9/28/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/29/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS App Runner adds support for Monorepos
AWS App Runner now supports deploying services from source code repositories that follow a monorepo structure. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without managing infrastructure. With App Runner build-from-source capability you can offload the build and deployment workflow management to App Runner and deploy services directly from source code. App Runner provides convenient platform-specific managed runtimes. Each one of these runtimes builds a container image from your source code, and adds language runtime dependencies into your application container image.
Amazon Titan Embeddings is now generally available
Amazon Titan Embeddings is a text embeddings model that converts natural language text including single words, phrases, or even large documents, into numerical representations that can be used to power use cases such as search, personalization, and clustering based on semantic similarity. Optimized for text retrieval to enable Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases, Amazon Titan Embeddings, enables you to first convert your text data into numerical representations or vectors and then use those vectors to accurately search for relevant passages from a vector database, allowing you to make the most of your proprietary data in combination with other foundation models (FMs).
Generative BI dashboard authoring capabilities for Amazon QuickSight (Preview)
Amazon QuickSight customers now have three new Generative business intelligence (BI) capabilities available in preview. First, business analysts using QuickSight can now build visualizations by specifying what they want to see in natural language. For example, “Show me count of orders in 2023 by city as a map” will instantly render a geographic map visualization automatically configured with count of “orders” filtered by 2023. Second, business analysts can build complex calculations in seconds by specifying the expected outcome in natural language, without searching for or experimenting with advanced calculation syntax. Lastly, visualizations on dashboards can be refined and tweaked using natural language prompts, removing hours of tedious point-and-click operations traditionally associated with BI tools.
Announcing the Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unreal Engine
We are excited to announce that Unreal Engine (UE) game developers can now more quickly access and integrate with Amazon GameLift with a new standalone plugin for UE. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unreal Engine supports UE5, UE5.1, and UE5.2 for Windows and Mac OS.
Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports AWS CloudTrail logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions. By logging these data events, you can get details on when and who made API calls to Amazon SNS, thereby enhancing data visibility for security and operations teams, enabling governance, compliance, and operational auditing.
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 new EC2 instance types as well as multi-attached EBS volumes
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation general-purpose instances (M7g, M7i, M7i-flex, M7a, M6a), compute optimized instances (C7gn, C7g), memory optimized instances (R7g, R7iz, R6id, R6a, X2iezn), storage optimized instances (I4g, I4i), and high-performance-computing (HPC) optimized instances (Hpc7g, Hpc6id). This expands the total EC2 instance types supported by Compute Optimizer to 636. Additionally, Compute Optimizer now delivers Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume recommendations for EBS volumes that are attached to multiple EC2 instances simultaneously.
Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models (FMs), is now generally available. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing FMs from leading AI companies including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon, along with a broad set of capabilities that you need to build generative AI applications, simplifying development while maintaining privacy and security.
AWS Backup for Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre in 7 more Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, and Lustre in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon FSx along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.
Amazon Textract launches Layout feature to extract paragraphs, titles, and more from documents
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Layout, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to extract layout elements such as paragraphs, titles, lists, headers, footers, and more from documents. Layout will be a new feature type in the Analyze Document API. Customers can use Layout as a stand-alone feature or in combination with other Analyze Document feature types.
AWS Application Migration Service now supports automated agent installation
Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to prepare your environment for the migration process using the MGN connector directly from the AWS Application Migration Service console.
AWS IoT Core’s Rules Engine announces capability to retrieve source IP of an IoT client
Today, AWS IoT Core a fully managed cloud service that lets you connect billions of devices and process trillions of messages, announces a new inline Rule function that enables you to extract the source IP address of the publisher of an IoT message. Once you extract the source IP address, you can send it to other AWS and third-party services for further analytics based on your business needs. For example, you can use the source IP address with location solvers (such as, AWS IoT Core Device Location) to determine the approximate location of an IoT device and build location-based applications, such as asset tracking, video content delivery etc.
DynamoDB global tables is now available in all AWS Regions
Amazon DynamoDB global tables is now available in the following AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE). Customers can now create global tables with replicas in all AWS Regions.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides up to 50% faster forecasting
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now offers a quicker and more user-friendly way to create machine learning (ML) models for time-series forecasting. With its visual, point-and-click interface, business analysts can easily create accurate ML models for insights and predictions, without writing any code or having prior ML knowledge. Canvas supports multiple use cases — including time-series forecasting used in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and finance — by combining statistical and ML algorithms to generate highly accurate forecasts.
