7/17/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/18/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon ECS adds domainless gMSA authentication for Linux and Windows containers
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces domainless Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Linux and Windows containers running on Amazon EC2. This integration allows applications hosted on Amazon ECS (on EC2) to easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources. With this launch, customers can run containers that require AD authentication without joining the ECS nodes to the domain, even during autoscaling events.
AWS Fargate enables faster container startup using Seekable OCI
Customers running applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI), a technology open sourced by AWS that helps applications deploy and scale out faster by enabling the containers to start without waiting for the entire container image to be downloaded.
Amazon Connect Wisdom is now available for chat agents
Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Amazon Connect Wisdom is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions. To learn more about Amazon Connect Wisdom, please visit the Amazon Connect Wisdom website or see the help documentation.
AWS simplifies writing .NET 6 Lambda functions
We are happy to announce the general availability of the Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology.
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you now have the option to filter the specific HLS renditions stored in your S3 bucket as well as control the resolution and pixel count of thumbnail jpeg files while using the auto-record to S3 feature. These controls allow customers to control the amount of data stored while recording to optimize storage costs. Additionally, customers can reduce the thumbnail generation interval down to one second (previously 5 second limit) to have lower latency thumbnails for discovery or post processing use cases. These enhancements apply to Amazon IVS Standard and Advanced channel types without additional cost.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage now available in AWS Canada (Central) region
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.
Amazon Redshift announces support of QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statement
Amazon Redshift now supports the QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statements, which allows you to apply filtering conditions to the result of a window function without using a subquery. By filtering the results of window functions, you can focus on the desired data segments and derive insights from your data more efficiently.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports cue ad tags in Channel Assembly
You can now configure ad breaks in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly using cue ad tags in addition to date range when using HLS outputs. When using cue ad tags, Channel Assembly will create the necessary EXT-X-CUE-IN/OUT/CONT markers in the specific HLS outputs. Additionally, you can now also configure asset metadata key/value pairs to be included in the EXT-X-ASSET tag to signal additional content characteristics on a per break basis.
AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge Pipes now support enhanced filtering
AWS Lambda event source mappings and Amazon EventBridge Pipes sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values to -5e9 to 5e9 from -1e9 to 1e9. With these new enhanced capabilities, you can now write complex rules that provide additional filtering options when building event-driven applications.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
AWS News Blog
- AWS Week in Review – Updates on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, AWS Lambda, eksctl, Karpetner, and More – July 17, 2023
- AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
Containers
- Using Windows Authentication with gMSA on Linux Containers on Amazon ECS
- Securing Kubecost access with Amazon Cognito
AWS Database Blog
Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS Developer Tools Blog
AWS for Industries
- SoftServe and TS Cyanergy partner to reduce engine emissions in solution powered by AWS
- Capture clickstream data using AWS serverless services
- Driving Business Outcomes with Clickstream Data