10/20/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/23/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon MSK announces Amazon EventBridge Pipes console integration
Today, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) announces an integration with Amazon EventBridge Pipes in the MSK service console, making it easier to send events from your Apache Kafka cluster to one of over 14 AWS service targets, including Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SNS, or Amazon EventBridge event buses. The EventBridge Pipes integration also supports the EventBridge API Destinations target which uses API calls to send your events to software as a service (SaaS) applications or your own applications within or outside AWS.
Amazon Kendra releases connectors for 11 JDBC data sources to enable structured data search
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 connectors for the following 11 databases, Aurora (MySQL Compatible), Aurora (PostgreSQL Compatible), RDS (MySQL), RDS (PostgreSQL), RDS (Oracle), RDS (Microsoft SQL Server), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and DB2 to index and search messages from these data sources.
AWS Config conformance packs are now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
AWS Config conformance packs, organization level management capabilities for conformance packs, and individual AWS Config rules are now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Conformance packs allow you to bundle AWS Config rules and their associated remediation actions into a single package, simplifying deployment at scale. You can deploy and manage these conformance packs throughout your AWS environment.
AMI Block Public Access now enabled for all new accounts and existing accounts with no public AMIs
Amazon EC2 has enabled the Amazon Machine Image Block Public Access (AMI BPA) setting by default for all new AWS accounts and all existing AWS accounts that have not owned a public AMI since July 15, 2023. AMI BPA restricts an AWS account from accidentally sharing an AMI publicly within an AWS Region, which helps improve the security and privacy posture for customers.
Amazon EC2 C6a, M6a, R6a instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in Canada (Central), the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in Canada (Central), and Europe (Milan) regions, and the memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances are now available in US West (N. California), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions. C6a, M6a and R6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors. M6a and R6a instances deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable M5a, and R5a instances, while C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance than comparable C5a instances. These instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances.
AWS Service Catalog announces support for additional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning tools
AWS Service Catalog customers can now create, distribute, and launch AWS resources that are configured using third- party Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Chef, Pulumi, Puppet, and more. Within AWS Service Catalog, customers can use these IaC tools in addition to previously supported AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform Cloud configurations.
Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6id instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Zurich). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation M5d instances, M6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance, offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.
AWS Wickr is now FedRAMP Moderate authorized
AWS Wickr has achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization. You can now use Wickr to help protect communications that are subject to FedRAMP Moderate compliance.
Amazon QuickSight now supports direct connectivity to Trino
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Trino connector that will enable customers to connect to Trino directly from Amazon QuickSight. This launch provides both console and full API support to create, update, edit and delete data sources.
Amazon QuickSight now supports direct connectivity to Starburst
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Starburst connector that will enable customers to connect to Starburst directly from Amazon QuickSight. The native Starburst data connector supports connectivity to Starburst Enterprise for on-premises instances and Starburst Galaxy for managed instances.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- AWS Weekly Roundup — New Features like EBS Status Check, Textract Custom Queries, Amazon Linux 2, etc. — 10/16/2023
- New — 7th Generation Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (R7i)
- How to implement Amazon Pinpoint for multi-tenancy
- [Event Report] SaaS on AWS 2023 Seminars and Events (10/10-11)
- If we overcome IT, innovation will come
AWS News Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- Resolve private DNS hostnames for Amazon MSK Connect
- Migrate data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3 using AWS Glue
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Build a web-based cryptocurrency wallet tracker with Amazon Managed Blockchain Access and Query
- Accelerate database migration planning with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 1: A framework for architecting ML workloads using Amazon SageMaker
- How Meesho built a generalized feed ranker using Amazon SageMaker inference
AWS Security Blog
- IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority
- AWS Security Profile: Liam Wadman, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Identity