6/6/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/7/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS IoT Device Management introduces Software Package Catalog
AWS announces the Software Package Catalog preview. This is a new feature of AWS IoT Device Management that enables IoT customers to register, store, and report system software packages, along with their versions and metadata in a centralized location. With Software Package Catalog, you can now easily track and monitor software package versions throughout their fleet, gain valuable insights from a central dashboard, and perform updates targeting devices with specific software version.
AWS Glue Data Quality is now generally available
AWS announces general availability of AWS Glue Data Quality, a capability that automatically measures and monitors data lake and data pipeline quality. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it easier to discover, prepare, move, and integrate data from multiple sources.
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now provides more flexibility routing with path parameters
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now supports path parameters in routes for Lambda and URL service endpoints. Refactor Spaces reduces the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building and operating the AWS infrastructure necessary for incremental refactoring, letting you focus on evolving your applications into microservices. With this launch, Refactor Spaces gives you greater control when creating route paths and subpaths making it easier to route traffic to different service endpoints based on the path parameters you use.
Announcing Live Tail in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, providing real-time exploration of logs
We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, a new interactive log analytics experience feature that helps you detect and debug anomalies in applications. You can now view your logs interactively in real-time as they’re ingested, which helps you to analyze and resolve issues across your systems and applications.
AWS Control Tower increases account access configuration flexibility
Today, AWS Control Tower announced additional landing zone flexibility. Customers can now select whether AWS Control Tower sets up AWS account access with AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On), or they can self-manage AWS account access with AWS IAM Identity Center or use another method. AWS Control Tower continues to deliver an opinionated configuration following AWS best practices, while recognizing that some customers have existing configurations or bespoke business needs that require deviation from AWS Control Tower’s standard configuration. Customers can opt into Control Tower governed IAM Identity Center directory groups and permissions sets at any time.
AWS introduces container image signing
Today, AWS Signer and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched image signing, a new feature that enables you to sign and verify container images. You can now use Signer, a managed signing service, to validate that only container images you have approved are deployed in your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters.
SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning automatically chooses tuning configurations
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now able to automatically choose hyperparameter ranges, search strategy, maximum runtime of a tuning job, early stopping type for training jobs, number of times to retry a training job, and model convergence flag to stop a tuning job, based on the objective metric you provide. This minimizes the time required for you to kickstart your tuning process and increases the chances of finding more accurate models with a lower budget.
AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights security profiles now include FedRAMP authorization
In AWS Marketplace, customers can now filter for products with Vendor Insights security profiles that are FedRAMP authorized or in process. With AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights, you can complete third-party software risk assessments in days instead of months. Vendor Insights serves buyers who need help to efficiently validate that third-party software meets their business compliance needs. Vendor Insights also serves sellers who want to showcase their strong security posture, while reducing the operational burden from responding to buyer requests for risk assessment information.
Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Spark Operator and spark-submit
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Spark Operator and spark-submit as new job submission models for Apache Spark, in addition to the existing StartJobRun API. With today’s launch, you now have the flexibility to submit your Apache Spark jobs via your preferred submission model on Amazon EMR on EKS without needing to change your application.
Announcing AWS Snowblade for U.S Department of Defense JWCC customers
AWS announces the availability of AWS Snowblade for the U.S Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. AWS Snowblade is designed to provide AWS compute, storage, and other hybrid services in remote locations, including Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments for the DoD. AWS Snowblade is the first AWS Snow Family device designed to meet US Military Ruggedization Standards (MIL-STD-810H), enabling JWCC defense customers to run their operations in edge locations that can be subject to extreme temperatures, vibrations, and shocks. With support for 208 vCPU in a portable, compact 5U, half-rack width form-factor, AWS Snowblade is the densest compute device of the AWS Snow Family allowing JWCC customers to run demanding workloads in space, weight, and power (SWaP) constrained edge locations.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- How to manage AWS IoT Greengrass core device certificates
- AWS Resource Tag Management ~Tagging and Control~ (Part 2)
- Fast and efficient way to distribute firmware to large numbers of Tamagotchis with AWS IoT Jobs
- NEW — Snowball Edge storage-optimized device with more storage and bandwidth
AWS Open Source Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Introducing Amazon EMR on EKS job submission with Spark Operator and spark-submit
- AWS Glue Data Quality is Generally Available
- Visualize data quality scores and metrics generated by AWS Glue Data Quality
- Set up alerts and orchestrate data quality rules with AWS Glue Data Quality
- Set up advanced rules to validate quality of multiple datasets with AWS Glue Data Quality
- Getting started with AWS Glue Data Quality from the AWS Glue Data Catalog
- Deep dive on Amazon MSK tiered storage
- How SumUp made digital analytics more accessible using AWS Glue
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Generate suggestions for leisure activities in real time with Amazon Neptune
- Secure your applications running on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Desktop and Application Streaming
- AWS EUC Washington DC Summit: Using Amazon CloudWatch to analyze user access to Amazon WorkSpaces
- AWS Summit Washington, DC: What’s new with AWS and End User Computing (EUC) services
AWS for Industries
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Build high-performance ML models using PyTorch 2.0 on AWS – Part 1
- Arrange your transcripts into paragraphs with Amazon Transcribe
- Build machine learning-ready datasets from the Amazon SageMaker offline Feature Store using the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK
AWS for M&E Blog
AWS Security Blog
AWS Storage Blog
- Why S&P Global chose Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to achieve high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server
- Best practices for data lake protection with AWS Backup