7/28/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Wickr offers federated data retention for internal and external conversations

AWS Wickr now offers Data Retention that extends to both internal and external communications in a Wickr network. A Wickr network administrator can configure and apply Data Retention to all in-network conversations. This includes shared media and files, as well as conversations with guest users, external teams, and other partner networks to help meet internal, legal, and regulatory requirements.

Amazon CodeCatalyst supports deployments to Elastic Kubernetes Service

Today, Amazon Web Services announces support for deploying to Kubernetes clusters running on Elastic Kubernetes Service from an Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take during a workflow run. This launch allows you to add a “Deploy to Kubernetes cluster“ action to a workflow, providing a simple and repeatable process for deploying updates to Kubernetes clusters running on EKS.

AWS Launch Wizard now available in Hyderabad and Dubai Regions

AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server workloads in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)and Middle East (UAE) Regions. We are also announcing support for additional languages within AWS Launch Wizard, including Chinese (traditional and simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Korean.

Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support the G5 instance family in the South America (São Paulo region

Amazon SageMaker Studio launched support for the ml.G5 GPU instance family in the South America region (São Paulo). Customers using ml.G5 instances in Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks can leverage up to 3.3x faster performance for machine learning training compared to ml.G4dn instances. This makes them a high performance and cost-efficient solution for interactive model training for use cases such as generative AI foundation model tuning, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender engines.

Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains

Amazon Route 53 offers domain name registration services, previously supporting 315 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) while providing easy integration with other AWS services. We are excited to announce the recent addition of 14 additional TLDs that you can now register with Route 53: .actor, .airforce, .bet, .degree, .games, .gives, .gmbh, .group, .press, .site, .space, .tech, .store, and .wine. Common use cases for some of these new TLDs include the following:

Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances, Amazon EC2 M7gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, delivering up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. These Graviton3-based instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth than DDR4. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. C7gd instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. M7gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, and gaming servers. R7gd instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, and real-time big data analytics.

AWS announces Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager

Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account.

Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces a preview of JSON protocol support, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and memory usage. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

AWS Lake Formation launches Read-Only Administrator role

AWS Lake Formation is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. Now, you can add an IAM role or user to be a Read-Only Administrator. Using this role, Read-Only Administrators can access metadata and permissions without making changes. This allows Read-Only Administrators to search metadata without needing access the data and to validate permissions without requiring access to make changes to permissions.

Announcing Amazon ECS templates for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Blueprints

Amazon EC2 adds templates for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to the Spot Blueprints portfolio. With Spot Blueprints, you can generate a reusable quick start template as CloudFormation or Terraform, based on your workload, and use the template to configure a compute environment using EC2 Spot Instances. This saves you time learning to use Spot Instances with services like Amazon ECS and start accessing the savings and scale that Spot Instances offer for interruptible workloads.

AWS Database Encryption SDK for Amazon DynamoDB now generally available

Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads.

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in 2 additional regions

Today, we are announcing the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in AWS Europe (Zurich) region and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. The addition of these 2 regions expands the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS to a total of 25 regions globally, enabling customers to have a faster and more efficient way to migrate to the cloud.

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