AWS update of Week 50 (11 Dec - 17 Dec)

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose supports delivery of decompressed CloudWatch Logs to destinations

Published Date: 2023-12-15 17:59:43+00:00

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers decompressed CloudWatch Logs to S3 and Splunk destinations.  

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-12-15 21:06:12+00:00

Customers can now use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) 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.

AWS Control Tower Landing Zone updates managed policies and controls

Published Date: 2023-12-15 18:03:15+00:00

Today, AWS Control Tower launched landing zone version 3.3 which includes updates to AWS Control Tower-managed resources, resource-based policies, and controls. AWS Control Tower now supports the new AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) launched global condition key, aws:SourceOrgID, which enables you to scalably allow AWS services to access your resources only on your behalf. With this new IAM capability, you can simplify management of your resource-based policies to require that AWS services access your resources only when the request originates from your organization or organizational unit (OU). For example, you can use the aws:SourceOrgID condition key and set the value to your organization ID in the condition element of your S3 bucket policy. This ensures that CloudTrail can only write logs on behalf of accounts within your organization to your S3 bucket, preventing CloudTrail logs outside your organization from writing to your S3 bucket. Landing zone version 3.3 also includes a new version of the Region Deny control and improved KMS drift reporting.

Amazon MQ is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Published Date: 2023-12-15 22:30:59+00:00

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 32 regions.

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2023-12-15 18:00:49+00:00

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g 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. Starting today, these instances are available in AWS Region Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Region Europe (Paris) and AWS Region South America (São Paulo).

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2022 CU10

Published Date: 2023-12-15 18:02:00+00:00

A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor version for SQL Server 2022 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.

Amazon Connect Cases now supports creating rules for monitoring and updating your cases

Published Date: 2023-12-15 22:34:07+00:00

Amazon Connect Cases now allows you to programmatically manage your cases and set up escalation workflows using the rules designer in the Amazon Connect UI. With this launch, you can create rules to automatically create a task, update a case, or send email alerts to a manager whenever a case is created or updated. In addition, you can create rules leveraging Amazon Connect Contact Lens to automatically create a case for post-conversation follow-up, such as when negative customer sentiment or specific key words are detected in a conversation.

Amazon DocumentDB now supports 1-click EC2 connectivity with Amazon EC2 instance

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:02:55+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports 1-click EC2 connectivity with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), providing Amazon DocumentDB customers the option to easily set up connectivity with an Amazon EC2 instance using the AWS DocumentDB Console. 1-click EC2 connectivity automatically configures your VPC and related network settings to enable a secure connection between the Amazon EC2 instance and the Amazon DocumentDB cluster within minutes.

Amazon Connect Tasks now supports pausing/resuming of tasks

Published Date: 2023-12-15 20:30:09+00:00

Amazon Connect Tasks now supports pausing/resuming of tasks, making it easier for agents to stay more organized and deliver exceptional customer experiences without losing track of work. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. With this launch, agents can now pause/resume tasks in the Amazon Connect agent workspace when they need to switch context to focus on more urgent customer needs, or when they are awaiting external inputs (e.g,. information from the customer) and/or manager approvals, freeing up their capacity to handle new customers issues. Supervisors can monitor and track paused tasks across their agents, along with new metrics to better understand the active time spent by a agent on a task and/or total tasks paused or actively being worked on by agents. Additionally, supervisors can automate task processing in Connect flows to automatically reprioritize and/or reassign the task to an agent based on service level or external inputs. Tasks can also be paused and resumed programmatically through the new pauseContact and resumeContact APIs.

Amazon Connect now provides more granular billing

Published Date: 2023-12-15 19:26:57+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides detailed billing reports and insights in AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost & Usage Reports aggregated and/or filtered by tags (key:value pairs). Companies can now gain more insights into their Amazon Connect bill and better organize their bill by lines of business/departments (e.g., support, banking, sales, claims), types of issues, phone numbers, environments and more. 

Amazon Linux announces support for KVM and VMWare images with AL2023.3

Published Date: 2023-12-15 17:56:08+00:00

Today we are announcing the availability of Amazon Linux 2023 images for KVM and VMWare with the third quarterly update.

Amazon Connect launches more granular access controls (using tags) for your instances

Published Date: 2023-12-15 19:25:35+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides more granular access controls by enabling you to tag your instances in the AWS console or through APIs. For example, you can now tag instances with a tag such as “Division:ConsumerCredit” and define associated Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to only let contact center administrators from the Consumer Credit division see or manage these instances. To learn more about how to add tags to a new or existing instance, see our documentation.

Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports high-availability instance fleets configuration

Published Date: 2023-12-15 20:32:10+00:00

We are excited to announce that high-availability EMR on EC2 clusters are now also available with instance fleets configuration. Your high-availability instance fleet EMR cluster will have three on-demand primary nodes and support Hadoop applications like YARN Resource Manager, HDFS Name Node, and Spark. In the event a primary node fails or critical processes like Yarn Resource Manager and NameNode crash, EMR fails over to one of the remaining primary nodes in the cluster.

Announcing the Auto Query feature for AWS IoT TwinMaker

Published Date: 2023-12-15 22:39:13+00:00

Today, AWS announces the Auto Query feature in AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Viewer which automates data query configurations that aid in visualizing IoT data in customers’ 3D scenes. 

Cost Anomaly Detection extends CloudFormation region support

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:10:25+00:00

Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to continuously monitor, detect, and alert customers to anomalous spend patterns. Starting today, customers can provision anomaly monitors and anomaly alert subscriptions with CloudFormation in all AWS Regions, except GovCloud.

Amazon EBS launches AWS CloudFormation support for Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots

Published Date: 2023-12-14 18:00:58+00:00

Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots provides an additional layer of security for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots and helps prevent unauthorized access and potential misuse of snapshot data. Starting today, you can manage Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots settings for your account using AWS CloudFormation templates.

AWS Billing Conductor now provides margin analysis reports for AWS services

Published Date: 2023-12-14 22:25:25+00:00

Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) customers can analyze the margins (realized savings) for each AWS service their accounts are using. ABC calculates margin by evaluating the difference between the proforma “charged amount” calculated by the service, and the invoiced costs for accounts in billing groups. Margin values can be positive or negative. For example, customers purchasing Compute Savings Plans within their management account can evaluate the savings rate of those purchases for each covered service relative to their AWS invoiced amount. This analysis will simplify customers’ chargeback method and drive deeper understanding of where they are achieving savings.  

AWS Data Exchange now supports data grants for sharing data across organizations

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:59:39+00:00

Today AWS announces the general availability of data grants in AWS Data Exchange, a new feature enabling any AWS customer to grant time-bounded, read-only data access to any other AWS customer. This feature is intended for customers who want to exchange data across organizations easily and securely. Data grants work seamlessly with all five AWS Data Exchange supported delivery types: Data Files, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation (Preview), and Amazon API Gateway.

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now facilitates EBS volume management

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:03:31+00:00

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now provides a new toolset that aims to streamline on-instance volume management by providing an easy GUI based way to manage EBS volumes on your Windows Instances. With this new Fleet Manager capability, customers can readily browse the set of volumes attached to an instance identify volume mount points in the instance file system, view metadata for attached disks and mount as well as format unused EBS volumes.

Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2023-12-14 18:54:25+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6id instances are available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation M5d instances, M6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance, offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.

Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

Published Date: 2023-12-14 22:46:15+00:00

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Jakarta region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. 

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images

Published Date: 2023-12-14 22:52:09+00:00

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers new images powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2022. With these images, customers can launch Microsoft Windows Server 2022 streaming instances and take advantage of the latest Microsoft Windows Server operating systems features. It also enables customers to run applications that require recent Microsoft Windows operating system versions.

AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.12

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:36:54+00:00

AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.12. Developers can use Python 3.12 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates as they become available. You can use Python 3.12 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), a developer toolkit to implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity, also supports Python 3.12. 

Amazon DevOps Guru achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:32:57+00:00

Amazon DevOps Guru has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB), for the AWS US East / West Region which includes US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. 

Announcing Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 6.1 for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics

Published Date: 2023-12-14 21:41:27+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.1 and recommends that customers update Synthetics Canaries to the latest runtime version. This update includes security fixes, bug fixes, and UI Canaries stability improvements. To learn more, see release notes.

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.10.25

Published Date: 2023-12-14 19:18:02+00:00

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.25, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. If you are running earlier versions of RabbitMQ, such as 3.10, 3.9 or 3.8, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.10.20 or higher. This can be accomplished with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. We also encourage you to enable automatic minor version upgrades on RabbitMQ 3.10.25 to help ensure your brokers take advantage of future fixes and improvements.

