7/8/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/9/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon CloudFront announces managed cache policies for web applications

Amazon CloudFront announces two new managed cache policies, UseOriginCacheControlHeaders and UseOriginCacheControlHeaders-QueryStrings, for dynamically generated websites and applications that return Cache-Control headers. With the new managed cache policies, CloudFront caches content based on the Cache-Control headers returned by the origin, and defaults to not caching when no Cache-Control header is returned. This functionality was previously available to customers that created custom cache policies, but is now available out-of-the-box for all customers as a managed cache policy.\n Cache policies instruct CloudFront when and how to cache, including which request attributes to include in the cache key. Previously, customers had two common options for managed cache policies: CachingOptimized to always cache unless disallowed by a caching directive, and CachingDisabled to disable all caching. For all other cases, customers had to create custom cache policies. Now, customers can use a single managed cache policy for websites backed by content management systems like WordPress or dynamically generated content that has a mix of cacheable and non-cacheable content. The new managed cache policies are available for immediate use at no additional cost. This feature can be enabled via the CloudFront Console, SDK, and CLI. The CloudFront console automatically provides recommendations on cache policies based on your origin type. For more information, refer to the CloudFront Developer Guide. To get started with CloudFront, visit the CloudFront Product Page.

FreeRTOS releases new Long Term Support version

Today, AWS announced the third release of FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) - FreeRTOS 202406 LTS. FreeRTOS LTS releases provide feature stability with security updates and critical bug fixes for two years. The new LTS release includes the latest FreeRTOS kernel v11.1 that supports Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and Memory Protection Units (MPU) and recently updated libraries, such as the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP v4.2.1 library and the Over-the-Air (OTA) library, providing you with an improved IPv6 and OTA capabilities. With the FreeRTOS LTS releases, you can continue to maintain your existing FreeRTOS code base and avoid any potential disruptions resulting from FreeRTOS version upgrades.\n Similar to the previous FreeRTOS LTS release, FreeRTOS 202406 LTS includes libraries that have been validated for memory safety with the C Bounded Model Checker (CBMC) and have undergone specific code quality checks, including MISRA-C compliance and Coverity static analysis to help improve code safety, portability, and reliability in embedded systems. For more information, refer to the LTS Code Quality Checklist. The support period for the previous LTS release will end on Nov-2024, thus providing you with an overlapping time window to migrate your projects to the new LTS release. Refer to the migration guide and corresponding validation tests to upgrade your project to FreeRTOS 202406 LTS. If you prefer not to upgrade and want to continue receiving critical fixes on the previous LTS version beyond its expiry, consider the FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan. To learn more, visit the FreeRTOS LTS page and FreeRTOS LTS GitHub repository.

Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) visualizations available in AWS Partner Central- Analytics and Insights Dashboard

Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces new 2024 AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) data visualizations in Analytics and Insights Dashboards, accessible via AWS Partner Central. AWS Partners with the Migration Competency and in Differentiated or Validation Stages of any Partner Path, can now access these new visualizations.\n Previously, Partners’ realization of their MAP benefit was based on project or milestone completion. With the 2024 MAP Program changes designed toward revenue-based outcomes, Analytics and Insights surfaces the necessary information needed to maintain visibility and awareness of these outcomes to claim their MAP funding benefits in the AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP). To get started, log into your AWS Partner Central account and navigate to the Investments tab within the Analytics & Insights dashboard. Learn more about the dashboard’s functionality and the latest updates in the Analytics and Insights User Guide and FAQs (login required). To learn more about the new 2024 MAP funding template, refer to link and  blog post.

Amazon EMR support for backup and restore for Apache HBase Tables available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)

We are excited to announce that backup and restore for Apache HBase Tables is now available in the AWS region in Asia Pacific (Seoul)\n Apache HBase Write Ahead Log allows recording all changes to data to file-based storage. With the launch today, customers can now write their Apache HBase write-ahead logs to the Amazon EMR WAL, a durable managed storage layer. This ensures business continuity in case of a disaster as well as offer a higher resilience for workloads. In the event that customer’s cluster, or in the rare cases that the Availability Zone becomes unhealthy or unavailable, customers can create a new cluster, point it to the same Amazon S3 root directory and Amazon EMR WAL workspace, and automatically recover data from Amazon EMR WAL within a few minutes. This feature also allows Apache HBase administrators to easily perform common operational tasks like upgrading to the latest versions, rotating your clusters, and cleaning up old write ahead logs. Customer who enroll into the feature will be charged based on usage - for Amazon EMR WAL data storage, writes, and reads during recovery operations. This feature is now available for Amazon EMR release 6.15 and 7.0 and later. To learn how to get started, please refer to our documentation, and for pricing information please refer to the pricing section.

Amazon Connect launches automated rotation of agent shifts

Amazon Connect now supports automated rotation of agent shifts, making it easier for contact center managers to administrate schedules and ensure that agents receive a business-defined sequence of shifts.\n Automated shift rotations speed up the week-to-week scheduling process for contact center managers, eliminating the need to manually move agents between different shifts. With shift rotation, contact center managers can now create a pattern of shifts that agents will repeatedly rotate through (e.g., morning shift, afternoon shift, night shift) and define how many weeks each shift should be scheduled before moving to the next one in the rotation. These shift rotation patterns are automatically applied when new schedules are created, eliminating the need for contact center managers to manually assign shifts to groups of agents. Additionally, contact center managers can bulk upload and download shift rotation and shift profile assignments, making it easy to set up and update shift rotations for thousands of agents. There is no additional charge for this feature and it is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is available, To get started with Amazon Connect agent scheduling, click here.

Amazon ECR adds EventBridge support with ECR’s replication feature

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now emits Amazon EventBridge events when customers successfully replicate images using ECR’s replication capability. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless service that makes it easy for customers to connect their applications using events generated from a variety of sources.\n ECR’s replication feature enables you to easily copy container images across multiple AWS accounts and regions, and benefit from in-region pulls, allowing your applications to start faster as pull latency is reduced. Geographically dispersed images also help you meet backup and disaster recovery requirements for your applications. With today’s launch, ECR will automatically generate events when image replication is successfully completed across configured source and destination regions and/or accounts. This allows you to know once your replicated images are available for use in the destination registry, and trigger automated actions following replication completion. To receive ECR events, you can configure a rule using the EventBridge console, and include automated actions that should be triggered when an event matches the rule. EventBridge support for ECR replication is available in all commercial AWS Regions. To get started and learn more about EventBridge events with Amazon ECR, see our user guide.

Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from Canada West (Calgary) region

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Canada West (Calgary) region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone numbers to a topic and sending messages to the topic. With this expansion, Amazon SNS now supports the ability to send SMS from 29 AWS regions.\n More information:

To learn more about sending SMS messages, visit Mobile text messaging (SMS).

For the list of regions from which you can send SMS using Amazon SNS, visit Amazon SNS SMS Supported Regions and Countries.

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