8/9/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/10/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Detective enhances visualizations to improve security investigations

Amazon Detective has released several enhancements to finding groups visualization that help reduce noise and make your security investigations more effective. These enhancements help cut down on the amount of time it takes to identify root cause and affected resources in potential security issues.

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.43 and 8.0.34

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.43 and 8.0.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Announcing the ability to release inactive data from Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now supports the ability to free up storage capacity on an FSx file system that has data synchronized with Amazon S3.

AWS DataSync expands support for copying data to and from other clouds

AWS DataSync announces expanded support for copying data to and from storage in other clouds. In addition to support for Google Cloud Storage, Azure Files, and Azure Blob Storage, DataSync now supports copying data to and from DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2 Storage, and Oracle Cloud Storage. Using DataSync, you can move your object data at scale between S3-compatible storage on other clouds and AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3. DataSync makes it fast and simple to migrate your data from other clouds to AWS, archive your data in AWS, or move data to and from other clouds as part of your business workflows.

Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, now available in US West (Oregon) region

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the US West (Oregon) region. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink in Israel (Tel Aviv) region.

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval improves data restore time by up to 85%

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval improves data restore time by up to 85%, at no additional cost. Faster data restores automatically apply to the Standard retrieval tier when using Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores begin to return objects within minutes, so you can process restored data faster. Now, whether you are transcoding media, restoring operational backups, training machine learning models, or analyzing historical data, you can easily speed up your data restores from archive.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high-throughput access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), lowering processing times and compute costs for data lake applications. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls such as GET and PUT.

Amazon Interactive Video Service announces live video output price changes

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) live video output prices for Low-Latency Streaming are now reduced by up to 50%. Per hours rates for video output are cut by up to 50% in South Korea, 46% in India, 43% in Taiwan, 41% in Australia, 30% in South America, 29% in Japan, Hong Kong, and South East Asia, and 4% in North America and Europe.

You can now scale IOPS separately from storage on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now enables you to select and update the level of I/O operations per second (IOPS) separately from storage capacity on your file system. This new capability enables you to improve price-performance for IOPS-intensive workloads like SQL Server databases and optimize costs for workloads with IOPS requirements that vary over time like periodic reporting jobs.

Announcing Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless deployments

We are pleased to announce Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless deployments. OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easier for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. Terraform enables OpenSearch Serverless deployments as infrastructure as code(IaC). Using Terraform for deployments, you can ensure that the configurations are measured and validated, minimizing the chances of errors caused by human oversight.

Announcing AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault (Preview)

Today, AWS Backup announces the preview of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup Vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Logically air-gapped vault stores immutable backup copies that are locked by default, and isolated with encryption using AWS owned keys.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server increases maximum throughput to 12 GB/s

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, is increasing the per-file system maximum throughput from 2 GB/s to 12 GB/s and maximum I/O operations per second (IOPS) from 80,000 to 350,000, enabling a broader set of performance-intensive workloads.

AWS Fargate now supports process ID namespace sharing and kernel parameter configuration

AWS Fargate now supports Process ID (PID) namespace sharing and kernel parameter configuration (sysctl) for applications orchestrated by Amazon ECS. You can now configure the pidMode and the sysctl parameters in your ECS task definition for tasks running on Fargate.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now provides a Multi-AZ deployment option for file systems

You can now use a Multi-AZ deployment option when creating file systems on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, making it easy to deploy file storage that spans multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to support business-critical workloads that require high availability and enhanced durability.

Amazon QuickSight now supports embedded callback actions

Amazon QuickSight now supports embedded callback actions that can help you integrate your SaaS application with Amazon QuickSight embedded dashboards and visuals. You can use callback actions to build custom workflows and business logic so that your users can take instant action from the application. Developers can now register to datapoint callbacks (ie. slice in a pie chart, bar on a bar chart) through the Embedding SDK. They can then pass the information about that datapoint (ie. value of the slice) to other parts of their application or other services in their workflow. To learn more about embedded workflows, click here.

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