Recent Announcements

AWS Cost Management introduces visual Savings Plans recommendations

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:35:22 +0000

Starting today, customers can easily understand and validate their Savings Plans recommendations through new visual graphs. The new hourly graphs show On-Demand spend alongside the recommended Savings Plans commitment, providing insight into estimated savings, Savings Plans coverage, and Savings Plans utilization. This helps customers understand how their Savings Plans apply to each hour of spend without having to invest time and resources in building models to analyze their spend.

Amazon Chime SDK provides additional compositing options for live connector and media capture

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:04:16 +0000

The Amazon Chime SDK now provides additional options to customize the layout of video sent to streaming services or captured to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers have more flexibility to tailor the composited layout to suit their use case with either landscape or portrait orientation and stylize video tiles with borders, active speaker highlight, configurable aspect ratio and corner radius.

CloudWatch Application Insights adds monitoring for multi-app instance deployments

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:39:29 +0000

Amazon Web Services customers can now get detailed health metrics and analysis of their multi-application deployments residing in the same instances with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights helps customers gain actionable insights for their application environment and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use data to make decisions.

Announcing the general availability of AWS HealthImaging

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:43:01 +0000

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a new HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical images at petabyte scale. With HealthImaging, you can run your medical imaging applications at scale from a single, authoritative copy of each medical image in the cloud, while reducing infrastructure costs.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports training ML models with different objective metrics

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:34:34 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides the ability to train machine learning (ML) models with different objective metrics, allowing you to gain a more comprehensive understanding on the model's strengths and weaknesses. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML expertise or having to write a single line of code.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports sharing ML models with Amazon QuickSight

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:08:05 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports sharing machine learning (ML) models with Amazon QuickSight, enabling analysts to build models in Canvas and generate predictions to build dashboards in QuickSight. This extends the ML/Analytics integrated solution between Canvas and QuickSight for analysts to build models, generate predictions, enrich them with interactive dashboards, and use insights for effective business decisions, without writing a single line of code.

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports storing logs in Amazon CloudWatch

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:55:59 +0000

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can store logs for your EMR Serverless Spark and Hive applications in Amazon CloudWatch.

Personalize your search results with Amazon Personalize and OpenSearch integration

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:04:56 +0000

Amazon Personalize launches a new integration with self-managed OpenSearch that enables customers to personalize search results for each user and assists in predicting their search needs. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within OpenSearch helps customers to leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and add personalization to OpenSearch search results, without any ML expertise.

AWS IoT Core announces MQTT support for Device Location feature

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:06:33 +0000

Today, AWS IoT Core announces the general availability of MQTT support for Device Location. IoT Core Device Location feature allows customers to obtain devices’ location data and build location based applications even when devices don’t have a built in GPS. With IoT Core Device Location feature, customers can use advanced cloud based location solvers, such as Wi-Fi scan, Cellular scan, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) scan, and reverse IP look-up to determine geo-coordinates of their IoT devices for use cases such as map visualization, historical route tracking, and Geo-fencing.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now available in additional AWS Regions

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:02:55 +0000

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes.

Amazon QuickSight introduces Analysis file menu

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:43:43 +0000

Amazon QuickSight launches the Analysis menu for enhanced navigation and efficiency across Analysis Experience. The Analysis menu provides user-friendly interface with a well-organized layout, bringing together all analysis features in one menu. This streamlined organization increases the ease of finding and using different features, thereby speeding up the dashboard creation process and improving the overall efficiency for Authors.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Document Queries powered by Amazon Textract

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:01:04 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports Document Queries, a ready-to-use model powered by Amazon Textract. Document Queries allows you to specify the data you want to extract from structured documents using natural language, without requiring prior knowledge of the document’s structure (table, form, fields, nested data). This eliminates the need for manual processing and searching within extracted data, saving you time and reducing human-error.

