11/15/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/16/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Connect launches updated hours of operation UI with CloudTrail support

Amazon Connect launches a new hours of operation UI with an enhanced user experience, AWS CloudTrail coverage and tagging. Hours of operation let you indicate when your call center is open, and are used when building flows and routing contacts to agents. Now when your operating hours are configured or modified in the Amazon Connect admin website, a record of that activity is available in AWS CloudTrail for visibility, reporting, and compliance. You can answer questions such as, “what were our hours before that change?”, and “when was that schedule deleted?” To learn more about the new hours of operations page, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and the AWS CloudTrail Documentation.

Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and US West (N. California) regions. Additionally, M7gd and R7gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (London) and Europe (Spain) Regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (London) and Europe (Spain) Regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Amazon EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance

Today, we are announcing an improvement to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance of Amazon Compute-Optimized C6in, General Purpose M6in and M6idn, and Memory-Optimized R6in and R6idn EC2 instance types.

Enhanced co-sell experience for AWS Partners

AWS introduces an enhanced co-sell experience for AWS Partners using APN Customer Engagements (ACE).

Extend your Amazon Managed Grafana experience with Grafana community plugins

Amazon Managed Grafana now features a new self-service plugin management experience for Grafana community plugins. With this release, Amazon Managed Grafana administrators can discover and install Grafana community plugins directly from their workspace. Plugins enable you to extend your Grafana experience, unifying data from a wider variety of data sources with visualizations tailored to analyze your unique datasets.

AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retention

Today, AWS CloudTrail Lake announces a one-year extendable retention pricing option that is optimized for flexible data retention needs. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. With the one-year extendable retention pricing, the first year of retention is included with ingestion charges. You may choose to extend the retention period to a maximum of 10 years by paying extended retention charges after the first year. Compliance, audit, security, and operations teams can use the new pricing option for cost-effective retention of auditable data sources in alignment with compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, as well as for forensic and operational investigations.

New self-guided Software Path experience

In October, AWS launched a self-guided experience in AWS Partner Central with automated tasks that accelerates the partner journey from registration to listing in AWS Marketplace. Now, we’ve extended that guidance throughout the Software Path, providing partners with the personalized tasks and guidance to help you develop and mature your software offering(s). As you progress through the four growth motions of build, market, sell and grow, you’ll automatically become eligible for key ISV programs like AWS SaaS Factory and AWS ISV Accelerate. Relevant tasks will be surfaced to help you complete the requirements and unlock greater partner benefits and programs.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server major version 2022

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2022 CU9 for Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. You can now leverage SQL Server 2022 features such as Query Store Enhancements, Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization, and SQL Server Ledger on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instances.

Amazon EBS announces Snapshot Lock to protect snapshots from inadvertent or malicious deletions

Today, Amazon EBS announced the availability of Snapshot Lock, a new security feature that helps customers comply with their data retention policies and add another layer of protection against inadvertent or malicious deletions of data. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. Customers can set up multiple layers of data protection for EBS Snapshots, including copying them across multiple AWS regions and accounts, setting up IAM access policies as well as enabling Recycle Bin. With Snapshot Lock, customers can configure locks on individual snapshots so that they cannot be deleted by anyone, including the account owner, for a specified period of time. Customers have the flexibility of granting certain users access to modify snapshot lock configurations per their data governance guidelines or implementing stricter controls by ensuring that the lock configuration cannot be modified by anyone, including privileged users. Customers can also rely on this feature to store EBS Snapshots in a WORM (Write-Once-Read-Many) compliant format.

Announcing frozen collections for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability.

Amazon S3 announces S3 Storage Lens groups for customized and granular visibility

Amazon S3 Storage Lens introduces Storage Lens groups, a new way to aggregate metrics using custom filters based on object metadata. Storage Lens groups help you drill-down into characteristics of your data, such as distribution of objects by age, your most common file types, and more. This information helps you to better understand and optimize your S3 storage.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds greater control over EC2 instance replacement

Today, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launches a new capability, instance maintenance policy, for customers to define whether instances are launched before or after existing instances are terminated during instance replacement. This controls how your group replaces instances for operations such as instance refresh, health checks, and rebalancing. From the console, you can choose “policy presets” or provide unique settings that help you optimize for availability or cost.

AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports CloudTrail Insights

Today Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces the availability of AWS CloudTrail Insights as a data source in AWS CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, query and visualize your activity logs for auditing, security investigations and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail Insights helps you identify unusual operational activity in your AWS accounts such as spikes in resource provisioning or bursts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions. Until today, CloudTrail Insights were only available to customers using CloudTrail trails. Now, with CloudTrail Lake, you can analyze both your Insights events and AWS management events, helping you correlate the unusual activity with the AWS management events that could have led to it. You can also use the curated CloudTrail Lake dashboards to get an overview of anomalous behavior in your account including the type of Insights generated on your accounts or the source of these Insights.

