8/29/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/30/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Transfer Family announces multiple methods to authenticate SFTP users
AWS Transfer Family now offers customers the option to require both SSH key and password authentication when users connect to their SFTP servers. This new method of authentication allows customers to add an additional level of protection to their data when authorizing users to securely access their files.
Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Iceland and Uruguay
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your datacenter and on-premises locations in Iceland and Uruguay.
Amazon RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB now supports m6i and m6g database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports m6i and m6g database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.
Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports project quotas
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 project quotas. With project quotas, you can group multiple files or directories on your file system into a project, and monitor storage consumption on a per-project basis. Project quotas are ideal for storage administrators who manage file systems that serve multiple projects or teams who want to ensure that no project exceeds its allocated storage capacity.
Amazon Connect Cases now supports nine additional languages
Amazon Connect Cases now supports nine additional languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish. Now, you can view the Amazon Connect Cases UI in any language supported by Amazon Connect regardless of your AWS Region.
Amazon VPC CNI now supports Kubernetes NetworkPolicy enforcement
The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) Plugin now supports the Kubernetes NetworkPolicy resource. Customers can use the same open-source Amazon VPC CNI to implement both pod networking and network policies to secure the traffic in their Kubernetes clusters. This reduces the need to run additional software for network access controls and will work alongside all existing VPC CNI capabilities.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports AWS User Notifications
We are excited to announce the integration of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with AWS User Notifications. OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management.
AWS Backup now supports local time zone selections
Today, AWS Backup announces support for local time zone selection in your backup plan, allowing you to manage your backup schedule according to your local time zone. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Now, when creating or editing existing backup plans, you can select a backup window time zone, eliminating the need for manual time zone conversions from UTC.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor supports per-session control of non-linear overlay video ads
Using AWS Elemental MediaTailor you can now enable or disable non-linear overlay ads at a per-session level.
AWS Neuron adds support for Llama 2, GPT-NeoX, and SDXL generative AI models
AWS Neuron is the SDK for Amazon EC2 Inferentia and Trainium based instances purposely-built for generative AI. Today, with Neuron 2.13 release, we are launching support for Llama 2 model training and inference, GPT-NeoX model training and adding support for Stable Diffusion XL and CLIP models inference.
AWS Private CA launches Connector for Active Directory
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) launches the Connector for Active Directory (AD). The Connector for AD allows you to use AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for your self-managed enterprise certificate authorities without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers. Enterprises that use AD to manage Windows environments can reduce their private certificate authority (CA) costs and complexity. You can help meet your security and compliance goals by using AWS Private CA, a fully-managed service, which stores CA private keys in FIPS 140 validated hardware security modules (HSMs).
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Build and enhance knowledge graphs with BERT using Novartis AG, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Neptune (Part 2/4)
- AWS Life Sciences Executive Symposium 2023 Highlights: Accessing Data and Leveraging Insights
- AWS Life Sciences Executive Symposium 2023 Highlights: Accelerating Drug Discovery with ML and Generative AI
- Cox Automotive enhances digital personalization with identity graphs utilizing Amazon Neptune
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Monitor real-time Amazon RDS OS metrics with flexible granularity using Enhanced Monitoring
- Automate switchover of Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
AWS HPC Blog
AWS for Industries
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Security Blog
- Generate machine learning insights for Amazon Security Lake data using Amazon SageMaker
- Improve your security investigations with Detective finding groups visualizations