12/19/2022, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/20/2022, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon FinSpace web and data access events now available in AWS CloudTrail
Amazon FinSpace now provides customers with additional user activity monitoring options through logging of web application and data access events to AWS CloudTrail. Amazon FinSpace is a managed analytic data hub for capital markets customers that enables analysts and data engineers to access data from multiple sources and transform it using FinSpace’s managed Apache Spark Engine with Capital Markets Time Series Analytics Library. When a user takes an action in the FinSpace web application or uses data stored in their FinSpace Environment, an event is published to their FinSpace environment’s audit repository. It can then be viewed using the Audit Reports viewer hosted in the FinSpace web application. This provides FinSpace administrators a convenient way to quickly view user activity and data access.
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.
Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models, is now available
We are excited to announce the general availability of Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models. Fortuna provides calibration methods, such as conformal prediction, that can be applied to any trained neural network to obtain calibrated uncertainty estimates. The library further supports a number of Bayesian inference methods that can be applied to deep neural networks written in Flax.
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) regions. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and centrally manage their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications across your AWS organization. You can create user identities directly in IAM Identity Center or you can bring them from your Microsoft Active Directory or a standards-based identity provider, such as Okta Universal Directory or Azure AD. With IAM Identity Center, you get a unified administration experience to define, customize, and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a portal for access to all of their assigned AWS accounts and cloud applications.
Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Bangkok and Kolkata
AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Bangkok and Kolkata. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.
Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in new Middle East, Europe, and Asia Pacific Regions
With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in AWS Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions, customers in these regions 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. Amazon EBS Snapshots are incremental in nature, storing only the changes since the last snapshot. This makes them cost-effective for daily and weekly backups that need to be accessed frequently. If you have snapshots that you access every few months or years, and would like to retain them long-term for legal or compliance reasons, you can use Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive to store full, point-in-time snapshots at a lower cost than what you would incur if stored in the standard tier.
AWS Glue Crawlers enhances support for Delta Lake Tables
AWS Glue crawlers now have enhanced support for Linux Foundation Delta Lake tables, increasing operational efficiency to extract meaningful insights from analytics services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue. This feature enables analytics services scan Delta Lake tables without requiring the creation of manifest files by Glue crawlers. Newly cataloged data is now quickly made available for analysis using your preferred analytics and machine learning (ML) tools.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region. You may now configure and submit MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints within the Africa (Cape Town) region.
Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports Read Replicas. Amazon RDS Read Replicas provide enhanced performance and durability for RDS database (DB) instances. They provide the option to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You can create one or more replicas of a given source DB instance and serve high-volume application read traffic from multiple copies of your data, thereby increasing aggregate read throughput. Read replicas can also be promoted when needed to become standalone DB instances.
Renate an open source python library for automatic model re-training
Today we announce the general availability of Renate, an open-source Python library for automatic model re-training. The library implements continual learning algorithms to train deep neural networks incrementally when new data becomes available.
Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) management APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your Amazon EKS clusters in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink to help your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can also access the VPC endpoint from on-premises environments or from other VPCs using AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, or VPC Peering. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges, see the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information.
AWS IoT Device Client introduces a new version 1.8 which provides docker images, PowerPC architectures support, and an implementation to use the new “AWS Run-Command” Job Template.
Announcing the general availability of Amazon S3 Transfer Manager in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
The AWS Common Runtime (CRT)-based SDK client and the Transfer Manager for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) are now generally available in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The CRT-based S3 client is intended for users who want maximized throughput when transfering objects to and from Amazon S3, and the S3 Transfer Manager is a high level transfer utility built on top of CRT-based S3 cleint and provides additional functionalities such as file directories transfer and progress monitoring.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies configured using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on operational metrics at scale. It does this without you having to manage the underlying infrastructure required to scale and secure the ingestion, storage, alerting, and querying of metrics. With this feature, customers can now configure VPC endpoint policies in the Amazon VPC console, via Command Line Interface or SDK, or through AWS CloudFormation. These policies can restrict access of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus endpoints to particular AWS accounts, IAM users, and IAM roles.
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AWS Black Belt Online Seminar (Japanese)
- Visual best practices leading to action using Amazon QuickSight [AWS Black Belt]
- Collaboration between VMware Cloud on AWS and native AWS services [AWS Black Belt]
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- How to get started when migrating AIX workloads to AWS
- How to perform Japanese synonym searches on Amazon Kendra
- Logistics DX Seminar Report
- Leverage AWS services to quickly implement solutions for robotics use cases
- Design a centralized dashboard to protect globally deployed IoT workloads
- Architecture options for extracting SAP data with AWS services
- AWS Weekly — Week 2022/12/12
AWS Japan Startup Blog (Japanese)
AWS News Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now offers VPC endpoint policy support
- How Organon used AWS Service Management Connector to provision AWS resources from Service Now across multiple AWS accounts.
- Audit Manager – Custom Config Rule – Evidence Enhancement
AWS Big Data Blog
- Run fault tolerant and cost-optimized Spark clusters using Amazon EMR on EKS and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
- Top analytics announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022
- Monitor AWS workloads without a single line of code with Logz.io and Kinesis Firehose
- Introducing native Delta Lake table support with AWS Glue crawlers
AWS Database Blog
- AWS positioned highest in execution and furthest in vision in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
- Export and analyze Amazon QLDB journal data using AWS Glue and Amazon Athena
AWS Developer Tools Blog
AWS for Industries
- Accelerate medical research with Amazon OpenSearch Service
- Leveraging AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift to unlock insights from various points of sale for CPGs
- Accelerate innovation in retail with AWS at NRF 2023
- Using Amazon Personalize to find the right doctor without a data scientist
- Fast queries of scRNAseq datasets with Amazon Athena
- Siemens Healthineers Ultrasound launches Remote Services platform on AWS
- Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 binding affinities using Yasara simulations on AWS
- GxP Data Integrity when using AWS Services
- Advance pediatric care using Amazon HealthLake for scalable FHIR-based data analytics
- Top 5 Cloud Strengths and Areas Where Companies Can Improve
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Automatically retrain neural networks with Renate
- Create Amazon SageMaker models using the PyTorch Model Zoo