10/19/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/20/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Bedrock now available in Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in Europe (Frankfurt, Germany) AWS Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications.
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available in Indonesia (Jakarta)
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available for EMR on EC2 customers in the AWS Region in Indonesia (Jakarta).
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The new Im4gn instance type is best suited for storage-intensive workloads and offers a lower cost per TB than the existing storage optimized instances available on OpenSearch Service. Im4gn supports up to 30 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage with AWS Nitro SSDs.
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports Windows Server 2022 bundles
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2022. With these bundles, customers can launch Windows Server 2022 WorkSpaces and take advantage of the latest Windows server operating systems features. It also enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions.
Amazon EC2 M6gd instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6gd instances are available in South America (Sao Paolo) and Canada (Central) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and offer up to 3.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage.
AWS Glue for Apache Spark announces native connectivity for Google BigQuery
AWS Glue for Apache Spark now supports native connectivity to Google BigQuery, which enables users to efficiently read and write data from BigQuery without the need to install or manage BigQuery connector for Apache Spark libraries. Users can now add BigQuery as a source or target within AWS Glue Studio’s no-code, drag-and-drop visual interface or use the connector directly in an AWS Glue ETL job script. When combined with AWS Glue’s ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) capabilities, this new connector simplifies the creation of ETL pipelines enabling ETL developers to save time building and maintaining data pipelines.
Amazon Route 53 traffic flow now supports geoproximity routing for AWS Local Zones
Starting today, Route 53 geoproximity routing can be used with AWS Local Zones in Route 53 traffic flow to reduce latency for end users connecting to applications running in their nearest Local Zone. With this release, you can improve application performance for latency-sensitive workloads by routing traffic within the same geographic area as that of Local Zone infrastructure.
AWS announces member account level credit sharing preferences
Starting today, AWS is launching new options for credit sharing. The Billing preferences page of the Billing Console now allows you to manage credit sharing preferences for your organization at a more granular level by selecting which accounts from your organization to share your credits with and exclude others from sharing.
Announcing Sepolia Testnet support for Amazon Managed Blockchain Query
Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query now supports the Sepolia Testnet, delivering foundational balance and transactional data with full history and sub-second latency without the need for specialized infrastructure. With this release, AMB Query now supports the Sepolia Testnet and completes its Testnet and Mainnet coverage for Bitcoin and Ethereum, helping developers from test to production.
AWS Resilience Hub now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Resilience Hub is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use AWS Resilience Hub, a service to help customers compliantly improve the resilience of applications running on AWS.
Enable Amazon RDS Optimized Writes using RDS Blue/Green Deployments
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes can now be enabled for your current RDS for MySQL and RDS for MariaDB database instances and promoted to production in as fast as a minute using RDS Blue/Green deployments. RDS Optimized Writes can improve up to 2x write throughout for your databases.
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Graphics G4dn bundles for Ubuntu desktops
Amazon WorkSpaces now introduces two new graphics bundles for Ubuntu desktops based on the EC2 G4dn family: Graphics.g4dn and GraphicsPro.g4dn. These bundles enable you to run graphics-intensive and compute-intensive workloads on Ubuntu desktops with 4k monitors in the cloud. They offer cost-effective solutions for graphics applications optimized for NVIDIA GPUs using NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN, OptiX, and Video Codec SDK.
AWS Security Hub launches 19 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 19 new security controls, increasing the number of controls offered to 292. With these new controls, Security Hub now supports four additional AWS services: Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon MQ, and Amazon Route 53. Security Hub also released new controls against eight previously supported services including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). For the full list of recently-released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide.
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in new regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Regions Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF).
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- How to build a generative AI solution for contact centers using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Connect
- PostgreSQL architecture considerations for application developers: Part 1
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- SmugMug’s durable search pipelines for Amazon OpenSearch Service
- Load data incrementally from transactional data lakes to data warehouses
AWS Compute Blog
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Monitor and alert on DDL and DCL changes in Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora MySQL
- The convergence of AI and digital assets: A new dawn for financial infrastructure
AWS Developer Tools Blog
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS HPC Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Announcing Rekogniton Custom Moderation: Enhance accuracy of pre-trained Rekognition moderation models with your data
- Defect detection in high-resolution imagery using two-stage Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels models
- Automatically redact PII for machine learning using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler