AWS update of Week 31 (31Jul - 6Aug)
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Published Date: 2023-08-04 21:09:24+00:00
Amazon SageMaker training jobs now support ml.p5 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 chips, which are purpose built for high-performance ML training applications in the cloud. You can use ml.p5 instances on SageMaker to train some of the most demanding models. This includes large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models powering the most demanding generative AI applications. These applications include question answering, code generation, video and image generation, and speech recognition.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 16:31:41+00:00
Today, Amazon SageMaker announces a new direct integration with Salesforce Data Cloud, allowing customers to securely access their data in Salesforce Data Cloud from SageMaker to build, train, and deploy ML models on SageMaker. Customers can then bring the ML models into Salesforce Data Cloud using Salesforce Einstein Studio to power their ML-driven business applications.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 17:06:23+00:00
AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3.0.9 is generally available with a DeadlineCommand application plugin, updated support for third-party integrations, and an upgrade to Python 3.10.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 19:43:16+00:00
Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or an Amazon Aurora database and an AWS Lambda function using an Amazon RDS Proxy. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up a connection between your Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database and a Lambda function using an existing Amazon RDS Proxy or using an auto-created, new Amazon RDS Proxy in your account. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your related network settings to enable a secure and scalable connection between the Lambda function and the Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 17:52:07+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can use AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs in five additional AWS regions: Middle East (UAE), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).
Published Date: 2023-08-04 21:23:36+00:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of primary IPv6 address in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), enabling customer to make the first IPv6 address associated with their elastic network interface (ENI) immutable. Once the first IPv6 address is made primary on the ENI, the IPv6 address cannot be removed as long as the ENI is attached to an instance or until the instance is terminated, effectively making the address immutable. The primary IPv6 address can be an Amazon provided IPv6 address or a Bring your own IP (IPv6) addresses.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 17:04:07+00:00
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling language detection for real time document translation. Customers can now automatically detect the source document's dominant language leveraging Amazon Comprehend’s language detection API.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 19:45:36+00:00
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible and PostgreSQL-Compatible editions now supports automatic backups for deleted clusters. Customers can now choose to retain automatic backups when deleting an Aurora cluster, and later use it to restore a new cluster from it.
Published Date: 2023-08-04 17:02:21+00:00
AWS Resilience Hub adds support for application resilience drift detection, allowing you to opt into notifications that your application is no longer meeting the recovery objectives set by your business. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions.
Published Date: 2023-08-03 17:48:18+00:00
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-03 17:13:24+00:00
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports up to 55,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, making it easier to power Machine Learning (ML) research, financial simulations, big data analytics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS.
Published Date: 2023-08-03 19:29:54+00:00
Starting today, the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports secondary host metrics in Enhanced Monitoring. Customers can now view essential metrics associated on the secondary host of a Multi-AZ DB instance, such as free storage, free memory, Read/Write IOPS, Read/Write Throughput, CPU utilization, and etc. See OS metrics in Enhanced Monitoring for more details.
Published Date: 2023-08-03 16:59:45+00:00
VT1 instances are the first Amazon EC2 instances that deliver dedicated hardware acceleration for video transcoding, and are optimized for workloads such as live streaming, video conferencing, video library optimization, and just-in-time asset transcoding. VT1 is powered by the AMD-Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator and can support streams up to 4K UHD resolution at 60 frames per second (fps) and can transcode up to 64 simultaneous 1080p60 streams in real time.
