1/11/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/12/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Backup now supports protecting Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes

AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. Previously, you could only protect your FlexVol volumes using AWS Backup. AWS Backup now supports backing up and restoring Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexVol and FlexGroup volumes. You can now use AWS Backup’s policy-based capabilities to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes alongside other supported AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and hybrid workloads.

AWS announces an enhanced sign in experience in the AWS Console Mobile App for Android

AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for Android can now use their mobile device’s password manager for faster sign in, set a default AWS identity for quicker recurring access to their resources, and use supported virtual authenticator apps, FIDO security keys and hardware TOTP tokens for multi-factor authentication (MFA). The enhanced sign in experience for the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS was released on October 25th, 2023.

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports Innovation Release version 8.2 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 8.2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 8.2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account level subscription filter

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for creating account-level subscription filters using the put-account-policy API. This new capability enables you to deliver real-time log events that are ingested into Amazon CloudWatch Logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda for custom processing, analysis, or delivery to other destinations using a single account level subscription filter.

Amazon SageMaker now supports M7i, C7i, and R7i instances for ML Inference

Amazon SageMaker is pleased to announce support for M7i, C7i, and R7i instance types for real-time and asynchronous inference.

Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon EBS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate now integrate with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), allowing you to easily provision and attach EBS volumes to Amazon ECS tasks running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) using Amazon ECS APIs. This capability makes it easier for you to deploy storage and data intensive applications such as ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads using serverless containers.

New AWS Marketplace Insights dashboard for sellers showing product usage

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the general availability of a new Amazon QuickSight dashboard, displaying customer’s product usage for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the usage dashboard under the Insights > Sales operations tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could only access their customer’s SaaS and Server product usage with the legacy Daily business report Section 1: Usage by instance type; and programmatically by Commerce Analytics Service (CAS).

Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports up to 5,000 database users

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 allows customers to set up, operate, and scale Db2 database in the cloud with just a few clicks. RDS for Db2 now supports up to 5,000 users for database authentication.

Amazon EventBridge now supports AWS AppSync as a target of EventBridge Buses

Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports AWS AppSync as a target of an Event Bus, which enables you to stream real-time updates such as sport scores and stock updates from your own applications to frontend applications including mobile and desktop. With AppSync as a target, clients can now subscribe to mutations or changes in data and AppSync will notify those subscribers of that data change on successful completion of the mutation.

Introducing Open Job Description, an open specification for portable render jobs

Today, AWS made available on GitHub for public comment, the Open Job Description specification for describing portable render jobs. Open Job Description (OpenJD), lets you describe the work instructions and asset locations for visual compute render farm jobs in a way that is extensible and open to help you create interoperable pipelines. OpenJD specifies a structured format that is human and machine readable for ease of development. OpenJD is designed to be extensible for new types of visual compute workflows and applications. This open specification is made available for public comment under a Creative Commons (CC) license.

Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in more AWS regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo) regions, Australia (Sydney) Region, Europe (Frankfurt, London) regions, Canada (Central) Region and US West (Northern California) Region.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached 1.6.22

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports Memcached version 1.6.22 when using the node-based deployment option. With this release, you can now design your own ElastiCache for Memcached cluster using Memcached version 1.6.22. ElastiCache Serverless for Memcached already supports Memcached version 1.6.22.

AWS announces an integrated mobile experience in the AWS Console Mobile App

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App for Android. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for Android can now access the full breadth of AWS resource information and management functionality that’s available to them on the AWS Console for natively supported services including EC2, RDS, and S3 via an integrated mobile web browser experience in the Console Mobile App.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Europe (Spain)

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances.

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