11/24/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/27/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Recommend actions that increase brand loyalty with Amazon Personalize Next Best Action

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce the new Next-Best-Action recipe to help you recommend actions that your users have a high probability to take in real-time. Expanding beyond the items or content that Personalize has allowed customers to recommend, this new recipe assists you in determining the next best actions to suggest to your individual users that will help in increasing brand loyalty and conversion. Similar to other Amazon Personalize recipes, Next Best Action does not require ML expertise and allows you to integrate personalization seamlessly into your applications.

Announcing the Cost and Usage Dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight

Starting today, customers can deploy the Cost and Usage Dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight directly from AWS Billing and Cost Management console. The Cost and Usage Dashboard is backed by a summary view of the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR), and it enables interactive analysis and secure sharing of cost insights with a broader stakeholder group who may not have access to AWS console.

Powered by foundation model, Amazon Transcribe now supports over 100 languages

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe’s next generation, multi-billion parameter speech foundation model-powered system that expands automatic speech recognition (ASR) to over 100 languages. Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed ASR service that makes it easy for customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Our speech foundation model is trained using best-in-class self-supervised algorithms to learn the inherent universal patterns of human speech across languages and accents.

AWS Config now supports periodic recording: Efficiently scale your change tracking

AWS Config announces the launch of periodic recording to track resource configuration changes more efficiently at scale. This launch extends AWS Config’s existing recording capabilities, which continuously track every change as it occurs. Periodic recording captures the latest configuration changes of your resources once every 24 hours, reducing the number of changes delivered. Both continuous and periodic recording options are priced based on the number of configurations items.

AWS Config launches generative AI-powered natural language querying (Preview)

AWS Config introduces a new natural language querying feature powered by generative AI, which simplifies the investigation and search of AWS resource configurations and compliance metadata. Now, you can ask questions in plain language such as “display all EC2 instances with the security group sg-ef678hk” or “show me all non-compliant S3 buckets in my organization.” AWS Config will generate the equivalent advanced query written in SQL syntax, which customers can then run as-is, or fine-tune for even more granularity.

Application Load Balancer can authenticate X.509 certificate based identities with Mutual TLS support

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Mutual TLS enabling you to authenticate clients while establishing TLS encrypted connections.

Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-powered natural language query generation (in preview)

Amazon CloudWatch announces (in preview) natural language query generation powered by generative AI for Logs Insights and Metrics Insights. This feature enables you to easily and quickly generate queries in context of your logs and metrics data using plain language. By simplifying the query generation process, you can accelerate insights from your observability data without needing extensive knowledge of the query language.

AWS Systems Manager Automation makes it easier to author runbooks with new low-code visual design experience

AWS Systems Manager Automation enables you to automate routine operations tasks using runbooks. Starting today, developers can author and edit runbooks using a low-code visual design experience. Simply drag and drop Automation actions and AWS APIs onto a canvas and connect them together as steps to visualize your runbook logic. The visual design experience pre-populates parameters and validates actions in real time so you can build with confidence and efficiency.

Amazon Redshift now support’s multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing (preview)

Amazon Redshift now supports multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing in public preview. You can start writing to Redshift databases from multiple Redshift data warehouses in just a few clicks. The written data is available to all warehouses as soon as it is committed. This allows teams to flexibly scale compute by adding warehouses of different types and sizes based on their write workloads’ price-performance needs, isolate compute to more easily meet SLAs, and easily and securely collaborate with other teams.

CloudWatch now supports hybrid and multicloud metrics querying and alarming

Amazon CloudWatch now supports data querying from multiple sources, enabling you to gain visibility across your hybrid and multicloud metrics in a single view. With this feature, you can consolidate and visualize metrics from sources such as Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Azure Monitor, your own custom data sources, and query those metrics in real time, increasing visibility into your application health and helping you resolve critical events faster.

Amazon S3 Access Grants integrate with identity providers to simplify data lake permissions

Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end-users based on their corporate identity. Additionally, S3 Access Grants log end-user identity and the application used to access S3 data in AWS CloudTrail. This helps to provide a detailed audit history down to the end-user identity for all access to the data in your S3 buckets.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus launches an agentless collector for Prometheus metrics from Amazon EKS

We are excited to announce Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector customers can use to collect Prometheus metrics from their workloads running on Amazon EKS. Customers can now enable the discovery and collection of Prometheus metrics from their Amazon EKS applications and infrastructure through the EKS console or through an API call, without having to self-manage agents.

Amazon EFS now supports up to 250,000 IOPS per file system

Amazon EFS now supports up to 250,000 read IOPS and up to 50,000 write IOPS per file system, making it easier to power IOPS-intensive file workloads on AWS.

