5/24/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/25/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.27

Kubernetes 1.27 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.27. Starting today, you can create new 1.27 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.27 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool.

Amazon MWAA is now SOC Compliant

You can now use Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) for use cases that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) requirements. MWAA is now SOC 1, 2 and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS maintains SOC compliance through extensive third-party audits of AWS controls. These audits ensure that the appropriate safeguards and procedures are in place to protect against security risks that may affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer and company data. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that you can download in AWS Artifact.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides an enhanced console experience

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now provides an enhanced console experience to view performance monitoring metrics for Amazon RDS databases. It consolidates information from Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon RDS Performance Insights to provide a comprehensive view of your database’s health. This removes the need for you to gather data from multiple sources and speeds up the diagnosis of database performance issues.

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support beta macOS versions

Starting today, customers can run beta macOS versions on their EC2 M1 Mac instances by registering their instances with the Apple Developer Program, and upgrading to their desired preview, seed, or release candidate macOS versions from within their guest environments. With this capability, Apple developers can now integrate latest macOS features into their applications and test existing applications for compatibility before public macOS releases.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

AWS DataSync is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region

AWS DataSync is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. You can now use DataSync to copy data between on-premises, edge, or other cloud storage and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region.

AWS Amplify announces Authenticator UI Library for Swift and Android

Today, AWS Amplify is announcing Authenticator UI component for Swift and Android. Developers can now use the Authenticator UI component to build end to end login/registration workflows for their Amplify powered Swift and Android projects in minutes. Moreover, the Authenticator UI component sets up the sign in and sign up workflows based on the existing auth configuration right out of the box. This UI component is built entirely using native SwiftUI and Android Jetpack Compose components, so developers can provide a user experience tailored to the Swift and Android platforms that their users feel most comfortable with.

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Toronto

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix TR2 data center in Toronto, Canada. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage now supports Low-Latency HLS

Starting today you can package your media streams in Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) format with AWS Elemental MediaPackage. LL-HLS functionality can be used with AWS Elemental MediaLive or AWS Elemental Live v2.25.0, in combination with SCTE-35 for ad insertion workflows, and with SPEKE v2 for multi-key digital rights management (DRM), including key rotation.

AWS CodeBuild is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

AWS CodeBuild is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. Using CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports up to 15 read replicas for RDS Multi-AZ deployment option with two readable standby database instances

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports up to 15 asynchronous read replicas from Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys delivering up to 8x the previous read capacity.

Amazon Translate launches real time document translation

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are announcing the general availability of real time document translation feature that allows customers to translate HTML and Text documents in real time. Until today, to translate documents in real time, customers had to extract the text, translate the text into the target language, and post-process the translated text to convert it into the original file format. With the new real time document translation feature there is no need for any pre-processing or post-processing steps. Customers can use APIs or the AWS console to submit a translation request and receive documents back with source formatting intact.

Amazon SES adds new enhancements to its dedicated IPs (managed) feature

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) announces enhancements to its dedicated IPs (managed) feature. Dedicated IPs (managed) helps customers to grow, manage and maintain their sending reputation via exclusive IP addresses without the heavy lifting associated with provisioning and managing dedicated IPs. With this release, customers can view metrics about their dedicated IPs (managed), getting greater visibility into how their dedicated IPs are performing, can create up to 50 dedicated IPs (managed) pools, and can easily convert their dedicated IP (standard) IPs into dedicated IPs (managed).

AWS KMS HSMs upgraded to FIPS 140-2 Security Level 3

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) announced today that the hardware security modules (HSMs) used in the service were awarded Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Security Level 3 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The FIPS 140 program validates areas related to the secure design and implementation of a cryptographic module, including the correctness of cryptographic algorithm implementations and tamper resistance/response. AWS KMS HSMs have been certified under FIPS 140-2 overall Security Level 2 continuously since 2017. This new certification gives customers assurance that all cryptographic operations involving their keys in AWS KMS happen within an HSM certified at FIPS 140-2 Security Level 3.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches theme detection

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides a machine learning powered capability for businesses to help identify top contact drivers by grouping customer conversations into themes. This complements Contact Lens’ existing automated contact categorization capabilities that businesses have been using to label contacts for tracking known issues across their contact centers. With theme detection, businesses can discover previously unknown or emerging contact themes from thousands of customer interactions. Businesses can also spot common reasons for customer outreach (e.g. “cancel reservation”, “delayed order”, etc.). They can then take appropriate actions to improve customer experience by expediting issue resolution, and improving IVR options, knowledge base articles, and agent training.

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