6/16/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/19/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Announcing AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard for AWS Partner Central

AWS Partners now have deeper insights into their Amazon Web Services (AWS) business through AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard, accessible from AWS Partner Central. The dashboard provides Alliance Leads for partners at the Validated or Differentiated with a 360-degree view of their AWS business, including opportunity pipeline, funding benefits, and pipeline revenue.

Introducing Amazon EC2 M7a instances (Preview)

AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7a instances. M7a instances are designed to deliver the best x86 performance and price performance within the Amazon EC2 general purpose family, based on SPECint benchmarks. M7a instances are powered by fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors (code named Genoa) with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.7GHz. These instances deliver up to 50% greater performance on average compared to M6a instances.

AWS CloudShell is now available in 12 additional regions

AWS CloudShell is now generally available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Paris), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers screen recording

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides screen recording capabilities, making it easy for you to help agents improve their performance. With screen recording, you can identify areas for agent coaching (e.g., long contact handle duration or non-compliance with business processes) by not only listening to customer calls or reviewing chat transcripts, but also watching agents’ actions while handling a contact (i.e., a voice call, chat, or task). Screen recording is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) compliant and in scope for System Organization Controls (SOC 1 and SOC 2).

AWS Clean Rooms launches two capabilities to make it easier to collaborate at scale

Today, we are announcing two new AWS Clean Rooms capabilities to help business and technical users collaborate more easily and at scale. Analysis Builder is a guided UI that helps business users to generate insights without writing any code. Business users can use analysis builder to create and edit queries in their AWS Clean Rooms collaboration, and specify their desired metrics, segments, and filters to get insights in a few steps. AWS Clean Rooms customers can also now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete their collaborations, as well as manage resources such as Configured Tables and Table associations. With support for CloudFormation templates, customers can more easily scale their collaborations for additional partners and use cases.

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.42 and 8.0.33

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.42 and 8.0.33. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

AWS Step Functions adds integration for 7 services including Amazon VPC Lattice

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 7 additional AWS services including Amazon VPC Lattice, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, AWS IoT TwinMaker, and Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports VPC configurations recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now allows you to replicate and recover your AWS network components and configurations to maintain the readiness and security of your AWS recovery site. These components includes subnet CIDR, security groups, route tables, Internet gateways, and network ACLs.

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