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics now offers generative call summarization (preview)

We are excited to announce the preview of generative AI-powered call summarization in Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics to boost contact center agent and manager productivity, and improve customer experience. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, generative call summarization delivers a concise summary of a contact center interaction that captures key components such as why the customer called, how the issue was addressed, and what follow-up actions were identified.

Amazon Personalize now creates themes for recommendations using generative AI

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce Content Generator, a new generative AI powered capability that makes recommendations more compelling by identifying thematic connections between recommended items. Content Generator will assist customers in crafting taglines to create a more engaging browsing experience.

Redshift provisioned concurrency scaling and serverless autoscaling now supports Create Table As Select (CTAS)

Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster concurrency scaling and serverless autoscaling now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) queries. This allows customers to scale their extract, transform, and load (ETL) and other write workloads with additional compute to more easily meet their SLAs.

Amazon Monitron launches Ex-rated sensors for hazardous locations

Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses machine learning to detect abnormal conditions in industrial equipment to enable predictive maintenance. Amazon Monitron includes wireless sensors to capture vibration and temperature data; gateways to automatically transfer data to the AWS Cloud; the Amazon Monitron service that analyzes the data for abnormal machine patterns using ML, and a companion mobile app to set up the devices and receive reports on operating behavior and alerts to potential failures in machinery.

Announcing the general availability of AWS re:Post Private

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS re:Post Private, a fully managed, secure knowledge service for enterprises to accelerate cloud adoption and improve developer productivity. Using re:Post Private, enterprises can create their own private version of AWS re:Post to collaborate with their company and with AWS. This allows you to streamline collaboration and knowledge sharing within your cloud community through secure community discussion and helps you build reusable knowledge specific to your organization. With re:Post Private, you can up-level builder skills and onboard new team members faster with curated training and technical content from AWS and centralized, scalable knowledge resources. Customers with Enterprise Support and Enterprise On-Ramp Support plans can subscribe to this service.

AWS announces support for large language models in Amazon Redshift ML (Preview)

Amazon Redshift enhances Redshift ML to support large language models (LLM). Amazon Redshift ML enables customers to create, train, and deploy machine learning models using familiar SQL commands. Now, you can leverage pretrained publicly available LLMs in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart aspart of Redshift ML, allowing you to bring the power of LLMs to analytics. For example, you can make inferences on your product feedback data in Amazon Redshift, use LLMs to summarize feedback, perform entity extraction, sentiment analysis and product feedback classification.

Application Load Balancer increases application availability with Automatic Target Weights

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Automatic Target Weights (ATW), which uses a new routing algorithm to optimize the amount of traffic sent to each target based on information available to the load balancer. With this initial launch, ALB will adjust the amount of traffic sent to each target based on implicit health information, like 5XX errors and connection errors.

Automate AWS Control Tower landing zone operations using APIs

AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically set up and manage their landing zones. Customers can discover, create, update, and reset their landing zones, as well as manage landing zone customizations, using APIs. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment based on security and compliance best practices. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, and account structure. The landing zone APIs include AWS CloudFormation support, allowing customers to manage their landing zone with infrastructure as code (IaC).

AWS Analytics simplify users’ data access across services with IAM Identity Center

AWS Analytics services, including Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3 via S3 Access Grants, now use trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center to manage and audit access to data and resources based on user identity. This new capability passes identity information between connected business intelligence and data analytics applications. Administrators define access to their service based on a common set of users and groups in the customer’s chosen identity provider. Auditors can track users’ access across services. Analytics users benefit from an improved single sign-on experience when accessing data.

AWS announces CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern analysis

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a suite of machine-learning powered log analytics capabilities in CloudWatch, including automated log pattern analysis and anomaly detection. Using these new capabilities, you will be able to easily interpret your logs, identify unusual events, and use these insights to steer and accelerate your investigation.

AWS CloudFormation introduces Git management of stacks

AWS CloudFormation now supports Git sync, enabling customers to synchronize their stacks from a CloudFormation template stored in a remote Git repository. A CloudFormation template describes your desired resources and their dependencies so you can launch and configure them together as a stack.

Introducing Cost Optimization Hub

Today we are announcing Cost Optimization Hub, a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations across your AWS Organizations member accounts and AWS Regions, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend.

Amazon Web Services announces Unified Billing and Cost Management console

Today, AWS announces a unified Billing and Cost Management console that helps customers make faster, better-informed decisions and manage their AWS cloud finances more efficiently. The unified Billing and Cost Management console combines the previous Billing console and the previous Cost Management console, and features a new home page with insights and recommendations to help customers understand their spend, identify problems, and save money, along with more intuitive navigation and improved getting started resources. With this new console experience, it’s easier to decide where to focus, prioritize what’s most important, and take action.

