Week 47 (18 Nov - 24 Nov) - Part 2

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Custom Plugins

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces Custom Plugins, a new plugin management option that allows you to extend OpenSearch functionality and deliver personalized experiences for applications such as website search, log analytics, application monitoring and, observability. OpenSearch provides a rich set of search and analysis capabilities, and with custom plugins, you can extend these further to meet your business needs. Until now, you had to build and operate your own search infrastructure to support applications that required customization in areas like language analysis, custom filtering, ranking and more. With this launch, you can run custom plugins on Amazon OpenSearch Service that allow you to extend the Search and Analysis functions of OpenSearch. You can use the OpenSearch Service console or APIs to upload and associate search and analysis plugins with your domains. OpenSearch Service validates plugin package for version compatibility, security, and permitted plugin operations. Custom plugins are now supported on all OpenSearch Service domains running OpenSearch version 2.15 or later, and are available in 14 regions globally: US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Paris), Europe (London), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). To get started with custom plugins, visit our documentation. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service, please visit the product page. ?

AWS Lambda supports application performance monitoring (APM) via CloudWatch Application Signals

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution, enabling developers and operators to easily monitor the health and performance of their serverless applications built using Lambda. Customers want an easy way to quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues to minimize the mean time to recovery (MTTR) and operational costs of running serverless applications. Now, Application Signals provides pre-built, standardized dashboards for critical application metrics (such as throughput, availability, latency, faults, and errors), correlated traces, and interactions between the Lambda function and its dependencies (such as other AWS services), without requiring any manual instrumentation or code changes from developers. This gives operators a single-pane-of-glass view of the health of the application and enables them to drill down to establish the root cause of performance anomalies. You can also create Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in Application Signals to closely track the performance KPIs of critical operations in your application, enabling you to easily identify and triage operations that do not meet your business KPIs. Application Signals auto-instruments your Lambda function using enhanced AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) libraries, delivering better performance (cold start latency and memory consumption) than before. To get started, visit the Configuration tab in Lambda console and enable Application Signals for your function with just one click in the “Monitoring and operational tools” section. To learn more, visit the launch blog post, Lambda developer guide, and Application Signals developer guide. Application Signals for Lambda is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Lambda and CloudWatch Application Signals are available. ?

AWS Partner Network automates Foundational Technical Reviews using Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Today, AWS is announcing automation for the Foundational Technical Review (FTR) process using Amazon Bedrock. The new generative AI-driven automation process for the FTR optimizes the review timeline for AWS Partners, offering review decisions in minutes, accelerating a process that previously could take weeks. Gaining FTR approval allows Partners to fast-track their AWS Partner journey, unlocking access to AWS Partner Network (APN) programs and co-sell opportunities with AWS. Partners seeking access to AWS funding programs, the AWS Competency Program to validate expertise, and the AWS ISV Accelerate Program for co-sell support must qualify their solutions by completing the FTR. With this launch, AWS has automated the FTR and enhanced the experience for Partners, with successful reviews being approved in minutes. Unsuccessful reviews will be forwarded for manual review, and an AWS expert will make contact within two weeks to remediate potential gaps. Partners will receive an email notification informing them of the review result, reducing wait time from weeks to minutes. Additionally, partners will be able to submit responses in several non-English languages, saving time for translation and improving the accuracy of their submissions. This generative AI-based automation accelerates the technical validation step, allowing Partners to spend more time on business initiatives. AWS Partners can request the FTR for their solution in AWS Partner Central. To learn more about the FTR, sign in to AWS Partner Central and download the FTR Guide (software or service solution). ?

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports Apache Iceberg automatic table optimization through Amazon VPC

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic optimization of Apache Iceberg tables that can be only accessed from a specific Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment. You can enable automatic optimization by providing a VPC configuration to optimize storage and improve query performance while keeping your tables secure. AWS Glue Data Catalog supports compaction, snapshot retention and unreferenced file management that help you reduce metadata overhead, control storage costs and improve query performance. Customers who have governance and security configurations that require an Amazon S3 bucket to reside within a specific VPC can now use it with Glue Catalog. This gives you broader capabilities for automatic management of your Apache Iceberg data, regardless of where it's stored on Amazon S3. Automatic optimization for Iceberg tables through Amazon VPC is available in 13 AWS regions US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney), South America (S?o Paulo). Customers can enable this through the AWS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. To get started, you can now provide the Glue network connection as an additional configuration along with optimization settings such as default retention period and days to keep unreferenced files. The AWS Glue Data Catalog will use the VPC information in the Glue connection to access Amazon S3 buckets and optimize Apache Iceberg tables. To learn more, read the blog, and visit the AWS Glue Data Catalog documentation. ?

Amazon ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling and improved memory efficiency

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Today, Amazon ElastiCache introduces support for Valkey 8.0, the latest Valkey major version. This release brings faster scaling for ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey and improved memory efficiency on node-based ElastiCache, compared to previous versions of ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS. Valkey is an open-source, high-performance key-value datastore stewarded by the Linux Foundation and is a drop-in replacement for Redis OSS. Backed by over 40 companies, Valkey has seen rapid adoption since its inception in March 2024. Hundreds of thousands of customers use ElastiCache to scale their applications, improve performance, and optimize costs. ElastiCache Serverless version 8.0 for Valkey scales to 5 million requests per second (RPS) per cache in minutes, up to 5x faster than Valkey 7.2, with microsecond read latency. With node-based ElastiCache, you can benefit from improved memory efficiency, with 32 bytes less memory per key compared to ElastiCache version 7.2 for Valkey and ElastiCache for Redis OSS. AWS has made significant contributions to open source Valkey in the areas of performance, scalability, and memory optimizations, and we are bringing these benefits into ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey. ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey is now available in all AWS regions. You can upgrade from ElastiCache version 7.2 for Valkey or any ElastiCache for Redis OSS version to ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey in a few clicks without downtime. You can get started using the AWS Management Console, Software Development Kit (SDK), or Command Line Interface (CLI). For more information, please visit the ElastiCache features page, blog and documentation. ?

Announcing Commands feature for AWS IoT Device Management

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Today, AWS IoT Device Management announced the general availability of the Commands feature, a managed capability that allows developers to build innovative applications where users can perform remote command and control actions on targeted devices and track the status of those executions. With this feature, you can send instructions, trigger device actions, or modify device configuration settings on-demand, simplifying the development of consumer facing applications. Using the Commands feature, you can set fine-grained access controls, timeout settings, and receive real-time updates and notifications for each command execution, without having to manually create and manage MQTT topics, payload formats, Rules, Lambda functions, and status tracking. In addition, the feature supports custom payload formats, allowing you to define and store command entities as AWS resources for recurring use. The AWS IoT Device Management commands feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Device Management is offered. To learn more, see technical documentation. To get started, log in to the AWS IoT Management Console or use the CLI. ?

Amazon CloudFront announces origin modifications using CloudFront Functions

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon CloudFront now supports origin modification within CloudFront Functions, enabling you to conditionally change or update origin servers on each request. You can now write custom logic in CloudFront Functions to overwrite origin properties, use another origin in your CloudFront distribution, or forward requests to any public HTTP endpoint. Origin modification allows you to create custom routing policies for how traffic should be forwarded to your application servers on cache misses. For example, you can use origin modification to determine the geographic location of a viewer and then forward the request, on cache misses, to the closest AWS Region running your application. This ensures the lowest possible latency for your application. Previously, you had to use AWS Lambda@Edge to modify origins, but now this same capability is available in CloudFront Functions with better performance and lower costs. Origin modification supports updating all existing origin capabilities such as setting custom headers, adjusting timeouts, setting Origin Shield, or changing the primary origin in origin groups. Origin modification is now available within CloudFront Functions at no additional charge. For more information, see the CloudFront Developer Guide. For examples of how to use origin modification, see our GitHub examples repository.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. You are able to leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance window. Learn more about upgrading your database instances in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Additionally, starting with PostgreSQL major version 18, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL will deprecate plcoffee and plls PostgreSQL extensions. We recommend that you stop using Coffee scripts and LiveScript in your applications, ensuring you have an upgrade path for future. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console. ?

AWS Backup for Amazon S3 adds new restore parameter

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

AWS Backup introduces a new restore parameter for Amazon S3 backups, offering you the ability to choose how many versions of an object to restore. By default, AWS Backup restores only the latest version of objects from the version stack at any point in time. The new parameter will now allow you to recover all versions of your data by restoring the entire version stack. You can also recover just the latest version(s) of an object without the overhead of restoring all older versions. With this feature, you now have more flexibility to control the data recovery process of Amazon S3 buckets/prefixes from your Amazon S3 backups, tailoring restore jobs to your requirements. This feature is available in all Regions where AWS Backup for Amazon S3 is available. For more information on Regional availability and pricing, see the AWS Backup pricing page. To learn more about AWS Backup for Amazon S3, visit the product page and technical documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console. ?

