Week 51 (16 Dec - 22 Dec)

Amazon EKS expands catalog of upgrade insight checks

Published Date: 2024-12-20 22:45:00

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces new enhancements to upgrade insights, a feature that surfaces cluster configuration issues that may impact your ability to successfully upgrade a cluster to a newer version of Kubernetes. With these new enhancements, EKS upgrade insights will scan and warn on cluster health and version compatibility issues between different Kubernetes and EKS components such as kubelet, kube-proxy and EKS add-ons. Kubernetes is a fast-paced, evolving open source project with 3 releases per year, making upgrades a routine part of running Kubernetes clusters. EKS upgrade insights automatically scan clusters against a list of potential Kubernetes version upgrade impacting issues. EKS periodically updates the list of insight checks to perform, based on evaluations of changes in the Kubernetes project, as well as changes introduced in the EKS service along with new versions. EKS upgrade insights surface issues and provide remediation recommendations, accelerating the testing and verification process for upgrades to newer versions of Kubernetes. EKS upgrade insights is available for all EKS clusters in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet) Region, and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Region. To learn more visit the EKS documentation.

AWS Billing and Cost Management now supports custom billing views for decentralized cloud cost management

Published Date: 2024-12-20 20:00:00

AWS announces the general availability of custom billing view, a new feature within AWS Billing and Cost Management that enables customers to grant member accounts access to cost management data spanning multiple accounts within their organization. Custom billing view allows you to provide application and business unit owners with access to relevant cost management data across multiple AWS accounts using a single view in AWS Cost Explorer, without granting access to the management account. With custom billing view, you can create filtered views of cost management data based on cost allocation tags or specific AWS accounts. These views can be shared with member accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager, empowering teams to monitor, analyze and forecast their AWS spend across multiple accounts using AWS Cost Explorer, Cost Explorer reports, and the AWS Billing and Cost Management console homepage. This allows you to reduce the number of users that require access to the management account, while enabling more users to have visibility into their AWS spend. Custom billing views is ideal for customers who implement decentralized cost management practices, or provide business unit owners with comprehensive spend oversight across their accounts. Support for custom billing views is available in all AWS Regions, excluding AWS GovCloud Regions and the AWS China Regions. To get started with custom billing views, visit Billing View within the Cost Management Preferences page in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console and create a new custom billing view. To get started visit the Billing View user guide.

Amazon MSK Connect adds support for Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7

Published Date: 2024-12-20 19:00:00

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect) now supports Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7 for new connectors. Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7 includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. For more details and a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.7. Amazon MSK Connect is a feature of Amazon MSK that allows you to run fully managed Apache Kafka Connect workloads on AWS. This feature makes it easy to deploy, monitor, and automatically scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka clusters and external systems such as databases, file systems, and search indices. MSK Connect is fully compatible with Kafka Connect, enabling you to lift and shift your Kafka Connect applications with zero code changes. With MSK Connect, you only pay for connectors you are running, without the need for cluster infrastructure. To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Connect Developer Guide. Support for Apache Kafka Connect version 3.7 is offered in all AWS regions where Amazon MSK Connect is available.

Amazon RDS for Db2 supports multiple databases within an instance

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon RDS for Db2 now enables the creation of multiple Db2 databases within a database instance. This enhanced capability offers greater flexibility in managing databases and optimizing licenses for various enterprise workloads. Customers can now provision and manage up to 50 Db2 databases within a single RDS for Db2 instance, eliminating the need to deploy and license databases individually for each RDS instance. Customers using multiple databases can quickly create, activate, deactivate or drop databases, enabling them to reduce the overhead of managing separate RDS for Db2 instances. To create multiple databases within an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance, simply set up an RDS instance in the AWS Management Console or using the AWS CLI, then use the create_database stored procedure to create multiple Db2 databases on that RDS instance. Amazon RDS makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale Db2 deployments in the cloud. To learn more about Amazon RDS for Db2, check Amazon RDS for Db2 User Guide and Amazon RDS for Db2 pricing page for pricing details and regional availability.  

Amazon Location Service now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon Location Service announces the availability of dual-stack endpoints, enabling customers to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual-stack clients. These dual-stack endpoints are accessible through a new AWS DNS domain name, while existing Amazon Location Service endpoints remain available to ensure backward compatibility. The transition to IPv6 is essential due to the ongoing expansion of the internet, which is rapidly depleting available IPv4 addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 on Amazon Location Service endpoints, customers can gradually migrate their systems and applications to IPv6-based architectures as needed. This flexibility allows businesses to meet IPv6 compliance requirements while maintaining uninterrupted connectivity through IPv4 for those not yet utilizing IPv6. IPv6 support for Amazon Location Service is now available in all regions where the service is generally available (GA). See here for a full list of supported endpoints and instructions on how to access them via AWS SDKs and CLI. To learn more about Amazon Location Service, please visit Amazon Location Service Product Page and developer guide.  

Amazon Connect launches improved agent hierarchy configuration interface with AWS CloudTrail support

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon Connect provides a refreshed experience for configuring hierarchies on the admin website, giving customers better ways to navigate complex organizational structures quickly and accurately. Hierarchies are a way for customers to organize their agents into teams and groups for reporting purposes (e.g. by department, location, or skill sets). Now customers can visualize their tree structure and find resources using free-text type-ahead search. Because this UI is now powered by public APIs, customers can leverage AWS CloudTrail to log, view and audit all changes to hierarchy groups and structures regardless of who made them or how. The updated UI with AWS CloudTrail support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail event history. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.  

Amazon EventBridge announces API destinations proactive OAuth token refresh

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon EventBridge API destinations now support proactive OAuth token refresh for public and private OAuth authorization endpoints. This capability helps you to preemptively mitigate delays and errors during invocations when the OAuth access token is close to expiration. EventBridge API destinations are HTTPS endpoints that you can invoke as the target of an event bus rule, or pipe, similar to how you invoke an AWS service or resource as a target. Using API destinations, you can route events between AWS services, integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications, and public or private applications by using API calls. Now, when you invoke an API destination with an OAuth token that is close to expiration, EventBridge asynchronously requests a new token from your OAuth endpoint, reducing authorization errors and delays due to expired tokens. Amazon EventBridge API destinations proactive OAuth token refresh is available at no additional cost across all AWS Regions where EventBridge API destinations is available. Please refer to the API destinations user guide for details.  

Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudTrail support for Agent Status configuration

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon Connect now records all changes made on the Agent status page as events in AWS CloudTrail. This enables you to look in AWS CloudTrail to identify which admin website user added, updated or disabled an agent status, for example adding ‘Break’ and ‘Training’ to the standard available and offline choices. Now you have the same logging capabilities available on other resources such as users, queues, and flows that help you analyze and monitor changes to your contact center. The updated UI with AWS CloudTrail support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail event history. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.  

