10/31/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/1/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports final validation time for instance refresh

Starting today, you can utilize a final validation period while using EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. This new feature gives you time to conduct necessary validation or testing, ensuring the successful deployment of new EC2 instances to your Auto Scaling group before an instance refresh is marked successful.\n With an instance refresh, you can update EC2 instances in your Auto Scaling groups either all at once or incrementally using instance refresh checkpoints. These checkpoints enable you to validate the health of replaced instances at different stages. The new final validation time provides extra time to monitor the health of all updated instances, address any last-minute issues, and confirm a successful deployment before an instance refresh is completed. During this period, you can also take advantage of manual or automatic rollbacks as needed to revert any changes. This feature is available in all AWS commercial regions, and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see the EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh documentation.

AWS announces UDP support for AWS PrivateLink and dual-stack Network Load Balancers

Today, we are launching support for the UDP protocol on AWS PrivateLink over IPv4 and IPv6, and on AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) over IPv6. Until now, AWS PrivateLink only supported TCP, while NLB supported UDP only over IPv4. This launch enables customers who use AWS PrivateLink and clients that use IPv6 to access UDP-based applications such as media-streaming, gaming, VoIP and other applications.\n AWS Network Load Balancer is a high performance layer 4 load balancer that provides availability and scalability to applications while serving as the single point of contact for clients. To use this capability as a service-owner, you can now create a UDP listener on your existing or newly created dual-stack NLBs. A dual-stack NLB supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and can process client requests that use either IP version. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available and scalable service that enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services, services hosted by other AWS accounts (VPC Endpoint Services) and third-party SaaS services on the AWS Marketplace. You can attach the NLB to a VPC Endpoint Service, enabling clients to connect over AWS PrivateLink. Customers that access services over AWS PrivateLink can now create VPC endpoint of type ‘interface’ to access UDP-based Endpoint Services, just like they access TCP-based services today. There are no additional charges for this capability. Standard charges for AWS PrivateLink and Network Load Balancer apply. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, read this launch blog or visit AWS PrivateLink and AWS Network Load Balancer in the Amazon VPC Developer Guide.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, which helps you scale your Amazon Aurora cluster to millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data while maintaining the simplicity of operating inside a single database. With this new capability, you can scale your relational database workloads on Aurora beyond the limits of a single Aurora writer instance without needing to create custom application logic or manage multiple databases.\n Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database offers capabilities such as distributed query planning and transaction management, removing the need for you to create custom solutions or manage multiple databases to scale. As your workloads increase, Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database adds additional compute resources while staying within your specified budget, so there is no need to provision for peak, and compute automatically scales down when demand is low.

 Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is available with PostgreSQL 16.4 compatibility in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm).

For pricing details, visit Amazon Aurora pricing. To learn more, read the Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database documentation and get started by creating an Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database in only a few steps in the Amazon RDS console.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now access Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models.\n Claude 3.5 Sonnet ranks among the most intelligent in the world. With Claude 3.5 Sonnet, customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now get intelligence better than Claude 3 Opus, at one fifth the cost. Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic’s most compact model, and one of the fastest, most affordable options on the market for its intelligence category. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers on-demand access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies such as Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and Amazon, along with the capabilities and enterprise security you need to quickly build and deploy generative AI applications. To learn more, read the Claude in Amazon Bedrock product page and documentation. To get started with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.

Three enhancements for SES Mail Manager to improve interoperability, security, and compliance

SES Mail Manager announces three new features. The first adds support for authenticated connections to ingress endpoints via TCP port 587 (email submission port). The second introduces verified customer identity enforcement when using Mail Manager SMTP relays, and enables customers to create rule conditions in which MIME headers can be searched and used for routing logic. The final enhancement enables message envelope search for Mail Manager archives, enabling customers to differentiate between named and blind-copied recipients when searching and exporting archived messages.\n By supporting connections from TCP port 587, ingress endpoints can now more easily replace on-premise mail servers such as Exchange or Postfix servers already configured to use that same port. In addition, Mail Manager’s relay action now inserts a custom header identifying the specific customer source, and a corresponding rule action allows customers to enforce that unique value as a condition for onward delivery of messages. Used together, these provide a more robust relaying behavior than relying only on allowlisted IP addresses. Finally, the archiving search and export features now specify message envelope ‘From’ and ‘To’ as separate fields, to distinguish between the visible ‘From’ and ‘To’ fields which may have different values. This, in turn, allows you to identify messages which were received via bcc functions. These features are all available in Mail Manager across all AWS Regions where it is launched. You can learn more about Mail Manager by clicking here or visiting the Mail Manager pages in the SES console. A blog about the SMTP relay protections is also available here.