AWS CloudTrail Lake data now available for zero-ETL analysis in Amazon Athena

Starting today, AWS CloudTrail Lake data is now available for zero-ETL analysis in Amazon Athena. You can use Athena to query your activity logs in CloudTrail Lake without the operational complexity of moving data or building data processing pipelines. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. Athena is an interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze data in Amazon S3 and other data stores using SQL. Using Athena, security engineers can now correlate activity logs in CloudTrail Lake with application and traffic logs in data stores such as S3 for security incident investigations. Compliance and operation engineers can now visualize activity logs in CloudTrail Lake with Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Managed Grafana for compliance, cost, and usage reporting.

AWS Glue Data Quality announces anomaly detection and dynamic rules

AWS Glue announces preview of a new Glue Data Quality capability that uses ML-powered anomaly detection algorithms to detect hard-to-find data quality issues and anomalies. This helps customers proactively identify quality issues and fix them, so that data users can make confident business decisions.

AWS Compute Optimizer introduces customizable rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Instances

Today we are announcing customizable EC2 rightsizing recommendations within AWS Compute Optimizer. With this launch you can now adjust both CPU headroom and thresholds, configure a new 32-day lookback period option, and set instance family preferences. These settings can be configured at the organization, account, or regional level.

Announcing Data Exports for AWS Billing and Cost Management

Starting today, customers can create exports of their billing and cost management data with custom column selections and row filters using a SQL interface. Exports are delivered on a recurring basis to an Amazon S3 bucket for use with business intelligence or data analytics solutions. Customers can use Data Exports with the new Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0) table, which contains the same information as the pre-existing Cost and Usage Report, but with two new columns, a queryable nested data structure, and a fixed schema.

Announcing preview of AMB Access Polygon, serverless access to Polygon blockchain

Today, AWS announces the preview release of Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Access Polygon. Access Polygon will help developers seamlessly interact with the Polygon blockchain, a high-throughput, low fees, EVM-compatible blockchain, so they can build scalable applications quickly and securely. AMB Access Polygon provides serverless access to archive nodes for Polygon Proof of stake (PoS) Mainnet and Mumbai Testnet.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Infrequent Access log class

We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA), a new log class for cost-effectively consolidating all your logs natively on AWS, helping to improve visibility into your overall application health. CloudWatch Logs IA offers a subset of CloudWatch Logs’ capabilities including managed ingestion, cross-account log analytics, and encryption with a lower per GB ingestion price making Logs IA ideal for ad-hoc querying and after-the-fact forensic analysis on infrequently accessed logs.

ENA Express supports 58 new instances with sizes as small as 16 vCPUs

ENA Express now supports 58 new instance types ranging from 16 to 192 vCPUs. With this launch, ENA Express is adding support for 20 new memory optimized instances, 15 new compute optimized instances, 15 new general purpose instances, and 8 new storage instances. Before today, ENA Express supported only the largest instance size, totaling 27 instances as small as 64 vCPUs.

AWS Step Functions launches optimized integration for Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for Amazon Bedrock, making it easier to integrate generative AI capabilities into Step Functions workflows, accelerating development of generative AI applications. This launch enables you to use Step Functions to orchestrate interactions with foundation models and add in steps for human intervention, without needing to write or maintain integration code. You can leverage Step Functions Workflow Studio to visually develop, inspect, and audit user defined generative AI workflows with ease.

Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience launches one-way data replication

Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience adds cross-region one-way data replication to standby WorkSpaces to help provide improved business continuity for your WorkSpaces users. You can enable data replication for your standby WorkSpaces, and root and user volume data will automatically replicate from your primary WorkSpaces to your standby WorkSpaces.

AWS Free Tier usage is now available through the GetFreeTierUsage API

Starting today, customers can now access their AWS Free Tier usage through the AWS SDK, command line, and 3rd party tools at no cost. Using this API, customers can programmatically track free tier usage against monthly usage limits, which allows customers to understand when their free usage will transition to pay-as-you-go pricing each month. This helps avoid unintended charges by comparing forecasted usage to the free tier limit for each service throughout the month. The AWS Free Tier allows customers to explore more than 100 AWS products by offering free usage each month.

Announcing the new Amazon EFS Archive storage class

Amazon EFS Archive is a new storage class that is cost-optimized for long-lived file data that is accessed a few times a year or less. With EFS Archive, you now have a cost-effective way to retain even your coldest data so that it’s always available to power new business insights. In addition, as part of this launch, the storage price for the existing Amazon EFS Infrequent Access (IA) storage class is being reduced by 36% to make EFS an even better solution for sharing a wide range of data.

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