AWS update of Week 5 (30Jan -5Feb)
Ankur Patel
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Published Date: 2023-02-03 21:25:36+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports additional cipher suites that can be used with the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Agent and Oracle Secure Socket Layer (SSL) options. Customers can make use of these new cipher suites, as they provide stronger security for the RDS for Oracle database instance(s) connections, thereby strengthening the security posture of their infrastructure.
Published Date: 2023-02-03 21:40:18+00:00
Amazon EC2 now supports replacing the root volume on a running EC2 Mac instance, enabling you to restore the root volume of an EC2 Mac instance to its initial launch state or to a specific snapshot, without requiring you to stop or terminate the instance. You can now reset the EC2 Mac instance back to a known state, while still retaining any local data, networking configurations, and IAM instance profiles. You can also leverage this capability to quickly provision fresh macOS environments on your EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts without triggering the host scrubbing workflow.
Published Date: 2023-02-03 22:43:22+00:00
The Amazon Chime SDK now provides a native client library for Windows applications to connect to WebRTC media sessions. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web, mobile applications, and now, Windows applications.
Published Date: 2023-02-03 17:50:31+00:00
AWS Panorama customers are now able to get faster quotes and place orders for AWS Panorama Appliances directly in the AWS Panorama Console. With these new capabilities, customers can receive an automated quote from the AWS Panorama Console. This will reduce the time needed for customers to generate purchase orders and will expedite orders for the AWS Panorama Appliance. To get started on this new ordering capability for AWS Panorama, click here.
Published Date: 2023-02-03 17:56:36+00:00
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the launch of sam list command, helping developers access information about deployed resources while they are testing their SAM applications. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications.
Published Date: 2023-02-02 18:01:56+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 Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-02-02 22:00:06+00:00
Today, AWS AppConfig announces integrations with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), providing customers with additional configuration sources and encryption capabilities. In addition to its own AWS AppConfig Hosted Configuration store, AWS AppConfig already integrates with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS CodePipeline, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, and AWS Systems Manager Documents as data sources. Now customers can use Secrets Manager as a single source to safely and securely deploy sensitive data. All sensitive data retrieved from Secrets Manager via AWS AppConfig can be encrypted at deployment time using an AWS KMS Customer Managed Key (CMK). In addition, AWS AppConfig now offers support for CMK encryption for other configuration data. The integration with AWS KMS enables support for Amazon S3 objects encrypted with a customer managed key or secure strings from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store encrypted with a customer managed key.
Published Date: 2023-02-02 22:45:37+00:00
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports decoding audio from sources with Dolby E compressed tracks. Dolby E supports delivery of eight discrete audio source channels in a PCM (pulse code modulated) stereo pair. With this feature you can deliver content with different language tracks and/or high channel count spatial audio from a single high-quality source. This is useful for international syndication of sports and events where commentary and immersive audio are present.
Published Date: 2023-02-02 22:07:41+00:00
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in the Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 22:23:14+00:00
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports enabling Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards during domain creation. SAML authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards enables users to integrate directly with identity providers (IDPs) such as Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, Auth0, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Azure Active Directory.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 18:02:19+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18, and 10.23. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor version to fix 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. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 22:27:09+00:00
Amazon Connect now supports outbound campaigns in the Canada (Central) AWS region, making it easy to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Communication capabilities include features to support compliance of local regulations such as CRTC through point-of-dial checks and calling controls for time of day, time zone, number of attempts per contact, and time required to connect to an available agent. An optional integrated list management capability provided by Amazon Pinpoint can also be used to build customer journeys and multi-channel user experiences. With this launch, high-volume outbound calls can now be made to customers in Canada. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Connect Console.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 20:37:23+00:00
Starting today, you can configure your NAT Gateway to support up to 440,000 concurrent connections to a unique destination by adding multiple IP addresses to same NAT Gateway.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 20:02:49+00:00
AWS IoT Core announces General Availability of the capability to send device logs from Internet of Things (IoT) devices to Amazon CloudWatch Logs in batches, enabling you to optimize the cost of using CloudWatch Log Action in IoT Rules.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 18:03:21+00:00
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets adds a new parameter in DescribeStackSet API to improve visibility to the list of Regions where a given stack set is deployed. You can now access the list of Regions directly through your management or delegated administrator AWS account.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 21:27:23+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Training reduces the time and cost to train and tune machine learning (ML) models at scale without the need to manage infrastructure. In addition to providing built-in libraries and tools, SageMaker works with popular open-source foundation models such as GPT, BERT, and DALL·E and ML frameworks, such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. We are excited to announce that SageMaker Training now supports using images with pre-installed frameworks or algorithms stored in your private Docker registry to build ML models.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 20:13:05+00:00
Amazon Omics now supports AWS PrivateLink and AWS CloudFormation. You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon Omics APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges. See the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information. With CloudFormation support, you can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete your Amazon Omics resources. This helps you automate and standardize DevOps processes across your AWS accounts and AWS Regions for Amazon Omics.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 21:57:11+00:00
Amazon Inspector is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now continuously monitor your AWS workloads including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and AWS Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities in these additional regions.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 19:30:49+00:00
AWS App Runner now supports incoming requests based on HTTP 1.0 protocol for applications running on App Runner.
