9/19/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 9/20/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary tag replication to associated AWS Lambda resource

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customers’ experience using snippets of code called canaries, now supports replication of tags created on canaries to the associated AWS Lambda function to help you better identify and organize your AWS resources. You can now also filter canaries by tags on the canaries list page in the CloudWatch Synthetics console.\n A tag is a custom attribute label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. With this release, tags created on a canary will be replicated to the Lambda function created by the canary when the option is selected in the AWS console or the optional parameter ResourcesToReplicateTags is specified in using Synthetics APIs via the CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation. Updating or deleting a canary’s tags in the console or using CloudFormation will also modify the tags on the associated Lambda function, ensuring they remain in sync. This feature makes it easy to track Lambda resources associated with canaries via tags for purposes such as expense control, usage optimization, and enforcing governance policies. Tag replication for CloudWatch Synthetics canaries is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost to customers. See user guide for console or API documentation to learn more about the feature, or refer to the user guide and AWS One Observability Workshop to get started with CloudWatch Synthetics monitoring.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.\n Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To hear from Steven Jones, GM for SAP on AWS on what this launch means for our SAP customers, you can read his launch blog.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports Aurora cluster-level configuration

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now supports configuration at the Aurora cluster level. Customers can configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring on all the instances within an Aurora cluster with a single click in the console or through APIs.\n With this launch, customers no longer need to spend manual effort to configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring individually for all instances within an Aurora cluster. When Aurora Auto Scaling adds new Aurora Replicas, the new instances automatically inherit the cluster-level configuration of Performance Insights and Enhanced Monitoring. This feature allows customers to enforce a uniform monitoring configuration across all instances within a cluster. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS that allows you to visually assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. With one click in the Amazon RDS Management Console, you can add a fully-managed performance monitoring solution to your Amazon RDS database.

OR1 instances now available for existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains

With OpenSearch 2.15, you can now leverage OR1 instances for your existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. You can start using OR1 by simply updating your existing domain configuration, and choosing OR1 instances for data nodes. This will seamlessly move domains running OpenSearch 2.15 to OR1 instances using a blue/green deployment. Please note that changing domain configuration from an OR1 instance type to another instance type will require a snapshot restore.\n OR1 enables customers to economically and reliably scale their OpenSearch deployments without compromising the interactive analytics experience they expect. Each OR1 instance is provisioned with compute, local storage for caching, and remote Amazon S3-based managed storage. OR1 offers pay-as-you-go pricing and reserved instances, with a simple hourly rate for the compute instance, local storage, and the managed storage. New domains can use OR1 instances with OpenSearch versions 2.11 and above and existing domains can use OR1 with OpenSearch 2.15 and above. OR1 instance family is available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 17 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Stockholm, Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and South America (São Paulo). Please refer to the Amazon OpenSearch Service pricing page for pricing details. Please refer to the AWS Region Table for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability.

AWS IoT Device Management adds enhancements to Software Package Catalog and Jobs

Today, AWS announces general availability of new capabilities and usability improvements for the AWS IoT Device Management Software Package Catalog (SPC) and AWS IoT Device Management Jobs. With these new capabilities, you can now:\n

Associate and store industry-standard Software Bill of Material (SBOM) files with package versions to gain granular insights into your software’s composition, enabling you to proactively identify and mitigate of potential security risks.

Simplify your version deployment workflows through sample deployment instruction sets, referred as recipes.

Utilize the new package and version placeholders in Job documents (recipe) to specify destination version attributes, eliminating the need to manually input those attributes for every single package version update.

Store artifacts associated with each software version in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and reference their locations within the SPC for streamlined version deployments.

Set desired package versions as ‘default’ and reference them in a Job document to quickly retrieve associated metadata and deployment instructions during version deployment.

Specify a S3 pre-signed URL placeholder with bucket name and unique object key in a Job document to securely retrieve or upload artifacts from a specific location.

View Job document and metadata before and after parameter substitution to gain visibility into the deployment.

The new features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS IoT Device Management is offered. Visit AWS public documentations to learn more about Software Package Catalog and Jobs features. To get started with these new features, log in to the AWS IoT Management Console or use the CLI.

Amazon SES now offers automated complaint rate recommendations

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) has launched a new feature through the Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM) Advisor, which aims to increase awareness among customers when their complaint rates approach or exceed levels allowed by best practices. This feature allows customers to monitor the potential impact on their sending reputation they have due to high complaint rates, and identify the specific sending identities that are the source of these complaints. This enhancement is designed to enable customers to take proactive measures before high complaint rates trigger disruptions to their email sending.\n Previously, customers could use VDM to see complaint rates by mailbox provider, sender identity, or configuration set. Customers would then need to periodically review metrics and make judgement calls on whether the complaint levels were risky or unacceptably high. Now, VDM Advisor automatically checks complaint rates for complaints that Amazon SES receives directly through feedback loops, showing complaint rates at the sending identity level and giving customers a clear warning through Advisor Recommendations when complaint rates get too high. Customers can receive notifications of high complaint rates through EventBridge, enabling push notification of complaint risks through channels such as SNS or emails to operational staff. This makes it easier to quickly detect problems in complaint rates, and take action to remediate to reduce impact from mailbox provider actions. SES supports complaint rate recommendations in all AWS regions where SES is available. For more information, see the documentation for the SES Virtual Deliverability Manager.

Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in Spain region

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) region. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases.\n Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization as well as graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVMe SSD storage.

Amazon EC2 G6 instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) , US West (Oregon) and Europe(Spain) regions. Customers can purchase G6 instances as On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, or as part of Savings Plans. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the G6 instance page.

AWS Database Migration Service now includes enhanced monitoring

Today, we launched an enhanced monitoring dashboard for your AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) tasks. You can now experience greatly improved monitoring capabilities for the database and analytics workloads DMS is processing as it moves data between different services and locations. These new dashboard improvements make it easier to monitor the health of data workload movements and troubleshoot problems.\n Using the DMS console, you can now monitor aggregated and customized metrics for multiple DMS tasks, visualize utilization for all tasks on a given replication instance, and quickly identify the root cause of task issues. This new feature is generally available in all AWS Regions where AWS DMS is available. To learn more, see AWS DMS Enhanced Monitoring in the AWS Database Migration Service Documentation.

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