10/25/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/26/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Migration Hub adds ability to change the AWS Region used to store migration data

Today, we are excited to introduce a new management action for AWS Migration Hub, giving the ability to change the AWS Region used to store discovery and migration planning information.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.05 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.32) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.32. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.32 includes several improvements, such as Instant DDL support for drop column operations, support for new language-specific collations, Generated Invisible Primary Keys (GIPKs), and performance schema monitoring enhancements. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.32 release notes.

AWS Application Discovery Service adds new actions to remove servers, data collectors and imports

Today, we are excited to introduce a new set of management actions for AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), supporting the removal of resources no longer needed to be tracked as part of a migration.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports federated query to MySQL and MariaDB databases

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the mysql_fdw extension which allows your PostgreSQL database to connect and retrieve data stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible, RDS MySQL, and self-managed MySQL and MariaDB databases.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Europe (Milan) AWS Region

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Europe (Milan).

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now captures query plans on replica instances with query plan management

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL query plan management supported by the apg_plan_mgmt extension now includes the ability to capture query plans on read-only replica instances. Query plan management (QPM) includes other improvements in this version such as limiting the capture of query plans based on the estimated cost.

AWS announces an enhanced sign in experience in the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS

AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS can now use their mobile device’s password manager for faster sign in, set a default AWS identity for quicker recurring access to their resources, and use supported virtual authenticator apps, FIDO security keys and hardware TOTP tokens for multi-factor authentication (MFA). The enhanced sign in experience for the AWS Console Mobile App for Android is coming soon.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB support M7g, R7g DB instances in additional regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload.

AWS Glue now offers example jobs, drag-and-drop, and a preview-first layout

AWS Glue now provides example jobs for visual ETL and notebooks, drag-and-drop for connecting nodes, a data-preview-focused layout, and a simpler UI with fewer clicks. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. These improvements make it faster to work with and easier to learn.

Announcing Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.04 as long-term support (LTS) release

Starting today, long-term support (LTS) will be provided on Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) on the Aurora MySQL 3.04 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.28) minor version. Database clusters that use LTS releases can stay on the same minor version for at least three years. During the lifetime of an Aurora MySQL LTS release, new patches introduce fixes to critical matters such as security issues. These patches don’t include any new features.

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights adds more historical database cache options

Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights introduces two new historical database cache options to provide customers more price/performance choices when configuring high-speed caching for their historical kdb clusters. The new 250 MB/s/TiB and 12 MB/s/TiB options are now offered along with the existing 1000 MB/s/TiB option.

Amazon Aurora MySQL includes optimizations that reduce the database restart time by up to 65%

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL includes optimizations that reduce the database restart time by up to 65% versus without optimizations. These improvements are achieved by deferring portions of the buffer pool initialization and validation process to occur after the database is already online and accepting connections. These optimizations will improve database availability for unplanned events such as unexpected database restarts and planned operations such as minor version upgrades. To learn more about availability benefits, you can refer to our blog titled ‘Reduce downtime with Amazon Aurora MySQL database restart time optimizations’.

AWS Transfer Family announces Basic authentication for outbound AS2 messages

AWS Transfer Family now supports the option to include username and password credentials, termed as Basic authentication, when sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages over HTTPS. This enables you to be compatible with your trading partner’s AS2 implementations that require Basic authentication and comply with their security requirements.

Amazon SNS message data protection now supports custom data identifiers

Amazon SNS message data protection is a set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange high volumes of data. Now, you can use custom data identifiers to detect the protect domain-specific sensitive data, such as your company’s employee IDs. Previously, you could only use managed data identifiers to detect and protect common sensitive data, such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers.

AWS Config now supports 19 new resource types

AWS Config now supports 19 more resource types for services, including Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS Batch, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Elemental MediaConnect, Amazon Inspector, AWS IoT, AWS IoT TwinMaker, AWS IoT Wireless, AWS Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Personalize, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Transfer Family.

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