5/30/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Invoice Summary is now available
Today, AWS announces the launch of the Invoice Summary feature. This feature offers additional configurations to AWS customers to reduce the overall size of the AWS Invoices.
AWS Shield Advanced now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Shield Advanced now supports AWS CloudFormation. Starting today, you can easily create and configure Shield Advanced protections against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a CloudFormation template. With CloudFormation, you can use a programming language or simple text file to automatically configure resource protections in a secure, efficient and repeatable way. Shield resource types available to be deployed using CloudFormation stacks across AWS regions and accounts include resource protection with automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation, Route 53 health checks, Shield Response Team (SRT) access, and proactive engagement with emergency contacts. You can also continue to configure Shield Advanced resource protections using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface (CLI) or API.
Amazon Security Lake is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Security Lake. This service automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. Security Lake makes it easier to analyze security data, gain a more comprehensive understanding of security across your entire organization, and improve the protection of your workloads, applications, and data. Security Lake automates the collection and management of your security data from multiple accounts and AWS Regions, so you can use your preferred analytics tools while retaining complete control and ownership over your security data. Security Lake has adopted the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), an open standard. With OCSF support, the service normalizes and combines security data from AWS and a broad range of enterprise security data sources.
Amazon Polly launches two new female NTTS voices in Irish English and Danish
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Niamh and Sofie - new Irish English and Danish female Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Santiago, Chile
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Santiago, Chile. 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.
Amazon WorkSpaces announces support for NICE DCV Extension SDK
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces provides support for the NICE DCV Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK allows customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build custom extensions for the Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), which is powered by NICE DCV technology.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus now enables customers to prepare high-quality, large-scale training datasets to fine-tune foundation models to perform human-like generative AI tasks. It also allows skilled humans to review model outputs to align them with human preferences. Additionally, it enables application builders to customize models using their industry or company data while preparing training datasets. SageMaker Ground Truth Plus provides workflows, labeling interfaces, and a skilled workforce to generate high quality training data to accomplish these tasks in a turnkey fully managed service on behalf of the customer.
Amazon Personalize now offers more flexibility in model training
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now offers more flexibility in model training by allowing customers to select which columns in their datasets are used for training. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize uses data provided by customers to train custom models on their behalf. Previously, all columns in a customer’s dataset were considered during model training. Amazon Personalize now allows customers to exclude columns from training, making it easier to experiment with the data that is used to train models. With this new capability, customers now have the flexibility to filter on any of their data, regardless of whether it is used for training.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports Amazon RDS Optimized Reads for up to 50% faster query processing compared to previous generation instances on Multi-AZ deployment option with two readable standby database instances. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by MySQL on the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage that’s physically connected to the host server. Complex queries that utilize temporary tables, such as queries involving sorts, hash aggregations, high-load joins, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can now execute up to 50% faster with Optimized Reads on RDS for MySQL.
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Inzai, Japan
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEC Inzai data center in Inzai, Japan. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Inzai location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.
AWS Direct Connect new location in Bogotá, Colombia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix BG1 Bogotá data center in Bogotá, Colombia. 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.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces support for DCV Extension SDK
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces now provides support for the DCV Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK allows customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build custom extensions for AppStream 2.0 which is powered by DCV technology.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
AWS Startups Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- How to grant least privilege access to third-parties on your private EC2 instances with AWS Systems Manager
- Managing Technical Diversity and Migration Capability in Mergers and Acquisitions
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Cost-effective bulk processing with Amazon DynamoDB
- Automate the migration of Microsoft SSIS packages to AWS Glue with AWS SCT
AWS HPC Blog
AWS for Industries
- Manufacturing Optimization for the Electronics Industry: How to Accelerate Product Development and Drive Engineering Efficiency with Instrumental Inc. on AWS
- Open-Source Chip Design on AWS
- Ingest Amazon Retail Data into a Serverless Modern Data Architecture
- How Communications Service Providers can leverage Cloud benefits securely
- Revive lost revenue from bad ecommerce search using Natural Language Processing
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Amazon SageMaker XGBoost now offers fully distributed GPU training
- Analyze Amazon SageMaker spend and determine cost optimization opportunities based on usage, Part 5: Hosting
- Analyze Amazon SageMaker spend and determine cost optimization opportunities based on usage, Part 4: Training jobs
- Analyze Amazon SageMaker spend and determine cost optimization opportunities based on usage, Part 3: Processing and Data Wrangler jobs
- Analyze Amazon SageMaker spend and determine cost optimization opportunities based on usage, Part 2: SageMaker notebooks and Studio
- Analyze Amazon SageMaker spend and determine cost optimization opportunities based on usage, Part 1
- High-quality human feedback for your generative AI applications from Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Security Blog
- Get custom data into Amazon Security Lake through ingesting Azure activity logs
- Amazon Security Lake is now generally available
AWS Storage Blog
- Understanding Direct Network Interfaces on AWS Snow Family
- Performance analysis for different Amazon EFS throughput modes via Amazon CloudWatch
- Seamlessly map file shares for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with AWS Auto Scaling