1/31/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/1/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters are now available in 4 additional regions - London (Europe), Seoul (Asia Pacific) , Mumbai (Asia Pacific), São Paulo (South America). DocumentDB Elastic Clusters are a new type of DocumentDB cluster that enables you to elastically scale your document database to handle millions of reads and writes per second with petabytes of storage.
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS, Version 2024.01 is now available
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) 2024.01 is now generally available. This new release adds support for RES deployments in private subnets, reduces the cost of idle installations, and enables better user management among other features. With this release, RES is also available in 4 additional AWS Regions - Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Milan). Other key features included in the release are:\n
Ability to specify a custom Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to use for RES infrastructure hosts. This, along with the ability to deploy RES in private subnets, will enable enterprise customers and academic organizations to deploy RES within their established security posture.
Customers with RES 2023.11 installations can take a snapshot of their 2023.11 RES environment and apply it to their new 2024.01 installation to minimize the reconfiguration time.
Amazon ECS Service Connect is now available in Canada West (Calgary) AWS Region
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches its networking capability called ECS Service Connect in Canada West (Calgary) AWS Regions.
Announcing the new Console Home in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, we launched the new Console Home, a customizable home page for the AWS Management Console, in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. The new Console Home provides customers the capability to customize their Console Home experience by adding, removing, resizing, and rearranging widgets.
AWS Control Tower receives DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization
Starting today, AWS Control Tower is authorized for Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 4 and 5 (DoD SRG IL4 and IL5) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. With auto scaling, ElastiCache for Redis automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down.
AWS AppFabric is now ISO, PCI, and SOC compliant
Customers can now use AWS AppFabric for use cases that are subject to International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI), and Service Organization Control (SOC I, II, and II) requirements. You can download reports for all three compliance programs in AWS Artifact. To learn more, visit the AWS services compliance page and AWS compliance resources.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 16
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 16 (16.1). PostgreSQL 16 adds support for SQL/JSON constructors and identity functions, more query types that can use parallelism, and the ‘pg_stat_io’ view that provides statistics on I/O usage. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 4.0 such as support for the Full Text Search CONTAINS function. Please refer to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL updates for more information.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Stable Diffusion prompt improvements using RAG
- Notice of revocation and commencement of AWS certification
- Modular functional design for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) on AWS
- Use IAM Roles Anywhere to protect VMware Cloud on AWS workloads
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Filter transactions from users with AWS DMS from an Oracle database
- How ktown4u built a custom auto scaling architecture using an Amazon Aurora mixed-configuration cluster to respond to sudden traffic spikes
AWS DevOps Blog
- A new and improved AWS CDK construct for Amazon DynamoDB tables
- Announcing Generative AI CDK Constructs
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Build a movie chatbot for TV/OTT platforms using Retrieval Augmented Generation in Amazon Bedrock
- How Mendix is transforming customer experiences with generative AI and Amazon Bedrock
- Train and host a computer vision model for tampering detection on Amazon SageMaker: Part 2