3/8/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/11/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS HealthImaging enables the import of large DICOM objects and high-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) transfer syntaxes

AWS HealthImaging now supports the import of DICOM instances up to 4 GB with up to 20:1 image compression. Customers can now import and store large DICOM instances, such as those generated by digital pathology systems. With this release, HealthImaging also adds support for importing DICOM objects with pixel data encoded in any of the High-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) transfer syntaxes that were recently added to the DICOM standard. Further, HealthImaging now supports import of data in the JPEG Lossless, Nonhierarchical (Process 14) transfer syntax.

AWS announces Aurora MySQL integration with Amazon Bedrock for Generative AI

Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora ML now provides access to foundation models available in Amazon Bedrock directly through SQL in the Aurora MySQL 3.06 version.

Application Load Balancer now supports Resource Map in AWS Management Console

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Resource Map, a tool in the console that displays all your ALB resources and their relationships in a visual format on a single page, providing you a clear understanding of your ALB architecture.

Amazon SES now offers support for headers when sending email

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new feature giving customers the ability to set custom headers when sending emails using SES v2 sending APIs. Customers can now set headers for a variety of purposes, including implementing one-click unsubscribe by adding list-unsubscribe headers to emails. Custom headers are set when calling SES v2 sending APIs,and do not require raw email content. This makes it easier to support advanced use cases including those requiring “X-” proprietary header content.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.06 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.34) is generally available

In addition to security enhancements, bug fixes, and improved data replication performance with binary log (binlog), this release includes new generative AI capabilities and improved cross-region resiliency for Aurora Global Database. With this release, customers can use Aurora MySQL to build scalable generative AI applications, accessing Amazon Bedrock’s foundation models directly through SQL. This release also contains improvements that bolster the cross-region resiliency of Aurora Global Database, enabling secondary regions to seamlessly serve read requests if the primary writer were to become unavailable during an instance restart. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.34 release notes.

Amazon Cognito is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region

Amazon Cognito is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect.

AWS Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface

The new console experience for AWS Cost Categories simplifies the Cost Categories creation workflows. The new user interface uses a split-view panel to improve the process of setting up Cost Categories rules; as well as to provide an interactive preview of the allocation of month-to-date estimated charges based on these rules. The split-view panel allows you to add or edit Cost Category rules; or visualize the effect of the rules on cost allocation, without leaving the consolidated view of all your rules in the rules table. The rules table gives you an overview of all of your Cost Categories rules, their relative prioritization, and the ability to search, filter, and reorder rules by changing their priority.

AWS WAF now supports larger request body inspections for regional resources

Starting today, AWS WAF supports inspecting up to 64KB of the body of incoming HTTP/S requests, for Amazon API Gateway, Cognito user pools, App Runner and AWS Verified Access regional resources. For the resources where this new maximum applies, the default inspection size has also changed from 8KB to 16KB. This new default will be applied to all new and existing WAF web access control lists, without additional charges.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). 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.

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