9/26/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/27/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDB

Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments. You can export changed data ranging from a few megabytes to terabytes with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, an API call, or the AWS Command Line Interface. Choose a DynamoDB table that has point-in-time-recovery enabled, specify an export time period for which you want incremental data, choose your target Amazon S3 bucket, and export.

AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. By removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting, customers can generate deeper insights from omics data to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.

Amazon Braket now provides real-time visibility into quantum task and hybrid job queues

Amazon Braket, is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to get started with quantum computing. Starting today, customers can have real-time visibility into device queue lengths and the individual queue positions for their Quantum Tasks and Hybrid Jobs, providing greater transparency into when their workloads will run.

Amazon QuickSight launches contextual row subtotals for pivot tables

Amazon QuickSight introduces the ability to add contextual row subtotals in pivot tables for easier understanding and improved presentation. Authors can now customize subtotal labels by appending the group name, enabling clearer association and understanding. For instance, if the current group is “North America,” users can rename their subtotals as ‘North America Total,’ ‘Total for North America,’ or ‘Total North America.’

Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors, which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS.

Amazon EMR Serverless introduces application-wide default job configurations

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that helps data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are happy to announce that starting today, you can set default configurations at the application level, allowing you to maintain consistent settings for all Spark and Hive jobs submitted under the same application.

QuickSight now supports tagging users for cost allocation

Amazon QuickSight and AWS Billing now support tagging users with the TagResource and RegisterUser APIs. With this launch, administrators can tag users and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate user based costs by team, department or application.

AWS Global Accelerator now supports endpoints in four additional AWS Regions

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in four additional AWS Regions - Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv), expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-eight.

AWS Lake Formation launches Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog

Today, AWS Lake Formation announces the general availability of Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature provides you the flexibility to selectively enable Lake Formation for databases and tables in your AWS Glue Data Catalog. Before this launch, you had to move all existing users of a table into Lake Formation in a single step, which required a certain amount of coordination among data owners and data consumers. With the Hybrid Access Mode, you now have an incremental path wherein you can enable Lake Formation for a specific set of users without interrupting other existing users or workloads.

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.5.1

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.5.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.5.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key features include the introduction of new rack-aware partition assignment for consumers. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum management in this release. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 3.5.1.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches permission for agents to view their own contacts

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports a new permission to provide agents with access to only the contacts that they handled, within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect has permissions that enable contact center managers to access contacts handled by agents in their teams and evaluate agent performance. With this launch, agents can securely search for their own contacts and review their recordings and transcripts alongside performance evaluations submitted by managers.

Amazon Chime SDK now supports sending WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Amazon Chime SDK media pipelines now enable the sending of Amazon Chime SDK WebRTC audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. With the Amazon Chime SDK, developers can add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Sending WebRTC session audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams provides developers access to the audio for live analysis during the session.

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.28

Kubernetes 1.28 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.28. Starting today, you can create new 1.28 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.28 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or through an infrastructure-as-code tool.

AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering

AWS Batch DescribeJobDefinitions API now supports server-side filtering by job definition status. AWS Batch customers filtering job definitions by ACTIVE or INACTIVE status will now receive smaller DescribeJobDefinitions API response improving performance of the API and AWS Batch Management Console.

Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints are now available in six new regions

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications. Amazon Chime SDK meetings API endpoints used to create and manage meetings are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London) regions.

AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resources

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc launches expanded resource support for AWS Application Composer, from 13 to all 1000+ resources supported by AWS CloudFormation. This launch allows you to drag any resource required for your use case onto an interactive diagram-like canvas where an editor provides auto completion and validation as you configure each service. With AWS Application Composer, you can focus on the high-level architecture of your application while the canvas assists with configuration and maintains deployment-ready infrastructure as code definitions.

AWS Verified Access supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in US and Canada Regions

AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure VPN-less access to your corporate applications, now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to help you protect sensitive information. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Verified Access for regulated workloads. Companies contracting with the US and Canadian federal governments can now meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in these Regions.

AWS Glue Studio now supports custom icons

AWS Glue now supports custom icons for custom visual transforms. Custom visual transforms let customers define, reuse, and share business-specific ETL logic among their teams. Reusable transforms increase consistency between teams and help keep jobs up to date by minimizing duplicate effort and code.

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