11/17/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/18/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon CloudFront now supports JA3 fingerprint headers
Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports Cloudfront-viewer-ja3-fingerprint headers, enabling customers to access incoming viewer requests’ JA3 fingerprints. Customers can use the JA3 fingerprints to implement custom logic to block malicious clients or allow requests from expected clients only.
Announcing the new Applications widget on AWS Console Home
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Applications widget on Console Home, providing one-click access to applications in AWS Systems Manager Application Manager and their associated collections of AWS resources, code, and related data.
Amazon Connect launches new capabilities to help administrators manage saved reports
Amazon Connect now provides the ability for contact center administrators to view and delete all saved reports in an instance, including reports created by users who may have left the organization. Saved reports are custom real-time, historical, and login/logout reports that users can create to monitor contact center performance, as well as share and publish to other users in the organization. Using these capabilities, administrators can identify and delete unused reports to help manage against their saved report limit.
Amazon NAT Gateway Now Allows You to Select Private IP Address for Network Address Translation
Starting today, you can choose the private IP address that your NAT Gateway uses for network address translation.
Amazon AppFlow now supports AWS Glue Data Catalog integration and provides enhanced data preparation
Amazon AppFlow is a fully-managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Redshift. With today’s launch, Amazon AppFlow now automates the preparation and registration of your SaaS data into the AWS Glue Data Catalog, with just a few clicks. You can now easily share, govern, analyze, and visualize your SaaS data from AWS analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence services such as Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, and Amazon QuickSight.
Application Load Balancers now support turning off cross zone load balancing per target group
Application Load Balancers now support the ability to route traffic only to targets in the same zone as load balancer nodes. This allows you to maintain zonal isolation of your software stacks, while using Application Load Balancers across multiple zones, providing increased availability during zonal failures.
Amazon SNS announces enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has enhanced its integration with AWS Service Quotas. Previously, you could use AWS Service Quotas to view the default quotas of Amazon SNS. Now, with the enhanced integration, you can view your account-specific quota overrides as well as submit your quota increase requests for Amazon SNS. The quota increase requests for ‘Messages Published per Second’, ‘Number of Topics per Account’, ‘Filter Policies per Account’, and ‘Filter Policies per Topic’ are processed automatically, speeding up approval times.
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for attribute-based access control (ABAC) using queue tags, enabling customers to bolster their overall security postures with a flexible and scalable access control solution. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS significantly reduces the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message-oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work.
TwinMaker Knowledge Graph is now generally available for AWS IoT TwinMaker
AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Now with the feature launch of TwinMaker Knowledge Graph, customers can query their digital twins, contextualize data from disparate data sources, and gain deeper insights into their real-world systems. As a result, customers can save time performing functions like root cause analysis and drive more informed business decisions.
AWS announces Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience
Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience offers cost-effective, easy-to-manage business continuity solutions that keep your users online and productive with less than 30-minute recovery time objective (RTO) using standby WorkSpaces in another AWS Region during disruptive events.
AWS IoT ExpressLink Technical Specification v1.1 released
We are excited to announce the new AWS IoT ExpressLink Technical Specification v1.1 for hardware connectivity modules, and expand our qualified module list with Realtek’s Ameba Z2 AWS IoT ExpressLink - the first Wi-Fi connectivity module to qualify with the new specification. AWS IoT ExpressLink modules enable easy AWS cloud-connectivity and implement AWS-mandated security requirements for device to cloud connections. Integrating these wireless modules into their hardware design, customers can accelerate the development of their Internet of Things (IoT) products, including consumer products, industrial and agricultural sensors and controllers.
AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for Next.js 12 and 13
Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces Next.js 12 and 13 support, including middleware, on-demand incremental static regeneration (ISR), and image optimization. With this release, AWS Amplify Hosting offers fully managed CI/CD deployments and hosting for server-side rendered (SSR) apps built using Next.js and static web apps.
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports up to twelve query terms. AWS IoT Device Management is a fully managed service that helps you search, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.
Customers can now access Amazon FinSpace data from other AWS Analytics Services
Amazon FinSpace is an analytic data hub for capital markets customers that enables analysts and data engineers to access data from multiple sources and transform it using Amazon FinSpace’s managed Apache Spark Engine with Capital Markets Time Series Analytics Library. Starting today, datasets developed in FinSpace can also be used by AWS Analytics and Machine Learning services, such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon EMR, and Amazon SageMaker. This allows customers to integrate data from FinSpace into their analytics and ML workflows.
