5/25/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/26/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Backup Audit Manager adds support for Amazon S3 and AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies for Amazon S3 and AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can now continuously evaluate the backup activity of your Amazon S3 and AWS Storage Gateway resources and generate audit reports that can help you demonstrate compliance with organizational best practices or regulatory standards.
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles launches in Africa (Cape Town)
Amazon Connect now allows you to use Amazon Connect Customer Profiles in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS region. When a customer contacts your customer service department, you can now provide your agents and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with up to date information about the customer, enabling faster and more personalized customer service. Customer Profiles brings together customer information (e.g, address, purchase history, contact history) from multiple applications such as Salesforce, Amazon S3, and ServiceNow into a unified customer profile.
AWS IoT Device Management increases Active Jobs Limit to 100k per AWS account per region
We’re excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Management customers will now be able to create up to 100,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per region. The prior limit was 1,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per region. This new limit will apply to the total number of Jobs created - both continuous and snapshot jobs. Customers that require a large number of Active Jobs - for example, to apply bespoke configurations to thousands of individual targets in parallel – are now unblocked by this upgrade.
AWS Config supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon CloudWatch metrics for usage monitoring on AWS Config. AWS Config tracks changes made to supported resources and records them as configuration items (CIs), which are then delivered to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Amazon CloudWatch metrics is a monitoring service which provides data about the usage of your systems, including the ability to search, graph, and build alarms on metrics about AWS resources. With this release, you can now use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to verify your setup and understand your usage of AWS Config.
Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Nashville and Tampa
Today, we are announcing the availability of two new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Nashville, TN and Tampa, FL. Wavelength Zones are now available in 19 major cities in the US, including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC.
Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Seoul
Today, we are announcing the availability of a new AWS Wavelength Zone on SK Telecom’s 5G network in Seoul. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in South Korea, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in Daejeon.
Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances in additional regions. These instances are optimized to efficiently run compute-intensive, high performance computing workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics, reservoir modeling, weather simulations, and finite element analysis. Hpc6a instances offer up to 65% better price performance over comparable Amazon EC2 x86 based, compute-optimized instances. With Hpc6a instances, you can significantly lower the cost of your HPC workloads, while taking advantage of the elasticity and scalability of AWS.
Announcing JSON support for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now support natively storing and accessing data in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. With this launch, application developers can effortlessly store, fetch, and update their JSON data inside Redis without needing to manage custom code for serialization and deserialization. Using ElastiCache and MemoryDB, you can now efficiently retrieve and update specific portions of a JSON document without needing to manipulate the entire object, which can help improve performance and help reduce cost. You can also search your JSON document contents using the JSONPath query syntax.
Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports root squash
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports root squash. This administrative feature adds an additional layer of file access control on top of the current network-based access control and POSIX file permissions that FSx for Lustre provides. Using the root squash feature, you can restrict root level file system access from clients that access an FSx for Lustre file system as root.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- AWS Organizations Now Simple and Secure Closing Member Accounts
- New — Amazon EC2 C7G Instances with AWS Graviton3 Processors
- AWS Backup is now available for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
- Computer Vision Anomaly Detection Using Amazon Lookout for Vision and AWS Panorama
AWS Startups Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
AWS Database Blog
AWS Developer Tools Blog
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS for Industries
- How NXP is Moving Chip Design to AWS
- Banking Trends 2022: Banking evolution with Open Finance
- AWS Config adds new conformance pack template for North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) BES Cyber System Information (BCSI)
Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Storage Blog
- Break down silos with AWS Transfer Family and Dremio’s Data Lakehouse Platform
- How to move data from Azure Files SMB shares to AWS using AWS DataSync
- Migrating Google Cloud Storage to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync
- Using AWS Backup to protect Amazon Aurora databases