8/12/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/13/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Batch adds support for cancelling queued jobs

AWS Batch now supports cancellation of jobs while they are waiting in the queue. This allows you to cancel jobs before they are executed. Also, if you are using the fair-share scheduling feature, you can cancel jobs with an outdated priority to make room for jobs submitted by other users to the same queue to progress. Jobs canceled while waiting in queue will be moved to the FAILED state.

AWS announces support for Cost Allocation Tags on AWS Transit Gateway

AWS announces the general availability of support for Cost Allocation tags for the AWS Transit Gateway. With this capability, administrators can tag their AWS Transit Gateway resource and use AWS cost allocation tags to categorize and allocate costs by team, department or application.\n Until now, customers were able to only categorize their Attachment Hours costs by tagging attachments. Customers will now, also be able to categorize their data processing and data transfer charges by tagging AWS Transit Gateway as a resource. Support for Cost Allocation tags is available in all regions. You can enable this feature by tagging your AWS Transit Gateway resource using the AWS Management Console, Amazon Command Line Interface, and the Amazon Software Development Kit. There is no additional charge for using Cost Allocation Tags with AWS Transit Gateway. For more information, see Tag operations, and AWS Transit Gateway product, pricing and documentation pages.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview) now available in 6 new regions

Amazon Connect Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations (preview) are now available in Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions, providing managers with generative AI-powered recommendations for answers to questions in agent evaluation forms. Managers now receive additional agent behavioral insights (e.g., did the agent show empathy while delivering bad news?), and get context and justification for the recommended answers (i.e., reference points from the transcript that were used to provide answers), enabling them to perform evaluations faster and more accurately.\n With this launch, Contact Lens generative AI-powered agent performance evaluations is available in 8 AWS regions, including the 6 new regions and the existing US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) regions. To learn more about this feature, please visit our documentation and our webpage. During preview, this feature is included with Contact Lens performance evaluations at no additional charge. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.

AWS Wickr is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region

AWS Wickr now allows you to establish a network in the Europe (Zurich) Region to help you meet data residency requirements, and other obligations.\n AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your internal and external communications secure, private, and compliant. AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing with end-to-end encryption. Customers have full administrative control over data, which includes addressing information governance polices, configuring ephemeral messaging options, and deleting credentials for lost or stolen devices. You can log both internal and external conversations in an AWS Wickr network to a private data store that you manage, for data retention and auditing purposes. AWS Wickr is available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS Canada (Central), AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo), and AWS Europe (London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and now Zurich) Regions.

To learn more and get started, see the following resources:

AWS Wickr product detail page

AWS Wickr administration guide

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor enhances dashboard and traffic suggestions

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor has launched an updated console experience, including new features for visualizing configuration changes that can help you reduce latency for your application. With the refreshed dashboard, the Internet Monitor console now lets you easily find and take advantage of Internet Monitor’s breadth of capabilities. The Overview page summarizes statistics for all monitored traffic, while the Health events page shows details of internet health events across the globe that impact your end user traffic. You can use the Analyze page to view top client locations (by traffic volume) as well as historical trends for your application’s internet health scores. On the Configure page, you can view a summary of resources monitored and other details, and update your monitor settings. Finally, the Optimize page provides suggestions for how you can reduce latency.\n On the Optimize page, you can view and explore enhanced suggestion options for improving traffic latency for your top Regions and client locations. To help you quickly view the best improvement options, Internet Monitor now provides top configuration suggestions that provide the best latency for your app. You can also explore other configurations, to compare latency across any AWS Region, and Amazon CloudFront. First, choose all the Region options that you want to explore for reducing latency (optionally, include CloudFront too). Then, Internet Monitor displays how making each change would impact your traffic performance, overall and city-by-city. To learn more, visit the Network Monitoring page or see the Internet Monitor user guide documentation

Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions 2016 GDR, 2017 CU31 GDR, 2019 GDR, 2022 GDR

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions.\n We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server database instances at your convenience. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. The new minor versions include:

SQL Server 2016 GDR - 13.0.6441.1,

SQL Server 2017 CU31 GDR - 14.0.3471.2,

SQL Server 2019 GDR - 15.0.4382.1 and

SQL Server 2022 GDR - 16.0.4131.2.

These minor versions are available in all AWS commercial regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server databases are available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.39

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about the enhancements in RDS for MySQL 8.0.39 in the Amazon RDS user guide.\n You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MySQL instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for MySQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MySQL. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS for MySQL database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

AWS announces expanded service support in the AWS Console Mobile App

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App can now access 16 additional AWS services including AWS Systems Manager, AWS Developer Tools, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, in accordance with their permissions via an integrated mobile web browser experience in the AWS Console Mobile App.\n Now, AWS customers who are on-the-go can use the AWS Console Mobile App exclusively to access a select set of both native and non-natively supported services. Customers benefit from the AWS Console Mobile App’s biometric authentication (sign-in), and mobile optimized customer experience. For AWS services not available natively, customers can access the AWS Management Console via an in-app browser where they are deep linked to the relevant service pages without additional authentication, manual navigation, or need to switch from the app to a browser. The Console Mobile App lets users view and manage a select set of resources to stay informed and connected with their AWS resources while on-the-go. The sign in process supports device password managers and biometrics authentication, making access to AWS resources simple, secure, and quick. Visit the product page for more information about the Console Mobile App.

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