11/10/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/13/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Connect reduces telephony pricing across South America
Amazon Connect has reduced prices for Peru in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. This includes reductions of Peru Direct Inward Dial (DID) minutes by 25% from $0.0100/min to $0.0075/min, Toll Free (TFN) minutes by 37% from $0.1920/min to $0.1216min, and Outbound minutes by 55% from $0.0150/min to $0.0067/min.
AWS Device Farm announces upgraded test environment for Android Devices
AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are rolling out a new backend for our Android mobile device testing that provides reduced test start times, better Remote Access performance, simpler dependency management, and support for the latest software like Appium 2. With just a few changes to your test configuration, you can take advantage of these improvements to get your test results faster and with less effort configuring your environment.
Amazon Connect reduces outbound telephony pricing across Europe
Amazon Connect has reduced outbound dialing rates across European countries in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (London) regions. The new rates reflect an 8% reduction in calling to Austria at $0.0360/min, an 11% reduction to Denmark at $0.440/min, a 10% reduction to the Netherlands at $0.0380/min, a 10% reduction to Norway at $0.0800/min, and a 13% reduction to Switzerland at $0.1000/min.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions 2014 GDR, 2016 GDR, 2017 CU31 GDR, and 2019 CU23
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.
Amazon Connect prompts configuration page provides CloudTrail coverage
Amazon Connect launches a new prompts configuration UI with an enhanced user experience and AWS CloudTrail coverage. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. Now when you add, update or delete a prompt from the Amazon Connect admin website, a record of that activity is available in AWS CloudTrail for visibility, reporting, and compliance. For example, you may notice a discrepancy in the IVR prompt that customers hear when they call your support line. To investigate, you can leverage AWS CloudTrail to answer questions such as, “who saved this recording?” and, “when was this prompt changed?” To learn more about the new prompts page, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and the AWS CloudTrail Documentation.
Amazon Connect supports Representative Numbers in South Korea
Amazon Connect has added support for Representative numbers for businesses in South Korea. Amazon Connect supports all five tiers of representative numbers ranging from two concurrent calls for the smallest representative number up to 5000 concurrent calls for the large scale services. Representative numbers are available only in Asia Pacific (Seoul).
Amazon CloudFront announces unified security dashboard
With the new security dashboard, you can now enable, monitor, and manage common security protections for your web applications directly from the Amazon CloudFront console. Built for customers that need unified management of their application delivery and security, the interactive security dashboard brings AWS WAF visibility and controls directly to your CloudFront distribution, including visibility into your application’s top security trends, allowed and blocked traffic, and bot activity. Investigative tools like a visual log analyzer and built-in blocking controls make it easy to isolate traffic patterns and block traffic without querying logs or writing security rules.
Amazon EventBridge now supports over 20 new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for event buses
Amazon EventBridge now supports 22 additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics that enable you to monitor the performance of your event buses and proactively identify when you may need to increase your service quotas. Publishing events to an event bus now includes metrics such as API latency, event payload size, as well as number of successful, failed, and throttled events. For invocations, where EventBridge delivers an event to a target, such as AWS Lambda, new metrics provide visibility into retries, throttling, and end-to-end latency including the time it takes for a target to respond. These metrics provide deeper insight into your event-driven applications, and allow you to quickly identify and resolve issues as they arise.
Glue Studio Visual now supports interactive data previews
Today, AWS Glue Studio announces a faster and embedded interactive data preview experience. With this launch you will be able to attach data preview with each source and transform node of your AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL authoring interface. The new interactive data preview experience starts a new Glue Data Preview session as you open your visual interface and enables you to preview multiple data sets with a single session.
AWS Control Tower now supports tagging for controls enabled in AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower customers can now configure tags for the controls that they have enabled in AWS Control Tower. Customers can add, remove, or list tags for the controls in the AWS Control Tower console or by using the tagging APIs. Tags can help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources. You can create tags to categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. AWS Control Tower now supports the following tagging APIs:\n
TagResource - This API call adds tags to controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
UntagResource - This API call removes tags from controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
ListTagsForResource - This API call returns tags for controls enabled in AWS Control Tower.
Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol
Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases. RDS Proxy allows customers to gracefully scale applications by efficiently reusing database connections. For application using PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol, RDS Proxy can now reuse database connections, resulting in efficient use of database resources.
AWS Lambda adds support for Amazon Linux 2023
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. This runtime has a significantly smaller deployment footprint than Amazon Linux 2 runtimes, and provides updated versions of common libraries such as glibc. The Amazon Linux 2023 runtime will also be used as the basis for future Lambda runtime releases, such as Node.js 20, Python 3.12, Java 21, and .NET 8. For more information, see our blog post at Amazon Linux 2023 runtime now available on AWS Lambda.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon Redshift for low cost and high performance
- Introducing faster polling scale-up for AWS Lambda functions using Amazon SQS as the event source
- [Event Report] An AWS Support Case Study Webinar was conducted
- AWS App Runner supports monorepos
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
- Enhanced Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EventBridge
- Introducing the Amazon Linux 2023 runtime for AWS Lambda
AWS Database Blog
- Amazon RDS Proxy multiplexing support for PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol
- Automatically scale Amazon RDS storage using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda
- Optimize cost and boost performance of RDS for MySQL using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
AWS for Industries
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Build trust and safety for generative AI applications with Amazon Comprehend and LangChain
- Use machine learning without writing a single line of code with Amazon SageMaker Canvas
- Explore advanced techniques for hyperparameter optimization with Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning