Week 6 (5 Feb - 11 Feb)

AWS IoT Core supports Online Certificate Status Protocol Stapling for server certificates

Published Date: 2024-02-09 22:53:05+00:00

AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers securely connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and manage them at scale, announces support for Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Stapling for TLS X.509 Server Certificates using Custom Domains and Configurable Endpoints. The new feature enables customers to add an additional layer of verification to their custom domain's server certificate validity, for example to respond to server certificate revocations more quickly. By including the OCSP response with the certificate during the TLS handshake, it eliminates the need for a separate request from the client to an OCSP server, resulting in faster connection establishment.

ROSA is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-09 21:04:43+00:00

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is?available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Public sector and commercial sector customers can now run their containerized applications on ROSA in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

Amazon Bedrock console gets a modern look-and-feel

Published Date: 2024-02-09 22:47:45+00:00

Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models, now offers users a new look-and-feel for an enhanced console experience. The updated UI improves usability, responsiveness, and accessibility. In addition, the console now provides more seamless support for dark mode, which helps reduce eye strain and sharpens contrast in bright environments for better readability.

AWS Marketplace Sellers can now access Tax documents in AWS Marketplace Management Portal

Published Date: 2024-02-09 18:28:35+00:00

Tax documents for AWS Marketplace sellers, such as independent software vendors (ISVs), consulting partners, and channel partners, are now available in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection now supports scanning EBS managed key encrypted volumes

Published Date: 2024-02-09 21:07:14+00:00

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection can now scan Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are encrypted with EBS managed keys attached to EC2 instance and container workloads, in addition to unencrypted EBS volumes, and volumes encrypted with AWS KMS customer-managed keys (CMKs). You can now configure automatic malware scanning based on GuardDuty network-based findings, and initiate on-demand malware scans of EBS volumes encrypted with EBS managed keys. When potential malware is identified, GuardDuty generates actionable security findings with information such as the threat and file name, the file path, the Amazon EC2 instance ID, resource tags and, in the case of containers, the container ID and the container image used, helping customers identify and respond to the malware security finding. GuardDuty Malware Protection does not require you to deploy additional security agents or software and is designed to have no performance impact on running workloads

Introducing Amazon Data Firehose, formerly known as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Published Date: 2024-02-09 22:46:17+00:00

AWS is renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to Amazon Data Firehose. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Splunk, Snowflake, and other 3rd party analytics services. The name change is effective in the AWS Management Console, documentations, and service web pages. There are no other changes, including service endpoints, APIs, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access policies, and Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Your existing applications will continue to work as they did previously.

CodePipeline supports additional trigger filters and new execution modes

Published Date: 2024-02-09 21:02:19+00:00

AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines now support additional pipeline trigger filters, and two new pipeline execution modes: Parallel and Queued. Pipeline trigger filters enable customers using sources from GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Server, Bitbucket.com, GitLab.com, and GitLab self-managed to control when a pipeline execution should be triggered. Pipeline execution modes enable customers to control the concurrency behavior when multiple executions of a pipeline are started.?

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query now supports Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics

Published Date: 2024-02-08 21:22:03+00:00

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query now supports Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics, enabling customers to monitor their AMB Query API usage.

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2024-02-08 22:08:37+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). 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. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF).

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports delegating KMS key permissions to an IAM role

Published Date: 2024-02-08 22:07:13+00:00

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports delegating encryption permissions to an IAM role. Customers can configure an IAM role with Glue Data Catalog to manage KMS key permissions on behalf of calling users. Delegating the configured IAM role simplifies the management of the KMS key permissions used to encrypt the Glue Data Catalog and reduces the number of grants needed to allow users to access their catalog.

AWS Transfer Family now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for SFTP connectors

Published Date: 2024-02-08 17:59:51+00:00

SFTP connectors will now publish file transfer event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. With this enhancement, you can orchestrate your file transfer and file-processing workflows in AWS using Amazon EventBridge, or any workflow orchestration service of your choice that integrates with these events.

Amazon Redshift announces auto and incremental materialized views for data sharing consumer tables

Published Date: 2024-02-08 18:02:15+00:00

Amazon Redshift now supports automatic and incremental refresh of materialized views on the data sharing consumer data warehouses when base tables used for materialzied views are shared data. With automatic and incremental refresh of materialized views, Amazon Redshift identifies the changes to the data in the base tables since the last refresh, and updates only these changes in the materialized views, executing refresh faster as compared to full refresh.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Israel (Tel Aviv)

Published Date: 2024-02-08 22:02:55+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Israel (Tel Aviv). 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.?

Amazon Redshift announces programmatic access to Advisor recommendations via API

Published Date: 2024-02-08 18:00:51+00:00

Amazon Redshift now allows you to programmatically access Redshift Advisor recommendations via API, enabling you to integrate recommendations about how to improve your provisioned cluster performance into your own applications. You can now access Advisor recommendations via the ListRecommendations API to consume in your automation tools and dashboards.?

AWS Transfer Family now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for AS2 servers and connectors

Published Date: 2024-02-08 21:18:10+00:00

AWS Transfer Family now enables conditional workflows by publishing events to Amazon EventBridge for all successful and failed inbound and outbound Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) transfer operations. These events can be used to easily automate processing of your AS2 messages and message disposition notifications (MDN), or to send real-time status notifications to you and your trading partners.

Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in 9 additional AWS regions

Published Date: 2024-02-08 20:28:06+00:00

You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS regions.

AWS Transfer Family now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP servers

Published Date: 2024-02-08 18:03:46+00:00

AWS Transfer Family now enables conditional workflows by publishing SFTP, FTPS, and FTP file transfer events to Amazon EventBridge in near real-time. You can use these event notifications to easily build and automate file transfer and file-processing workflows. Based on your need for flexibility and low code automation, Transfer Family support for EventBridge as well as existing managed workflows allows you to automate your Managed File Transfer (MFT) workloads.

Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from five new regions

Published Date: 2024-02-08 20:19:32+00:00

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) regions, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic.?

Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in additional Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-07 19:09:09+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id instances are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. C6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region

Published Date: 2024-02-07 22:25:25+00:00

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) that makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads, is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region.

AWS DataSync now supports manifests for transferring a specific set of files

Published Date: 2024-02-07 22:21:06+00:00

AWS DataSync introduces manifests, a new feature that enables you to provide a definitive list of source files or objects to be transferred by your DataSync tasks. Using manifests, you can decrease your task execution times by specifying only the files or objects that need to be processed by your task.

Amazon EC2 C6g instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2024-02-07 21:52:06+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6g instances are available in AWS Africa (Cape Town). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, 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. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics releases NodeJS/Puppeteer Runtime versions 6.2, version 5.2 and Python/Selenium Runtime version 2.1

Published Date: 2024-02-06 21:06:40+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces release of Synthetics NodeJS Runtime versions - syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.2, syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.2 - and Python Runtime version - syn-python-selenium-2.1. This release brings updated Chromium dependency libs for forward compatibility with Lambda OS and adds new Lambda Ephemeral Storage usage metric in customer account. To learn more, see release notes.

AWS Application Load Balancer announces one-click WAF integrations

Published Date: 2024-02-06 19:01:31+00:00

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports console integration with AWS WAF that allows you to secure your applications behind ALB with a single click. This integration enables AWS WAF protections as a first line of defense against common web threats for your applications that use ALB. You can still optionally configure additional protections like bot detection and fraud prevention for your applications from the AWS WAF console.

Announcing disruption controls for Karpenter

Published Date: 2024-02-06 22:01:30+00:00

Starting with today’s release of v0.34.0, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers using the open-source Karpenter project have?a new way to control how and when disruptive changes are made to the Amazon EC2 instances in their Kubernetes clusters. You can use Karpenter with EKS to help improve application availability, lower operational overhead, and increase cost-efficiency. Disruption controls offer deeper configuration for the automatic EC2 instance management capabilities of Karpenter so that you can fine-tune them for your specific needs and use cases.

Announcing support for IdP-initiated SSO with Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Published Date: 2024-02-06 18:01:23+00:00

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Web announced support for identity provider (IdP) initiated single sign on (SSO) for standard authentication web portals. IdP-initiated SSO support provides administrators with more options in defining the sign in flow for their users.

AWS AppSync now supports environment variables in GraphQL resolvers and functions

Published Date: 2024-02-06 21:57:04+00:00

AWS AppSync is a managed service that connects applications to data. With AppSync, API developers can write resolvers and functions in JavaScript to define the business logic that connects their AppSync GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs to data.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers improved visibility into domain updates

Published Date: 2024-02-06 20:54:31+00:00

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides improved visibility into the progress of domain updates. You can see granular status values representing different stages of an update, simplifying monitoring and automation of configuration changes.

Amazon Connect adds more flexibility to copying agent schedules

Published Date: 2024-02-06 22:25:46+00:00

Amazon Connect now enables more efficient management of agent schedules through three new shift copy capabilities.