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports AWS Global Accelerator

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now integrates with AWS Global Accelerator (AGA) to enhance WorkSpaces connection performance by optimizing streaming traffic through the AWS Global Network and edge locations. This feature particularly benefits customers whose end users connect to WorkSpaces across long distances. The AGA feature can be enabled at either the WorkSpaces directory level or for individual WorkSpaces running DCV protocol. When advantageous, the service automatically routes the streaming traffic through the nearest AWS edge location and across AWS's congestion-free, redundant global network, delivering a more responsive and stable streaming experience. The WorkSpaces service fully manages AGA usage, subject to outbound data volume limits detailed in WorkSpaces documentation. This enhancement is available at no additional cost for Personal WorkSpaces running DCV protocol in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces is supported, except Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions. Customers can configure this feature through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or Amazon WorkSpaces APIs. For detailed configuration instructions and best practices, please refer to the Amazon WorkSpaces documentation.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 11.4.4, 10.11.10, 10.6.20, 10.5.27

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 11.4.4, 10.11.10, 10.6.20, and 10.5.27. 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. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for MariaDB makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.  

Amazon Q Business is now SOC compliant

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon Q Business is now SOC (System and Organization Controls) eligible. Amazon Q Business is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With the Amazon Q Business SOC certification, customers, can now use Amazon Q Business for use cases that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) requirements. Amazon Q Business is now SOC 1, 2 and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party audits of AWS controls. These audits ensure that the appropriate safeguards and procedures are in place to protect against security risks that may affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer and company data. Amazon Q Business is SOC compliant in all of the AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is supported. See the AWS Regional Services List for the most up-to-date availability information. To learn more about SOC eligible services, visit the webpage. To get started with Amazon Q Business, visit the product page to learn more.  

Amazon QuickSight Launches Unique Key for Dataset

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of Unique Key for Dataset, enabling users to define additional aspects of their data semantics. The unique key will be used to improve performance for QuickSight visuals, especially un-aggregated table charts. Previously, to maintain table pagination stability, all columns in the table visual were sorted, which was an expensive query causing performance latency. Now, with the unique key defined in the dataset, once the column is used in the visual, users will automatically experience improved sorting performance without compromising user behavior. For some cases, the new approach can increase the performance up to 60% decrease of the visual rendering time. For further details, visit here. The new Unique Key for Dataset feature is now available in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Editions in all QuickSight regions - US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada, Sao Paulo, Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm, Paris, Ireland and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.  

Amazon Connect now provides built-in capabilities for customer authentication within chats

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Amazon Connect now provides built-in capabilities for customer authentication within chats, making it easier to verify customer identity and deliver personalized experiences. You can use the new Authenticate Customer flow block to simplify authentication in your chat workflows. For example, unauthenticated customers who require agent assistance can be shown a pop-up to sign-in before connecting with an agent, allowing agent’s to provide more personalized and efficient support. To get started, visit the new ‘Customer authentication’ page within the AWS Console to configure your identify provider, then add the Authenticate Customer block to your contact flow. To learn more, please refer to the help documentation or visit the Amazon Connect website. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available.  

Amazon Connect now supports deletion of queues and routing profiles from the admin website

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

You can now remove queues and routing profiles that are no longer required in your contact center directly from the Amazon Connect admin website, in addition to the API-based deletion that was previously supported. For example, if your team set up sample queues to test a use case that are no longer needed, or you are consolidating your routing profiles because you have reorganized agents, you can now click to remove the unwanted resources. To get started, open the Amazon Connect admin website and navigate to the queues or routing profile page. Use the delete action to remove unneeded rows and free up service quotas for that resource. The updated UIs are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered. For more information, see the administrator guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website.  

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge and u-6tb1.112xlarge) are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To hear from Steven Jones, GM for SAP on AWS on what this launch means for our SAP customers, you can read his launch blog.  

AWS Network Firewall now supports IPv6 Service Endpoints

Published Date: 2024-12-20 18:00:00

AWS Network Firewall introduces dual stack support for Network Firewall management API, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when the AWS Network Firewall management API endpoint is privately accessed from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. Dual stack endpoints are made available on a new AWS DNS domain name. The existing AWS Network Firewall management API endpoints are maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that is easy to deploy. The service automatically scales with network traffic volume to provide high-availability protections without the need to set up and maintain the underlying infrastructure. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Network Firewall endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. There is no additional charge when you connect to AWS Network Firewall endpoints using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) clients. To see which regions AWS Network Firewall is available in, visit the AWS Region Table. For more information, please see the AWS Network Firewall product page and the service documentation.  

AWS Backup now supports resource type and multiple tag selections in backup policies in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-12-19 22:05:00

Today, AWS Backup announces additional options to assign resources to a backup policy on AWS Organizations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can now select specific resources by resource type and exclude them based on resource type or tag. They can also use the combination of multiple tags within the same resource selection. With additional options to select resources, customers can implement flexible backup strategies across their organizations by combining multiple resource types and/or tags. They can also exclude resources they do not want to back up using resource type or tag, optimizing cost on non-critical resources. To get started, use your AWS Organizations' management account to create or edit an AWS Backup policy in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Then, create or modify a resource selection using the AWS Organizations' API, CLI, or JSON editor in either the AWS Organizations or AWS Backup console. For more information, visit our documentation and launch blog.

Amazon Connect launches support for 64 languages for Amazon Q in Connect agent assistance

Published Date: 2024-12-19 21:50:00

Amazon Q in Connect now supports 64 languages for agent assistance capabilities. Customer service agents can now chat with Q for assistance in their native language and Q will provide answers, knowledge article links, and recommended step-by-step guides in said language. New languages supported include: Chinese, French, French (Canadian), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Tagalog. For the full list of supported languages, please see the Languages supported by Amazon Connect features. For region availability, please see the availability of Amazon Connect features by Region. To learn more about Amazon Q in Connect, please visit the website or see the help documentation.

Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2024-12-19 19:30:00

Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (SD3.5 Large) is now available in Amazon Bedrock. SD3.5 Large is an advanced text-to-image model featuring 8.1 billion parameters. Trained on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, this powerful model will enable AWS customers to generate high-quality, 1-megapixel images from text descriptions with superior accuracy and creative control.

The model excels at creating diverse, high-quality images across multiple styles, making it valuable for media, gaming, advertising, ecommerce, corporate training, retail, and education industries. Its enhanced capabilities include exceptional photorealism with detailed 3D imagery, superior handling of multiple subjects in complex scenes, and improved human anatomy rendering. The model also generates representative images with diverse skin tones and features without requiring extensive prompting. Today, Stable Image Ultra in Amazon Bedrock has been updated to include Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in the model’s underlying architecture.

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock in the US West (Oregon) AWS region. To learn more read the AWS News Blog or visit the Stability AI in Amazon Bedrock product page, and documentation. To get started with SD3.5 Large, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.

