4/1/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/2/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports private network policies for OpenSearch Serverless

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. We are excited to announce that Knowledge Bases now supports private network policies for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (OSS).

Amazon AppStream 2.0 can now launch IdP-initiated sessions using the Windows client

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports launching the client application for Windows from an Identity Provider (IdP)-initiated SAML 2.0 sign-in flow. This feature allows your end-users to sign in to SAML 2.0 IdPs using their system’s default web browser before transitioning into the streaming session in the Windows client.

Partner Analytics is now Analytics and Insights

The AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard is now known as Analytics and Insights, covering more insights for your AWS Marketplace and APN businesses than ever. We’ve streamlined the interface and added several new features to help you better understand how to grow with AWS:\n

The new Training and Certifications tab gives you self-service access to commonly requested data on your teams’ Training and Certification achievements. These insights help you better understand your teams’ strengths and identify areas needing training investment to better serve customers.

We expanded the Solution Provider and Distributor tab to also highlight opportunity and AWS account details for Public Sector, Partner-Originated, and Partner Growth Discounts.

New ACE Co-Sell features are now integrated into the Opportunities tab to help you better understand and manage your pipeline.

AWS Resilience Hub expands support for FSx for Windows and Trust Advisor

AWS Resilience Hub has expanded support for AWS Trusted Advisor, adding an additional check for unrecoverable application components. In addition, Resilience Hub has expanded support to assess applications that include Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions.

Amazon EMR on EC2 now gracefully replaces unhealthy core nodes

We are excited to introduce a new Amazon EMR on EC2 feature that enables automatic graceful replacement of unhealthy core nodes to ensure continued optimal cluster operations and prevent data loss. Additionally, EMR on EC2 will publish CloudWatch events to provide visibility into node health and recovery actions. These improvements are available for all Amazon EMR releases.

Amazon Transcribe launches Spanish language support for PII identification and redaction

Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe’s support for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) identification and redaction for Spanish (US) audio transcription, in addition to the existing support for English audio. Amazon Transcribe uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to help identify sensitive information such as Social Security number, credit card/bank account information, and contact information (i.e. name, email address, phone number and mailing address).

Private Access to the AWS Management Console is now available in all commercial AWS Regions

Starting today, you can now deploy AWS Management Console Private Access in US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (West), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and South America (São Paulo). With this launch, AWS Management Console Private Access is now available in all commercial AWS Regions.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Single-AZ Read Replica

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Single-AZ Read-Replicas using Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) for Enterprise Edition. This provides customer the option to create up to 15 number of read replicas from a Single-AZ Enterprise Edition source instance in the same region, or cross regions.

Amazon EventBridge announces an improved Learn page and other console enhancements

Amazon EventBridge announces improvements to the Learn page in the console that make it easier for you to learn and get started with event-driven architectures. With this new page, you can now learn the basics of event-driven architectures, explore EventBridge capabilities, and understand how best to use Event Buses, Pipes, and Scheduler in your applications.

Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances

Effective April 1, 2024, AWS has extended per-second billing to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances running on Amazon EC2. Customers will pay for RHEL-based instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form in one second increments, with a minimum of one minute.

Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generally available

Today, Amazon EKS announces general availability of extended support for Kubernetes versions. You can run EKS clusters using any Kubernetes version for up to 26 months from the time the version becomes available on EKS. Extended support for Kubernetes versions is available for Kubernetes versions 1.21 and higher. For a full list of versions and support dates, see here.

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