Week 4 (22 Jan - 28 Jan)

Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports Cross-Region Automated Backups

Published Date: 2024-01-19 20:02:59+00:00

Starting today Amazon RDS for Db2 supports Cross-Region Automated Backups. With this launch, customers can now choose to automatically replicate the backups created by RDS for their Db2 databases to a secondary AWS Region.

Amazon SQS announces support for logging data events in AWS CloudTrail in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-01-19 22:02:55+00:00

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for logging data event SQS APIs using AWS CloudTrail, enabling customers to have greater visibility into SQS activity in their AWS account for best practices in security and operational troubleshooting. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

AWS announces higher read IOPS for Amazon Elastic File System

Published Date: 2024-01-19 21:53:45+00:00

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now delivers 40% higher read IOPS per file system, making it easier to power data-intensive file workloads on AWS.

AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs is now available in two additional AWS regions

Published Date: 2024-01-19 20:01:18+00:00

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can use AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs in Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary) regions. The expansion into these regions enables customers to export detailed telemetry information such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, and various metadata for all of their network flows. This feature provides customers with an AWS native tool to centrally export and inspect flow-level telemetry for all network traffic that is traversing between Amazon VPCs and on-premises networks via AWS Transit Gateway.

Network Load Balancer now supports RSA 3072-bit, ECDSA 256/384/521-bit certificates via AWS Certificate Manager

Published Date: 2024-01-19 21:29:19+00:00

Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports RSA 3072-bit certificates, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) 256, 384 and 521-bit certificates via AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). This launch enables customers use stronger encryption during transit to meet their compliance goals.

Stream data into Snowflake using Kinesis Data Firehose and Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming (Preview)

Published Date: 2024-01-19 22:18:35+00:00

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (Firehose) now offers direct integration with Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming in preview. Firehose enables customers to reliably capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Splunk, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can stream clickstream, application, and AWS service logs from multiple sources, including Kinesis Data Streams, to Snowflake. With a few clicks, customers can setup a Firehose stream to deliver data to Snowflake. Firehose automatically scales to stream gigabytes of data, and records are available in Snowflake within seconds.

Amazon ECS announces managed instance draining

Published Date: 2024-01-19 21:10:06+00:00

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) announced managed instance draining, a new capability that facilitates graceful shutdown of workloads deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by safely stopping and rescheduling workloads to other, non-terminating instances. This capability enables customers to simplify infrastructure maintenance workflows, such as rolling out a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version, without needing to build custom solutions to gracefully shutdown instances without disrupting their workloads.

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

Published Date: 2024-01-19 17:55:08+00:00

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

AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region

Published Date: 2024-01-18 20:03:12+00:00

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. With the addition of this AWS Region, IAM Identity Center is now available in 29 AWS Regions globally.

Amazon Connect now allows contact center managers to join ongoing chats

Published Date: 2024-01-18 22:43:21+00:00

Amazon Connect now supports barge-in for chat, a capability that enables contact center managers to join and participate in ongoing customer service chats to help ensure that even the most complex customer issues are resolved quickly and accurately.

Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region

Published Date: 2024-01-18 18:04:19+00:00

Amazon API Gateway now supports WebSocket APIs in the Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customers to build APIs with real-time bi-directional communication.

Amazon SNS now supports FCM HTTP V1 API for delivering mobile push notifications

Published Date: 2024-01-18 22:21:18+00:00

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports delivering mobile push notifications via Google Firebase’s HTTP V1 API. When creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS console or API, you can choose token-based authentication to enable Amazon SNS to deliver mobile push notifications on your behalf, using the new Google FCM HTTP v1 API. You can also upgrade your existing platform application to use token-based authentication. Once you provide a valid key file, Amazon SNS will switch your application from the legacy FCM API to the new HTTP v1 API.