New insights and reporting for resell revenue available in AWS Partner Central Analytics

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:45:00

AWS Partner Central Analytics now provides insights for resell revenue for AWS Partners participating in the AWS Solution Provider or Distribution Programs. The new data helps Partners gain visibility into amortized revenue generated through resellers. With this new resell revenue section in Partner Central Analytics, Partners can measure revenue by month, reseller, end customer, and geography to help define sales growth strategies. Prior to this launch, Partners could see discounts for authorized resell services, but received limited visibility into program revenue. With this launch, the “Solution provider and distributor“ tab within Partner Central Analytics is renamed to ”Channel“, delivering four new visualizations, providing Partners with a view into amortized resell revenue by program revenue and net program revenue. Key new features include amortized Partner revenue tracking to measure customer impact, monthly refresh schedule to include previous month's data, and comprehensive coverage of resell revenue on authorized services. This update gives Partners customer level insights, helping Partners understand spending patterns across different regions. This helps Partners decide where and how to invest to expand their market reach. Also, these new insights help Partners better track revenue generated before and after program discounts. Approved users of an AWS Partner organization at either the Validated or Differentiated stage can access the new datasets through the Analytics tab in AWS Partner Central. To learn more about resell revenue available in the analytics dashboard, log in to AWS Partner Central and explore the Analytics and Insights User Guide

AWS PrivateLink cross-region connectivity now available in 14 additional Regions

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:20:00

AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity in the following additional Regions: North America (N.California, Ohio, Canada Central), Europe (Stockholm, Paris, London, Milan, Frankfurt), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Osaka, Hong Kong, Seoul, Mumbai). This launch enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions in the same AWS partition over Interface endpoints. As a service provider, you can enable access to your VPCE service for customers in all existing and upcoming AWS Regions without the need to setup additional infrastructure in each region. As a service consumer, you can privately connect to VPCE services in other AWS Regions without the need to setup cross-region peering or exposing your data over the public internet. Cross-region enabled VPCE services can be accessed through Interface endpoints at a private IP address in your VPC, enabling simpler and more secure inter-region connectivity. To learn about pricing for this feature, please see the AWS PrivateLink pricing page. To learn more, read our blog and visit AWS PrivateLink in the Amazon VPC Developer Guide.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces Rocky Linux Application and Desktop streaming

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers support for Rocky Linux from CIQ, enabling ISVs and central IT organizations to stream from an RPM Package Manager (RPM) compatible environment optimized for running compute-intensive applications while leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the AWS Cloud. With this launch, customers have the flexibility to choose from a broader set of operating systems including Rocky Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Microsoft Windows. This launch enables organizations to stream Rocky Linux apps from AppStream 2.0, helping to accelerate time to market, scaling resources up or down with demand, and managing the entire fleet centrally through the AWS Management Console. Rocky Linux on AppStream 2.0 also enables traditional desktop apps to be converted to SaaS delivery without the cost of refactoring, while pay-as-you-go billing and license-included images ensure you only pay for the resources you use. Rocky Linux-based AppStream 2.0 instances are supported in all AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 is available and use per second billing (with a minimum of 15 minutes). For more information, see Amazon AppStream 2.0 pricing. To get started with Rocky Linux on AppStream 2.0, sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AppStream 2.0 Console. For more information, see the Amazon AppStream 2.0 Administrator Guide.  

Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces client for macOS

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Amazon AppStream 2.0 extends native client support to macOS. Users can now access AppStream 2.0 streamed applications through a web browser, the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows, or AppStream 2.0 client for macOS. This additional macOS support provides more flexibility and platform options for users needing access to streamed applications and desktops. The AppStream 2.0 client for macOS is an application you install on your Mac to access AppStream streaming sessions. The client provides enhanced capabilities and user experience. It supports two monitors with 4K resolution, and the ability to connect up to four monitors, leveraging multi-monitor layouts. Users can use keyboard shortcuts and relative mouse mode for a more natural feel. Using macOS client you can also stream over UDP which offers a more responsive streaming quality in sub-optimal network conditions, with higher round trip latency. Additionally, to assist with troubleshooting macOS client issues, you can enable client automatic logging. The macOS client works with Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux 8 based AppStream 2.0 applications and fleets. To run the AppStream 2.0 macOS client, ensure that your Mac is running macOS 13 (Ventura), macOS 14 (Sonoma), or macOS 15 (Sequoia). To download and install the AppStream 2.0 macOS client application, visit Amazon AppStream 2.0 Downloads, choose the macOS link, download and install the application. Verify that the Amazon AppStream 2.0 client application icon appears on your Mac Launchpad and start streaming.  

AWS Config now supports 3 new resource types

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

AWS Config now supports 3 additional AWS resource types. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The newly supported resource types are also available across the AWS Config feature set, including Config rules, Config aggregators, and Config advanced queries. You can now use AWS Config to monitor the following newly supported resource types in all AWS Regions where the supported services are available:

• AWS::Cognito::IdentityPool
• AWS::MediaConnect::Gateway
• AWS::OpenSearchServerless::VpcEndpoint

To view the complete list of AWS Config supported resource types, see supported resource types page.

Amazon Connect now supports multi-party chat

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Amazon Connect now supports multi-party chat, allowing up to 4 additional agents to join an ongoing chat conversation, making it easier to collaborate and resolve customer issues quickly. For example, agents can add a supervisor or subject matter experts to join the chat, ensuring customers receive accurate and timely support. Multi-party chat can be enabled within the AWS Console. Once enabled, agents can simply use a Quick Connect to invite additional agents to an ongoing chat. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more and get started, please refer to the help documentation or visit the Amazon Connect website.  

Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B model now available in Amazon Bedrock

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 3.3 70B represents a significant advancement in model efficiency and performance optimization. This instruction-tuned model delivers impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, including multilingual dialogue, text summarization, and complex reasoning. Llama 3.3 70B is a text-only instruction-tuned model that provides enhanced performance relative to Llama 3.1 70B–and to Llama 3.2 90B when used for text-only applications. The new model delivers similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B, while requiring only a fraction of the computational resources. Llama 3.3 demonstrates substantial improvements in reasoning, mathematical understanding, general knowledge, and instruction following. Its comprehensive training enables robust language understanding across multiple domains. You can use Llama 3.3 for enterprise applications, content creation, and advanced research initiatives. The model supports multiple languages and outperforms many existing conversational models on industry standard benchmarks. It also supports the ability to leverage model outputs to improve other models including synthetic data generation and distillation. Llama 3.3 provides an accessible and powerful generative AI solution for businesses seeking high-quality, efficient language model capabilities. Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B model is available in Amazon Bedrock in the US East (Ohio) Region, and in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions via cross-region inference. To learn more, visit the Llama product page and documentation. To get started with Llama 3.3 70B in Amazon Bedrock, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.  

