11/21/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/22/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS X-Ray adds trace linking for event-driven applications built on Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda

AWS X-ray adds support for trace linking, enabling customers to visualize, and debug requests as they travel through event-driven applications built using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and AWS Lambda. Using trace linking, customers can now see the relationships between services and resources in their event-driven applications leveraging Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda, quickly identify performance bottlenecks, and explore individual requests to find the root cause of application health problems with just a few clicks.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports rotation of secrets as often as every four hours

AWS Secrets Manager now supports the ability to rotate secrets as often as every four hours, while providing the same managed rotation experience. With this launch, you can now use Secrets Manager to automate the rotation of credentials and access tokens that need to be refreshed more than once per day. This enables greater flexibility for common developer workflows through a single managed service. Additionally, you can continue to utilize integrations with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail to manage and monitor your secret rotation configurations in accordance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. Support for secrets rotation as often as every four hours is provided at no additional cost

Amazon QuickSight supports NULL in parameter

Amazon QuickSight now fully support NULL in parameter use. Parameter, as a place holder for single value or multi-value variables, is a powerful and widely used entity in QuickSight. Previously, NULL is not supported as a valid value for parameter, which created some discrepancies when user data has NULL value in it. With the full enablement for NULL, all functionalities consuming parameters are now supporting NULL value. Enablement of NULL in parameter provides a comprehensive experience when parameter is used in various cases. For further details, visit here.

Amazon QuickSight Now Supports Connectivity to Databricks

Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a new connector for QuickSight that will enable customers to natively connect to Databricks. This launch allows you to connect to and visualize data from the Databricks E2 version of the platform.

AWS Service Catalog now supports syncing products with Infrastructure as Code template files from GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket

AWS Service Catalog customers can now create AWS Service Catalog products that are synced to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are managed in external repositories such as GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket.

AWS Glue Crawlers Now Support Snowflake

AWS Glue crawlers now support Snowflake, making it easier for you to understand updates to Snowflake schema and extract meaningful insights.

Amazon Connect now supports configurable Lex timeouts within Chat experience

Amazon Connect Chat now allows you to configure timeouts for chat conversations between a customer and an Amazon Lex chatbot. This enables you to define how long to wait for a response from the customer (e.g. 5 minutes) before the session expires.

Amazon S3 Select improves query performance by up to 9x when using Trino

Amazon S3 improves performance of queries running on Trino by up to 9x when using Amazon S3 Select. Trino is an open source SQL query engine used to run interactive analytics on data stored in Amazon S3. With S3 Select, you “push down” the computational work to filter your S3 data instead of returning the entire object. By using Trino with S3 Select, you retrieve only a subset of data from an object, reducing the amount of data returned and accelerating query performance.

Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules

Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules. Amazon EventBridge now supports generating CloudFormation templates from the rules and buses console pages. CloudFormation templates help provision and manage the configuration of event buses and rules, and you can now export your existing configurations in the console directly to a CloudFormation template. Simply select an existing rule in the console, pick JSON or YAML, and click the download button to export the configuration to a CloudFormation template. The CloudFormation template will contain the rule and target(s) of the rule. You can also select an event bus, choose whether or not to include existing rules on that bus, and download a CloudFormation template containing information for the bus, rules (if included), and targets. This makes it easier to generate CloudFormation templates for more complex rules and targets, and simplifies configuring rules and buses in different environments.

Amazon QuickSight launches admin asset management console

Amazon QuickSight launches an asset management console for administrators. With an interactive UI, administrators can now list and search all account assets regardless of who the owner of these assets are. They can list all the assets a user or group has access to including in a multi-tenant environment. They can perform asset level or bulk actions like transferring assets from one person to another when someone leaves the organization, share assets with other users or revoke asset access. Current supported assets are dashboards, analyses, datasets, datasources and shared folders. Asset management console is available to administrators with access to the QuickSight admin console pages via IAM credentials. For more information, visit here.

Amazon CloudFront launches continuous deployment support

Amazon CloudFront now supports continuous deployment, a new feature to test and validate the configuration changes with a portion of live traffic before deploying changes to all viewers.

AWS Backup announces support for SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 in Preview

AWS Backup now offers a simple, cost-effective, and SAP-certified application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2. With this launch, you can centrally automate backup and restore of your SAP HANA application data in addition to the currently supported AWS services. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of SAP HANA databases across all your accounts, help protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Oracle Home customization

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports customization of the Oracle Database installation, including the file system paths for Oracle Base and Oracle Home, and identities of the operating system user and group associated with the database. With today’s release, you can further customize your Oracle Database installation on RDS Custom for Oracle to suit the needs of your applications and conform to your organization’s standardized deployment practices.

QuickSight dashboards now available for seller reporting and insights in AWS Marketplace (Preview)

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the Preview of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can view, analyze and track key trends and metrics in a visualized manner on QuickSight dashboards on AMMP.

Amazon Textract launches the ability to detect signatures on any document

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the capability to detect handwritten signatures, e-signatures, and initials on documents such as loan application forms, checks, claim forms and more. AnalyzeDocument Signatures reduces the need for human reviewers and helps customers reduce costs, save time, and build scalable solutions for document processing.

Run long running fault-tolerant SQL queries with Trino and Amazon EMR with checkpointing on Amazon S3 or HDFS

Today, Amazon EMR has announced support for long running fault-tolerant SQL queries on Trino engine (Project Tardigrade) with checkpointing in Amazon S3 or HDFS for fault-tolerance. Project Tardigrade aims to improve the user experience of long running, resource intensive queries on Trino, when used for ETL style workloads. Project Tardigrade uses Amazon S3 for checkpointing buffered intermediate data. With Amazon EMR 6.9 release, we are also adding checkpointing on HDFS for performance sensitive and long running SQL workloads.

AWS Lambda announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources such as IAM users and roles, and to Amazon Web Services resources, like Lambda functions, to simplify permission management. ABAC support for Lambda functions allows you to scale your permissions as your organization innovates and give granular access to developers without requiring a policy update when a user or project is added, removed or updated. With ABAC support for Amazon Lambda, IAM policies can be used to allow or deny specific Lambda API actions when the IAM principal’s tags match the tags on a Lambda function.

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports session management capabilities for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs

Starting today, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) customers can manage the session duration (between 15 mins and 7 days) for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs sessions. With this release, when you set access portal session duration for your organization in IAM Identity Center, it also applies to AWS CLI and SDKs sessions in addition to application and console sessions.

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