5/16/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/17/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon MWAA now available in additional Regions

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in five new AWS Regions: Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Learn more about using Amazon MWAA on the product page. Please visit the AWS region table for more information on AWS regions and services. To learn more about Amazon MWAA visit the Amazon MWAA documentation. Apache, Apache Airflow, and Airflow are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.

AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service provides customers advanced search capabilities, such as fuzzy search, cross-collection search and multilingual search, on their Amazon DocumentDB documents using the OpenSearch API. With a few clicks in the AWS Console, customers can now seamlessly synchronize their data from Amazon DocumentDB to Amazon OpenSearch Service, eliminating the need to write any custom code to extract, transform, and load the data. This integration extends the existing text search and vector search capabilities in Amazon DocumentDB, providing customers greater flexibility for searching their JSON-based documents. This zero-ETL integration uses Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to synchronize the data from Amazon DocumentDB collections to Amazon OpenSearch Service. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is able to automatically understand the format of the data in Amazon DocumentDB collections and maps the data to your index mapping templates in Amazon OpenSearch Service to yield the most performant search results. Customers can synchronize data from multiple Amazon DocumentDB collections via multiple pipelines into one Amazon OpenSearch managed cluster or serverless collection to offer holistic insights across several applications. Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available in the following 13 regions : US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Canada (Central). To learn more and get started with this zero-ETL integration, visit the developer guides for Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon OpenSearch Service and the launch blog.

Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Serverless in the South America (São Paulo) AWS region

Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additional AWS region South America (São Paulo). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse capacity to deliver high performance for all your analytics. You only pay for the compute used for the duration of the workloads on a per-second basis. You can benefit from this simplicity without making any changes to your existing analytics and business intelligence applications. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can get started with querying data using the Query Editor V2 or your tool of choice with Amazon Redshift Serverless. There is no need to choose node types, node count, workload management, scaling, and other manual configurations. You can create databases, schemas, and tables, and load your own data from Amazon S3, access data using Amazon Redshift data shares, or restore an existing Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster snapshot. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, you can directly query data in open formats, such as Apache Parquet, in Amazon S3 data lakes. Amazon Redshift Serverless provides unified billing for queries on any of these data sources, helping you efficiently monitor and manage costs. To get started, see the Amazon Redshift Serverless feature page, user documentation, and API Reference.

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of alert manager and rules configuration

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of rules and alert manager configuration directly from the AWS console. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting on metrics from compute environments such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. Previously, customers could define alerting and recording rules, or alert manager definition, by importing respective configuration defined in a YAML file, via the AWS console. Now, they can import, preview, and edit existing rules or alert manager configurations from YAML files or create them directly from the AWS console. The inline editing experience allows customers to preview their rules and alert manager configuration prior to setting them. This feature is now available in all regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is generally available. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, visit the product page and pricing page.

Amazon WorkSpaces Core now supports Windows Server bundles

Amazon WorkSpaces Core now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022. With these bundles, customers and partners can take advantage of the latest license included Windows Server instances. This new feature will allow customers to minimize getting started time by providing staged images. In addition, this feature enables customers and partners to run multi-session VDI workloads on WorkSpaces Core desktops. You can get started using the managed Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 WorkSpaces Core bundle or create your own custom bundle and image tailored to your requirements. For more information on Amazon WorkSpaces Core’s new Windows Server Bundles, visit Amazon WorkSpaces Core FAQs. The new WorkSpaces Core Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Core is available. For pricing information, visits Amazon WorkSpaces Core pricing page.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon OpenSearchServerless in the Europe West (London) and Asia Pacific South (Mumbai) regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently fast data ingestion rates and millisecond response times during changing usage patterns and application demand.  OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs).  The support for OpenSearch Serverless is now available in 11 regions globally: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe West (Paris), Europe West (London), and Asia Pacific South (Mumbai). Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability. To learn more about OpenSearch Serverless, see the documentation.

Amazon MWAA now supports Airflow REST API with web server auto scaling

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports the Airflow REST API along with web server auto scaling, allowing customers to programmatically monitor and manage their Apache Airflow environments at scale.  Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. With Airflow REST API support, customers can now monitor workflows, trigger new executions, manage connections, and perform other administration tasks with ease via scalable API calls. Web server auto scaling enables MWAA to automatically scale out the Airflow web servers to handle increased demand, whether from REST API requests, Command Line Interface (CLI) usage, or more concurrent Airflow User Interface (UI) users. You can launch or upgrade an Apache Airflow environment to include web server auto scaling on Amazon MWAA with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console in all currently supported Amazon MWAA regions. To learn more about Airflow REST API and web server auto scaling, visit the Launch Blog. To learn more about Amazon MWAA visit the Amazon MWAA documentation.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion launches new user interface for easy blueprint discovery

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now offers a new user interface that enables searching for blueprints using full-text search in the AWS Console, helping you easily discover all the sources that you can ingest data from into Amazon OpenSearch Service. Blueprints are pre-filled OpenSearch Ingestion configuration files that help you quickly get started with ingesting data from popular sources like Amazon S3, DynamoDB and Security Lake. The new interface now also offers visual tiles with icons for all your favorite blueprints, providing you a bird’s-eye view to all the sources and sinks supported by Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion. The new user interface for blueprints offers a customized getting started guide for each source, detailing keys steps in setting up a successful end-to-end integration. As part of the visual overhaul, Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now also offers support for specifying the pipeline configuration in JSON format in the AWS Console in addition to the existing YAML support. This will allow you to confidently copy and paste configurations from your text or code editors without having to worry about formatting errors due to inconsistent whitespace. These features are available in all the AWS commercial regions where Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is currently available. To learn more, see the Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion webpage and the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide.

Amazon Connect now supports creating rules for monitoring and alerting on Flow metrics

You can now configure rules to automatically create a task, send an email, or generate an Amazon Eventbridge event whenever a Flows and Flow Modules metrics breaches the threshold you define. For example, you can create a rule to assign a task to a contact center administrator whenever the dropped rate (i.e. percentage of contacts that dropped from a flow) for your inbound welcome flow exceeds 10% over a trailing 4 hour window.  These features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about Contact Lens Rules and Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide or visit the Amazon Connect website.

Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients

Application Load Balancer (ALB) now allows customers to provision load balancers without IPv4s for clients that can connect using just IPv6s. To connect, clients can resolve AAAA DNS records that are assigned to ALB. The ALB is still dual stack for communication between the load balancer and targets. With this new capability, you have the flexibility to use both IPv4s or IPv6s for your application targets, while avoiding IPv4 charges for clients that don’t require it. To get started, you can either create a new dual-stack ALB without public IPv4 or modify existing ALBs to use dual-stack without public IPv4 using AWS APIs or console. There are no additional charges for using this feature. The internet facing Ipv6 only ALB is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

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