Week 16 (15 Apr - 21 Apr)
Ankur Patel
3x AWS? certified | AWS Community Builder | Cloud Enabler and Practitioner | Solutions Architect | FullStack | DevOps | DSML | 6x Sisense certified | Blogger | Photographer & Traveller
Amazon EC2 R6gd instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Published Date: 2024-04-19 17:07:18+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in the Europe (Zurich) 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. R6gd instances provide local SSD storage and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics that need access to high-speed, low latency storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), up to 512 GiB RAM, and up to 3.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage.
Amazon Personalize now offers automatic solution training
Published Date: 2024-04-19 21:43:17+00:00
Amazon Personalize is?excited to announce automatic training for solutions. With automatic training, developers can set a cadence for their Personalize solutions to automatically retrain using the latest data from their dataset group. This process creates a newly trained machine learning (ML) model, also known as a solution version, and maintains the relevance of Amazon Personalize recommendations for end users.?
Amazon SageMaker enables Projects in SageMaker Studio
Published Date: 2024-04-19 17:14:17+00:00
Amazon SageMaker enables SageMaker Projects in the updated SageMaker Studio experience. Prior to this SageMaker Projects were available only in SageMaker Studio classic.
IAM Roles Anywhere now supports modifying the mapping of certificate attributes
Published Date: 2024-04-19 18:59:19+00:00
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now provides the capability to define a set of mapping rules, allowing you to specify which data is extracted from your X.509 end-entity certificates. The data that is mapped is referred to as attributes and used as session tags in the IAM policy condition in order to allow or deny permissions. These attributes can be in one of the subject, issuer, or subject alternative name (SAN) fields of the X.509 certificate.
Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Published Date: 2024-04-19 21:37:54+00:00
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of Amazon SES.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Outposts Racks
Published Date: 2024-04-19 17:10:16+00:00
Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces support of AWS Outposts racks. With this launch, you can now set your data replication and recovery destinations to AWS Outposts racks, in addition to using AWS Regions and Availability Zones where AWS DRS is available.
Amazon S3 Access Grants is now available in four additional regions
Published Date: 2024-04-19 17:02:27+00:00
You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Hyderabad, and Spain Regions.?
Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Livy
Published Date: 2024-04-19 18:38:57+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce that customers will now be able to use Apache Livy to submit their Apache Spark jobs to Amazon EMR on EKS, in addition to using StartJobRun API, Spark Operator, Spark Submit and Interactive Endpoints. With this launch, customers will be able to use a REST interface to easily submit Spark jobs or snippets of Spark code, retrieve results synchronously or asynchronously while continuing to get all of the Amazon EMR on EKS benefits such as EMR optimized Spark runtime, SSL secured Livy endpoint, programmatic set-up experience etc.
AWS Glue Studio Notebooks is now available in 6 additional regions
Published Date: 2024-04-19 17:00:15+00:00
AWS Glue Studio Notebooks provides interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Studio Notebooks is generally available in the following 6 AWS regions starting today: Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain) and Europe (Zurich).
AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service
Published Date: 2024-04-19 16:55:37+00:00
AWS Resilience Hub is now a HIPAA eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to now use AWS Resilience Hub to run sensitive workloads regulated under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). AWS maintains a standards-based risk management program to ensure that the HIPAA-eligible services specifically support HIPAA administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.?
AWS Partner Central launches enhanced user management capabilities
Published Date: 2024-04-18 18:09:51+00:00
AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team users can assign specific user roles with distinctive permission sets and seamlessly invite new users to register via email, specifying a role assignment upon registration. These updates simplify and provide efficient user management through bulk actions and personalized role assignments.
Meta Llama 3 foundation models now available on AWS
Published Date: 2024-04-18 20:08:04+00:00
Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via?Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.
New self-service tasks for Services Partners in AWS Partner Central
Published Date: 2024-04-18 17:07:36+00:00
AWS Partners with services solutions will now have additional guidance available through the tasks feature in AWS Partner Central to?help expediate their self-service journey with AWS. With this release, partners in the early stages of their engagement with the AWS Partner Network (APN) will be provided with a series of personalized tasks guiding them toward achieving AWS Select Tier status. Achieving this tier unlocks additional benefits, including access to funding and programs.?
Amazon SQS announces support for FIFO dead-letter queue redrive in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Published Date: 2024-04-18 16:58:58+00:00
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Amazon SQS already supports redriving messages from a standard dead-letter queue to a standard source queues or a standard custom destination queue. Now SQS customers can also redrive messages from a FIFO dead-letter queue to FIFO source queues or FIFO custom destination queues.?
AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding and vLLM support
Published Date: 2024-04-18 22:01:46+00:00
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1, adding continuous batching with vLLM support, and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports client authentication hook for Trusted Language Extensions
Published Date: 2024-04-18 18:58:17+00:00
Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance the security posture of your databases. A hook is an internal callback mechanism available to developers for extending PostgreSQL's core functionality. By using hooks, developers can implement their own functions or procedures for use during various database operations.
AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer
Published Date: 2024-04-18 21:31:22+00:00
AWS IAM Identity Center administrators now have an option to extend the session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer separately from the session durations of other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal. Users of Amazon CodeWhisperer can work in the integrated development environment (IDE) for 90 days without being asked to re-authenticate by CodeWhisperer.?
Amazon WorkSpaces helps simplify Bring Your Own License (BYOL) account management
Published Date: 2024-04-18 21:48:50+00:00
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your AWS accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. AWS enables you to run your Bring Your Own License (BYOL) WorkSpaces on infrastructure that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud, and these new APIs make it easier for the you to use your dedicated infrastructure efficiently.?
Announcing Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, Parquet, and SBOM
Published Date: 2024-04-18 17:41:50+00:00
Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in for CycloneDX and SPDX file formats.
AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Published Date: 2024-04-18 20:06:46+00:00
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.
AWS Partner CRM Connector now supports future dated agreements
Published Date: 2024-04-18 17:05:13+00:00
Starting today, Partners can leverage the AWS Partner CRM Connector for Salesforce to create offers for future dated agreements and agreement based offers, providing greater flexibility and control over offer management and integration within AWS Marketplace. Future dated agreements allows you to schedule service start dates to begin in the future. Partners can also access their agreements and create agreement-based offers for SaaS Contract products, with or without consumption, across multiple seller accounts, enabling buyers to replace existing agreements when they accept the offer.
Stream data into Snowflake using Amazon Data Firehose and Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming
Published Date: 2024-04-17 19:26:20+00:00
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now offers direct integration with Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming. Firehose enables customers to reliably capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Splunk, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can stream clickstream, application, and AWS service logs from multiple sources, including Kinesis Data Streams, to Snowflake. With a few clicks, customers can setup a Firehose stream to deliver data to Snowflake. Firehose automatically scales to stream gigabytes of data, and records are available in Snowflake within seconds.
AWS launches Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS
Published Date: 2024-04-17 17:01:11+00:00
Starting today, customers can receive granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR),?enabling you to analyze, optimize, and chargeback cost and usage for your Kubernetes applications. With AWS Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS, customers can now allocate application costs to individual business units and teams based on how Kubernetes applications consume shared EC2 CPU and memory resources.
AWS Config advanced queries support 35 new resource types
Published Date: 2024-04-17 17:55:05+00:00
AWS Config supports 35 new resource types in advanced queries. Advanced queries within AWS Config is a feature that allows you to search the current configuration metadata and compliance state of your AWS resources based on their configuration properties.
Announcing Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) in AWS Artifact
Published Date: 2024-04-17 18:20:46+00:00
Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) for AWS products and services are now available on AWS Artifact, a self-service portal for AWS compliance-related information. ACRs are documents that demonstrate the accessibility of AWS services.
AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces advanced configurations for runtime environments
Published Date: 2024-04-17 21:54:26+00:00
We are excited to announce that AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available with greater control of managed runtime environments that run modernized mainframe applications.
AWS SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0 now available
Published Date: 2024-04-17 20:58:54+00:00
We’re excited to announce the release of the SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0. This release reorganizes the app SDK distributable package to simplify onboarding for new users and contains ready-to-use samples that you can use as templates for your projects.
Introducing the AWS PDK blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst
Published Date: 2024-04-17 18:25:59+00:00
Today, AWS announces the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK) blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst. The AWS PDK provides building blocks for common patterns along with development tools to manage and build your projects. You can now use the AWS PDK in CodeCatalyst through the PDK blueprints, enabling you to compose one or more such blueprints together to create an application comprising of a React website, Smithy API, and the supporting CDK infrastructure to deploy the application to AWS. You can get started by creating a PDK backed project in CodeCatalyst. For more information, see the Blueprints documentation and PDK tutorial.
Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks support interactive data exploration and SQL query execution
Published Date: 2024-04-17 19:16:53+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Studio’s JupyterLab notebooks now come with a built-in SQL extension with which data scientists can seamlessly discover, explore, and transform data from multiple data sources using SQL and Python right from the notebooks.
AWS CloudFormation ChangeSets now offer enhanced change visibility for deployments
Published Date: 2024-04-16 18:51:41+00:00
AWS CloudFormation enhances ChangeSets to??provide a detailed preview of the actions that CloudFormation will take in a deployment. This launch helps improve your ability to assess whether a deployment will cause unintended changes to running resources.
Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) Region
Published Date: 2024-04-16 20:36:55+00:00
Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) 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.
Monitor internet outage using the weather map in CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Published Date: 2024-04-16 21:47:37+00:00
All AWS customers who navigate to Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor console can now view the internet weather map, at no charge, which shares a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. The map lets you see, at a glance, recent internet issues across the world, including specific cities and service providers.
AWS Network Manager is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Published Date: 2024-04-16 20:04:39+00:00
Starting today, AWS Network Manager is available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing global networks across AWS and on-premises locations. It provides a single global view of your private network. You can visualize your global network in a topology diagram and monitor your network using CloudWatch Metrics and Events for network topology changes, routing updates, and connection status updates.?
Amazon Athena announces federated query pass-through
Published Date: 2024-04-16 21:22:00+00:00
Today, Amazon Athena announced?federated query pass-through, a new feature that allows entire queries to be executed directly on the underlying data source. Federated query pass-through allows you to take advantage of the unique functions, query language, and performance capabilities of different data sources, and can result in faster query execution and less data processed by Athena.
Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Published Date: 2024-04-16 20:35:45+00:00
Amazon Cognito is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) 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.
Amazon MWAA adds larger environment sizes
Published Date: 2024-04-16 19:24:25+00:00
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers larger environment sizes, giving customers of the managed service the ability to define a greater number of workflows in each Apache Airflow environment, supporting more complex tasks that can utilize increased resources.?
Amazon Corretto April, 2024 quarterly updates
Published Date: 2024-04-16 20:27:44+00:00
On April 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 22.0.1, 21.0.3, 17.0.11, 11.0.23, 8u412 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.?
Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Tool Connector for Jira
Published Date: 2024-04-16 19:03:39+00:00
Today, AWS Well-Architected introduces a new connector for Jira, which helps you create a closed-loop mechanism to efficiently manage and track your risks over time. You can now configure the Well-Architected Tool to generate Jira tickets and send updates directly to the Well-Architected Tool as tickets are resolved.
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model now available on Amazon Bedrock
Published Date: 2024-04-16 17:02:05+00:00
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus foundation model, the most advanced and intelligent model in the Claude 3 Family, is now 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. 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.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 23.2
Published Date: 2024-04-15 17:30:35+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 23.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c and 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.
Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for replicas in additional regions
Published Date: 2024-04-15 17:26:24+00:00
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional regions for Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups of replica instances (read-only and mounted) deployed within an Availability Zone, or in separate Availability Zones of a given Region, or in separate AWS Regions.
Amazon RDS for SQL supports minor version 2022 CU12
Published Date: 2024-04-15 17:11:35+00:00
A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions.
Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Oracle Database Standard Edition 2
Published Date: 2024-04-15 20:54:27+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, now supports Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2).
Amazon MSK is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region
Published Date: 2024-04-15 17:04:05+00:00
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Canada West(Calgary) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters.?
Amazon RDS for Oracle extends support for x2iedn in additional AWS regions
Published Date: 2024-04-15 21:54:01+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers memory optimized X2iedn instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta and Osaka), Europe (Milan and Paris), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
Amazon QuickSight now supports account instances of IAM Identity Center
Published Date: 2024-04-15 19:00:05+00:00
Amazon QuickSight now supports account instances of IAM Identity Center when creating a new subscription to QuickSight. Administrators can sign up for QuickSight and choose an account instance of IAM Identity Center that exists in the same AWS account as their QuickSight subscription. Account instances support isolated deployments of applications in a single AWS account, leveraging IAM Identity Center workforce identity and access portal features. Account instances are bound to a single AWS account and are used only to manage user and group access for applications in the same account and AWS region.
AWS HealthOmics announces support for reading sequence stores through Amazon S3 APIs
Published Date: 2024-04-15 21:58:03+00:00
We are excited to announce AWS HealthOmics now?supports reading sequence store objects using Amazon S3 APIs. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science organizations to store, query, analyze omics data, and generate insights to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. With this release, customers can more easily integrate HealthOmics data stores into their bioinformatics ecosystem while benefiting from the domain-specific metadata, cost-savings, and scalability.
AWS PrivateLink now supports Amazon QuickSight
Published Date: 2024-04-15 19:39:05+00:00
AWS PrivateLink now supports Amazon QuickSight, providing private connectivity between the QuickSight website, virtual private clouds (VPCs) or on-premises networks without exposing traffic to the public internet. With this integration, administrators can also use VPC endpoint policies to restrict access to QuickSight accounts that are not authorized on their network.?