4/24/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/25/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Glue Crawlers now support creating partition indexes

AWS Glue Crawlers extract the data schema and partitions from Amazon S3 and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog, keeping metadata current. Today, AWS Glue Crawler support is expanded to automatically add partition indexes for newly discovered tables that will help analytics services such as Amazon Athena and AWS Glue to optimize partition processing to help with query performance on highly partitioned tables.

AWS Support in Korean is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Support in Korean in all commercial regions. Customers can now select Korean, in addition to Chinese, English, and Japanese as their preferred language to interact with our team of support engineers and customer service representatives. Customers will receive personalized support in the language of their choice with predictable response times as per their Support plan at no additional cost.

AWS IoT TwinMaker now supports data overlays and text annotations in 3D scenes

You can now add data overlays and text annotations in the AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Composer. Data overlay and text annotations provide context in scenes like access to key performance metrics and sensor data, making it easier to navigate your twins and monitor your facilities with AWS IoT TwinMaker.

AWS License Manager now supports upgrading of EC2 Instances from Ubuntu to Ubuntu Pro operating system

AWS License Manager announces a new feature to upgrade EC2 instances with Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) operating system to Ubuntu Pro. With Ubuntu Pro subscription, customers get five years of Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) on the Ubuntu LTS releases from Canonical. Using this License Manager feature, customers can upgrade their Ubuntu LTS instances in-place to Ubuntu Pro without needing to migrate to a new Ubuntu Pro Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For the use of upgraded EC2 instances with Ubuntu Pro, you will be charged on a per-second basis at the applicable On-Demand or Savings Plan rates for Ubuntu Pro.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS Firewall Manager adds support for multiple administrators

Starting today, customers with multiple organizational units (OU’s), and accounts can now create up to 10 AWS Firewall Manager administrator accounts from AWS Organizations service to manage their firewall policies. Customers can delegate responsibility for firewall administration at a granular scope by restricting access based on OU, account, policy type, and region, thereby enabling policy management tasks to be implemented faster and more effectively.

AWS Systems Manager now supports AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications

Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that helps DevOps engineers investigate and remediate issues in the context of their applications, now supports AWS CDK applications. Customers who use CDK to model their cloud infrastructure can view their CDK constructs grouped as applications in the Application Manager console.

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