2/12/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/13/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Lustre version upgrades

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now enables you to upgrade the Lustre version of your FSx for Lustre file systems. This feature allows you to benefit from the enhancements available in newer Lustre versions on your existing file systems.\n FSx for Lustre provides fully-managed file systems built on Lustre, the world’s most popular open-source high performance file system. FSx for Lustre supports multiple long-term support Lustre versions released by the Lustre community. Newer Lustre versions provide benefits such as performance enhancements, new features, and support for the latest Linux kernel versions for your client instances. Starting today, you can upgrade your file systems to newer Lustre versions within minutes using the AWS management console or the AWS CLI/SDK . The feature is now available on all file systems at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where FSx for Lustre is available. For more information, see Amazon FSx for Lustre documentation.

AWS AppSync enhances resolver testing with comprehensive context object mocking

AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL service that helps customers build scalable APIs, announces improvements to its EvaluateCode and EvaluateMappingTemplate APIs. This update enables developers to comprehensively mock all properties of the context object during resolver and function unit testing, including identity information, stash variables, and error handling. The enhancement also introduces improved JSON input validation with clear, actionable error messages, making it easier for developers to identify and fix issues in their context setup.\n These improvements simplify the setup and configuration requirements. Developers can now efficiently test functions and resolvers by accessing and validating resolver stash (ctx.stash) and error tracking (ctx.outErrors) in their test environments. The update also simplifies identity mocking by allowing developers to include only the relevant caller information in ctx.identity. The updated console experience provides better visibility into the resolver test results, helping developers troubleshoot and optimize their resolver implementations more effectively. This enhancement is available in all AWS Regions where AWS AppSync is currently supported.

To learn more about these new features, visit the AWS AppSync documentation and explore the context object reference. You can also explore examples and best practices in the AWS AppSync Developer Guide or get started by visiting the AWS AppSync console.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now adds full snapshot size information in Console and API

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now displays the full snapshot size for EBS Snapshots. With this enhancement, customers can now retrieve full snapshot sizes programmatically through the DescribeSnapshots API using the new field, full-snapshot-size-in-bytes. The full snapshot size is also displayed in the EBS Snapshots console under the new ‘Full snapshot size’ column.\n Since EBS Snapshots are incremental in nature, if you take multiple snapshots of a volume over time, each snapshot only stores the new or modified blocks while maintaining references to unchanged blocks from previous snapshots. The ‘full snapshot size’ field shows you the total size of all blocks that make up a snapshot, including both the blocks stored directly in that snapshot and all blocks referenced from previous snapshots. For instance, if you have a 100 GB volume with 50 GB of data, the ‘full snapshot size’ would show 50 GB regardless of whether it’s the first snapshot or a subsequent one. The ‘full snapshot size’ field provides crucial information about your EBS snapshot storage, such as the total size of the snapshot in the archived tier or the amount of data written to the source volume at the time the snapshot was created. Please note that this is different from the incremental snapshot size, which only refers to the size of newly changed blocks stored in that specific snapshot. This feature is now generally available in all commercial AWS regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, see the EBS Snapshots user guide and API specification.

AWS HealthScribe now supports GIRPP note template for behavioral health

AWS HealthScribe is a generative AI-powered service that automatically generates summarized clinical notes and transcripts from patient-clinician conversations. Documentation for behavioral health related encounters follows a goal centric format based on GIRPP (Goal, Intervention, Response, Progress, Plan) format. With this launch, AWS HealthScribe customers can directly convert a behavioral health related patient-clinician conversation to a GIRPP format note. This can potentially save clinicians hours daily in manually documenting behavioral health related encounters.\n Customers using the HealthScribe StartMedicalScribeJob and StartMedicalScribeStream API can simply set note template type parameter as “GIRPP” in the ClinicalNoteGenerationSettings for both async and streaming jobs and will share the output note in GIRPP format as the conversation ends. This feature is available in US East (N.Virginia) Region. To learn more refer to our documentation.

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