5/14/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/15/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs extends support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

You can now turn on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for your Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) workloads running on both Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate to export detailed telemetry information for all network flows. Amazon ECS helps you deploy and manage your containerized applications easily and efficiently. VPC Flow Logs enable you to capture and log information about your VPC network traffic. With this launch, you can include Service name, ECS Cluster name and other ECS metadata in your flow logs subscriptions. These additional flow logs fields make it easier for you to monitor your ECS workloads and troubleshoot any issues. VPC Flow Logs for ECS is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Northern California, Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), South America (Sao Paulo), China (Beijing), operated by Sinnet, China (Ningxia) operated by NWCD, and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).  To get started, see VPC Flow Logs public documentation and this blog post.

Amazon EventBridge now supports Customer Managed Keys (CMK) for Event Buses

Amazon EventBridge announces support for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Managed Keys (CMK) on Event Buses. This capability allows you to encrypt your events using your own keys instead of an AWS owned key (which is used by default). With support for CMK, you now have more fine grained security control over your events, satisfying your company’s security requirements and governance policies. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event router that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your own applications, third-party SaaS applications, and AWS services. You can set up rules to determine where to send your events, allowing applications to react to changes in your events as they occur. Customer managed Keys (CMK) are KMS keys that you create and manage by yourself. You can also audit and track usage of your keys via CloudTrail when keys are used for encryption in EventBridge. You can encrypt your custom and partner events by enabling CMK on custom, partner or default buses and you will only be charged for the customer managed key by KMS. Optionally, you can also add Dead Letter Queues (DLQs) for your event buses to persist events that could not be decrypted for rule matching because of misconfigured permisions.  CMK support is now available in all AWS Commercial Regions where EventBridge is available. To learn more, read EventBridge documentation and KMS documentation.

Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. With C7i-flex instances, you can seamlessly run web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and more. For compute-intensive workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage C7i instances. C7i-flex instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US West (N. California), Europe (Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore), and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances.

Amazon EBS direct APIs now support VPC endpoint policies

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs now support Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint policies in all AWS Regions. This newly supported capability provides a granular access control to your EBS resources for improved data protection and security posture. Previously, customers have full access to EBS direct APIs through an interface VPC endpoint, powered by AWS PrivateLink. With this newly supported capability, customers can attach a VPC endpoint policy to an interface VPC endpoint and manage which EBS direct APIs actions (GetSnapshotBlock, ListSnapshotBlocks, ListChangedBlocks, PutSnapshotBlock) may be performed, the principal that may perform the actions, and the resources on which the actions may be performed. VPC endpoint policy support is available in all AWS Regions where EBS direct APIs are available. To learn more, visit our documentation.

Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in South America (Sao Paulo) region. These Graviton3-based instances with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. Graviton3-based instances also use up to 60% less energy for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances, enabling you to reduce your carbon footprint in the cloud. M7gd instances are now available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Europe (Spain, Stockholm, Ireland, Frankfurt, Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney), and South America (Sao Paulo). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M7gd instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS Fault Injection Service is now available in Europe (Spain) Region

Starting today, customers can use AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) in Europe (Spain) Region. FIS is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. FIS simplifies the process of setting up and running controlled fault injection experiments across a range of AWS services, so teams can build confidence in their application behavior. With the addition of this region, AWS FIS is now available in 21 AWS commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) regions. For a list of regions where AWS FIS is available, see the FIS Service endpoints. To get started, you can log into the AWS Management Console, or you can use the AWS API, SDK, or CLI. To learn more about FIS, visit the AWS FIS page and see the FIS User Guide for more details.

Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in Europe (London) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6id instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.  M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such as video encoding, image manipulation, other forms of media processing, data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Zurich, London), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), South America (Sao Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit our product page for M6id.

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