Snowflake connectivity for AWS Glue for Apache Spark is now generally available

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:36:00 +0000

AWS Glue for Apache Spark now supports native connectivity to Snowflake, which enables users to read and write data from Snowflake without the need to install or manage Snowflake connector libraries. In addition, AWS Glue Studio has new visual ETL capabilities available for Snowflake source and targets to save time when authoring data pipelines for Snowflake. AWS Glue Studio enables ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developers to visually transform data with a no-code, drag-and-drop interface. With this new connector and visual capabilities, ETL developers can read and write data into Snowflake more effectively using AWS Glue.

AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:17:09 +0000

AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless as a data source or target out-of-the-box. AWS Glue Studio enables ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) developers to visually transform data with a no-code, drag-and-drop interface. Glue’s visual interface saves the developer time authoring, running, and monitoring highly scalable ETL jobs. Developers can pull data from a variety of data sources including AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Redshift. With this new feature, developers can read and write data into Amazon Redshift Serverless more effectively.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands data preparation with five new capabilities

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:09:42 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports five new data transforms, enabling you to better prepare and analyze your data before building machine learning (ML) models. Data is the foundation of machine learning and transforming raw data to make it suitable for ML model building and generating predictions is key to better insights. Starting today, SageMaker Canvas allows you to change the type of data in your columns between numeric, text, and datetime, while also displaying the associated feature for that data type such as binary and categorical. This gives you the flexibility to manually change the type of data in your columns based on the features. The ability to choose the right data type ensures data integrity and accuracy prior to building ML models. As an example, using a datetime data type ensures only valid dates are stored in that particular column.

AWS Transfer Family launches SFTP connectors

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:46:19 +0000

AWS Transfer Family launches Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) connectors, a fully-managed and low code capability to securely and reliably copy files at scale between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. Files transferred using SFTP connectors are stored in Amazon S3, enabling you to unlock value from data using analytics, data lakes or AI/ML services in AWS.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports custom Amazon S3 output location for ML artifacts

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:40:22 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports the ability to provide a custom output location in Amazon S3 for machine learning (ML) artifacts, such as trained models, explainability reports, and prediction results allowing you to organize and structure your output directory in a way that aligns with your specific needs and preferences. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML expertise or having to write a single line of code.

Amazon Redshift announces automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:24:25 +0000

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog, making it easier for customers to run queries in their data lakes. You no longer have to create an external schema in Amazon Redshift to use the data lake tables cataloged in AWS Glue Data Catalog. Now, you can query data lake tables directly from Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2 or your favorite SQL editors.

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now supports Network Load Balancers as a resource type

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:13:57 +0000

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces support for Network Load Balancers (NLBs) as a supported resource type in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can now use Internet Monitor to get visibility about internet performance and availability for user traffic directed to specific NLBs. Internet Monitor also supports monitoring Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Amazon CloudFront distributions, and Amazon WorkSpaces directories.

Amazon EMR on EC2 announces support for native LDAP authentication

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:41:24 +0000

Amazon EMR is excited to announce a new feature that enables user authentication to EMR on EC2 clusters using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) based credentials. This feature allows administrators to configure EMR on EC2 clusters to authenticate corporate identities in their Active Directory (AD) using LDAP. With this launch, AD users are synced to the EMR on EC2 cluster automatically when LDAP authentication is enabled. This simplifies authentication to EMR clusters for administrators by eliminating the manual steps to sync users and/or implementing application-specific LDAP configuration.

Announcing auto-account association for AWS Billing Conductor billing groups

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:23:49 +0000

Starting today, customers can choose to automatically associate all newly created accounts (or any accounts invited to their AWS Organization) with an AWS Billing Conductor billing group. By enabling auto-account association, customers can reduce the steps needed to implement a custom chargeback model. For example, organizations can use the feature to automatically associate all newly created accounts with a default billing group, ensuring all accounts are included in their internal chargeback workflow. Partners can use the feature to automatically associate all new accounts to a default billing group, allowing them to bill their customers for all relevant usage without missing any charges.

AWS DataSync now supports copying data to and from Azure Blob Storage

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:51:38 +0000

AWS DataSync support for copying data to and from Azure Blob Storage is now generally available. Using DataSync, you can move your object data at scale between Azure Blob Storage and AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3. AWS DataSync supports writing to block blobs and can read from all blob types within Azure Blob Storage. It can also be used with Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2.

