10/27/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/28/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Hamburg and Warsaw
AWS Local Zones are now available in Hamburg and Warsaw—the first AWS Local Zones launch in Europe. You can now use AWS Local Zones in these metro areas to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.
AWS Cloud Control API is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Cloud Control API has expanded its availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Cloud Control API is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that is designed to make it easy for developers to manage their cloud infrastructure in a consistent manner and leverage the latest AWS capabilities faster. Using Cloud Control API, developers can manage the lifecycle of hundreds of AWS resources and over a dozen third-party resources with five consistent APIs instead of using distinct service-specific APIs. With Cloud Control API, AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners can automate how their solutions integrate with existing and future AWS features and services through a one-time integration, instead of spending weeks of custom development work as new resources become available. Terraform by HashiCorp, Pulumi, and Red Hat Ansible have integrated their solutions with AWS Cloud Control API.
Amazon EC2 G5 instances now available in Stockholm region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are available in Stockholm. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher performance for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference, and up to 3.3x higher performance for training simple to moderately complex machine learning models when compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances.
Amazon EMR supports PrestoDB and Trino for running interactive SQL analytics over large datasets across multiple data sources. Today, we’re excited to announce the latest PrestoDB and Trino updates included in EMR release 6.8.
AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Paris) region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. The local SSD storage provided on these instances benefit applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage such as high-speed caches and scratch files, and temporary data storage like batch and log processing.
Hive users run Metastore check command with the repair table option (MSCK REPAIR table) to update the partition metadata in the Hive metastore for partitions that were directly added to or removed from the file system (S3 or HDFS). When run, MSCK repair command must make a file system call to check if the partition exists for each partition. This step could take a long time if the table has thousands of partitions. In EMR 6.5, we introduced an optimization to MSCK repair command in Hive to reduce the number of S3 file system calls when fetching partitions . This feature improves performance of MSCK command (~15-20x on 10k+ partitions) due to reduced number of file system calls especially when working on tables with large number of partitions. Previously, you had to enable this feature by explicitly setting a flag. Starting with Amazon EMR 6.8, we further reduced the number of S3 filesystem calls to make MSCK repair run faster and enabled this feature by default.
Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2idn instance, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (code named Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU making this instance a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, and big data processing engines. X2idn deliver up to 45% more SAPS than comparable X1 instances and are SAP-Certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2idn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
Announcing General Availability of Amazon EC2 i4i.metal instance for VMware Cloud on AWS
We are excited to announce the general availability of i4i.metal instance for VMware Cloud on AWS. Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, i4i.metal instance is powered by 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processor with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over i3 instances. This new instance is intended for VMware Cloud on AWS customers looking for an optimal balance of compute, memory, and storage configuration.
Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and are build using AWS Nitro SSDs which enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability in Im4gn and Is4gen instances compared to the third generation of storage optimized instances. Im4gn instances deliver up to 40% better price-performance and up to 44% lower cost per TB versus comparable current generation x86-based storage optimized instances for applications requiring dense local SSD storage and higher compute performance such as MySQL, NoSQL, and file systems. The Is4gen instances provide the lowest cost per TB and highest density per vCPU of SSD storage in Amazon EC2 for applications such as stream processing and monitoring, real-time databases, and log analytics, that require high random I/O access to large amounts of local SSD data. These instances enable 15% lower cost per TB of storage and up to 48% better compute performance compared to I3en instances.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5b instance types
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5b instance types for Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model, featuring up to 4x the RAM per vCPU of existing R5b instance classes to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs without impacting application performance. R5b memory optimized instances come in various configurations from 2 vCPU to 48 vCPU and memory from 32 GiB to 768 GiB and up to 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. These configurations will allow you to right-size the Oracle workloads.
Starting today, Amazon EC2 supports the replacement of instance root volume using an updated AMI without requiring customers to stop their instance. This allows customers to easily update their applications and guest operating system, while retaining the instance store data, networking and IAM configuration.
