6/5/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/6/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

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Amazon OpenSearch Serverless slashes entry cost in half for all collection types

We are excited to offer a new lower entry point for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, which makes it affordable to run small-scale search and analytics workloads. Opensearch Serverless’ compute capacity for indexing and searching data are measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). Prior to this update, highly-available production deployments required a minimum of 4 OCUs with redundancy for protection against Availability Zone outages and infrastructure failures.\n With the introduction of fractional 0.5 OCU, OpenSearch Serverless can be deployed starting at just 2 OCUs for production workloads. This includes 1 OCU for primary and standby indexing nodes at 0.5 OCU each, and 1 OCU total for search across two 0.5 OCU active replica nodes in separate Availability Zones. OpenSearch Serverless will automatically scale up the OCUs based on workload demand. Additionally, for dev/test workloads that don’t require high availability, OpenSearch Serverless offers a 1 OCU deployment option, further cutting costs in half, with 0.5 OCU for indexing and 0.5 OCU for search.

Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for forecasts

Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for forecasts, making it easier for contact center managers to analyze future demand. With this launch, you can now generate, view, and download forecasts for the time zone in which your business operates. This feature will also automatically adjust forecasts to account for daylight saving changes (e.g., if a contact center receives contacts from 8am-8pm US Eastern time, then forecasts will automatically switch from 8am-8pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) to 8am-8pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on November 3, 2024). Time zone support in forecasts simplifies the day-to-day experience for managers.

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.36) is generally available

Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.36. In addition to security enhancements and bug fixes in MySQL 8.0.36, Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 includes several fixes and general improvements. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.36.\n To upgrade, you can initiate a minor version upgrade manually by modifying your DB cluster, or you can enable the “Auto minor version upgrade” to allow automatic upgrades in the upcoming maintenance window. This release is available in all AWS regions where Aurora MySQL is available.

Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in Canada (Central) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Canada (Central) Region. 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. C6id 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 for compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.\n These instances are generally available today in the US (Ohio, N.Virginia, Oregon), Canada (Calgary, Central), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see Amazon C6id instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs.

AWS HealthImaging now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge

AWS HealthImaging now supports event-driven architectures by sending event notifications to Amazon EventBridge. By subscribing to HealthImaging events in EventBridge, you can automatically kick-off application workflows such as image quality assessment or de-identification based upon changes to resources in the data store. With EventBridge, developers can take advantage of a serverless event bus to easily connect and route events between many AWS services and third-party applications. Developers working with HealthImaging can now receive state changes for asynchronous tasks, such as DICOM import jobs and image set copy and update operations. Events are delivered to EventBridge in near real-time, and developers can write simple rules to listen for specific events.\n AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With AWS HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while reducing total cost of ownership. AWS HealthImaging is generally available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland). To learn more, visit AWS HealthImaging.

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