3/1/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/2/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Introducing Amazon Lightsail for Research

Amazon Lightsail now offers Amazon Lightsail for Research, a new offering that makes it simple for you to accelerate your research using the power of the cloud. Lightsail for Research provides access to analytical applications such as Scilab, RStudio, and Jupyter running on powerful virtual computers in just a few clicks.

Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations

Amazon Detective finding groups now include a dynamic visual representation of Detective’s behavior graph to emphasize the relationships between security findings and the associated entities within a finding group. This addition makes it easier for customers to triage potential security issues with at-a-glance visuals that include finding types, severity levels, associated account(s), and linkages within the Detective behavioral graph that can be used to investigate related activity within a finding group.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams increases On-Demand write throughput limit to 1 GB/s

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports an increased On-Demand write throughput limit to 1 GB/s, a 5x increase from the current limit of 200 MB/s. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store streaming data at any scale. On-Demand is a capacity mode for Kinesis Data Streams that automates capacity management, so that you never have to provision and manage the scaling of resources. In the On-Demand mode you pay for throughput consumed rather than for provisioned resources, making it easier to balance costs and performance.

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS supports Proactive Insights

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports Proactive Insights, a new set of findings that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. With Proactive Insights, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When such conditions are detected, Proactive Insights will generate a finding that describes the nature of the impending problem, and specific actions you can take to mitigate it. Proactive Insights are available for Amazon DevOps Guru customers, with no additional setup or configuration needed. Proactive Insights are supported for Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora MySQL database engines at the moment.

Amazon Neptune Serverless now scales down to 1 NCU to save costs

Starting today, Amazon Neptune Serverless has lowered its minimum scaling requirements to 1 Neptune Capacity Unit (NCU) from 2.5 NCUs. This brings down the cost of running Neptune Serverless by reducing the resources used by up to 2.5X when the graph database is not actively responding to user queries. With a 1 NCU minimum, you could save on your graph database by using Neptune Serverless.

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces general availability of Ethereum Token-Based Access

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Token-Based Access (TBA) for fully managed Ethereum nodes. TBA provides a more convenient way for customers to connect to their Ethereum nodes from popular blockchain development tools.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Cross Region Automated Backups with encryption

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cross Region Automated Backups with encryption. The Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups feature enables disaster recovery capability for mission-critical databases by providing you the ability to restore your database to a specific point in time within your backup retention period. This allows you to quickly resume operations in the event that the primary AWS Region becomes unavailable. If you’ve enabled encryption on the source RDS for SQL Server DB instance, you can use this feature to copy encrypted DB snapshots to regions outside of the primary AWS region.

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports application log encryption with Customer Managed Keys (CMK)

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce that you can use your own Customer Managed Keys (CMK) with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt EMR Serverless application logs when stored in managed storage and in Amazon S3 buckets.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.03 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.26) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) supports MySQL 8.0.26. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.26 includes several changes, such as enhanced tablespace file segment page configuration and new aliases for certain identifier names. For more details, please review Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.26 release notes.

AWS Comprehend simplifies custom model retraining and management

Amazon Comprehend announced self-service flywheel APIs to simplify the retraining and version management of custom Comprehend models.

AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions

AWS App Runner expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), AWS Europe (Frankfurt), and AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions, enabling customers to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and API services in AWS cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure.

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