Week 8 (19 Feb - 25 Feb)

Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for agent shift profiles

Published Date: 2024-02-23 18:01:11+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides time zone setting for shift profiles in agent scheduling, enabling contact center managers to reduce time spent configuring and maintaining agent shift configurations.

Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Europe (Spain) Region

Published Date: 2024-02-23 18:01:21+00:00

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Europe (Spain) Region.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters supports readable secondaries, and start and stop clusters

Published Date: 2024-02-23 18:00:46+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic?Clusters now support readable secondaries, ability to configure the shard instance count, and ability start and stop clusters. These new features help you scale read workloads and improve usage efficiency of your Elastic Clusters.?

Remediating non-compliant resources with AWS Config rules is now available in Canada West (Calgary)

Published Date: 2024-02-23 19:28:02+00:00

Starting today, remediating non-compliant resources with AWS Config rules is available in Canada West (Calgary) Region. This feature gives you the ability to associate and execute remediation actions with AWS Config rules to address noncompliant resources. You can choose from a list of available remediation actions. For example, you can create an AWS Config rule to check that your Amazon S3 buckets does not allow public read access. You can then associate a remediation action to disable public access for noncompliant S3 buckets.

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.8

Published Date: 2024-02-23 19:11:01+00:00

You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.8 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.8 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters now support automatic backups and snapshot copying

Published Date: 2024-02-23 18:00:46+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters now support automated backups and the ability to copy snapshots. These new features enhance your application resilience and recovery objectives of your Elastic Clusters.

Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence

Published Date: 2024-02-23 21:30:26+00:00

Amazon CloudFront embedded Points of Presence (POPs) are a new type of CloudFront infrastructure deployed closest to end viewers, within internet service provider (ISP) and mobile network operator (MNO) networks. Embedded POPs are custom built to deliver large scale live-stream video, video-on-demand (VOD), and game downloads. Today, CloudFront has 600+ embedded POPs deployed across 200+ cities globally.

Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows 2022

Published Date: 2024-02-23 20:15:16+00:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Windows Server 2022 based Elastic Beanstalk environments. Elastic Beanstalk Windows 2022 environments come with .NET Framework 4.8.1 and .NET Core 8.0 installed by default.?

AWS HealthOmics now provides additional information for workflow runs

Published Date: 2024-02-23 19:00:11+00:00

AWS HealthOmics now provides customers with more detailed information about their workflow runs. Customers can now see detailed performance metrics in their CloudWatch log streams and use this information to quickly right size their workloads. Additionally, customers now receive engine logs for all workflow runs in their S3 location of choice and receive detailed status messages to aid in debugging. All of this information is readily available in the revamped run details page in the HealthOmics console.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18

Published Date: 2024-02-22 20:25:10+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes support for pgvector 0.6.0, which adds performance improvements for building Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) indexes including parallelism and in-memory builds. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix the known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community.

Announcing Region Expansion of G5 instances on SageMaker notebooks

Published Date: 2024-02-22 22:41:57+00:00

We are pleased to announce general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (UAE), and US East (Ohio) on SageMaker Studio notebooks. We are also pleased to announce general availability of G5 instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (UAE), South America (S?o Paulo), and US East (Ohio) on SageMaker notebook instances.

Amazon Neptune now supports for Amazon OpenSearch 2.3, 2.5, and Serverless

Published Date: 2024-02-22 19:01:26+00:00

Amazon Neptune announces support for versions 2.3 and 2.5 of Amazon OpenSearch for a Neptune versions and support for OpenSearch Serverless with Neptune engine version 1.2.2.0 and higher. This is in addition to previously supported Elasticsearch 7.1 or higher versions, to allow customers to perform full text search within their graphs. Customers can now use search indexing capabilities with OpenSearch 2.3 and 2.5 , and Serverless with their graph data stored in Neptune.

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports cross-account sharing

Published Date: 2024-02-22 19:07:01+00:00

Parameter Store, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that provides secure storage for configuration data, now allows you to share advanced-tier parameters with other AWS accounts, enabling you to centrally manage your configuration data. Parameters are key-value pairs that you can reference in code and through several AWS integrations such as AWS CloudFormation and Amazon EC2. Today, many customers have workloads in multiple AWS accounts that depend on shared configuration data. Now, you can maintain a single source of truth for configuration data by sharing parameters with other accounts that need access rather than manually duplicating and synchronizing data across accounts.

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning announces Demand Driver-Based Forecasting

Published Date: 2024-02-22 19:13:45+00:00

AWS Supply Chain now allows demand planners to input factors (demand drivers) that could influence forecasted demand. Demand Driver Based Forecasting is an adaptive approach that enables machine learning models to capture influence factors that improve forecast accuracy.

