2/22/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/23/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Transfer Family announces support for sending AS2 messages over HTTPS
AWS Transfer Family now allows you to send Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages using HTTPS. AS2 offers security features like encryption and non-repudiation by default. With the ability to send AS2 messages over HTTPS, you can now benefit from an additional layer of in-transit encryption for your most sensitive EDI payloads and further compatibility with trading partners that require SSL/TLS communications.
Announcing Smart Data Validation for Amazon Fraud Detector
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announced the launch of Smart Data Validation, a new feature which helps customers streamline their data preparation process for a successful batch import. Smart Data Validation helps customers save time and resources by validating data at the time of import. This new feature reduces the time to validate and fix customer’s data from days to minutes.
Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are available in additional AWS Region Europe (Stockholm). These instances are optimized to efficiently run memory bandwidth-bound, data-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads, such as finite element analysis and seismic reservoir simulations. With EC2 Hpc6id instances, you can lower the cost of your HPC workloads while taking advantage of the elasticity and scalability of AWS.
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage AWS Transfer Family resources for AS2 including servers, connectors, partner profiles, and certificates. AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to configure the entire stack of AS2 resources required to initiate and test an end-to-end AS2 message exchange. Additionally, you can now access Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AS2, such as number of successful and failed AS2 messages, in the AWS Transfer Family Management Console. These metrics enable you to more effectively monitor your AS2 activity using a centralized dashboard.
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9
Today, we are announcing an update for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to use the Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9. This update updates dependency packages and addresses the planned deprecation of Synthetics NodeJS runtime versions 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.
Amazon ECS increases the number of provisioning tasks quota to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) has increased the “Tasks in PROVISIONING state per cluster“ service quota to deliver a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience. Customers who need to launch a large number of tasks (>300) in their Amazon ECS clusters will now see their cluster infrastructure scale faster.
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.25
Kubernetes 1.25 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.25. Starting today, you can create new 1.25 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.25 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool.
Amazon QuickSight now enables you to add role-based access policies to QuickSight data sources that connect to Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena. With this launch of the Run-as IAM Role for S3 and Athena, QuickSight account administrators will be able to provide an IAM Role to individual S3 or Athena data sources in their QuickSight account, rather than enabling account-wide access to connect from QuickSight to S3 or Athena.
AWS App Runner now supports HTTP to HTTPS redirect
AWS App Runner now redirects incoming HTTP based requests to an App Runner service endpoint to HTTPS. Until now, incoming requests to an HTTP endpoint failed with timeout status response. Now, you can use both HTTP and HTTPS endpoints from your client to access your application running on App Runner. App Runner will redirect the incoming request to an HTTPS endpoint with 301 “Moved Permanently” status code. You do not need to make any configuration change to your App Runner service to enable HTTP to HTTPS redirect.
Amazon Detective adds the ability to export data from Summary page panels and search results
Amazon Detective now supports the ability to export data from Summary page panels and search results in comma-separated values (CSV) format. You can use this new capability to export data from the Detective management console and enrich your security investigations by manipulating the data using other AWS services, third-party applications, or spreadsheet programs that support CSV import.
AWS Lake Formation is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo).
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