Introducing an AWS Management Console Visual Update (Preview)

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Now available in Preview, the visual update in the AWS Management Console helps customers scan content, focus on the key information, and find what they are looking for more effectively, while preserving the familiar and consistent experience. The new, modern layout also provides easy access to contextual tools. Customers now benefit from optimized information density that maximizes available content on screen, allowing them to see more content at a glance. Thanks to a reduced visual complexity, crisper styles and improved use of color, the experience is more intuitive, readable, and efficient. We modernized the interface, with rounder shapes and a new family of illustrations, complemented by added motion to bring moments of delight. While introducing these visual enhancements, we continue to offer a predictable experience that adheres to the highest accessibility standards. The visual update is available in selected consoles across all AWS Regions, with the latest version of Cloudscape Design System. We will be extending the update across all services. Visit the AWS Management Console to experience the visual update.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Ruby 3.3

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Ruby 3.3 on AL2023 adds support for a new parser, a new pure-Ruby just-in-time compiler and several performance improvements. You can create Elastic Beanstalk environment(s) running Ruby 3.3 on AL2023 using any of the Elastic Beanstalk interfaces such as Elastic Beanstalk Console, Elastic Beanstalk CLI, and the Elastic Beanstalk API. This platform is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions. For more information about Ruby and Linux Platforms, see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

Amazon SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon SQS increases the in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K messages. When a message is sent to an SQS FIFO queue, it is added to the queue backlog. Once you invoke a receive request on the FIFO queue, the message is now marked as in-flight and remains in-flight until a delete message request is invoked. With this change to the in-flight limit, your receivers can now process a maximum of 120K messages concurrently, increased from 20K previously, via SQS FIFO queues. If you have sufficient publish throughput and were constrained by the 20K in-flight limit, you can now process up to 120K messages at a time by scaling your receivers. The increased in-flight limits is available in all commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where SQS FIFO queues are available. To get started, see the following resources:

• High-Throughput SQS FIFO queues, in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide
• SQS FIFO queue quotas, in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in 34 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon MQ reduces your operational responsibilities by managing the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Because Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols, you can more easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite or modify your applications. For more information, please visit the Amazon MQ product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL 8.4 LTS release

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL major version 8.4, the latest long-term support (LTS) release from the MySQL community. RDS for MySQL 8.4 is integrated with AWS Libcrypto (AWS-LC) FIPS module (Certificate #4816), and includes support for multi-source replication plugin for analytics, Group Replication plugin for continuous availability, as well as several performance and feature improvements added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the community enhancements in the MySQL 8.4 release notes. You can leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments to upgrade your databases from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 8.4. Learn more about RDS for MySQL 8.4 features and upgrade options, including Managed Blue/Green deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.4 is now available in all AWS Commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MySQL. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.4 database in the Amazon RDS Management Console. ?

Amazon MWAA adds smaller environment size

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers a micro environment size, giving customers of the managed service the ability to create multiple, independent environments for development and data isolation at a lower cost. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. With Amazon MWAA micro environments, customers can now create smaller, cost-effective environments that are more efficient for development use, as well as for teams that require data isolation with lightweight workflow requirements. You can create a micro size Amazon MWAA environment with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console in all currently supported Amazon MWAA regions. To learn more about larger environments in Amazon MWAA, visit the Launch Blog. To learn more about Amazon MWAA visit the Amazon MWAA documentation. Apache, Apache Airflow, and Airflow are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. ?

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor adds AWS Local Zones support for VPC subnets

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Today, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor introduces support for select AWS Local Zones. Now, you can monitor internet traffic performance for VPC subnets deployed in Local Zones. With this new feature, you can also view optimization suggestions that include Local Zones. On the Optimize tab in the Internet Monitor console, select the toggle to include Local Zones in traffic optimization suggestions for your application. Additionally, you can compare your current configuration with other supported Local Zones. Select the option to see more optimization suggestions, and then choose specific Local Zones to compare. By comparing latency differences, you can determine the proposed best configuration for your traffic. At launch, CloudWatch Internet Monitor supports the following Local Zones: us-east-1-dfw-2a, us-east-1-mia-2a, us-east-1-qro-1a, us-east-1-lim-1a, us-east-1-atl-2a, us-east-1-bue-1a, us-east-1-mci-1a, us-west-2-lax-1a, us-west-2-lax-1b, and af-south-1-los-1a. To learn more, visit the Internet Monitor user guide documentation.

