10/31/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/1/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Announcing provider-generated notifications for AWS Data Exchange
Today, AWS announces the general availability of provider-generated notifications for AWS Data Exchange. This launch allows AWS Data Exchange data providers to inform their subscribers about important events related to their data sets. This feature helps providers easily contact their subscribers in a structured manner and assists subscribers in processing events related to their entitled data consistently across providers.
Amazon EMR Studio adds support for interactive analytics on Amazon EMR Serverless
Today, we are excited to announce that you can enable interactive analytics on EMR Serverless applications. This launch allows you to pick EMR Serverless applications as the compute, in addition to EMR on EC2 clusters and EMR on EKS virtual clusters, to run Jupyterlab notebooks from EMR Studio workspaces. Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it simple for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, and Scala. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option for Amazon EMR that makes it simple to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
AWS Blu Age Runtime on Amazon EC2 adds new AWS Regions and new build, logging, alerting features
AWS Mainframe Modernization with AWS Blu Age Runtime on Amazon EC2 is now available in five additional AWS Regions and features new capabilities for build, runtime logging, and billing alerts.
Amazon S3 Object Lambda now integrates with Amazon Athena
Amazon S3 Object Lambda now integrates with Amazon Athena, allowing you to automatically modify S3 data as it is being queried. With S3 Object Lambda, you can add your own code to S3 GET, HEAD, and LIST API requests to modify data as it is returned to your application. For example, you can use a Lambda function to automatically mask sensitive data columns when running queries in Amazon Athena. When you use S3 Object Lambda with Amazon Athena, you can more easily customize your data for different applications, without having to maintain multiple derivative copies of source data in Amazon S3.
Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights clusters now support code updates without restarting
Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights customers can now update code on a running kdb Insights cluster. This feature enables faster cycle time for deploying code updates during development and allows customers to deploy new code on long running clusters without having to terminate and recreate them.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. You may now configure and operate MediaPackage using the console or API endpoints in this region.
Announcing product lifecycle support for AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning
Starting today, AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning users can ensure forecasts are only created for the product’s active lifecycle by establishing forecast parameters for product introduction and retirement phases and improve forecast accuracy.
New self-guided AWS Partner Central experience with automated Tasks
AWS launches a self-guided AWS Partner Central experience with automated tasks to help accelerate your journey from registration, to go-to-market readiness, and listing in AWS Marketplace. Tasks are personalized calls to action, customized based on information partners share during registration and onboarding. They include tips and resources to help new and existing partners complete the needed steps to progress on their AWS journey.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage expands manifest configuration options
Starting today you can use the new AWS Elemental MediaPackage filter configuration option to apply a combination of manifest filtering, start over, and time delay parameters to your HLS manifests. This option has the same effect on the manifest content as using query strings in playback URLs.
Amazon Athena announces one hour reservations for Provisioned Capacity
Today, Amazon Athena announced 1-hour reservations for Provisioned Capacity. You can now reserve and release query processing capacity after one hour, which makes it simpler to optimize cost for workloads whose demand changes over time.
AWS Blogs
AWS News Blog
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
Business Productivity
- Easily monitor for anomalous behavior across multiple SaaS applications with AWS AppFabric
- Cross-application audit log analysis with AWS AppFabric
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Use Amazon DynamoDB incremental export to update Apache Iceberg tables
- Techniques to improve the state-of-the-art in Cloud FinOps using Amazon Neptune
- How power utilities analyze and detect harmonics issues using power quality and customer usage data with Amazon Timestream: Part 2
AWS for Industries
- Kasada beats bots at their own game: How to identify and eliminate bot attacks
- Identity and Access Management solution on AWS
- AWS Service Spotlight: Amazon Forecast for accurate demand forecasting
AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
- QoS Observability for OTT Streaming using Amazon CloudFront
- Hybrid cloud architectures using AWS Direct Connect gateway
AWS Security Blog
- Transforming transactions: Streamlining PCI compliance using AWS serverless architecture
- Prepare your AWS workloads for the “Operational risks and resilience – banks” FINMA Circular