Introducing the Amazon EKS Delivery Program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is thrilled to announce the new Amazon EKS Service Delivery specialization to highlight AWS Partners with consulting offerings that have demonstrated proven capabilities to architect, run, and operate containerized workloads on Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS Delivery partners play a crucial role in the customer journey as customers navigate modernization of legacy applications, operations, and infrastructure. Recognizing the complexity of Kubernetes, customers seek proven methodologies, tools, and best practices for accelerating EKS modernization on AWS.
Announcing general availability of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor
Amazon Redshift introduces a new way to work on multiple SQL queries by organizing them into a single Notebook with documentation, visualization, and collaboration capabilities. The new SQL Notebook interface available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2 allows users such as data analysts and data scientists to run data analytics more efficiently by keeping relevant queries and the information together for ease of use.
Introducing the AWS Control Tower delivery and AWS Control Tower ready program
AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, and reduces the complexity and time required to establish governance supporting multiple AWS accounts. We are excited to introduce AWS Control Tower Delivery Partners offering consulting services on AWS Control Tower, and AWS Control Tower Ready Partners offering software products that support AWS Control Tower. AWS Control Tower Partners receive prescriptive guidance to build solutions on Control Tower, and their offerings are vetted by AWS Solutions Architects.
Amazon QuickSight launches Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for SPICE data encryption
Amazon QuickSight launches new capability for account administrators to use Customer Managed Keys (CMK) to encrypt and manage SPICE datasets. Previously, QuickSight fully manages the protection of customer-data stored inside of the QuickSight service. Using the new Customer Managed Keys (CMK) capability will benefit QuickSight users to 1/ be able to revoke access to SPICE datasets with one click, and 2/ maintain an auditable log that tracks how SPICE datasets are accessed. This feature increases level of security and transparency, gives customers more control over their SPICE datasets and satisfies security requirements by company and government agency policies. For further details, visit here.
Amazon MSK Connect now supports private DNS hostnames for enhanced security
Amazon MSK Connect now supports Private DNS hostnames for enhanced security. With Private DNS hostname support in MSK Connect, you can configure connectors to reference public or private domain names. Connectors will use the DNS servers configured in your VPC’s DHCP option set to resolve domain names. You can now use MSK Connect to privately connect with databases, data warehouses and other resources in your VPC to comply with your security needs.
Introducing the Amazon OpenSearch Service delivery program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the new Amazon OpenSearch Service Delivery specialization for AWS Partners that help customers perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Amazon OpenSearch Service manages software installation, upgrades, patching, scaling (up to 3 PB), and cross-region replication with no downtime. Amazon OpenSearch Service is also bundled with a dashboard visualization tool, OpenSearch Dashboards. This tool helps visualize not only log and trace data, but also machine-learning powered results for anomaly detection and search relevance ranking.
AWS WAF launches Challenge rule action and Bot Control for Targeted Bots
AWS WAF announces AWS Bot Control for Targeted Bots, a new feature of AWS Bot Control that provides protection against bots that attempt to evade detection and target applications such as e-commerce, retail, and financial services websites. Traffic from targeted bots can result in a poor user experience by competing against legitimate user traffic for website access to high-demand inventory, increasing business risk through chargebacks from fraudulent transactions, and increasing infrastructure costs.
Amazon Aurora supports cluster export to S3
Amazon Aurora now supports exporting database clusters directly to S3 in Apache Parquet format without creating a snapshot first. Customers can also initiate an export to S3 directly from the Aurora database cluster, saving them time, cost and the extra overhead of creating/retaining snapshots to export data to S3.
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for AWS CloudShell
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now access AWS CloudShell in the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile App provides AWS CloudShell in a mobile-friendly interface that enables users to run scripts with the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI) to interact with 250+ AWS services while on-the-go. Users also have access to an extended mobile keyboard when using AWS CloudShell in the Console Mobile App. The extended mobile keyboard provides users with key inputs (e.g. tab, ctrl, alt, esc) that are available in the AWS CloudShell console on desktop. The Console Mobile App currently offers AWS CloudShell in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo).
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