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

Recent Announcements

AWS Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces dual stack support for the managed runtime environments, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients.\n The urgency to transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is driven by the continued growth of internet, which is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Mainframe Modernization runtime environments, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. You can also continue to use IPv4 connections if you do not yet utilize IPv6. There is no additional charge when you connect to AWS Mainframe Modernization using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) clients. Support for IPv6 is available in any AWS Region where AWS Mainframe Modernization managed runtime is already deployed. To learn more, please visit AWS Mainframe Modernization product and documentation pages.

Announcing NVMe-backed R6gd Instances for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) introduces NVMe-backed R6gd Instances, offering up to 7x faster query performance for applications with large datasets exceeding regular instance memory. These instances can expand the data caching capacity by up to 7 times compared to a regular instance.\n NVMe-backed R6gd Instances leverage the local non-volatile memory express (NVMe)-based SSD storage available on r6gd instances to store ephemeral data, reducing network-based storage access, and improving read latency and throughput. Database pages evicted from the in-memory buffer cache are cached on local NVMe storage. Additionally, temporary space is hosted on local SSD instead of network storage, reducing the latency of queries involving sorts by up to 2x and accelerating resource-intensive operations like index builds. Customers can get started with NVMe-backed R6gd Instances through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK by modifying their Amazon DocumentDB database cluster or creating a new one using R6gd instances. NVMe-backed R6gd Instances are available for Amazon DocumentDB V5.0 on both Standard and IO-Optimized cluster storage configurations. For more information visit our pricing page and documentation.

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Timestream in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics along with other AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases as well as third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection operations.\n With this launch, AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is available in the following Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). For more information on regional availability, feature availability, and pricing, see the AWS Backup pricing page and the AWS Backup Feature Availability page. To learn more about AWS Backup support for Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics, visit AWS Backup’s technical documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.

Announcing CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing Service

Today, we are announcing AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). Using AWS CloudFormation, you can easily create and manage PCS clusters and automate your cluster administration tasks.\n AWS PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to run and scale your high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. You can use AWS PCS to build complete, elastic environments that integrate compute, storage, networking, and visualization tools. AWS PCS simplifies cluster operations with managed updates and built-in observability features, helping to remove the burden of maintenance. You can work in a familiar environment, focusing on your research and innovation instead of worrying about infrastructure. To get started with using AWS CloudFormation with AWS PCS, please refer to the documentation. To learn more about AWS PCS, please refer service documentation. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the PCS pricing and AWS Region Table.

AWS Glue expands connectivity to 16 native connectors for applications

AWS Glue announces 16 new connectors for applications, expanding its connectivity portfolio. Now, customers can use AWS Glue native connectors to ingest data from Adobe Analytics, Asana, Datadog, Facebook Page Insights, Freshdesk, Freshsales, Google Search Console, Linkedin, Mixpanel, Paypal Checkout, Quickbooks, SendGrid, SmartSheets, Twilio, WooCommerce and Zoom Meetings.\n As enterprises increasingly rely on data-driven decisions, they need to integrate with data from various applications. With 16 new connectors, customers have more options to easily establish a connection to their applications using the AWS Glue console or AWS Glue APIs without the need to learn application-specific APIs. Glue native connectors provide the scalability and performance of the AWS Glue Spark engine along with support for standard authorization and authentication methods like OAuth 2. With these connectors, customers can test connections, validate their connection credentials, preview data, and browse metadata. AWS Glue native connectors to Adobe Analytics, Asana, Datadog, Facebook Page Insights, Freshdesk, Freshsales, Google Search Console, Linkedin, Mixpanel, Paypal Checkout, Quickbooks, SendGrid, SmartSheets, Twilio, WooCommerce and Zoom Meetings are available in all AWS commercial regions. To get started, create new AWS Glue connections with these connectors and use them as source in AWS Glue studio. To learn more, visit AWS Glue documentation for connectors.

AWS DMS now supports Kerberos authentication for Oracle and SQL Server Source Endpoints

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now allows customers to use Kerberos authentication to securely connect to Oracle and SQL Server source endpoints. This feature allows users to authenticate database connections using the Kerberos protocol, a widely adopted standard for secure identity verification.\n With this update, AWS DMS can authenticate using credentials stored in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory or in an on-premises Microsoft Active Directory that has a forest trust relationship with an AWS Managed Active Directory. Customers can use this feature for Oracle Database and SQL Server without additional licensing costs, simplifying secure migrations. This feature can be configured directly in the AWS DMS Console, CLI, or SDK. To learn more about Kerberos authentication with AWS DMS, please refer to our technical documentation.

Amazon Q Business analytics dashboard enhanced with conversation insights

Amazon Q Business, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work, now offers enhanced administration capabilities, providing valuable insights from AI conversations and user feedback information. With the new analytics dashboard, administrators can view and analyze various aspects of these conversations, including:\n

No answer found queries: Administrators can review conversations where Amazon Q Business couldn’t provide relevant answers, helping identify data gaps or areas that require improvement.

