5/5/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/8/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 4.0

Today, we are announcing an update for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to use the Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 4.0. With this update, runtime version of AWS Lambda, executing the canaries, is updated to NodeJS 16.x.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in 4 additional regions

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE).

Amazon Rekognition launches face occlusion detection to improve identity verification accuracy

Today, AWS announced the general availability of face occlusion detection to improve face verification accuracy. The new FaceOccluded attribute in Amazon Rekognition DetectFaces and IndexFaces APIs detects if the face in an image is partially captured or not fully visible due to overlapping objects, clothing, and body parts.

Amazon QuickSight launches dataset parameters to optimize slicing and dicing experiences

We are introducing a new kind of parameter in Amazon QuickSight that will help users create interactive experiences in their dashboards. With Dataset Parameters, authors can optimize the experience and load time of dashboards that are connected-live to external SQL-based sources. When readers interact with their data, the selection and actions they make in controls, filters and visuals can be propagated to the data sources via live, custom, parameterized SQL queries. By mapping multiple Dataset Parameters to Analysis parameters, users can create a wide variety of experiences using controls, user actions, parameterized URLs, and calculated fields, as well as create dynamic visuals’ titles, descriptions, bookmarks, emails and PDF reports.

AWS Backup supports cross-Region backups in four new Regions

Today, we are announcing cross-Region backup support for Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. With cross-Region backups, you can store a copy of your backup data in AWS Regions other than where your primary backups are stored, helping you meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the with a few simple clicks.

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for filtering by metric name

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for filtering by metric name on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can now select the specific metrics you want to stream, providing additional filtering controls.

AWS Device Farm announces support for Rooted Android Private Devices

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are adding support for Rooted Android devices in our private device fleets. With Rooted Android devices, customers will be able to perform advanced testing with expanded device access, including more metrics, battery benchmarking, and increased access to the device file system.

AWS Health now publishes service health events to Amazon EventBridge in primary and backup Regions

AWS Health now publishes service health events to Amazon EventBridge. Previously, you could receive only account-specific events on this channel. Now, you can also receive events about the overall health of AWS services. This enables you to get a full picture of service issues that might affect the performance of your applications.

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