11/18/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/21/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AlexaTM 20B model is now available in SageMaker JumpStart

Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model 20 Billion parameter model (AlexaTM 20B) in SageMaker JumpStart. Customers can access the AlexaTM 20B model programmatically to run inference using APIs available in SageMaker Python SDK.

AWS Organizations tag policies are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Organizations tag policies are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The tag policies feature is available to customers through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs.

Amazon Forecast generates predictions for products with no historical data that is more accurate than before

With Amazon Forecast you can now generate forecasts that are more accurate than before for new products with no history. Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts for inventory planning, supply-chain management, and workforce planning - without requiring any machine learning experience.

Amazon EC2 enables customer created tags to be included during image copy

Starting today, Amazon EC2 enables customer created tags to be included during Amazon Machine Image (AMI) CopyImage operations. This feature aims to reduce customer burden if you want to employ the same tags across all your copied AMIs. Previously, when you created a copy of an AMI, any tags you created for that AMI did not get copied over to the new AMI. You had to apply the tags to the new AMI manually after it was created if you wanted to replicate the same tags from the original AMI.

Introducing DTMF slot settings within Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex is excited to launch DTMF-only slot settings and configurable session attributes within the Lex console.

Observe and monitor SAP NetWeaver applications with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now offers support for observability of SAP NetWeaver applications. AWS customers running SAP workloads such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse on AWS can now observe the entire SAP stack, from AWS infrastructure all the way to the SAP applications. This launch builds on our previous announcement of observability for SAP HANA databases, delivering full stack monitoring of SAP on AWS workloads. With this launch, you can also monitor high availability systems leveraging SAP NetWeaver and Amazon Elastic File System.

AWS Proton is now available in 6 new regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces that AWS Proton is now available in 6 new AWS regions:  Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central).

AWS Pricing Calculator now supports modernization cost estimates for Microsoft workloads

We are announcing the general availability of the AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads.

AWS Nitro System now supports previous generation of instances

Amazon Web Services announces AWS Nitro System support for EC2’s previous generation of instances to extend the length of service beyond the typical lifetime of the underlying hardware. The AWS Nitro System provides modern hardware and software components for EC2 instances, allowing customers to continue running their workloads and applications on the instance families they were built on without any service life concerns.

Amazon Translate Enables Tagging Support for Parallel Data and Custom Terminology

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are launching support of tagging for custom terminology and parallel data resources and then allow/restrict access on them based on the tags.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 22.1

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 22.1 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c & 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 22.1, please refer to Oracle’s documentation.

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET now provides AI-powered automated refactoring recommendations

AI-powered automated refactoring recommendations are now available in AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET, an assistive tool that simplifies the process of refactoring monolithic .NET applications into independent microservices. With automated recommendations, developers can start refactoring an older monolithic application even if they are not intimately familiar with the application’s original architecture or features retrofitted over the years. The prescriptive guidance provided by automated recommendations in Microservice Extractor enables developers to cut down the time in half to identify and extract microservices from legacy applications, and speed up the overall transformation of enterprise applications for running in the cloud.

Amazon Chime SDK expands voice features into eight additional AWS Regions

The Amazon Chime SDK now supports voice features in eight additional regions, including Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Seoul).

Simplify cross-account access for your AWS services with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions now supports cross-account access for more than 220 AWS services so it’s easier to process data, automate IT and business processes, and build applications across accounts.

AWS IoT TwinMaker now supports camera view and sub-model selection

Starting today, AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Composer will support two new features, Camera View and Sub-model Selection, which make it easier for customers to navigate complex 3D models in digital twins.

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now a System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant service. You can now use MemoryDB for workloads that are subject to SOC compliance, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. The purpose of these reports is to help you and your auditors understand the AWS controls established to support operations and compliance.

Introducing cross-account sharing to direct IAM principals and sharing with AWS Organization units using LF-TBAC in AWS Lake Formation

Cross-account sharing version 3 in AWS Lake Formation is now generally available. Version 3 includes features to improve ease of use in granting cross-account permissions using Lake Formation. You can now share AWS Glue Data Catalog resources such as, databases and tables from one account directly to another account’s IAM principals, namely, IAM roles and IAM users. Version 3 eliminates the additional manual step of writing Data Catalog resource policies while using LF-tags based cross-account sharing. Finally, you can share Data Catalog resources with an AWS Organization/Org unit using LF-tags based sharing.

The Amazon Chime SDK announces Alexa skill calling

The Amazon Chime SDK enables developers to add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Today, the Amazon Chime SDK announces the launch of Alexa skill calling, a new feature that enables placing calls from custom Alexa skills to destinations including existing contact centers, CRMs, or telephone systems. Skill users place calls using simple voice commands. For example, a skill user can open a skill and use a command like “Call customer support” and be connected to an existing support process.

Announcing AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry support for automatic associations based on tags

Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for automatic association of application resources in AppRegistry based on AWS tags. With this release, customers can build applications using their preferred tools, and the associated resources are automatically added to the application based on their tags. Once registered, AppRegistry applications and their resources can be managed and assessed in tools like AWS Systems Manager Application Manager, AWS CloudWatch Application Insights, AWS Well-Architected, and AWS Resilience Hub.

AWS IoT TwinMaker now supports data connector to Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena data connector for AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available to all customers. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service using standard SQL. The Amazon Athena data connector enables you to connect your tabular data from the Amazon Athena data store to AWS IoT TwinMaker, adding context and discrete information to your digital twins.

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports real-time email notifications

Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports email notifications that enable supervisors to receive email alerts when predefined rule conditions (e.g. customer sentiment is negative) get triggered. This enables supervisors to identify, help, and intervene on contacts where agents may need additional support and provide guidance to deliver better end customer experience.

AWS Service Catalog now supports the sharing of principal names when sharing a portfolio within an AWS Organization

AWS Service Catalog now supports the sharing of principal names when sharing a portfolio, which simplifies the workflow for granting access to portfolios shared across multiple accounts in an AWS Organization. Administrators often use portfolios in a central account to regroup and organize their AWS Service Catalog products and then share those portfolios with different accounts in their AWS Organization. Previously, to grant end users access to a shared portfolio, administrators had to associate IAM principals (groups, roles or users) with the portfolio in each recipient account.

Manage your resources from AWS Organizations using AWS CloudFormation

AWS Organizations now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing customers to manage accounts, organizational units (OUs), and policies within their organization using CloudFormation templates. With this latest integration, customers can efficiently deploy multiple organizational elements in a stack, allowing them to more easily scale across accounts with organization policies in place.

Amazon QuickSight launches Textbox

Amazon QuickSight now supports adding Textbox objects to your Analysis. You can use text boxes for common use cases but not limited to title, subtitles, annotations, adding additional information or description for KPIs etc. You can reposition, resize and make your text stand out with various rich text formatting options like font styling, text alignment and text box styling options. Dynamic text values can be added with the help of user defined parameters and system defined parameters like date and page number. See here for more details.

Amazon Personalize enables customers to measure the impact of their recommendations

Today, Amazon Personalize launches the ability for customers to measure the business impact of their Personalize recommendations. Amazon Personalize is a fully managed machine learning service that allows customers to deliver personalized experiences to their users, no ML experience required. Customers can now evaluate the sum or count of any user interaction with a Personalize recommendation such as click, view, purchase, video start, add to cart, or download. Prior to this launch, customers could not evaluate the results of Personalize recommendations unless they built their own pipelines or workflows. Personalize has removed the need for this operational overhead by allowing customers to define the metrics they want to track, and automatically sending event data to the customer’s Amazon CloudWatch account for visualization and monitoring. The data can also be sent to an S3 bucket for download and integration into another business intelligence tool.

Amazon QuickSight launches Small Multiples for line, bar and pie charts

Amazon QuickSight announced the availability of Small Multiples, a powerful data visualization feature when it comes to comparative analysis. Small Multiples creates multiple versions of the base visual, presented side-by-side, with its data partitioned across these versions by a dimension. It provides an easier way to get a holistic view of your business instead of looking at data in silos.

AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 18

AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 18 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Node.js 18 can take advantage of new features such as an upgrade of the bundled AWS SDK for JavaScript to v3 and improved support for deploying ES Modules using Lambda layers. This release also provides access to Node.js 18 language enhancements, including the experimental ‘fetch’ API. For more information on Lambda’s support for Node.js 18, see our blog post at Node.js 18.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda.

AWS Chatbot now supports command aliases to shorten frequently used AWS CLI commands in Slack

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the command aliases feature in AWS Chatbot, which allows you to use shortcuts to reference AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands in Slack. Command aliases allows you run frequently used commands quickly and reduces typing errors. With this feature you can now create aliases for your routine AWS CLI commands and run these alias commands directly from your Slack channels. The aliases can be configured to include one or more custom parameters. To use a command alias, you just type “@aws run <alias_name>” in the chat channel. Command aliases run under the configured channel permissions and no additional permissions management is required.

AWS Transfer Family announces Drummond Group Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) Pre-Certification

AWS Transfer Family has successfully completed the Drummond Group pre-certification testing for its Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) managed file transfer capabilities. The pre-certification issued by Drummond Group verifies that the AWS Transfer Family AS2 capabilities have been thoroughly vetted for security and file exchange compatibility with two third-party AS2 solutions. Customers across verticals such as healthcare, retail, financial services, and others that use AWS Transfer Family AS2 endpoints can now have confidence in their ability to successfully exchange AS2 messages with other third-party solutions.

Announcing certificate-based authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces

Starting today, you can use certificate-based authentication with Amazon WorkSpaces SAML 2.0 integration to remove the logon prompt for the Active Directory domain password.

AWS Audit Manager now provides search-based filtering and grouping to help with noncompliance root-cause analysis

AWS Audit Manager automatically collects evidence data, via snapshots of user activity or resource configurations, against controls that customers want to evaluate. Now, Audit Manager more easily allows you to sift through thousands of pieces of this collected evidence from multiple disparate sources, using search filters and groupings to identify trends and cross-reference issues. This will help you deep dive into issues identified via flagged compliance checks in the service, either in assessments - an automated data collection process against a specific set of controls - or on the Audit Manager dashboard. With this feature, you can filter and group evidence data using parameters like controls, resource types or resource IDs, service, event names, account IDs, etc. to understand the drivers of the issue. These results can then be exported as audit-ready PDF reports.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Oracle Multitenant

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, now supports the Oracle Multitenant option on Oracle Database (DB) version 19c using Enterprise Edition. With this release, the Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB.

AWS Fargate adds support for monitoring the storage utilization

AWS Fargate adds the ability to monitor the utilization of the ephemeral storage attached to a Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) task. Customers can track the storage utilization with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and ECS Task Metadata endpoint.

Amazon Athena enhances Apache Iceberg table operations and file format support

Amazon Athena has added SQL commands and file formats that simplify the storage, transformation, and maintenance of data stored in Apache Iceberg tables. These new capabilities enable data engineers and analysts to combine more of the familiar conveniences of SQL with the transactional properties of Iceberg to enable efficient and robust analytics use cases.

AWS Amplify Flutter Announces Web and Desktop support (Developer Preview) for API, Analytics, and Storage

AWS Amplify is announcing a developer preview to expand Flutter support to Web and Desktop for the API, Analytics, and Storage use cases. Developers can now build cross-platform Flutter apps with Amplify that target iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux) using a single codebase. Combined with the Authentication preview that was previously released, developers can now build cross-platform Flutter applications that include REST API or GraphQL API to interact with backend data, analytics to understand user behavior, and storage for saving and retrieving files and media.

Amazon Chime SDK launches new console experience

The Amazon Chime SDK now offers a new console that provides a more intuitive way to manage resources with rich contextual information. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers embed intelligent real-time communication capabilities into their applications. The new console provides a consistent look and feel with other AWS service consoles.

Amazon FinSpace supports connections to customer networks

Amazon FinSpace’s new ability to connect to a customer VPC enables customers to access data on their network. 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. Often, to perform a particular analysis, customers need to access resources that reside on their network, such as databases, API endpoints, and code and artifact repositories. These resources are hosted either in a customer’s VPC or in an on-premise data center.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, 11.17, and 10.22

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, 11.17, and 10.22. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor version to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.

Amazon QuickSight adds line and marker customization options for line charts

Amazon QuickSight launches a new capability for authors to style their line charts using the new line and marker customization options. With the new styling options you can make line charts more readable and drive readers’ attention towards the line series you want to emphasize.

Announcing General Availability for Amazon WorkSpaces Integration with SAML 2.0

We are happy to announce general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces integration with SAML 2.0. As an administrator, you can now enable SAML 2.0 authentication on your WorkSpaces directory to control end user access to desktops by using your SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP).

AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is now integrated with CloudHedge OmniDeq to speed container modernization

Starting today, customers can use Migration Hub Refactor Spaces with CloudHedge OmniDeq to replatform applications into containers and deploy them directly into refactoring environments. Customers can now get started modernizing in minutes without building or managing additional AWS infrastructure.

AWS Launch Wizard now supports additional SAP scaling scenarios, RHEL 8.6, and hourly pricing for 18/24 TB High Memory Instances

Today, we are announcing three new features for AWS Launch Wizard; including the ability to add subordinate/ standby HANA and application server nodes after deployments, support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, and support for 18/24 TB Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances with hourly pricing and EC2 Savings Plans.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.6.11, 10.5.18, 10.4.27, 10.3.37

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.11, 10.5.18, 10.4.27 and 10.3.37. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) controller for Amazon EMR on EKS is now generally available

The ACK controller for Amazon EMR on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has graduated to generally available status. Using the ACK controller for EMR on EKS, you can declaratively define and manage EMR on EKS resources such as virtual clusters and job runs as Kubernetes custom resources. This lets you manage these resources directly using Kubernetes-native tools such as ‘kubectl’.

AWS Database Migration Service now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on new and existing DMS Replication Instances. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their DMS Replication Instances on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6.

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers container, queue, and database metrics

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics for container, database, and queue utilization.

Amazon AppFlow launches monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports monitoring of flow runs using Amazon Cloudwatch metrics. With this launch AppFlow customers can now use CloudWatch metrics to observe and respond to their Amazon AppFlow flow runs and associated performance and throughput in near real time. Amazon AppFlow flow run metrics available in CloudWatch metrics include number of flow runs started, succeeded and failed, as well as the time taken and the records processed by each run.

Amazon Athena releases data source connector for IBM Db2

Today, we are releasing an IBM Db2 data source connector for Amazon Athena. With Athena, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to pre-process or copy data to another storage solution. IBM Db2 is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) designed for efficient storage and analytics on relational, object, and non-relational data. Starting today, you can use Athena to run SQL queries on IBM Db2.

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