2/29/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/1/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Redshift announces support for scoped permissions and object-level privileges in data sharing

Amazon Redshift customers can now use scoped permissions to manage permissions for a role or user on a database or schema scope, avoiding the need to manually grant permissions on every object. Scoped permissions apply to objects in the selected scope when you grant or revoke the permission, as well as to new objects created after you grant or revoke the permission. For example, granting SELECT permission to tables in a schema allows access to current and future tables within the schema. Scoped permissions can also be used on shared databases created from a datashare.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds capability to easily query data in AWS Management Console

Today, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds the ability for you to run SQL queries with one click in the AWS Management Console using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With this new capability, you can easily analyze and visualize the data in your streams in real-time.

AWS Step Functions adds support for Open Workflow Metrics

AWS Step Functions announces open workflow metrics for Step Functions workflows in Amazon CloudWatch to track and monitor the number of open workflow executions in real-time through Amazon CloudWatch. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to build distributed applications and data processing workloads.

AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Aurora continuous backups

AWS Backup announces support for restore testing of Amazon Aurora continuous backups. AWS Backup restore testing helps perform automated and periodic restore tests of supported AWS resources that have been backed up. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across supported AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, AWS Backup customers can test recovery readiness to prepare for possible data loss events and to measure duration times for restore jobs for their Amazon Aurora continuous backups to satisfy compliance or regulatory requirements.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless customers can now control access to VPC endpoints

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is enhancing access controls for VPC endpoints. With this feature, administrators can attach endpoint policies to control which AWS principals are allowed or denied access to the OpenSearch resources through their VPC endpoint(s). With a VPC endpoint policy, users can also combine actions along with AWS principals and resources to have finer control on the allowing or denying the traffic through their VPC endpoint(s).

Amazon Connect now provides case management metrics

Amazon Connect now provides metrics for case management which give customers insights into case volumes and performance. With this launch, contact center managers can view new reports using the historical metrics dashboard in the Amazon Connect admin website to analyze case resolution performance based on point in time snapshots or specific time intervals.

Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance is now generally available for VMware Cloud on AWS

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 m7i.metal-24xl instance for VMware Cloud on AWS. This offering features a disaggregated storage architecture from compute, supporting both Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and VMware Cloud Flex Storage as primary storage options for customers. With this new offering, customers can now choose among three instance types for VMware Cloud on AWS: i3en.metal, i4i.metal and m7i.metal-24xl.

Amazon EventBridge API destinations now supports content-type header customization

Amazon EventBridge API destinations now supports custom HTTP content-type header values for API destinations connection resources and when using API destinations as a target in EventBridge Event Buses or Pipes.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) supports in-place major version upgrade in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports an in-place major version upgrade (MVU) from Amazon DocumentDB versions 3.6 and 4.0 to version 5.0 in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version or relying on database migration tools, you can perform an in-place major version upgrade with a few clicks using the AWS console, the latest AWS Software Development Kit (SDK), or Command Line Interface (CLI). With in-place MVU, no new clusters are created in the process and you can continue using the existing cluster endpoints for your applications.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB support M7g and R7g database instances in additional regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support AWS Graviton3-based M7g and R7g database instances in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (London, Spain), and Middle East (Bahrain). Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 27% price/performance improvement (based on on-demand pricing) over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload

AWS Lambda improves responsiveness for configuring stream and queue-based event sources

AWS Lambda now improves the responsiveness for configuring Event Source Mappings (ESMs) and Amazon EventBridge Pipes with event sources such as self-managed Apache Kafka, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon DocumentDB, and Amazon MQ. This enhancement allows changes—such as updating, disabling, or deleting ESMs or Pipes—to take effect within 90 seconds, an improvement from the previous time frame of up to 15 minutes.

AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Honolulu, Hawaii

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Aloha NAP data center in Honolulu, Hawaii. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Hawaii location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the first AWS Direct Connect site within Hawaii and the 42nd site in the United States.

Amazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023

Today, we are announcing general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). AL2023 is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services and is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. EKS customers can enjoy the benefits of AL2023 by using the standard AL2023-based EKS optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Managed Node Groups, self-managed nodes, and Karpenter.

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now supports custom templates

AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator now allows you to save customized workflows as new templates for your subsequent migration and modernization projects on AWS. You can create a workflow from a predefined AWS managed template and customize the workflow based on your own needs. With this launch, you can now save the customized workflow as a new custom template to simplify your future projects and save time with no need to customize the workflow again.

AWS Resource Groups now supports 161 more resource types

Today, AWS Resource Groups is adding support for an additional 161 resource types for tag-based Resource Groups. Customers can use Resource Groups to group and manage resources from services such as AWS Backup, AWS Media Connect, and AWS Network Manager.

Amazon Security Lake enhances analytics performance with OCSF 1.1.0 and Apache Iceberg

Today, AWS announces support for Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) v.1.1.0 and Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon Security Lake, enhancing query performance for your security analytics. Apache Iceberg is an open table format that provides fast query performance over large tables in data lakes. As part of these changes, Security Lake has adopted several OCSF mapping enhancements. Your transformed events now include OCSF Observables, which streamlines tasks like matching threat intelligence indicators or searching for logs pertaining to a specific identity across all of your environments, making them much easier and more efficient than before. Security Lake now maps security findings from AWS Security Hub to more specific event classes available in OCSF v1.1.0 such as detection or vulnerability findings, which represent finding data more succinctly and improves usability. Security Lake has also adopted the latest version of OCSF datetime profile which utilizes human readable RFC-3339 timestamps.

Amazon Q for Business launches support for metadata boosting for Q&A fine tuning

We are excited to announce that Amazon Q for Business now supports metadata boosting for Q applications. This feature allows customers to easily fine-tune the underlying ranking of retrieved RAG passages in order to optimize Q&A answer relevance in their Q applications.

Amazon Connect now supports DID & Toll Free calling in Venezuela

Amazon Connect has expanded availability to support inbound Direct Dial (DID) and Toll Free telephone numbers in Venezuela from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions.

Amazon Security Lake now supports audit logs from Amazon EKS

Today, AWS announces the expansion in the log coverage support for Amazon Security Lake, which includes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) audit logs. This enhancement allows you to automatically centralize and normalize your Amazon EKS audit logs in Security Lake, making it easier to monitor and investigate potential suspicious activities in your Amazon EKS clusters.

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