4/19/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/20/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Inspector now supports deep inspection of EC2 instances
Amazon Inspector now supports deep inspection of EC2 instances when the continual EC2 scanning feature is activated. With this expanded capability, Inspector now identifies software vulnerabilities in application programming packages including Python, Java, and Node.js packages in addition to operating system packages. Inspector discovers these application programming packages installed in default directory paths, and also allows customers to provide additional custom directory paths for Inspector discovery. This feature is activated by default for all new customers, and existing customers can activate this feature across their organization with a single click in the console. Deep inspection of EC2 instances is offered at no additional cost to Inspector customers.
Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab combats bots with CAPTCHA
Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab deployed CAPTCHA, (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), to deter automated bots and scripts, from absorbing compute capacity that is meant for customers experimenting with machine learning.
Amazon VPC Prefix Lists now available in three additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can create their own Prefix Lists in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Europe (Spain).
AWS Control Tower is now available in 7 additional Regions
Today, AWS Control Tower is available in 7 additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is now available in 22 AWS Regions and 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less.
Amazon Corretto April, 2023 Quarterly Updates
On April 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.1, 17.0.7, 11.0.19, 8u372 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. With this release, we are declaring aarch64 Alpine Linux binaries of Corretto 17, 11, and 8 GA.
Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access with WSP is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. You can deploy Amazon WorkSpaces using WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), without having to install a native client application and your users can now access Amazon WorkSpaces from supported web browsers on devices running Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.
Amazon Comprehend improves accuracy of document classification using layout data
Amazon Comprehend announced that Amazon Comprehend APIs for Document Classification will now use layout of the document in addition to text, to provide higher accuracy.
AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog now manage Apache Hive Metastore resources
AWS Lake Formation and the Glue Data Catalog now extend data cataloging, data sharing and fine-grained access control support for customers using a self-managed Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) as their data catalog. Previously, customers had to replicate their metadata into the AWS Glue Data Catalog in order use Lake Formation permissions and data sharing capabilities. Now, customers can integrate their HMS metadata within AWS, allowing them to discover data alongside native tables in the Glue data catalog, manage permissions and sharing from Lake Formation, and query data using AWS analytics services.
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.
AWS Amplify supports Push Notifications for mobile and cross platform apps
AWS Amplify is announcing support for Push Notifications for Swift, Android, Flutter, and React Native applications. This means that developers can now use Amplify to set up push notifications when targeting iOS and Android platforms, providing developers and businesses with a way to engage with users and send them timely and relevant information.
Announcing Dev Environment dashboard for Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview)
Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview) has added an administrative dashboard for Dev Environments. This dashboard enables users with the Space administrator role to centrally view and manage Dev Environments across projects. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- AWS Week in Review: Generative AI and New Services for Amazon EC2, TRN1n, Inf2, and CodeWhisperer Are Now Open to the Public — April 17, 2023
- Best practices for learning large language models on Amazon SageMaker
- Connect your on-premises multicast video network to the cloud using the AWS Elemental MediaConnect Gateway
- Get quick cost estimates with the AWS Pricing Calculator bulk import
AWS News Blog
AWS Open Source Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Big Data Blog
- Get maximum value out of your cloud data warehouse with Amazon Redshift
- Automate discovery of data relationships using ML and Amazon Neptune graph technology
- Accelerate HiveQL with Oozie to Spark SQL migration on Amazon EMR
AWS Contact Center
Containers
- Managing edge-aware Service Mesh with Amazon EKS for AWS Local Zones
- Tradeshift’s migration to Amazon EKS without downtime using Linkerd
AWS Database Blog
- Key considerations while migrating bulk operations from Oracle to PostgreSQL
- Use Amazon DynamoDB global tables in DynamoDB Shell
AWS DevOps Blog
Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS for Industries
- Helen of Troy is getting the most out of temperature data using AWS IoT Core
- Airline Resiliency and Recovery during Operational Disruptions with AWS
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Amazon Comprehend document classifier adds layout support for higher accuracy
- Use streaming ingestion with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store and Amazon MSK to make ML-backed decisions in near-real time
- How Sportradar used the Deep Java Library to build production-scale ML platforms for increased performance and efficiency
AWS for M&E Blog
AWS Quantum Technologies Blog
AWS Security Blog
- A sneak peek at the data protection sessions for re:Inforce 2023
- A sneak peek at the application security sessions for re:Inforce 2023