Published Date: 2023-08-03 17:04:28+00:00
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to the local time zone of your choice. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 16:59:17+00:00
Starting today, customers can specify the price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy in AWS Batch. Previously, AWS Batch supported the capacity optimized Spot allocation strategy that is designed to optimize Spot Instance placement based on capacity availability to help reduce the likelihood that workloads are interrupted. The new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy is designed to provide a balance between price and capacity.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 18:23:36+00:00
AWS Batch now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in AWS Fargate via AWS Batch console. This feature helps AWS Batch customers simplify the adoption of modern container technology by expanding their architecture options for scheduling Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Fargate compute environments. Support for ARM64 architecture also gives customers the benefits of Graviton instances in Fargate which can help improve price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a variety of workloads including high performance computing.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 17:04:57+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables Data Scientists and ML practitioners with their end to end machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. In May 2023, we launched SageMaker Distribution a pre-built docker image which includes the most popular libraries for machine learning as an open-source project at JupyterCon. Today, we are announcing support for SageMaker Distribution in Amazon SageMaker Studio.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 20:58:38+00:00
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and EC2 M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids). These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 19:24:46+00:00
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the EdgeConnex Herzliya data center in Herzliya, Israel. By connecting your network to AWS at this location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 20:20:55+00:00
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now supports the ability to set schedules to automatically delete upon completion of the last invocation. This can be used for one-time, cron, and rate schedules with an end date.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 19:55:28+00:00
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now lets customers configure the size of ephemeral storage for their workloads up to a maximum of 175 GiB. This enables customers with data intensive workloads to utilize AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 21:07:15+00:00
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports three new CloudWatch metrics — VpcIPUsage, SubnetIPUsage, and PublicIPv4PoolIPUsage, that allow you to identify underutilized or near full capacity IP address ranges, optimizing your IP address usage on AWS. These metrics proactively track IP address usage across resources such as Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), subnets, and Public IPv4 Pools. You can also set alarms for these metrics in Amazon CloudWatch to receive notifications when an IP address usage threshold is breached. Moreover, for a consolidated view of all IP address-related insights, these metrics are available on the IPAM Dashboard.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 18:58:09+00:00
AWS Config now supports 19 more resource types for services, including AWS Amplify, Amazon AppIntegrations, AWS App Mesh, Amazon Athena, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon Forecast, AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2, AWS Ground Station, AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Elemental MediaTailor, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Personalize, Amazon Pinpoint, and AWS Resilience Hub.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 21:10:19+00:00
We are excited to announce the launch of a new CloudWatch Logger feature with AWS Amplify, which is available now for Swift and Android developers. This feature empowers developers to log errors from the Amplify libraries to CloudWatch, enhancing the ability to detect production issues. It also enables developers to write custom logs to detect failures in different parts of their applications.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 21:05:02+00:00
Today, with the launch of M7i instances, customers can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an EC2 instance. By comparison, previous generation M6i instances allow up to 28 EBS volume attachments to an EC2 instance. The higher volume attachment limit enables customers to increase storage density per EC2 instance, so that they can host larger applications per instance or reduce total compute cost by improving their resource utilization. With this launch, customers can also take crash-consistent snapshots for up to 128 EBS volumes attached to a single EC2 instance.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 17:04:18+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports read and mounted replicas for instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration. Amazon RDS for Oracle replicas fully manage the configuration of Oracle Data Guard to create and maintain replicas in the same or different AWS Region as the primary DB instance.
Published Date: 2023-08-02 17:07:39+00:00
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver as an EKS add-on, making it simpler and easier to use EFS shared file storage with your EKS clusters.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 19:21:51+00:00
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. Today, in addition to supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL, this feature now supports MariaDB. Built-in native database tooling with homogeneous data migrations provides simple and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 19:26:36+00:00
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an increased quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 9,000 transactions per second, per API action in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) regions. For Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, the throughput quota has been increased to 4,500 transactions per second, per API action. For all other regions where SQS is generally available today, the quota for high throughput mode quota has been increased to 2,400 transactions per second.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 17:03:09+00:00
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 21:37:11+00:00
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now improves the speed of backups by up to 10x for buckets with more than 300 million objects. This performance improvement enables you to speed up your initial S3 backup workflow and back up buckets with more than 3 billion objects. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. The performance improvement is automatically enabled at no additional cost in all Regions where AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is available.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 21:11:56+00:00
AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region with AWS Direct Connect. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.
