8/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/1/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
PostgreSQL 16 Release Candidate 1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 RC1 in the Preview Environment and have the same benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. PostgreSQL 16RC1 in the Preview Environment also includes support for logical decoding on read replicas, AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC), and over 80 PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector, pg_tle, h3-pg, pg_cron, and rdkit.
Amazon RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB now supports r5 database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports r5 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.
AWS Directory Service and AWS Private CA provide certificates for Active Directory
Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) and AD Connector are integrating with AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to issue certificates for domain-joined objects that use Active Directory (AD) auto-enrollment. You can use a fully managed AWS Private CA drop-in replacement for your self-managed enterprise CAs without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers. This also enables you to accelerate the migration of AD-aware workloads to AWS.
Announcing improved user experience with console enhancements for AWS Network Firewall
Today, we’re excited to announce console enhancements on AWS Network Firewall console pages to improve user experience. AWS Network Firewall console pages are completely revamped using Cloudscape Design System guidelines, an open source solution for building intuitive, engaging, and inclusive user experiences at scale.
AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now generally available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst’s Launch in Europe (Ireland)
Today, AWS announces the launch of Amazon CodeCatalyst in the Europe (Ireland) region. CodeCatalyst provides everything you need to start planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS with a streamlined, integrated experience. With CodeCatalyst, you can spend more time developing application features and less time setting up project tools, creating and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, provisioning and configuring development and deployment environments, and onboarding team members to their projects. CodeCatalyst is also available in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region and can deploy workloads to any public region worldwide.
AWS Step Functions streamlines the authoring experience in Workflow Studio
AWS Step Functions is introducing enhancements to Workflow Studio, a visual workflow designer in the AWS console, which includes a streamlined transition between the visual builder and code, making it faster and easier to build workflows. To get started quickly, you can also choose from a collection of starter projects for common use cases and modify them using Workflow Studio.
Amazon QuickSight launches scaled shared folders for asset sharing at scale in a multi-tenant setup
Amazon QuickSight now supports scaled shared folders for multi-tenant setup that enables you to share QuickSight asset dashboards, analyses, datasets and datasources at scale with all your tenants at once. Prior to this launch, you could share a folder with up to hundred tenants at a time and had to create copies of folders and assets within them. Scaled shared folders are new type of shared folders which can be created and shared using APIs. To learn more, click here.
AWS SimSpace Weaver SDK for Python now available
Today we’re excited to announce the release of the AWS SimSpace Weaver SDK for Python to make it easier for simulation developers building Python based simulation projects to integrate with SimSpace Weaver.
Amazon SES now offers email delivery and engagement history for every email
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new deliverability feature that helps customers troubleshoot individual email delivery problems, confirm delivery of critical messages, and identify engaged recipients on a granular, single email basis. Senders can investigate trends in delivery performance and see delivery and engagement status for each email sent through SES. This makes it even easier for customers to manage and optimize their delivery and campaign performance using Virtual Deliverability Manager.
AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
AWS IAM Identity Center was launched in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and centrally manage their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications across your AWS organization. You can create user identities directly in IAM Identity Center or you can bring them from your Microsoft Active Directory or a standards-based identity provider, such as Okta Universal Directory or Azure AD. With IAM Identity Center, you get a unified administration experience to define, customize, and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a portal for access to all of their assigned AWS accounts and cloud applications. IAM Identity Center is available to you at no additional cost.
AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in 6 additional regions
AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in 6 additional regions - Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE). With up to 34% better price-performance, functions running on AWS Graviton are ideal for powering mission critical Serverless applications.
AWS AppSync provides an improved module and functions for JavaScript DynamoDB resolvers
AWS AppSync is a managed service that makes it easier to build scalable APIs that connect applications to data. With AppSync, API developers can write resolvers to define the business logic that connects their AppSync GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs to data. Developers use AppSync to interact with data sources like Amazon DynamoDB tables by writing their JavaScript resolvers that are executed on the AppSync JavaScript (APPSYNC_JS) runtime. Now, AppSync provides new functions to interact with DynamoDB tables that simplifies the developer experience in JavaScript resolvers.
Amazon SNS now supports additional usage metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) has introduced additional usage metrics in Amazon CloudWatch for the following service quotas: ‘Topics per Account’, ‘Filter Policies per Account’, and ‘Pending Subscriptions per Account’. Under the ‘AWS/Usage’ namespace, you can now view the ‘ApproximateNumberOfTopics’, ‘ApproximateNumberOfFilterPolicies’, and ‘ApproximateNumberOfPendingSubscriptions’ metrics to monitor your usage of these Amazon SNS resources. Moreover, using AWS Service Quotas, you can also view your utilization metrics per quota, and create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to notify you when your utilization of a given quota exceeds your configurable threshold. This enables you to more precisely adapt your utilization of Amazon SNS, based on your applied quotas.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports ingesting streaming data from Amazon MSK
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest streaming data from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), enabling you to seamlessly index the data from Amazon MSK in Amazon OpenSearch Service managed domains or serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to perform near- real-time aggregations, sampling and anomaly detection on data ingested from Amazon MSK, helping you to build efficient data pipelines to power your complex observability use cases.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Manage Amazon QuickSight user and group memberships using SCIM events in IAM Identity Center linked to Azure AD
- Use database activity streams to audit Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Monitor SQL login creation on Amazon RDS for SQL servers
- Get SNS notifications about Amazon RDS for SQL Server when the database state changes offline or online
- Deploying multiple accounts using the Environment on Amazon CodeCatalyst
- Backup and recovery planning considerations for higher education institutions
- Preventing and Preparing for Cyber Attacks in Higher Education
- The need for scalable security in higher education
- AWS Weekly Roundup — AWS Dedicated Zones, Events, and More — August 28, 2023
- [Event Report] Current Status of the Latest Cyber Attacks and Web Security Countermeasures (WAF/DDoS Countermeasures) Case Seminar (2023 Edition)
AWS Big Data Blog
- Introducing Amazon MSK as a source for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
- Query your Iceberg tables in data lake using Amazon Redshift (Preview)
- Deploy Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with Terraform
- Build an ETL process for Amazon Redshift using Amazon S3 Event Notifications and AWS Step Functions
Business Productivity
AWS Compute Blog
Desktop and Application Streaming
- Improving the security of your web-based workloads with Amazon WorkSpaces Web
- AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023: Architecting end-user computing environments for change and agility
Front-End Web & Mobile
- Detect real users with AWS Amplify and Face Liveness
- Introducing new AWS AppSync module and functions for DynamoDB JavaScript resolvers
AWS HPC Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS for M&E Blog
AWS Messaging & Targeting Blog
AWS Security Blog
- Embracing our broad responsibility for securing digital infrastructure in the European Union
- Two real-life examples of why limiting permissions works: Lessons from AWS CIRT