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches event notifications via Amazon EventBridge. You can trigger event-driven actions after creating, updating, or deleting your CloudFormation stack sets. You can achieve this without developing or maintaining custom solutions that periodically poll for changes in your CloudFormation stack sets deployments via CloudFormation APIs. With this launch, you can build your event-driven applications across multiple AWS accounts, Organizational Units (OUs), and Regions with AWS CloudFormation StackSets and Amazon EventBridge.
AWS Resilience Hub adds support for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Resilience Hub has added Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and AWS Trusted Advisor to its set of supported services. AWS Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions.
Amazon Connect Voice ID is now available in Canada (Central) Region
Amazon Connect Voice ID can now be used by Amazon Connect customers in the Canada (Central) Region. Voice ID uses machine learning to offer both real-time caller authentication and fraud risk detection, to help make contact center voice interactions more secure. In addition to the Canada (Central) region, Voice ID is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (London) AWS regions.
Amazon GameSparks Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in Preview
Amazon GameSparks, a managed AWS service introduced in preview in March 2022 provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend for their games and is now available in preview in AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Amazon GameSparks makes building a game backend easy for game developers who have little to no cloud experience. Amazon GameSparks comes with Unity game engine support and out-of-the-box backend features that require minimal setup for game developers.
AWS Trusted Advisor announces new checks from AWS Resilience Hub
AWS Trusted Advisor adds two new checks from AWS Resilience Hub that enable customers to view their latest application resilience score and resilience policy status. You can find more information about the checks here. AWS Resilience Hub provides customers with a place to define, track, and manage the resiliency and availability of all their applications. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated best practice checks and provides recommendations to reduce costs, monitor service quotas, and improve resilience, performance and security.
Amazon Connect launches API for monitoring live contacts
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically initiate supervisor monitoring on an ongoing contact. Today, contact center supervisors can monitor live conversations between agents and customers by selecting which conversations to monitor via the real-time metrics page in Amazon Connect. Using the new MonitorContact API, businesses can now build custom supervisor dashboards that include the ability to initiate monitoring on a specific contact.
Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, customers in that region can save up to 75% on storage costs for Amazon EBS Snapshots that they rarely access and intend to retain for more than 90 days.
Zoom Meeting Media Plugin for Windows is now generally available on Amazon WorkSpaces
Zoom Meeting Media plugin allows audio/video optimization for smooth video conferencing on Amazon WorkSpaces. This feature greatly enhances Zoom Meetings audio and video (webcam) performance on WorkSpaces by offloading the audio/video traffic to local device for processing. The plugin is intended for users who want native AV performance when using Zoom on their PCoIP WorkSpaces.
AWS AppSync releases JavaScript support for GraphQL API resolvers
AWS AppSync is a managed service that makes it easier to build scalable APIs that connect applications to data. API developers can now use JavaScript to define the business logic that connects their AppSync GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs to data, and leverage two new libraries and a new service API command to simplify local development and testing.
Amazon CloudWatch RUM (Real User Monitoring) adds the ability for customers to send customer-defined events to RUM (in addition to predefined events) by instrumenting their web applications. The customer-defined events gives customers flexibility to monitor specific functions of their application and troubleshoot end user impacting issues unique to the application components. Customers can view, and slice and dice these events using filters in the RUM console.
Amazon Interactive Video Service Stream Chat now supports logging for chat messages
Now you can send a copy of your chat messages to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudWatch Logs, or Amazon Kinesis Firehose for real-time chat log streaming. You can use chat logging to play back chat messages from previously recorded live streams, or to audit past conversations as part of moderation workflows. To get started, visit the documentation Getting Started with Amazon IVS Chat.
Amazon Transcribe now supports Thai and Hindi languages for streaming audio
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce Thai and Hindi language support for streaming audio transcriptions. These new languages expand the coverage of Amazon Transcribe streaming and enable customers to reach a broader global audience.
Amazon Redshift announces support of the CONNECT BY SQL construct
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports the CONNECT BY SQL construct enabling users to author queries to process hierarchical data in their warehouse. Starting today, you can recursively query the hierarchical data based on parent-child relationship within that data set using the CONNECT BY construct.
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Defender is now integrated with AWS Security Hub. This integration allows customers to ingest alarms and their attributes from AWS IoT Device Defender Audit and Detect features in one central location, without custom coding. This update can also help offload or reduce the complexity of managing disparate workflows from multiple security consoles when they review devices monitored by AWS IoT Device Defender.
Amazon ElastiCache simplifies password rotations with Secrets Manager
You can now efficiently manage and rotate passwords for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters using AWS Secrets Manager.
Staring today, customers can detect and resolve AWS security findings from AWS Security Hub via AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Security Hub helps customers to perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts and enables automated remediation. It enables users to view security findings from AWS services, such as Amazon Guard Duty, Amazon Inspector, as well as AWS Partner solutions. This bidirectional integration between AWS Security Hub and Jira Service Management incidents enables JSM users/developers to manage AWS Security findings while leveraging their existing workflows in Jira Service Management (incidents).
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region.
Amazon WorkSpaces announces version 2.0 of WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol
Amazon WorkSpaces announces general availability of version 2.0 of the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) host agent. WSP is a high performance cloud-native streaming protocol designed to enable your users to access a highly responsive remote desktop experience and features such as 2-way audio video and smart card support.
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now supports batch inference in Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now supports batch/offline inference within Amazon SageMaker Studio so you can run batch predictions on machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility.
Amazon S3 Storage Lens increases organization-wide visibility with 34 new metrics
Amazon S3 Storage Lens is a cloud storage analytics feature that delivers organization-wide visibility into object storage usage and activity. Today, 34 additional metrics have been added to uncover deeper cost optimization opportunities, identify data protection best practices, and improve the performance of application workflows.
Starting today, customers can search, request and provision products from AWS Service Catalog via AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. With this connector, administrators can use existing AWS Service Catalog configurations, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose them to JSM Cloud administrators and users. Administrators can view AWS Service Catalog portfolios and products, align them to organizational structures, grant access to JSM Cloud users, and connect JSM workflows to provisioning requests. JSM Cloud end users can browse and request provisioning of AWS Service Catalog products, including AWS Marketplace software products that have been copied to AWS Service Catalog.
Amazon Polly launches neural TTS support for Polish and Arabic
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of two voices: Ola, a new female Polish neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voice and Hala, a new female NTTS voice in Arabic (Gulf).
Starting today, customers can respond, investigate and resolve incidents affecting their AWS-hosted applications via AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager with the AWS Service Management Connector. This integration is built using Atlassian Forge for Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for AWS applications and resources, that helps to automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. With the Incident Manager integration with JSM Cloud, customers can now automate their incident response plans in Incident Manager and automatically synchronize their incidents into JSM Cloud. This feature enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues without disrupting existing workflows in Jira Service Management Cloud.
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- Amazon EKS starts supporting Kubernetes 1.24
- Contributing to therapeutic drug development by improving the reliability and efficiency of clinical trial data using blockchain technology
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- Accelerating AI/ML scaling and AI development with Anyscale and AWS
- Call for applications: AWS launches new startup program to support growth and innovation of French public sector startups
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- Improve the Visibility and Collaboration during Incident Handling in AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager
- Automate the sending of AWS Audit Manager assessment reports
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- Announcing the latest version of the AWS Well-Architected Data Analytics Lens
- Share and publish your Snowflake data to AWS Data Exchange using Amazon Redshift data sharing
- Use Karpenter to speed up Amazon EMR on EKS autoscaling
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- Securely access Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) locally using AWS Client VPN
- How Workday integrated Amazon Aurora logging and monitoring with their central observability infrastructure
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- Performance enhancements to Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP)
- Advancing business continuity with Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience
- Enhance customer choice and flexibility with HP thin clients and Amazon WorkSpaces
- AWS EUC @re:Invent: Streamlining log-on experience for Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0
- AWS EUC @re:Invent: Securely stream AWS workloads to your remote workers
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- Deploy a NextJS 13 application to Amplify with the AWS CDK
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- AlexaTM 20B is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- How Yara is using MLOps features of Amazon SageMaker to scale energy optimization across their ammonia plants
- Build high performing image classification models using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Large-scale feature engineering with sensitive data protection using AWS Glue interactive sessions and Amazon SageMaker Studio
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- AWS Security Profile: Reef D’Souza, Principal Solutions Architect
- Fall 2022 SOC reports now available with 154 services in scope
- Fall 2022 SOC 2 Type 2 Privacy report now available