Week 9 (26 Feb - 3 Mar)

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports hybrid search

Published Date: 2024-03-01 20:07:39+00:00

Hybrid Search is now generally available in Knowledge Bases for Bedrock for OpenSearch Serverless. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications typically use semantic search, which relies on semantic vectors to search unstructured text. These vectors are created from machine learning models to capture contextual and linguistic meaning within the data to answer human-like questions. Hybrid search combines this semantic search with a text based search to improve the relevance of retrieved results, especially for keyword searches.

Start your Engines! Announcing the 2024 AWS DeepRacer League

Published Date: 2024-03-01 18:09:39+00:00

Today, AWS launches the 2024 season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League - where racers of all skill levels advance their knowledge of machine learning (ML) and compete in the world’s first global autonomous racing league!?

QnAIntent for Amazon Lex is now generally available

Published Date: 2024-03-01 23:10:55+00:00

We are excited to announce general availability of the QnAIntent in Amazon Lex, enabling developers securely connect foundation models (FM) to company data for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Introduced in preview at re:Invent in November 2023, the QnAIntent leverages enterprise data and foundation models on Amazon Bedrock to generate relevant, accurate, and contextual responses. The QnAIntent can be used with new or existing Lex bots to automate frequently asked questions (FAQs) through text and voice channels, such as Amazon Connect.

AWS Nitro Enclaves is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

Published Date: 2024-03-01 20:01:24+00:00

Starting today, you can use AWS Nitro Enclaves in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region.

Mistral AI foundation models now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2024-03-01 22:21:56+00:00

Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models are now generally available on?Amazon Bedrock.?Mistral AI models are now offered in Amazon Bedrock, joining other leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon. You now have even more choice of high-performing models available in Amazon Bedrock via a single API, so you can choose the optimal model to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.

Amazon Redshift announces support for scoped permissions and object-level privileges in data sharing

Published Date: 2024-02-29 22:38:28+00:00

Amazon Redshift customers?can now use scoped permissions to manage permissions for a role or user on a database or schema scope, avoiding the need to manually grant permissions on every object. Scoped permissions apply to objects in the selected scope when you grant or revoke the permission, as well as to new objects created after you grant or revoke the permission. For example, granting SELECT permission to tables in a schema allows access to current and future tables within the schema. Scoped permissions can also be used on shared databases created from a datashare.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds capability to easily query data in AWS Management Console

Published Date: 2024-02-29 21:49:25+00:00

Today, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds the ability for you to run SQL queries with one click in the AWS Management Console using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With this new capability, you can easily analyze and visualize the data in your streams in real-time.

AWS Step Functions adds support for Open Workflow Metrics

Published Date: 2024-02-29 22:36:18+00:00

AWS Step Functions announces open workflow metrics for Step Functions workflows in Amazon CloudWatch to track and monitor the number of open workflow executions in real-time through Amazon CloudWatch. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads.

AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Aurora continuous backups

Published Date: 2024-02-29 19:05:00+00:00

AWS Backup announces support for restore testing of Amazon Aurora continuous backups. AWS Backup restore testing helps perform automated and periodic restore tests of supported AWS resources that have been backed up. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across supported AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can test recovery readiness to prepare for possible data loss events and to measure duration times for restore jobs for their Amazon Aurora continuous backups to satisfy compliance or regulatory requirements.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless customers can now control access to VPC endpoints

Published Date: 2024-02-29 17:58:25+00:00

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is enhancing access controls for VPC endpoints. With this feature, administrators can attach endpoint policies to control which AWS principals are allowed or denied access to the OpenSearch resources through their VPC endpoint(s). With a VPC endpoint policy, users can also combine actions along with AWS principals and resources to have finer control on the allowing or denying the traffic through their VPC endpoint(s).

Amazon Connect now provides case management metrics

Published Date: 2024-02-29 18:50:49+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides metrics for case management which give customers insights into case volumes and performance. With this launch, contact center managers can view new reports using the historical metrics dashboard in the Amazon Connect admin website to analyze case resolution performance based on point in time snapshots or specific time intervals.

Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWS

Published Date: 2024-02-29 19:56:48+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance for VMware Cloud on AWS. This offering features a disaggregated storage architecture from compute, supporting both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and VMware Cloud Flex Storage as primary storage options for customers. With this new offering, customers can now choose among three instance types for VMware Cloud on AWS: i3en.metal, i4i.metal and m7i.metal-24xl.

