10/23/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/24/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Marketplace announces enhanced private offer user experience for sellers
Today, AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of an enhanced private offer user experience to improve ease of use across different product types and pricing models. AWS Marketplace sellers can now directly view and manage active agreements in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) Agreements tab for AMI, container, SaaS, and professional services products with all pricing types.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU22
A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.
Build ML feature pipelines from custom data sources with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store supports the ability to incorporate custom data sources into feature processing pipelines. You can build richer and more varied ML features by incorporating diverse data sources, defining transformation functions to perform, and SageMaker Feature Store takes care of processing the data into ML features.
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports M6i and R6i instances
Amazon Custom for SQL Server now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances.
AWS Entity Resolution expands data protection capabilities
Today we are announcing a new capability for AWS Entity Resolution to help customers protect their datasets. You can now use AWS PrivateLink with AWS Entity Resolution to establish private connectivity between your data tables and your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your organization’s traffic to the Internet, so your data remains encrypted in transit and at rest. This improvement is especially helpful for customers that require this capability to meet their organization’s security and data protection requirements.
AWS re:Post introduces Selections
Today, AWS re:Post launches Selections, a feature that organizes AWS knowledge for a specific topic, technical issue, or use case. For example, Selections can aggregate content based on a topic such as “Configure CORS in Amazon S3”, a technical issue such as “Troubleshoot the Amazon S3 403 Access Denied error”, or a use case such as “Migrating Windows workloads to AWS.” To date, re:Post has published 10 Selections. re:Post community members with 5,000+ points can publish new Selections.
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now supports additional MacOS and Linux versions
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8, MacOS Monterey, and MacOS Ventura. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch instances with both security-related and other types of updates across your infrastructure for a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page.
Amazon ECS increases applications resiliency to unpredictable load spikes
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) enhanced tasks scheduling to make customers’ applications even more resilient to unpredictable load spikes. Now, Amazon ECS will first start a healthy replacement for each unhealthy task, that failed to pass a container or load balancer health check, before terminating it. This enhancement increases the resilience of customers’ applications with no additional efforts or configuration.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Discussion on Cloudification of Store Systems 3 — Multi-region Architecture Using AWS IoT
- Integrate custom logic or appliances with AWS Gateway Load Balancer
- AWS, which provides Amazon Connect, was selected as a leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service
- Capturing and Tuning Resource Usage Metrics on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Amazon CodeWhisperer’s New Customization Capabilities Generate Better Suggestions (Preview)
- AWS Weekly — Week 10/16/2023
- Monitoring generative AI applications by integrating Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Cloudwatch
- Introducing the Amazon MSK Replicator — Fully managed replication between MSK clusters in the same or different AWS regions
- Innovations pioneered by generative AI − Part.1: Business Improvement for Pharmaceutical Companies Using Large-Scale Language Models (LLM)
AWS Open Source Blog
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Configure an AWS DMS endpoint to access cross-account secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
- Migrate an IBM Db2 for iSeries database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using Blu Age and Qlik Replicate
Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS for Industries
- Acoustic gains 10X throughput rates modernizing their Send Engine on AWS
- Tealium Delivers Cross-channel Customer Experiences with Amazon Personalize
- AWS for Financial Services: Make the most of re:Invent 2023
- Is Generative AI the Answer to All Questions?