12/29/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/1/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD and AD Connector available in Calgary
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region.
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics support in AWS CodeArtifact
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch metrics support in AWS CodeArtifact, expanding the monitoring options available to CodeArtifact users. Customers can use CloudWatch metrics to monitor all requests made to CodeArtifact per account to better understand their usage.
Amazon EMR Release 7.0 now supports Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon EMR Release 7.0 ships with Amazon Linux 2023 and features Apache Spark 3.5 running on Amazon Corretto Release 17 (built on OpenJDK) by default. It supports the latest versions of Python 3.9, glibc 2.34, and enables you to ensure consistency of package versions and updates across your environment. The latest release ships with AWS SDK for Java 2.20.160, and upgrades to the latest versions for Apache Flink 1.18 and latest open table formats (Apache Iceberg 1.4.2, Apache Hudi 0.14 and Delta 3.0).
SageMaker Studio now supports local mode and Docker
Amazon SageMaker Studio offers integrated development environments (IDEs) for machine learning (ML) development. Studio provides tools for data preparation, experimentation and production to boost productivity. Studio users can now run SageMaker processing, training, inference and batch transform jobs locally on their Studio IDE instance. Users can also build and test SageMaker compatible Docker images locally in Studio IDEs.
AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available in four additional regions
Today, we would like to announce expansion of AWS Mainframe Modernization service to four additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Stockholm).
EC2 Hibernation is now available in four new regions
Starting today, the EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain) AWS Regions. Hibernation is an Amazon EC2 feature that helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances at scale. Customers are not billed for compute time while instances are suspended, only their storage volumes, and applications will resume from right where they left off.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Improved monitoring and troubleshooting with the introduction of the AWS Glue Serverless Spark UI
- AWS Brings Exciting New Retail Technology to NRF 2023
- Embrace the Future of Retail: Realizing the AWS Smart Store Solution
- AWS Re:Invent 2023 Featured Announcements
- MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL 1.1 databases are automatically registered for Amazon RDS extended support
- DNS over HTTPS is now available with Amazon Route 53 Resolver
- AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region Now Available
- AWS India Customers Can Now Store Card Information for Monthly AWS Billing
- AWS Weekly Roundup — AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Rekognition, etc. — 12/18/2023
AWS Database Blog
- Convert JSON SQL queries from an Oracle database to a PostgreSQL database
- Migrate from SQL Server to Amazon DynamoDB with data transformation using a staging table