Health now supports organizational view in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-03-06 19:17:37+00:00

AWS Health announces support for organizational view in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, which allows you to view aggregated AWS Health events for your organization on the AWS Health Dashboard or access them programmatically via AWS Health API. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.

AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region

Published Date: 2024-03-05 22:02:10+00:00

AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured 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 business decisions.

Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region

Published Date: 2024-03-05 19:45:04+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (Paris) region.

Amazon ECS adds gMSA authentication for Linux containers for AWS Fargate

Published Date: 2024-03-05 21:54:56+00:00

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Linux containers running on AWS Fargate. With this support, applications running on AWS Fargate can easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports X2iedn and R5b instances

Published Date: 2024-03-05 18:03:29+00:00

Starting today, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports memory-optimized X2iedn instance types and EBS-optimized R5b instance types. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and includes the ability to bring your own licensed SQL Server media or use SQL Server Developer Edition.

Amazon Neptune is authorized for DoD Impact Level 4 and 5

Published Date: 2024-03-05 18:01:53+00:00

Amazon Neptune is authorized for Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 4 and 5 (DoD SRG IL4 and IL5) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions.

AWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live

Published Date: 2024-03-04 18:00:21+00:00

Today, AWS re:Post launches AWS re:Post Live - a weekly Twitch livestream series that provides a new and engaging way for builders to interact with a community of experts to grow their knowledge, improve their skills, and discuss the latest in AWS technologies. Every Monday at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST, users can join the livestream to get answers to their questions, chat with experts and other stream attendees, and learn more about top-of-mind AWS topics.

AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support configurable time windows

Published Date: 2024-03-04 18:00:57+00:00

AWS WAF now supports configurable evaluation time windows for request aggregation with rate-based rules. Customers can now select time windows of 1 minute, 2 minutes or 10 minutes, in addition to the previously supported 5 minutes.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP doubles maximum throughput capacity to 72 GBps

Published Date: 2024-03-04 20:25:54+00:00

Starting today, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is increasing the maximum throughput capacity per file system by 2x (from 36 GB/s to 72 GB/s), letting you leverage ONTAP’s data management features for an even broader set of performance-intensive workloads.

Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet model now available on Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2024-03-04 18:00:47+00:00

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock.?The?Claude 3 family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku) is the next generation of state-of-the-art models from Anthropic. For the vast majority of workloads, Sonnet is faster on inputs and outputs than Anthropic’s Claude 2 and 2.1 models, with higher levels of intelligence. Sonnet is also more steerable, delivering more predictable and higher quality outcomes. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, like Anthropic, along with a broad set of capabilities that provide you with the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.11.28

Published Date: 2024-03-04 19:31:26+00:00

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.11.28, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. If you are running earlier versions of RabbitMQ, such as 3.10, 3.9 or 3.8, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.11.28 or higher. This can be accomplished with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. We also encourage you to enable automatic minor version upgrades on RabbitMQ 3.11.28 to help ensure your brokers take advantage of future fixes and improvements.

AWS Batch on Amazon EKS supports the use of private Amazon EKS clusters to run Batch jobs

Published Date: 2024-03-04 19:40:18+00:00

Starting today, you can use private cluster endpoints with AWS Batch on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). You can bring existing private Amazon EKS clusters and create a compute environment on AWS Batch. This setup enables Amazon EKS jobs to run private endpoints using AWS Batch.

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports WebAuthn for in-session authentication

Published Date: 2024-03-04 22:56:10+00:00

WorkSpaces now supports the WebAuthn (Web Authentication) standard for in-session authentication. Users can authenticate into WebAuthn-supported web applications through WebAuthn redirection when using Chrome or Edge on their Windows WSP WorkSpaces. This feature is accessible from WorkSpaces Windows, macOS, and Linux client applications and is compatible with YubiKey, Windows Hello, and other FIDO2-compliant authenticators. Your organization can leverage the latest standard to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company data on WorkSpaces.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region

Published Date: 2024-03-04 22:45:18+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 Region of Middle East (UAE).