1/30/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region

Today, we are launching AWS Glue in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customer to discover, prepare, and integrate their data at any scale.

Amazon RDS now supports increasing storage size when creating read replicas and restoring databases from snapshots

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports increasing the allocated storage size when creating a read replica, when restoring a database from a snapshot, or when restoring a database instance to a point in time. This capability is supported on Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for Oracle databases.

Amazon Kendra Expanded Data Formats Support

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 index documents of additional data types in addition to the five types previously supported.

AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL now supports 5 new transforms

AWS Glue Studio now offers 5 new visual transforms: Flatten, Format timestamp, To timestamp, Add identifier, and Add UUID. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface that helps ETL developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs quickly. With this new feature ETL developers can prepare data for analysis faster without having to write any code.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports timeline logs for Channel Assembly

AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly can now emit logs of a channel timeline to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Starting today, you can configure a channel to emit an “As Run” timeline log. This will log important play out events such as source content, start times, ad breaks inserted, and more. Using Amazon CloudWatch Insights, you can also configure queries to build reports such as weekly As Run reports.

AWS Snow Family now supports software updates on AWS Snowcone

Today, AWS Snow Family announces a new feature that allows for easy updates to the system software of your AWS Snowcone devices. Now, you can request and download Snow system software updates from AWS. It is now possible to install software updates on your AWS Snowcone device using the AWS Snowball Edge client and without returning the device to AWS.

AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20 and 22 operating systems

AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support (LTS) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized, and AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. Ubuntu operating systems on Snow devices enable customers to deploy their edge compute workloads such as IoT, AI/ML, and Container workloads on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS versions.

AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 for Amazon EC2 instances on Snow

AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) for Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge devices. You can use AWS Snow Family devices to run storage, compute, and data-processing operations in locations with denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited connectivity. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that requires session-oriented requests to add defense-in-depth against unauthorized metadata access. IMDSv2 requires a PUT request to initiate a session to the instance metadata service and retrieve a token.

Bottlerocket now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging

Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to host container workloads, now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging when used with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere) bare metal deployments. The added functionality allows customers using Bottlerocket on bare metal to avoid a single point of failure in the network stack and improves network performance.

AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports VPC prefix lists to simplify routing policy management

AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists, simplifying management of your routing policies to connect to your on-premises network.

Amazon QuickSight launches Radar chart

Amazon QuickSight now includes Radar chart as a new chart type. Radar charts (also known as spider charts, polar charts, or web charts) are a way to visualize multivariate data. They are used to plot one or more groups of values over multiple common variables. They do this by providing an axis for each variable, which are arranged radially around a central point and spaced equally. The center of the chart represents the min value and the edge represent the max value on the axis. The data from a single observation are plotted along each axis and connected to form a polygon. Multiple observations can be placed in a single chart by displaying multiple polygons. To learn more, click here.

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