Introducing Prompt Optimization in Preview in Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Today we are announcing the preview launch of Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock. Prompt Optimization rewrites prompts for higher quality responses from foundational models. Prompt engineering is the process of designing prompts to guide foundational models to generating relevant responses. These prompts need to be tailored for each specific foundational model, following best practices and guidelines for each model. Developers can now use Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock to rewrite their prompts for improved performance on Claude Sonnet 3.5, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Claude Haiku, Llama 3 70B, Llama 3.1 70B, Mistral Large 2 and Titan Text Premier models. Developers can easily compare the performance of optimized prompts against the original prompts without the need of any deployment. All optimized prompts are saved as part of Prompt Builder for developers to use for their generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Prompt Optimization is now available in preview. Learn more here. ?

Amazon CloudWatch launches full visibility into application transactions

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

AWS announces the general availability of an enhanced search and analytics experience in CloudWatch Application Signals. This feature empowers developers and on-call engineers with complete visibility into application transaction spans, which are the building blocks of distributed traces that capture detailed interactions between users and various application components. This feature offers 3 core benefits. First, developers can answer any questions related to application performance or end-user impact through an interactive visual editor and enhancements to Logs Insights queries. They can correlate spans with end-user issues using attributes like customer name or order number. With the new JSON parse and unnest functions in Logs Insights, they can link transactions to business events such as failed payments and troubleshoot. Second, developers can diagnose rarely occurring issues, such as p99 latency spikes in APIs, with the enhanced troubleshooting capabilities in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals that correlates application metrics with comprehensive transaction spans. Finally, CloudWatch Logs offers advanced features for transaction spans, including data masking, forwarding via subscription filters, and metric extraction. You can enable these capabilities for existing spans sent to X-Ray or by sending spans to a new OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) endpoint for traces. This allows you to enhance your observability while maintaining flexibility in your setup. You can search and analyze spans in all regions where Application Signals is available. A new pricing option is also available , encompassing Application Signals, X-Ray traces, and complete visibility into transaction spans - see Amazon CloudWatch pricing. Refer to documentation for more details. ?

The new AWS Systems Manager experience: Simplifying node management

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

The new AWS Systems Manager experience helps you scale operational efficiency by simplifying node management, making it easier to manage nodes running anywhere— whether it's EC2 instances, hybrid servers, or servers running in a multicloud environment. The new AWS Systems Manager experience gives you a comprehensive, centralized view to easily manage all of your nodes at scale. With this launch, you can now see all managed and unmanaged nodes across your organizations’ AWS accounts and Regions from a single place. You can also identify, diagnose, and remediate unmanaged nodes. Once remediated, meaning they are managed by Systems Manager, you can leverage the full suite of Systems Manager tools to patch nodes with security updates, securely connect to nodes without managing SSH keys or bastion hosts, automate operational commands at scale, and gain comprehensive visibility across your entire fleet. Systems Manager is also now integrated with Amazon Q Developer which extends your ability to see and control your nodes from anywhere in the AWS console. For example, you can ask Amazon Q to “show me managed instances running Amazon Linux 1” to quickly get the information you need for operational investigations. It's the same powerful Systems Manager many customers rely on, improved and simplified to help you save time and effort. The new Systems Manager experience is available in AWS Regions found here.

Get started now at no additional cost and easily enable the new experience in Systems Manager. For more information, visit the Systems Manager product page and user guide. ?

Enhanced account linking experience across AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central

Published Date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00

Today, AWS announces an improved account linking experience for AWS Partners to create and connect their AWS Marketplace accounts with AWS Partner Central, as well as onboarding associated users. Account Linking allows Partners to seamlessly navigate between Partner Central and Marketplace Management Portal using Single Sign-On (SSO), connect Partner Central solutions to AWS Marketplace listings, link private offers to opportunities for tracking deals from pipeline to customer offers, and access AWS Marketplace insights within centralized AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard. Linking accounts also unlocks access to valuable Amazon Partner Network (APN) program benefits such as ISV Accelerate and accelerated sales cycles. The new account linking experience introduces three major improvements to streamline the self-guided linking workflow. First, it simplifies the process to associate your AWS account with AWS Marketplace by registering your legal business name. Second, it automates the creation and bulk assignment of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to AWS Partner Central users, eliminating the need for manual creation in the AWS IAM console. Third, it introduces three new AWS managed policies to simplify permission management for AWS Partner Central and Marketplace access. The new policies offer fine-grained access options, ranging from full Partner Central access to personalized access to co-sell or marketplace offer management. This new experience is available for all AWS Partners. To get started, navigate to the “Account Linking” feature on the AWS Partner Central homepage. To learn more, review the AWS Partner Central documentation.