10/7/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/10/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Chime announces new mobile apps with features to improve your meeting experience

New versions of the Amazon Chime iOS and Android mobile apps are being rolled out with a new experience designed to improve your Amazon Chime Meetings on mobile devices. This update introduces features that aim to make it easier for you to participate in meetings when you are away from a desk and on the move. The update includes a new roster screen, a new meeting join experience, new meeting controls, performance improvements, and more.

AWS Global Accelerator launches two new edge locations

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through two new AWS edge locations in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and Kansas City in the United States. With the addition of these two edge locations, Global Accelerator is now available through 104 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 21 AWS Regions.

Amazon CloudWatch Log announces increased query concurrency

Amazon CloudWatch Logs customers can now run up to 20 concurrent Log Insights queries for their analytic needs. By increasing the number of concurrent queries from 10 to 20, customers can create dashboards with a higher number of Log Insight queries. Additionally, multiple users within the same account can, in the aggregate, execute up to 20 queries at the same time.

AWS IQ now supports partners and independent consultants in Australia, Europe, Japan, and other regions

You can now connect with partners and independent consultants located in Australia, Bahrain, European Union member states, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Qatar, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates. Quickly find, engage, & get help from partners and independent consultants in these new regions for on-demand work.

Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL

The AWS JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL is now generally available for use with your Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition database clusters. This wrapper driver is designed to work with the PostgreSQL community driver and provide improved failover handling for clustered databases such as Aurora PostgreSQL. The AWS JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL is drop-in compatible with your existing applications because it adds failover functionality alongside the community driver, reducing the need for you to make application changes. This release replaces the standalone AWS JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL previously released as a preview.

Amazon ECS launches additional metadata attributes for tasks running on Amazon EC2

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of additional metadata attributes for tasks running on Amazon EC2 capacity. You can now use the Amazon ECS task metadata endpoint to retrieve the service name of a task as well as the Amazon VPC ID of Amazon EC2 instance that the task is running on. These additional task metadata attributes provide you increased visibility over your ECS container workloads running on Amazon EC2.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports webcams while streaming Linux applications and desktops

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to Linux AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions. Previously, this feature is only available when streaming Windows applications and desktops. With real-time AV support available in Linux streaming sessions, your users can collaborate using webcams without having to leave their Linux AppStream 2.0 sessions.

AWS announces AWS SAM serverless connectors

Serverless application developers can now use the new AWS::Serverless::Connector resource available in AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to simplify granting the appropriate level of access to the resources in their application’s infrastructure. With AWS::Serverless::Connector resources, developers describe how data and events need to flow between two resources and the type of access required. AWS SAM will compose purpose-built AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) policies in order to facilitate the interaction defined by the developer in the connector resource.

Amazon Detective improves search by supporting case insensitivity

Amazon Detective has improved it’s search capability by adding support for case insensitivity with security findings and entities. You can now conduct security investigations without having to search for exact upper or lowercase characters. For example, if you wanted to search for “Admin” or “admin” logins, you can use either term to show results for all admin logins across data sources that store text such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty findings, and Amazon EKS audit logs.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports creating Linux Images using Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds Graphical User Interface (GUI) support for the Linux Image Assistant tool. With this launch, you can now create Linux AppStream 2.0 images in the similar easy way you create Windows AppStream 2.0 images. The new tool gives you step-by-step visual guidance throughout the entire process, greatly reducing the complexity of creating Linux AppStream 2.0 images.

AWS Blogs

AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)

AWS Startups Blog

AWS Compute Blog

AWS for Industries

The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog

AWS Media Blog

Networking & Content Delivery

AWS Security Blog

Open Source Project

AWS CLI

Firecracker