2/12/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/13/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Wickr now allows you to try premium features for free
AWS Wickr announces an enhanced free trial experience, so you can try the features available under Standard and Premium plans for up to three months at no cost. The free trial is available as an option when you create or manage a Wickr network.
AWS AppSync introduces 12 new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for enhanced monitoring
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows customers to connect applications to data and events with GraphQL APIs. AppSync allows customers to create APIs that connect to multiple data sources like microservice APIs, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. With AppSync APIs, applications can efficiently fetch data from different sources in one request.
AWS Control Tower’s Account Factory for Terraform increases customization
AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) now allows you to customize the resources deployed and recorded by AFT. You can now choose whether or not to deploy AFT using a virtual private cloud (VPC). You can also customize the retention periods for AWS Backup recovery points, Amazon Cloudwatch log groups, and Amazon S3 log archive buckets to meet your unique data retention needs. This release includes enhancements to AFT VPC default security group to align with AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports maintenance notifications
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now adds support for maintenance notifications to provide users visibility into scheduled maintenance activities on their Amazon DocumentDB clusters. Users can now receive near real time notifications of scheduled maintenance activities through health events in AWS Health Dashboard (AHD) in AWS console and through emails.
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.36
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.36. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports text search
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports text search, making it easy to run text search queries on extensive string data using a native text index. You can now perform text searches of specific terms or phrases on large string data using $text and $search operators, assign different significance levels to the indexed fields using weights, and sort the search results based on relevance using $meta operator.
AWS Blogs
AWS News Blog
- Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Cohere embedding models
- AWS Weekly Roundup — Happy Lunar New Year, IaC generator, NFL’s digital athlete, AWS Cloud Clubs, and more — February 12, 2024
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
- How Gupshup built their multi-tenant messaging analytics platform on Amazon Redshift
- Automate AWS Clean Rooms querying and dashboard publishing using AWS Step Functions and Amazon QuickSight – Part 2
AWS Contact Center
AWS Database Blog
- Query transaction finality information from public blockchains using Amazon Managed Blockchain Query
- Make EOA private keys compatible with AWS KMS