AWS update of Week 40 (2 Oct - 8 Oct)

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports ad break discovery in Channel Assembly

Published Date: 2023-10-09 17:00:34+00:00

With AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly you can now detect ad break markers that exist within VOD sources and insert ads at those existing times.

AWS Glue now supports GitLab, BitBucket in its Git integration feature

Published Date: 2023-10-09 17:00:58+00:00

AWS Glue now supports GitLab and BitBucket, alongside GitHub and AWS CodeCommit, broadening your toolset for managing data integration pipeline deployments. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simpler to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development.

Launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud console

Published Date: 2023-10-09 20:20:23+00:00

You can now launch Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor directly from the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) console. Internet Monitor provides visibility into how internet issues impact the performance and availability for your application hosted on AWS. To use Internet Monitor, you create a monitor and associate it with one or more resources: VPCs, Network Load Balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, or Amazon WorkSpaces directories.

Amazon QuickSight now supports running queries as an IAM role for Redshift data sources

Published Date: 2023-10-09 17:40:47+00:00

Amazon QuickSight now supports connection to Redshift data with an IAM role. By connecting to data in QuickSight with an IAM role, administrators can enhance data security by using fine-grained IAM access policies for Redshift data sources.

AWS Organizations now supports service control policies (SCPs) in AWS China Regions

Published Date: 2023-10-09 18:55:22+00:00

Starting today, you can use service control policies (SCPs) to set permission guardrails with the fine-grained controls used in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This feature makes it easier to meet the specific requirements of your organization’s governance rules.

New features for cdk8s include synthesize and import Helm charts and resolve cloud tokens

Published Date: 2023-10-09 18:01:27+00:00

AWS unveils new capabilities for cdk8s, allowing seamless synthesis of applications into Helm charts on one hand, and native import of existing Helm charts into cdk8s applications on the other. In addition, cdk8s can now interpret deploy-time tokens of the AWS CDK and CDK For Terraform, all during the cdk8s synthesis phase. Helm stands out as a widely embraced solution for the deployment and management of Kubernetes applications. By converging cdk8s and Helm, users can enjoy a unified workflow for creating and deploying Kubernetes manifests. With the recent addition to the "cdk8s synth" command, you can transform a cdk8s app directly into a Helm Chart, ready to be integrated with Helm deployments. 

AWS Verified Access is now available in two additional AWS regions

Published Date: 2023-10-09 21:10:08+00:00

Starting today, AWS Verified Access that allows you to provide secure access to your corporate applications without using VPNs is available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions. Built using AWS Zero Trust guiding principles, Verified Access helps you implement a work-from-anywhere model in a secure and scalable manner.

Amazon Bedrock now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region

Published Date: 2023-10-06 17:04:31+00:00

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications.

Private Access to the AWS Management Console is available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-10-06 21:53:09+00:00

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Management Console Private Access in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature that allows customers to define a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations that can access the AWS Management Console from within their network. For example, with AWS Management Console Private Access, customers can restrict access to personal AWS accounts from the company network.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region

Published Date: 2023-10-06 17:05:06+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Asia Pacific (Jakarta).

AWS Control Tower releases 22 proactive controls and 12 AWS Security Hub Detective controls

Published Date: 2023-10-06 16:58:27+00:00

We are excited to announce the launch of 22 new proactive controls and 10 AWS Security Hub detective controls in the AWS Control Tower controls library to help you meet regulatory requirements. These new controls are managed by AWS Control Tower and help you meet control objectives such as encrypt data in transit, encrypt data at rest, or use strong authentication. Proactive controls block non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) and Amazon Neptune. The AWS Security Hub detective controls for services such as Amazon Neptune, Amazon Athena and Amazon RDS help you detect noncompliance of resources within your accounts.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports video source replacement

Published Date: 2023-10-06 16:59:38+00:00

Today, AWS launches video source replacement for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, allowing you to frame-accurately replace sections of source video with alternative content versions.

