4/28/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/1/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon RDS now supports M7g and R7g database (DB) instances
AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB.
Amazon Connect reduces South Korea DID rates
Amazon Connect has reduced prices for direct-inward dial (DID) rates for South Korea in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. This includes claimed DID phone numbers reduced by 89% from $0.8/day to $0.0864/day and DID inbound minutes by 97% from $0.0736/min to $0.0020/min.
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports workspace configuration with version 9.4 option
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. Since inception, Amazon Managed Grafana maintained a single version offering across all workspaces globally. With this release, you can select an Amazon Managed Grafana supported version to create a new workspace. Version 9.4 includes several new features to further enhance your experience in Amazon Managed Grafana including, but not limited to: plugin enhancements to support CloudWatch cross-account querying, OpenSearch serverless, querying multiple asset properties from AWS IoT Sitewise, query result reuse and async queries for Athena; Prometheus and Loki query builders make it even easier to create and modify queries for your data sources; Service accounts that provide a secure and efficient way to automate tasks within your Grafana instance.
AWS Verified Access is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure access to your corporate applications without using a VPN. Built based on AWS Zero Trust principles, you can use Verified Access to implement a work-from-anywhere model with added security and scalability.
AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon EC2 Instance disk fill
Today, AWS announces the expanded support of AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) for Amazon EC2 with a new SSM document to the fill disk of EC2 instances. FIS is a fully managed service which allows you to run experiments to test how your applications behaves during an impairment, and helps you improve application performance, observability, and resilience. The new disk fill document consumes disk space to see how the application behaves when disk space is unavailable.
Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud are now available in three new AWS Regions
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions.
Amazon Connect reduces Japan toll-free inbound minute rate
Amazon Connect has reduced pricing for the Japan toll-free inbound minute rate by 46% from $0.1482/min to $0.08/min in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region.
Amazon MSK now offers multi-VPC private connectivity and cross-account access
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now offers multi-VPC private connectivity that simplifies connectivity and access to your Amazon MSK clusters from your Apache Kafka clients hosted in any VPC or AWS account.
Amazon S3 now applies two security best practices to all new buckets by default
Amazon S3 now applies two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. This change was first announced on December 13, 2022, began deploying on April 5, 2023, and is now applied to all AWS Regions. To learn more about the change, read Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 in the AWS News Blog and Default access settings for new S3 buckets FAQ in the S3 User Guide.
Amazon CloudWatch adds new console capabilities and data visualizations
Amazon CloudWatch is introducing enhancements to the console experience, which improve data visualizations, cross-console navigation and user experience.
Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id, R6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation C5d, M5d and R5d instances, C6id, M6id and R6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance. C6id offers up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB; M6id and R6id offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.
Announcing Provisioned Capacity for Amazon Athena
Today, AWS announced Provisioned Capacity for Amazon Athena, a new feature that allows you to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Provisioned Capacity enables you to allocate dedicated compute to mission-critical queries and control workload performance characteristics such as query concurrency and cost. You can add capacity at any time, and pay only for the amount of capacity you specify and time it is active in your account.
Amazon EC2 now supports AMD SEV-SNP
Amazon EC2 now supports AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (AMD SEV-SNP), a feature on AMD EPYC™ processors, on M6a, C6a, and R6a instance types. The availability of AMD SEV-SNP in EC2 further increases the diversity of options that our customers have to meet the unique requirements of any workload.
Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Bahrain and Hong Kong Regions
Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon Location Service Cost Optimization
- AWS Weekly — Week 2023/4/24
- AWS Jam Implementation Report @AWS Summit Tokyo 2023
- How to store the timestamp of the last modification when restoring an Amazon S3 object with AWS Backup
AWS News Blog
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Connect Kafka client applications securely to your Amazon MSK cluster from different VPCs and AWS accounts
- Use the Amazon Redshift Data API to interact with Amazon Redshift Serverless
- How Novo Nordisk built distributed data governance and control at scale
- Monitor and optimize cost on AWS Glue for Apache Spark
AWS Database Blog
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS for Industries
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
- Convert glTF to 3D Tiles for streaming of large models in AWS IoT TwinMaker
- Introducing TLS 1.3 support in AWS IoT Core
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Security Blog
Open Source Project
AWS CLI
Amplify for iOS
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