2/15/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/16/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Control Tower introduces APIs to register Organizational Units
AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically extend governance to organizational units (OUs) via APIs. These new APIs enable the AWS Control Tower baseline which contains best practice configurations, controls, and resources required for AWS Control Tower governance. For example, when you enable a baseline on an OU, member accounts within the OU will receive resources including AWS IAM roles, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, AWS Identity Center, and come under AWS Control Tower governance.
AWS Batch now supports private registry on ECS compute environments
Starting today, AWS Batch supports the use of private Docker registries with managed Elastic Container Service (ECS) compute environments. This feature allows customers to pull images from private repositories to run within their jobs on AWS Batch, supporting our customers security and compliance standards.
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Stockholm). 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. Customers can use R6in and R6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached, Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real-time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark).
API Gateway now supports TLS 1.3
API Gateway now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol on its Regional REST, HTTP, and WebSocket endpoints. TLS 1.3 on API Gateway works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to API Gateway.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in 2 additional commercial regions
Starting today, Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in 2 additional commercial regions: South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Stockholm).
Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for session scripts and Audio Out on multi-session fleets
Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces support for custom session scripts and audio out on multi-session fleets. Multi-session fleets enable IT admins to host multiple end-user sessions on a single AppStream 2.0 instance, helping to make better use of instance resources.
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available in Europe (Spain)
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available for Amazon EMR on EC2 customers in the AWS Region in Europe (Spain).
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports audit logging
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 now supports auditing of Db2 databases. When enabled, Amazon RDS for Db2 stores the audit logs in Amazon S3 to meet your long-term retention policies. The audit log retention in Amazon S3 and other auditing categories can be configured in option group through rdsadmin.confgure_db_audit stored procedure.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports administrative controls for limiting clipboard
Starting today, you have greater control over data movement to and from your users’ Amazon AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions via clipboard. You can independently specify the maximum number of characters (up to 20,971,520) that can be transferred out of and/or into the session via the clipboard functionality. For example, you could let your users copy a maximum of 300 characters from their AppStream 2.0 session on to their personal devices while setting a different limit of 100 characters for data from their personal device to AppStream 2.0 and vice-versa. You still have an ability to completely block the clipboard functionality, if so desired. This new configuration will allow customers flexibility in controlling data exfiltration.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- AWS Microservice Extractor for.NET — AI-Powered Recommendations
- Use AWS Control Tower Account Factory Customization to automate AWS account customizations
- Amazon Bedrock’s knowledge base now supports Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Cohere embedded models
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- Upgrading to Amazon Aurora MySQL version 3 (MySQL 8.0 compatible)
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Monitor Amazon Aurora Global Database replication at scale using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights
- Use Amazon RDS Proxy and AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon RDS databases across AWS Organizations at American Family Insurance Group
AWS for Industries
- How Audi improved their chat experience with Generative AI on Amazon SageMaker
- Improve application resiliency using AWS Incident Detection and Response