Catalog API now supports JSON object alongside String for “Details” attribute

Published Date: 2023-10-06 17:03:24+00:00

Catalog API (CAPI) introduced a new request/response attribute “DetailsDocument” that accepts and returns a JSON object. As a developer, building on top of the APIs, you can send JSON object in CAPI StartChangeSet API request and get a JSON object in the response of DescribeEntity and DescribeChangeSet API. This capability will exist along side the current experience of sending and receiving a string object in the “Details” attribute of StartChangeSet, DescribeChangeSet and DescribeEntity APIs respectively.

AWS HealthOmics sequence store now includes auto-calculated ETags for read sets

Published Date: 2023-10-06 17:01:26+00:00

AWS HealthOmics now calculates Entity Tags (ETags) when ingesting into the sequence store. Sequence store ETags enable customers to validate that files are not altered as part of their ingestion into, storage lifecycle in, and egress from the sequence store, an important audit requirement for many clinical and life science users. The new capability calculates a hash of the file’s semantic content during sequence store imports and direct uploads, making it easier to identify when content is changed or duplicated. The ETag’s immutability, verifiability, and auto-calculation simplifies data audits, duplicate data identification, and supports customer compliance validation.

AWS WorkSpaces now provides bundle selection guidance in AWS console

Published Date: 2023-10-06 16:56:55+00:00

AWS WorkSpaces now provides bundle selection guidance within the AWS console that make it easier for administrators to choose a bundle during the WorkSpaces creation process. A WorkSpace bundle is a combination of an operating system, storage, compute, and software resources. When you launch a WorkSpace, you select the bundle that meets your needs. Today, we offer more insights about each bundle including: recommended use cases, supported communication tools, example user roles, and use cases for which specific bundles are not recommended. 

Amazon QuickSight announces predictive analytics using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Published Date: 2023-10-06 16:59:22+00:00

Amazon QuickSight now supports predictive analytics using machine learning (ML) models created in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, without writing a single line of code. QuickSight authors can now export data to SageMaker Canvas, build ML models, and share them back to QuickSight for consumption. This allows you to build predictive dashboards for better insights. With this new capability, you can evolve your analytics from descriptive to predictive capabilities, enabling the entire organization with a forward-looking view of the business.

Amazon Connect now supports multiple out-of-the-box chat widgets per instance

Published Date: 2023-10-05 21:40:13+00:00

Amazon Connect Chat now supports up to 15 out-of-the-box chat widgets, making it easy for you to customize chat experiences on different websites with just a few clicks.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands its support for ready-to-use models to include foundation models (FMs)

Published Date: 2023-10-05 19:02:33+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a service for business analysts to generate predictions without having to write a single line of code. Starting today, business analysts can access and evaluate foundation models (FMs) to generate and summarize content using foundation models, in addition to the ready-to-use models for common use cases such as sentiment analysis, object and text detection, and data extraction from documents. 

AWS IoT Device Management announces general availability of Software Package Catalog

Published Date: 2023-10-05 20:23:25+00:00

Today, AWS IoT Device Management, a fully managed cloud service that helps you register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale, announces the general availability of the Software Package Catalog feature. With this new feature, you can now track and monitor software package versions across fleet, gain valuable insights from a central dashboard, and perform targeted updates on devices running on a specific software version. 

AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Published Date: 2023-10-05 17:19:33+00:00

AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. This expansion allows you to establish a Wickr network in an AWS Asia Pacific Region to help meet data residency requirements, and other obligations.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv)

Published Date: 2023-10-05 21:28:54+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 Israel (Tel Aviv).

AWS Resource Explorer is now available in 2 additional regions

Published Date: 2023-10-05 18:49:45+00:00

We are pleased to announce that AWS Resource Explorer, a managed capability that simplifies the search and discovery of resources, is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

Published Date: 2023-10-05 17:11:58+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS Health now aggregates Health events in your organization to Amazon EventBridge

Published Date: 2023-10-05 18:23:46+00:00

You can now receive a single feed of AWS Health events on Amazon EventBridge from all accounts within your organization in AWS Organizations using organizational view and delegated administrator. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources. EventBridge is a serverless integration service that makes it easier to build event-driven applications at scale using events generated from your applications, third-party SaaS applications, and AWS services. 