Simplify AWS Marketplace renewals with new future dated agreements feature

Published Date: 2024-01-18 18:45:06+00:00

AWS customers can now pre-book purchases and setup renewals in AWS Marketplace using the future dated agreements feature. With this feature, AWS Marketplace sellers can specify a future ‘start date’ as part of the SaaS private offer creation process. When an offer is accepted, a ‘future dated’ agreement is created, where the customer’s entitlement (or ability to use the product) starts at the specified future start date. 

AWS CodeBuild announces support for reserved capacity

Published Date: 2024-01-18 22:41:14+00:00

AWS CodeBuild now supports reserved capacity, to enable building and testing of software packages with latency sensitive workloads. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server increases maximum IOPS level to 400,000

Published Date: 2024-01-18 21:35:23+00:00

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now provides 14% higher levels of I/O operations per second (IOPS) for throughput capacity levels of 4 GB/s through 12 GB/s at no additional cost, bringing the new maximum IOPS level to 400,000. The increased IOPS levels enable you to improve price-performance for IOPS-intensive workloads like SQL Server databases and optimize costs for workloads like periodic reporting jobs with IOPS requirements that vary over time. 

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is now available in 6 new Regions

Published Date: 2024-01-18 21:37:18+00:00

We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Canvas is now generally available in the US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo) AWS regions.

GLIDE for Redis, an OSS Redis client sponsored by AWS, now available in preview

Published Date: 2024-01-17 18:09:48+00:00

We are pleased to announce the General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE) for Redis, an AWS-sponsored, open-source Redis client, which is now available in preview. GLIDE for Redis works with any Redis distribution that adheres to the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP) specification, including open-source Redis, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis.

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

Published Date: 2024-01-17 18:07:32+00:00

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams enables you to create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice.

AWS Migration Hub Journeys – Prescriptive Guided Migration & Modernization

Published Date: 2024-01-17 22:44:44+00:00

Keep your projects on track with the new Migration Hub experience offering guided journeys for accelerating end-to-end migration and modernization of your applications to AWS. Optimize planning, execution and tracking with proven tasked-based migration and modernization journeys that offer expert guidance, specialized tooling and cross-team collaboration to move and improve your applications.

Amazon MSK expands support for M7g instances to four additional AWS Regions

Published Date: 2024-01-17 18:08:56+00:00

You can now create provisioned Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters running on AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Frankfurt) and Canada (Central) AWS Regions.

Announcing AWS Supply Chain N-Tier Visibility

Published Date: 2024-01-17 17:59:44+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Supply Chain N-Tier Visibility module that streamlines communication between customers and multiple tiers of suppliers, improving their ability to more accurately respond to supply plans, as well as manage demand or supply changes during the execution window. With this capability, customers can invite and onboard trading partners in just a few clicks. Trading partners can then automate communication with their customers and improve their own forecasts. 

Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region

Published Date: 2024-01-17 21:18:27+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console are also available in the Israel (Tel-Aviv) region. Amazon EC2 Instance Connect provides a single-click and single command Secure shell (SSH) based connectivity to instances and EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance. 

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports TempDB configuration replication

Published Date: 2024-01-17 18:14:07+00:00

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports TempDB configuration replication for Multi-AZ database instances. With this new feature enabled, we will synchronize TempDB file configurations on the primary host, such as type, name, physical_name, size, max_size, growth, and is_percent_growth, with the secondary host in a Multi-AZ configuration. 

Announcing AWS Supply Chain Sustainability

Published Date: 2024-01-16 19:30:09+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Supply Chain Sustainability, a module that creates a more secure and efficient way for companies to obtain Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) documents and datasets from their supplier network. With this module, customers can request, collect, and export artifacts, such as product life cycle assessments, certificates on product safety, or reports on hazardous substances used, at any point in the supply chain. Customers can also upload their own data collection form for their suppliers to document any sustainability issue, utilize a standard workflow process to send their suppliers reminders to answer data requests, and communicate necessary changes based on supplier responses.

