12/21/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/22/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon RDS now supports M6gd and R6gd database instances in three additional AWS regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6gd database instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka) and Europe (Stockholm) regions, and R6gd database instances in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region.

AWS Config now supports 1000 AWS Config rules per AWS Region per account

AWS Config now supports 1000 AWS Config rules per Region per account. AWS Config rules, available as predefined managed rules and or as user created custom rules, enable you to define policies that govern cloud resource configurations to meet your compliance requirements. AWS Config continuously tracks the configuration changes that occur among your resources and reports if these changes do not comply with the conditions in your rules.

Amazon EC2 R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (London)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services. Starting today, these instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London).

Announcing Customer Managed Key (CMK) support in AWS CodeCommit

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Customer Managed Key (CMK) support in AWS CodeCommit as part of the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Customer managed keys are KMS keys that customers create, manage and own. This capability allows customers to use customer managed keys instead of AWS KMS keys to encrypt CodeCommit repositories at rest.

Amazon Bedrock is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications.

Amazon Chime SDK now supports new high-definition video modes

The Amazon Chime SDK now offers high-definition WebRTC sessions with support for 1080p webcam video and 4K screen share. Developers can choose video encoding bitrates up to 2.5Mbps, frame rates up to 30fps, and the codec, including new options VP9, AV1, and scalable video coding (SVC).

AWS Backup now supports SAP HANA High Availability databases on Amazon EC2

Today, AWS Backup announces support for SAP HANA High Availability (HA) databases. With this launch, you can now backup and restore your SAP HANA HA databases running on Amazon EC2 instances, alongside single node SAP HANA databases and other currently supported resources. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports customer managed KMS keys

Customers can now use customer managed keys defined in AWS Key Management Service to encrypt data residing in their Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting on metrics from compute environments such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.

EFA support for Open MPI 5.0 now available

Today we’re excited to announce the latest release of the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) installer with support for Open MPI 5.0.

AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region

You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports RDS Data API

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports a redesigned RDS Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 (ASv2) and Aurora provisioned database instances. You can now access these Aurora clusters via a secure HTTP endpoint and run SQL statements without the use of database drivers and without managing connections.

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