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.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
AWS Japan Startup Blog (Japanese)
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Reduce incident management response times for container workloads using AWS Chatbot
- AWS Application Migration Service best practices
AWS Database Blog
- Code conversion patterns to migrate Sybase SQL Anywhere database schemas to Amazon RDS for SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2
- Automate high availability setup in Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
AWS for Industries
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Build an image search engine with Amazon Kendra and Amazon Rekognition
- Create high-quality datasets with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and FiftyOne
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
- NetDevSecOps to modernize AWS networking deployments
- A sneak peek at the Network and Infrastructure Security track sessions for re:Inforce 2023
- Attach multiple IPs to a NAT Gateway to scale your egress traffic pattern