10/26/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/27/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access for WSP now includes 7 new features, including bi-directional audio/video

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports the following new features for WorkSpaces Web Access using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP): \n

Bi-directional audio/video - IT administrators can make video conferencing and other tools that use webcam and microphone available to their end users who use Web Access, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere.

Clipboard redirection - Users can copy and paste from their local client to their remote WorkSpace, or vice versa. Clipboard permission can be enabled, disabled, or enabled unidirectionally.

Time zone redirection - Administrators and users can now configure their Windows WorkSpace to use the web client’s local time zone. This enables administrators and users to improve productivity by making it easier to use applications, such as calendar apps, that utilize their local time.

Streaming metrics - Customers can now view streaming metrics such as frame rate, network latency, and download bandwidth inside their WorkSpaces Web Access session.

Display resolution - Web Access now offers the option to configure the display resolution of the remote WorkSpaces. Customers can set it to a fixed resolution or to adapt dynamically to the Web Access’ client window resolution.

Relative mouse positioning - Many 3D, design, or visual effects applications require relative mouse positioning for the best mouse performance. Users can now enable relative mouse positioning inside WorkSpaces Web Access.

Mac keyboard preferences - Users can configure WorkSpaces Web Access to remap Option and Command keys.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports tags to track and allocate costs incurred by users

We are excited to announce the support of assigning tags to user-profiles created within Amazon SageMaker. This enables you to track Amazon SageMaker Canvas usage costs categorized by users, departments, lines of businesses, or cost centers.

AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces a mode for short-lived certificates

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now offers short-lived certificate mode, a lower cost mode of AWS Private CA designed for issuing short-lived certificates. With this new mode, public key infrastructure (PKI) administrators, builders, and developers can save money when issuing certificates with validity periods of 7 days or fewer. If you use certificates to convey privileged access, such as with IAM Roles Anywhere, short-lived certificates may offer better security because they expire quickly rather than relying on the need to revoke certificates with a longer validity period. With today’s launch of short-lived certificate mode, you can now use a private CA with a dedicated mode for issuing those short-lived certificates.

Amazon Neptune Serverless is now generally available

Amazon Neptune Serverless is a new deployment option that automatically scales capacity based on the needs of the application, making it easy and cost effective for developers to run graph databases without managing database capacity. Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, fraud graphs, identity graphs, and security graphs. With Neptune Serverless, you can run applications built using a graph database with a just few steps, and scale automatically to meet your application’s needs.

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.3.1

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.3.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.3.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some of the key features include enhancements to metrics and partitioner. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release for stability. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 3.3.1.

Amazon Connect adds real-time schedule adherence

Amazon Connect now includes the ability to view agent schedule adherence in real-time as part of the forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities (preview). Within the real-time metrics page, contact center supervisors can identify when agents deviate from their planned schedule, enabling supervisors to quickly take action to help improve agent productivity. For example, if agents are working but supposed to be in training, you can use Amazon Connect real-time schedule adherence to identify those agents and remind them to join the training to improve their long term performance and avoid overstaffing.

Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i and M6i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. C6i instances are an ideal fit for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC). M6i instances are SAP Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications, gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments.

AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports network connectivity disruption

AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports network connectivity disruption as a new FIS action type. Using the new disrupt connectivity action in AWS FIS, you can inject a variety of connectivity issues as part of an AWS FIS experiment. Supported connectivity issues include disrupting all traffic, or, limiting the disruption to traffic to/from a specific Availability Zone, VPC, custom prefix list, or service (including Amazon S3 and DynamoDB). This helps you validate that your applications are resilient to a total or partial loss of connectivity.

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search to enable use cases that require reproducibility of hyperparameter tuning. Grid search will cover every combination of the specified hyperparameter values and yield reproducible tuning results.

Introducing AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring, a new Visual Studio extension

The AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring is a new extension for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. The extension helps transform your legacy .NET Framework applications to a modern, cloud-optimized architecture letting you fully leverage the benefits of reduced cost, increased up time, and improved scalability. It extends the functionality of Porting Assistant for .NET with new features, such as testing on AWS environments directly from Visual Studio IDE.

IAM Access Analyzer findings now support Amazon SNS topics and five other AWS resource types to help you identify public and cross-account access

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now supports six additional resource types to help you identify public and cross-account access from outside your AWS account and organization. These six resource types include Amazon SNS topics, Amazon EBS volume snapshots, Amazon RDS DB snapshots, Amazon RDS DB cluster snapshots, Amazon ECR repositories, and Amazon EFS file systems. IAM Access Analyzer now analyzes resource policies, access control lists, and other access controls for these resources to make it easier for you to identify public, cross-account, and cross-organization access. These findings can help you adhere to the security best practice of least privilege and reduce unintended external access to your resources.

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