5/25/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/26/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now supports fine-tuning of Foundation Models with domain adaptation

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides the capability to fine-tune a large language model, particularly a text generation model on a domain-specific data set. Customers can now fine-tune models with their custom data set to improve performance in specific domains. For example, this blog describes how to use domain adaption to fine tune a GPT-J 6B model on publicly available financial data from the Security and Exchange Commission so that the model can generate more relevant text for financial services use cases. Customers can fine-tune Foundation Models such as GPT-J 6B and GPT-J 6B FP16 models for domain adaptation on JumpStart inside Amazon SageMaker Studio through UI, and through SageMaker Python SDK.

Amazon Cognito launches an improved console experience for identity pools

Amazon Cognito now offers a new console experience that makes it even easier for customers to manage Amazon Cognito identity pools and add federated sign in for customers’ applications to get access to AWS resources. Customers that wish to opt in to the new, streamlined experience can do so by navigating to the Amazon Cognito console.

AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions

Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. With this launch, customers can deploy their stack sets to and from these newly supported AWS Regions.

Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore). C7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C7g instances are built for workloads including batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

Introducing AWS Glue 4.0 for AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS Glue 4.0 for the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Glue 4.0 is a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10. Glue 4.0 gives customers the latest Spark and Python releases so they can develop, run, and scale their data integration workloads and get insights faster.

AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in this Region and take advantage of more than 110 security controls to automatically check your environment against security industry standards and best practices.

Announcing AWS AppSync Merged APIs for GraphQL federation

AWS AppSync enables developers to build serverless, scalable and performant GraphQL APIs that are designed to securely connect their apps to data and events. Today, we announce the general availability of Merged APIs, which enable GraphQL schema composition and federation for AppSync APIs.

Amazon Athena updates data source connectors to improve performance and reduce cost

Amazon Athena has updated its data source connectors with new optimizations that can improve performance and reduce cost when querying data that does not reside in Amazon S3. Available today, the updated connectors use dynamic filtering and new predicate push down optimizations to perform more operations in the underlying data source, rather than in Athena, which can reduce query processing time and reduce data scanned.

AWS Compute Optimizer supports external performance metrics in 5 new regions

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports external performance metrics from 4 observability partners: Datadog, Dynatrace, Instana, and New Relic in 5 additional regions - Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan).

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering now supports auto scaling

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering on Graviton2-based R6gd nodes now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis data tiering uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.

AWS Shield Advanced is now available in four additional AWS Regions

Starting today, you can use AWS Shield Advanced in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Australia (Melbourne), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions. AWS Shield Advanced is a managed application security service that safeguards applications running on AWS from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield Advanced provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency. Also, it provides protections against more sophisticated and larger attacks for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53. To learn more visit, the AWS Shield Advanced product page.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL improves availability of read replicas

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now maintains read availability through writer node restarts. With today’s launch, reader nodes will continue to serve read requests during a writer node restart, improving read availability in the cluster.

Amazon MSK is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters.

AWS Copilot announces Static Site pattern to host single-page web applications

Today, AWS released new version 1.28 of AWS Copilot with support of a new Static Site pattern, that makes it easier to deploy single page web applications on AWS. AWS Copilot is a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing common application architecture and infrastructure patterns, user-friendly operational workflows, and configuring deployment pipelines.

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.

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