9/5/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/6/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon S3 Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API

Amazon S3 Access Grants now support ListCallerAccessGrants, a new API that allows AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and AWS IAM Identity Center end users to list all S3 buckets, prefixes, and objects they can access, as defined by their S3 Access Grants. Customers can use ListCallerAccessGrants to build applications that identify and then take action on data that is accessible to specific end users. For example, the Storage Browser for Amazon S3, an open source UI component that customers can add to their applications to provide end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3, uses ListCallerAccessGrants to present end users with the data that they have access to in S3, based on their S3 Access Grants.\n S3 Access Grants map identities in AWS IAM or Identity Providers (IdPs) to your datasets in S3. When customers call the ListCallerAccessGrants action, S3 identifies the IAM principal or IAM Identity Center user and their associated groups. The API then returns the S3 Access Grants for the end user and their groups based on group membership in AWS IAM or an IdP. The ListCallerAccessGrants API is available in all AWS Regions where AWS IAM Identity Center is available. For pricing details, visit Amazon S3 pricing. To learn more about S3 Access Grants, visit the S3 User Guide.

Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now allows you to bring your Windows 10 or 11 licenses

Amazon Web Services announces the ability to setup Amazon WorkSpaces Pools powered by Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Now, customers can bring their Windows 10 or 11 licenses (provided they meet Microsoft’s licensing requirements) to support their eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, providing a consistent desktop experience to their users when they switch between on-premise and virtual desktops.\n WorkSpaces Pools simplifies management across a customer’s WorkSpaces environment by providing a single console and set of clients to manage the various desktop hardware configurations, storage, and applications for their users. With BYOL, the operating system is hosted on hardware that is dedicated to admin’s AWS account and they can automatically scale a pool of virtual desktops based on real-time usage metrics or predefined schedules. WorkSpaces Pools offers pay-as-you-go hourly pricing that excludes any operating system fees, providing significant savings. To take advantage of this option, the organization must meet the Microsoft licensing requirements, and must commit to running a minimum number of WorkSpaces in a given AWS Region each month. BYOL for Windows 10 and 11 is supported for Standard, Performance, Power and PowerPro bundles. For the best experience with video conferencing we recommend using Power or PowerPro bundles only. For Region availability details, see AWS Regions and Availability Zones for WorkSpaces Pools. To learn more about this option and the eligibility requirements, please see the Amazon WorkSpaces BYOL documentation and FAQs on BYOL.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports new ways to automate agent performance evaluations

You can now automatically mark a performance evaluation question as not applicable based on conversational insights (e.g., detected call reason, etc.), and you can now use additional contact metrics (e.g., longest hold duration, number of holds, agent interaction duration including holds) to automatically fill answers to questions in the evaluation form. With this launch, you can automatically complete only the applicable evaluation questions, under specific conditions. For example, you could check if an agent explained new account benefits and pricing, only for those customers who called to open an account. Additionally, you can automatically evaluate whether the agent was able to resolve the customer’s issue efficiently (e.g., resolved the customer’s issue within 10 minutes) and did not put the customer repeatedly on hold.\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 EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe (Milan).\n Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. R7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus R6i instances. These instances are SAP certified and are a great choice for memory-intensive workloads, such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real time big data analytics like Hadoop and Spark. They offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) for high-transaction and latency-sensitive workloads. These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology, allowing customers to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads. R7i instances support the new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. In addition, customers can now attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an R7i instance (vs 28 EBS volume attachments on R6i). This allows processing of larger amounts of data, scale workloads, and improve performance over R6i instances. To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 R7i Instances.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 1.20

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink minor version 1.20. This version is expected to be be the last 1.x minor version released by the Flink community before Flink 2.0. We recommend that you upgrade to Flink 1.20 to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the Flink community. You can use in-place version upgrades for Apache Flink to upgrade your existing application to this new version.\n Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications and integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon S3, custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors. Create or update an Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application in the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink console. You can learn more about Apache Flink 1.20 in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in our documentation. To learn more about open source Apache Flink visit the official website. For Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Oracle Label Security (OLS) option with Oracle Multitenant configuration. OEM enables monitoring and managing the Oracle infrastructure from a single console. OLS provides fine-grained control of access to individual tables or rows, and helps you enforce regulatory compliance with a policy-based administration.\n To enable OEM on your Amazon RDS for Oracle database instance with multitenant configuration, you can add an option to a new or existing option group. You can use OEM option for OEM Database Express for a lightweight tool for managing a single database instance, or OEM_AGENT for OEM Cloud Control for an enterprise-level tool for managing a large environment. To learn more about enabling OEM, please refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation. To enable the OLS option on your Amazon RDS for Oracle database instance with multitenant configuration, you can add the option to a new or existing option group. In order to use the OLS option, you need to have a valid Oracle Label Security option license, in addition to an Oracle Enterprise Edition license with “Software Update License & Support”. To learn more about enabling OLS, please refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation. Amazon RDS for Oracle allows you to set up, operate, and scale Oracle database deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing for up-to-date pricing and regional availability.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout

Today AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is launching a new capability that allows you to align the TCP idle timeout value of GWLB with clients and target appliances. Using this capability you can now perform uninterrupted stateful inspection and fine tuning of the applications that use long-lived flows, such as financial applications, databases and ERP systems, when using GWLB.\n Prior to this launch, TCP idle timeout was a fixed value of 350 seconds, which could interrupt long-lived traffic flows of some applications. With this launch, you now have the flexibility to configure GWLB’s TCP idle timeout to be a value between 60 seconds and 6000 seconds, with the default remaining at 350 seconds for backward compatibility. This configuration can help reduce interruptions in traffic flows by maintaining target stickiness for the optimal duration based on the needs of your application. You can configure the TCP idle timeout value using the ’tcp.idle_timeout.seconds’ listener attribute on your existing and newly created GWLBs. This capability is available in all AWS commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For more information on how to use this feature, see this AWS blog post and product documentation.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports copying database snapshots, either created automatically or manually, across commercial AWS Regions. This enables you to seamlessly move database snapshots for your RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to different Regions, which can be used to build a robust disaster recovery solution for your mission-critical data.\n RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows you to bring your own licensed SQL Server software and customize the underlying operating system. With today’s launch, you can manually copy RDS Custom for SQL Server database snapshots to other AWS Regions, enabling data retention, compliance, and disaster recovery for your applications deployed across multiple Regions. For more information see Copying an Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server DB snapshot. When you create a snapshot of your RDS Custom for SQL Server instance, it captures the entire database instance, not just individual databases. To copy the snapshot in a different AWS region, select the snapshot, choose “Copy Snapshot” from the Snapshot actions menu, pick a destination region, and enter a name for the new snapshot. You can initiate the snapshot copy process from the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or through the Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server APIs. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server with cross-region snapshot copying is available in all commercial AWS Regions where RDS Custom for SQL Server is offered.

Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)

Amazon S3 is announcing the alpha release of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users access to easily browse, download, and upload data in S3 directly from your own applications. Storage Browser for S3 is available in the AWS Amplify JavaScript and React client libraries.\n Storage Browser for S3 only displays the data that your end users are authorized to access and automatically optimizes requests to deliver high throughput data transfer. You can control access to your data based on your end user’s identity using AWS security and identity services or your own managed services. You can also customize Storage Browser for S3 to match your existing application’s design and branding. We are making the alpha release of Storage Browser for S3 available to collect early feedback and incorporate community input into the design and implementation. To get started with Storage Browser for S3, visit the GitHub page.

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