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Published Date: 2023-08-01 18:11:36+00:00
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Jakarta region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including monitoring, incident detection and management, security, patch, backup, and cost optimization.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 21:43:57+00:00
AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. AWS Lake Formation is now available in the following two additional AWS Regions:
Published Date: 2023-08-01 16:58:27+00:00
You can now access Claude 2, the latest version of Anthropic’s large language model (LLM), on Amazon Bedrock. Claude 2 can take up to 100,000 tokens in each prompt, meaning it can work over hundreds of pages of text, or even an entire book. Claude 2 can also write longer documents—on the order of a few thousand tokens—compared to its prior version, giving you even greater ways to develop generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 20:19:46+00:00
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 17:09:46+00:00
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families. ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to Graviton2. As an example, when running ElastiCache for Redis on an R7g.4xlarge node, you can achieve up to 28% increased throughput (read and write operations per second) and up to 21% improved P99 latency, compared to running on R6g.4xlarge. In addition, these nodes deliver up to 25% higher networking bandwidth.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 19:03:02+00:00
Starting today, you can use Amazon CloudWatch alarms to trigger an instance refresh rollback. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh allows you to perform a rolling replacement of instances in an Auto Scaling group, and instance refresh rollback can undo changes an instance refresh made if the instance refresh cannot complete as desired. With this launch, you can configure Auto Scaling to monitor CloudWatch alarms during an instance refresh, and automatically revert any changes made if the alarms are triggered.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 21:47:19+00:00
Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. It also provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancer, AWS AppSync GraphQL API, AWS Verified Access Instances and Amazon Cognito user pools. To learn more about AWS Shield Advanced and AWS WAF, visit the AWS Shield Advanced product page and the AWS WAF product page.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 20:19:11+00:00
The AWS Application Composer introduces three new updates to help developers build and share modern applications faster. With these capabilities, developers can more easily iterate on their application, export an image of the application, and integrate Application Composer with their local development environment whenever they’re ready.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 17:03:21+00:00
Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks that supports open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, with no provisioning or configuration effort required.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 18:46:51+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Isabelle - new Belgian French Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 21:48:43+00:00
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 17:01:38+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now allows you to customize thresholds for when to trigger a health event for the internet-facing traffic between your end users and your applications hosted on AWS. The default threshold for overall availability and performance scores to trigger a health event is 95%. Now, you can set a custom threshold for the availability score, performance score, or both. If your application is at or below the performance or availability threshold, you receive a notification of a health event that includes the impacted location and network provider (ASN).
Published Date: 2023-08-01 18:15:00+00:00
Today, AWS announced the availability of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Amazon WorkSpaces cloud-based virtual desktop services. Your end users can now benefit from Microsoft 365 apps on WorkSpaces services along with their other devices.
Published Date: 2023-08-01 17:05:17+00:00
AWS open sourced the Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark to help Apache Spark developers seamlessly build and run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Redshift data. With this release, Amazon Redshift open-sources the Amazon Redshift contributions and integration for Apache Spark, empowering Spark developers to review the source code, extend it, contribute features and/or make modifications that meet their Spark application needs.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 17:00:34+00:00
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can call the EMR Serverless APIs to view the Application UIs e.g. the live Spark UI or Tez UI for running jobs and the Spark History Server or the persistent Tez UI for completed jobs.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 17:06:29+00:00
Amazon Connect scheduling now allows contact center managers to automatically generate agent schedules with a combination of fixed and flexible working days each week, i.e. agents will have certain mandatory work days while other days are scheduled based on demand. Before this launch, managers had to manually adjust a subset of agent schedules to align with their flexible work contracts and regional labor laws. With this launch, the system automatically proposes flexible schedules allowing managers to create more optimized labor/union compliant agent schedules, freeing up valuable time for more important tasks.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 16:59:19+00:00
You can now view ‘Balance Due’ for an invoice and the ‘Invoice Amount’ in the AWS Billing console. The ‘Balance due’ column reflects the total amount outstanding for each invoice, while the ‘Invoice Amount’ reflects the value of the invoice when the invoice was issued to you. The Balance due information is updated periodically, once the funds are realized by AWS.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 18:48:05+00:00
Amazon Connect now supports restricting the use and access of attributes to a single flow. Now, you can granularly control when an attribute is associated with a contact (and shows up in the contact record) or if it can only be accessed by a specific flow (used only when that flows is executing a customer experience). For example, if your flow is automatically authenticating your customer’s identity using personally identifiable information (PII), you can use flow attributes to prevent the PII information from showing up in contact records or to an agent.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 21:20:29+00:00
Starting today, Local Write Forwarding is generally available for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility). This new capability makes it simple to scale read workloads which require read after write consistency. Customers can now issue transactions containing both reads and writes on Aurora read replicas and the writes will be automatically forwarded to the single writer instance for execution. Applications requiring read scale can utilize up to 15 Aurora Replicas for scaling reads without the need to maintain complex application logic that separates reads from writes. Check out this blog to find out how local write forwarding can help reduce the complexity of your application code.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 20:17:57+00:00
