4/27/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/28/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Chime SDK offers API endpoints for media pipeline in Oregon, Frankfurt, and Singapore
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging to their web applications. Media Pipelines allow developers to capture the contents of Amazon Chime SDK WebRTC media sessions to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK now has media pipeline API endpoints in US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions.
Get insights into Data and Data Quality with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single visual interface. With SageMaker Data Wrangler’s data selection tool, you can quickly select data from multiple data sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Databricks Delta Lake, and Snowflake.
AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowball Edge devices
AWS Snowball customers can now remotely monitor and operate their devices from AWS OpsHub or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). This enables customers to manage one or thousands of Snowball Edge devices, even when they are geographically dispersed. For Snowball Edge devices connected to the network, customers can remotely view a central dashboard to see whether a deviceis online, is unlocked, and monitor usage metrics such as available storage and compute capacity. Additionally, customers can now remotely unlock or reboot devices deployed in the field.
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports random sampling and stratified sampling
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single visual interface. With SageMaker Data Wrangler’s data selection tool, you can quickly select data from multiple data sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Databricks Delta Lake, and Snowflake.
Amazon RDS Data API now supports returning SQL results as a simplified JSON string
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API can now return results in a new simplified JSON format that makes it easier to convert JSON string to an object in your application. Previously, Amazon RDS Data API returned a JSON string as an array of data type and value pairs. This required developers to write custom code to parse the response and extract the values in order to manually translate the JSON string into an object. Instead, the new format returns an array of column names and values, which makes it easier for common JSON parsing libraries to convert the response JSON string to an object. The previous JSON format is still supported and existing applications using Amazon RDS Data API will work unchanged. To learn more about the new format and how to use it see our documentation.
Today, AWS Snow Family launches Large Data Migration Manager, a new feature that enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge service products. You can now easily plan and monitor your jobs from a minimum of 500 Terrabytes to petabyte scale data migrations. Using Large Data Migration Manager eliminates the need for you to manually track all of your Snow jobs and the status of their data ingestion.
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.
Introducing Amazon EC2 I4i instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 I4i instances. Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over I3 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME).
ElastiCache data tiering is now available in 3 additional regions
You can now use data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for Redis workloads by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node in addition to storing data in memory. It is ideal for workloads that access up to 20% of their overall dataset regularly, and for applications that can tolerate additional latency when accessing data on SSD.
Amazon Interactive Video Service adds stream chat feature
You can now build scalable stream chat rooms with built-in moderation options designed to accompany live streaming video using the new Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) stream chat feature. With this feature, streamers and viewers can build community relationships by asking questions and participating in discussions. Amazon IVS chat provides chat room resource management and a messaging API for sending, receiving, and moderating chat messages. Visit the Amazon IVS chat feature page to learn more.
AWS Control Tower now supports Python 3.9 runtime
Today, we are announcing an update to AWS Control Tower that includes a change to the Notification Forwarder Lambda to use the Python version 3.9 runtime. This update addresses the planned deprecation of Python version 3.6 runtime. Function invocations continue indefinitely after the runtime version reaches end of support. However, AWS strongly recommends that you migrate functions to a supported runtime version so that you continue to receive security patches and remain eligible for technical support. Please refer to the runtime deprecation policy for additional deprecation details.
AWS Snow Family now supports update of device certificates
Today we are launching the ability for AWS Snowball Edge customers to update device certificates for Snowball Edge devices deployed at edge locations. Customers, Solutions Architects, or Account Managers can open a support case with AWS Snow team to request software update package with new device certificate. Customers then use the existing software update process to apply the new device certificate to their Snow devices. This enables customers to deploy Snowball Edge devices for multiple years without having to replace devices to update their operating certificates.
AWS Key Management Service introduces new HMAC API
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) lets you create KMS keys that can be used to generate and verify Hash-Based Message Authentication Code (HMACs). HMACs are a powerful cryptographic building block that incorporates secret key material within a hash function to create a unique keyed message authentication code. HMAC KMS keys can only be generated and used within the FIPS 140-2 validated HSM security boundary in AWS KMS. This architecture can minimize the risk of these secret keys being compromised, in contrast to using plaintext HMAC keys in local application software.
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- How to Store Data in Different Locations with AWS IoT SiteWise Edge
- AWS Week in Review — April 25, 2022
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- Real-time analytics with Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion
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- New IDC whitepaper released – Trusted Cloud: Overcoming the Tension Between Data Sovereignty and Accelerated Digital Transformation
- How to control access to AWS resources based on AWS account, OU, or organization