Amazon ECS now supports network fault injection experiments on AWS Fargate

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now allows you to perform network fault injection experiments on your applications deployed on AWS Fargate. Fault injection experiments create disruptions to test how your applications behave, helping you improve application performance, observability, and resilience. AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) now supports 6 actions for ECS on both EC2 and Fargate: network latency, network blackhole, network packet loss, CPU stress, I/O stress, and kill process. Developers and operators can now verify the response of their application to potential network errors, some of which may also be required for regulatory compliance. By reproducing network behaviors that may cause applications to fail, you can identify gaps in application configurations, monitoring, alarms, and operational response. Amazon ECS is introducing the ability to opt-in to allow tasks to use a fault injector such as AWS FIS to perform network experiments for increasing network latency, increasing packet loss, and blackhole port testing (dropping inbound or outbound traffic) to test how your applications perform, in addition to existing resource stress experiments. The new experience is now automatically enabled in all AWS Regions and integration with the AWS Fault Injection Service in those regions where AWS FIS is available. For more details, go to Amazon ECS fault Injection documentation and the AWS FIS user guide.  

AWS ParallelCluster 3.12 now available with custom image build enhancements

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

AWS ParallelCluster 3.12 is now generally available. This release makes it possible to include Lustre and NVIDIA software components in ParallelCluster custom images. Now, you can include ParallelCluster's recommended Nvidia drivers and CUDA libraries in custom images. This update also makes the Lustre client optional to account for scenarios where you may opt for alternative storage solutions. To enable these optional software components when creating custom images, configure the NvidiaSoftware and the LustreClient parameters in the build image configuration file when using the build-image command. For more details on the release, review the AWS ParallelCluster 3.12.0 release notes. AWS ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool that enables R&D customers and their IT administrators to operate high-performance computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. AWS ParallelCluster is designed to automatically and securely provision cloud resources into elastically-scaling HPC clusters capable of running scientific, engineering, and machine-learning (ML/AI) workloads at scale on AWS. AWS ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge in the AWS Regions listed here, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. To learn more about launching HPC clusters on AWS, visit the AWS ParallelCluster User Guide. To start using ParallelCluster, see the installation instructions for ParallelCluster UI and CLI.

AWS IoT Device Management introduces high-throughput device connectivity status queries

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Today, AWS IoT Device Management announces the general availability of a high-throughput connectivity status query API, allowing developers to query the latest connectivity state of IoT devices, for monitoring and management purposes. AWS IoT Device Management is a fully managed cloud service that helps you register, organize, monitor, and remotely manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices at scale. Device connectivity status is crucial for monitoring device failures and executing remote commands. The new connectivity status API which will be available to AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing customers, provides a high-throughput solution (350+ requests per second) for customers to ascertain device connectivity to the cloud. It also retrieves most recent connect or disconnect event timestamp along with disconnect reason, aiding troubleshooting activities. AWS IoT Device Management’s Fleet Indexing feature enables customers to search, group devices based on device metadata, state stored across thing registry, IoT device shadow and connectivity data sources. While existing search queries are optimized for fleet-level querying, this API is optimized for single-device connectivity queries and offers lower latency to reflect connectivity state changes. With connectivity status queries, developers can now easily support targeted device monitoring and management capabilities in their applications. For example, in automotive applications, developers can first query vehicle connectivity status using this API prior to issuing remote commands to the vehicle. Connectivity status is available to AWS IoT Device Management Fleet indexing customers and in all AWS regions where AWS IoT Device Management is available. For more information please refer to the developer guide and API documentation.

AWS Glue Data Catalog offers advanced automatic optimization for Apache Iceberg tables

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

AWS Glue Data Catalog now offers advanced automatic optimization for Apache Iceberg tables. This update includes supporting compaction of delete files, nested data types, partial progress commits, and partition evolution support, making it easier to maintain consistently performant transactional data lakes. These features address challenges faced by customers with streaming data continuously ingested into Apache Iceberg tables, resulting in a large number of delete files that track changes in data files. With this new capability, Glue Data Catalog constantly monitors table partitions for positional and equality delete files, initiates the compaction process, and regularly commits partial progress to reduce conflicts. Glue Catalog optimizers now support schema evolution as you reorder or rename columns as well as partition spec evolution. In addition, Glue Catalog has expanded support for heavily nested complex data and support for parquet compression codecs - zstd, brotli, lz4, gzip, snappy. Enabling automatic compaction reduces delete files and metadata overhead on your Iceberg tables and improves query performance. These new features are automatically applied to existing and new Glue Catalog optimizers. In addition to the AWS console, customers can also use the AWS CLI or AWS SDKs to automate optimization for Apache Iceberg tables. The feature is available in 14 AWS regions US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Stockholm), Canada (central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney), South America (São Paulo). To learn more, read the blog, and visit the AWS Glue Data Catalog documentation.  

Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for Recycle Bin

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Today, AWS announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for Recycle Bin, a data recovery feature that enables restoration of accidental deleted Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs. You now have the option of using IPv6 addresses for new and existing endpoints. By moving to IPv6, you can simplify your network stack by running dual-stack Recycle Bin endpoints on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Customers can create rules in Recycle Bin to retain deleted EBS Snapshots or deregistered EBS-backed AMI for a specific retention time. This capability allows you to immediately recover your deleted snapshots or EBS-backed AMIs when you create volumes or launch instance without a need to roll back to a snapshot or AMI from an earlier point in time. Recovered snapshots or AMIs retain attributes such as prior to deletion and can be used immediately for creating volumes or launching instances. Snapshots and AMIs that are not recovered from the Recycle Bin are permanently deleted upon expiration of the retention time. Recycle Bin with IPv6 and AWS PrivateLink is now available in all AWS Regions including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about configuring Recycle Bin endpoints for IPv6, please refer to our documentation.  

Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

Published Date: 2024-12-19 18:00:00

Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication plugin support for client to proxy connections on MySQL on Aurora and RDS. Customers need to use plugins to perform authentication between databases and clients while using RDS Proxy. Starting with MySQL 8.4, community MySQL uses caching_sha2_password plugin as the default, which is more secure than the previous default plugins. To align with this, starting today, caching_sha2_password will also be the default authentication plugin for new connection creates with RDS Proxy, if a value is not specified. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. You can setup your RDS Proxy to use caching_sha2_password authentication on all available RDS for MySQL and Aurora MySQL versions with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Support for caching_sha2_password with RDS Proxy is available in all AWS Commercial Regions. For more information, including instructions on getting started, read the Amazon RDS Proxy documentation.  

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports Innovation Release version 9.1 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Published Date: 2024-12-18 19:55:00

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 9.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MySQL 9.1 is the latest Innovation Release from the MySQL community. MySQL Innovation releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. MySQL Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next major & minor release, whereas MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) Releases, such as MySQL 8.0 and MySQL 8.4, are supported by the community for up to eight years. Please refer to the MySQL 9.1 release notes for more details about this release. The Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment supports both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments on the latest generation of instance classes. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum period of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots that are created in the preview environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the preview environment. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced the same as production RDS instances created in the US East (Ohio) Region.

