7/18/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/19/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
As your application needs change, Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes allows you to easily increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of Amazon EBS volumes. Customers are using EBS Elastic Volumes to migrate to gp3 volumes and save up to 20% per GB compared to gp2 volumes.
Porting Assistant for .NET now supports assessment and porting of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET language. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate VB.NET class libraries, web APIs, and console applications to .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5, or .NET 6 to simplify the modernization of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET . Developers can use the Porting Assistant for .NET standalone tool or Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension to modernize their legacy VB.NET applications. Support for VB.NET is added in addition to existing support for assessment and porting of C# based .NET Framework applications.
The Amazon Redshift ODBC driver is now open source and available for the user community under the Apache-2.0 license. With this release, customers will gain enhanced visibility to the driver implementation and can contribute to its development. Users can browse the code for the ODBC driver on the relevant AWS GitHub repository, submit driver functionality enhancements through Github pull requests, and report issues for review.
Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now generally available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. Creating a WorkSpaces Web portal in a local region provides a more responsive experience for users when streaming web content. It also enables customers to meet local data residency obligations. WorkSpaces Web is now available in a total of 7 regions.
AWS Glue now supports smaller instance types for streaming
AWS Glue launches G.025X, a new quarter DPU worker type for streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. This smaller worker type is suitable to process low volume and sporadic data streams.
Amazon Timestream announces improved cost-effectiveness with updates to metadata metering
Amazon Timestream will no longer charge customers for the dimension names and measure names associated with ingesting, storing, and querying data written after July 8, 2022 00:00 UTC. Dimension names and measure names are metadata that is used to identify time series data. With this change, Amazon Timestream provides customers increased flexibility in dimension and measure naming, as well as improved cost-effectiveness of the service. Amazon Timestream will continue to charge for ingesting, storing, and querying the dimension values, measure values, and timestamps associated with time series data. To learn more about costs while using Amazon Timestream, visit our pricing page.
AWS Blogs
AWS News Blog
AWS Startups Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Process Apache Hudi, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg datasets at scale, part 1: AWS Glue Studio Notebook
- How Plugsurfing doubled performance and reduced cost by 70% with purpose-built databases and AWS Graviton
AWS Compute Blog
Containers
AWS Database Blog
Desktop and Application Streaming
Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Generate synchronized closed captions and audio using the Amazon Polly subtitle generator
- Accelerate your identity verification projects using AWS Amplify and Amazon Rekognition sample implementations
AWS Security Blog
- A pathway to the cloud: Analysis of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s Guidance on Cyber Resilience
- Use Security Hub custom actions to remediate S3 resources based on Macie discovery results