1/16/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console
AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar’s “Action details” button.\n This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in a side panel. This streamlined layout allows you to easily monitor the pipeline process and quickly debug action failures. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where CodePipeline is supported, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page.
The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account.\n Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one account sign-in at a time, and customers used mechanism such as signing-in accounts in different browsers or installing third-party browser plugins to access multiple accounts in different browsers. Using multi-session capability in the AWS Console, customers can sign-in to their different AWS accounts and manage their resources in a single browser. Multi-session support is available in Commercial Regions. Try it today by signing in to the AWS Console, selecting the account menu, and selecting “Turn on multi-session”. You can opt out at any time from the account menu. Visit AWS Console documentation to learn more.
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads.\n AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. AWS Graviton4-based R8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 1.5TB) than Graviton3-based R7g instances. These instances are up to 30% faster for web applications, 40% faster for databases, and 45% faster for large Java applications compared to AWS Graviton3-based R7g instances. R8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 R8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. You can now use this additional Region to continuously monitor and detect anomalous behavior, security threats, and sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences targeting your AWS accounts to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data.\n Tens of thousands of customers across many industries and geographies use GuardDuty. GuardDuty can identify unusual or unauthorized activity like cryptocurrency mining, access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from unusual locations, or unauthorized access to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. GuardDuty Malware Protection adds file scanning for workloads using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes or Amazon S3 to detect the presence of malware. GuardDuty continually evolves its techniques to identify indicators of compromise, such as regularly updating machine learning (ML) models, adding new anomaly detections, and growing integrated threat intelligence to identify and prioritize potential threats to your AWS resources. You can begin your 30-day free trial of Amazon GuardDuty with a single click in the AWS Management Console. To receive programmatic updates on new GuardDuty features and threat detections, subscribe to the Amazon GuardDuty SNS topic.
Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches new real-time dashboard
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers a new dashboard that lets you monitor real-time agent activity and take immediate actions such as listen-in to a contact, barge (take over) a contact, or change an agent state in a few clicks from a single interface. With this dashboard, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, you can track how long an agent has been on after contact work, color code time in specific statuses, and listen into live contacts that need immediate attention. For example, you can automatically highlight in red if an agent is an error state to give a quick visual indicator of where agents might need additional help to change their status back to available.\n This dashboard is available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
Introducing new larger sizes on Amazon EC2 Flex instances
AWS announces the general availability of two new larger sizes (12xlarge and 16xlarge) on Amazon EC2 Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, that are available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.\n Flex instances are the easiest way to get price performance benefits and lower prices for a majority of compute-intensive and general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price performance than comparable previous generation instances and are a great first choice for applications that do not fully utilize the compute resources. Flex instances are ideal for web and application servers, batch processing, enterprise applications, databases, and more. For compute-intensive and general-purpose workloads that need even larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage Amazon EC2 C7i and M7i instances. The new C7i-flex sizes are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The new M7i-flex sizes are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).
Amazon EC2 I8g instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 I8g instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads.\n I8g instances offer instance sizes up to 24xlarge, 768 GiB of memory, and 22.5 TB instance storage. They are ideal for real-time applications like relational databases, non-relational databases, streaming databases, search queries and data analytic. To learn more, see Amazon EC2 I8g instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.
AWS Resource Explorer supports 29 new resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 29 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon FSx, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Glue.\n With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:
acm:certificate
codepipeline:webhook
comprehend:document-classifier
comprehend:entity-recognizer
databrew:job
databrew:project
dataexchange:data-sets
dms:es
dms:subgrp
elasticmapreduce:cluster
emr-containers:virtualclusters
frauddetector:external-model
frauddetector:model
fsx:file-system
glacier:vaults
glue:crawler
greengrass:connectorsDefinition
greengrass:coresDefinition
greengrass:devicesDefinition
greengrass:functionsDefinition
greengrass:loggersDefinition
greengrass:resourcesDefinition
greengrass:subscriptionsDefinition
mq:broker
route53:domain
ses:contact-list
ses:configuration-set
ses:identity
storagegateway:gateway
To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now provide configurable groupings and filters
Amazon Connect Contact Lens dashboards now allow you to define widget level filters and groupings, re-order and re-size columns, and delete or add new metrics. With these dashboards, you can view and compare real-time and historical aggregated performance, trends, and insights using custom-defined time periods (e.g., week over week), summary charts, time-series chart, etc. Now, you can further customize specific widgets to create dashboards that best fit your business needs. For example, you can create a single line chart that combines contacts queued, average queue answer time, and abandoned contacts, filtered for your most important queues, so you can quickly see how increasing contact volumes impact both wait time and customer abandonment rates.\n These dashboards are available in all commercial AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
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- Amazon Connect Update Summary — December 2024
- Service Launch - AWS Mexico (Central) Region
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