Amazon Chime adds Waiting Room capability to further secure your meetings
Amazon Chime’s new Waiting Room adds another layer of privacy to all your meetings. Starting today, anonymous users that attempt to join your meeting are sent to the Waiting Room until you or another attendee from your company admits them in. Registered and signed in attendees who are invited still receive auto-calls and join your meetings without going through the Waiting Room.
Amazon Chime SDK now provides improved audio playback across high-loss networks
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Now, the Amazon Chime SDK provides loss recovery for up to 100ms of audio, which helps enable smooth playback of audio transmitted across networks with random and burst packet loss.
Amazon EC2 P5 instances are now available in AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Amazon EC2 P5 instances which deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications are now available in the US East (Ohio) region.
AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs
AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs to help you minimize the cutover downtime during SQL Server database migration to AWS. With this capability, you can now select the transaction log as one of the backup types, create a migration workflow based on the predefined template, and run the workflow step by step to accelerate SQL Server migration and reduce downtime during cutover to AWS.
AWS Partner Funding Portal now supports more funding initiatives
With the launch of Partner Initiative Funding in AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), AWS Partners can easily self-access and manage their initiative and agreement funding.
Announcing AWS Amplify JavaScript v6 developer preview
Today, we are announcing the developer preview of the AWS Amplify JavaScript Library v6 which includes reduced bundle sizes, richer TypeScript support, and integrations with Next.js server-side features. The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library enables frontend developers to connect their web and React Native apps to AWS cloud backends. In this developer preview, Amplify JavaScript now offers richer TypeScript support for the Auth, Analytics, and Storage categories. Apps using this developer preview will be served with smaller bundle sizes. Amplify JavaScript v6 also introduces an integration with Next.js server-side features such as App Router, Middleware, API routes, and server functions.
AWS IoT Core introduces support for headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action
Today, AWS IoT Core a fully managed cloud service that lets you connect billions of devices and process trillions of messages, supports headers in Rules Engine’s Kafka Action. You can use Kafka headers to send additional metadata from IoT devices to a self-managed Apache Kafka cluster or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), without modifying the original IoT message payload.
Amazon RDS adds Oracle SE2 License Included option for R6i, R5 and T3 in additional regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now offers Oracle Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI) purchase option in additional AWS Regions and for additional instance classes. R6i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Middle East (UAE), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), and US West (Oregon). R5 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne), and Europe (Spain). T3 instances are now supported in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE).
Amazon SQS announces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for scalable access permissions
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling customers to bolster their overall security postures with a flexible and scalable access control solution. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon EKS starts supporting Kubernetes 1.28
- AWS Recognized as a Leader in Mainframe Application Modernization Software by 2023 ISG Provider Lens
- Revitalizing the beauty industry with generative AI
- An Approach to Mainframe Modernization (Part 2)
- An Approach to Mainframe Modernization (Part 1)
- AWS Online Webinar: Seminar for the Design and Development Area of Manufacturing - Reducing Product Design and Development Time Using AWS HPC
- Enable load balancing for non-HTTP (s) traffic on AWS Outputs
AWS News Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Building a well architected AWS GovCloud (US) environment with AWS Control Tower
- AWS Health Events Intelligence Dashboards & Insights
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Cross-account Amazon RDS for Oracle migration using Amazon RDS snapshots and AWS DMS for minimal downtime
- Gain insights from Web3 data with The Graph and Amazon Managed Blockchain
Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Accenture creates a Knowledge Assist solution using generative AI services on AWS
- Speed up your time series forecasting by up to 50 percent with Amazon SageMaker Canvas UI and AutoML APIs
- Robust time series forecasting with MLOps on Amazon SageMaker
- Create a Generative AI Gateway to allow secure and compliant consumption of foundation models
- Beyond forecasting: The delicate balance of serving customers and growing your business
- Announcing New Tools to Help Every Business Embrace Generative AI
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Security Blog
- Get the full benefits of IMDSv2 and disable IMDSv1 across your AWS infrastructure
- How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actors