4/10/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/11/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now supports FIPS 140-2 on AWS Fargate in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, customers can deploy their workloads on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate in a manner compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2. FIPS is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information.
AWS Firewall Manager adds support for six additional AWS WAF features
AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF Bot Control for Targeted Bots, AWS WAF Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention, AWS WAF Rules action overrides for managed rule groups, centralized AWS WAF logging directly to S3 buckets and new logging filters, and AWS WAF Captcha Configuration, Challenge configuration, and Token Domains.
Amazon Connect Voice ID now supports multiple fraudster watchlists per Voice ID domain
Amazon Connect Voice ID now enables customers to maintain multiple fraudster watchlists for their Voice ID domains, with each watchlist supporting up to 500 fraudsters. Previously one Voice ID domain only supported one fraudster watchlist for known fraudster detection. With the availability of multiple watchlists, customers can configure which fraudster watchlist within their Voice ID domain is to be used for a specific contact in the Amazon Connect Contact Flow. Voice ID APIs allow customers to specify which watchlist a fraudster will be associated with when registering fraudsters, as well as manage individual fraudsters within watchlists.
Amazon GuardDuty Adds Three New Threat Detections to Alert Customers on Suspicious DNS Traffic
Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help detect suspicious DNS traffic indicative of potential attempts by malicious actors to evade detection when performing activities such as exfiltrating data, or using command & control servers to communicate with malware.
Amazon Connect now enables agents to handle voice calls, chats, and tasks concurrently
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to concurrently offer agents contacts across multiple channels, including voice, chat, and tasks. Now contact center managers can configure an agent’s routing profile to receive contacts from multiple channels at the same time. For example, an agent currently handling a chat could be offered a voice call from a high-priority queue when other agents aren’t available. Contact center managers can also choose which channels cannot be interrupted. For example, they can allow chats to be interrupted by a phone call, but then prevent offering any further contacts until the agent completes that phone call.
Amazon QuickSight now supports Row Level Security tags with OR condition
Amazon QuickSight now supports nested conditions within Row Level Security (RLS) tags where you can combine AND and OR conditions to simplify multi-tenant access patterns. You can use RLS with tag-based rules to restrict access to a dataset when embedding dashboards for anonymous users. Previously, you could combine RLS tags using AND condition with a value you assign to the tags at run time. To learn more about setting up row level security using session tags with the OR condition click here.
Announcing media metrics for AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Today, AWS announces media metrics for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, increasing the information available for transcoding events and associated media assets. Now you can view and act on a broader set of data both during and after transcoding jobs complete. You can use the information available through media metrics to build dashboards with Amazon CloudWatch and to programmatically integrate actions into your workflows via Amazon EventBridge.
Amazon RDS Optimized Reads now offers up to 2X faster queries on RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Reads for up to two times faster query processing compared to previous generation instances. Complex queries that utilize temporary tables, such as queries involving sorts, hash aggregations, high-load joins, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can now execute up to two times faster with Optimized Reads on RDS for PostgreSQL. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by PostgreSQL on the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, thereby reducing your traffic to Elastic Block Storage (EBS) over the network. Refer to our recent blog post to learn more about performance improvements using local disk based database instances for workloads that have highly concurrent read/write processing.
AWS Glue visual ETL now supports new native Amazon Redshift capabilities
AWS Glue Studio now supports new native Amazon Redshift connector capabilities: browse Amazon Redshift tables directly in Glue Studio, add native Redshift SQL, execute common operations while writing to Amazon Redshift including drop, truncate, upsert, create or merge. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface that helps ETL developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs quickly. With this new feature, ETL developers can read and write data into Amazon Redshift more effectively using AWS Glue.
Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender improves usability and launches new features
Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender (IR) helps customers select the best instance type and configuration (such as instance count, container parameters, and model optimizations) for deploying their ML models on SageMaker. Today, we are announcing deeper integration with Amazon CloudWatch for logs and metrics, python SDK support for running IR jobs, enabling customers to run IR jobs within a VPC subnet of their choice, support for running load tests on existing endpoint via a new API, and several usability improvements for easily getting started with IR.
AWS Well-Architected Framework strengthens prescriptive guidance
AWS is pleased to announce an update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which will provide customers and partners with more prescriptive guidance on building and operating in the cloud, and enable them to stay up-to-date on the latest architectural best practices in a constantly evolving technological landscape.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Building a secure search application with access control using Amazon Kendra
- AWS Weekly — Week 2023/4/3
- New — Self-Service Provisioning of Terraform Open Source Configurations Using AWS Service Catalog
- The AWS Supply Chain is now publicly available — reducing risk and reducing costs through improved visibility and actionable insights
- Information on the “DB on Chime” webinar to be held on 2023/4/24 (Monday)
- Optimize trash collection with Amazon Location Service and Amazon SageMaker
AWS News Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Database Blog
AWS for Industries
- Xcel Energy migrates CI/CD to AWS Fargate for 60x faster deployments at 82x lower cost
- Firework simplifies live ecommerce with Amazon IVS
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Inpaint images with Stable Diffusion using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Deploy large language models on AWS Inferentia2 using large model inference containers