6/30/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/1/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Interactive Video Service launches edge location in Colombia
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces its first point of presence (PoP) in Colombia. The new edge location will enable streamers and viewers based in Colombia to enjoy lower latency, better video quality, and increased capacity.
Amazon Connect now supports branching of flows based on Lex confidence scores
Amazon Connect now allows you to further personalize, the automated self-service customer experience using Amazon Lex intent confidence scores as a branch within your flows. Amazon Lex allows customers to create intelligent chatbots that turn their Amazon Connect flows into natural conversations. By branching flows on Lex confidence scores, you can present the right solutions to your customers to help solve their issues faster. For example, when a confidence score is high you may want to present customers a with a self-service option immediately rather than requesting additional information or transferring them to an agent. This new functionality can be set up using the “Check contact attributes” flow block.
AWS Database Migration Service now supports VPC source and target endpoints
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoints as sources and targets. AWS DMS can now connect to any AWS service with VPC endpoints so long as explicitly defined routes to the services are defined in their AWS DMS VPC.
Amazon QuickSight Authors can now learn and experience Q before signing up
QuickSight Authors can now try, learn and experience Q before signing up. Authors can choose from six different sample topics to explore relevant dashboard visualizations and ask questions about data in the context of exploration to fully explore Q’s capability before signing up. This feature makes it easy for authors to understand and learn about Q before signing up.
Amazon FinSpace releases APIs to assign granular user permissions
With the release of new granular permission APIs, Amazon FinSpace customers can now fully manage user access within their FinSpace environment using the AWS SDK and CLI. This allows customers to integrate configuration of FinSpace access controls into their identity orchestration workflows to keep FinSpace in sync with their organization’s access policies.
AWS IoT Greengrass now supports MQTT v5
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software. We are excited to announce our version 2.6 release, which adds edge support for MQTT version 5, an updated device-to-device communication specification that includes many additional feature improvements over the MQTT version 3.1.1 protocol.
AWS SAM Accelerate is now generally available - quickly test code changes against the cloud
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) announces general availability of AWS SAM Accelerate. The AWS SAM Command Line Interface (CLI) is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications. AWS SAM Accelerate is a new capability of AWS SAM CLI that makes it easier for developers to test code changes against a cloud-based environment, reducing the time from local iteration to production-readiness.
Amazon Connect now allows you to further personalize the automated, self-service customer experience by leveraging Amazon Lex customer sentiment analysis as a branch within your flows. Amazon Lex allows customers to create intelligent chatbots that turn their Amazon Connect flows into natural conversations. With this launch, you can now build flows based on whether the customer expresses positive or negative utterances to your Lex bot. For example, you may want customers who express positive sentiment to be presented with additional upsell opportunities or you may want customers who express negative sentiment to be put directly in queue to speak with an agent. The new functionality can be setup using the “Get Customer Input” or the “Check contact attributes” flow blocks. In addition, all Lex related attributes (e.g., Intent, Slots, Sentiment) within flow blocks are now consolidated under one “type” within attribute selection to help simplify building your Lex experience within flows.
Amazon EventBridge cross-Region routing is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge cross-Region routing allows customers to consolidate events from numerous regions into one central Region. This makes it easier for customers to centralize their events in the destination Region and write code that reacts to them or replicate events from source to destinations Regions to help synchronize data across Regions. Today, we are excited to announce availability of cross-Region routing in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.1 is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.1 (cfn-guard), which enhances Guard 2.0 with new features. CloudFormation Guard is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. CloudFormation Guard provides compliance administrators with a simple, policy-as-code language to define rules that can check for both required and prohibited resource configurations. It enables developers to validate their templates (CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON configurations) against those rules.
Amazon Pinpoint launches journey schedule for more precise communication delivery
Journeys in Amazon Pinpoint now allows customers to define a schedule for channel communications based on day of the week, and day of the year. In addition, Amazon Pinpoint has added two new journey sending limits to help customers control the volume of communications sent to a user. Amazon Pinpoint journeys are multi-step campaigns that send users on communication paths based on their actions or attributes. Journeys can use multiple channels including: SMS, email, push, and voice. Journeys are intended for customers who have user engagement use cases, and want to send targeted communications that drive high-value user actions.