Blocked queries: Administrators can view queries that contain blocked words as configured in Amazon Q Business Admin controls and guardrails, facilitating monitoring and auditing of sensitive queries.

End-user feedback: This feature provides access to end user feedback on queries enabling administrators to identify areas where data sources need improvement or where end-users may lack access to necessary documents.

These new features offer administrators visibility into the performance of their Amazon Q Business application. By empowering administrators to identify and address data gaps, permission issues, and user experience challenges, the new capabilities serve as valuable tools for enhancing the overall Amazon Q Business user experience and satisfaction. Furthermore, the analytics dashboard now allows administrators to gain deeper insights into user interactions and usage patterns, enabling them to pinpoint areas for improvement and optimize applications. The enhanced analytics dashboard for Amazon Q Business is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Q Business documentation, or activate your analytics dashboard to start leveraging these powerful insights.

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm version 24.05

Today, we are announcing Slurm 24.05 support in AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS). You can now create AWS PCS clusters running the newer Slurm 24.05 version.\n AWS PCS’ release of Slurm 24.05 provides new Slurm fixes and security updates, including improved auditing for RPC calls, hardened security, and enhancements in Slurm client commands. With this release, AWS PCS also enables a series of Slurm functionalities out of the box, such as improved fanout with partition locality, SHA-3 for cryptographic hashing, and job containers for prolog execution. To get started with using Slurm 24.05 in AWS PCS via AWS Management Console or AWS SDK, please refer to the documentation. To learn more about AWS PCS, please refer service documentation. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the PCS Pricing and AWS Region Table.

AWS Resilience Hub now provides tailored AWS Fault Injection Service recommendations

AWS Resilience Hub now supports an enhanced integration with AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to offer tailored experiment recommendations. Fault injection experiments help test and improve your applications’ performance, observability, and resilience. When you onboard an application to the Resilience Hub, you receive customized experiment recommendations based on the specific application context.\n With this launch, you can begin resilience testing with just a few clicks in the Resilience Hub Console. Resilience Hub offers tailored experiment recommendations using AWS FIS actions and scenarios to replicate the symptoms of possible application impairment events. This simplifies the process for proactively testing applications to verify and improve resilience. Your resilience score, which enables you to track your resilience posture over time, improves when you run a Resilience Hub-recommended experiment or conduct your own AWS FIS experiments. These capabilities are available in all AWS Regions where both Resilience Hub and FIS are available. For the latest information on availability, please refer to the AWS Regional Services List. For more information on this integration, visit the AWS Resilience Hub product page. To get started, sign in to the AWS console.

AWS Marketplace now supports self-service promotional media on seller product detail pages

AWS Marketplace now allows sellers to enhance product detail pages with videos and images through a new self-service promotional media feature. Prominently shown on product detail pages, promotional media provides customers with an enriched way to discover and evaluate products in AWS Marketplace. This launch expands media support to images and provides sellers a self-service way to add and manage media and related metadata.\n With the new self-service promotional media feature, AWS Marketplace sellers can add, update, and remove media from product detail pages, reducing the time to onboard or refresh product listing content. Sellers can now directly upload media through AWS Marketplace Management Portal or reference public S3 links. In addition to videos, sellers can now add images such as demo screenshots, product feature highlights, diagrams, and more. This feature is available for software as a service (SaaS), Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and container products in all commercial AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is available. To learn more, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide. To start utilizing the new self-service feature to add or refresh media on your product detail pages, visit the AWS Marketplace Management Portal.

AWS offers a self-service feature to update business names on AWS Invoices

Today, AWS has launched a self-service feature that allows customers with billing address in United States to update their business names on AWS Invoices. This capability empowers AWS customers with Billing Address in United states to update business names on AWS Invoices, without having to reach out to AWS customer support or concierge teams. Updated invoices will be accessible within the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console within 24 hours of initiation.\n With this self-serve feature, US customers can update the business name on the account and initiate an invoice update from the AWS Bills page in the AWS Billing and Cost management console. The updated invoice will be available on the Invoice tab of the AWS Bills page in the AWS Billing and Cost management console. Customers outside US can continue to work with AWS Customer Support and Concierge teams to update the business names on AWS Invoices. Please access the product page to learn how to use AWS Bills page. The self-serve feature for US customers to update business names on AWS Invoices is available in all public AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client now available to purchase in India

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is now available to purchase in India 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 Secure Browser, and Amazon AppStream 2.0. WorkSpaces Thin Client 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, Spain, and India on Amazon Business. Visit the WorkSpaces Thin Client page and Amazon Business to learn more.