AWS IoT Core allows customers to use their own CAs with fleet provisioning

Published Date: 2023-12-14 23:01:40+00:00

Today, AWS IoT Core—a managed service that connects billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to AWS—announces the capability of using your own Certificate Authority (CA) certificates when provisioning fleets with AWS IoT Core. Using AWS IoT Core, you can provision your devices with various techniques, such as just-in-time provisioning, just-in-time registration, and fleet provisioning, where each technique serves a dedicated purpose. For example, with fleet provisioning, you can generate and securely deliver X.509 client certificates to your devices when they connect to AWS for the first time. The updated fleet provisioning capability enables you to issue and customize X.509 client certificates using CAs hosted on popular CA services, such as AWS Private CA, external CAs, or your own public key infrastructure (PKI).

AWS Inc. now supports Card Verification Value (CVV)

Published Date: 2023-12-13 18:53:21+00:00

Adding a new credit or debit card to your AWS Inc. account will now require Card Verification Value (CVV) in addition to your card number, card expiry date, name and billing address.

EC2 Image Builder launches image workflows to customize image creation process

Published Date: 2023-12-13 21:14:43+00:00

EC2 Image Builder now allows customers to modify processes in their image pipelines, including build and test phases, to better suit their cloud environment requirements. Customers no longer have to conduct bespoke tasks, such as post-build usability tests, external vulnerability scans, or security approval before distribution, outside their image pipeline automation. With this launch, Image Builder enables customization to its image creation process, allowing customers to enhance their automation and reduce operational overhead directly within Image Builder. This feature is available for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Container images via the Console, CLI, API, CloudFormation, and CDK.

Connect GraphQL APIs to existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases with AWS Amplify

Published Date: 2023-12-13 18:01:08+00:00

AWS Amplify now supports using existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for GraphQL APIs created with Amplify’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK) construct, enabling you to create a backend-for-frontend API layer for web and mobile apps with ease. Developers often have data spread across various databases and sources. With Amplify's new feature, you can now leverage your existing relational data for GraphQL APIs in addition to Amazon DynamoDB.

Amazon Monitron now offers cost visibility at the project and site level

Published Date: 2023-12-13 18:02:11+00:00

Today, we are excited to launch the ability for Amazon Monitron customers to visualize software billing at the project and site levels through the familiar AWS Cost Explorer console. Monitron's intuitive hierarchical framework, comprising projects and sites, facilitates resource management across diverse divisions and facilities. In response to valuable feedback from our customers, we have identified a common challenge they face — accurately allocating costs to downstream customers and sites. With this update, we aim to address and streamline this crucial aspect of cost management.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection now supports custom data identifiers

Published Date: 2023-12-13 21:08:05+00:00

 Data protection is a feature that leverages pattern matching and machine learning capabilities to detect and protect sensitive log data in-transit. Data protection already supported over 100 managed data identifiers that cover common patterns of sensitive data. With custom data identifiers, now you are able to extend detection and protection of sensitive data tailored to data within your logs.

Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, now available globally

Published Date: 2023-12-13 22:07:03+00:00

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models. 

Announcing AWS CloudFormation template generation for Amazon EventBridge Pipes

Published Date: 2023-12-13 22:04:15+00:00

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports generating CloudFormation templates in the AWS console to help you provision and manage the configuration of your pipes in a centralized and repeatable manner. You can generate templates from your existing pipes to provision the same pipes in other regions or accounts, or, jump-start the creation of different pipes by customizing the generated templates. Combine the templates you generate with those of other services to create AWS CloudFormation stacks, which allows you to provision the AWS services your application requires with pipes connecting them together.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces streaming API support for Live Tail

Published Date: 2023-12-13 18:05:22+00:00

We are excited to announce streaming API support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, making it possible to programmatically view, search and filter relevant log events in real-time. You can now view your logs interactively in real-time as they’re ingested within your own custom applications or dashboards inside or outside of AWS.

Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region

Published Date: 2023-12-13 18:39:46+00:00

Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.6, 10.6.16, 10.5.23, 10.4.32

Published Date: 2023-12-12 18:30:46+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.6, 10.6.16, 10.5.23, and 10.4.32. 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.

Introducing managed package repository support for Amazon CodeCatalyst

Published Date: 2023-12-12 18:01:00+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of managed package repositories in Amazon CodeCatalyst. CodeCatalyst customers can now securely store, publish, and share npm packages. Through your CodeCatalyst package repositories, you can also access open source npm packages from the npm registry. Your packages remain available for your development teams, should public package registries become unavailable from other service providers. To increase security and help protect organizations against dependency substitution attacks, CodeCatalyst also provides package origin controls to limit how new package versions can enter CodeCatalyst package repositories.

Amazon MSK extends AWS IAM support to all programming languages for existing clusters

Published Date: 2023-12-12 19:15:34+00:00

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)’s Identity and and Access Management feature now supports all programming languages. Administrators can simplify and standardize access control to Kafka resources using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon MSK’s IAM support is based on SASL/OAUTHBEARER, an open standard for authorization and authentication. Both MSK Provisioned and Serverless cluster types support MSK IAM expansion to all programming languages.

Amazon SES now offers notifications for delivery improvement recommendations

Published Date: 2023-12-11 20:13:39+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new way to improve email delivery and engagement rates. SES’ Virtual Deliverability Manager will now proactively alert customers of gaps in sending configuration through Amazon EventBridge notifications. This helps customers quickly respond when sending configuration is incomplete, which helps increase email delivery and engagement rates.

AWS CloudShell has migrated to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023)

Published Date: 2023-12-11 17:59:26+00:00

AWS CloudShell, previously based on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2), has migrated to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). You can continue to use your existing CloudShell environment with all its pre-installed tools. For more information, please visit the CloudShell AL2023 migration documentation page.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights now supports running multiple kdb processes on shared compute

Published Date: 2023-12-11 18:04:28+00:00

Scaling Groups, a new feature of Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, enables you to run multiple kdb Clusters on a single compute instance. This feature allows you to optimize the infrastructure spend for your kdb applications.

AWS CodeDeploy now supports application stop hooks during Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Group scale-ins

Published Date: 2023-12-11 20:14:36+00:00

CodeDeploy can now call your application’s stop hook during ASG scale-ins so that you can complete ongoing tasks, release application resources, or close outgoing connections. Your application’s stop hooks can also be invoked during ASG instance refresh operations, allowing you to patch your instances without impacting your application’s availability.

AWS Malaysia now supports 3D-Secure authentication

Published Date: 2023-12-11 20:16:48+00:00

Amazon Web Services Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (AWS Malaysia) now supports 3D-Secure authentication of credit and debit cards. 3D-Secure protects you from payments fraud and prevents unauthorized use of your card. When this authentication is needed, you will be redirected to your bank’s page to complete additional steps such as entering a code sent by your bank.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights now supports Tickerplants for real-time analytics

Published Date: 2023-12-11 18:00:18+00:00

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights now supports the creation of Tickerplant (TP) clusters that are used to receive real-time data from feed handlers, and enable resilient real-time cluster restart.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights introduces Dataviews for sharing database caches across kdb clusters

Published Date: 2023-12-11 18:06:12+00:00

Dataviews, a new feature of Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights, enable customers to create high-performance database caches which can be shared by multiple clusters and reduce overall infrastructure costs for kdb environments.

Announcing the release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3.1

Published Date: 2023-12-11 20:17:09+00:00

AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3.1 is generally available with support for Keyshot Network Rendering on Deadline workers, and updated support for MongoDB 5 and DocumentDB 5.

Amazon Athena now supports user identities for data access and audit

Published Date: 2023-12-11 21:53:56+00:00

Amazon Athena now supports trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center to manage and audit access to data and resources based on user identity. This new capability passes identity information between connected business intelligence and data analytics applications, providing data analysts with a seamless single sign-on experience and admins with end-to-end data access traceability. Administrators define access via AWS Lake Formation to their data sets in Glue Data Catalog based on a common set of users and groups in the customer’s chosen identity provider. Auditors can track users’ data access across their Athena query workflows. 

AWS AppConfig now supports AWS PrivateLink

Published Date: 2023-12-11 18:00:43+00:00

AWS AppConfig now supports AWS PrivateLink, which allows customers to leverage feature flags and dynamic configuration from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the public internet.

AWS Lambda supports additional concurrency metric for improved quota monitoring

Published Date: 2023-12-11 18:20:41+00:00

AWS Lambda now offers additional concurrency metric, ClaimedAccountConcurrency, that reports the sum of used unreserved concurrency, allocated reserved concurrency and provisioned concurrency. With this launch, AWS Lambda customers can now track the amount of overall concurrency in their account that is available for on-demand executions. 

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Cross-Account Metrics Insights

Published Date: 2023-12-12 17:56:45+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Metrics Insights in Cross-Account observability. With Amazon CloudWatch cross-account observability, you can use Metrics Insights to monitor and troubleshoot applications that span multiple accounts within a Region.