AWS Glue jobs can now include AWS Glue DataBrew Recipes

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:17:34 +0000

AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL jobs now let you use DataBrew Recipes as steps in the flow of transformations. AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL is a no-code job authoring UI for ETL developers with a flow-diagram interface. AWS Glue DataBrew is a no code data preparation tool for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI. The new integration between the two makes it simpler to deploy and scale DataBrew jobs and gives DataBrew users access to AWS Glue features not available in DataBrew. The integration also works in code-based jobs.

Amazon QuickSight now supports Snapshot Export APIs

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:59:19 +0000

Amazon QuickSight launches new API capabilities that allow you to programmatically export Paginated PDF Reports and CSV content. With these new APIs, you can export and customize content by passing parameters and session tags for Anonymous users. Optionally as part of the API call you can specify your own S3 destination to where the content should be exported.

Amazon Redshift now supports querying Apache Iceberg tables

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:26:03 +0000

Amazon Redshift today announces the preview release of Apache Iceberg support, enabling users to run analytics queries on Apache Iceberg tables within Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse service used by tens of thousands of customers. Whether your data is stored in operational data stores, data lakes, streaming engines or within your data warehouse, Amazon Redshift helps you quickly ingest, securely share data, and achieve the best performance for the best price. Apache Iceberg, one of the most recent open table formats, has been used by many customers to simplify data processing on rapidly expanding and evolving tables stored in data lakes.

Announcing enhanced user interface for AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:22:43 +0000

Starting today, users can experience a simplified visual layout when they access AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning from their browser. This new user interface features an enhanced onboarding experience, simplified forecast settings, a unified demand plan, and streamlined workflows for forecast overrides and demand plan finalization. This reduces the time it takes for new users to onboard and finalize forecast.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 5.0

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:39:29 +0000

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.0 and recommends that customers migrate Synthetics canaries to the latest runtime version. Runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.0 includes updates to third-party dependency packages (Puppeteer v19.7.0 and Chromium v111.0.5563.146).

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning announces AWS CloudTrail support for event history

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:42:58 +0000

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning now logs the record of actions taken by a user to AWS CloudTrail, a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Using AWS CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, retain, and respond to the record of actions taken by a user in AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning.

Amazon Omics now provides workflow run queuing

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:47:41 +0000

Amazon Omics has added run queuing to the Omics workflow. Amazon Omics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. With workflow run queuing, you are now able to queue up to thousands of workflow runs, and the service will process the runs at a rate defined by your service quota limits.

Access resource and stack drift information directly in AWS CloudFormation StackSets

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:55:47 +0000

Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches a new API ListStackInstanceResourceDrifts, and adds a new filter in ListStackInstances to improve visibility to resource and stack instance drift information. A resource or stack instance is considered drifted when it’s actual configuration differs from its expected configuration. You can now use ListStackInstanceResourceDrifts to list and filter resources in a stack instance according to drift status. Similarly, you can use the drift status filter in ListStackInstances to check for stack instance drift in a stack set. With this launch, you can access these aggregated drift information through your management or delegated administrator AWS account.

Amazon EMR launches new capabilities to enhance EMR on EC2 cluster scaling experience

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:44:18 +0000

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR has launched two new capabilities that enhances the scaling experience for Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters: a new retry mechanism for faster scaling of your Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters running Presto or Trino; and faster scale-down of Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters by enforcing the data redundancy requirements. These capabilities are automatically enabled for clusters running Amazon EMR 6.12 or higher releases and no action is needed from your end.

AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning supports multiple override management

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:41:29 +0000

Starting today, you can now easily apply multiple overrides on a demand forecast, eliminating the need to create and select from multiple overrides before publishing a demand forecast. With this release, you can apply multiple overrides, enabling users to apply overrides at different products simultaneously. When you make an override, the override adjustment is aggregated upwards in the hierarchy as well as disaggregated to lower levels of the forecast hierarchy.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports document compression

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:28:34 +0000

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports document compression using the LZ4 compression algorithm. Compressed documents in Amazon DocumentDB are up to 7x smaller than uncompressed documents. Compressed documents require less storage space and IO operations during database reads and writes, leading to lower storage and IO costs.

AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights now includes PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:48:26 +0000

AWS Marketplace sellers can now add additional certifications to their Vendor Insights security profiles, including PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. These are in addition to already available certifications for FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights helps streamline the complex third-party software risk assessment process by enabling sellers to make security and compliance information available through AWS Marketplace. Buyers can more quickly discover products in AWS Marketplace that meet their security and certification standards by searching for and accessing vendor insights profiles.

AWS Control Tower launches additional proactive controls

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:41:33 +0000

We are excited to announce the launch of 28 new proactive controls in AWS Control Tower. This launch enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities, allowing you to implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments by blocking non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Neptune, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon DocumentDB. These new controls help you meet control objectives such as establish logging and monitoring, encrypt data at rest, or improve resiliency. To see a full list of the new controls, see the controls reference guide.

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports cross account sharing, discovery and access

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:38:00 +0000

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now makes it easier to share, discover and access feature groups across AWS accounts. This new capability promotes collaboration and minimizes duplicate work for teams involved in ML model and application development, particularly in enterprise environments with multiple accounts spanning different business units or functions.

AWS Lake Formation now supports delegation of LF-Tag management

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:20:05 +0000

AWS Lake Formation now supports the ability to delegate the creation, management and granting of permissions of Lake Formation Tags (LF-Tags) to non-Lake Formation administrators. With this launch, Lake Formation administrators can give permissions to data stewards and other users to manage LF-Tags.

AWS Supply Chain extends availability in two additional AWS Regions

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:17:23 +0000

AWS Supply Chain is now generally available in Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland) based on increased customer demand in these regions. With this release AWS Supply Chain is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland).

AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Hudi Tables

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:23:05 +0000

AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Hudi tables, allowing customers to query data in Apache Hudi tables directly from AWS analytics services like Amazon Athena. Apache Hudi is an open-source table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to the data lake. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage continuously evolving data sets while maintaining query performance.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver now available on AWS Outposts rack

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:37:05 +0000

Starting today, you can enable Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outpost rack, allowing you to resolve Domain Name Server (DNS) queries locally and enhance the availability and performance of applications running on Outposts rack.

AWS AppConfig Agent simplifies feature flag and configuration use for Amazon EC2

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:20:05 +0000

AWS AppConfig, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces support for the AWS AppConfig Agent on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). AWS AppConfig allows customers to deploy faster and safer using feature flags and dynamic configuration, decoupling software releases from code deployments. The AWS AppConfig Agent is client-side software that manages configuration data on behalf of customers. Previously, customers needed to manage their own polling and caching of data when running applications on Amazon EC2. Now, the agent takes care of these tasks. With this update, the AWS AppConfig Agent now has native support for the following compute services: AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon EC2.

AWS Config advanced queries support 65 new resource types

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:38:05 +0000

AWS Config supports 65 new resource types in advanced queries. The advanced queries feature provides a single query endpoint and a powerful query language to get current resource state metadata without performing service-specific describe API calls. You can use configuration aggregators to run the same queries from a central account across multiple accounts and AWS Regions.

EMR on EKS now supports Apache Spark with Java 17

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:18:05 +0000

We are excited to announce support for Apache Spark with Java 17 in EMR on EKS. AWS customers can now leverage Java 17 as a supported Java runtime to run Spark workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS, and benefit from Java 17’s language enhancement and performance improvement. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS.

AWS PrivateLink announces integration with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:00:05 +0000

You can now enable CloudWatch Contributor Insights on your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services in 6 new regions- Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich) and Middle East (UAE). AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. CloudWatch Contributor Insights analyzes time-series data to report the top contributors and number of unique contributors in a dataset.

Amazon Connect launches CloudFormation support for routing profiles and queues

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:17:07 +0000

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for routing profile and queue resources, in addition to other resources used to configure a contact center like Connect instances, flows, S3 buckets and lambdas. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect routing profiles and queues in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the risk of human error from manual configuration. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed.

