9/7/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/8/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Security Hub now supports findings consolidation in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS announces the availability of control and finding consolidation capabilities in AWS Security Hub in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. The consolidated controls view shows all security controls in one place. You can use it to help identify misconfigurations based on severity and number of failed resources, improve your overall security score, and configure each control across standards. This release also includes a matching set of APIs to obtain, list, and update security controls across standards.
Amazon RDS now supports custom data types in Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL
Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL now supports building your own custom data types and is available on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL. You can now use Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL to create a new base (or scalar) data type, specify how it is stored, and define functions that support SQL and index operations for this new data type.
Amazon SageMaker now provides a new quick Studio setup experience
Today, we are excited to announce the new quick Studio setup for Amazon SageMaker. This new quick setup allows you to create SageMaker Studio with default pre-sets in minutes for individual users.
AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling
AWS Step Functions announces the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in your AWS Step Functions workflows to help you identify errors more clearly and provide you with fine-grained control over your retry strategies. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to automate business processes and data processing workloads.
Announcing daily disbursements for AWS Marketplace sellers
AWS Marketplace now enables sellers to set disbursement preferences to receive their outstanding balances on a daily basis, granting increased flexibility. While AWS Marketplace sellers, including independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners, were previously limited to monthly disbursements on a specific day, now sellers can select between daily and monthly disbursements. For the monthly disbursement option, sellers can also select what day of the month they want to receive their disbursements.
New Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP capabilities simplify managing file systems using ONTAP CLI
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is announcing two additional capabilities that make it even easier for you to secure and audit access to your file systems: you can now create additional ONTAP file system administrator users for your file system and you can use Active Directory credentials to access the ONTAP CLI.
Introducing Amazon EC2 R7iz instances
Today, AWS announces the general availability of memory-optimized, high CPU performance Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) R7iz instances. R7iz instances are the fastest 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud with 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo frequency. They deliver up to 20% better performance than previous generation z1d instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient and flexible cloud services with enhanced security, isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. R7iz instances are ideal for front-end Electronic Design Automation (EDA), relational databases with high per-core licensing fees, financial, actuarial, data analytics simulations, and other workloads requiring a combination of high compute performance and high memory footprint.
Amazon Detective adds Amazon EKS security investigations to AWS Workshop Studio
You can now learn how to use Amazon Detective to conduct security investigations for threats detected in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and AWS security findings in the latest Amazon Detective Workshop Studio. These new modules will help you understand how to dive deep quickly on container threats but also broaden your investigations to services beyond Amazon GuardDuty.
Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler for dynamic content support
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Web Crawler to index and search pages, including dynamic pages from web sites they have authorization to crawl from.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect has additional metrics for improved visibility into your video streams and upfront error detection. The new metrics indicate consecutive packet drops, consecutive packets not recovered, jitter, latency, and up time. You can easily monitor your live video stream source metrics in the AWS Management Console, via Amazon CloudWatch, or via the API.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.5, 10.6.15, 10.5.22, 10.4.31
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.5, 10.6.15, 10.5.22 and 10.4.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Automate and Simplify SAP HANA Backups with AWS Backup
- Let’s Architect! Streamline your business with migration and modernization
AWS News Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Capacity Management and Amazon EMR Managed Scaling improvements for Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters
- Extracting key insights from Amazon S3 access logs with AWS Glue for Ray
Business Productivity
- Summarization of call recordings using a Large Language Model with Amazon Chime SDK Call Analytics
- Introducing the Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android
AWS Contact Center
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Analyze Amazon DocumentDB workloads with Performance Insights
- Create custom PostgreSQL data types using Trusted Language Extensions
Desktop and Application Streaming
- Selecting the right AWS End User Computing service for your needs
- Converting a desktop application to a cloud service in less than an hour
AWS for Industries
- Faster post–silicon analysis with an AWS data lake
- Pay and earn rewards at restaurants and bars with Amazon One
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Optimize equipment performance with historical data, Ray, and Amazon SageMaker
- Enable pod-based GPU metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
- Best practices and design patterns for building machine learning workflows with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines
AWS for M&E Blog
AWS Security Blog
- Automatically detect and block low-volume network floods
- AWS achieves ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certification for AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and (Hyderabad) Regions