10/13/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/14/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP Solution Manager

AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 alongside SAP S/4HANA,BW/4HANA and NetWeaver on HANA solutions.

Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless jobs in real-time with native Spark and Hive Tez UI

We’re excited to announce that you can now monitor and debug jobs in EMR Serverless using native Apache Spark & Hive Tez UIs. The Apache Spark & Hive Tez UIs present visual interfaces with detailed information about your running and completed jobs. You can dive into job-specific metrics and information about event timelines, stages, tasks, and executors for each job.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer launches new option to rebalance flows when target fails or deregisters

Today we are launching a new feature that provides an option to define flow handling behavior for AWS Gateway Load Balancer. Using this option, customers can now rebalance existing flows to a healthy target, when the target fails or deregisters. This helps reduce failover time when a target becomes unhealthy, and also allows customers to gracefully patch or upgrade the appliances during maintenance windows.

Amazon Athena announces upgraded query engine

Amazon Athena has upgraded its SQL query engine to include the latest features from the Trino open source project. Athena engine version 3 includes over 50 new SQL functions, 30 new features, and more than 90 query performance improvements. With today’s launch, Athena is also introducing a continuous integration approach to open source software management that will improve currency with the Trino and Presto projects so that you get faster access to community improvements, integrated and tuned within the Athena engine.

AWS Cloud Map is available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resource. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries.

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 14.4 version

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, AWS has updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.4. PostgreSQL 14.4 fixes an issue that could cause silent data corruption when using the CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY commands. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. Aurora has also included the fix for this issue in Aurora PostgreSQL 14.3.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. To see the list of all supported AWS public regions and AWS GovCloud regions, click here.

AWS Glue introduces Git integration

AWS Glue now offers integration with Git, the widely-used open source version control system. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that uses reusable jobs to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks on data sets of nearly any scale. With this feature, customers can use GitHub and AWS CodeCommit to maintain a history of changes to their AWS Glue jobs and apply their existing DevOps practices to deploy them. Before now, customers needed to set up their own integrations with their code versioning systems and build tooling to move jobs from development environments to production environments.

RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with new developer productivity and security capabilities

RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2022.02.2-485.pro2 with enhanced developer productivity and security capabilities. The new capabilities include an enhanced R help system, improved editor support for the R pipe-bind placeholder and full end-to-end encryption that secures communication between the RStudioServerPro and RSession applications.

Improve availability of SAP HANA systems on AWS with Host Auto-Failover

You can now deploy SAP HANA systems with Host Auto-Failover on AWS. Host Auto-Failover is a fully automated host fault recovery solution for SAP HANA that allows you to add one or more hosts in standby mode to an SAP HANA system. Using Host Auto-Failover, SAP HANA can automatically detect host failures (EC2 instance, OS-level, or SAP HANA) and trigger an automated failover to a standby host, enabling you to automatically recover in minutes.

AWS Lambda now supports event filtering for Amazon MSK, Self-Manged Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources

AWS Lambda now supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ. With event pattern content filtering, customers can write complex rules so that their Lambda function is only invoked to process meaningful events. This helps reduce traffic to customers’ Lambda functions, simplifies code, and reduces overall cost. Filtering was already available for SQS, DynamoDB, and Kinesis as event sources for Lambda.

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