9/14/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/15/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack is now available
With direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack, you can now directly use the VPC private IP address of an Amazon EC2 instance on Outposts rack to communicate with your on-premises network. This new direct VPC routing mode is an alternative to the Customer-owned IP (CoIP) routing mode where Outposts rack uses a separate IP address pool provided by you from your on-premises network.
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports Amazon AppFlow connectors
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now available as a destination in the Amazon AppFlow console. With a few clicks, customers can now bring data from 20+ application connectors into Customer Profiles and equip contact center agents with the information needed to provide personalized customer service. Amazon AppFlow connectors allows ingestion of data such as transactions (e.g., purchase orders from SAP OData), profile information (e.g., leads from Zendesk Sell) and customer interactions (e.g., Slack conversations) to create a single, unified profile for each of your customers.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) announces CDK Construct tree view in the AWS CloudFormation console
Customers using CDK want a simple way to map the resources synthesized in a CloudFormation template back to the source CDK Construct. In an effort to display all resources in a CloudFormation template the Management Console loses the hierarchical nature of CDK Constructs, which customers are used to today. CDK Construct tree view in the CloudFormation console is intended for the customers who want to observe the context from which the resources were created to the CloudFormation console, in order to provide a better, focused experience.
AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies. With AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can generate auditor-ready reports to help prove compliance of your data protection policies with your defined industry-specific regulatory requirements.
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves now supports Apache HTTP webservers
You can now use Apache HTTP webservers with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves.
Introducing Visual Conversation builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We’re excited to introduce the Visual Conversation Builder, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design. In addition to the already available menu-based editor, and Lex APIs, the visual builder provides a complete view of the entire conversation flow in one location. It empowers any user to build engaging conversational experiences more quickly.
AWS Config announces a price reduction up to 58% for conformance packs
We are excited to announce that AWS Config has reduced conformance pack prices by up to 58% depending on your usage levels. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an entire organization, helping you manage the compliance of your AWS resources at scale.
AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect Custom Metrics and Dimensions support
We are excited to introduce two new enhancements to AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect, Custom Metrics and Dimensions support. ML Detect now supports monitoring of custom metrics, allowing you to evaluate operational health parameters that are unique to your fleet. Besides setting static alarms manually with Rules Detect, you can now use machine learning to automatically learn your fleet’s expected behaviors on custom metrics. Further, with the new Dimensions filter support for ML Detect, you can define attributes to evaluate more precise metrics in your ML security profile.
AWS Transfer Family now supports multiple host keys and key types per server
AWS Transfer Family now supports up to ten host keys per SFTP server. In addition, ED25519 and ECDSA key types are now supported for server host keys. Previously, AWS Transfer Family only supported one host key per server, and only the RSA key type.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the instance store for temporary tablespaces and the Database Smart Flash Cache (flash cache) for M5d and R5d instances. M5d and R5d instances are ideal fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches.
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- Lifting and shifting a web application to AWS Serverless: Part 2
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- Convert Oracle partitions and sub-partitions to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
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