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift in the US East (Virginia) region

Published Date: 2024-02-22 19:15:22+00:00

Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in limited preview in the US East (Virginia) region. This zero-ETL integration enables customers to run high performance analytics on their DynamoDB data and has no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. As data is written into a DynamoDB table, it is seamlessly made available in Amazon Redshift, eliminating the need for customers to build and maintain complex data pipelines for performing extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations.

Amazon Neptune announces support for data APIs in the AWS SDK

Published Date: 2024-02-22 19:02:51+00:00

Today, Amazon Neptune announces the support for Neptune’s data APIs in the AWS SDKs. This launch provides developers access to Neptune’s 40+ data plane APIs using the AWS SDK. You can now utilize Neptune to perform tasks such as data loading or query execution with SDKs in Gremlin and openCypher query languages.?

AWS announces Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized

Published Date: 2024-02-22 19:04:21+00:00

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized, a new configuration for Amazon Neptune Database that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. With Neptune I/O-Optimized, there are zero charges for read and write I/O operations—you only pay for your database instances and storage usage, making it easy to predict your database spend up front. Neptune I/O-Optimized offers up to 40% cost savings for I/O-intensive applications where I/O charges exceed 25% of the total Neptune database spend.

AWS Incident Detection and Response now offers five minute response time for critical incidents

Published Date: 2024-02-21 18:08:23+00:00

AWS Support announces five-minute response to critical incidents on workloads onboarded to AWS Incident Detection and Response. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management for critical workloads. With AWS Incident Detection and Response, AWS Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) monitor your workloads 24x7, detect incidents, and engage you with AWS Support experts to provide guidance toward mitigation and recovery.

Amazon EMR Studio is now available in the Europe (Spain) Region

Published Date: 2024-02-21 19:33:24+00:00

Starting today, you can use Amazon EMR Studio in the Europe (Spain) Region to run interactive workloads on EMR.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Partial Indexes

Published Date: 2024-02-21 18:01:13+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces support for partial indexes. With partial indexes, developers can create an index on a subset of documents that meet a specific filter criterion. By indexing a subset of data, partial indexes can reduce query times and improve performance during index creation and management.

AWS Resilience Hub is now PCI compliant

Published Date: 2024-02-21 21:27:04+00:00

AWS Resilience Hub is pleased to announce two new service enhancements, including Payment Card Industry (PCI) certification and AWS Migration Acceleration Program 2.0 (MAP 2.0) availability.?

Amazon Location Service Maps SDK now supports Metal-based rendering for iOS applications

Published Date: 2024-02-21 19:28:39+00:00

Amazon Location Service Maps SDK now supports Metal-based rendering for iOS applications. This update allows developers to render maps and geospatial visualizations using Metal, Apple's native graphics API, on iOS devices.

AWS announces new edge location in Türkiye

Published Date: 2024-02-20 19:15:29+00:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in?Türkiye by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in ?stanbul. Customers in Türkiye can expect up to 30% improvement in latency and performance, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video with low latency and high performance.

AWS Resource Explorer supports 65 new resource types

Published Date: 2024-02-20 18:32:35+00:00

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 65 more resource types from services including AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon Route53, and Amazon Fraud Detector. With this launch, customers can now use AWS Resource Explorer to search for and discover resources for the following newly supported resource types:

AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for custom SSL certificates/TLS

Published Date: 2024-02-20 18:20:29+00:00

AWS Amplify Hosting now supports custom SSL certificates for custom domains. This new feature allows developers to easily upload and use their SSL/TLS certificates for their web applications hosted on Amplify, offering improved flexibility and security. With this feature, developers can now leverage certificates they've obtained from third-party Certificate Authorities (CAs) or use certificates issued by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to have greater control over your domain and IT compliance needs.

CloudWatch alarm guidelines and console enhancements now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-19 18:01:03+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch announces a comprehensive set of enhancements to the alarm and dashboard experience. It introduces out-of-the-box, best practice alarm recommendations for 24 AWS services, streamlining your monitoring setup. You can easily view all metrics with recommended alarms using a convenient toggle. Creating alarms is simpler with pre-filled configuration in the alarm wizard or bulk downloading infrastructure-as-code templates for the recommended alarms.

Amazon DocumentDB now supports vector search with HNSW index

Published Date: 2024-02-19 20:21:19+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports vector search with Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) index. HNSW index lets you execute vector similarity searches with low latency and produce highly relevant results. Vectors are numerical representations of unstructured data, such as text, created from machine learning (ML) models that help capture the semantic meaning of the underlying data. Vector search for Amazon DocumentDB can store vectors from Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and more.

Announcing Amazon EMR Serverless in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-19 18:03:48+00:00

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server reduces prices on R5 and R6i Standard Edition in Asia Pacific (Osaka)

Published Date: 2024-02-19 20:58:24+00:00

We are announcing that Amazon for RDS SQL Server is reducing the price of R5 and R6i instance for both On-Demand and Reserved DB instances prices on Standard Edition in Asia Pacific (Osaka).