9/18/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/19/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Cost Management now provides purchase recommendations for Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity

Starting today, AWS Cost Explorer offers purchase recommendations for Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity. DynamoDB reserved capacity allows you to save up to 77% compared to provisioned capacity pricing in exchange for a usage commitment over a one or three-year term. With these new recommendations, you can make informed purchases of DynamoDB reserved capacity in minutes, making it even easier to optimize your DynamoDB spend.\n With this launch, AWS Cost Explorer now includes recommendations for 7 reservation models: Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon MemoryDB, and Amazon DynamoDB reserved capacity. Cost Explorer automatically analyzes your DynamoDB usage and generates recommendations to cover your provisioned capacity with reserved capacity at a discounted rate. You can customize the recommendation parameters, such as term length and historical usage period, to ensure they align with your organization’s financial goals. DynamoDB reserved capacity recommendations are available in all AWS Regions where DynamoDB operates, except China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD), and AWS GovCloud. To get started with DynamoDB reserved capacity recommendations, visit the user guide.

Introducing Amazon EC2 X8g Instances

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton4-based instance. They have the best price performance among EC2 X-series instances, and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, in-memory databases (Redis, Memcached), relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time big data analytics, real-time caching servers, and memory-intensive containerized applications.\n X8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 3TiB) than Graviton2-based X2gd instances. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support is offered on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, and bare metal sizes, and Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express support is available on instance sizes larger than 12xlarge. X8g instances are currently available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 X8g Instances. To quickly migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program. To get started, see the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.

Amazon DocumentDB(with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Cape Town region

Amazon DocumentDB(with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB.\n Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB is designed to give you the scalability and durability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service(DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, AWS Backup and more. Amazon DocumentDB supports millions of requests per second and can be scaled out to 15 low latency read replicas in minutes with no application downtime. To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please visit the Amazon DocumentDB product page, pricing page and documentation. You can create a Amazon DocumentDB cluster from the AWS Management console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or SDK.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports i4g & i4i instances

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation storage optimized instances i4g and i4i. These instances have AWS Nitro SSD storage offering high I/O performance, low latency, and security with always-on encryption.\n I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance versus comparable x86-based storage optimized instances, and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. I4g instances support all OpenSearch versions & Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10. I4i instances offer a new size of 128 vCPUs & 1,024 GiB of memory, which is twice the size of largest i3 instance. To know more, for i4g see blog and for i4i, see blog. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports i4g instances in following AWS Regions : US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland) & Asia Pacific (Singapore). i4i instances are supported in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Paris), Europe (Zurich), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Middle East (Bahrain), Israel (Tel Aviv), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West). For region specific availability & pricing, visit our pricing page & for Amazon OpenSearch Service, please visit the product page.

Amazon MSK now extends support for Graviton3 based M7G instances in Europe (London) region

You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances or upgrade your existing x-86 based based M5 or T3 instances and replace them with AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances with a single click of a button in the Europe (London) AWS Region.\n AWS Graviton3 processor based M7G instances on Amazon MSK provisioned clusters allows you to achieve up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances. Additionally, these instances lower energy consumption by up to 60% than comparable instances, making your Kafka clusters more environmentally sustainable. Please refer to our blog for more information on the price/ performance improvements of M7g instances and the Amazon MSK pricing page for information on pricing. To get started, you can update your existing clusters to M7G brokers using the AWS Management Console, and read our developer guide for more information.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Minor Versions in September 2024

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 - 13.00.6445.1

SQL Server 2017 - 14.00.3475.1

SQL Server 2019 - 15.00.4390.2

SQL Server 2022 - 16.00.4140.3

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 Corretto 23 is now generally available

Corretto 23 is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.\n Corretto 23 is an OpenJDK 23 Feature Release, which will be supported through April, 2025. OpenJDK 23 introduces enhanced performance with updates to the Z Garbage Collector and Vector API, along with improved JIT compilation for faster code execution. Additionally, it brings expanded pattern matching and switch expression capabilities for more concise and expressive coding. For more information about the features in OpenJDK 23, a detailed description can be found on its Project page. Amazon Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open source license. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 23. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt or Yum repo.

AWS Directory Service adds user and group management using APIs and Console

AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, now adds new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on users and groups directly through AWS CLI, APIs, and AWS Management Console.\n DevOps engineers, developers, and IT administrators can leverage these new APIs to automate synchronization of users and groups from external identity sources and HR systems, using AWS Lambda functions or AWS SDK supported programming languages. You can also react faster to security alerts. For example, you may create automation to remove compromised user accounts or remove them from privileged security groups. In addition, IT administrators can manage Active Directory users and groups right from the AWS Management Console without the need to deploy bastion hosts or open network ports to the internet. This new feature is available with no additional costs. Please refer to the AWS Directory Service documentation for the list of AWS Regions where CRUD APIs and Console for User and Group management is available. To learn more about using these new APIs, please consult the Directory Store API reference section in both the AWS Directory Service Administration Guide and the AWS Directory Service Data API Guide.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Spain region

Amazon DocumentDB is now available in Europe (Spain) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB.\n Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB is designed to give you the scalability and durability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Storage scales automatically up to 128 TiB without any impact to your application. In addition, Amazon DocumentDB natively integrates with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, AWS Backup and more. Amazon DocumentDB supports millions of requests per second and can be scaled out to 15 low latency read replicas in minutes with no application downtime. To learn more about Amazon DocumentDB, please visit the Amazon DocumentDB product page, pricing page and documentation. You can create a Amazon DocumentDB cluster from the AWS Management console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or SDK.

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