10/10/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/11/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Redshift introduces query identifiers for improved query performance monitoring

Amazon Redshift introduces a unique identifier assigned to SQL queries, which lets you effectively track query performance over time and identify recurring patterns in resource-intensive queries. This new feature, called a ‘query hash’, uniquely identifies SQL queries based on their textual representation and predicate values.\n Query hash is a unique query signature that is generated for executed queries on a data warehouse. With query hash, you can investigate query performance by either performing trend analysis of queries over a period of time or comparing performance for a query across different time periods. This feature adds two new columns to SYS_QUERY_HISTORY view: user_query_hash, a hash with query literals, and generic_query_hash, the hash without query literals. Amazon Redshift query hash is now generally available for both Amazon Redshift provisioned clusters and Amazon Redshift Serverless data warehouses in all AWS commercial and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Redshift is available. To get started and learn more, visit the Amazon Redshift database developer guide.

Four new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of four highly expressive Amazon Polly voices speaking in American and Australian English.\n Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. The generative engine is Amazon Polly’s most advanced text-to-speech (TTS) model. With this launch, we add a variety of new synthetic generative English voices to Polly portfolio: i.e., an Australian English voice Olivia, and three US English voices Joanna, Danielle, and Stephen. These voices sound similar to our neural voices with the same names, but they have much more natural pronunciation and prosody. Our customers can use this high-tier product in various industries and for different purposes: e.g., education, publishing, marketing, etc. Danielle, Joanna, Olivia, and Stephen generative voices are accessible in the US East (North Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), and US West (Oregon) regions and complement the other types of voices that are already available in the same regions.

For more details, please read the Amazon Polly documentation and visit our pricing page.

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client inventory now available to purchase in UK

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client inventory is now available to purchase in UK on Amazon Business.\n Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment. End users can set up WorkSpaces Thin Client in minutes using an on-device guided deployment experience to connect their network and peripherals and log in to their virtual desktops including Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkSpaces Web, and Amazon AppStream 2.0. WorkSpaces Thin Client also helps IT organizations improve security by removing the ability to upload or download files or applications and by establishing device trust through a secure chip. With the WorkSpaces Thin Client service, IT administrators have a complete view of their inventory and can remotely reset, patch, and control access to the thin client. The WorkSpaces Thin Client service is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (London). Devices are now available to purchase in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain on Amazon Business. Visit the WorkSpaces Thin Client page and Amazon Business to learn more.

Streamline automation of policy management workflows with service reference information

We now offer service reference information to streamline automation of policy management workflows, helping you to retrieve available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. Whether you are a security administrator establishing guardrails for workloads or a developer ensuring appropriate access to applications, you can now more easily identify the available actions for AWS services. We provide service reference for AWS services, enabling you to seamlessly incorporate the metadata into your own policy management workflows.\n With this new offering, you can automate the retrieval of service reference information, eliminating manual effort and your policies align with the latest service updates. You can incorporate this service reference directly into your existing policy management tools and processes for a seamless integration. This feature is offered at no additional cost. To get started, refer to the documentation on service reference information.

Announcing general availability of Console to Code to generate code

AWS is announcing the general availability of Console to Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Console to Code makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to move from prototyping in the AWS Management Console to building code for production deployments. Customers can generate code for their console actions in their preferred format with a single click. The generated code helps customers get started and bootstrap their automation pipelines for tasks.\n Console to Code makes it easy to convert actions performed in the console into reusable code, using the language of your choice. Customers use the AWS Management Console to learn and prototype cloud solutions, and using Console to code they can automatically capture those actions, and generate code for them. Console to Code provides code in CLI, Cloudformation and CDK formats. CLI code is recorded as customers take actions in console and replicates underlying AWS best practices. Customers can also generate CDK and Cloudformation code using Amazon Q Developer GenAI capability. This code follows AWS guided best practices to perform reliable deployments. Customers can copy or download the code and iterate on it to make it production ready. Customers no longer have to make a choice between Console or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). Console to Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer, is generally available in commercial regions for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Learn more about Console to Code.

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