11/13/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/14/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS launches a new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i, R6i, C6gn, and M6g instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect in this new Local Zone to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.

Amazon Connect now enables scanning of attachments for malware

Amazon Connect now enables integration with your preferred file scanning application to detect malware or other unwanted content in attachments before they can be shared in a chat or uploaded to a case. This capability provides an additional layer of protection for your customers and organization by preventing malicious files from being shared and downloaded.

Customizable action buttons are now available in AWS Chatbot

Today, AWS announces the general availability of customizable actions in the AWS Chatbot. Actions are configurable buttons displayed on the AWS service event notifications in Microsoft Teams and Slack channels. AWS customers can include actions on service event notifications to operationalize their frequently used DevOps runbook processes and incident response tasks to shorten diagnosis and resolution cycle time.

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports Innovation Release version 8.1 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 8.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 8.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing introduces IAM condition keys for encryption and access controls

You can now use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service-specific condition keys in IAM policies to restrict configurations for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Policy and IP based access. This enhancement enforces users in your account follow standards you have put in place for load balancer configurations.

AWS Lambda console now features a single pane view of metrics, logs, and traces

AWS Lambda launches a single pane view of metrics, logs, and traces in the Lambda console, making it easy for you to monitor and troubleshoot your Lambda functions.

Cohere’s Command Light, Embed English, and multilingual models now available in Amazon Bedrock

You can now access Cohere Command Light, Cohere Embed English, and Cohere Embed multilingual models in Amazon Bedrock. Command is Cohere’s flagship text generation model and is trained to follow user commands and to be useful in business applications. Cohere Embed offers a set of models trained to produce high-quality embeddings from text documents.

Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports idempotency for task launches

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports idempotency for task launches, allowing you to safely retry task launches without side effects. This feature helps ensure that timeouts or connection errors do not result in the launch of more instances than you originally intended, saving you time and money.

Amazon MSK Serverless now supports all programming languages

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Serverless now supports writes and reads from Kafka clients written in all programming languages. Administrators can simplify and standardize access control to Kafka resources using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon MSK’s IAM support is based on SASL/OAUTHBEARER, an open standard for authorization and authentication. Amazon MSK Serverless is a cluster type for Amazon MSK that allows you to run Apache Kafka without having to manage and scale cluster capacity. MSK Serverless automatically provisions and scales compute and storage resources, so you can use Apache Kafka on demand.

Amazon MSK extends AWS IAM support to all programming languages for new clusters

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)’s Identity and and Access Management feature now supports all programming languages. Administrators can simplify and standardize access control to Kafka resources using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon MSK’s IAM support is based on SASL/OAUTHBEARER, an open standard for authorization and authentication. Both MSK Provisioned and Serverless cluster types support the new MSK IAM expansion to all programming languages.

Launch templates now support ENA Express

AWS announces the general availability of launch template support for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. ENA Express is an ENA feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance in two key ways: higher single flow bandwidth and lower tail latency for network traffic between EC2 instances.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces regular expression filter pattern support for Live Tail

We are excited to announce regular expression support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail filter pattern syntax, making it easier to search and match relevant log events. Customers use filter pattern syntax today in metric filters and subscription filters, and Live Tail’s addition is further enhancing their experience. With today’s launch, customers will be able to customize their filtering to meet their needs with flexible and powerful regular expressions within Live Tail filter patterns. Now customers can define one filter to match multiple IP subnets or HTTP status codes using a regular expression such as ‘{ $.statusCode=%4[0-9]{2}% }’ rather than having to define multiple filters to find exactly what they are looking for in their logs.

Llama 2 Chat 13B foundation model from Meta is now available in Amazon Bedrock

You can now access Meta’s Llama 2 Chat model (13B) in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 2 models are next generation large language models (LLM) provided by Meta. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, like Meta, along with a broad set of capabilities that provide you with the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

AWS Lambda runtime management controls are now available in 6 additional regions

AWS Lambda runtime management controls are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. The operational simplicity of automatic runtime updates is one of the features customers most like about Lambda. Runtime management controls provide customers running critical production workloads with more visibility and control over when runtime updates are applied to their functions.

Announcing Research and Engineering Studio on AWS

Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) is an open source, easy-to-use web-based portal for administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research and engineering environments. Using RES, scientists and engineers can visualize data and run interactive applications without the need for cloud expertise.

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 24 new EC2 instance types and 7 additional AWS regions

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports recommendations for the latest generation C7a and R7a Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa). Additionally, AWS Compute Optimizer is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Israel (Tel Aviv).

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