6/8/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/9/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2023 Release Update for 21c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 21c.
Amazon Aurora now supports R6i database instance in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Amazon Aurora R6i database instances are now generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL- Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition.
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 now supports Amazon EC2 t3.medium and r5 instances
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 extends instance support to Amazon EC2 t3.medium and r5 instances, in addition to previously supported Amazon EC2 r6g instances. You can now use Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 free trial with t3.medium instance and upto 96 vCPUs and 768 GiB RAM with r5 instances. Please refer to supported instance specifications to learn more.
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now supports Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now supports open-source data lake storage frameworks Apache Hudi 0.13, Apache Iceberg 1.2.1, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake 2.0.2. These frameworks simplify incremental data processing of large data sets using ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions and make it simpler to store and process large data sets in your data lakes.
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now supports custom Java libraries
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now allows you to use your own Java libraries and customize the Spark configurations for your Spark workloads. You can use Java libraries as custom JARs with Athena Spark to analyze data from multiple sources or use functions in custom jars for more flexibility with calculations.
AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized is a new configuration that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. Aurora I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing throughput and reducing latency for customers’ most demanding workloads. With Aurora I/O-Optimized, there are zero charges for read and write I/O operations—you only pay for your database instances and storage usage, making it easy to predict your database spend up front.
AWS announces scripts to bulk updates policies per new AWS Billing and Cost Management permissions
AWS is retiring IAM actions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles under aws-portal service prefix, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders on July 6, 2023. Today, we are launching bulk migration scripts to allow customers to update policies containing the above old actions on the retirement path to include new fine-grained actions securely and quickly. Customers can execute these scripts from their management accounts and update all affected policies in their Organization to include new actions, while maintaining their current access to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles.
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java in 7 additional AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java is available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Paris) and Middle East (Bahrain).
Single Region Terraform support now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory
AWS Control Tower now offers single-region support for Terraform through account factory customization. You can now customize new and existing AWS accounts prior to provisioning them from AWS Control Tower using Terraform open source. With this release, you can now use AWS Control Tower and AWS Service Catalog to define account blueprints using Terraform. The account blueprint describes the specific resources and configurations that are used in an account as a template to scale multiple AWS accounts. Now, customers who prefer using Terraform have the same flexibility and immediate access to the account after it is provisioned.
Amazon Timestream now supports Customer Defined Partition Keys
Amazon Timestream announces the general availability of Customer Defined Partition Keys, providing additional flexibility for customers to partition their data based on their needs, and optimizing data collocation for lower query latency.
AWS Managed Microsoft AD simplifies directory administrative tools access
Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory customers can access directory administrative EC2 instances easily from the AWS Directory Service console. Now, within minutes you can deploy a preconfigured domain-joined EC2 instance with Microsoft Active Directory administrative tools.
Amazon SQS announces support for dead-letter queue redrive via AWS SDK or CLI
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive via AWS SDK or Command Line Interface (CLI). Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Now, customers can use AWS SDK or CLI to move messages from the dead-letter queue to programmatically manage the lifecycle of their unconsumed messages at scale.
Amazon EC2 I4i is available in AWS GovCloud (US) and Africa Regions
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.
QuickSight now provides standardized user level cost and usage data
Amazon QuickSight administrators can now access user level cost and usage data for all user types in AWS Billing Cost and Usage Reports in a standardized format. This common format across reader, authors, and admin user types will allow QuickSight customers to create standardized cost breakdowns of their deployments, and enable cost charge back to internal teams and stakeholders. This change is applicable in all regions where Amazon QuickSight is available.
RDS Custom for SQL Server lets you Bring Your Own Media
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now allows customers to use their own SQL Server installation media when creating an instance. By using Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), customers may leverage their existing SQL Server licenses with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Managed features of RDS Custom for SQL Server include Multi-AZ deployment, point-in-time recovery and more.
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now exports profile updates in real-time
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports real-time data export of unified customer profiles to Amazon Kinesis Data Stream. Companies can enable data streaming and automatically receive data for new profiles and updates to existing profiles into their Amazon Kinesis Data Stream.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs data protection account level policy configuration
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for account level data protection policy configuration, you can now create a data protection policy that will be applied to all existing and future log groups within your AWS account.
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