9/13/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/16/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Connect expands AWS CloudFormation support for agent hierarchies

Amazon Connect now provides AWS CloudFormation for configuring agent hierarchy structures. You can use CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect hierarchy levels in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the risk of human error from manual configuration. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed.\n CloudFormation support for agent hierarchies is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.

AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule expands bot detection capabilities

AWS WAF introduces a new version of Bot Control Managed Rule Group with enhanced features to help customers better manage and protect their web applications from bot activity. This includes:\n

Token reuse detection: Identifies the reuse of WAF tokens across autonomous system numbers (ASNs) and geographic locations, in addition to existing IP-based detection. Customizable sensitivity levels – High, Medium, and Low – enable you to take mitigation actions based on your use cases. For example, customers with mobile users who frequently change IPs may allow higher token reuse, while those with more static applications can enforce stricter controls at lower thresholds.

Expanded Bot Categories: 19 new bots, including several verified AI bots, added to various categories.

Cloud Service Provider Labels: New labels that allow customers to selectively allow or block traffic from specific cloud service providers.

Automated Browser Extension Labels: Labels to detect the presence of browser extensions that assist in web automation, such as Selenium IDE, complementing the existing automated browser signals.

Improved CloudWatch Visibility: WAF label is now emitted for each matched rule, enhancing visibility in CloudWatch logs. This change is also included in the new 1.1 versions of the AWS WAF Fraud Control rule groups.

AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule group is available in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To use the latest versions, you will have to manually change the version number of Bot Control Managed Rule group. To learn more, please review the documentation.

Amazon QuickSight now supports Direct Query for Google BigQuery connector

Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of Direct Query feature for its Google BigQuery data source. This launch is an extension of the feature here wherein QuickSight launched BigQuery connector support through SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine).\n Direct Query mode allows customers to perform near real-time querying of their BigQuery data. The feature doesn’t have a limitation on the number of rows or the data size that could be imported for a dataset. Direct queries also enable customers to extract data directly from BigQuery instead of having to cache it in SPICE. Google BigQuery Direct Query functionality in QuickSight is now available in all supported Amazon QuickSight regions here.

Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for agent status

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for agent status, in addition to other resources used to configure a contact center like routing profiles, queues, Amazon S3 buckets, and AWS Lambda. You can use CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect agent statuses in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, allowing you to ensure consistent configurations. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed.\n CloudFormation support for agent status is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.

Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports higher base capacity of 1024 Redshift Processing Units

Amazon Redshift Serverless now allows you to set a higher data warehouse base capacity configuration up to 1024 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs). Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the highest base capacity was 512 RPUs. With the new higher base capacity of 1024 RPUs, you now have even more flexibility to support workloads of large complexity, processing terabytes or petabytes in size to accelerate data loading and querying based on your price performance requirements. You now have a base capacity range from 8 to 1024 RPUs.\n The large base capacity of Amazon Redshift Serverless can improve performance for your workloads serving use cases such as complex and long queries, large numbers of columns, queries with joins and aggregations requiring high memory, data lake queries scanning large amounts of data, and ingesting large datasets into the data warehouse. The support for 1024 RPUs higher base capacity configuration is now available for Amazon Redshift Serverless through the Amazon Redshift Console, API and CLI, and is available in the AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon). To get started, see the Amazon Redshift Serverless feature page, user documentation, and API Reference.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Minor Versions 2019 CU28, 2022 CU14

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 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 2019 CU28 - 15.0.4385.2

SQL Server 2022 CU14 - 16.0.4135.4

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 Cognito user pools now offer email as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) option

Amazon Cognito has expanded multi-factor authentication (MFA) functionality to include email as an additional factor. You now have a choice of delivering one-time passwords (OTP) using email, in addition to the preexisting support for text messages (SMS) and time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). You can enable email MFA either as part of the sign in process or as a challenge for adaptive authentication.\n With Amazon Cognito, it’s easier to integrate authentication, authorization, and user management into your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito provides authentication for applications with millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. This new feature is now available as part of Cognito advanced security features in all AWS Regions, except AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, see the following resources:

Adding MFA to a user pool

Amazon Cognito advanced security features pricing

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports cross-region inference

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables developers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions.\n By using cross-region inference, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base customers using RetrieveAndGenerate API will be able to get higher throughput limits and enhanced resilience during periods of peak demand. By opting in, developers no longer have to spend time and effort predicting demand fluctuations. Instead, cross-region inference dynamically routes traffic across multiple regions, ensuring optimal availability for each request and smoother performance during high-usage periods. To use cross-region inference, customers need to specify an inference profile as the “modelARN“ in the request of RetrieveAndGenerate API. There’s no additional routing cost for using cross-region inference and you will be charged based on the region you made the request in (source region). Please find the list of supported models and pre-defined regions here. To learn more about the feature and how to get started, refer to the Amazon Bedrock documentation or this blog.

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region on engine versions 1.3.3.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T3, and T4 instance types in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.\n Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service that makes it easy to build and run applications work with highly connected datasets. You can build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or openCypher on the Property Graph model, or using the SPARQL query language on W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF). Neptune also offers enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation to help customers quickly deploy applications to production. To get started, you can create a new Neptune cluster using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or a quickstart AWS CloudFormation template. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table.

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region on engine versions 1.3.3.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using Serverless, R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T3, and T4 instance types in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region.\n Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service that makes it easy to build and run applications work with highly connected datasets. You can build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or openCypher on the Property Graph model, or using the SPARQL query language on W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF). Neptune also offers enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation to help customers quickly deploy applications to production. To get started, you can create a new Neptune cluster using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or a quickstart AWS CloudFormation template. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table.

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