AWS Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

Published Date: 2024-12-18 19:30:00

AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces dual stack support for the managed runtime environments, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. The urgency to transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is driven by the continued growth of internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Mainframe Modernization runtime environments, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. You can also continue to use IPv4 connections if you do not yet utilize IPv6. There is no additional charge when you connect to AWS Mainframe Modernization using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) clients. Support for IPv6 is available in any AWS Region where AWS Mainframe Modernization managed runtime is already deployed. To learn more, please visit AWS Mainframe Modernization product and documentation pages.

Announcing NVMe-backed R6gd Instances for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)

Published Date: 2024-12-18 19:30:00

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) introduces NVMe-backed R6gd Instances, offering up to 7x faster query performance for applications with large datasets exceeding regular instance memory. These instances can expand the data caching capacity by up to 7 times compared to a regular instance. NVMe-backed R6gd Instances leverage the local non-volatile memory express (NVMe)-based SSD storage available on r6gd instances to store ephemeral data, reducing network-based storage access, and improving read latency and throughput. Database pages evicted from the in-memory buffer cache are cached on local NVMe storage. Additionally, temporary space is hosted on local SSD instead of network storage, reducing the latency of queries involving sorts by up to 2x and accelerating resource-intensive operations like index builds. Customers can get started with NVMe-backed R6gd Instances through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK by modifying their Amazon DocumentDB database cluster or creating a new one using R6gd instances. NVMe-backed R6gd Instances are available for Amazon DocumentDB V5.0 on both Standard and IO-Optimized cluster storage configurations. For more information visit our pricing page and documentation.

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Timestream in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:50:00

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics along with other AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases as well as third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection operations. With this launch, AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is available in the following Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). For more information on regional availability, feature availability, and pricing, see the AWS Backup pricing page and the AWS Backup Feature Availability page. To learn more about AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics, visit AWS Backup’s technical documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.

Announcing CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing Service

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:30:00

Today, we are announcing AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). Using AWS CloudFormation, you can easily create and manage PCS clusters and automate your cluster administration tasks. AWS PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to run and scale your high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. You can use AWS PCS to build complete, elastic environments that integrate compute, storage, networking, and visualization tools. AWS PCS simplifies cluster operations with managed updates and built-in observability features, helping to remove the burden of maintenance. You can work in a familiar environment, focusing on your research and innovation instead of worrying about infrastructure. To get started with using AWS CloudFormation with AWS PCS, please refer to the documentation. To learn more about AWS PCS, please refer service documentation. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the PCS pricing and AWS Region Table.  

AWS Glue expands connectivity to 16 native connectors for applications

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Glue announces 16 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Adobe Analytics, Asana, Datadog, Facebook Page Insights, Freshdesk, Freshsales, Google Search Console, Linkedin, Mixpanel, Paypal Checkout, Quickbooks, SendGrid, SmartSheets, Twilio, WooCommerce and Zoom Meetings. As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they need to integrate with data from various applications. With 16 new connectors, customers have more options to easily establish a connection to their applications using the AWS Glue console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn application-specific APIs. Glue native connectors provide the scalability and performance of the AWS Glue Spark engine along with support for standard authorization and authentication methods like OAuth 2. With these connectors, customers can test connections, validate their connection credentials, preview data, and browse metadata. AWS Glue native connectors to Adobe Analytics, Asana, Datadog, Facebook Page Insights, Freshdesk, Freshsales, Google Search Console, Linkedin, Mixpanel, Paypal Checkout, Quickbooks, SendGrid, SmartSheets, Twilio, WooCommerce and Zoom Meetings are available in all AWS commercial regions. To get started, create new AWS Glue connections with these connectors and use them as source in AWS Glue studio. To learn more, visit AWS Glue documentation for connectors.  

AWS DMS now supports Kerberos authentication for Oracle and SQL Server Source Endpoints

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now allows customers to use Kerberos authentication to securely connect to Oracle and SQL Server source endpoints. This feature allows users to authenticate database connections using the Kerberos protocol, a widely adopted standard for secure identity verification. With this update, AWS DMS can authenticate using credentials stored in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory or in an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory that has a forest trust relationship with an AWS Managed Active Directory. Customers can use this feature for Oracle Database and SQL Server without additional licensing costs, simplifying secure migrations. This feature can be configured directly in the AWS DMS Console, CLI, or SDK. To learn more about Kerberos authentication with AWS DMS, please refer to our technical documentation.

Amazon Q Business analytics dashboard enhanced with conversation insights

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, now offers enhanced administration capabilities, providing valuable insights from AI conversations and user feedback information. With the new analytics dashboard, administrators can view and analyze various aspects of these conversations, including:

1. No answer found queries: Administrators can review conversations where Amazon Q Business couldn't provide relevant answers, helping identify data gaps or areas that require improvement.
2. Blocked queries: Administrators can view queries that contain blocked words as configured in Amazon Q Business Admin controls and guardrails, facilitating monitoring and auditing of sensitive queries.
3. End-user feedback: This feature provides access to end user feedback on queries enabling administrators to identify areas where data sources need improvement or where end-users may lack access to necessary documents.

These new features offer administrators visibility into the performance of their Amazon Q Business application. By empowering administrators to identify and address data gaps, permission issues, and user experience challenges, the new capabilities serve as valuable tools for enhancing the overall Amazon Q Business user experience and satisfaction. Furthermore, the analytics dashboard now allows administrators to gain deeper insights into user interactions and usage patterns, enabling them to pinpoint areas for improvement and optimize applications. The enhanced analytics dashboard for Amazon Q Business is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Q Business documentation, or activate your analytics dashboard to start leveraging these powerful insights.

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm version 24.05

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Today, we are announcing Slurm 24.05 support in AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). You can now create AWS PCS clusters running the newer Slurm 24.05 version. AWS PCS' release of Slurm 24.05 provides new Slurm fixes and security updates, including improved auditing for RPC calls, hardened security, and enhancements in Slurm client commands. With this release, AWS PCS also enables a series of Slurm functionalities out of the box, such as improved fanout with partition locality, SHA-3 for cryptographic hashing, and job containers for prolog execution. To get started with using Slurm 24.05 in AWS PCS via AWS Management Console or AWS SDK, please refer to the documentation. To learn more about AWS PCS, please refer service documentation. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the PCS Pricing and AWS Region Table.

AWS Resilience Hub now provides tailored AWS Fault Injection Service recommendations

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Resilience Hub now supports an enhanced integration with AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to offer tailored experiment recommendations. Fault injection experiments help test and improve your applications' performance, observability, and resilience. When you onboard an application to the Resilience Hub, you receive customized experiment recommendations based on the specific application context. With this launch, you can begin resilience testing with just a few clicks in the Resilience Hub Console. Resilience Hub offers tailored experiment recommendations using AWS FIS actions and scenarios to replicate the symptoms of possible application impairment events. This simplifies the process for proactively testing applications to verify and improve resilience. Your resilience score, which enables you to track your resilience posture over time, improves when you run a Resilience Hub-recommended experiment or conduct your own AWS FIS experiments. These capabilities are available in all AWS Regions where both Resilience Hub and FIS are available. For the latest information on availability, please refer to the AWS Regional Services List. For more information on this integration, visit the AWS Resilience Hub product page. To get started, sign in to the AWS console.  

