6/7/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/8/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Daily invoice consolidation is now available in AWS EMEA SARL

Today, AWS announces daily invoice consolidation for AWS customers invoiced by Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL. AWS customers in EMEA will automatically start receiving a daily invoice or credit memo that consolidates subscription invoices and credit memos for that day.

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports Selective Executions

Today, AWS announced a new feature in SageMaker Pipelines, the ML workflow management service, to enable users run their desired steps in a pipeline as a sub-workflow. The new feature, called Selective Execution, allows you to run your selected steps in a pipeline while avoiding to rerun the entire pipeline. As a Data Scientist, Applied Scientist or an ML Engineer iterating on a pipeline for experimentation and deployment of ML models at scale, you can use this feature to initiate a pipeline execution on your desired steps and save hours of processing time, and simplify managing the code used for executions.

AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now HIPAA eligible

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling covered entities and their business associates to use AWS Mainframe Modernization to process, maintain, and store protected health information. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS Mainframe Modernization for workloads that are subject to HIPAA compliance.

AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 3.2

AWS Lambda now supports Ruby 3.2 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Ruby 3.2 can take advantage of new features such as endless methods, a new Data class, improved pattern matching, and performance improvements. For more information on Lambda’s support for Ruby 3.2, see our blog post at Ruby 3.2 runtime now available in AWS Lambda.

AWS SimSpace Weaver is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

We are excited to announce that AWS SimSpace Weaver is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Government customers such as departments that handle disaster relief, defense, national logistics, and partners such as federal contractors and systems integrators with customers who have U.S. federal, state, or local government security and compliance requirements can now use these regions to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud. All SimSpace Weaver features are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in new regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB of memory (u-24tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US West (Oregon) Region and instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports query scheduling and Single sign-on support

Amazon Redshift Serverless now allows you to schedule your SQL queries for staging in recurring schedules. You can now automate time sensitive or long running queries, loading or unloading your data using Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 or Amazon Redshift Data API with flexible scheduling expressions, including cron expressions, for optimal control over query execution timing. The query scheduling is secured as you can either leverage your IAM credentials or secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager.

AWS Application Migration Service is now available in additional regions

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in the Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Australia (Melbourne) regions. Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to migrate and modernize your applications in these regions.

Announcing Test Workbench for Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Today, we are excited to introduce Test workbench on Amazon Lex that enables customers to author and execute test sets to measure bot performance and expedite bot development.

AWS CloudFormation StackSets skips suspended accounts for faster deployments

AWS CloudFormation StackSets is updating the deployment experience for CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE, IMPORT TO STACKSET, and DRIFT stack set operations to skip suspended AWS accounts during deployments. With this launch, StackSets will skip target AWS accounts that are suspended and flag the corresponding stack instances as SKIPPED_SUSPENDED_ACCOUNT instead of FAILED. Customers suspend their AWS accounts for reasons such as reducing usage of cloud resources for non-production environments during periods of low demand. This feature enhances deployment speed of stack set operations and reduces the number of FAILED stack set operations.

Amazon QuickSight now supports APIs to automate and accelerate assets deployment

Amazon QuickSight launches  new API capabilities that allow you to automate and accelerate your BI asset deployment and management. With these new APIs, you can get programmatic access to export and import QuickSight assets such as dashboards, analysis, datasets including ingestion schedules, datasources, themes, and VPC configurations across accounts and environments. You can interact with a collection of assets in a lift-and-shift manner for your CI/CD workflows, enable backup and restore, and replicate assets powering automation of workflows and achievement of the desired infrastructure setup with full support for AWS CloudFormation. To learn more, read the blogpost.

Amazon Polly launches a new female NTTS voice in Belgian Dutch (Flemish)

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Lisa - a new Belgian Dutch female Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice 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.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports retraining ML models, automating prediction workflows on updated datasets

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides the ability to retrain machine learning (ML) models and automate batch prediction workflows with updated datasets thereby making it easier to constantly learn and improve the model performance and drive efficiency. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML expertise or having to write a single line of code.

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