AWS Glue Data Catalog supports automatic compaction for Apache Iceberg tables

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables, making it easier for you to keep your transactional data lakes always performant. Enabling automatic compaction on Apache Iceberg tables reduces metadata overhead on your Iceberg tables and improves query performance.

AWS Step Functions now supports restarting workflows from failure

AWS Step Functions now allows you to easily restart workflows from their point of failure, so you can recover from failure faster, increase efficiency, and pay only for what you need. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating 11,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to automate business processes and data processing workloads.

AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 20

AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Node.js 20. Developers can use Node.js 20 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. You can use Node.js 20 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript), a developer toolkit to implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity, also supports Node.js 20.

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 DL2q instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL2q instances. DL2q instances are powered by Qualcomm AI 100 Standard accelerators and are the first to feature Qualcomm’s AI technology in the public cloud.

AWS Audit Manager launches its first GRC integration with MetricStream

AWS Audit Manager has integrated with MetricStream, an AWS Partner and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solution provider. This integration allows you to import evidence of your AWS usage and configurations directly from Audit Manager into your MetricStream CyberGRC. Instead of jumping between multiple tools to manage compliance, you can use MetricStream CyberGRC as a single location to centralize evidence and address issues for controls that assess your AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments.

AWS Resource Explorer supports 86 new resource types

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 86 more resource types from services including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Glue, and Amazon SageMaker. With this launch, customers can now use AWS Resource Explorer to search for and discover resources for the following newly supported resource types:

Amazon MWAA adds shared VPC support via customer managed endpoints

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now enables you to create environments in a shared, centrally-managed Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC sharing allows teams, each with different AWS accounts, to create resources in a centrally-managed VPC. This reduces the number of VPCs that you need to create and manage, while using separate accounts for billing and access control.

Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances now available in Europe (Spain) region

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2iedn instances are available in Europe (Spain) region. X2iedn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.

Introducing account and product linking across AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central

AWS unifies the experience across AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central. You can now link your Partner Central and AWS Marketplace accounts, and associated users. Once connected, Partner Central users can navigate to AWS Marketplace Management portal and connect your offerings in Partner Central with your AWS Marketplace product listing. This feature allows partners to connect multiple AWS Marketplace listing variations from a core Marketplace listing to the specific software offering in Partner Central.

Announcing AWS Amplify JavaScript v6 general availability

We are announcing the general availability of the AWS Amplify JavaScript Library v6 which includes reduced bundle sizes, richer TypeScript support, and integrations with Next.js server-side features. The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library enables frontend developers to connect their web and React Native apps to AWS cloud backends. In this release, Amplify JavaScript now offers richer TypeScript support enhancing developer productivity and reducing runtime errors. Additionally, Apps using this new release will be served with smaller bundle sizes. Amplify JavaScript v6 also introduces an integration with Next.js server-side features such as App Router, Middleware, API routes, and server functions.

AWS Ground Station expands Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency to Oregon, Ohio, and Dubbo

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the expansion of Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) to the Oregon, Ohio, and Dubbo locations. With Wideband DigIF, satellite operators can use a Software Defined Radio (SDR) of their choice to perform demodulation and decoding of data in their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), resulting in more control and flexibility of downlink data.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now available in four additional AWS Regions

Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain) Regions.

AWS Cost Management now supports AppRegistry resource tags

AWS Cost Management services now support AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry resource tags to help customers better manage, analyze, and optimize their application related resource costs. Starting today, customers who use AppRegistry to define their applications can have the new AWS application tag applied to all their application resources. This tag is provided by AppRegistry, and allows customers to group and view resource collections across their AWS accounts as applications that they define. The application tag is automatically activated as a cost allocation tag so that it can be used in various cost management services to analyze, manage, and optimize application-related resource costs.

Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 16.0 in Amazon RDS Database preview environment

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL version 16.0 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate PostgreSQL 16.0 on Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 16.0 was released by the PostgreSQL community on September 14, 2023. PostgreSQL 16 adds support for SQL/JSON constructors and identity functions, more query types that can use parallelism, and the ‘pg_stat_io’ view that provides statistics on I/O usage. To learn more about PostgreSQL 16, read more here.

AWS Trusted Advisor adds 37 Amazon RDS checks

AWS Trusted Advisor has launched 37 new Amazon RDS checks that provide best practice guidance by analyzing DB instance configuration, usage, and performance data. These new checks span the performance, fault tolerance, security, and operational excellence categories of Trusted Advisor.

Enhanced AWS Partner Central experience to build and promote your offerings

Today, AWS is launching an improved user experience for AWS Partners starting from registration in AWS Partner Central to on-boarding, creating an offering, and providing step-by-step guidance to build and promote their offerings.

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