Amazon Connect Cases now provides case assignment

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:14:32 +0000

Amazon Connect Cases now enables agents to easily associate a case with a queue or an individual agent for resolution. Agents can view and filter cases assigned to their queue and managers can directly assign cases to individual agents. Case assignment helps companies’ service and support teams work more efficiently and reduce time to resolve customer questions and issues by clearly tracking case activities and resolution ownership.

AWS IoT Device Defender now supports monitoring of device disconnect durations

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:17:03 +0000

AWS IoT Device Defender Rules Detect now supports a new disconnect duration metric to monitor the duration of disconnect of each device. With this additional metric, you can track how long a device has been disconnected to learn whether it is operating as expected. You can also configure alarms at predefined threshold levels and be alerted in the case of persistent device connectivity issues.

AWS WAF now supports URI path aggregation key for rate-based rules

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:15:02 +0000

AWS WAF now supports URI path as an aggregation key for rate-based rules, providing customers with enhanced control and simplicity in managing request rates for URI paths. With this feature, customers can track request rates for any URI path and apply rule actions based on the number of requests received.

Amazon Redshift ML announces integration with Amazon Forecast

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:30:30 +0000

Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can now leverage Amazon Forecast, a ML-based time-series forecasting service, without having to learn any new tools or having to create pipelines to move your data.

Amazon SNS now supports mobile push notifications in twelve new AWS regions

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:03:28 +0000

Customers who use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) for sending mobile push notifications can now host their applications in twelve additional AWS regions, including Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and US East (Ohio).

Amazon Translate enables real time translation of Docx files

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:20:43 +0000

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling real time translation of Docx files. With this launch, Real Time Document Translation can synchronously translate HTML, TXT and Docx files, while preserving the source document format. Customers can use the API via SDK, CLI, or the AWS management console to submit a translation request and receive the document back with source formatting intact.

Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports workflows triggered by GitHub pull requests

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:15:43 +0000

Today, AWS announces support for starting Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows based on pull request events in linked GitHub repositories. When a workflow is triggered by a GitHub-based pull request, users will also be able to see the name of the PR that triggered it in the CodeCatalyst workflows UI, and click a link that takes them directly to the pull request in GitHub.

Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Middle East (Dubai) region

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:02:43 +0000

Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in Middle East (Dubai) and Europe (Zaragoza) regions. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.

Amazon CloudWatch announces ML backed Logs Insights pattern query command

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:36:43 +0000

Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce “pattern”, a new Logs Insights command which enables customers to more easily identify trends and patterns in their logs. Customers often need to analyze thousands of log lines to identify relevant information. The pattern command uses AWS Machine Learning algorithms to automatically recognize patterns in log data, aggregate related logs and summarize thousands of log lines into a few easy to visualize groupings. Pattern helps customers quickly surface emerging trends, monitor known errors, increase cost visibility by identifying frequently occurring log lines and more.

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place update for version 9.4

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:39:43 +0000

Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this feature, you can now upgrade your existing workspaces from version 8.4 to 9.4.

AWS Amplify JavaScript library enhances the performance of Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:15:43 +0000

We're excited to announce significant improvements to the AWS Amplify JavaScript library, by reducing the bundle sizes for our Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics categories. We've improved our codebase so that you get leaner bundles, resulting in faster load times and improved performance for your applications. You can benefit from these improvements by installing or updating to version 5.3.4 or beyond of the Amplify JavaScript library.

Llama 2 foundation models from Meta now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:11:43 +0000

Starting today, Llama 2 foundation models from Meta are available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 2 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.

Amazon Corretto July, 2023 Quarterly Updates

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:37:43 +0000

On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

Introducing Analytics on Amazon Lex

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:20:43 +0000

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access to rich insights and prebuilt dashboards related to Lex conversations, intents, slots, and utterances.

