2/6/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/7/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics releases NodeJS/Puppeteer Runtime versions 6.2, version 5.2 and Python/Selenium Runtime version 2.1

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces release of Synthetics NodeJS Runtime versions - syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.2, syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.2 - and Python Runtime version - syn-python-selenium-2.1. This release brings updated Chromium dependency libs for forward compatibility with Lambda OS and adds new Lambda Ephemeral Storage usage metric in customer account. To learn more, see release notes.

AWS Application Load Balancer announces one-click WAF integrations

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports console integration with AWS WAF that allows you to secure your applications behind ALB with a single click. This integration enables AWS WAF protections as a first line of defense against common web threats for your applications that use ALB. You can still optionally configure additional protections like bot detection and fraud prevention for your applications from the AWS WAF console.

Announcing disruption controls for Karpenter

Starting with today’s release of v0.34.0, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers using the open-source Karpenter project have a new way to control how and when disruptive changes are made to the Amazon EC2 instances in their Kubernetes clusters. You can use Karpenter with EKS to help improve application availability, lower operational overhead, and increase cost-efficiency. Disruption controls offer deeper configuration for the automatic EC2 instance management capabilities of Karpenter so that you can fine-tune them for your specific needs and use cases.

Announcing support for IdP-initiated SSO with Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Web announced support for identity provider (IdP) initiated single sign on (SSO) for standard authentication web portals. IdP-initiated SSO support provides administrators with more options in defining the sign in flow for their users.

AWS AppSync now supports environment variables in GraphQL resolvers and functions

AWS AppSync is a managed service that connects applications to data. With AppSync, API developers can write resolvers and functions in JavaScript to define the business logic that connects their AppSync GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs to data.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers improved visibility into domain updates

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides improved visibility into the progress of domain updates. You can see granular status values representing different stages of an update, simplifying monitoring and automation of configuration changes.

Amazon Connect adds more flexibility to copying agent schedules

Amazon Connect now enables more efficient management of agent schedules through three new shift copy capabilities.

AWS AppFabric now supports Cisco Duo and Terraform

Today, AWS AppFabric announces support for two new software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications: Cisco Duo and Terraform. Starting now, IT administrators and security analysts can use AppFabric to quickly integrate with 22 SaaS applications, aggregate enriched and normalized SaaS audit logs, and audit end-user access across their SaaS apps. This launch expands AWS AppFabric supported applications used across an organization.

Amazon Redshift announces support for H3 Indexing and related spatial grid indexing functions

Amazon Redshift support for Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System, H3 for short, offers an easy way to index spatial coordinates into a hexagonal grid, down to a square meter resolution. Indexed data can be quickly joined across different datasets and aggregated at different levels of precision. H3 enables several spatial algorithms and optimizations based on the hexagonal grid, including nearest neighbors, shortest path, gradient smoothing, and more. H3 Indexing and related H3 spatial functions are now available for Amazon Redshift spatial analytics.

AWS WAF announces Captcha improvements

AWS WAF Captcha adds support for audio Captcha in 8 additional languages, a new Captcha type that improves usability, and revocable API keys. With support for more languages, a new Captcha puzzle, and the option to promptly disable compromised keys, WAF Captcha provides enhanced capabilities to protect web applications globally.

Amazon SQS launches the Extended Client Library for Python to support payloads up to 2GB

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) launches an open-source Extended Client Library for Python that allows you to send and receive large message payloads. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

AWS Fargate announces a price reduction for Windows containers on Amazon ECS

We are excited to announce that AWS Fargate for Windows containers on Amazon ECS has reduced infrastructure pricing by up to 49%. Fargate simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS. With Fargate, customers no longer need to set up automatic scaling groups or manage host instances for their application.

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