12/14/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/15/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Cost Anomaly Detection extends CloudFormation region support

Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to continuously monitor, detect, and alert customers to anomalous spend patterns. Starting today, customers can provision anomaly monitors and anomaly alert subscriptions with CloudFormation in all AWS Regions, except GovCloud.

Amazon EBS launches AWS CloudFormation support for Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots

Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots provides an additional layer of security for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots and helps prevent unauthorized access and potential misuse of snapshot data. Starting today, you can manage Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots settings for your account using AWS CloudFormation templates.

AWS Billing Conductor now provides margin analysis reports for AWS services

Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) customers can analyze the margins (realized savings) for each AWS service their accounts are using. ABC calculates margin by evaluating the difference between the proforma “charged amount” calculated by the service, and the invoiced costs for accounts in billing groups. Margin values can be positive or negative. For example, customers purchasing Compute Savings Plans within their management account can evaluate the savings rate of those purchases for each covered service relative to their AWS invoiced amount. This analysis will simplify customers’ chargeback method and drive deeper understanding of where they are achieving savings.

AWS Data Exchange now supports data grants for sharing data across organizations

Today AWS announces the general availability of data grants in AWS Data Exchange, a new feature enabling any AWS customer to grant time-bounded, read-only data access to any other AWS customer. This feature is intended for customers who want to exchange data across organizations easily and securely. Data grants work seamlessly with all five AWS Data Exchange supported delivery types: Data Files, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation (Preview), and Amazon API Gateway.

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now facilitates EBS volume management

AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now provides a new toolset that aims to streamline on-instance volume management by providing an easy GUI based way to manage EBS volumes on your Windows Instances. With this new Fleet Manager capability, customers can readily browse the set of volumes attached to an instance identify volume mount points in the instance file system, view metadata for attached disks and mount as well as format unused EBS volumes.

Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6id instances are available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation M5d instances, M6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance, offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.

Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Jakarta region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now offers new images powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2022. With these images, customers can launch Microsoft Windows Server 2022 streaming instances and take advantage of the latest Microsoft Windows Server operating systems features. It also enables customers to run applications that require recent Microsoft Windows operating system versions.

AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.12

AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.12. Developers can use Python 3.12 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates as they become available. You can use Python 3.12 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content delivered through Amazon CloudFront. Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), a developer toolkit to implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity, also supports Python 3.12.

Amazon DevOps Guru achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance

Amazon DevOps Guru has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB), for the AWS US East / West Region which includes US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions.

Announcing Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 6.1 for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.1 and recommends that customers update Synthetics Canaries to the latest runtime version. This update includes security fixes, bug fixes, and UI Canaries stability improvements. To learn more, see release notes.

Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.10.25

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.25, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. If you are running earlier versions of RabbitMQ, such as 3.10, 3.9 or 3.8, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.10.20 or higher. This can be accomplished with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. We also encourage you to enable automatic minor version upgrades on RabbitMQ 3.10.25 to help ensure your brokers take advantage of future fixes and improvements.

AWS IoT Core allows customers to use their own CAs with fleet provisioning

Today, AWS IoT Core—a managed service that connects billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to AWS—announces the capability of using your own Certificate Authority (CA) certificates when provisioning fleets with AWS IoT Core. Using AWS IoT Core, you can provision your devices with various techniques, such as just-in-time provisioning, just-in-time registration, and fleet provisioning, where each technique serves a dedicated purpose. For example, with fleet provisioning, you can generate and securely deliver X.509 client certificates to your devices when they connect to AWS for the first time. The updated fleet provisioning capability enables you to issue and customize X.509 client certificates using CAs hosted on popular CA services, such as AWS Private CA, external CAs, or your own public key infrastructure (PKI).

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