3/14/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/15/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in Canada West (Calgary) Region to build real-time stream processing applications.
Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region
Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. Neptune Analytics is an analytics database engine that makes it faster for data scientists and application developers to get insights and find trends by analyzing graph data with tens of billions of connections in seconds. Neptune Analytics adds to existing Neptune tools and services such as Amazon Neptune Database, Amazon Neptune ML, and visualization tools. Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, fraud graphs, identity graphs, and security graphs. With Neptune Analytics, you can find insights in graph data up to 80x faster by analyzing your existing Neptune graph database or graph data from Amazon S3.
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku Model now available on Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku foundation model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The Claude 3 family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku) is the next generation of state-of-the-art models from Anthropic. Claude 3 Haiku is one of the most affordable and fastest options on the market for its intelligence category.
AWS Backup is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions with immutable recovery points and vaults, and restore your data in the event of a data loss incident.
Monitor Amazon WorkSpaces instances via CloudWatch Automatic dashboard
You can now obtain an aggregated picture of the performance and health of your WorkSpaces instances using the Amazon CloudWatch Automatic dashboard. This enables WorkSpaces administrators to quickly start monitoring WorkSpaces metrics and identify issues and their potential causes. You can also use CloudWatch Automatic dashboard as a starting point and create your own custom dashboards to meet your monitoring needs.
AWS Signer launches signing container images in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, AWS Signer container image signing and verification is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now use AWS Signer, a managed signing service, to sign images in registries, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). You can validate that only approved images are deployed to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters or are in use in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) clusters.
Amazon EC2 now supports tagging when registering or copying AMIs
Amazon EC2 now enables you to tag your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) when you create an AMI from an EBS snapshot, or when you copy an AMI within the same or different AWS Regions. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to AWS resources such as AMIs to easily organize, search, and identify resources, create cost allocation reports, and control access.
AWS Batch now supports alerts to detect and react to jobs stuck in RUNNABLE state
Starting today, AWS Batch now supports a Batch Job Queue Blocked CloudWatch Event for jobs stuck in RUNNABLE state. Customers can automate actions using EventBridge to be able to take an action on these stuck jobs. Additionally, customers can configure jobStateTimeLimitActions parameter from the CreateJobQueue and UpdateJobQueue APIs to terminate the stuck job unblocking the jobs behind it within the queue.
Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Zurich) Region
Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Zurich) 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.
Application Load Balancer enables configuring HTTP client keepalive duration
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now provides flexibility that allows you to configure HTTP client keepalive duration for communication between clients and load balancer. With this feature, you can configure keepalive values to optimize client experience.
Amazon DynamoDB local upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17
Today, we are excited to announce that DynamoDB local for Amazon DynamoDB upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17. We recommend that you run the latest version of DynamoDB local to utilize the most recent updates and features of DynamoDB local for your development and testing use cases.
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replicating existing data on Kafka topics
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replicating existing data on your topics across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters. With this new configuration, you can now start replication from earliest position in your source cluster’s topics in addition to latest position.
AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with new validation checks for stack operations
AWS CloudFormation improves its deployment experience to validate customer stack operation upfront for invalid resource property errors. Customers get early feedback that their stack operation will fail due to issues such as spelling errors in their template. With this launch, customers will be able to fail fast and minimize the steps required for a successful stack operation.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Meiji Co., Ltd. modernizes aging core systems in the cloud for the first customer in Japan using AWS Mainframe Modernization
- Support for multi-tenant applications in SaaS environments using Amazon QuickSight
- Deploying a secure CDK application with IAM permissions boundaries
- AWS Weekly Roundup — Claude 3 Sonnet Support on Bedrock, New Instances, and More — March 11, 2024
AWS News Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Accelerate cross-account Amazon RDS refreshes with incremental snapshots
- Build Account Abstraction Wallets with Alchemy and AWS: Part 2
AWS HPC Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- The journey of PGA TOUR’s generative AI virtual assistant, from concept to development to prototype
- Enhance code review and approval efficiency with generative AI using Amazon Bedrock
- Best practices to build generative AI applications on AWS
- Gemma is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS for M&E Blog
Networking & Content Delivery
- Streamline access to most used AWS services using VPC Endpoints
- Orchestrate disaster recovery automation using Amazon Route 53 ARC and AWS Step Functions
AWS Storage Blog
Open Source Project
AWS CLI
Amplify UI
- @aws-amplify/ui-vue@4.2.3
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-storage@3.0.16
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-notifications@2.0.14
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-native@2.1.4
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-liveness@3.0.14
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-geo@2.0.12
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-core-notifications@2.0.12
- @aws-amplify/ui-react-core@3.0.12
- @aws-amplify/ui-react@6.1.6
- @aws-amplify/ui-angular@5.0.12