Amazon EventBridge API destinations now supports content-type header customization

Published Date: 2024-02-29 18:36:09+00:00

Amazon EventBridge API destinations now supports custom HTTP content-type header values for API destinations connection resources and when using API destinations as a target in EventBridge Event Buses or Pipes.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-29 17:58:27+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports an in-place major version upgrade (MVU) from Amazon DocumentDB versions 3.6 and 4.0 to version 5.0 in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version or relying on database migration tools, you can perform an in-place major version upgrade with a few clicks using the AWS console, the latest AWS Software Development Kit (SDK), or Command Line Interface (CLI). With in-place MVU, no new clusters are created in the process and you can continue using the existing cluster endpoints for your applications.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB support M7g and R7g database instances in additional regions

Published Date: 2024-02-29 19:27:17+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (London, Spain), and Middle East (Bahrain). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload

AWS Lambda improves responsiveness for configuring stream and queue-based event sources

Published Date: 2024-02-29 22:59:50+00:00

AWS Lambda now improves the responsiveness for configuring Event Source Mappings (ESMs) and Amazon EventBridge Pipes with event sources such as self-managed Apache Kafka, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon DocumentDB, and Amazon MQ. This enhancement allows changes—such as updating, disabling, or deleting ESMs or Pipes—to take effect within 90 seconds, an improvement from the previous time frame of up to 15 minutes.

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Honolulu, Hawaii

Published Date: 2024-02-29 21:30:01+00:00

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Aloha NAP data center in Honolulu, Hawaii. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Hawaii location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the first AWS Direct Connect site within Hawaii and the 42nd site in the United States.?

Amazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2024-02-29 21:08:48+00:00

Today, we are announcing general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). AL2023 is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services and is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. EKS customers can enjoy the benefits of AL2023 by using the standard AL2023-based EKS optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Managed Node Groups, self-managed nodes, and Karpenter.

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports custom templates

Published Date: 2024-02-29 21:07:17+00:00

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now allows you to save customized workflows as new templates for your subsequent migration and modernization projects on AWS. You can create a workflow from a predefined AWS managed template and customize the workflow based on your own needs. With this launch, you can now save the customized workflow as a new custom template to simplify your future projects and save time with no need to customize the workflow again.

AWS Resource Groups now supports 161 more resource types

Published Date: 2024-02-29 17:59:17+00:00

Today, AWS Resource Groups is adding support for an additional 161 resource types for tag-based Resource Groups. Customers can use Resource Groups to group and manage resources from services such as AWS Backup, AWS Media Connect, and AWS Network Manager.?

Amazon Security Lake enhances analytics performance with OCSF 1.1.0 and Apache Iceberg

Published Date: 2024-02-29 21:17:02+00:00

Today, AWS announces support for Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) v.1.1.0 and Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon Security Lake, enhancing query performance for your security analytics. Apache Iceberg is an open table format that provides fast query performance over large tables in data lakes. As part of these changes, Security Lake has adopted several OCSF mapping enhancements. Your transformed events now include OCSF Observables, which streamlines tasks like matching threat intelligence indicators or searching for logs pertaining to a specific identity across all of your environments, making them much easier and more efficient than before. Security Lake now maps security findings from AWS Security Hub to more specific event classes available in OCSF v1.1.0 such as detection or vulnerability findings, which represent finding data more succinctly and improves usability. Security Lake has also adopted the latest version of OCSF datetime profile which utilizes human readable RFC-3339 timestamps.

Amazon Q for Business launches support for metadata boosting for Q&A fine tuning

Published Date: 2024-02-29 18:04:29+00:00

We are excited to announce that Amazon Q for Business now supports metadata boosting for Q applications. This feature allows customers to easily fine-tune the underlying ranking of retrieved RAG passages in order to optimize Q&A answer relevance in their Q applications.?

Amazon Connect now supports DID & Toll Free calling in Venezuela

Published Date: 2024-02-29 18:06:48+00:00

Amazon Connect has expanded availability to support inbound Direct Dial (DID) and Toll Free telephone numbers in Venezuela from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions.?

Amazon Security Lake now supports audit logs from Amazon EKS

Published Date: 2024-02-29 21:18:36+00:00

Today, AWS announces the expansion in the log coverage support for Amazon Security Lake, which includes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) audit logs. This enhancement allows you to automatically centralize and normalize your Amazon EKS audit logs in Security Lake, making it easier to monitor and investigate potential suspicious activities in your Amazon EKS clusters.

AWS Blu Age runtime is now available packaged for easier ECS on Fargate deployment

Published Date: 2024-02-28 18:34:29+00:00

AWS Mainframe Modernization with AWS Blu Age Runtime is now available for seamless deployment on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate to run modernized applications in serverless containers.

AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs

Published Date: 2024-02-28 22:50:08+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of multi-container jobs for AWS Batch. The multi-container jobs feature makes it easier and faster for you to run simulations when testing complex systems like those used in autonomous vehicles and robotics. With the ability to run multiple containers in a job, you can benefit from the advanced scaling, scheduling, and cost optimization capabilities of AWS Batch without rebuilding your system into a complex monolithic container. Instead, you can use multiple smaller, modular containers that each represent different system components like a 3D virtual environment, robot perception sensors, or a data logging sidecar.

AWS Glue now available in Canada West (Calgary) region

Published Date: 2024-02-28 18:05:43+00:00

We are happy to announce that AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region.

Announcing Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion deployments

Published Date: 2024-02-28 22:10:36+00:00

Starting today you can use Terraform to provision and configure your Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines and benefit from Terraform’s Infrastructure as Code capabilities to automate and streamline the deployment of Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines, providing you with a fast, repeatable, and secure deployment option that can scale.

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports General Purpose gp3 storage volumes

Published Date: 2024-02-27 18:04:30+00:00

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now?supports next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes. Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys provides up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and two readable standby instances.

Accelerate machine learning model training with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Published Date: 2024-02-27 18:25:36+00:00

The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class can now accelerate Amazon SageMaker Model Training with faster load times for training data, checkpoints, and model outputs. S3 Express One Zone is purpose-built to deliver the fastest cloud object storage for performance-critical applications and delivers consistent single-digit millisecond request latency and high throughput to reduce the time and cost to train and tune machine learning models through Amazon SageMaker.

Amazon Data Firehose adds message extraction feature for decompressed CloudWatch Logs

Published Date: 2024-02-27 18:04:14+00:00

Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) decompression for CloudWatch Logs now supports message extraction, so customers can automatically filter out header information and deliver only the message content from their CloudWatch logs to destinations such as Amazon S3 and Splunk for analytics.

Amazon EC2 C7a and R7a instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2024-02-27 19:36:32+00:00

Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm) regions. The memory-optimized R7a instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm) regions. C7a and R7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a and R6a instances, respectively.

Announcing CloudWatch performance metrics for Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Published Date: 2024-02-27 19:42:34+00:00

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Web announced two new CloudWatch metrics for customers to monitor session performance. Administrators can conveniently enable monitoring across web portals from the Amazon CloudWatch console. These metrics provide administrators with greater insight into the in-session experience.

Amazon Location Service releases authentication library for iOS and Android

Published Date: 2024-02-27 18:14:57+00:00

Amazon Location Service has released authentication libraries for iOS and Android platforms, simplifying the integration of Amazon Location Service into mobile apps. Along with the existing Javascript library, these provide a consistent authentication experience across web and mobile platforms.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for cloning tables

Published Date: 2024-02-26 20:03:21+00:00

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB, a client-side application that helps you visualize and build scalable, high-performance data models, now supports cloning tables between development environments. With this feature, you can quickly develop and test your application with your DynamoDB tables across multiple environments.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.7, 10.6.17, 10.5.24, 10.4.33

Published Date: 2024-02-26 20:37:20+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.7, 10.6.17, 10.5.24, and 10.4.33. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

AWS AppConfig L2 constructs now available for AWS CDK

Published Date: 2024-02-26 17:59:17+00:00

The AWS AppConfig Level 2 (L2) Constructs module for AWS Cloud Development Kit?(AWS CDK) is now available. These new AWS AppConfig constructs simplify provisioning of AWS AppConfig resources, including feature flags and dynamic configuration data. Customers can use these constructs for all AWS AppConfig resources, including Applications, Deployment Strategies, Environments, Extensions, and Configuration Profiles. These interfaces make it easy to create, manage, and deploy configuration data for your application using CDK stacks.

EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools supports hibernating instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-02-26 20:53:54+00:00

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling customers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now hibernate their Warm Pool instances. With Warm Pools, customers can scale out faster by bringing instances into service from a pre-initialized pool of EC2 instances. Warm Pools are a good fit for applications that have time consuming initialization steps — like loading gigabytes of data, provisioning services, or running custom scripts — that can take several minutes or longer before those EC2 instances are ready to serve traffic.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports IPv6

Published Date: 2024-02-26 20:41:21+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now allows customers to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing domains. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their CloudWatch log groups on a dual-stack network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6.?

AWS launches a new Local Zone in Atlanta

Published Date: 2024-02-26 19:25:53+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Atlanta, Georgia. This new Local Zone supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6i, M6i, R6i, C6gn, and P5 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. With the P5 instances, you can now train and deploy complex large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models in the Atlanta Local Zone, powering your demanding generative AI application. 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.

Amazon EC2 I4g Instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2024-02-26 18:27:43+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized EC2 instance and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance.?

Amazon CloudFront announces availability of Embedded Points of Presence

Published Date: 2024-02-26 21:04:06+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.