5/4/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/5/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Network Firewall now supports Reject action in stream exception policy

Today, AWS announces support for Reject action in stream exception policy of AWS Network Firewall to improve performance of latency-sensitive applications. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon VPCs.

New in AWS Security Hub: detailed tracking of finding changes with finding history feature

AWS Security Hub, a cloud security posture management service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and facilitates automated remediation, now features a detailed history of changes that have occurred for each finding in your environment. This view provides an immutable trail of changes, indicating what fields were changed, by whom, and when. You can now get more visibility into the changes made to your findings over time, making it easier to identify and investigate any suspicious or unauthorized changes.

SageMaker announces ml.inf2 and ml.trn1 instances for model deployment

We are excited to announce the availability of ml.inf2 and ml.trn1 family of instances on Amazon SageMaker for deploying machine learning (ML) models for Real-time and Asynchronous inference. You can use these instances on SageMaker to achieve high performance at a low cost for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers. In addition, you can use SageMaker Inference Recommender to help you run load tests and evaluate the price-performance benefits of deploying your model on these instances.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors. You can learn more about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink here.

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.4.0

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.4.0 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.4.0 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key features include a fix to improve stability to fetch from the closest replica. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 3.4.0.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in two additional AWS Regions

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in two additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta).

Amazon EMR on EKS launches vertical autoscaling to auto-tune application resources

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports vertical autoscaling, a feature to automatically tune the memory and CPU resources of EMR Spark Applications to adapt to the needs of the provided workload, offering a simplified mechanism for customers to tune resources, enhance reliability and optimize costs. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS without having to manage application provisioning themselves.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports video passthrough

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports video passthrough for mezzanine video formats. You can now run MediaConvert jobs that preserve the original video essence without re-encoding for intra-frame-only video formats such as AVC Intra, Apple ProRes, VC3, and JPEG2000.

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports self-hosted notebooks for managed endpoints

We are excited to announce the addition of self-hosted Jupyter notebooks as another mechanism to run interactive workloads via managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using an integrated development environments (IDEs) such as EMR Studio.

AWS Resilience Hub expands AWS Trusted Advisor and Amazon DynamoDB support

AWS Resilience Hub has expanded support for AWS Trusted Advisor and applications using Amazon DynamoDB. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions.

AWS CodePipeline is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS CodePipeline in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.

AWS Batch now includes dashboard customization on the console

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the customizable dashboard feature on the AWS Batch console, providing a single view that displays resource metrics based on your specific needs. This feature allows you to redesign and target different types of widgets in your preferred order, making it easier to troubleshoot issues using widgets such as job logs, job queue metrics, etc. You can also add a container insights widget to track your compute environment utilization.

AWS VSS application-consistent backups now supports PowerShell logging

AWS VSS application-consistent backups now allows customers to take application-consistent backups while PowerShell Logging is enabled. AWS VSS application-consistent backups now incorporates a parallel processing ability that enables its EC2 Windows customers achieve successful VSS backups in a broader range of environments. With this launch, customers will see improved compatibility between VSS and applications such as antivirus and application monitoring that require PowerShell logging to be enabled.

Zonal shift for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller now available in 18 additional Regions

Zonal shift for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller is now available in all standard AWS Regions.

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