6/16/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/17/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within the Amazon RDS Console
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports enablement from within the Amazon RDS Console. Starting today, you can enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to quickly detect, diagnose, and remediate a wide variety of database-related issues in Amazon Aurora databases while creating a new database. You can also now enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within the RDS Performance Insights page.
Today, we are making it faster and easier to prepare and visualize data using PySpark and Altair with support for code snippets in 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, and Snowflake.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables customers to deploy and scale web applications and services without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk automatically scales your application up and down based on your application’s specific needs. Starting today, you can run applications orchestrated by AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.
AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for VPC endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports VPC endpoints enabling secure, private connectivity to other AWS services. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click service that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.
UI Improvements in AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets has enhanced the console experience by adding a split-view panel that allows you to view budget details without leaving the budgets overview page. AWS Budgets helps you control AWS cost and usage by allowing you to set custom budgets that alert you when your cloud spend exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS Budgets to set Savings Plans and Reservation alerts and receive notifications when your utilization or coverage targets drop below your desired thresholds. AWS Budgets is generally available in all public AWS Regions.
Amazon Quicksight now supports show/hide fields on pivot table
Amazon QuickSight now provides authors the ability to show or hide any column, row or value fields from the field well context menu on pivot table visuals. This capability is currently supported in table visuals and this launch extends it to pivot table visuals. Readers and authors can now export the data to CSV and Excel from both table and pivot table from the context menu.
AWS Service Catalog’s Application Registry now supports cross-account applications.
Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for cross-account AppRegistry applications and attribute groups. With this release, applications can now be shared within your AWS Organization enabling recipient accounts to associate their local resources to shared applications. If you have application resources deployed in more than one account within your AWS Organization, you can now maintain a single repository of your applications and application metadata.
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types including Amazon SageMaker, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Batch, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, and AWS Database Migration Service. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1].
Amazon Connect launches API to retrieve agents’ current activity
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically access real-time details about agents’ current activity, such as current status (e.g., “Available”). If an agent is handling a contact, details include the contact’s state (e.g., “Connected” or “Missed”) and duration. Using this API, businesses can build custom dashboards for contact center supervisors to monitor their agents’ activity in real-time. For example, if more agents are needed to handle contacts, you can use this new API to identify agents who are on break the longest and reach out to them to switch to “Available” or change it programmatically using PutUserStatus.
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks using the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the latest AWS SDK or CLI. No new cluster is created in the process which means you keep the same endpoints and other characteristics of the cluster. The upgrade completes in minutes as no data needs to be copied to a new cluster volume. The upgrade can be applied immediately or during the maintenance window. Your database cluster will be unavailable during the upgrade. Review the Aurora documentation to learn more.
Amazon Connect launches 15 minute scheduled reports
Amazon Connect now provides the ability for customers to schedule historical metric reports that generate the latest data every 15 minutes. Historical metrics reports include data about completed customer contacts, agent activity, and performance, such as how many contacts an agent handled. This helps customers quickly identify insights into queue, routing profile, and agent performance. These insights can be used in a variety of ways, including evaluating and adjusting contact center forecasting and staffing plans.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for data read and write operations
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for HTTP methods, making it easier for you to manage access control for data read and write operations. You can use Identity policies in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to define permissions for read and write HTTP methods, allowing coarse-grained access control of data on your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains.
Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i instance is available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over C5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Designed for compute-intensive workloads, C6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. These instances are an ideal fit for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.
Amazon Chime SDK now supports 100 webcam video streams
The Amazon Chime SDK now supports up to 100 webcam video streams per WebRTC session. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Each client application can select up to 25 webcam video streams to display, enabling developers to create immersive video experiences that are bespoke for each user.
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AWS Developer Live Show (Japanese)
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Analyze Amazon Connect Contact Tracking Records with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight Part 2
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in the Osaka region
- Digital Twin on AWS: Drive Value with the L1 Descriptive Digital Twin
- AWS at NAB 2022 Demo and Presentation Video Released On-Demand
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Deploying highly-available SQL Server on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
- Visualize AWS Service Catalog Product Usage in an AWS Organization with Amazon QuickSight
- How to centrally manage AWS IoT Greengrass devices using AWS Systems Manager
- Establishing RPO and RTO Targets for Cloud Applications
AWS Big Data Blog
- Build an Apache Iceberg data lake using Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue
- Resize Amazon Redshift from DC2 to RA3 with minimal or no downtime
AWS for Industries
- Keynote Insights from Industry Innovators: Healthcare & Life Sciences 2022
- Building an Automotive Embedded Linux Image for Edge and Cloud Using Arm-based Graviton Instances, Yocto Project, and SOAFEE
- Zero Touch Claims – How P&C insurers can optimize claims processing using AWS AI/ML services