11/6/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/7/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver persistent chat experiences for your customers

Amazon Connect now offers a new flow block to enable persistent chats, making it easier to deliver long lasting chat experiences for your customers. Persistent chats enable customers to resume previous conversations with the context, metadata, and transcripts carried over, eliminating the need for customers to repeat themselves and allowing agents to provide personalized service with access to the entire conversation history.

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights launches enhanced observability for Amazon EKS

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now delivers enhanced observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with out-of-the-box detailed health and performance metrics, including container level EKS performance metrics, Kube-state metrics and EKS control plane metrics for faster problem isolation and troubleshooting.

AWS Service Management Connector introduces AWS Health and AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter integrations in Jira Cloud

Starting today, you can now integrate AWS Health events to receive operational and account information, prepare for scheduled changes, and manage events directly within Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) Cloud. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.

AWS Fargate now enables Amazon ECS tasks to selectively leverage SOCI

Customers running applications with more than one containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI) to lazily load specific container images within the Amazon ECS task definition. This eliminates the need to generate SOCI indexes for smaller container images within the task definition, while still getting the benefits of SOCI with larger container images, improving the overall application deployment and scale-out time.

Amazon EC2 D3 instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (Zurich) region.

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.7 and deferrable operators

You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.7 environments and execute deferrable operators on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.7 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

AWS CodeBuild now supports AWS Lambda compute

AWS CodeBuild customers can now use AWS Lambda to build and test their software packages. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages.

Amazon MSK adds check for too many partitions to AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new fault tolerance check for too many partitions per broker on Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). AWS Trusted Advisor helps you optimize costs, increase performance, improve security and resilience, and operate at scale in the cloud.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Milan) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Milan) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS Health enhances integration via AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow

Starting today, you can now integrate AWS Health events to receive operational and account information, prepare for scheduled changes, and manage events directly within ServiceNow. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources. It also supports the organization view which allows you to receive a feed of health events across your organization by setting up one EventBridge rule and monitors AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge.

AWS Control Tower is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 28 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.

Amazon SES now offers 60 days of metric history in Virtual Deliverability Manager

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) extended the duration during which customers can access their engagement metrics in the Virtual Deliverability Manager dashboard. Now customers can see delivery and engagement rates for up to 60 days prior, helping customers monitor sending performance and troubleshoot unexpected drops in delivery and engagement rates. This extra history makes it easier to identify trends, compare unusual events with a broader baseline, and reduce the timing dependencies for identifying problems requiring investigation.

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Today, we are excited to announce the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). The addition of this region expands the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS to 26 regions globally, enabling more customers to accelerate their migration to the cloud.

AWS Lambda supports faster polling scale-up rate for Amazon SQS as an event source

AWS Lambda now supports up to 5x faster polling scale-up rate (adding up to 300 concurrent executions per minute) for spiky Lambda workloads configured with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as an event source using Lambda event source mapping or Amazon EventBridge Pipes. This enables customers building event-driven applications using Lambda and SQS queues (standard or first-in, first-out) to achieve more responsive scaling during a sudden burst of messages in their queues, and reduces the need to duplicate Lambda functions or SQS queues to achieve faster message processing.

Amazon SQS announces Amazon EventBridge Pipes console integration

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an integration with Amazon EventBridge Pipes in the SQS service console, making it easier to send messages from your SQS queue to one of over 14 AWS service targets, including Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SNS, Amazon ECS, Amazon EventBridge event buses, or another SQS queue. The EventBridge Pipes integration also supports the EventBridge API Destinations target which uses API calls to send your SQS messages to software as a service (SaaS) applications or your own applications within or outside AWS.

EC2 Image Builder adds Amazon Linux 2023 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS managed image support

EC2 Image Builder, a service that makes it easier and faster to build, customize and maintain Virtual Machine images, now supports additional Operating Systems - Amazon Linux 2023 and Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS). Customers can use these new managed images as a base image for their image pipelines to create and manage custom images, similar to the process for supported Windows and Linux operating systems.

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