AWS launches more encryption options for AWS AppConfig feature flags

Published Date: 2023-10-05 17:07:03+00:00

AWS AppConfig is launching new encryption options for additional security considerations with feature flags and other types of configuration data. Using AWS Key Management Service’s customer managed keys (CMKs), customers can use keys that they themselves manage to encrypt/decrypt configuration data hosted by AWS AppConfig. AWS AppConfig helps engineers move faster and safer by decoupling feature releases from code deployments; with AWS AppConfig, you can change your software’s behavior on production without pushing out new code. 

AWS App Runner launches improvements for using custom domains

Published Date: 2023-10-05 19:31:52+00:00

Today, App Runner launched improvements for associating custom domain(s) to an App Runner service in the App Runner console. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. When you create an App Runner service, by default, App Runner allocates a domain name to your service. If you have your own domain name, you can associate it to your App Runner service as a custom domain name. With App Runner you do not need to manage TLS/SSL certificates.

Amazon Connect launches new contact and agent metrics in the API

Published Date: 2023-10-05 18:26:14+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides five additional contact and agent performance metrics in the GetMetricDataV2 API to help contact center managers derive more granular insights into queue and agent performance. These metrics include the time it takes to resolve a contact from when it was initiated until it is terminated, rate of abandoned contacts, and the number of contacts an agent did not answer, excluding those abandoned by a customer while connecting. For example, using these metrics, businesses can create custom dashboards to analyze how quickly they resolve customer callback requests or the total time to complete longer running contacts such as tasks.

AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-10-05 17:27:09+00:00

AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.11 as a managed runtime and a container base image in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. Powertools for AWS Lambda, a developer toolkit to implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity, also supports Python 3.11.

Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region US West (N. California)

Published Date: 2023-10-05 21:23:49+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region US West (N. California). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. 

Amazon Connect enhances API for accessing historical agent and contact metrics

Published Date: 2023-10-05 18:21:21+00:00

Amazon Connect now allows users to access trailing 90 days (previously 35 days) of historical agent and contact metrics (e.g., service level, average handle time) in GetMetricDataV2 API. Additionally, users can now make requests (spanning up to 35 days) with data broken out by customizable time intervals such as 15 minutes, hourly, or weekly. Using GetMetricDataV2 API, business can build custom dashboards to measure historical queue and agent performance. For example, businesses can track the number of incoming contacts for the last 7 days, with data split by day, to see how contact volume changed per day of the week. 

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector v0.5.0 with HNSW indexing

Published Date: 2023-10-05 21:06:42+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports v0.5.0 of the pgvector extension to store embeddings from machine learning (ML) models in your database and to perform efficient similarity searches. This version of the extension introduces pgvector introduces HNSW indexing support, parallelization of ivfflat index builds, and improves performance of its distance functions.

Amazon WorkSpaces Services expand Microsoft productivity apps offerings

Published Date: 2023-10-05 21:32:29+00:00

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core announce the general availability of a new feature that provides administrators increased flexibility to manage application bundles on WorkSpaces instances while retaining the end user's data and configurations. It provides administrators with an easier way to add or remove application bundles on existing WorkSpaces instances, including upgrading them to the latest version.

Amazon SageMaker Model Registry announces support for private model repositories

Published Date: 2023-10-04 18:03:03+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now allows you to register machine learning (ML) models that are stored in private Docker repositories. This capability enables you to track all your ML models across multiple private AWS and non-AWS model repositories in one central service to simplify ML operations (MLOps) and ML governance at scale.

Announcing memory optimized Amazon EC2 R7a bare metal instances

Published Date: 2023-10-04 20:19:38+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 R7a bare metal instances. R7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to R6a instances.