AWS Marketplace now supports self-service promotional media on seller product detail pages

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Marketplace now allows sellers to enhance product detail pages with videos and images through a new self-service promotional media feature. Prominently shown on product detail pages, promotional media provides customers with an enriched way to discover and evaluate products in AWS Marketplace. This launch expands media support to images and provides sellers a self-service way to add and manage media and related metadata. With the new self-service promotional media feature, AWS Marketplace sellers can add, update, and remove media from product detail pages, reducing the time to onboard or refresh product listing content. Sellers can now directly upload media through AWS Marketplace Management Portal or reference public S3 links. In addition to videos, sellers can now add images such as demo screenshots, product feature highlights, diagrams, and more. This feature is available for software as a service (SaaS), Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and container products in all commercial AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is available. To learn more, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide. To start utilizing the new self-service feature to add or refresh media on your product detail pages, visit the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.

AWS offers a self-service feature to update business names on AWS Invoices

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Today, AWS has launched a self-service feature that allows customers with billing address in United States to update their business names on AWS Invoices. This capability empowers AWS customers with Billing Address in United states to update business names on AWS Invoices, without having to reach out to AWS customer support or concierge teams. Updated invoices will be accessible within the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console within 24 hours of initiation. With this self-serve feature, US customers can update the business name on the account and initiate an invoice update from the AWS Bills page in the AWS Billing and Cost management console. The updated invoice will be available on the Invoice tab of the AWS Bills page in the AWS Billing and Cost management console. Customers outside US can continue to work with AWS Customer Support and Concierge teams to update the business names on AWS Invoices. Please access the product page to learn how to use AWS Bills page. The self-serve feature for US customers to update business names on AWS Invoices is available in all public AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in India

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is now available to purchase in India on Amazon Business. Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment. End users can set up WorkSpaces Thin Client in minutes using an on-device guided deployment experience to connect their network and peripherals and log in to their virtual desktops including Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser, and Amazon AppStream 2.0. WorkSpaces Thin Client helps IT organizations improve security by removing the ability to upload or download files or applications and by establishing device trust through a secure chip. With the WorkSpaces Thin Client service, IT administrators have a complete view of their inventory and can remotely reset, patch, and control access to the thin client. The WorkSpaces Thin Client service is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (London). Devices are now available to purchase in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and India on Amazon Business. Visit the WorkSpaces Thin Client page and Amazon Business to learn more.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i, R7i, M7g, and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i, R7i, M7g and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. M7i and R7i are the latest Intel based offering and are available with a new maximum instance size of 48xlarge, which brings 50% more vCPU and memory than the maximum size of M6i and R6i instance types. M7g and R7g database instances are custom build on AWS Graviton2 Processor are provide up to 20% higher network bandwidth that the prior generation’s M6g and R6g instance types. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. Get started by creating any of these fully managed database instance using the Amazon RDS Management Console. For more details, refer to the Amazon RDS User Guide.  

AWS Transfer Family provides additional controls over AS2 message attributes

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Transfer Family announces new configuration options to control the attributes of inbound and outbound Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages. This update helps you ensure seamless compatibility with a broader range of your trading partners’ AS2 implementations, without requiring any changes on the partners’ side. AS2 is a business-to-business (B2B) messaging protocol used across various industries, including healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics. You now have greater control over the default attributes of your AS2 messages. For inbound messages, you can preserve the original filenames of files received from your trading partners and optionally enforce message signing requirements to ensure that only signed messages are received in line with your security needs. For outbound messages, you can maintain the content types associated with your AS2 payloads stored in Amazon S3, overriding the service default content type. These enhancements build upon the existing suite of AS2 interoperability features within AWS Transfer Family, enabling you to reliably exchange messages with your trading partners while maintaining the required message attributes. The new configuration options for AS2 messages are available in all AWS Regions where the service is available. To learn more, visit the documentation. To get started with Transfer Family’s AS2 capabilities, take the self-paced workshop or deploy the AS2 CloudFormation template.  

AWS DataSync now supports configuration updates for all supported storage locations

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS DataSync now supports configuration updates for all supported storage locations, including Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. With this enhancement, you can update storage locations directly, removing the need to delete and create new locations in order to update key parameters. AWS DataSync is a high-speed data transfer service that securely and reliably copies data over a network. With this new capability, you gain greater flexibility in managing data transfer configurations across supported AWS storage services. With configuration update support extended to Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx storage locations, you can now adjust properties, such as access roles, directory paths, and authentication credentials, without recreating tasks and locations, making it easier than ever to adapt DataSync tasks to meet your evolving business needs. This new capability is available in all AWS Regions where AWS DataSync is available, except the China (Beijing) and the China (Ningxia) Regions. To get started, visit the AWS DataSync console. To learn more, view the AWS DataSync documentation.  

AWS Backup now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Backup introduces dual stack support for the AWS Backup API endpoint in IPv6, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when the AWS Backup API endpoint is privately accessed from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. Dual stack endpoints are made available on a new AWS DNS domain name. The existing AWS Backup API endpoints are maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Backup endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. This enables you to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. AWS Backup support for dual-stack environments is available in all regions where AWS Backup support for VPC endpoints is available. There is no additional charge when you connect to AWS Backup endpoints using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) clients. To learn more, see AWS Backup documentation.

Amazon MSK is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. Visit the AWS Regions page for all the regions where Amazon MSK is available. To get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.  

AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Today, AWS Backup announces support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. This capability allows you to search the metadata of your backups so you can find specific files or objects across your backups and recover up to 5 items at a time, allowing for faster recovery times. You can get started with search and item-level recovery using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. In order to search your Amazon EBS Snapshots or Amazon S3 backups, you must first create a backup index. You can create a backup index via a backup plan, or on-demand after your backup has been created. Once indexed, you can search across multiple backups to locate specific files or objects, without needing to restore multiple backups. You can specify your search criteria based on one or more filters such as file or object name, creation time, and size, as well as resource specific attributes like Amazon S3 object versions to narrow down your results. Once you identify the specific files or objects you are looking for, you can choose to restore just these items directly to an Amazon S3 bucket rather than restoring the full backup, allowing for quicker recovery times. AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 Backups is available in all commercial Regions, where AWS Backup supports Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. For information on using AWS Backup search and performing item-level recovery, visit the launch blog and AWS Backup documentation.

