12/20/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/21/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect locations in Calgary, Canada

Today, AWS announced the opening of two new AWS Direct Connect locations within the Equinix CL1 and CL3 data centers in Calgary, Canada. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Calgary locations, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. These sites are the seventh and eighth AWS Direct Connect sites within Canada.

AWS Clean Rooms expands support for customer compliance with ISO and SOC

AWS Clean Rooms has added certification for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports. Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed.

Amazon SNS FIFO topics are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topics in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. SNS FIFO is intended for customer use cases where it is critical to maintain the consistency in processing messages across multiple independent services in a strictly ordered manner. Example use cases include bank transaction logging, stock tickers, flight trackers, news broadcasting, inventory management, vote tabulation, and price updates.

FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports using NetApp System Manager to manage your file systems

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports using NetApp System Manager to manage your file systems.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints now supports DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

Starting today, you can enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) on Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints to encrypt DNS queries that pass through the endpoints and improve privacy by minimizing the visibility of the information exchanged through the queries. DoH is a protocol that protects DNS traffic by passing the queries through an encrypted HTTPS session. DoH can help enhance privacy by protecting DNS queries from eavesdropping and manipulation from unauthorized users.

Announcing SSH support for Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environments

Amazon CodeCatalyst users can now securely access their Dev Environments using SSH over AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. This feature allows users to perform actions on Dev Environments such as port forwarding, and uploading and downloading files that were not possible while using AWS Cloud9. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. Dev Environments, a feature of CodeCatalyst, are preconfigured, scalable cloud development environments accessible from popular IDEs.

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Canberra, Australia

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within CDC in Canberra, Australia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Canberra location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

SageMaker model parallelism now provides up to 20% speed up with less code change

Today, AWS announces a major version release of the Amazon SageMaker model parallel library (SMP), which now is compatible with PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) APIs and can accelerate deep learning model training by up to 20%. SMP enables you to accelerate training of large models with billions of parameters by automatically partitioning and distributing the model across multiple accelerators and compute instances. You can get started with SMP in minutes and speed up your existing PyTorch FSDP training scripts with just a few lines of code.

Amazon EKS introduces upgrade insights

Today, Amazon EKS announces the general availability of upgrade insights, a new feature that surfaces insights about issues that may impact your ability to successfully upgrade a cluster to newer versions of Kubernetes. Upgrade insights are built upon best practices learned by EKS over the course of managing hundreds of thousands of Kubernetes clusters. You can use the EKS APIs and Console to check for upgrade readiness issues detected in your environment at any time against all future Kubernetes versions supported by EKS.

Amazon Connect launches granular access controls (using resource tags) for hours of operation

Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls using resource tags configured for hours of operation in the Connect admin website. For example, you can tag hours of operation with Division:HumanResources, and then only let HR administrators see and edit those work hours.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud now supports Bring Your Own IP in three AWS Local Zones

Starting today, you can bring your public IPv4 addresses to AWS, in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas AWS Local Zones using Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP). You can provision your public IPv4 addresses in these Local Zones and advertise them to the internet using BYOIP.

Amazon Keyspaces adds support for DML query auditing with AWS CloudTrail

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added query auditing support for Keyspaces Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations with AWS CloudTrail.

Amazon Connect launches granular access controls (using resource tags) for prompts

Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls using resource tags configured for prompts in the Connect admin website. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. For example, you can now tag celebrity prompts with Department:Insurance, and then only let administrators from your insurance line of business access those prompts.

AWS Ground Station launches a new antenna location in Alaska

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Ground Station in US West (Alaska) region. This is the 12th AWS Ground Station antenna location connected to the AWS Global Network. Global expansion to Alaska enables increased opportunities for satellite operators to connect with their satellites and process their space workloads. Governments, businesses, and universities can benefit from more timely satellite data to make data-driven decisions.

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region

AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway.

AWS Marketplace launches read API that can get details on multiple entities at once

AWS Marketplace launched BatchDescribeEntities API for users of Catalog API. With this launch, private marketplace admins and sellers, including ISVs, Channel Partners, and Aggregators can get detailed information on multiple entities at once, thereby improving ease of integration, decreasing latency and increasing performance of the applications built on top of Catalog APIs.

AWS DataSync is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region

AWS DataSync is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. You can now use DataSync to copy data between on-premises, edge, or other cloud storage and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services in the Canada West (Calgary) region.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases.

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