3/20/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/21/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon FinSpace with Managed kdb Insights now supports kdb database maintenance
Amazon FinSpace announces new features that enable customers to perform kdb database maintenance operations and execute long running analytics. First, writable dataviews enable writable copies of the contents of a kdb database. Second, support for long running scripts allow kdb processes to run to completion without timeouts. Together, they enable use of the KX dbmaint tool, commonly used to perform maintenance on databases.
Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now supports data filtering, enabling you to include or exclude specific databases and tables as part of the zero-ETL integration. Based on your analytics needs, filtering of specific databases and tables helps you selectively bring data into Amazon Redshift. In addition, you can now easily manage and automate the configuration and deployment of resources needed for an Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift using AWS CloudFormation.
Starting today, you can track your Amazon RDS for Db2 bring your own license (BYOL) usage with AWS License Manager. AWS License Manager provides you better control and visibility of your licenses to help you limit licensing overages and reduce the risk of non-compliance and misreporting.
Amazon Neptune Database is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2g, T4g and Serverless instance types in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.
Amazon WorkMail now supports Audit Logging
Amazon WorkMail now supports Audit Logging, which allows you to get insights into mailbox access patterns. Using Audit Logging, you can choose to receive authentication, access control, and mailbox access logs on Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, and Amazon Data Firehose. You will also receive new mailbox metrics in CloudWatch about your WorkMail organizations.
AWS announces a 7-day window to return Savings Plans
Today we are announcing the ability for customers to return Savings Plans within 7 days of purchase. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that can help you reduce your bill by up to 72% compared to On-Demand prices, in exchange for a one- or three-year hourly spend commitment. Starting today, if you realize that the Savings Plan you recently purchased isn’t optimal for your needs, you can return it and if needed, repurchase another Savings Plan that better matches your needs.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies
Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies to help you simplify access control for your DynamoDB resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify the Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals that have access to a resource and what actions they can perform on it. You can attach a resource-based policy to a DynamoDB table or a stream. The resource-based policy that you attach to a table can include access permissions to its indexes. The resource-based policy that you attach to a stream can include access permissions to the stream. With resource-based policies, you can also simplify cross-account access control for sharing resources with IAM principals of different AWS accounts.
AWS ParallelCluster 3.9 with support for RHEL 9, Rocky Linux 9 and dynamic cluster capacity updates
AWS ParallelCluster 3.9.0 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL9), Rocky Linux 9 and the ability to resize a cluster’s compute capacity without stopping it. Other important features in this release include:\n
Support for mounting and unmounting AWS file systems without stopping the cluster.
Ability to disable sudo privileges for the default cluster user.
An updated Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Installer, v1.30, that supports using Open MPI 5 with your applications.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Automating Alerts for AWS Global Network Performance
- Analyze AWS Microservices architecture to identify and address performance issues
- How BMW Group uses automation to achieve end-to-end compliance at scale on AWS
- Real User Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch RUM and Amazon Managed Grafana
- Analyzing Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor measurement logs using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight
AWS Big Data Blog
- Announcing data filtering for Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
- Invoke AWS Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Simplify cross-account access control with Amazon DynamoDB using resource-based policies
- Unlocking efficiency: Integrate AWS Lambda with Amazon RDS for Oracle to automate custom script operations
- Bulk update Amazon DynamoDB tables with AWS Step Functions
AWS for Industries
- Flexible EDA licensing in AWS with Synopsys Cloud BYOC with FlexEDA
- Can AI Reason Like a Clinician? An Exploration with Arterial Blood Gas Analyses
- How contract manufacturers can increase efficiency with generative AI
- Generative AI for Semiconductor Design and Verification