1/12/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/13/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS AppConfig allows tracking of stale feature flags, improving code hygiene
Today, AWS AppConfig announces new options for customers to track and clean up stale feature flags. Previously, customers needed to build their own schedules for managing stale feature flags. Now, customers can do this through AWS AppConfig. Feature flagging is a powerful technique that allows engineering teams to change application behavior on production without pushing out new code. By using feature flags, engineers can develop new capabilities, but hide them behind a feature flag configuration. Once ready to launch, AWS AppConfig allows you to roll flags out slowly. However, a common pain point with feature flags is the management of stale or unused flags. After a feature is launched, the flag may no longer be needed and becomes stale. Stale flags add clutter to your application code and configuration, and can make debugging your application challenging. Cleaning up unused flags improves application hygiene.
AWS Clean Rooms is now available in preview
Today, AWS announces the preview release of AWS Clean Rooms, a new analytics service that helps customers collaborate with their partners to more easily and securely analyze their collective datasets—without sharing or revealing underlying raw data. Instead of spending weeks or months developing clean room solutions, customers can use AWS Clean Rooms to create their own clean rooms in minutes and collaborate with any other company on the AWS Cloud to generate unique insights about advertising campaigns, investment decisions, and research and development.
Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Perth and Santiago
AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Perth and Santiago. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.
AWS Resource Groups now emits lifecycle events
Today, AWS Resource Groups is launching a new feature that emits lifecycle events when resources are added or removed from your groups and when resource groups are created, updated or deleted. These events allow you to initiate automated, event driven workflows for your applications. For example, with these events you can automate initiation of common operational tasks such as installing software packages, creating backups, or creating Amazon Elastic Block Store snapshots.
Amazon Kendra releases Microsoft Exchange Connector to enable email-messaging search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Microsoft (MS) Exchange Connector to index and search emails from MS Exchange.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
You can now use data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity in the Europe (Stockholm) Region. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for Redis workloads by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node in addition to storing data in memory. It is ideal for workloads that access up to 20% of their overall dataset regularly, and for applications that can tolerate additional latency when accessing data on SSD.
Amazon Kendra releases the Microsoft Teams Connector to enable Microsoft Teams messaging search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Microsoft Teams Connector to index and search messages and other entities from Microsoft Teams.
AWS Config supports 22 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 22 more resource types for services including Amazon MQ, AWS AppConfig, AWS Cloud9, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Fraud Detector, AWS IoT, AWS IoT Analytics, Amazon Lightsail (Virtual Server), AWS Elemental MediaPackage, Amazon Route 53 Recovery Readiness, AWS Resilience Hub, and AWS Transfer.
AWS Lambda now supports Maximum Concurrency for Amazon SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports setting Maximum Concurrency to the Amazon SQS event source. Maximum Concurrency for SQS as an event source allows customers to control the maximum concurrent invokes by the Amazon SQS event source. When multiple Amazon SQS event sources are configured to a function, customers can control the maximum concurrent invokes of individual SQS event source.
AWS Blogs
AWS Big Data Blog
- Improve the performance of Apache Iceberg’s metadata file operations using Amazon FSx for Lustre on Amazon EMR
- Amazon QuickSight AWS re:Invent recap 2022
AWS Compute Blog
Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS for Industries
- How to set-up a fully automated data pipeline from AWS Data Exchange to Amazon FinSpace
- Digital Twin Data Middleware with AWS and MongoDB
- AWS and NFL’s new special teams Next Gen Stat is ready for kickoff
- NFL Next Gen Stats Expected Punt and Kickoff Return Yards: Q&A with the Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab
- Building a modern, event-driven application for insurance claims processing – Part 1
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Multilingual customer support translation made easy on Salesforce Service Cloud using Amazon Translate
- Redacting PII data at The Very Group with Amazon Comprehend