9/8/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/9/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Introducing Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images

Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image. SOCI works by creating an index (SOCI Index) of the files within an existing container image. This index is a key enabler to launching containers faster, providing the capability to extract an individual file from a container image before downloading the entire archive.

Now track user identity for API calls from Amazon SageMaker Studio in AWS CloudTrail

Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. SageMaker Studio is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to enable administrators to monitor and audit user activity and API calls from Studio notebooks, SageMaker Data Wrangler and SageMaker Canvas. Starting today, you can configure SageMaker Studio to also record the user identity (specifically, user profile name) in CloudTrail events thereby enabling administrators to attribute those events to specific users, thus improving their organization’s security and governance posture.

AWS Fargate announces migration of service quotas to vCPU-based quotas

AWS Fargate (Fargate), the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), recently announced the migration of service quotas from the current Amazon ECS task and Amazon EKS pod count-based quotas to vCPU-based quotas. The migration to vCPU quotas will not have any impact on your running tasks and pods.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities to explore and analyze data with advanced visualizations

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities for exploratory data analysis (EDA) with advanced visualizations, enabling you to explore and analyze your data better before building machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.

Amazon QuickSight Q is now available in four new regions

QuickSight Q is now available in four new regions (in addition to six existing regions) - Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) and Canada (Central). AWS customers can signup for QuickSight in these four new regions in addition to existing regions, details can also be found at AWS QuickSight Q regions. Get started with a free trial of Amazon QuickSight Q.

AWS Backup adds Amazon CloudWatch metrics to its console dashboard

AWS Backup now provides you a way to centrally view your Amazon CloudWatch metrics for your data protection jobs directly in the AWS Backup console. With this launch, you can monitor your data protection metrics (of backup, copy, and restore jobs) for all the AWS Backup supported services, spanning compute, storage, databases, and third-party applications. To drill down to a custom view, you can add your tracked metrics to a custom CloudWatch Dashboard using the “Add to dashboard” capability.

AWS CloudFormation announces new language extensions transform

AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability of a new transform supporting extensions to the CloudFormation template language. AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by authoring templates which are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. This release introduces a language transform called ‘AWS::LanguageExtensions.’ When declared in a template, the transform enables extensions to the template language. At launch, these include: new intrinsic functions for length (Fn::Length) and JSON string conversion (Fn::ToJsonString), and support for intrinsic functions and pseudo-parameter references in update and deletion policies.

AWS Transit Gateway adds Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast support in two additional AWS regions

Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs can now be delivered to Amazon Kinesis Firehose

You can now deliver Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Firehose, allowing you to stream your flow logs real-time to destinations supported by Amazon Kinesis Firehose or downstream logging solutions via custom HTTP endpoints.

AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in two additional AWS Regions

Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions.

AWS Security Hub launches 2 new security best practice controls

AWS Security Hub has released 2 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). If you have Security Hub set to automatically enable new controls and are already using AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, these controls are enabled for you automatically. Security Hub now supports 225 security controls to automatically check your security posture in AWS.

SageMaker built-in algorithms now provides TensorFlow Image Classification algorithms

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning practitioners get started on training and deploying machine learning models quickly. These algorithms and models can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data including tabular, image, and text.

Amazon SNS introduces the public preview of message data protection to help discover and protect sensitive data in motion

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is launching a public preview of message data protection, a new set of capabilities for Amazon SNS Standard Topics that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and data protection policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange high volumes of data.

Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are now available in an additional region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Tokyo). C6id, M6id and R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% better price performance than their 5th generation counterpart instances.

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