12/13/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/14/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the IPv6 protocol, so that applications to connect through EBS direct APIs over IPv6. EBS direct APIs enable customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. With this change, customers can meet their IPv6 compliance needs, integrate with existing IPv6-based on-premises applications, and remove the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6.

Advanced Notice: Amazon S3 will automatically enable S3 Block Public Access and disable access control lists for all new buckets starting in April 2023

Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will introduce two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. Once complete, these defaults will apply to all new buckets regardless of how they are created, including AWS CLI, APIs, SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. These defaults have been in place for buckets created in the S3 management console since the two features became available in 2018 and 2021, respectively, and are recommended security best practices. There is no change for existing buckets.

Amazon Connect launches more granular access controls (using resource tags) for users

You can now enable granular access controls for users by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a user allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific user record. For example, you can now tag users with Team:Innovators and then only let the Innovators team manager see or edit these users. To learn more about tagging users and tag-based access controls, see the Connect Administrator Guide.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports X2idn, X2iedn, and X2iezn instances

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports memory optimized X2idn, X2iedn, and X2iezn instances designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory.

Amazon Neptune ML now supports Real-time inductive inference

Starting with Amazon Neptune version 1.2.0.2, customers can now use real-time inductive inference with Amazon Neptune ML to enable machine learning (ML) predictions on nodes, edges and properties (entities) that were added to the graph after the ML model training process. With this launch, customers can make predictions on new data without requiring an update to their ML models. Amazon Neptune ML is powered by Amazon SageMaker, and uses Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), a machine learning technique purpose-built for graph that can improve the accuracy of most predictions for graphs by over 50% when compared to making predictions using non-graph methods based on published research from Stanford University.

Amazon MQ is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region

Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 27 regions.

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 14

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatibilie edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL running major version 14. PostgreSQL 14  concists of performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. With this launch, you can enforce SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) password-based authentication for proxy, making connections from your applications more secure.

Amazon Connect launches more granular access controls (using resource tags) for security profiles

You can now enable more granular access controls for security profiles by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a security profile allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific security profile. For example, you can now tag all security profiles assigned to users within a business process outsourcer (BPO) with BPO:A, and then only enable administrators of that BPO to access to these security profiles. To learn more about tagging security profiles and tag-based access controls, see the Connect Administrator Guide.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports copying option groups during in-region cross-account snapshot copy

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports copying option groups during in-region cross-account snapshot copy requests using the API, CLI, or AWS Backup. Amazon RDS uses option groups to enable and configure features that make it simple to manage your databases. Copying the option groups with the snapshot on cross account copy allows you to restore that snapshot in the target account with the same options as the source snapshot without needing to reconfigure the option groups.

Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless jobs in near real-time using CloudWatch metrics

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.

AWS Amplify JavaScript library announces version 5 release

AWS Amplify is announcing the release of version 5 of the JavaScript library, which includes highly requested features for Web and React Native developers. This release also introduces a new Notifications channel, In-App Messaging, that developers can use to display contextual messages to their users based on their behavior. The Amplify JavaScript library has also received improvements to reduce the overall bundle size and installation size.

Announcing AWS Amplify Library for Android v2.0

We are excited to announce general availability of v2.0 Amplify Library for Android! Amplify Library for Android allows developers building apps for the Android platform to easily include features like authentication, storage, maps, and more. This version of the library has been re-written to improve Android developers’ experience when using Auth and Storage features. The Amplify Library for Android is open source on GitHub, and we deeply appreciate the feedback we have received from the community.

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS detects SQL load changes

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now detects if your Amazon Aurora database is receiving a significantly larger number of SQL queries and if those queries are reading more data than usual. This new functionality will help you to discover, in the event of degraded database performance, if an application traffic change is the likely cause of the performance degradation. If you use DevOps Guru for RDS, you don’t have to take any specific step in order to use this functionality. As long as you have DevOps Guru for RDS monitoring turned on for your Amazon Aurora databases, this new feature will be available wherever applicable.

Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.

Amazon Translate enables support for files stored in S3 nested folders

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, Amazon Translate launches support for translation of files stored in nested S3 folders.

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