Amazon Connect launches pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:55:43 +0000

Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how long it took for an agent to first greet the customer on chat. For example, using these metrics, customers can create custom dashboards to analyze if an agent’s average handle time is high due to higher than expected agent talk time, and if so, provide agent coaching to improve.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in additional regions

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:27:43 +0000

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in the Europe (Paris) and Middle East (Dubai) regions.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports Microsoft AD authentication in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:17:43 +0000

Authentication with Microsoft Active Directory for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions.

AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now PCI DSS Compliant

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:00:43 +0000

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant, enabling customers to use AWS Mainframe Modernization for applications that store, process, and transmit information for use cases such as payment processing that are subject to PCI DSS.

Amazon ECS adds domainless gMSA authentication for Linux and Windows containers

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:46:03 +0000

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces domainless Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Linux and Windows containers running on Amazon EC2. This integration allows applications hosted on Amazon ECS (on EC2) to easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources. With this launch, customers can run containers that require AD authentication without joining the ECS nodes to the domain, even during autoscaling events.

AWS Fargate enables faster container startup using Seekable OCI

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:10:03 +0000

Customers running applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI), a technology open sourced by AWS that helps applications deploy and scale out faster by enabling the containers to start without waiting for the entire container image to be downloaded.

Amazon Connect Wisdom is now available for chat agents

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:29:03 +0000

Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Amazon Connect Wisdom is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions. To learn more about Amazon Connect Wisdom, please visit the Amazon Connect Wisdom website or see the help documentation.

AWS simplifies writing .NET 6 Lambda functions

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:32:03 +0000

We are happy to announce the general availability of the Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology.

Amazon IVS now supports rendition filtering and higher frequency thumbnails for the Record to S3 feature

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:31:03 +0000

With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you now have the option to filter the specific HLS renditions stored in your S3 bucket as well as control the resolution and pixel count of thumbnail jpeg files while using the auto-record to S3 feature. These controls allow customers to control the amount of data stored while recording to optimize storage costs. Additionally, customers can reduce the thumbnail generation interval down to one second (previously 5 second limit) to have lower latency thumbnails for discovery or post processing use cases. These enhancements apply to Amazon IVS Standard and Advanced channel types without additional cost.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage now available in AWS Canada (Central) region

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:19:03 +0000

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.

Amazon Redshift announces support of QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statement

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:38:03 +0000

Amazon Redshift now supports the QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statements, which allows you to apply filtering conditions to the result of a window function without using a subquery. By filtering the results of window functions, you can focus on the desired data segments and derive insights from your data more efficiently.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports cue ad tags in Channel Assembly

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:42:03 +0000

You can now configure ad breaks in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly using cue ad tags in addition to date range when using HLS outputs. When using cue ad tags, Channel Assembly will create the necessary EXT-X-CUE-IN/OUT/CONT markers in the specific HLS outputs. Additionally, you can now also configure asset metadata key/value pairs to be included in the EXT-X-ASSET tag to signal additional content characteristics on a per break basis.

AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge Pipes now support enhanced filtering

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 22:04:03 +0000

AWS Lambda event source mappings and Amazon EventBridge Pipes sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values to -5e9 to 5e9 from -1e9 to 1e9. With these new enhanced capabilities, you can now write complex rules that provide additional filtering options when building event-driven applications.

Amazon Connect launches APIs to programmatically delete Routing Profiles and Queues

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:16:36 +0000

Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically delete routing profiles and queues. You can now remove routing profile and queue resources that are no longer applicable, streamlining your contact center as requirements change and you adapt to new strategies for call flows, agent groups and other routing configurations. Deleting unused resources also frees up capacity in your service limits, giving you room to create new routing profiles and queues.

AWS Proton introduces deployment history

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:04:36 +0000

AWS Proton introduces deployment history, a new feature that provides greater visibility into cloud infrastructure deployment events. Platform engineers use Proton to define infrastructure as code patterns for their services and manage updates for services across shared resource environments. Proton deployment history makes it easier to see when deployments are initiated, what resources they target, and provides a simple way to track deployment trends over time.

