3/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/3/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Console Toolbar is now generally available for AWS CloudShell
Today, we are excited to launch Console Toolbar in the AWS Management Console. Console Toolbar is a new feature that allows AWS customers to use the AWS Management Console and AWS CloudShell in a single view. For example, customers can now run a command in CloudShell and view a CloudWatch alarm in the Console at the same time. AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell, pre-authenticated with your console credentials that makes it easier for you to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources.
AWS Cloud Map enables service editing in AWS Console
AWS Cloud Map enables service editing capability in the AWS Console. 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.
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Mumbai, India
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MB2 data center in Mumbai, India. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.
Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice, an application networking service that simplifies connecting, securing, and monitoring service-to-service communication. You can use Amazon VPC Lattice to facilitate cross-account and cross-VPC connectivity, as well as application layer load balancing for your workloads. Whether the underlying compute types are instances, containers, or serverless, with Amazon VPC Lattice developers can work with native integration on the compute platform of their choice.
Amazon Simple Email Service now detects gaps in BIMI configuration
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new feature that helps make it easier for brands to see if their registered logo appears on email through Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI). Now you can find out when BIMI configuration is missing or misconfigured for all of your email sending domains in SES. BIMI is a digital certificate that lets you show your registered logo on emails, helping customers trust the email sender and message content. SES automatically checks BIMI configuration through Virtual Deliverability Manager Advisor, letting you know if there is a problem with your BIMI configuration. This makes it easier to configure BIMI and check coverage.
Amazon Simple Email Service now supports delivery and engagement graphs
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now makes it easier to check email KPIs with new dashboard tools. Now you can see time series views of key deliverability metrics through Virtual Deliverability Manager’s dashboard. These deliverability metrics help make it easier to see how performance indicators such as delivery volume, complaint rate, and click rate vary over time, simplifying monitoring of deliverability performance and streamlining investigations of performance challenges.
AWS License Manager now offers improved license visibility and distribution across your organization
AWS License Manager now offers an organization-wide view of license entitlements for all software purchased in AWS Marketplace and from independent software vendors. Also, administrators can now distribute grants to an organizational unit (OU), in addition to their organization’s root or an AWS account. When distributing grants, users have the option to replace grants for the same software that an AWS account might already have.
AWS Glue Studio visual ETL adds 10 new visual transforms
AWS Glue Studio now offers 10 new visual transforms: Concatenate, Split string, Array to columns, Add current timestamp, Pivot rows to columns, Unpivot columns to rows, Lookup, Explode, Derived column, and Autobalance processing. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. With these new components, ETL developers can quickly build more sophisticated data pipelines without having to write code.
AWS Blu Insights enhances user access with single sign-on
AWS Blu Age Blu Insights, the automated refactor capability of AWS Mainframe Modernization service, is now accessible using single sign-on (SSO). As a result, users of the service no longer require dedicated credentials for AWS Blu Insights and benefit from a seamless authentication experience between AWS Management Console and AWS Blu Insights for service usage, monitoring, and billing. All AWS Blu Insights features like Codebase Analysis continue to be available at no additional charge, while the AWS Blu Insights Transformation Center is priced per line of code and duration as outlined on the service pricing page.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 500M active metrics per workspace
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible service that monitors and provides alerts on containerized applications and infrastructure at scale. Prometheus is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS. With this release, customers can send up to 500M active metrics to a single workspace after filing a service limit increase request, and can create many workspaces per account, enabling the storage and analysis of billions of Prometheus metrics. To get started, customers can create an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace and increase their workspace active series limits by filing a service limit increase request in AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas.
Service Quotas is now available in additional Regions
You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Europe (Spain), AWS Europe (Zurich), AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports NLP and CV use cases
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides ready-to-use models so you can generate insights from thousands of documents, images, and lines of text in minutes. Additionally, you can now create custom models to address natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) use cases. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions on their own—without requiring any ML experience or having to write a single line of code.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Managing Your Development Environment with Amazon CodeCatalyst
- Build a secure CI/CD pipeline on a private Amazon Virtual Private Cloud with no internet access
- AWS Week in Review — March 27, 2023
- Introducing Amazon Aurora-related sessions at AWS Summit Tokyo
- Team collaboration using Amazon CodeCatalyst
AWS News Blog
- New – Ready-to-use Models and Support for Custom Text and Image Classification Models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
- Simplify Service-to-Service Connectivity, Security, and Monitoring with Amazon VPC Lattice – Now Generally Available
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Implement resource counters with Amazon DynamoDB
- The World is a graph: How Wiz reimagines cloud security using a graph in Amazon Neptune
Desktop and Application Streaming
Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex
- Build end-to-end document processing pipelines with Amazon Textract IDP CDK Constructs