6/29/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/30/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon DevOps Guru now supports encryption using customer managed keys
Amazon DevOps Guru now allows you to use customer managed keys (CMKs) with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). DevOps Guru already provides encryption by default using AWS-owned KMS keys for data stored in DevOps Guru. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer, which can help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization.
AWS Global Accelerator adds new edge location
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Osaka (Japan). With the addition of this edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 107 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 24 AWS Regions.
AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies.
Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
With today’s release, Amazon Athena and its latest features and benefits are available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. This release expands Athena’s availability in the Middle East to include Bahrain and the UAE.
Amazon Kendra launches Retrieval API
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra as a retriever to build retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems.
AWS Batch now supports ‘Min vCPUs’ for Multi-Node Parallel Jobs
AWS Batch now supports specifying a minimum number of vCPUs (Min vCPUs) for Multi-Node Parallel (MNP) Jobs. MNP jobs allow users to run large-scale tightly coupled workloads, such as ML training, across multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. With this launch, customers can now retain a specified number of vCPUs on a compute environment (CE) even when there are no jobs running. This feature enables customers to maintain a warm pool of healthy instances for MNP jobs, helping prevent situations where capacity is returned to EC2 due to rapid scale down.
New ODBC driver now available for Amazon Athena
Today, Amazon Athena released a new ODBC driver that improves the experience of connecting to, querying, and visualizing data from your favorite SQL development and business intelligence applications.
AWS Lambda simplifies copying environment variables in the console code editor
AWS Lambda console code editor now includes a read file listing all the environment variables associated with the function, making it easier for developers to discover the variables and reference them in their code. Environment variables are key-value pairs that developers use to extend a function’s configuration outside of their code. When referencing the environment variables in their code, developers need the keys.
Announcing applications manager for Amazon AppStream 2.0
Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces a new applications manager feature to help you package and mobilize your Windows applications between different environments without affecting the underlying base image or operating system. To achieve this, you can launch an app block builder instance, install your application(s) and create a self-contained and sharable application image. You can share these application images across multiple AppStream 2.0 elastic fleets provisioned across different AWS regions.
NoSQL Workbench is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting this week, NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. NoSQL Workbench is a client-side tool that helps you design, visualize, and build scalable, high-performance data models, and query Amazon DynamoDB tables with a point-and-click interface.
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now available in three additional AWS Regions
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).
AWS Backup expands cross-account management in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account management in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Cross-account management helps customers manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations.
Amazon Simple Email Service now supports metric export
Now you can export key deliverability metrics in Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) through Virtual Deliverability Manager’s (VDM) dashboard. This makes it easier to export performance indicators such as delivery volume, complaint rate, and click rate into analysis tools such as spreadsheets for custom analysis.
AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for monorepo frameworks
Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces monorepo framework support for npm workspaces, Yarn workspaces, pnpm workspaces, Turborepo and Nx. With this release, AWS Amplify Hosting offers fully managed CI/CD deployments and hosting for apps contained within a monorepo (aka monorepository, multi-package repository, multi-project repository, or monolithic repository).
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud now supports Bring Your Own IP in three additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne).
Announcing AWS Marketplace transaction purchase order support for server products
Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to server products with certain pricing types, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices.
Amazon EC2 R6a instances now support faster Amazon EBS-optimized performance
Today, we are announcing an improvement for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance on Amazon EC2 memory-optimized R6a instance type.
Amazon S3 provides restore status of S3 Glacier objects using the S3 LIST API
Amazon S3 now provides the restore status of objects stored in Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive using the S3 LIST API. This new information in S3 LIST API responses can be integrated into your applications, helping you identify and access restored objects from S3 Glacier. For example, S3 Glacier restore status is now integrated into Amazon Athena, so you can run queries against your restored data from low-cost S3 Glacier storage classes.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent is now generally available
We are announcing the general availability of the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent. This feature offers a simple, efficient, and cost-effective way to connect to IP cameras on customer premises, locally record and store video from those cameras, and stream videos to the cloud on a customer-defined schedule for long term storage, playback, and analytical processing.
AWS Cloud WAN is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.
Amazon Athena now supports querying restored data in S3 Glacier
We are excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Athena to query data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Glacier storage classes. S3 Glacier is a secure and durable service for low-cost data archiving and long-term backup. With this launch, you can use Athena to directly query restored data in the Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Deep Archive storage classes, saving you time by removing the need to move and duplicate data.
AWS announces general availability of AWS Wavelength in Manchester with BT
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the BT 4G/5G network in Manchester. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Manchester to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom.
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AWS Black Belt Online Seminar (Japanese)
- AWS Systems Manager Inventory Edition [AWS Black Belt]
- Amazon Rekognition Part 1 Basics [AWS Black Belt]
- AWS IoT Utilization Series - The Value of AWS IoT Seen from Each Perspective [AWS Black Belt]
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon Announces CloudWatch Logs Live Tail Feature
- Handling Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables with DynamoDB Shell
- [Event Report] Build a Simple “Search” System Using Natural Language with Amazon Kendra
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Migrate from Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL Applications to Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio
- Centralize near-real-time governance through alerts on Amazon Redshift data warehouses for sensitive queries
AWS Compute Blog
Containers
Desktop and Application Streaming
Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS HPC Blog
- Instance sizes in the Amazon EC2 Hpc7 family – a different experience
- Application deep-dive into the AWS Graviton3E-based Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instance
- Accelerating the shift towards a sustainable economy using HPC on AWS
AWS for Industries
- Hospitality Industry Cloud Migration Journeys and Best Practices
- Securely and efficiently leverage your Operational Technology and Information Technology data in the cloud for new insights and disaster recovery using Ignition, NetApp and AWS
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
- Building and Modernizing Connected Vehicle platforms with AWS IoT
- Deploying and benchmarking YOLOv8 on GPU-based edge devices using AWS IoT Greengrass
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Recommend and dynamically filter items based on user context in Amazon Personalize
- Interactively fine-tune Falcon-40B and other LLMs on Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks using QLoRA
AWS for M&E Blog
AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog
- How to list over 1000 email addresses from account-level suppression list
- How to verify an email address in SES which does not have an inbox