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports multi-source replication

Published Date: 2024-01-16 22:07:58+00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports multi-source replication, which allows you to configure multiple RDS for MySQL database instances as sources for a single RDS for MySQL target database instance. Multi-source replication on RDS for MySQL enables you to merge multiple shards into a single target, or consolidate data in one RDS for MySQL instance for analytics, or long-term backups.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in US East (Ohio) Region

Published Date: 2024-01-16 22:09:29+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US East (Ohio) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (London) Regions

Published Date: 2024-01-16 22:59:04+00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (London) Regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Amazon Location Service launches CloudFormation support for API keys and resource management

Published Date: 2024-01-16 19:30:32+00:00

Amazon Location Service now has full support for managing resources via CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS. It allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and include version controls so you can easily roll back changes if needed. Amazon Location now has CloudFormation support for API keys, enabling automated and streamlined management of these keys through CloudFormation templates, making it easier to provide secure access control. Additionally, developers can now modify Amazon Location resource properties through Cloudformation without having to delete the underlying data. This facilitates more efficient resource management, allows users to change the political view of Map resources, and manage tags on Amazon Location resources. Amazon Location has also introduced the ability to delete unused API Keys via CloudFormation, which optimizes testing and deployment processes. Lastly, Amazon Location now provides the option to delete active API Keys using an API call with a force-delete feature, applicable even to keys that have already been utilized.

Amazon S3 on Outposts enables support for IPv6

Published Date: 2024-01-16 18:23:16+00:00

You can now access Amazon S3 on Outposts buckets using IPv6 via S3 on Outposts dual-stack endpoints. IPv6 support for S3 on Outposts allows you to manage your S3 on Outposts buckets and control plane resources over IPv6 networks.

Amazon EMR Studio announces a simplified create experience with improved start times

Published Date: 2024-01-16 21:03:07+00:00

Today, we are excited to announce a simplified console experience for creating Amazon EMR Studio. With the new experience, with just a few clicks, you can get started with interactive and batch workloads with default settings. The default experience also creates an EMR Serverless application ready to serve interactive workloads. Additionally, with improved start times, you can now launch your EMR Studio Workspaces in seconds to perform interactive analysis in notebooks.

Amazon Corretto January, 2024 quarterly updates

Published Date: 2024-01-16 22:45:29+00:00

On Jan 16, 2024 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 21.0.2, 17.0.10, 11.0.22, 8u402 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. 

Announcing AWS Supply Chain Supply Planning

Published Date: 2024-01-16 19:23:43+00:00

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Supply Chain Supply Planning module, which provides specialized models to accurately forecast and plan purchases of raw materials, components, and finished goods to improve in-stock rates across customers’ supply chains. AWS Supply Chain Supply Planning draws on Amazon’s expertise in developing ML for its own operations and applies this knowledge to create sophisticated supply planning models that can accurately plan the right levels of inventory needed across customer's facilities. With this addition, AWS Supply Chain customers can more easily manage their upstream supply chain, and more accurately plan needed materials and inventory.

AWS Private CA now helps issue ISO/IEC mobile driver’s license certificates

Published Date: 2024-01-16 21:38:28+00:00

You can now use AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to help issue ISO/IEC 18013-5:2021 international standard mobile driver’s license (mDL) certificates. mDLs are digital representations of the information contained in a physical driver’s license or non-driver identification card. Organizations are working together to use mDLs across various situations, ranging from validating identity during airplane boarding to sharing information for age-restricted activities. 

AWS Transfer Family introduces static IPs for sending AS2 messages and MDNs

Published Date: 2024-01-16 17:59:34+00:00

AWS Transfer Family now uses static IP addresses when sending messages to remote AS2 servers and when returning asynchronous message disposition notification (MDN) responses. This adds to AWS Transfer Family’s existing support for static IPs when receiving AS2 messages with internet-facing, VPC-hosted AS2 endpoints.

AWS Transfer Family provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectors

Published Date: 2024-01-16 20:11:13+00:00

AWS Transfer Family now provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectors, enabling connection with remote SFTP servers that are secured by IP allowlisting controls. With this enhancement, you can now reliably and seamlessly exchange files with external business partners that only accept inbound connections from known IP addresses.