Today, AWS IoT Core announced the support for new algorithms for certificate signing and key generation, expanding the list of already supported asymmetric X.509 client certificate signature schemes. AWS IoT Core is a managed service that allows customers to connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to AWS and uses X.509 certificates as one of the means to authenticate client and device connections to AWS cloud. The support for Rivest Shamir Adleman Signature Scheme with Appendix based on the Probabilistic Signature Scheme (RSASSA-PSS) signing and P-521 elliptic curve key algorithms, provide developers more flexibility to strengthen the security posture of their IoT solutions and comply with organization’s specific cryptographic standard compliance requirements.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 21:17:06+00:00
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.28. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.28 includes several improvements, such as Instant DDL support for Rename column operations, support for multi-threaded DDL operations, support for TLS v1.3 protocol, and performance schema monitoring enhancements.. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.28 release notes.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 17:00:59+00:00
AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS US West Phoenix Local Zone. AWS Local Zones is a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 20:36:06+00:00
Amazon Connect now supports custom flow block titles that make it easy to identify and distinguish blocks within your flow. Custom flow block titles can be set within the flow designer UI or via API. For example, you could rename a “Play Prompt” flow block to “Welcome message” or a “Get customer input” flow block to “Hotel booking Lex bot”. Custom defined flow block titles also show up in CloudWatch logs making it easier to diagnose where errors may be occurring.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 17:04:39+00:00
Amazon Connect scheduling now allows managers to generate agent schedules with an appropriate number of activities including breaks or meals, based on the duration of agent shifts. Before this launch, schedules were generated with a fixed set of shift activities, leading to numerous shifts needing time consuming manual adjustments based on agent’s work duration. With this launch, Amazon Connect scheduling automatically generates the required number of breaks and meals according to configured inputs reflecting shift durations and labor/union labor rules, saving time for managers.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 17:02:04+00:00
Amazon Connect scheduling now offers new time off balance and group allowance features empowering contact center managers and agents to handle time offs more efficiently. Before this launch, managers had to manually cross-verify time off balances before approving or declining requests, and agents had to contact their managers via email or third party tools to request or change their time off schedule. With this launch, managers can easily import agent time off balances and group allowances in bulk from third party HR systems (for e.g., 120 hours vacation time, 40 hours sick time), and select either an automated or manual approval workflow for their groups. Agents can request time off and receive automatic approvals (or declines) based on their time off balances and group allowances in addition to other time off rules.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 19:06:04+00:00
Amazon Inspector now provides enhanced vulnerability intelligence as a part of its findings. The enhanced vulnerability intelligence includes names of known malware kits used to exploit a vulnerability, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK® framework, the date Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerability to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (KVEC), Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) score, and evidence of public events associated with a vulnerability. This expands the currently provided vulnerability intelligence such as Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score and known public exploit information. Inspector collects this information from internal Amazon research, CISA, and our partner, Recorded Future. You can access the enhanced vulnerability intelligence in the finding details within in the Amazon Inspector console
Published Date: 2023-07-31 18:44:10+00:00
Amazon Connect flow designer now includes a toolbar with shortcuts to new editing capabilities such as undo (including a history of previous actions) and redo, along with existing shortcuts such as copy and paste. You can also now add notes to a flow, allowing you to document things like what the flow is doing or a to-do list of what updates you want to make. You can attach notes to a specific flow block and search notes using the toolbar.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 18:49:06+00:00
Amazon Connect now supports archiving and deleting flows from the flow designer UI, making it easier to manage flows that are not in use or no longer needed. For example, flows used only during certain times of the year can be archived when not in use and then unarchived when needed. When a flow has been archived, you can then permanently delete the flow so it is no longer available within your list of flows.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 17:32:51+00:00
Today, AWS Clean Rooms launches two new capabilities that give customers flexibility to generate richer insights: custom analysis rule and analysis templates. These capabilities enable customers to bring their own custom SQL queries into an AWS Clean Rooms collaboration based on their specific use cases. With the custom analysis rule, customers can create their own queries using advanced SQL constructs, as well as review queries prior to their collaboration partners running them. This workflow gives customers built-in control of how their data is used in collaborations upfront, in addition to reviewing query logs after analyses are complete. Using analysis templates, customers can create queries with parameters that provide reusability and flexibility to those running queries in a collaboration. This helps customers expand and automate types of analyses they run frequently with multiple partners, minimize the need to write new SQL code when analyzing collective data sets.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 21:02:46+00:00
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan).
Published Date: 2023-07-31 19:25:15+00:00
AWS CloudFormation launches a new deletion policy called RetainExceptOnCreate that provides customers additional control over CloudFormation behavior when resources are deleted from stacks. Customers use deletion policies to preserve or backup resources during accidental stack deletions. Today, customers can mark resources with a deletion policy of Retain, Snapshot, or Delete. Now, customers can use RetainExceptOnCreate to protect in-use resources from accidental deletion without preserving resources that have not served traffic. This allows customers to reduce manual intervention during retries of stack operations.
Published Date: 2023-07-31 18:52:14+00:00
Customers can now use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Asia (Hyderabad) Region to automate the creation, sharing, copying, and retention of Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs via policies. Data Lifecycle Manager eliminates the need for complicated custom scripts to manage your EBS resources, saving you time and money.