3/30/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Lake Formation now available in AWS Middle East (UAE) 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 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.

EC2 Image Builder adds real-time build tracking and improves build speeds for image pipelines

Customers can now track the current build status and image build steps for their image pipelines directly in EC2 Image Builder. This capability makes it easier for you to track image builds and troubleshoot build failures. This release also consolidates logs making it easier for you to audit and review builds. Additionally, workflow optimizations provide faster image builds, with internal tests showing up to 35% build speed improvements.

Amazon Connect launches expanded JSON attribute support in flows

Amazon Connect now supports the use of JSON structures such as nested arrays as attributes in flows, enabling you to build more personalized and automated customer experiences. For example, you can now build self-service experiences to help customers track their order status based on multiple purchases in the last month rather than the single most recent purchase. This new capability is supported in both the “Invoke AWS Lambda Function” and “Show View” flow blocks.

Amazon Kendra launches Featured Results

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.

AWS Network Firewall announces support for ingress TLS inspection

AWS Network Firewall now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for ingress VPC traffic. This new feature enables customers to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt TLS traffic without having to deploy and manage any additional network security infrastructure.

AWS Batch now supports user-defined pod labels on Amazon EKS

Today, we are introducing a new capability for AWS Batch to provide user-defined pod labels for jobs that run on your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Labels are key-value pairs that are used to specify identifying attributes of objects that are designed to be meaningful and relevant to users. Using labels, customers can map their own organizational structures and bring better accountability, compliance, and cost visibility for their workloads.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 22.2

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 22.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c & 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 22.2, please refer to Oracle’s documentation.

Announcing the ACK Controllers for Amazon EventBridge and Pipes

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for EventBridge and Pipes. This launch allows you to manage EventBridge resources, such as event buses, rules, and pipes, using the Kubernetes API and resource model (custom resource definitions).

AWS WickrGov now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

AWS WickrGov is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of AWS Wickr.

Amazon RDS Custom now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes

Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. You can choose gp3 storage type for your Amazon RDS Custom database instance with the ability to select from 40 GiB to 64 TiB (20 GiB to 16 TiB for Amazon RDS Custom SQL Server) of storage capacity, with a baseline storage performance of 12,000 IOPS (3,000 IOPS for Amazon RDS Custom SQL Server) included with the price of storage. For workloads that need even more performance, you can scale up to 64,000 IOPS (16,000 IOPS for Amazon RDS Custom SQL Server) for an additional cost.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports automated replication of new disks

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports automated replication of new disks added to your source servers to help you maintain readiness of your AWS recovery site. Elastic Disaster Recovery helps minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 61 new EC2 instance types

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 61 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include the latest generation general purpose instance families from both Intel and AMD (M6in, M6idn), compute optimized instance families (C6in), and memory optimized instance family (R6in, R6idn).

Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 R5b instances, are now available in two new AWS Regions - Europe(Milan), and Europe(Stockholm). R5b instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and provide EBS-Optimized performance, enabling customers to lift and shift memory intensive applications to AWS.

Amazon SNS launches the Extended Client Library for Python to support payloads up to 2GB

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) has introduced an open-source Extended Client Library for Python that enables you to publish and deliver large message payloads. Previously, only the Extended Client Library for Java was available. This library is useful for messages that are larger than 256KB, up to a maximum of 2GB. The library automatically saves the actual payload to an Amazon S3 bucket and publishes the reference of the stored Amazon S3 object to the Amazon SNS topic.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports HDD and io2 Block Express EBS volume types

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Hard Disk Drive (HDD) volumes and io2 Block Express EBS volume types. You can start saving cost and improving performance on those EBS volumes with the optimization recommendations.

AWS Well-Architected Tool Announces Consolidated Report and Enhanced Search functionality

AWS is pleased to announce two new features in the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool)—Consolidated Report and Enhanced Search—that will enable customers to quickly identify risk themes across their workloads and scale improvements across their organization.

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler is now available in 18 additional regions

Amazon EventBridge Scheduler is now available in 18 additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada (Central), Europe (Zurich), EU (Milan), Europe (Spain), EU (London), EU (Paris), Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), South America (Sao Paulo), and US West (N. California).

Amazon GuardDuty now monitors runtime activity from containers running on Amazon EKS

Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to continuously monitor and profile Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) container runtime activity to identify malicious or suspicious behavior within container workloads. GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring introduces a new lightweight, fully-managed security agent that monitors on-host operating system-level behavior, such as file access, process execution, and network connections. Once a potential threat is detected, GuardDuty generates a security finding that pinpoints the specific container, and includes details such as pod ID, image ID, EKS cluster tags, executable path, and process lineage. GuardDuty EKS Runtime monitoring includes over two dozen new detections at launch, which when combined with GuardDuty EKS Audit Log Monitoring, amounts to more than 50 detections that are tailored to identify threats to Amazon EKS deployments.

AWS Chatbot now supports search of AWS resources and AWS content

We are excited to announce search and discovery of AWS resources and AWS documentation content in the AWS Chatbot. The search feature allows customers to find their AWS resources and discover relevant AWS Documentation by simply typing queries in natural language.

Amazon Athena for Apache Spark is now available in 4 new regions

Amazon Athena announces that Amazon Athena for Apache Spark is now available in 4 new AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). This release expands Amazon Athena for Apache Spark beyond the 5 regions available today: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland)

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports EC2 instances with non-consecutive utilization data

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports EC2 instances that have non-consecutive 30 hours of utilization data during the 14 days period (for EC2 instances without enhanced infrastructure metrics) or up to 93 days (for EC2 instances with enhanced infrastructure metrics). It no longer requires your EC2 instances to have 30 consecutive hours of utilization data to get cost and performance optimization recommendations.

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS supports RDS for PostgreSQL

Amazon DevOps Guru for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. With this capability, you can resolve RDS for PostgreSQL related performance bottlenecks in minutes rather than days. DevOps Guru for RDS for RDS PostgreSQL supports both reactive insights, anomalous behavior that has already occurred, as well as proactive insights, informing you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical.

Amazon Omics now enables batch variant store imports

Amazon Omics now supports batch import of variant data into Omics variant stores. You can now import up to 1,000 variant call format (VCF) and genome VCF (gVCF) files in a single variant import job. This simplifies how you bring population scale variant data into Omics and make it available for analysis.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN adds support for better visibility and control of VPN tunnel maintenance updates

Today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control, a new capability that provides better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge) of memory are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region and instances with 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

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