2/15/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/16/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
The AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now generally available in 14 additional regions: AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD). With this launch, the Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all AWS regions. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates customers’ AWS account with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas.
Amazon Fraud Detector(AFD) launched AFD-Lists to optimize fraud prevention strategies
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announces the launch of AFD Lists feature. Lists allows you to reference a set of values in your AFD rules. Fraud risk teams commonly maintain lists of attributes, such as IP, email address, and devices fingerprints to allow/deny transaction as part of their fraud prevention and detection strategy. With Lists, an organization can dynamically update these lists in real time, without re-publishing the rule.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support automated maintenance on rare degradation
You now have the automated host maintenance feature available for your Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. With automated host maintenance, in the rare event of degradation of a dedicated host, AWS will automatically reboot the EC2 instances running on it onto a newly allocated dedicated host during a scheduled maintenance event, to reduce your application’s downtime and offload undifferentiated heavy-lifting of host maintenance.
AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups
AWS Network Firewall now supports tag-based resource groups to simplify management of your firewall rules. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon VPCs. With this launch, you can tag and filter AWS resources to centrally manage and reference sets of resources in your stateful firewall rules, instead of manually updating your rule groups every time you make changes to a set of resources.
The AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now generally available in 4 new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Milan), China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD). With this launch, the AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for MemoryDB is now available in all regions where MemoryDB is generally available. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates customers’ AWS accounts with automated best practice checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security, and monitor service quotas.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for DynamoDB global tables, which means you can enable streaming to an Amazon Kinesis data stream on your DynamoDB global tables with CloudFormation templates. By streaming your DynamoDB data changes to a Kinesis data stream, you can build advanced streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis services. For example, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building, managing, and integrating with Apache Flink and provides built-in functions to filter, aggregate, and transform streaming data for advanced analytics. You also can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to take advantage of managed streaming delivery of DynamoDB table data to other AWS services such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3.
Announcing increased AWS Resource Access Manager default quota values
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) now supports higher default quotas to help you scale your resource sharing. AWS RAM helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts, within your organization or organizational units (OUs), and with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users for supported resource types. For each AWS Region in an account, you can now share up to 25,000 resources and share resources with up to 25,000 principals. Additionally, you can create up to 25,000 resource shares per AWS Region in an account. For each individual resource share, you can share up to 5,000 resources and share resources with up to 5,000 principals.
AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is available for use in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.
Database Activity Streams now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Database Activity Streams (DAS) now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server to provide a near real-time stream of database activities for auditing and compliance purposes. You can integrate DAS with your monitoring tools in order to monitor and set alarms for auditing the database activity. You can also connect Amazon Kinesis Data Stream to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to save stream logs in a user readable format to S3 . You can enable DAS with only a few clicks in the AWS Console to provide safeguards for your databases and help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
ENA Express now supports 15 new EC2 Instances
ENA Express now supports 15 new instances including: C6i.32xlarge, C6i.metal, C6id.32xlarge, C6id.metal, M6i.32xlarge, M6i.metal, M6id.32xlarge, M6id.metal, R6i.32xlarge, R6i.metal, R6id.32xlarge, R6id.metal, i4i.32xlarge, i4i.metal, and im4gn.16xlarge. Customers using these instances today can now enable ENA Express with a simple configuration. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance in two key ways: higher single flow bandwidth and lower tail latency for network traffic between EC2 instances. SRD is a proprietary protocol that delivers these improvements through advanced congestion control, multi-pathing, and packet reordering directly from the Nitro card.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Week in Review — February 13, 2023
- ByteDance uses AWS Inferentia to reduce inference latency and improve throughput while reducing costs by up to 60%
- Migrating Indexes to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Using Logstash
- [“Amazon SageMaker Monitoring Part 2” has been released! ML Enablement Series Dark #8】
- Remote Operation Scheduling Using AWS IoT Device Management Jobs
AWS News Blog
AWS Startups Blog
AWS Open Source Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Tag workloads with AWS Config conformance packs across AWS accounts
- Implementing a custom ConfigSource in Quarkus using AWS AppConfig
AWS Big Data Blog
- Achieve up to 27% better price-performance for Spark workloads with AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR Serverless
- Amazon EMR Serverless supports larger worker sizes to run more compute and memory-intensive workloads
- How Strategic Blue uses Amazon QuickSight and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to help their customers save millions
AWS Compute Blog
AWS Database Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
- AWS Verified Access Integration with 3rd party identity providers
- Manual Failover and Failback Strategy with Amazon Route53