12/15/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/16/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Trusted Advisor adds new fault tolerance checks

AWS Trusted Advisor now helps customers improve fault tolerance with new checks for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, and AWS CloudHSM. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas. You can find more information about the checks here.

Amazon QuickSight is now available in Stockholm and Paris Regions

Amazon QuickSight is now available in Stockholm and Paris regions. New accounts are able to sign up for QuickSight with Stockholm or Paris as their primary region, making SPICE capacity available in the region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing users can switch regions with the region switcher and create SPICE datasets in those regions.

Amazon EC2 Calculator supports dedicated instance pricing

The AWS Pricing Calculator now offers a redesigned user interface that allows you to generate price estimates for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in the shared tenancy model, the dedicated tenancy model, and Amazon EC2 dedicated hosts. The calculator makes it easier for you to switch among the three tenancy options with a single click, by providing a common user interface to enter input parameters for cost estimation. The calculator will also pre-populate costs across the available pricing models (e.g. Savings Plans, Reserved Instances), removing the need to view costs for each price model separately and allowing you to do quick cost comparison.

AWS Backup adds schedule-based network throttling for VMware

AWS Backup now supports schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for VMware. This allows you to optimize network bandwidth used for backups and restores between your VMware environment and AWS. You can throttle the network bandwidth used by the Backup gateway for VMware backups, based on a schedule you set on the Backup gateway. This enables you to regulate network bandwidth use during peak hours to minimize network congestion and prevent you from using all your available bandwidth during peak hours.

Amazon Location Service now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), and South America (São Paulo)

Amazon Location Service expands support to four more regions, Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). Developers in these regions can easily add maps, search for addresses and points of interest, calculate routes, track their assets, and geofence regions of interest, while experiencing the lowest latency response. By using local regions to store sensitive tracking and geofencing data, developers can ensure that their data remains in the country where it is collected and that it adheres to data residency restrictions.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region

Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region.

AWS Pricing Calculator supports bulk estimation of Amazon EC2 instances

The AWS Pricing Calculator now supports the ability to bulk estimate costs for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Dedicated hosts and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes using a structured Excel template.

Amazon Timestream now enables you to protect your data through AWS Backup

Amazon Timestream announces a fully managed data protection functionality through integration with AWS Backup. You can now protect your time series data through immutable backups, automate backup lifecycle management, copy your backup across AWS Regions and accounts, and restore your data with ease.

Amazon EKS launches automated provisioning and lifecycle management for Windows containers

AWS launches Amazon EKS managed node groups for Windows containers to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Windows nodes (running on Amazon EC2 instances) for EKS Kubernetes clusters. With this launch, Windows-based applications will automatically provision and register the Amazon EC2 instances that provide compute capacity. Now customers can create, automatically update, or terminate the Windows nodes for their cluster with a single operation.

AWS Backup adds support for VMware vSphere tags

AWS Backup adds support for VMware vSphere tags, enabling you to protect your VMware virtual machines (VMs) using tag-based policies, simplifying data protection across your on-premises vSphere and AWS environments. This allows you to import your VMware vSphere tags to AWS, where they can be automatically associated with a backup plan via tag-based policies.

Amazon Athena releases new connector for Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) and Apache Kafka

With Amazon 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 move data to another storage solution. Starting today, you can use Athena to query real-time streaming data held in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka.

Announcing 4 new connectors for Amazon AppFlow

Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors for HubSpot, LinkedIn Pages, Productboard, and Recharge provide customers with even more data access capability for use cases such as data lake hydration, analytics and machine learning, and data retention.

Amazon Chime SDK launches pre-built CodeSandbox developer experience

The Amazon Chime SDK now offers a new resource for builders to get started with CodeSandbox. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers embed intelligent real-time communication capabilities into their applications. CodeSandbox is an online code editor and prototyping tool that makes creating and sharing web apps faster. In one-click, builders using the Amazon Chime SDK for virtual meetings can review ready-made code required to set up a meeting, at the same time, seeing a prototype of the meeting experience in real-time.

Amazon AppFlow now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, now supports Microsoft SharePoint Online as a source. With this launch, you can now transfer your unstructured data from SharePoint Online to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in just a few clicks. This SharePoint Online integration unlocks many use cases such as uploading documents (e.g. PDFs, Word documents, Excel files, etc.), images, and other information to a data lake or centralized storage built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for applications such as file backup and archival, and help desk management.

AWS Marketplace adds new functionality to notify sellers and customers when a private offer is created

Today, AWS Marketplace launched automated emails to communicate relevant details to buyers and sellers once a private offer is successfully created and available for subscription. With this launch, buyers can now directly receive a private offer deep link from a seller, allowing them to promptly review and accept a private offer. ISVs and channel partners can now receive details like the offer ID when an offer is created, enabling them to initiate procurement workflows, internal order creation, and deal tracking.

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports percentage-based thresholds

Starting today, customers of AWS Cost Anomaly Detection will be able to define percentage-based thresholds when configuring their alerting preferences. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly take action to avoid runaway spend and bill shocks. The percentage-based alerting configuration enables customers to capture the anomalous spend dynamically rather than having to estimate an absolute dollar amount.

Announcing Open Data Maps for Amazon Location Service (Preview)

Amazon Location Service adds a new data option to the Maps feature, Open Data, based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), a geospatial data source supported by a global community. Developers can now easily access reliable and up-to-date OSM data with no upfront investment or specialized geospatial knowledge. In addition to the high-quality data provider options from Esri and HERE, Open Data Maps now provides developers with more choices to integrate maps into their applications, enabling developers to leverage OSM’s flexible licensing terms and continuously improving data quality.

Introducing concurrent account provisioning operations for AWS Control Tower

We are excited to announce support for concurrent account factory actions in AWS Control Tower, allowing you to create, update, or enroll up to five accounts at a time. AWS Control Tower account factory makes it easy for you to provision accounts and automate deployment of AWS resources, roles and policies within those accounts to support a range of business functions across your organization. With this new feature enhancement, you now have the autonomy to create and manage your accounts on-demand, supporting greater automation and decreased operational workload.

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