AWS WAF is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

Starting today, you can use AWS WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region.\n AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Application Load Balancer, AWS AppSync GraphQL API, AWS App Runner, AWS Verified Access, and Amazon Cognito user pools. To see the full list of regions where AWS WAF is currently available, visit the AWS Region Table. Please note that only core AWS WAF features like AWS Managed Rules and rules are currently available in these new regions. For more information about the service, visit the AWS WAF page. AWS WAF pricing may vary between regions. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS WAF Pricing page.

AWS Supply Chain now offers embedded Analytics powered by Amazon Quicksight

AWS Supply Chain now includes a reporting and analytics feature powered by Amazon Quicksight that enables custom reporting and analytics and provides out of the box supply chain dashboards. Customers can access their data in the AWS Supply Chain data lake simply from the embedded interface, and use out of the box dashboards that they can modify based on their needs.\n AWS Supply Chain Analytics powered by Amazon Quicksight solves a key challenge faced by customers needing to create custom analytical reports and dashboards using their data in AWS Supply Chain . With the Analytics feature, AWS Supply Chain offers a unified, configurable and scalable console for operational analytics. The reports and dashboards created in Analytics will complement the workflows generated by AWS Supply Chain applications such as Demand Planning, by extending the current user interface with additional analytics such as forecast accuracy reports.

AWS Supply Chain Analytics is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland).

To learn more about AWS Supply Chain, or to start your free trial, please visit AWS Supply Chain.

AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit

AWS Lambda has introduced a new getting started experience to simplify the development of Lambda-based applications using the VS Code IDE and the AWS Toolkit. This experience streamlines the code-test-deploy-debug cycle, providing a guided walkthrough that assists developers from setting up their local development environment to running their first application on the cloud and adds enhanced user experience in each step in the cycle.\n When developers install the AWS Toolkit extension on their VS Code IDE, they will be greeted with this new application building experience. It guides them through the necessary tooling installations and configurations required to set up their local environment for building Lambda-based applications. Additionally, developers can choose from a curated list of sample application walkthroughs, which guide them step-by-step through coding, testing, and deploying their applications in the cloud. The developers can also take advantage of easy access buttons for one-click build, deploy-to-cloud, local or remote invoke, and integration with the AWS Infrastructure Composer, providing a visual application building experience directly from the IDE. This new getting started experience is available to all developers with the AWS Toolkit (v3.31.0 or later) installed on their VS Code IDE. To learn more about this experience and how to get started, please refer to the blog and documentation.

Amazon Aurora supports rolling upgrades for Operating System upgrades

Amazon Aurora announced rolling upgrades support for Operating System (OS) upgrades. Aurora now seamlessly upgrades the OS version of Aurora database clusters while maintaining read access to the data when using Aurora cluster or reader endpoint. The feature automatically applies upgrades to a few reader instances at a time so the database can continue serving read traffic for clusters with more than one reader instance.\n Rolling upgrades enables customers to maintain read availability during OS maintenance activity for clusters with more than one reader instance. Rolling upgrades will automatically be used for all OS upgrades. Customers can now also use existing cluster level AWS CLI commands or AWS console commands to perform OS upgrades and there are no additional API calls or console clicks required. To learn more about how to upgrade the Operating System of your Aurora cluster, you can view the technical documentation. The feature is available all AWS regions where Amazon Aurora is available. Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports User-Defined Types

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability.\n Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for Cassandra’s User Defined Type (UDT). With support for UDTs, you can continue using any custom data types that are defined in your Cassandra workloads in Keyspaces, without making schema modifications. With this launch, you can use UDTs in the primary key of your tables, allowing you to index your data on more complex and richer data types. Additionally, UDTs enable you to create data models that are more efficient and similar to the data hierarchies that exist in real-world data. The AWS console extends the native Cassandra experience by giving you the ability to intuitively create and view nested UDTs that are several levels deep. Support for UDTs is available in all commercial AWS Regions where AWS offers Amazon Keyspaces. If you’re new to Amazon Keyspaces, the getting started guide shows you how to provision a keyspace and explore the query and scaling capabilities of Amazon Keyspaces.

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