AWS Resilience Hub now supports Amazon CloudWatch alarm detection for application resilience

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

AWS Resilience Hub now automatically detects and integrates existing Amazon CloudWatch alarms into its resilience assessments, providing a more comprehensive view of your application’s resilience posture. This new capability combines AWS Resilience Hub recommendations with your current monitoring setup to streamline alarm management and enhance assessment accuracy. As part of Operational Recommendations, AWS Resilience Hub advises setting up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor application resilience. With this update, Resilience Hub now identifies and includes any relevant Amazon CloudWatch alarms you’ve already configured, eliminating the need for manual entry. Alarms that align with Resilience Hub’s recommendations are marked as "Implemented," minimizing redundant suggestions. By incorporating your existing alarms into the resilience score, AWS Resilience Hub now offers a more accurate assessment of application resilience. The new capabilities are available in all of the AWS Regions where Resilience Hub is supported. See the AWS Regional Services List for the most up-to-date availability information. To learn more about this feature and how it can benefit your applications, visit the AWS Resilience Hub product page.

Amazon Connect Tasks now support durations up to 30 days

Published Date: 2024-12-18 18:00:00

Amazon Connect Tasks can now be configured to expire up to 30 days from creation, with a default of 7 days. For example, less urgent tasks like monthly expense notifications can stay active for up to 30 days before escalating to a supervisor, while urgent tasks like customer escalations can now be sent to a supervisor after 1 minute. 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. This feature is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, see our documentation. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the easy-to-use cloud contact center, visit the Amazon Connect website.

Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in additional regions

Published Date: 2024-12-18 17:00:00

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Paris) regions. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization as well as graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. Amazon EC2 G6 instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) , US West (Oregon), Europe (Paris, Frankfurt, London, Spain, Stockholm and Zurich), Asia Pacific (Seoul, Mumbai, Tokyo, Malaysia and Sydney), South America (Sao Paulo) and Canada (Central) regions. Customers can purchase G6 instances as On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, or as part of Savings Plans. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the G6 instance page.  

AWS re:Post now supports Spanish and Portuguese

Published Date: 2024-12-17 22:55:00

AWS re:Post expanded language support to include a total of 8 languages, now featuring Spanish and Portuguese. This enhancement creates a more inclusive experience for our diverse global user base, allowing more users to engage with the community in their preferred language. By breaking down language barriers, we're making it easier for AWS users worldwide to seek help, share knowledge, and collaborate effectively. Whether you're more comfortable communicating in Spanish, Portuguese, or any of the other supported languages, you can now fully participate in AWS discussions and community interactions, fostering better communication and accessibility across the AWS ecosystem. Community members on re:Post can now publish content in Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English, French, Korean, Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, that have been already supported on re:Post. Premium Support customers get prioritized responses from AWS Support Engineers if their questions are not answered by the community. These features are available for re:Post customers globally. Explore re:Post in Spanish and Portuguese today.

Introducing AWS Glue 5.0 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Published Date: 2024-12-17 22:00:00

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). With AWS Glue 5.0, you get improved performance, enhanced security, and more. AWS Glue 5.0 enables you to develop, run, and scale your data integration workloads and get insights faster. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources. AWS Glue 5.0 upgrades the engines to Apache Spark 3.5.2, Python 3.11, and Java 17, with new performance and security improvements. Glue 5.0 updates open table format support to Apache Hudi 0.15.0, Apache Iceberg 1.6.1, and Delta Lake 3.2.0 so you can solve advanced use cases around performance, cost, governance, and privacy in your data lakes. AWS Glue 5.0 adds Spark native fine grained access control with AWS Lake Formation so you can apply table, column, row, and cell level permissions on Amazon S3 data lakes. To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and our documentation.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now updates environment status when invalid

Published Date: 2024-12-17 22:00:00

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports functionality that makes it easy to update a Beanstalk environment status when it enters into an invalid state during an update failure.

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can easily deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. However, there can be situations where a Beanstalk environment can become unavailable when the stack associated with it goes into an invalid status. Previously, when that happened, customers needed to contact AWS support to update their Beanstalk environment status in order to proceed. Now, Beanstalk will prompt you with a request to fix your underlying stack. You'll be directed to a guide that walks you through the process step-by-step. Once you've made the adjustments, simply retry the request. Beanstalk will then automatically set the environment to available and complete the operation, minimizing downtime and complexity.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment recovery is generally available in commercial regions where Elastic Beanstalk is available including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a complete list of regions and service offerings, see AWS Regions.

For more information about the recovery process see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide. To learn more about Elastic Beanstalk, visit the Elastic Beanstalk product page.

New look for AWS Marketplace Professional Services product detail pages

Published Date: 2024-12-17 21:00:00

AWS Marketplace has launched a refresh of its Professional Services product detail pages. The updated pages offer a streamlined layout that surfaces product highlights and accessible content. Customers can now more easily find services that best fit their specific needs in AWS Marketplace Professional Services. The new product detail pages display key information and associated software, allowing customers to quickly narrow down their options and identify the right service for their business requirements. The updated product detail pages are also available for most listings, providing a consistent experience across AWS Marketplace. To get started, visit the AWS Marketplace Professional Services offerings.

IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper now supports TPM 2.0

Published Date: 2024-12-17 19:50:00

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere today released version 1.4.0 of the credential helper, introducing built-in compatibility with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0. With this release, the credential helper can directly utilize X.509 certificates and associated private keys stored in TPMs on Windows or Linux systems. Keys remain within their secure hardware store, which can help improve your security posture. IAM Roles Anywhere enables workloads that run outside of AWS, such as servers, containers, and applications, to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials and access AWS resources using the same IAM roles and policies that you have configured for your AWS workloads to access AWS resources. IAM Roles Anywhere is compatible with certificates issued by any X.509-compliant PKI provider. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that automates the process of signing CreateSession API with the private key associated with an X.509 end-entity certificate and calls the endpoint to obtain temporary AWS credentials. The credential helper includes PKCS #11 compatibility to leverage private keys from any hardware or software secure store your infrastructure trusts. With today’s release, developers have additional flexibility to directly leverage a TPM as the secure hardware store, thereby can help improving security posture while also reducing complexity. The IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper source code is available on GitHub. For more information on credential helper v1.4.0, see the release note.

AWS IoT Greengrass v2.14 now supports a new lightweight edge runtime software, uses less than 5MB of memory

Published Date: 2024-12-17 18:00:00

Today, AWS releases AWS IoT Greengrass 2.14, offering a new nucleus lite feature that supports a lightweight runtime agent for resource-constrained devices operating on embedded Linux. The nucleus lite feature is offered alongside the original AWS IoT Greengrass nucleus, providing developers the flexibility to choose the most appropriate option for their specific edge device capabilities and application needs. AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge runtime and cloud service that enables the development, deployment, management, and monitoring of device software at scale. It facilitates remote deployment and maintenance of AWS-managed and custom applications on edge devices, providing continuous functionality in environments with intermittent connectivity or limited bandwidth. By eliminating the Java (JVM) dependency while maintaining backward compatibility, the new nucleus lite agent uses minimal RAM and storage (less than 5MB), reducing IoT device costs and enabling its use in high-volume applications like robotics, smart home, energy metering, healthcare, and automotive. The 2.14 release is available in all regions where AWS IoT Greengrass is supported. To get started and quickly design a solution using pre-built RaspberryPi images, refer to the new streamlined AWS IoT console installation procedure.

