4/13/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/14/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Announcing AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway, a new cloud-connected software application that transmits live video between your on-premises multicast network and AWS Elemental MediaConnect. You can easily build end-to-end live video contribution and distribution workflows in AWS at scale.
Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, are now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models including large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers. Inf2 instances are powered by up to 12 AWS Inferentia2 chips, the latest AWS designed deep learning (DL) accelerator. They deliver up to four times higher throughput and up to 10 times lower latency than first-generation Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances.
Amazon EC2 I4i instances available in additional regions
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1n instances, which are powered by AWS Trainium accelerators. Building on the capabilities of Trainium-powered Trn1 instances, Trn1n instances double the network bandwidth to 1600 Gbps of second-generation Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv2). With this increased bandwidth, Trn1n instances deliver up to 20% faster time-to-train for training network-intensive generative AI models such as large language models (LLMs) and mixture of experts (MoE). Similar to Trn1 instances, Trn1n instances offer up to 50% savings on training costs over other comparable Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon CodeWhisperer is now generally available
Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon CodeWhisperer. This artificial intelligence (AI) coding companion generates real-time single-line or full function code suggestions in your integrated development environment (IDE) to help you more quickly build software. With general availability, we are excited to introduce two tiers: CodeWhisperer Individual and CodeWhisperer Professional.
Amazon Redshift enhances string query performance by up to 63x
Today, Amazon Redshift introduced additional performance enhancements that speed up string-based data processing by 5x to 63x compared to alternative compression encodings such as LZO or ZSTD. Amazon Redshift achieves this through vectorized scans over light weight CPU-efficient dictionary-encoded string columns that allows the database engine to operate directly over compressed data. These techniques are optimal on low cardinality string columns (CHAR or VARCHAR). Low cardinality string columns are columns that have up to a few hundred unique string values.
Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in three additional regions
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in three additional regions
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).
Amazon MSK is now available in Hyderabad, Spain, and Zurich Regions
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters.
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the three additional regions
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java functions in 6 additional regions
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java functions in 6 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (London), South America (São Paulo), US West (N. California). AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java delivers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost. Lambda SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda, without having to provision resources or spend time and effort implementing complex performance optimizations.
Amazon Chime SDK updates Service Level Agreement
AWS has updated the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Amazon Chime SDK to include a Monthly Uptime Percentage of 99.99% with a completed AWS Well-Architected Review. The Amazon Chime SDK provides builders with an easy way to add real-time voice, video, and messaging, powered by machine learning, into their applications.
Announcing updated video background blur and replacement in Amazon Chime SDK
Developers can now use updated video background blur and replacement with improved quality in Amazon Chime SDK client library for JavaScript. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. Video background blur and replacement obscure users’ surroundings to help increase visual privacy.
AWS Service Management Connector introduces AWS Support and Automation integrations in Jira Cloud
Starting today, customers can use Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud as a single place to track and manage cases (incidents) from AWS Support via the AWS Service Management Connector for JSM. AWS Support enables users to create, track and resolve cases related to AWS resources in a central place, helping customers reduce the time to issue resolution. This dual sync integration between AWS Support cases and JSM incidents (issues) enables users to manage AWS Support cases while using their existing workflows in JSM Cloud.
Amazon GameLift adds support for Unreal Engine 5
We are excited to announce Amazon GameLift now supports games built on Unreal Engine 5 with the latest update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. The latest version of the Amazon GameLift Server SDK 5.0 now supports Unity 2020.3, Unreal 4.26, Unreal 5.0, Go language, and custom C++ and C# engines.
AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, announces support for Shared Subscriptions to its MQTT-based messaging broker service. MQTT is a device-to-device messaging communication standard widely used in IoT applications for device to cloud message delivery. AWS IoT Core supports both MQTT3.1.1 and the newer MQTT5 industry specifications allowing clients with either version to take advantage of this new feature seamlessly.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- How to play the AWS Black Belt Compute Series
- Week in Review: Service Catalog for Terraform, AWS Supply Chain, Streaming Responses on Lambda, Amplify Library for Swift — April 10, 2023
- Here are some highlights just before the AWS Summit Tokyo
- Simplify connectivity, security, and monitoring between services with Amazon VPC Lattice — Now Available to the Public
- First steps to resolve Amazon OpenSearch Service performance issues
AWS Japan Startup Blog (Japanese)
AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 Inf2 Instances for Low-Cost, High-Performance Generative AI Inference are Now Generally Available
- Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, is Now Generally Available
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Compute Blog
- Streaming Android games from cloud to mobile with AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 G5g instances
- Optimizing AWS Lambda extensions in C# and Rust
AWS Contact Center
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS
- How Accenture is using Amazon CodeWhisperer to improve developer productivity
AWS for M&E Blog
AWS Security Blog
AWS Storage Blog
Open Source Project
AWS CLI
AWS CDK
Amplify for JavaScript
- aws-amplify@5.1.1
- @aws-amplify/xr@4.0.27
- @aws-amplify/storage@5.2.1
- @aws-amplify/pushnotification@5.0.27
- @aws-amplify/pubsub@5.1.10
- @aws-amplify/predictions@5.1.1
- @aws-amplify/notifications@1.1.1
- @aws-amplify/interactions@5.0.27
- @aws-amplify/geo@2.0.27
- @aws-amplify/datastore-storage-adapter@2.0.27