12/6/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/7/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS CloudTrail now supports data plane API logging to monitor, alarm, and archive item-level activity in your Amazon DynamoDB tables, in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
AWS Lambda functions now scale up to 12X faster
Starting today, AWS Lambda functions now scale up at a 12x faster rate. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate of 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, up to your account concurrency limit.
AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports replatforming applications to Amazon ECS
AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator adds support for replatforming .NET and Java applications to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on AWS Fargate to make it easy for you to containerize applications with a guided experience. You can now create an orchestration workflow based on the predefined replatforming template, select the Amazon EC2 instances or application artifacts from Amazon S3, and run the workflow to containerize and deploy your applications on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate for better agility and operational efficiency.
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports authentication of database users using Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) regions. You can use Active Directory to authenticate with Amazon Aurora using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory or with your on-premise Active Directory by establishing a trusted domain relationship.
Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC) zonal shift is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use zonal shift, a capability in Route 53 ARC that helps you to quickly recover from an issue in an Availability Zone (AZ).
Amazon CloudWatch Logs regular expression filter support now in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
We are excited to announce regular expression support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs filter pattern syntax, making it easier to search and match relevant logs in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers use filter pattern syntax today to search logs, extract metrics using metric filters, and send specific logs to other destinations with subscription filters. With today’s launch, customers will be able to further customize these operations to meet their needs with flexible and powerful regular expressions within 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 cater to each variation, reducing the configuration and management overhead on their logs.
Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances are now available in 8 additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Paris, London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Sydney) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.
Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, and CPU-based machine learning inference. R6gd instances are built for running memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. The local SSD storage provided on these instances will benefit applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). C6gd and R6gd instances offer up to 3.8 TB of NVMe-based SSD storage.
Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports RHEL, CentOS, and MacOS
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH), will support RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and MacOS in addition to Amazon Linux and Ubuntu.
Amazon QuickSight enhances SPICE ingestion performance by up to 4x with parallel ingestion
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the enhancement of SPICE ingestion performance. Given SPICE’s support for datasets as large as 1TB or 1 billion rows, previously the ingestion process for large datasets could extend over several hours. The enhancement in ingestion performance leverages the parallel ingestion mechanism to significantly decrease the data refresh time for such large datasets. Users can anticipate a noticeable improvement, with an overall reduction in ingestion time of up to 75%, or 4x improvement in performance, for datasets that previously took more than three hours. Datasets utilizing Customer Managed Key will experience even greater performance enhancements. No alterations to the customer interface are required; the benefits of this feature will be seamlessly activated on the backend upon its launch.
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AWS Black Belt Online Seminar (Japanese)
- Amazon Pinpoint Reintroduction Multi-Channel Communication Service [AWS Black Belt]
- Visualizing Traffic Monitoring Using the AWS SAW Self-Service Automation Runbook Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Edition [AWS Black Belt]
- AWS Certificate Manager [AWS Black Belt]
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Amazon Detective Adds New Features to Accelerate and Improve Cloud Security Investigations
- Karpenter has been promoted to beta
- AWS Audit Manager Begins Providing an AWS Best Practices Framework for Generative AI
- Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances for Large In-Memory Databases (preview)
- Amazon SageMaker Canvas lets you use machine learning without writing any code
- Securing Renewable Energy Systems Using AWS IoT
- Akridata accelerates unstructured data processing using Amazon S3 Express One Zone
AWS Cloud Financial Management
AWS Contact Center
AWS HPC Blog
AWS for Industries
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Mitigate hallucinations through Retrieval Augmented Generation using Pinecone vector database & Llama-2 from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Techniques for automatic summarization of documents using language models
- Boosting RAG-based intelligent document assistants using entity extraction, SQL querying, and agents with Amazon Bedrock
- How Q4 Inc. used Amazon Bedrock, RAG, and SQLDatabaseChain to address numerical and structured dataset challenges building their Q&A chatbot