AWS AppSync GraphQL enhances Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL support with new resolver utilities

Published Date: 2024-12-17 18:00:00

AWS AppSync GraphQL is a fully managed service that helps developers create flexible GraphQL APIs that connect to data, events, and AI models. AppSync GraphQL can connect applications to various data sources, including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL. AppSync GraphQL now offers enhanced utilities for Amazon RDS in JavaScript resolvers. This update expands existing capabilities and introduces new aggregate functions. The enhancement adds new functionality to the select utility and makes it easier to build safe and accurate SQL select statements. Developers can now use a variety of join types, including inner, left, right, and full outer joins, as well as their natural counterparts. New aggregate helpers, such as min, max, sum, avg, and count (including distinct variants) makes it easier to build queries that use the “group by” and “having” statement. The select utility now supports aliases for tables and columns, and allows developers to mix in the sql tagged template to write custom where and join conditions. These enhancements are available in all AWS Regions where AWS AppSync is offered. To learn more about this built-in module, visit the AWS AppSync documentation. You can start using these enhancements today by updating your resolver code in the AWS AppSync console.  

Amazon Connect now provides agent schedule data in analytics data lake

Published Date: 2024-12-17 18:00:00

Amazon Connect now provides published schedules data in the analytics data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data. From agent schedules data in the analytics data lake, you can now automate key operational use cases such as generating reports for paid and unpaid hours for payroll, generating summarized views of how many agents are scheduled to work and how many have time-off in a given time period. You can also address audit and compliance use cases such as generating a detailed report of all scheduled events for all agents for the past two years. To generate these reports and insights, you can use Amazon Athena with Amazon QuickSight or another business intelligence tool of your choice. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect agent scheduling, click here. To learn more about Amazon Connect analytics data lake, click here.

Amazon Athena is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region

Published Date: 2024-12-17 18:00:00

We are excited to announce that starting today, Amazon Athena is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, supporting open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data, with no provisioning or configuration effort required. For a complete list of AWS services available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and other regions, refer to the AWS Regional Services List. To learn more, see Amazon Athena.  

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) connectivity

Published Date: 2024-12-16 22:10:00

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers customers the option to create instances with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on Amazon Web Services for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. Customers moving to IPv6 can now simplify their network stack by creating their Timestream for InfluxDB instances on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Customers can also continue to connect to Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB via IPv4 connections if they do not utilize IPv6. Support for IPv6 on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is available in all Regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is available. See here for a full listing of our Regions. To learn more about Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, please refer to our user guide.

Kinesis Producer Library now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x

Published Date: 2024-12-16 21:45:00

AWS announces a new version of Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) that supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x for improved performance and security features. With the new KPL version 1.0, now you can fully remove the dependency on the AWS SDK for Java 1.x. You can upgrade your applications running previous KPL versions to KPL 1.0 without any change in your core data processing logic. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that enables customers to capture, process, and store real-time data streams at any scale. Kinesis Producer Library is an open-source library that simplifies producer application development, enabling developers to achieve high write throughput to a Kinesis data stream by aggregating and batching the data. KPL 1.0 is available with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in all AWS regions. To learn more, see the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams developer guide and KPL 1.0 release notes.

Amazon EBS launches Local Snapshots for AWS Dedicated Local Zones

Published Date: 2024-12-16 20:50:00

You can now use Amazon EBS Local Snapshots in AWS Dedicated Local Zones. Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that are fully managed by AWS, built for exclusive use by you or your community, and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help you comply with regulatory requirements. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. With Local Snapshots, you can now create backups of your EBS volumes in Dedicated Local Zones and store them within the same geographical boundary as your EBS volumes, helping you meet your data isolation and data residency use cases. You can also create Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for your account to enforce that snapshots are stored within the Dedicated Local Zone. Additionally, you can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to automate the creation and retention of local snapshots. Local Snapshots are available through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see the technical documentation on Local Snapshots.

Bottlerocket now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter for AI/ML and HPC workloads

Published Date: 2024-12-16 18:40:00

Today, AWS announces the introduction of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support for Bottlerocket, the Linux-based operating system purpose-built for hosting containers, with a focus on security, minimal footprint, and safe updates. An EFA is a network device that you can attach to your Amazon EC2 instance to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. EFA support allows customers to use Bottlerocket with instance types such as G4, G5, P4, and P5 (see full list of the supported instance types). When an EFA device is detected, Bottlerocket automatically reserves huge pages and updates the locked memory limits for containers, ensuring the best possible EFA performance. This integration provides customers with a secure, efficient, and high-performance container hosting environment for their most demanding computational tasks. EFA support is available on all first-party Bottlerocket Amazon Machine Images starting with version 1.28.0 and is accessible in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started with Bottlerocket, see the Bottlerocket User Guide. You can also visit the Bottlerocket product page and explore the Bottlerocket GitHub repository for more information.

Announcing Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair for Amazon EKS

Published Date: 2024-12-16 18:00:00

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now monitors the health of the EC2 instances (nodes) in EKS clusters for Kubernetes-specific health issues and automatically takes action to repair them if they become unhealthy. This helps you achieve higher availability for your Kubernetes applications and reduces the operational overhead required to keep cluster infrastructure performing optimally. Managing the nodes where Kubernetes applications run to ensure they remain resilient to errors can be challenging and operationally intensive. This launch streamlines cluster infrastructure maintenance by continuously monitoring the health of the nodes within an EKS cluster, automatically detecting health issues and replacing nodes with issues when they arise. You can enable this feature’s health monitoring and repair capabilities by installing the new EKS node monitoring agent add-on in new or existing EKS clusters and then enabling node auto-repair in the EKS managed node group APIs or AWS Console. EKS Auto Mode comes with both the node monitoring agent and node auto-repair enabled. EKS node health monitoring and auto-repair is available today at no additional cost in all AWS Regions, except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. To learn more and get started, visit the Amazon EKS product page or Amazon EKS User Guide for node health monitoring and repair.  

Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh Instance

Published Date: 2024-12-16 18:00:00

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance run on 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance offers 32TB of memory with 1920 vCPUs. U7inh is the highest performing High Memory instance in Amazon EC2 for running large, compute-intensive in-memory database workloads such as SAP HANA. U7inh instance is certified by SAP for running SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, and Business Warehouse on HANA in production environments. For details, see the SAP HANA Hardware Directory. U7inh instance enables 160Gbps of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) bandwidth for storage volumes including io2 Block Express to support IO-intensive use cases such as data hydration, backup and restore. In addition, the instance supports up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and support ENA Express. U7inh instance is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions for purchase via a 3-Yr Savings Plan. To learn more, visit the U7i instances page.