Amazon EMR on EKS adds programmatic execution for managed endpoints

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:40:35 +0000

We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports programmatic execution of Jupyter notebooks when running interactive workloads via managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers can setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDEs) such as EMR Studio.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces alert categories in Channel Assembly

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:01:36 +0000

You can now see alerts in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly categorized to understand nature and severity. Alerts will be categorized as either Scheduling Error, Playback Warning or Info.

Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:04:36 +0000

Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates. Customers can now associate their 3072-bit RSA certificates with CloudFront distributions to enhance communication security between clients and CloudFront edge locations.

Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to add columns to existing datasets

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:02:36 +0000

Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to modify datasets by allowing customers to add columns to an existing schema. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. Customers modify existing datasets to add new filtering columns for enhanced business logic and to add new columns that can improve model training. Previously, to add new columns customers would need to reproduce existing resources starting at the dataset level. With this feature, customers can quickly update their schema to append an additional column without having to reproduce resources.

AWS Batch on AWS Fargate now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in CLI/SDK

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:32:36 +0000

AWS Batch now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in AWS Fargate. This feature helps simplify the adoption of modern container technology for AWS Batch customers by expanding their architecture options for scheduling Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Fargate compute environments. Support for ARM64 architecture also gives customers sustainability benefits of Graviton instances in Fargate which can help improve price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a variety of workloads including high performance computing.

Amazon S3 Inventory can include ACLs as object metadata in inventory reports

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:16:36 +0000

With Amazon S3 Inventory, you can now easily review your access control lists (ACLs) on all of your objects to simplify review of access permissions. ACLs were the original way to manage object access when S3 launched in 2006. Now, when migrating to IAM-based bucket policies for access control, you can easily review all of the object ACLs in your buckets before enabling S3 Object Ownership.

Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances are now available in additional regions

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:04:36 +0000

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

AWS DMS now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless as a target

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:02:36 +0000

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless as a target endpoint. With this new support, you can securely migrate your data to Redshift Serverless, where it can be stored, queried, and analyzed without the need to provision or manage infrastructure.

AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:04:35 +0000

AWS Lambda can now detect and stop recursive loops in Lambda functions. Customers build event-driven applications using Lambda functions to process events from sources like Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. However, in certain scenarios, due to resource misconfiguration or code defect, a processed event may be sent back to the same service or resource that invoked the Lambda function. This can cause an unintended recursive loop, and result in unintended usage and costs for customers. With this launch, Lambda will stop recursive invocations between Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon SNS after 16 recursive calls.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP announces two additional monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:09:36 +0000

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, is announcing two additional monitoring capabilities that enable you to monitor file system events and diagnose network connectivity: you can now access ONTAP Event Management System (EMS) logs and collect packet captures on your file systems.

Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20 versions

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:45:36 +0000

Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. These releases contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. This release also contains new features and improvements for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 3.2 and improved support for Amazon Web Services Database Migration Service version 3.5.1 Aurora PostgreSQL target endpoint Babelfish data types. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 11, you must upgrade to a newer major version by January 31, 2024.

Amazon QuickSight adds axis customization options for small multiples and radar chart

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:56:36 +0000

Amazon QuickSight now supports new axis configurations for small multiples and radar charts, empowering users to customize axis settings according to their use case. In small multiples, users now have the option to select either shared or independent axis configuration for both the X and Y axes, specifically for line and bar charts.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP supports write once, read many (WORM) protection with SnapLock

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:07:36 +0000

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports SnapLock, an ONTAP feature that prevents data from being modified or deleted for a specified retention period by transitioning files to a write once, read many (WORM) state. FSx for ONTAP is the first and only fully managed file storage service in the cloud offering WORM protection. You can use SnapLock to meet regulatory compliance, protect business-critical data from ransomware, and prevent accidental or malicious attempts at alteration and deletion of data.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) launches index improvements

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:31:35 +0000

Amazon DocumentDB launches index improvements enabling faster index builds on collections and the ability to view index build statuses. Amazon DocumentDB index builds can now be sped by up to 14X when using parallel workers compared to using a single worker. The index creation process now uses two workers by default, and you can configure the number of workers on Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 and 5.0 instance-based clusters.

