11/10/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/11/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Kendra is now FedRAMP High Compliant
Amazon Kendra is now authorized as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Kendra reimagines enterprise search for your websites and applications so your employees and customers can easily find the content they are looking for, even when it’s scattered across multiple locations and content repositories within your organization.
SageMaker JumpStart now provides Stable Diffusion and Bloom models
Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides two additional state-of-the-art foundational models, Bloom for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation. Customers can access newly added models through the SageMaker Python SDK APIs and SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.
AWS AppConfig achieves FedRAMP High Authority To Operate
AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, has achieved FedRAMP High authority to operate in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. You can now use AWS AppConfig to more quickly and safely update software, and build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization.
AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.
Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page.
Amazon EventBridge Launches New Scheduler
Today, we are excited to launch Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, expanding its current scheduling capabilities by making it simple for developers to create, execute, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.
SageMaker JumpStart now provides TensorFlow Text Classification algorithms
Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides a new built-in algorithm for text classification: Text Classification - TensorFlow. It takes text as input and outputs probability for each of the class labels. It is a supervised learning algorithm that supports transfer learning for many pre-trained models available in TensorFlow Hub. These pre-trained models can be fine-tuned using transfer learning even when large amount of text are not available. It is available through the SageMaker built-in algorithms as well as through SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio.
Amazon ECS launches task scale-in protection
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of ECS task scale-in protection, a new feature that enables customers to protect long-running tasks from being terminated by scale-in events and deployments. This feature helps simplify orchestration of queue-processing asynchronous applications such as a video transcoding jobs wherein some tasks may be running for hours even when cumulative service utilization is low or when a new code version is being deployed while some tasks have not yet finished completing ongoing work that would be expensive to reprocess.
Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to seamlessly migrate to WSP protocol
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers an API to quickly modify the streaming protocol on your existing WorkSpaces without requiring you to go through migrate WorkSpace process. This feature will allow you to retain the root volumes after you switch your WorkSpaces streaming protocol from PC-over-IP (PCoIP) to WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) or vice-versa. End users of WorkSpaces can now easily take advantage of WSP features like Webcam and Smart Card support. WorkSpaces administrators will benefit from this feature because they will not have to manage custom images and bundles configured solely for the purpose of utilizing multiple streaming protocols supported by WorkSpaces.
AWS Lambda now enables Lambda Extensions to collect enhanced monitoring and observability data about your function execution through the new AWS Lambda Telemetry API. The Telemetry API provides a simple interface for extensions to receive logs, platform traces, and function invocation-level metrics directly from Lambda. Today, you can benefit from these enhanced capabilities by utilizing Telemetry API enabled extensions from these AWS Partner Network (APN) partners: Coralogix, Datadog, Dynatrace, Lumigo, New Relic, Sedai, Serverless.com, Site24x7, Sumo Logic, Sysdig, and Thundra.
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support Apple macOS Ventura
Starting today, customers can run Apple macOS Ventura (13.0) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Ventura is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. Apple macOS Ventura supports running Xcode versions 14.0 and later, which include the latest SDKs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
Amazon SNS increases the default quota for subscription filter policies by 50x to 10,000 per account
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports a higher default quota for subscription filter policies. With the increased quota, you can now have up to 10,000 subscription filter policies per account, and can apply up to 200 subscription filter policies per topic. By default, topic subscribers receive every message published to a topic. With subscription filter policies, subscribers can filter out unwanted messages, simplifying their architecture and optimizing the utilization of their resources.
AWS IoT Device Defender now supports audit check of revoked intermediate Certificate Authority
AWS IoT Device Defender, a fully managed service for auditing and monitoring devices connected to AWS IoT, now supports a new audit check for revoked intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). If a CA revokes an intermediate CA because it is potentially compromised, then all certificates issued by that intermediate CA are also potentially compromised and invalid. This new audit check identifies active device certificates issued by a revoked intermediate CA, and helps customers review and replace these active device certificates.
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, and 11.17. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 2.2. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10, you must upgrade to a newer major version by January 31, 2023.
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (Bahrain).
Amazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP service
The Amazon Time Sync Service is now available over the Internet. Built on Amazon’s network infrastructure, the Amazon Time Sync Service utilizes a global fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic reference clocks in AWS regions to deliver current time readings of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) global standard. Previously, Amazon Time Sync was available through EC2 instances.
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.31
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.
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