AWS Firewall Manager supports referencing of Security Groups

Published Date: 2023-10-04 20:02:36+00:00

Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager supports referencing of security groups as part of its security group common policies. With this feature, customers can update the inbound or outbound rules for the Firewall Manager primary security groups to reference security groups in the peered VPC. This allows traffic to flow to and from instances that are associated with the referenced security group in the peered VPC. 

Amazon DataZone is now generally available

Published Date: 2023-10-04 19:05:28+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon DataZone. This data management service is designed to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. It provides data visibility and helps data producers and consumers across business units more securely share data.

Amazon Kendra releases Drupal Connector to enable Drupal document search

Published Date: 2023-10-04 16:58:40+00:00

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Drupal Connector to index and search documents from Drupal. 

Announcing compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances

Published Date: 2023-10-04 21:55:40+00:00

AWS announces the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances. C7a 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 instances.

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-10-04 17:23:18+00:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of the AWS Mainframe Modernization service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. The AWS Mainframe Modernization service allows customers and partners to modernize and migrate on-premise mainframe applications to AWS Cloud native fully-managed runtimes. For the modernization, it enables modernization patterns like refactor and replatform, as well as augmentation patterns supported by data replication and file transfer.

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Insights available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-10-04 16:59:58+00:00

Metrics Insights is a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine which enables developers, operators and systems engineers to identify trends and patterns across operational metrics in real time. With Metrics Insights, operators can gain better visibility on their infrastructure and large scale application performance with flexible querying, on-the-fly metric aggregations and dynamic alarms that monitor fast moving environments.

AWS Global Accelerator adds a new edge location in Nigeria

Published Date: 2023-10-04 18:39:24+00:00

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Lagos (Nigeria). With the addition of the new edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 109 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 28 AWS Regions.

Amazon EKS Extended support for Kubernetes Versions now available in preview

Published Date: 2023-10-04 22:04:19+00:00

Amazon EKS Extended Support for Kubernetes Versions is now available in preview. Starting with Kubernetes v1.23, you can now use a Kubernetes version for up to 26 months from the time the version is generally available from Amazon EKS.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports alerting and anomalies on dashboards

Published Date: 2023-10-04 18:15:15+00:00

OpenSearch Service 2.9 now supports the ability for customers to manage and overlay alerts and anomalies onto dashboard visualization line charts. Customers can create new, or associate existing, alerting monitors and anomaly detectors from dashboard line charts. For example, if a customer opts to create a new monitor or detector, the new monitor will inherit the setting of the line chart and prepopulate the creation form. If customers have existing monitors or detectors present that they want to use, they can associate them with the line chart visualization on the dashboard.

AWS CodePipeline can use external source providers in Europe (Milan) and AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Published Date: 2023-10-04 19:32:05+00:00

You can now use source repositories from GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Server, Bitbucket Cloud, and GitLab.com with AWS CodePipeline in Europe (Milan) and the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, to build, test, and deploy code changes. Connect your source provider account using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository. 

AWS Amplify's GraphQL API capabilities now available as AWS CDK construct

Published Date: 2023-10-04 17:19:04+00:00

AWS Amplify announces an AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct for building GraphQL APIs backed by data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB tables or AWS Lambda functions using a single GraphQL schema definition. Launching an API for application frontends requires developers to author thousands of lines of repetitive, undifferentiated code to build and wire together API endpoints, custom business logic, and data sources. AWS Amplify removes this heavy-lifting by allowing developers to define their application data model in a single definition file and automatically generate the required AWS cloud resources to support common API operations like create, update, list, read, subscribe, and delete for their data sources. Today, we’re extending this capability, previously only available using the Amplify CLI to AWS CDK. 

Announcing Amazon SQS binding extension support in CoreWCF

Published Date: 2023-10-04 20:36:06+00:00

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) binding extension support in the CoreWCF open source project. As you modernize your Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) based service-oriented applications using MSMQ bindings to cross-platform CoreWCF, you can now use Amazon SQS as one of the bindings. 

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store in-memory online store for low latency feature retrieval

Published Date: 2023-10-04 17:11:52+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports a fully managed, in-memory online store, which enables you to retrieve features for model serving in real time for high throughput ML applications. The new online store is powered by ElastiCache for Redis, which is a blazing fast in-memory data store built on open-source Redis.

Amazon EventBridge announces support for wildcard filters in rules

Published Date: 2023-10-03 20:17:34+00:00

Amazon EventBridge rules now support wildcard filters, which enable you to match any character or sequence of characters within a string in your event payload. For example, you can use wildcards to match against values that end in a specific file type in a directory, such as “dir/*.png”, or contain a specific word, such as “*AcmeCorp*”. Support for wildcards allow you to more precisely specify the types of events you want to consume from an EventBridge Event Bus, opening new use cases and helping to optimize your event consumers.

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning now supports Product Lineage

Published Date: 2023-10-03 16:59:23+00:00

Starting today, you can link products with their predecessor versions or alternates to improve forecasts. 

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides manager alerts on real-time metrics

Published Date: 2023-10-03 17:03:09+00:00

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides manager alerts on real-time metrics via email notifications, EventBridge events, or Amazon Connect Tasks. These new alerts enable businesses to notify their managers on unexpected changes in contact center operations that could impact the end-customer experience. With this launch, businesses can now configure alerts that include choosing a metric (e.g., service level), defining a metric threshold (e.g., service level of 90 seconds drops below 75% on a business critical queue), and sending an automated email notification or assigning a task to a manager for follow-up action. 

New updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Published Date: 2023-10-03 20:52:44+00:00

AWS is pleased to announce an update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which will provide customers and partners with more prescriptive guidance on building and operating in the cloud, and enable them to stay up-to-date on the latest architectural best practices in a constantly evolving technological landscape.

Amazon OpenSearch Service announced Amazon OpenSearch Service Integrations

Published Date: 2023-10-03 17:04:18+00:00

OpenSearch Service 2.9 now comes with OpenSearch Service Integrations, where customers can take advantage of new schema standards such as Open Telemetry and build dashboards based on an agreed up on schema between your ingestion pipeline and OpenSearch Service.

Reduce duplication using Well-Architected Templates

Published Date: 2023-10-03 20:51:18+00:00

Introducing AWS Well-Architected Review Templates, designed to eliminate duplication and foster consistency across your workloads. With the Well-Architected Tool's latest feature, you can effortlessly craft review templates to answer questions, update notes, and even incorporate Custom Lenses across your workloads.

Amazon Location Service adds bounding box search for device positions

Published Date: 2023-10-03 19:58:14+00:00

Amazon Location Service now supports geographical bounding box search for device positions, allowing developers to retrieve the latest position of their devices within a specific polygon. With bounding box search, developers can efficiently find devices within an area of interest to support use cases such as searching for tracked assets near a location, showing device positions on a map at different zoom levels, and personalizing communication to customers within specific geographical areas.

Lambda test events are now available in AWS SAM CLI

Published Date: 2023-10-03 21:37:48+00:00

Developers using SAM CLI to author their serverless application with Lambda functions can now create and use Lambda test events to test their function code. Test events are JSON objects that mock the structure of requests emitted by AWS services to invoke a Lambda function and return an execution result, serving to validate a successful operation or to identify errors. Previously, Lambda test events were only available in the Lambda console. With this launch, developers using SAM CLI can create and access a test event from their AWS account and share it with other team members.

Amazon ECR Public introduces new navigation and search features to the ECR Public Gallery

Published Date: 2023-10-03 16:55:55+00:00

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public has added new features that make it easier for customers to navigate the ECR Public Gallery and find the images they are looking for. New filters allow customers to search for images from well-known publishers such as Docker and Amazon, and a new landing page highlights those filters as well as other frequently used repositories.