Karpenter now supports Windows containers

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:40:43 +0000

Today, AWS announced Windows support on Karpenter (Starting with v0.29.0), the open-source node provisioning and management project. Using Karpenter, customers can now quickly scale their Amazon EKS clusters running Windows with right-sized Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application load. Karpenter helps customers optimize their operational overhead and costs during this process without manually adjusting the compute capacity of their clusters, overprovisioning compute to meet rapidly changing demand, or creating multiple EC2 Autoscaling Groups (ASGs).

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:54:36 +0000

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the pgvector extension to store embeddings from machine learning (ML) models in your database and to perform efficient similarity searches. Embeddings are numerical representations (vectors) created from generative AI that capture the semantic meaning of text input into a large language model (LLM). pgvector can store and search embeddings from Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and more.

Amazon QuickSight launches unified color experience for analysis and dashboards

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:58:35 +0000

Amazon QuickSight introduces new unified coloring experience for your analysis and dashboards. Authors now have a way to assign colors on a field level which means that different visuals having the same field will now have the same color. Thus, making it easier for authors to specify color once on field level and reuse across different visuals instead of assigning colors for each visual separately. Along with this, we are also improving the coloring experience where visual color will persist and not change with visual interactions like sorting, filtering and actions. More details can be found here.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports IPSec encryption of data in transit

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:09:35 +0000

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports using the IP security (IPsec) protocol to encrypt data in transit. With this additional option to encrypt your data end-to-end, FSx for ONTAP offers even more flexibility for you to protect your data.

AWS Mainframe Modernization expands control and visibility of runtime environments

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:16:36 +0000

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available with a range of new capabilities for easier management and operation of the service’s fully-managed runtime environments. The capabilities include role-based access, application-level monitoring, and application deployment updates that enable seamless user authorization control, greater application performance visibility, and faster application deployment, respectively, for modernizing mainframe applications.

Amazon Location Service now supports publishing device position updates on EventBridge

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:32:07 +0000

Amazon Location Service now supports publishing tracked device position updates on Amazon EventBridge, allowing customers to leverage position updates to deliver features tailored to the physical location of tracked devices. Developers can create applications that show devices as they move on a map, or store movement data in long-term storage to be used for purposes like asset movement insights, predictive analytics, or compliance.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.7

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:02:16 +0000

You can now run OpenSearch version 2.7 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.7, we have made several improvements to observability, security analytics, index management, and geospatial capabilities in OpenSearch Service.

Amazon Location Service now supports API Keys for Maps, Places, and Routes

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:01:46 +0000

Amazon Location Service now supports API keys as an alternative for authenticating Maps, Places, and Routes resources, making it easier for developers to create authenticated Amazon Location resources. With API Keys, developers can easily create, manage, and expire access to Amazon Location resources, making it simpler for location based applications to interoperate with Amazon Location Service.

AWS Elemental MediaLive now publishes 1-second metrics

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:03:31 +0000

AWS Elemental MediaLive now saves channel metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 1-second intervals allowing you to track fast-changing activity. These metrics can be retrieved using the console or the CloudWatch API at 1-second periods for up to 3 hours after the datapoints were created.

Amazon Omics achieves FedRAMP Moderate authorization

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:18:55 +0000

Amazon Omics has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization for the AWS US East-West Regions. You can use Amazon Omics to store and process your data in AWS with up to the Moderate impact level.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports self-managed Active Directory

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:34:26 +0000

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows customers to directly join their RDS for SQL Server DB instances to the domains of self-managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Self-managed AD can be on-premises or in the cloud. Currently, customers can only use NTLM as the authentication protocol for self-managed AD.

AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg Tables

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:50:21 +0000

AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables, simplifying the adoption of AWS Glue Data Catalog as catalog for Iceberg tables and migrating from other Iceberg catalogs. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for data stored in data lakes that helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving data sets while maintaining query performance. With today’s launch, you can automatically register Iceberg tables into Glue Catalog by running the Glue Crawler. You can then query Glue Catalog Iceberg tables across various analytics engines and apply Lake Formation fine-grained permissions when querying from Amazon Athena.