AWS DataSync now supports configuration updates for all supported storage locations

AWS DataSync now supports configuration updates for all supported storage locations, including Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx for Lustre, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. With this enhancement, you can update storage locations directly, removing the need to delete and create new locations in order to update key parameters.\n AWS DataSync is a high-speed data transfer service that securely and reliably copies data over a network. With this new capability, you gain greater flexibility in managing data transfer configurations across supported AWS storage services. With configuration update support extended to Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx storage locations, you can now adjust properties, such as access roles, directory paths, and authentication credentials, without recreating tasks and locations, making it easier than ever to adapt DataSync tasks to meet your evolving business needs. This new capability is available in all AWS Regions where AWS DataSync is available, except the China (Beijing) and the China (Ningxia) Regions. To get started, visit the AWS DataSync console. To learn more, view the AWS DataSync documentation.

AWS Transfer Family provides additional controls over AS2 message attributes

AWS Transfer Family announces new configuration options to control the attributes of inbound and outbound Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages. This update helps you ensure seamless compatibility with a broader range of your trading partners’ AS2 implementations, without requiring any changes on the partners’ side.\n AS2 is a business-to-business (B2B) messaging protocol used across various industries, including healthcare, retail, supply chain and logistics. You now have greater control over the default attributes of your AS2 messages. For inbound messages, you can preserve the original filenames of files received from your trading partners and optionally enforce message signing requirements to ensure that only signed messages are received in line with your security needs. For outbound messages, you can maintain the content types associated with your AS2 payloads stored in Amazon S3, overriding the service default content type. These enhancements build upon the existing suite of AS2 interoperability features within AWS Transfer Family, enabling you to reliably exchange messages with your trading partners while maintaining the required message attributes. The new configuration options for AS2 messages are available in all AWS Regions where the service is available. To learn more, visit the documentation. To get started with Transfer Family’s AS2 capabilities, take the self-paced workshop or deploy the AS2 CloudFormation template.

Amazon Connect Tasks now support durations up to 30 days

Amazon Connect Tasks can now be configured to expire up to 30 days from creation, with a default of 7 days. For example, less urgent tasks like monthly expense notifications can stay active for up to 30 days before escalating to a supervisor, while urgent tasks like customer escalations can now be sent to a supervisor after 1 minute. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved.\n This feature is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, see our documentation. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the easy-to-use cloud contact center, visit the Amazon Connect website.

AWS Resilience Hub now supports Amazon CloudWatch alarm detection for application resilience

AWS Resilience Hub now automatically detects and integrates existing Amazon CloudWatch alarms into its resilience assessments, providing a more comprehensive view of your application’s resilience posture. This new capability combines AWS Resilience Hub recommendations with your current monitoring setup to streamline alarm management and enhance assessment accuracy.\n As part of Operational Recommendations, AWS Resilience Hub advises setting up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor application resilience. With this update, Resilience Hub now identifies and includes any relevant Amazon CloudWatch alarms you’ve already configured, eliminating the need for manual entry. Alarms that align with Resilience Hub’s recommendations are marked as “Implemented,” minimizing redundant suggestions. By incorporating your existing alarms into the resilience score, AWS Resilience Hub now offers a more accurate assessment of application resilience. The new capabilities are available in all of the AWS Regions where Resilience Hub is supported. See the AWS Regional Services List for the most up-to-date availability information. To learn more about this feature and how it can benefit your applications, visit the AWS Resilience Hub product page.

AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery

Today, AWS Backup announces support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. This capability allows you to search the metadata of your backups so you can find specific files or objects across your backups and recover up to 5 items at a time, allowing for faster recovery times.\n You can get started with search and item-level recovery using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. In order to search your Amazon EBS Snapshots or Amazon S3 backups, you must first create a backup index. You can create a backup index via a backup plan, or on-demand after your backup has been created. Once indexed, you can search across multiple backups to locate specific files or objects, without needing to restore multiple backups. You can specify your search criteria based on one or more filters such as file or object name, creation time, and size, as well as resource specific attributes like Amazon S3 object versions to narrow down your results. Once you identify the specific files or objects you are looking for, you can choose to restore just these items directly to an Amazon S3 bucket rather than restoring the full backup, allowing for quicker recovery times. AWS Backup support for search and item-level recovery for Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 Backups is available in all commercial Regions, where AWS Backup supports Amazon EBS Snapshots and Amazon S3 backups. For information on using AWS Backup search and performing item-level recovery, visit the launch blog and AWS Backup documentation.

AWS Backup now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) environments

AWS Backup introduces dual stack support for the AWS Backup API endpoint in IPv6, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when the AWS Backup API endpoint is privately accessed from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using AWS PrivateLink. Dual stack endpoints are made available on a new AWS DNS domain name. The existing AWS Backup API endpoints are maintained for backwards compatibility reasons.\n With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on AWS Backup endpoints, you are able to gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6 based systems and applications, without needing to switch all over at once. This enables you to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. AWS Backup support for dual-stack environments is available in all regions where AWS Backup support for VPC endpoints is available. There is no additional charge when you connect to AWS Backup endpoints using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) clients. To learn more, see AWS Backup documentation.

Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (Paris) regions. 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), Europe (Paris, Frankfurt, London, Spain, Stockholm and Zurich), Asia Pacific (Seoul, Mumbai, Tokyo, Malaysia and Sydney), South America (Sao Paulo) and Canada (Central) 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.

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