7/26/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/27/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon RDS now has a progress indicator for the storage optimization process

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports a progress indicator for improved visibility into the storage optimization process. With the progress indicator, you get better visibility into the progress of storage optimization process such as scaling up of storage sizes and changing the storage volumes.

Accelerate your CloudFormation authoring experience with looping function

AWS CloudFormation announces looping capability with Fn::ForEach intrinsic function. With Fn::ForEach, you can replicate parts of your templates with minimal lines of code. You can use Fn::ForEach to simplify your template layout and make it easier and faster for you and your peers to review your code. Fn::ForEach helps reduce human errors such as updating wrong properties or missing out on updating multiple target properties in your template.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 2.12 (compatible with MySQL 5.7.40) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) will support MySQL 5.7.40. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, this release is fully compatible with MySQL 5.7.40. Previous Aurora MySQL 2.x versions were compatible with MySQL 5.7.12. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 2 and MySQL 5.7.40 release notes.

SDXL 1.0 foundation model from Stability AI now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Starting today, the Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL 1.0) foundation model from Stability AI is available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use SDXL 1.0 with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.

Announcing AWS HealthScribe (Preview)

Today, we are excited to announce AWS HealthScribe, a new HIPAA-eligible service designed to help healthcare software vendors build clinical applications that automatically generate preliminary clinical notes by analyzing patient-clinician conversations. With AWS HealthScribe, you can integrate conversational and generative AI in your application to accelerate clinical documentation workflow and enhance the consultation experience: no machine learning expertise required.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express version 23.1

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 23.1 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for the 19c & 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 23.1, please refer to Oracle’s documentation.

Introducing the Connect Ready Program

The contact center industry is expanding to meet the needs of their customers. With the rapid growth seen in the industry, more diverse and scalable solutions and products are needed. Essential to supporting the customer and consumer experience is supporting that growth with AWS integrations. The contact center industry can be complex, often addressing multiple needs by customers. Whether it is investments in CRM, advanced workforce engagement or compliance solutions, it’s important that customers know that their investment in Amazon Connect is secure. Validated AWS Partners in the Amazon Connect Ready specialization provide software solutions through Amazon Connect.

AWS Entity Resolution is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution, a configurable, machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps organizations match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores. You can get started in minutes using entity resolution workflows that are flexible, scalable, and seamlessly connectable to your existing applications, without any expertise in entity resolution or ML.

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region

Starting today, you can enable ROSA from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in 5 additional Regions

Starting today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is available in 5 additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE).

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Lima, Peru

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

Enable generative AI applications to complete tasks in just a few clicks

Amazon Bedrock now supports agents, a new, fully managed capability, that enables generative AI applications to complete tasks in just a few clicks – based on organization data and user input without any manual code. Agents for Bedrock orchestrate interactions between FMs, data sources, software applications, and users and automatically execute APIs. Developers can easily integrate the agents and accelerate delivery of generative AI applications saving weeks of development effort.

IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate stores

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere released credential helper version 1.0.5 to include support for X.509 certificates and private keys that are stored in macOS and Windows certificate stores. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that manages the process of signing the CreateSession API with the private key associated with an X.509 end-entity certificate and calls the endpoint to obtain temporary AWS credentials. With this release, you can now use IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper to delegate signing operations to keys stored within those OS-specific certificate stores, without those keys ever leaving those stores; which can improve your security posture. In Windows, both CryptoAPI and Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) are supported; in macOS, Keychain is supported.

Amazon Transcribe supports Toxicity Detection for spoken conversations

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe Toxicity Detection, an ML-powered, voice-based toxicity detection capability, which leverages both audio and text-based cues to identify and classify toxic content. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. In addition to text, Transcribe Toxicity Detection uses speech cues, such as tone and pitch, to hone in on toxic intent in speech. Toxic content is flagged and classified across seven categories including sexual harassment, hate speech, threat, abuse, profanity, insult, and graphic. This allows moderators to take focused action rather than reviewing entire conversations.

AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer

Today, AWS Glue announces that Amazon CodeWhisperer is available in AWS Glue Studio. You can use Amazon CodeWhisperer with no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions in AWS Glue Studio notebooks. CodeWhisperer can generate code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions in real time based on your prompts and existing code.

Amazon ECS Service Discovery is now available in five additional AWS Regions

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) launched integrated service discovery in Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions.

Introducing the Amazon ECS Delivery Specialization Partners

Enterprises undergoing digital transformation often turn to AWS partners with the expertise of running computing workloads in containers. They are looking for partners who can assess their IT environment, consult on potential application migration from on-premise, refactor from running on single compute instances, integrate with other AWS services or software vendors, help with workload deployment, and operate/optimize the service on their behalf. Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate provide scalable, reliable, and secure container orchestration for both Managed and Serverless approaches.

Amazon EC2 P5 instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 6x and lower cost to train ML models by up to 40% compared to previous-generation GPU-based instances.

Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now in preview

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a simple, scalable, and high-performing vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. Your developers can use this vector engine to build machine learning (ML)–augmented search experiences and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications without having to manage the vector database infrastructure. You can rely on the vector engine for a cost-efficient, secure serverless environment, which will help your developers seamlessly transition from application prototyping to production.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Graphics G5 instances

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces Graphics G5 instances, which are built on the EC2 G5 family, designed to cater to graphics-intensive applications and machine learning workloads. Amazon EC2 G5 instances feature NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs and 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. These instances can be used for graphics-intensive applications, machine learning inference, and deliver higher performance for training simple to moderately complex machine learning models when compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances.

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