AWS AppFabric now supports Cisco Duo and Terraform

Published Date: 2024-02-06 20:14:47+00:00

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for two new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications: Cisco Duo and Terraform. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 22 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.

Amazon Redshift announces support for H3 Indexing and related spatial grid indexing functions

Published Date: 2024-02-06 19:12:20+00:00

Amazon Redshift support for Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System, H3 for short, offers an easy way to index spatial coordinates into a hexagonal grid, down to a square meter resolution. Indexed data can be quickly joined across different datasets and aggregated at different levels of precision. H3 enables several spatial algorithms and optimizations based on the hexagonal grid, including nearest neighbors, shortest path, gradient smoothing, and more. H3 Indexing and related H3 spatial functions are now available for Amazon Redshift spatial analytics.

AWS WAF announces Captcha improvements

Published Date: 2024-02-06 21:32:40+00:00

AWS WAF Captcha adds support for audio Captcha in 8 additional languages, a new Captcha type that improves usability, and revocable API keys. With support for more languages, a new Captcha puzzle, and the option to promptly disable compromised keys, WAF Captcha provides enhanced capabilities to protect web applications globally.

Amazon SQS launches the Extended Client Library for Python to support payloads up to 2GB

Published Date: 2024-02-06 21:34:14+00:00

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) launches an open-source Extended Client Library for Python that allows you to send and receive large message payloads. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.?

AWS Fargate announces a price reduction for Windows containers on Amazon ECS

Published Date: 2024-02-06 18:35:02+00:00

We are excited to announce that AWS Fargate for Windows containers on Amazon ECS has reduced infrastructure pricing by up to 49%. Fargate simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS. With Fargate, customers no longer need to set up automatic scaling groups or manage host instances for their application.?

Amazon Redshift Query Editor is now available in 2 additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-05 18:01:18+00:00

Amazon Redshift Query Editor is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) regions. Amazon Redshift Query Editor makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools by providing a web-based application that allows you to focus on exploring your data without managing your infrastructure.

AWS HealthOmics now supports Ultima Genomics DeepVariant Ready2Run workflow

Published Date: 2024-02-05 22:22:19+00:00

Today, AWS HealthOmics expands its Ready2Run workflows with Ultima Genomics DeepVariant Ready2Run workflow, which is designed to perform variant calling from whole genome sequencing data generated on Ultima Genomics UG100 sequencing instrument. With this release, customers can now bring their own CRAM files and use Ultima Genomics DeepVariant Ready2Run workflow to generate a single-sample whole genome gVCF or VCF of the variants.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2024 Release Update

Published Date: 2024-02-05 22:46:45+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c.

VPC DNS Query Logging now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region

Published Date: 2024-02-05 22:13:34+00:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Route 53 Resolver Query Logging enables you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated - including source IP and instance ID - and the responses that were received.

Announcing Single sign-on (SSO) support for JetBrains IDE within Amazon CodeCatalyst

Published Date: 2024-02-05 18:01:52+00:00

Today, AWS announces support for single sign-on when using JetBrains IntelliJ, GoLang and PyCharm IDEs with Amazon CodeCatalyst development environments. This launch allows customers who've setup AWS IAM Identity Center with CodeCatalyst to create, delete, pause, and resume supported JetBrains development environments from their teams' CodeCatalyst projects.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds new Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Published Date: 2024-02-05 18:01:35+00:00

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect offers additional output metrics for SRT and MediaLive outputs to improve video stream monitoring. The new metrics are total packets sent, Forward Error Correction (FEC) packets, Automatic Repeat Requests (ARQ), number of resent packets, number of packets not recovered, round trip time, and bitrate for each output from a MediaConnect flow.

AWS announces a new Local Zone in Houston

Published Date: 2024-02-05 21:00:03+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Houston, Texas. This new Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6i, M6i, R6i, and C6gn instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect in this new Local Zone to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.

Generate AWS CloudFormation templates and AWS CDK apps for existing AWS resources in minutes

Published Date: 2024-02-05 18:25:30+00:00

AWS CloudFormation launches a new feature that makes it easy to generate AWS CloudFormation templates and AWS CDK apps for existing AWS resources that are managed outside CloudFormation. You can use the generated templates and apps to import resources into CloudFormation and CDK or replicate resources in a new AWS Region or account. With this launch, you can onboard workloads to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in minutes, eliminating weeks of manual effort. You can then leverage the IaC benefits of automation, safety, and scalability for the workloads.?