11/9/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/10/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in ten additional AWS Regions

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in ten new AWS Regions: Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), South America (São Paulo), Israel (Tel Aviv), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and Middle East (UAE).

AWS Health provides improved visibility into planned lifecycle events

AWS Health introduces new features to help you manage planned lifecycle events, such as Amazon EKS Kubernetes version end of standard support, Amazon RDS certificate rotations, and end of support for other open source software. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and scheduled changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.

AWS Lambda enhances auto scaling for Kafka event sources

AWS Lambda launches auto scaling improvements for Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources. With this launch, customers will now experience faster scaling and more consistent throughput when processing Kafka messages with Lambda functions.

Deploy your stack sets faster with ConcurrencyMode in AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces a new capability ConcurrencyMode that provides customers a faster deployment experience while balancing deployment safety. Customers control speed and safety of their stack set deployments with concurrency and failure tolerance. Customers define these parameters along with ConcurrencyMode as a part of their StackSetOperationPreferences prior to running a stack set operation. StackSetsOperationPreferences is available with the following six APIs: create-stack-instances, delete-stack-instances, detect-stack-set-drift, import-stacks-to-stack-set, update-stack-set and update-stack-instances. With the ConcurrencyMode parameter, customers can modify existing deployment behavior of stack set operations for faster deployments that decouples concurrency from failure tolerance.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports additional deployment types in seven AWS Regions

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Multi-AZ file systems in seven additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). Customers can also now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ 2 file systems in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Amazon RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB now supports M5 database instances

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports M5 database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming.

Amazon GuardDuty introduces new machine learning capability to enhance threat detection for Amazon EKS detections

Amazon GuardDuty has incorporated new machine learning techniques to more accurately detect anomalous activities indicative of threats to your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. This new capability continuously models Kubernetes audit log events from Amazon EKS to detect highly suspicious activity such as unusual user access to Kubernetes secrets that can be used to escalate privileges, and suspicious container deployments with images not commonly used in the cluster or account. The new threat detections are available for all GuardDuty customers that have GuardDuty EKS Audit Log Monitoring enabled.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Multitenant

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB.

Amazon SQS announces support for JSON protocol

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for JSON protocol, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and memory usage. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon Comprehend launches new trust and safety features

Amazon Comprehend announced new features to help organizations enhance trust and safety for text-based content. Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that provides pre-trained and custom APIs to derive insights from text. With the new Toxicity Detection and Prompt Safety Classification features, customers can now apply guardrails to moderate user and machine generated content.

Announcing next generation Resiliency Scores for AWS Resilience Hub

Today, AWS Resilience Hub announces enhancements to its Resiliency Score capability, which now provides more actionable recommendations customers can implement to improve their application resilience and increase their score. Combined with the Exclude Recommendation capability, customer can emphasize different parts of the Resiliency Score that are most relevant to their application. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) operational recommendations have been added to help improve the resilience posture of your applications which include EKS resources.

Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports self-service Enterprise Subscription purchases

Amazon EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscriptions can now be purchased through the Amazon EKS console, APIs, and AWS CLI. You can purchase Amazon EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscriptions for 24/7 support from AWS subject matter experts and access to Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages. Amazon EKS Anywhere is an AWS-supported Kubernetes offering with automation tooling to simplify running Kubernetes in on-premises and edge environments.

NICE DCV releases version 2023.1 with support for WebAuthn redirection

NICE DCV version 2023.1 introduces new features and enhancements, such as a new Windows display driver which optimizes the graphics pipeline and reduces the overall CPU usage. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

Amazon RDS for MySQL delivers up to 3X higher write throughput at no additional charge

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now delivers up to 3X higher write throughput at no additional charge, starting with RDS for MySQL version 8.0.35. If you’re running RDS for MySQL version 8.0.34 or lower, you can upgrade to RDS for MySQL version 8.0.35 to benefit from this performance improvement. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Amazon SNS increases default FIFO topic throughput by 10x to 3,000 messages per second

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) First-In-First-Out (FIFO) topics now support 3,000 messages per second, per topic. All existing and future FIFO topics now have this new quota by default, with no configuration change required. To benefit from maximum throughput in FIFO topics where message order is strictly maintained within each message group, distribute your messages evenly over a large number of message group IDs, as messages from different message groups are delivered in parallel.

Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots, an account-wide security setting that allows customers to block public sharing of EBS Snapshots in an AWS Region. Customers managing EBS Snapshots at scale now have a simple and proactive way of safeguarding their data from inadvertent access by unauthorized users.

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces Neural Search

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Neural Search on OpenSearch 2.9, enabling builders to create and operationalize semantic search applications with reduced undifferentiated heavy-lifting. For years, customers have been building semantic search applications on OpenSearch k-NN, but they’ve been burdened with building middleware to integrate text embedding models into search and ingest pipelines. Amazon OpenSearch Service customers can power Neural Search through integrations with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock enabling semantic search pipelines that run on-cluster.

News and Events Feature in AWS Partner Central

Introducing News and Events in AWS Partner Central. The new feature curates top stories, announcements, and events in the Partner Central home page.

Amazon Redshift launches MaxRPU, a new compute cost control setting for Redshift Serverless

Amazon Redshift announces MaxRPU, a new compute cost control setting for Amazon Redshift Serverless. With MaxRPU, you can optionally specify an upper compute threshold to control data warehouse costs at any point in time by selecting the maximum compute level that Redshift Serverless can scale per workgroup.

Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwarding

Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now lets you forward write requests from a secondary to a primary Region, simplifying writing from multiple Regions and making it easier to develop globally distributed applications. With this launch, write forwarding is now available on both Aurora Global Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are available in AWS Region Canada (Central) and AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These instances are built with AWS Graviton3 processors and the AWS Nitro System. Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

AWS Batch array jobs now support array size environment variable

AWS Batch now exposes array size as a container environment variable of an array child job. With this feature, customers can use array size in the logic of their applications (e.g. to divide data between jobs for parallel processing).

AWS Application Discovery Service adds support for communication through network proxy

Starting today, the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector adds support for routing all communication to AWS through either an HTTP or HTTPS proxy. This allows you to deploy the collector within environments without a direct route to AWS.

Amazon RDS Proxy now supports RDS Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys

Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), now supports RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. Amazon RDS Proxy allows applications to pool and share connections established with the database, improving database efficiency and application scalability.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Extended Protocol Support for AWS IoT SiteWise Edge through EasyEdge

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of extended industrial protocol support for AWS IoT SiteWise. Through a new integration with AWS Partner Domatica, customers can now ingest data from 10 additional industrial protocols including Modbus (TCP & RTU), Ethernet/IP, Siemens S7, KNX, LoRaWAN, MQTT, Profinet, Profibus BACnet, and Rest interfaces, in addition to native OPC UA support. Previously, ingesting data from these protocols required acquiring, provisioning, and configuring infrastructure and middleware for data collection resulting in additional cost and time to value.

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