Published Date: 2023-02-01 22:26:59+00:00
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for instance management, in addition to previously launched CloudFormation support for instance creation and data storage APIs. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to manage Amazon Connect instances for associating Lex bots (and Lex v2), Lambda functions, Security keys, and Approved origins —along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 21:05:05+00:00
Amazon CloudWatch now supports metric extraction from structured logs using Embedded Metric Format (EMF) without requiring customers to provide special header declaration while publishing logs.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 18:19:05+00:00
Amazon Web Services(AWS) today announced support for Credential Guard, a Windows Virtualization Based Security (VBS) feature. Credential guard uses VBS isolation to prevent the extraction of Windows login credentials from OS memory. When Credential Guard is turned on, login credentials cannot be used from another host or after a user has logged out. With the availability of this capability, enterprises running Windows Server, especially those that operate in regulated industries, no longer have to choose between meeting compliance requirements and being able to move to the cloud to innovate faster; they can get both on EC2.
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Published Date: 2023-01-31 19:54:05+00:00
AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports ingesting activity events from non-AWS sources, making CloudTrail Lake a single location to immutably store user and API activity events for auditing and security investigations across AWS and hybrid environments. You can consolidate activity events from AWS and non-AWS sources – such as in-house applications and SaaS applications running in the cloud or on-premises – without having to maintain multiple log aggregators and analysis tools. CloudTrail Lake records all events in a prescribed CloudTrail schema, immutably stores them for up to seven years, and provides an integrated SQL experience to query your activity events. This makes it easier for you to manage and diagnose security, audit, and operational incidents in AWS and hybrid environments.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 18:10:05+00:00
The new third-party reports tab on the AWS Artifact Reports page provides on-demand access to security compliance reports of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who sell their products through AWS Marketplace. AWS customers interested in buying third-party software products from AWS Marketplace can download and review the security compliance reports shared by the ISV via AWS Artifact on-demand to accelerate their procurement cycle. ISV compliance reports will only be accessible to those AWS customers who have been granted access to AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights for a specific ISV. To learn more about AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights, please visit here.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 18:08:05+00:00
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Regions.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 23:06:05+00:00
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports three new completion criteria to help you customize your tuning jobs based on your desired trade-off between accuracy, cost, and runtime.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 22:32:05+00:00
You can now hibernate Elastic Block Storage-backed Amazon EC2 I3en, M6i, M6id, C6i, and C6id instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your instances and resuming them later from a saved state. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid — your application will start right from where it left off. By using hibernation, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive state faster without modifying your existing applications.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 22:35:05+00:00
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a new connection mode for cross-cluster connection, simplifying the setup required to remote reindex between a local domain and remote VPC domains. Remote reindex enables you to migrate data from a source domain to a target domain. Remote reindex is also useful when you have to upgrade your clusters across multiple major versions.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 18:22:05+00:00
Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new connectors that include Braintree, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle HCM and Zoho CRM. Amazon AppFlow is continually expanding its catalog of connectors to popular SaaS applications and these four new data connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases across marketing, eCommerce, customer service, and more.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 20:19:05+00:00
Starting today, you can use Amazon Athena to query data in Google Cloud Storage. With Athena’s data source connectors, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to move data to S3 or learn a new query dialect. Google Cloud Storage is a managed service designed to store data in buckets, similar to Amazon S3.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 19:08:05+00:00
Today, we are excited to announce integration of Systems Manager Automation with Systems Manager Change Calendar. Customers can now reduce the risks associated with changes to their production environment by allowing Automation runbooks to run during an allowed time window. With this feature, users in your account can only run automations during the time periods allowed by your Change Calendar. For example, you can avoid the risk of application downtime due to system update during high traffic time period, by blocking the time period in Change Calendar and enforcing Automation to check Change Calendar before updating your Amazon EC2 instance types.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 19:37:05+00:00
