11/14/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/15/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis version 7.1 is generally available
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis version 7.1 is now generally available. This release contains performance improvements which enable workloads to drive higher throughput and lower operation latencies. ElastiCache customers can achieve over 1 million requests per second per node on r7g.4xlarge or larger. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis version 7.1 can achieve up to 100% more throughput and 50% lower P99 latency, compared to Elasticache for Redis version 7.0.
AWS Lambda now allows to view and export the function’s template to AWS Application Composer
AWS Lambda Console now supports two new capabilities by integrating with AWS Application Composer, making it easy for developers to either build their serverless applications visually or through IaC (Infrastructure as Code). First, developers can now view and download the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template for their function as they configure it on the console. Second, at the click of a button, they can export their Lambda function to AWS Application Composer, retaining all the function configuration.
Announcing new dashboards in AWS Web Application Firewall
Starting today, you have access to new dashboards in the WAF console to enable you to better monitor your traffic. These dashboards are available by default and require no additional setup. These dashboards leverage CloudWatch metrics and highlight metrics such as total requests, blocked requests, allowed requests, bots vs non bot requests, bot categories, CAPTCHA solve rate, top 10 matched rules and more, on a per-Web ACL basis.
Introducing the Instance Topology API for ML and HPC workloads
AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Instance Topology API for Machine Learning and High Performance Computing workloads. The Instance Topology API provides customers a unique per account hierarchical view of the relative proximity between instances. Customers can describe their instance topology to identify instances that are in a tightly coupled group, and can use it to further improve communication time, reducing job completion time.
AWS Managed Services Accelerate now supports operations for Amazon EKS workloads
Today, AWS Managed Services (AMS) announces the general availability of monitoring and incident management for Amazon EKS in AMS Accelerate. AMS Accelerate helps you operate AWS workloads efficiently and securely leveraging standard AWS services. It offers expertise, operational best practices, and automations that are tailored to your environment and applications. With monitoring and incident management for EKS, AMS Accelerate maintains the health and improves the resiliency of your EKS workloads, while removing the need for you to manage alerts and incidents.
AWS Client VPN extends availability to four additional AWS Regions
Starting today, customers can use AWS Client VPN in four additional AWS (UAE, Melbourne, Spain, and Zurich) Regions. Using AWS Client VPN customers can provide secure access to their resources in AWS or on-premises network for their remote workforce.
AWS Wickr now provides access to guest users
AWS Wickr now allows your Wickr network users to interact with individuals outside your organization. Anyone can sign-up for a Wickr guest account with their email address, and participate in secure conversations that are initiated by licensed Wickr network users. Wickr administrators can enable or disable the guest user feature for individual security groups in the Wickr admin console.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Neural Sparse Retrieval
OpenSearch Service 2.11 now comes with OpenSearch Neural Sparse Retrieval. Search practitioners now have an additional search method to use for their search applications with improved semantic understanding, while keeping computational cost and computational latency low, more in line with lexical search.
Amazon QuickSight is introducing shared restricted folders, a Contributor role and support for data source asset types in folders. These capabilities enable governed QuickSight asset sharing at the folder level.
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports Terraform
Today, AWS announces support for Terraform within Amazon CodeCatalyst. This launch allows you to provision infrastructure using Terraform within a CodeCatalyst workflow. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take during a workflow run. This launch allows you to add a Terraform action to your workflow, providing a way to create or update infrastructure as defined in a .tf file.
AWS Clean Rooms announces configurability for collaboration payment
Today we are announcing a new capability for AWS Clean Rooms which provides customers the flexibility to choose the collaboration member responsible for the query compute costs in a collaboration. Collaboration creators can now configure payment responsibility to decouple the member who runs the query from the member who gets charged for the query compute costs. For example, a media publisher may agree to pay the query compute costs in a collaboration, even if the advertiser is the query runner in the collaboration. The collaboration creator sets the query runner at the time the collaboration is created. With payment configuration, costs are no longer constrained to billing based on who runs queries. All members, including the member paying for the query compute costs, are able to review settings before they join the collaboration.
AWS IoT Device Defender now supports export of Detect metrics to other services
Today, AWS IoT Device Defender announces the capability to export cloud-side and device-side metrics to your own data lake running on AWS or outside. AWS IoT Device Defender continuously monitors device fleets to detect any abnormal device behavior, alerts about security issues, and provides built-in mitigation actions. Using Detect feature, you can evaluate device and cloud-side metrics against a pre-defined threshold and receive alerts when deviations are detected. With the new export capability, you can easily transfer Detect metrics including number of messages received, network signal strength, CPU and memory usage, to other AWS and third-party services for further analytics.
AWS CodePipeline is now available in seven additional regions
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS CodePipeline in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE) Regions.
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces self-service diagnostic log uploads
Amazon WorkSpaces is releasing a self-service diagnostic log uploads feature on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Web Access to help with troubleshooting issues that might occur when your users are using the WorkSpaces client. The log files that are sent to WorkSpaces (AWS) include information about your device and connection to the AWS network, which will help WorkSpaces (AWS) troubleshoot and resolve your issues faster. You can enable automatic log uploads for your users, or let your users do so themselves, so that these files are sent to WorkSpaces (AWS) automatically. You can enable diagnostic log uploads before or during a WorkSpaces streaming session.
Amazon Connect Tasks is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon Connect now supports creating and managing tasks in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. For example, you can configure rules in Amazon Connect that automatically create tasks to route customer tickets from your ticketing system to available agents, pre-populate relevant information using task templates to help them resolve issues faster, and schedule tasks for a specific date or time to reach out to the customer. Amazon Connect Tasks also provides pre-built integrations with CRM applications (e.g., Zendesk, Salesforce) and APIs to more easily integrate with business-specific applications and leverage all relevant customer information to successfully resolve customer issues.
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Service Master Key Retention and TDE
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now retains the same Service Master Key (SMK) throughout the lifespan of the RDS Custom for SQL Server database instance. By retaining the same SMK, your DB instance will be able to seamlessly use objects that are encrypted with the SMK.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports hybrid query score normalization
OpenSearch Service 2.11 now supports hybrid query score normalization. It is now easier than ever for search practitioners to leverage a combination of lexical and semantic search to improve their search relevance with OpenSearch.
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- Meet the final cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2023
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- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: celebrating a decade of real-time data innovation
- How Wallapop improved performance of analytics workloads with Amazon Redshift Serverless and data sharing
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- Introducing logging support for Amazon EventBridge Pipes
- An attendee’s guide to hybrid cloud and edge computing at AWS re:Invent 2023
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- Achieve over 500 million requests per second per cluster with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 7.1
- Plan an Oracle migration to Amazon RDS for Oracle using Oracle Data Pump and AWS DMS
- Schedule scaling for Amazon Aurora replicas using AWS Application Auto Scaling
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- Securely stream AWS workloads to your remote workers
- Deploying and managing Amazon WorkSpaces applications with Ansible
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- Implementing a GSMA Compliant Remote SIM Provisioning Workload on AWS
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- Aeron performance enables capital markets to move to the cloud on AWS
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
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- Flag harmful content using Amazon Comprehend toxicity detection
- Fine-tune and Deploy Mistral 7B with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Harness large language models in fake news detection
- Model management for LoRA fine-tuned models using Llama2 and Amazon SageMaker
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Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Security Blog
- AWS Security Profile: Tom Scholl, VP and Distinguished Engineer, AWS
- Writing IAM Policies: Grant Access to User-Specific Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket
- Use private key JWT authentication between Amazon Cognito user pools and an OIDC IdP