AWS update of Week 52 (25 Dec - 31 Dec)

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD and AD Connector available in Calgary

Published Date: 2023-12-29 18:01:32+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 Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics support in AWS CodeArtifact

Published Date: 2023-12-29 17:59:38+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch metrics support in AWS CodeArtifact, expanding the monitoring options available to CodeArtifact users. Customers can use CloudWatch metrics to monitor all requests made to CodeArtifact per account to better understand their usage.

Amazon EMR Release 7.0 now supports Amazon Linux 2023

Published Date: 2023-12-29 21:04:34+00:00

Amazon EMR Release 7.0 ships with Amazon Linux 2023 and features Apache Spark 3.5 running on Amazon Corretto Release 17 (built on OpenJDK) by default. It supports the latest versions of Python 3.9, glibc 2.34, and enables you to ensure consistency of package versions and updates across your environment. The latest release ships with AWS SDK for Java 2.20.160, and upgrades to the latest versions for Apache Flink 1.18 and latest open table formats (Apache Iceberg 1.4.2, Apache Hudi 0.14 and Delta 3.0).

SageMaker Studio now supports local mode and Docker

Published Date: 2023-12-29 22:05:51+00:00

Amazon SageMaker Studio offers integrated development environments (IDEs) for machine learning (ML) development. Studio provides tools for data preparation, experimentation and production to boost productivity. Studio users can now run SageMaker processing, training, inference and batch transform jobs locally on their Studio IDE instance. Users can also build and test SageMaker compatible Docker images locally in Studio IDEs. 

AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available in four additional regions

Published Date: 2023-12-29 21:11:07+00:00

Today, we would like to announce expansion of AWS Mainframe Modernization service to four additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Stockholm). 

EC2 Hibernation is now available in four new regions

Published Date: 2023-12-29 18:02:12+00:00

Starting today, the EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain) AWS Regions. Hibernation is an Amazon EC2 feature that helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. Customers are not billed for compute time while instances are suspended, only their storage volumes, and applications will resume from right where they left off. 

Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to IPv6 Kubernetes pods

Published Date: 2023-12-28 22:45:57+00:00

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now leverage EC2 security groups to secure applications in clusters using Internet Protocol version 6(IPv6) address space.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region

Published Date: 2023-12-28 19:14:19+00:00

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. You may now configure and operate MediaPackage using the console or API endpoints in this region.

Amazon EKS now surfaces cluster health status details

Published Date: 2023-12-28 22:00:28+00:00

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now surfaces cluster-related health issues in the EKS console and API, providing administrators enhanced visibility into the health of their clusters. Cluster health status information helps customers to quickly diagnose, troubleshoot, and remedy issues with their clusters, enabling them to run more up-to-date and secure application environments.

AWS Support launches Security Improvement Program for Enterprise On-Ramp customers

Published Date: 2023-12-28 22:10:00+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Security Improvement Program (SIP) for Enterprise On-Ramp (EOP) customers. SIP empowers you to understand best practices in securing your AWS environment in addition to internal system checks. SIP measures your AWS environment against 90+ critical security best practices and provides tactical level improvement recommendations to improve your security posture.

CodePipeline supports GitLab self-managed

Published Date: 2023-12-28 19:50:05+00:00

You can now use projects from your GitLab self-managed instance (GitLab Enterprise Edition, GitLab Community Edition) to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. You can connect your GitLab self-managed instance that is in a VPC or directly accessible using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository.

Amazon SageMaker provides model training container access for debugging purposes

Published Date: 2023-12-27 17:58:36+00:00

We are excited to announce the launch of a new easy and secure way to remotely connect to the model training environment in Amazon SageMaker for improved observability and quick debugging.

Amazon Connect launches new API to update contact priority

Published Date: 2023-12-27 17:58:29+00:00

Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically update the priority of contacts (e.g., voice calls, callbacks, chats, tasks). With this API, you can now update the position of a contact in a queue directly from your custom monitoring dashboards. You can already change a contact’s priority and/or customers position in queue using the ”Change routing priority/age“ flow block in the Amazon Connect web UI. To learn more about the new UpdateContactRoutingData API, see the Amazon Connect API reference guide and UpdateContactRoutingData help documentation.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports time shifting in Channel Assembly

Published Date: 2023-12-27 21:33:08+00:00

With AWS Elemental Mediatailor, you can now begin playback of a Standard Channel Assembly channel outside of the current live window using the time shifting feature.

New EC2 console instance launch experience available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-26 22:30:49+00:00

Amazon EC2 Console is announcing that its new and improved launch experience is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This experience gives console users an easier and faster way to launch an instance. The new design provides a single page layout allowing users to view settings in a single location. With this update, AWS GovCloud (US) customers do not need to navigate between multiple steps to ensure their configuration is correct. It also introduces a summary panel which provides an overview and improves page navigation.

Amazon EMR Studio now supports user level permissions for Git Repositories

Published Date: 2023-12-26 18:23:57+00:00

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, Scala, and R. Today, we are excited to announce that you can set user level permissions for Git repositories in Amazon EMR Studio.

Remediating non-compliant resources with AWS Config rules is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv)

Published Date: 2023-12-26 18:45:15+00:00

Starting today, remediating non-compliant resources with AWS Config rules is available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. This feature gives you the ability to associate and execute remediation actions with AWS Config rules to address noncompliant resources. You can choose from a list of available remediation actions. For example, you can create an AWS Config rule to check that your Amazon S3 buckets does not allow public read access. You can then associate a remediation action to disable public access for noncompliant S3 buckets.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports zero buffering

Published Date: 2023-12-26 21:56:58+00:00

With zero buffering, customers can deliver data to Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third-party HTTP destinations within seconds enabling real time use cases. 

IAM Roles Anywhere is now available in 6 additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2023-12-26 17:54:10+00:00

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE) AWS Regions. IAM Roles Anywhere enables workloads that run outside of AWS to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials using the same IAM roles and policies that you have configured for your AWS workloads to access AWS resources.