6/30/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/3/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon ECS now launches tasks faster alongside tasks with prolonged shutdown
Amazon Elastic Container Services(Amazon ECS) now enables faster task launches on container instances that have tasks with prolonged shutdown. This enables customers to scale their workloads faster and improve infrastructure utilization.
AWS App Runner adds support to update and rebuild a failed service
AWS App Runner adds support for editing and rebuilding a failed service. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and minimizing the need to manage infrastructure.
3rd Party Event Ingestion for AWS Incident Detection & Response
AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports ingestion of events from third party Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools via Amazon EventBridge. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management to increase workload resiliency and accelerate recovery from critical incidents.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for Apache Parquet file format
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports the Apache Parquet file format, enabling additional file formats for tabular, time-series forecast, and NLP datasets. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now available in three additional AWS Regions
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions, allowing you to ingest, transport, and process your high-quality video in the cloud in more locations globally.
AWS introduces CSI Driver for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver is now available as an open-source project. The CSI driver makes it easy for developers to use Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with their Kubernetes containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or on self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EC2.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes higher frequency metrics
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes flow metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 1-second intervals, instead of the previous 1-minute interval rate. These metrics can be retrieved using the console or the CloudWatch API at 1-second periods for up to 3 hours after the datapoints are created.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports dashboard variables
We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch dashboard variables, a new experience that makes it easier for you to quickly navigate between different operational views by using variables as navigation to view different data sets for the same resource.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds support for creating new files
You can now use Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to create new files in Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and PUT. It is ideal for workloads that read large datasets (terabytes to petabytes in size) and write sequentially to a file from a single process or thread. Common use cases include machine learning training as well as rendering and transcoding in media applications.
AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph now supports showing query results in scenes
Today, AWS announced the ability to visualize AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph query results in its 3D scenes. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for customers to create digital twins of real-world systems, and TwinMaker Knowledge Graph knowledge graph structures and organizes information about the digital twin for easier access and understanding. This launch updates the Scene Composer in AWS IoT App Kit that allows users to bind their entities with objects in 3D scenes. Once TwinMaker Knowledge Graph entities are linked with objects in 3D scenes, users can initiate TwinMaker Knowledge Graph queries and highlight the results in their 3D scenes along with a graph representation of their entity models.
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports time to live (TTL) in online store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to set a time to live (TTL) for records in the online store. The online store contains the most recent features and is used for low latency model serving. With this launch, you can now set a TTL duration after which a record will be hard deleted, so you have more flexibility when it comes to managing online store data.
Amazon GameLift adds support for Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon GameLift now supports Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift now supports new game servers that run on Windows 2016, Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) and AL2023.
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now provides improved developer productivity
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2023.03 with enhanced developer productivity capabilities. The new capabilities include improvements to auto-completion and accessibility and support for R-4.3.0.
Amazon Translate enhances its custom terminology feature
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today we are announcing enhancements to the custom terminology feature that will improve translation fluency and accuracy. The enhancement creates contextually appropriate versions of matching terms to generate translations of higher quality. For example, if the matching term is singular, but the sentence requires a plural, the new version automatically performs this conversion. This enhancement also allows customers to expand the application of their term bases to wider set of translations, as illustrated in the example below.
AWS CloudFormation launches Guard 3.0 with support for stateful rules
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard 3.0 (cfn-guard). cfn-guard is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises validate that their cloud infrastructure complies with company policy guidelines. Developers use cfn-guard to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON plans/configurations against those rules. Guard 3.0 allows customers to define complex rules and accelerates development velocity with a new deployment method for cfn-guard-lambda.
Amazon Connect Chat now supports quick reply and carousel messages
Amazon Connect Chat now supports new interactive message types, including quick replies and carousels, enabling you to create richer customer experiences and resolve issues faster. Quick replies allow you to present a list of options that customers can click to respond (e.g., “Yes,” “No”), and carousels enable customers to browse through options (e.g., list of products) and make a selection. These interactive message types enable you to send customers pre-configured response options, eliminating the need for a customer to type their response.
AWS SDK for SAP ABAP now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP.
AWS Database Migration Service now provides more comprehensive premigration assessments
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded the functionality of premigration assessments. A premigration assessment evaluates the source and target databases of a database migration task to help identify any problems that might prevent a migration from running as expected. By identifying and fixing issues before a migration starts, you can avoid delays in completing the database migration.
Amazon Omics now supports Common Workflow Language
Today, Amazon Omics announces support for Common Workflow Language (CWL) version 1.0-1.2. This new capability extends support for multiple workflow languages (WDL, Nextflow, and CWL) in Amazon Omics, allowing customers to use the workflow language of their choice. Customers can now easily bring their CWL workflows along with their software tools and Amazon Omics will provision and manage all the underlying infrastructure for their workflow runs.
Amazon DynamoDB now simplifies and lowers the cost of handling failed conditional writes
Amazon DynamoDB now simplifies and lowers the cost of handling failed conditional writes by providing a copy of the item as it was during the failed write attempt. This lets you easily determine the cause of the condition error and then respond to failed conditional writes without having to perform a separate read operation to retrieve the item.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Generative AI with Large Language Models — a new hands-on course from DeepLearning.AI and AWS
- New AWS AppFabric enables improved application observability for SaaS applications
- How to analyze and detect harmonic issues using power quality and customer usage data on Amazon Timestream
- AWS Week in Review — Step Function Versions and Aliases, EC2 Instances with Graviton3E Processors, etc. — June 26, 2023
- Introducing Chaos Kitty where you can experience Chaos Engineering and visualization
- Start using Media Lab and joint verification of customer solutions using AWS
AWS Architecture Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
Containers
- Hosting Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Local-runner on Amazon ECS Fargate for development and testing
- Improvements to Amazon ECS task launch behavior when tasks have prolonged shutdown
AWS Database Blog
AWS for Industries
AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog
- How to Grant Another SES Account or User Permission To Send Emails
- How To Build an Email Service on SES