1/25/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/26/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Announcing Porting Advisor for Graviton

AWS announces the general availability of Porting Advisor for Graviton. The Porting Advisor for Graviton is an open-source command line tool that analyzes source code and generates a report highlighting missing and outdated libraries and code constructs that may require modification along with recommendations for alternatives. It accelerates your transition to AWS Graviton-based instances by reducing the iterative process of identifying and resolving source code and library dependencies.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available

Now generally available, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch Serverless streamlines the process of running petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads. With OpenSearch Serverless, you pay only for the resources consumed.

Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro

AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas—Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now manages IP Addresses in your network outside your AWS Organization

Amazon VPC IP address manager (IPAM) now lets you manage IP addresses in accounts outside of your AWS Organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This simplifies your IP management workflows (e.g., plan, track, and monitor) by enabling you to use a single IPAM across all your AWS accounts.

AWS announces Amazon provided contiguous IPv6 CIDRs blocks

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools for association to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Contiguous CIDR blocks can be used for sequential VPC creation. CIDRs can then be aggregated in a single entry across networking and security constructs like access control lists, route tables, security groups, and firewalls.

Amazon QuickSight launches data bars for tables

Amazon QuickSight now supports data bars for tables. Data bars are essentially bar charts displayed for a given column, where the bar length specifies the magnitude of the cell value relative to the range of values in the same column. Data bars make it easier to read and compare values and quickly spot outliers. You can set data bars for only numeric fields and set color for both positive and negatives values separately. More details can be found here.

AWS Pricing Calculator now supports optimized pricing estimation for EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Windows Server and SQL Server on Amazon EC2 calculator now supports Dedicated Hosts price estimation. With this feature, you can now generate optimized price estimate for bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios on Dedicated Hosts.

Increased field limits and performance improvements for Pivot table in Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight pivot tables now support more data than ever before with new the field limits, unlocking advance use cases. The value field well limits have been increased from 20 to 40, and Rows and Columns have been increased from 20 each to a combined limit of 40. For example, if the user has 34 fields in rows then they can add 40-34 = max 6 fields to the column field well. Refer here for more information.

AWS Managed Services (AMS) customers can now change response for Config Rules

We’re excited to announce the ability to change the default AMS response for Config Rules in Accelerate operations plan. With this release, customers can now choose whether they want AMS to remediate, ask for customer approval, or just add to a monthly report on the alerts from AMS supported security Config Rules. By adjusting the default response, you can increase conformance by setting more Config Rules for remediation. When you select remediation of a finding, AMS response is quick and consistent. Findings can also create a case asking for your approval or just be reported during your next Monthly Business Review (MBR). You can set up multiple responses for a Config Rule that are matched to the account and resources based on tags.

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