5/22/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/23/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS partners bring choice of temporary elevated access capabilities to IAM Identity Center
Customers of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) can use CyberArk Secure Cloud Access, Ermetic, and Okta Access Requests for temporary elevated access, also known as just-in-time access. As part of an ongoing collaboration with partners, AWS Identity validated that these solutions integrate with Identity Center and address common customer requirements, such as the ability to request and approve time-bound access, and to audit action logs.
AWS Chatbot supports access to Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and Logs Insights in chat channels
AWS Chatbot now supports access to Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and Logs Insights from AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams and AWS Chatbot for Slack. AWS customers can now find the status of their application health by accessing CloudWatch dashboards and log telemetry from their chat channel. When they receive Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications for an incident in their chat channel, they can analyze the diagnostic data from the dashboards and remediate directly from their chat channel without switching context.
Aurora MySQL improves performance and failover recovery time when binlog is enabled
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to when native MySQL binlog is enabled.
Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.6 with GPU instance health checks and RHEL8 support
AWS ParallelCluster 3.6 is now generally available. Key new features include support for automatic health checks for GPU instances and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL8). Other important features in this release include:\n
Ability to customize Slurm settings not managed by ParallelCluster
A programmatic interface to manage ParallelCluster using AWS CloudFormation
Support for up to 50 queues and a total of 50 compute resources per cluster
Tag-based cost monitoring in ParallelCluster UI
Support for custom resource tags for queues, head node, and ParallelCluster-managed storage
Extended Amazon CloudWatch metrics for disk usage, idle instances, and errors
Improved head node resiliency with configurable log rotation
AWS Backup now supports restoring resources with tags
Today, AWS Backup is announcing support for restoring resources with tags copied from protected resources. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. This launch allows you to seamlessly extend using tag-based policies for access, cost allocation, compliance, and automation workflows for your restored resources.
Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 3 more AWS regions
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 3 more AWS regions -Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Africa (Cape Town). Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- How to calculate reserved capacity for cost optimization in Amazon DynamoDB
- [Manga linked blog] What is a cloud business intelligence (BI) tool?
- New features in Amazon Omics make it easy for healthcare and life science customers to get started, build applications, and scale up
- AWS democratizes Jupyter’s generative AI and announces new enhancements to scale notebook execution
- Introducing NVIDIA Omniverse Nucleus on AWS
- AWS Weekly — Week 2023/5/15
AWS Japan Startup Blog (Japanese)
- Rapid Growth Startup FLUX Inc. | Realizing the Future of Digital Marketing with AWS [AWS Summit Tokyo]
- The key to improving user experience is “resolving divisions” - the other side of a system that handles smart locks that are absolutely unstoppable [AWS Summit Tokyo]
- Achieving both real-time performance and 40% cost reduction | Utilizing AWS in Japan’s largest metaverse platform cluster [AWS Summit Tokyo]
AWS News Blog
AWS Open Source Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- A sneak peek at the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) sessions for re:Inforce 2023
- Use Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor for greater visibility into online experiences
AWS Database Blog
- Introducing Amazon Aurora MySQL enhanced binary log (binlog)
- Amazon Aurora Global Database minor version upgrade in a headless configuration