5/15/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/16/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Clean Rooms is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible

AWS Clean Rooms is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling covered entities and their business associates to use AWS Clean Rooms to process, maintain, and store protected health information. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS Clean Rooms for workloads that are subject to HIPAA compliance.

Amazon QuickSight launches Common Sub-expression Elimination for SPICE performance optimization

Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of Common Sub-expression Elimination (CSE) - a performance optimization initiative for better query generation for SPICE datasets. The CSE improves QuickSight user experience through pushing down repeated use of complex expressions into intermediate tables hence simplify complex queries, such as for totals/subtotals, top bottom filter, conditional formatting, and “others” bucket for charts, etc. Through the CSE query optimization, customers would observe faster loading dashboards, especially for complex dashboards and time-consuming interactions. Currently, the CSE is released with SPICE datasets only. There is no customer configuration needed, the backend change will seamlessly apply to the QuickSight usage.

Amazon Omics now supports direct upload to Omics storage and automatic variant data parsing

Today, Amazon Omics announces a new capability for direct data ingestion to Omics storage. Omics storage enables customers to store FASTQ, BAM, and CRAM files at a cost-effective price at scale. Previously, Omics had an asynchronous batch upload process for bulk loading of sequence readsets. This new capability adds a simple synchronous upload capability. The multi-part direct upload APIs will now allow customers to upload their data directly to the sequence stor­­e. This functionality allows customers to integrate existing processing pipelines and/or sequencers to directly write their outputs to a sequence store. Additionally, the transfer manager utility has been updated so that customers can directly upload large files with a single python command.

Amazon Omics adds pre-built bioinformatic workflows with predictable pricing

Today, Amazon Omics announces the availability of Ready2Run workflows, a set of pre-built workflows from third-party software companies and open-source pipelines. With just a few clicks or a single API call, customers can run pre-built pipelines to perform primary analysis such as converting base calls to FASTQ files, secondary analysis such as gene expression or variant calling, and tertiary analysis such as protein structure prediction. Ready2Run workflows are priced-per-run to give customers predictable pricing. We are launching with 35 Ready2Run workflows, which are a combination of workflows built by Element Biosciences, NVIDIA, and Sentieon Inc, as well as popular open-source pipelines developed by the life sciences community.

AWS Config advanced queries support 62 new resource types

AWS Config supports 62 new resource types in advanced queries. The advanced queries feature provides a single query endpoint and a powerful query language to get current resource state metadata without performing service-specific describe API calls. You can use configuration aggregators to run the same queries from a central account across multiple accounts and AWS Regions.

Amazon Omics announces support for Graphical Processing Units for workflows

Today, Amazon Omics announces support for NVIDIA T4 and a10 graphical processing units (GPUs) for Omics workflows. Omics private workflows allows customers to bring their own workflow scripts and specify the compute resources that they need for each task in their workflow. Customers can now enable NVIDIA T4 and a10g GPUs for use in Omics private workflows to support accelerated and AI-based genomics analysis with NVIDIA Parabricks and open-source protein folding pipelines.

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now supports Ubuntu 22.04

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports patch deployments for instances running Ubuntu 22.04. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch nodes with both security related and other types of updates across your infrastructure. Patch Manager supports a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page.

Amazon Timestream now supports unloading data to Amazon S3

Amazon Timestream now enables you to export your query results to Amazon S3 in a cost-effective and secure manner using the new UNLOAD statement.

Amazon Textract updates its Queries feature within Analyze Document API

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to deliver better accuracy and latency. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our Queries feature available via the AnalyzeDocument API.

Advanced sampling now available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the tail sampling processor and the group-by-trace processor in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector. ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector for advanced distributed trace sampling use cases.

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