Amazon Elasticache for Redis now offers an availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99% when using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration. Previously, ElastiCache for Redis offered an SLA of 99.9% for Multi-AZ configurations. With this launch, ElastiCache for Redis has updated its Multi-AZ SLA to provide 10x higher levels of availability.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 19:52:05+00:00
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now offers an availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99% when using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration. Previously, MemoryDB offered an SLA of 99.9% for Multi-AZ configurations. With this launch, MemoryDB has updated its Multi-AZ SLA to provide 10x higher levels of availability.
Published Date: 2023-01-31 19:44:05+00:00
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Ruth and Stephen, two new US English neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 22:50:50+00:00
Today, we are launching AWS Glue in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customer to discover, prepare, and integrate their data at any scale.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 20:11:18+00:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports increasing the allocated storage size when creating a read replica, when restoring a database from a snapshot, or when restoring a database instance to a point in time. This capability is supported on Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for Oracle databases.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 20:42:18+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 index documents of additional data types in addition to the five types previously supported.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 18:02:20+00:00
AWS Glue Studio now offers 5 new visual transforms: Flatten, Format timestamp, To timestamp, Add identifier, and Add UUID. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface that helps ETL developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs quickly. With this new feature ETL developers can prepare data for analysis faster without having to write any code.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 18:26:56+00:00
AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly can now emit logs of a channel timeline to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Starting today, you can configure a channel to emit an “As Run” timeline log. This will log important play out events such as source content, start times, ad breaks inserted, and more. Using Amazon CloudWatch Insights, you can also configure queries to build reports such as weekly As Run reports.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 21:15:58+00:00
Today, AWS Snow Family announces a new feature that allows for easy updates to the system software of your AWS Snowcone devices. Now, you can request and download Snow system software updates from AWS. It is now possible to install software updates on your AWS Snowcone device using the AWS Snowball Edge client and without returning the device to AWS.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 22:33:14+00:00
AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support (LTS) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized, and AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. Ubuntu operating systems on Snow devices enable customers to deploy their edge compute workloads such as IoT, AI/ML, and Container workloads on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS versions.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 23:02:11+00:00
AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) for Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge devices. You can use AWS Snow Family devices to run storage, compute, and data-processing operations in locations with denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited connectivity. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that requires session-oriented requests to add defense-in-depth against unauthorized metadata access. IMDSv2 requires a PUT request to initiate a session to the instance metadata service and retrieve a token.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 18:06:36+00:00
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to host container workloads, now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging when used with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere) bare metal deployments. The added functionality allows customers using Bottlerocket on bare metal to avoid a single point of failure in the network stack and improves network performance.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 22:25:16+00:00
AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists, simplifying management of your routing policies to connect to your on-premises network.
Published Date: 2023-01-30 22:46:28+00:00
Amazon QuickSight now includes Radar chart as a new chart type. Radar charts (also known as spider charts, polar charts, or web charts) are a way to visualize multivariate data. They are used to plot one or more groups of values over multiple common variables. They do this by providing an axis for each variable, which are arranged radially around a central point and spaced equally. The center of the chart represents the min value and the edge represent the max value on the axis. The data from a single observation are plotted along each axis and connected to form a polygon. Multiple observations can be placed in a single chart by displaying multiple polygons. To learn more, click here.