2/10/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/13/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Elemental MediaConnect expands support for event notifications in Amazon EventBridge
AWS Elemental MediaConnect has expanded the availability of event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. You can now see notifications for flow, source, and output state changes to more closely monitor your live broadcast operations. You can also use EventBridge to build event-driven applications to correct issues that may be impacting your MediaConnect flows.
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. An EMR Serverless application internally uses workers to execute your workloads and you can configure different worker configurations based on the need of your workload. Previously, the largest worker configuration available on EMR Serverless was 4 vCPUs with up to 30 GB memory. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Serverless now offers worker configurations of 8 vCPUs with up to 60 GB memory and 16 vCPUs with up to 120 GB memory, allowing you to run more compute or memory-intensive workloads on EMR Serverless.
Amazon EC2 M6i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6i instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Jakarta). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now access Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) AWS regions in the Console Mobile App.
AWS Cloud Map increases default limit
AWS Cloud Map increases default limit of service instances that can be registered in a namespace with API calls discovery from 2,000 to 20,000. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries.
Announcing Network of Bots for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex introduces Network of Bots that enables enterprises to deliver a unified user-experience across multiple bots present in a network.
Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of instance refresh to support instances on standby or protected from scale in. For instances on standby, you now have the options to terminate them, ignore them altogether, as well as the current option to wait until they return to in service. For protected instances, you now have the options to refresh them, ignore them altogether, as well as the current option to wait for them until you remove scale-in protection.
Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Zurich). X2idn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in price performance compared to previous generation X1 instances. The X2idn instance is built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU making this instance a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases, analytics, and big data processing engines. X2idn instances are SAP-Certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2idn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available in 3 new regions
Today, we would like to announce expansion of AWS Mainframe Modernization service to 3 new regions: US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and Asia Pacific (Seoul).
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
Today, we are excited to announce the ability to roll back an EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh feature allows you to replace instances in an Auto Scaling group on a rolling basis. With today’s launch, you can use rollback to undo changes an instance refresh made when it fails.
AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation and SAP S/4HANA 2022
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation applications, and SAP S/4HANA 2022. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA 2020 and 2021.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Retail demand forecasting using AWS
- AWS Week in Review — February 6, 2023
- Homogeneity of control in AWS
- Amazon Search cuts search system costs 85% with AWS Inferentia
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Compute Blog
- Scaling an ASG using target tracking with a dynamic SQS target
- How to choose between CoIP and Direct VPC routing modes on AWS Outposts rack
AWS Contact Center
AWS Database Blog
- AWS DMS key troubleshooting metrics and performance enhancers
- Blockchain and the future of event ticketing