8/22/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/23/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
CloudFormation simplifies resource discovery and template review in the IaC Generator
Today, AWS CloudFormation announces two new enhancements to the IaC generator, which customers use to create infrastructure-as-code (IaC) from existing resources. Now, after the IaC generator finishes scanning the resources in an account, it presents a graphical summary of the different resource types to help customers more quickly find the resources they want to include in their template. After selecting resources, customers can also preview their template in AWS Application Composer, which visualizes the full application architecture with the resources and their relationships.\n Customers use the best practice of IaC, where they specify and version infrastructure configuration using code, to easily replicate their environments, reliably deploy changes to them, and apply controls to enforce their security and governance policies. The IaC generator helps customers adopt IaC on the resources they created through other means, such as the AWS Management Console or CLI. After generating a template for selected resources, customers can import the resources into CloudFormation, download the template for deployment to other regions and accounts, or generate a CDK CLI command that converts the template into a CDK app in their preferred programming language, such as TypeScript or Python. The IaC generator is available in AWS Regions where CloudFormation is available (please refer to the AWS Region table). To get started, open the CloudFormation console and select the IaC generator in the navigation panel. To learn more:
CloudFormation documentation for Scan Summary
CloudFormation documentation for Application Composer
Amazon Q now provides more details about user subscriptions and associated resources
The Amazon Q Console now provides administrators with greater visibility into how users are utilizing Amazon Q Developer Pro, Amazon Q Business Pro, and Amazon Q Business Lite subscriptions. This new feature enables administrators to view a list of subscribed users, their subscription status (e.g., active, pending, under free trial, canceled), and their corresponding associations. Associations refer to the applications, accounts, or services that a user has access to through their subscription. Organization administrators will have a view of all subscription associations across applications in various accounts, while member account administrators’ visibility will be limited to only the applications within accounts they administer.\n With this update, administrators can monitor subscribed users of the Amazon Q offerings. Key capabilities include listing all subscribed users, their status, the specific subscription types, the applications they have associations to (with AWS account numbers), filtering and searching users and associations, and generating a downloadable report. The visibility into user subscriptions and associations is available across all AWS regions where the specific Amazon Q subscriptions are offered. To learn more about Amazon Q’s subscription management features, visit the Amazon Q Console or Amazon Q documentation.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Failover
Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Cluster Failover, a fully managed experience for performing a cross-region failover to respond to unplanned events such as a regional outage. With Global Cluster Failover, you can convert a secondary region into the new primary region in typically a minute and also maintain the multi-region Global Cluster configuration. An Amazon DocumentDB Global Cluster is a single cluster that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads.\n Combined with Global Cluster Switchover, you can easily promote a secondary region to a primary region for both unplanned and planned events. Global Cluster Switchover is a fully managed cross-region database failover experience meant for planned events such as regional rotations. See our documentation to learn more about Global Cluster Failover and Switchover. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads in a highly-available manner at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. To get started with Amazon DocumentDB, take a look at our getting started page.
AWS Amplify introduces multiple bucket support for Storage
AWS Amplify is launching multiple bucket support for Storage (JavaScript Only). You can now configure more than one storage bucket in your Amplify backend configuration. Amplify storage integrates with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and provides an intuitive approach to managing cloud-based file storage. With this new feature you can upload and download files from and to multiple storage buckets, providing greater flexibility and control over your storage resources.\n With multiple bucket support, you can better manage your storage resources by configuring additional storage buckets and applying existing access permissions to different paths within each bucket. Amplify Storage APIs for JavaScript provide APIs like upload, download, and more and now accept a bucket alias or bucket name and region. Currently, the UI components (Storage Image and Storage Manager) and Amplify console display content only from the default storage bucket. To learn how to configure additional storage buckets for different use cases, follow our blog post. If you’re already using Amplify Storage, check out our documentation to add additional buckets to your existing storage configuration. For those new to Amplify Storage, get started by following our guide to set up storage for your Amplify project.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) Global Clusters introduces Switchover
Amazon DocumentDB now supports Global Cluster Switchover which enables you to seamlessly change your global cluster’s primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the global cluster. An Amazon DocumentDB Global Cluster is a single cluster that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads.\n With this switchover capability, you can repeatedly change which AWS Region hosts the primary cluster while preserving the physical topology of your Global Cluster and avoiding unnecessary application changes. This feature synchronizes secondary clusters with the primary before making any other changes so there is no data loss (recovery point objective is 0). Switchover can be used for scenarios like rotating the primary region for regulatory compliance or disaster recovery exercises. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads in a highly-available manner at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. To get started with Amazon DocumentDB, take a look at our getting started page.
Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. With this launch, you also have the option to enable Route 53 Resolver endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).\n Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) service. Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints make hybrid cloud configurations easier to manage by enabling seamless DNS query resolution across your entire hybrid cloud. Create Route 53 Resolver endpoints and conditional forwarding rules to allow resolution of DNS namespaces between your on-premises data center and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). You can also opt-in to use DoH on the endpoints (both inbound and outbound) and create rules to forward DoH traffic to destinations of your choice, to ensure DNS traffic across your hybrid cloud is encrypted via DoH. Visit the AWS Region Table to see all AWS Regions where Amazon Route 53 Resolver is available. Please visit our product page to learn more about Amazon Route 53 Resolver and pricing.
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides an audit trail to review the changes made to an agent performance evaluation when it is re-submitted. This launch displays the audit trail, which was previously available within a customer’s S3 bucket, directly in the Amazon Connect UI. When an evaluator submits changes to an existing evaluation form, managers can now view an audit trail of who submitted the original evaluation, who re-submitted the evaluation, and what changes they made. Contact center managers can use this information to perform internal audits and improve consistency across evaluators.\n This feature is available in all regions where Contact Lens performance evaluations is already available. To learn more, please visit our documentation and our webpage. For information about Contact Lens pricing, please visit our pricing page.
Amazon Data Firehose is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Starting today, you can use Amazon Data Firehose in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. Amazon Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, and third party analytics applications such as Splunk and Datadog, enabling real-time analytics use cases.\n With Amazon Data Firehose, you don’t need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination that you specified. You can also configure Amazon Data Firehose to transform your data before delivering it. To get started, you need an AWS account. Once you have an account, you can create a delivery stream in the Amazon Data Firehose Console. To learn more, explore the Amazon Data Firehose Developer Guide. For Amazon Data Firehose availability, refer to the AWS Region Table.
AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region.\n AWS RAM helps you securely share your resources across your organization, with specific organizational units (OUs), or with individual AWS accounts. You can centrally create a resource and then share that resource using AWS RAM to reduce the operational overhead of managing resources in a multi-account environment. For more information, visit the AWS RAM product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information. To get started with using AWS RAM to share resources, visit the AWS Resource Access Manager Console.
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in US East (N. Virginia) region. 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.\n 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 East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances.
AWS Systems Manager for SAP console integration for application aware stop and start of SAP
AWS Systems Manager for SAP now supports using SSM Application Manager console to register SAP ABAP applications running on single node EC2 instances. This launch will allow customers to onboard ABAP applications and also use Application Manager console to run application aware stop and start operations.\n AWS Systems Manager for SAP (SSMSAP) helps AWS services understand SAP specific nuances around landscape topology and discover the components of an SAP landscape, such as the SAP NetWeaver application server, SAP HANA database, and their interdependencies. It provides automation capabilities to help customers manage and operate their SAP applications on AWS more efficiently. This enables customers to capture specific metadata via registration and reflect system state before and after execution of workload automation. With this launch, customers can use AWS Systems Manager Application Manager to register their SAP ABAP applications (single node) using Application Manager console. Once registered, you can run application aware stop and start operations for SAP HANA, SAP ABAP, and underlying EC2 instances. AWS Systems Manager for SAP is available in all commercial regions. To learn about the key features, check out the product documentation page. To learn why thousands of SAP customers trust AWS, visit the SAP on AWS page.
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