1/25/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/26/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Provisioned capacity for API limits now available in Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito now supports provisioned capacity for customers who need higher request limits for APIs used for authentication, user management, and other operations. Customers can request limits higher than the defaults provided by Cognito in any of nine API categories, including User Authentication, User Creation, User Federation, User Read, and User Token. For a complete list of API categories, and the API operations in them, refer to the documentation. Provisioned capacity will be charged based on the desired request-per-second (RPS) increment and the duration (expressed as a portion of a month).
Amazon Q in QuickSight is now available for preview in Europe (Frankfurt) region
Amazon Q in QuickSight is now available for preview in Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1) region, in addition to the existing US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Amazon Q in QuickSight, powered by Amazon Bedrock large language models (LLMs), makes it easy and fast to explore data, discover data insights, and share findings with others. QuickSight Q subscribers can get started now by enabling the preview through QuickSight’s preview manager.
Amazon IVS announces audio-only pricing for Low-Latency Streaming
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now offers audio-only pricing for its Low-Latency Streaming capability at 1/10th of the existing HD video rate.
AWS Systems Manager now supports syncing inventory data to and from AWS opt-in Regions
Today, AWS Systems Manager Inventory announces support for Inventory Resource Data Sync in AWS opt-in Regions (Region that is disabled by default). You can use Inventory Resource Data Sync to send inventory data collected from all of your managed nodes to a single Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. By syncing software inventory to Amazon S3, you can run Amazon Athena queries to gain greater inventory insight, such as understanding application use or reviewing application version compliance. You can also use Amazon QuickSight to visualize your software inventory, enabling you to drill down into queries in a point-and-click fashion.
Introducing IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail
Today, we are excited to announce the introduction of new IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail. With these new instance bundles, you can get up and running quickly on IPv6-only without the need for a public IPv4 address with the ease of use and simplicity of Amazon Lightsail.
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.
Introducing the AWS Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency
We are excited to launch the AWS Small & Medium Business (SMB) Competency, the first go-to-market AWS Specialization designed for partners who deliver to small and medium sized customers. The SMB Competency provides enhanced benefits for AWS partners to invest and focus on SMB customer business and an aspirational bar for rising star partners to achieve. SMB Competency benefits include partners becoming the go-to standard for participation in new pilots/sales initiatives and receiving unique access to scale demand generation engines.
AWS Private CA now supports revocation for Matter certificates
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports revocation for Matter certificates. Matter is an industry standard for smart home devices that provides seamless and secure cross-vendor connectivity for devices like light bulbs, door locks, and media devices. You can use AWS Private CA to issue digital certificates for identifying Matter devices. Matter 1.2 introduced revocation support for device attestation certificates (DACs) to improve the security of the smart home standard. With this new support for revocation from AWS Private CA, you can maintain Matter standard compliance without any disruption to your existing Matter certificate authorities (CAs).
Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in 2 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Frankfurt) and South America (Sao Paulo). C7i instances supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.
Amazon VPC now supports idempotency for route table and network ACL creation
Amazon VPC now supports idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs, allowing you to safely retry creation without additional side effects. Idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs is intended for customers that use network orchestration systems or automation scripts that create route tables and network ACLs as part of a workflow.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- The Future of Web Development: AWS Amplify’s Code-First Approach
- Monitoring and Optimizing Costs for AWS Glue for Apache Spark
- Amazon EKS starts supporting Kubernetes 1.29
- Cost benchmark for scalable large-scale data utilization infrastructure with Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon SageMaker