Integration of AWS Well-Architected Tool with AWS Organizations
AWS Well-Architected Tool now integrates with AWS Organizations enabling cloud architects to share their workloads and custom lenses more broadly across their organization. AWS Organizations is an account management service that allows customers to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into a single, centrally managed organization. This update will increase efficiency and make it easier to share lenses and workloads with multiple accounts.
Announcing general availability of Amplify UI for React
Amplify UI is an open-source UI library that brings the simplicity and extensibility of AWS Amplify to UI development. It consists of connected components that simplify complex workflows like authentication and dynamic data, primitive components that form the building blocks to create consistency across applications, and themes to make Amplify UI to fit any brand.
AWS CloudShell is available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that makes it easier to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources. CloudShell is pre-authenticated with your console credentials. Common development tools are pre-installed so no local installation or configuration is required. With CloudShell you can run scripts with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), define infrastructure with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), experiment with AWS service APIs using the AWS SDKs, or use a range of other tools to increase your productivity.
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now allows you to automatically merge duplicate customer records on confidence scores. Each time the identity resolution feature finds duplicate records, it provides a confidence score on a scale of zero to one to represent the accuracy of a match, where a score of one represents most accurate match and zero represents least accurate match. You can select a threshold anywhere between zero to one to automatically merge duplicate records into a unified customer profile.
AWS Systems Manager now supports patching Windows Server 2022 and other Linux operating systems
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now helps you automate patches deployments for instances running Windows Server 2022, Rocky Linux versions 8.4 and 8.5, CentOS Stream 8, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 8.4 and 8.5, giving you more patching options for your nodes. Patch Manager helps you automate the process of patching nodes with security related and other types of updates. Patch Manager also helps you automate patches deployments for Linux instances running Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu Server, Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own prefix lists in five additional AWS Regions: AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta), AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD and both AWS GovCloud (US) regions.
Announcing bare metal support for Amazon EKS Anywhere
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on bare metal which gives customers broader choice of infrastructure for running Kubernetes on-premises. As customers modernize their applications, they want to use Kubernetes consistently between their existing on-premises bare metal infrastructure and the cloud. Running Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure is complex, and customers spend time, effort and money on infrastructure operations instead of focusing on business innovation.
Amazon QuickSight launches Level Aware Calculations (LAC)
Amazon QuickSight launches a suite of functions called Level Aware Calculations (LAC). The new calculation capability enables customers to specify the level of granularity that they want the window functions (in what window to partition by) or aggregate functions (at what level to group by) to be conducted. This brings flexibility and simplification for users to build some advanced calculations and powerful analyses. Without LAC, user will have to prepare pre-aggregated tables in their original data source, or run queries in the data prep phase to enable those calculations. For further details, visit here.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Private Cluster with AWS PrivateLink
- Cloud Parking: SP+ Legacy System Migration
- How to graph a power grid on AWS
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Contact Center
Containers
- Getting started with Amazon EKS Anywhere on Bare Metal
- Introducing bare metal deployments for Amazon EKS Anywhere
- Leverage AWS secrets stores from EKS Fargate with External Secrets Operator
- Run an active-active multi-region Kubernetes application with AppMesh and EKS
AWS Database Blog
AWS for Industries
- Building software-defined vehicles with AWS and NXP
- Industry Innovators 2022: Making New Hallmark Moments with Digital Transformation
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Secure Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URLs Part 1: Foundational infrastructure
- Secure Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URLs Part 2: Private API with JWT authentication
AWS Media Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
- Using latency-based routing with Amazon CloudFront for a multi-Region active-active architecture
- 400 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence
AWS Security Blog
AWS Storage Blog
- Cost allocation and tracking for AWS centralized backups
- Automatically archive and restore data with Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering