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Amazon EKS Improves Cluster Creation and Management in the AWS Console
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) management console has been redesigned to make it easier to deploy and manage EKS clusters.
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Amazon Connect decreases telephony pricing
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020Amazon Connect, an easy to use contact center service, has decreased outbound telephony rates for calling to six countries.
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AWS License Manager now supports cross-account license tracking in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020AWS License Manager now allows customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to manage licenses across all the AWS accounts in an organization. Customers gain control and visibility of their licenses used across all of their AWS accounts with License Manager’s built-in dashboard and thus reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages.
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AWS Storage Gateway adds Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering for File Gateway
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020AWS Storage Gateway now supports Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering as a storage class for File Gateway, enabling you to optimize storage costs automatically when data access patterns change, without impacting performance or incurring operational overhead. This eliminates the challenge of needing to have a deep understanding of your on-premises users and applications’ data access patterns.
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Simplify IoT device registration and easily move devices between AWS accounts with AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration, now generally available
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020Today, AWS announced the general availability of Multi-Account Registration, a new feature of AWS IoT Core that simplifies the device registration process and makes it possible to easily move devices between customers’ multiple AWS accounts in the same Region. This reduces the complexity of registering devices to AWS IoT Core and helps customers accelerate the development lifecycle for their IoT implementations.
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Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Fleet Provisioning, a new feature that makes it easy to onboard large numbers of manufactured devices to AWS IoT Core at scale
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. Fleet Provisioning is a new feature that helps customers easily onboard large volumes of manufactured devices, from consumer devices to industrial equipment, to AWS IoT Core.
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Data API Client Library for Java now generally available
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020You can use the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API Client Library with support for Java, to quickly and easily build applications for Amazon Aurora Serverless.
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Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020The Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available for all customers. The EventBridge schema registry stores event structure - or schema - in a shared central location and maps those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript so it’s easy to use events as objects in your code. Schemas from your event bus are automatically added to the registry when you turn on the schema discovery feature. You can connect to and interact with the schema registry from the AWS console, APIs, or through the SDK Toolkits for Jetbrains (Intellij, PyCharm, Webstorm, Rider) and VS Code.
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The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Northern California, São Paulo, and Singapore Regions
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020The AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Northern California, São Paulo, and Singapore Regions. The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures.
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MATE Desktop Environment added to the Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core & Mono
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020The Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core and Mono has been updated to include the MATE Desktop Environment. The AMI comes pre-configured with .NET Core 3.1 (with Long Term Support), Mono 6.8, PowerShell Core 6.2, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and the MATE Desktop Environment.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby Platforms
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020You can now run your applications on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the new generation of Node.js, PHP, Go and Ruby Elastic Beanstalk platforms built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System.
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Amazon SES is now in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon SES is a reliable, cost-effective, cloud-based email service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails.
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Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.16
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.16 for all clusters.
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Amazon EFS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%
Posted On: Apr 30, 2020AWS has updated its service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to 99.99%.
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Amazon EBS increases concurrent snapshot copy limits to 20 snapshots per destination Region
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020You can now copy up to 20 Amazon EBS snapshots concurrently to a single destination region per account, an increase from the previous limit of 5 concurrent copies per destination region per account.
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Announcing General Availability of Amazon SageMaker Notebooks and expansion of Amazon SageMaker Studio to additional AWS regions
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Notebooks and the availability of Amazon SageMaker Studio in additional AWS regions. Amazon SageMaker Notebooks provide a collaborative and quick-start experience. These Jupyter notebooks can be accessed via Amazon SageMaker Studio, a fully integrated development environment for the complete machine learning workflow.
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Amazon EMR announces support for running clusters with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020You can now use Amazon EMR with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce the cost of your big data workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports custom vocabulary
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, users can give Amazon Transcribe Medical more information about how to process speech from audio content by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of specific words that you want Amazon Transcribe Medical to recognize. These can be domain-specific words and phrases, such as medicine names, healthcare brands, or even terms related to procedures that aren’t already recognized out of the box.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports new Minor Versions
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports them for Microsoft SQL Server 2017, 2016, 2014, and 2012 for Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions on Windows operating systems.
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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds API support to easily retrieve media clips
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds a new GetClip API that makes it easy for developers to retrieve media stored in their Kinesis video streams. Developers can use the API to synchronously generate MP4 clips for offline playback, sharing playable clips, long term archival of interesting events, file based processing via Machine Learning applications, and other use cases.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 11.7, 10.12, 9.6.17, and 9.5.21
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.7, 10.12, 9.6.17, and 9.5.21. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community.
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Amazon SES now offers VPC Endpoint support for SMTP Endpoints
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables customers to connect an Amazon SES SMTP endpoint to a virtual private cloud (VPC) through a VPC endpoint powered by AWS PrivateLink. With this feature, customers can access the Amazon SES SMTP endpoint securely without requiring an Internet Gateway in a VPC.
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AWS WAF now supports migration wizard for converting WAF rules from AWS WAF Classic
Posted On: Apr 29, 2020AWS WAF now provides a simple way to migrate your WAF rules from AWS WAF Classic. The migration wizard will parse through your web ACL and generate a CloudFormation template into your S3 bucket. By deploying that CloudFormation template you can create an equivalent web ACL for the new AWS WAF.
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AWS Config adds additional conformance packs
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020AWS Config now offers two additional conformance pack sample templates to help you manage the configuration compliance of your AWS resources across AWS accounts. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. These packs are created by authoring a YAML template that contains the list of AWS Config managed or custom rules and remediation actions.
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AWS CodeCommit is Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020AWS CodeCommit, a fully-managed source control service, is now available to customers in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. CodeCommit makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.
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Kernel Live Patching is now available in Preview for Amazon Linux 2
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2, enabling customers to patch security vulnerabilities and bugs in the Linux kernel without reboots and disruptions to running applications. As a result, Amazon Linux 2 customers benefit from improved service availability and better security posture, while keeping their infrastructure secure and up-to-date with ease. This feature is offered to Amazon Linux 2 users at no cost.
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Introducing Genomics Secondary Analysis using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020Genomics Secondary Analysis Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch is an AWS Solution that creates a scalable environment on AWS to develop, build, deploy, and run genomics secondary analysis pipelines – e.g., processing raw whole genome sequences into variant calls. Customers can deploy this solution for their genomics analysis and research projects.
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Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace accelerates software procurement with standardized license terms
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that simplifies software discovery, procurement, and provisioning and helps AWS customers maintain transparency and governance, control costs, and innovate faster. AWS Marketplace now offers two standardized license agreement options, Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace and Enterprise Contract for AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to alleviate lengthy negotiations, decrease time to contract, and build at the speed of cloud.
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AWS Service Catalog adds three new Getting Started portfolios
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020AWS Service Catalog has added three new portfolios to the Getting Started Library that enable customers to build faster on AWS. These new portfolios include AWS Quick Starts, AWS Solutions, and AWS Config Conformance Packs, with a total of 30 new well-architected implementations and blueprints for solving common enterprise cloud needs. Service Catalog Administrators can share these implementations and blueprints with their teams, providing developer self-service while staying compliant with organizational best practices and policies.
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Introducing AWS Lambda Ready Partners
Posted On: Apr 28, 2020AWS customers are using AWS Lambda to build highly available and scalable applications without thinking about servers. Customers want to know which APN Technology Partner developer tools work best to help them easily deploy, monitor, and secure their Lambda-based workloads. Today, we launched the AWS Lambda Ready Program, part of the AWS Service Ready Program, to help customers find developer tooling solutions validated by AWS serverless experts to integrate with AWS Lambda.
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Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to S3 buckets shared through S3 Access Points
Posted On: Apr 27, 2020To help you discover S3 buckets that can be accessed publicly or from other accounts or organizations, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer evaluation of S3 buckets now includes S3 Access Point policies in addition to bucket policies and access control lists. This helps you find unintended access to S3 buckets that use access points, and identifies the access point that permits access. Access Analyzer makes it easier to identify and remediate unintended public, cross-account or cross-organization sharing of your S3 buckets that use access points. This helps you restrict bucket access and adhere to the security best practice of least privilege.
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AWS Data Exchange introduces configurable encryption for data exports to Amazon S3
Posted On: Apr 27, 2020AWS Data Exchange now enables customers exporting data assets to their Amazon S3 buckets to specify the encryption configuration they would like to apply to the destination S3 objects. Starting today, customers can configure Amazon S3 server-side encryption parameters in their export Job details and choose whether to encrypt the data using an Amazon S3-managed key (S3-SSE) or using an AWS KMS Customer Master Key (CMK). This new feature allows customers to benefit from Amazon S3’s object-level encryption for their third-party data.
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Amazon CodeGuru Profiler improves process for authorizing new applications
Posted On: Apr 27, 2020We’re happy to announce that Amazon CodeGuru Profiler has improved the process for configuring new applications to be set up for detecting performance issues. First-time setup for each new application will be faster, easier, more accurate and can be performed entirely within the console.
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AWS Glue now supports serverless streaming ETL
Posted On: Apr 27, 2020AWS Glue now supports streaming ETL. This feature makes it easy to set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds. Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue can consume data from streaming sources likes Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka, clean and transform those data streams in-flight, and continuously load the results into Amazon S3 data lakes, data warehouses, or other data stores. Customers can use this feature to process event data like IoT event streams, clickstreams, and network logs. Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue run on the Apache Spark Structured Streaming engine, so customers can use them to enrich, aggregate, and combine streaming data, as well as to run a variety of complex analytics and machine learning operations.
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Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Indonesia
Posted On: Apr 27, 2020AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in Indonesia. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any customer datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a consistent AWS experience.
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Announcing the new AWS Europe (Milan) Region
Posted On: Apr 27, 2020Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the immediate availability of the AWS Europe (Milan) Region, which is the first region in Italy launched by a major cloud provider. This new region is also the sixth AWS region in Europe. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, AWS now offers 24 Regions and 76 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries. The new AWS Europe (Milan) Region adds to the existing infrastructure AWS has in Italy, which includes five Edge locations (three in Milan, one in Palermo, and one in Rome) and an AWS Direct Connect Location in Milan which connects to the Europe (Frankfurt) Region.
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Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity (OAI). By using OAI, you can restrict your viewers from accessing content from your Amazon S3 buckets directly by requiring them to retrieve the content through Amazon CloudFront’s distributed edge network in China. To learn more about OAI with Amazon CloudFront in China, read CloudFront’s documentation on Configuring Secure Access and Restricting Access to Content. To get started with Amazon CloudFront in China, visit our webpage.
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Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020Following the November 26, 2019 announcement of the availability of PostgreSQL 11 support with Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in six AWS Regions, we have expanded availability to all commercial AWS Regions that support Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null column default faster. This version includes SQL stored procedures that allow embedded transactions within a procedure.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can now deliver streaming data to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon VPC. You can now easily ingest, transform, and reliably deliver streaming data in to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain running in a VPC without building and managing your own data ingestion and delivery infrastructure.
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EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports running containers on AWS Fargate in four additional AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).
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Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I), a new service that makes it easy to implement human reviews of machine learning (ML) predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review capabilities to all developers by removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building and managing human review systems.
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AWS DataSync enhances monitoring capabilities with file-level logging
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020When using AWS DataSync, you can now enable detailed logging for files and objects copied between your NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. Logging of individual files enables you to identify what was transferred at a given time, as well as the results of the content integrity verification performed by DataSync. This simplifies monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting, and enables you to provide timely updates to stakeholders.
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AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020
Posted On: Apr 24, 2020AWS IQ is waiving both the 3% buyer fee and 15% expert fee from April 16, 2020 to June 30, 2020. AWS IQ is waiving these fees to support you in setting up and scaling remote work initiatives, and to support the highly skilled consultants who provide their services.
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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now generally available.
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, a new feature that supports monitoring your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24x7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This lets you discover issues before your customers do and react quickly to fix them.
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AWS Storage Gateway automates creating new virtual tapes on Tape Gateway
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020AWS Storage Gateway automates creating new virtual tapes on Tape Gateway, helping you eliminate manual management of new tapes, easily manage large deployments, and efficiently scale growing on-premises backup and archive storage needs. With this enhancement, Tape Gateway automatically creates new virtual tapes to maintain the minimum number of available tapes you configure and then makes these new tapes available for import by the backup application, enabling your backup jobs to run without interruption. Automatic tape creation removes the need for custom scripting as well as the manual process to create new virtual tapes.
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Amazon RDS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zone
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Starting today, Amazon RDS is available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zone. With Amazon RDS on Local Zones, you can run latency-sensitive portions of your database workloads local to end-users and resources in a specific geography.
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AWS AppSync enables support for generic WebSockets clients with GraphQL real-time subscriptions
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. AppSync allows to easily make any of its supported data sources real-time, with connection management, scaling, fan-out and data broadcasting handled automatically between the service and the clients, enabling developers to focus on the business differentiators for their real-time applications instead of WebSockets operations and infrastructure management.
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AWS Storage Gateway increases Tape Gateway write and read performance by 2x
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading from and writing to virtual tapes on Tape Gateway by 2x, enabling you to perform faster backup and recovery than before.
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds improved multi-key indexing capabilities
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.
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Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in the AWS Canada (Central) region.
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Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Today, Amazon Pinpoint announced general availability of Custom Channels, enabling businesses to engage their customers on additional channels such as in-product messaging or social media. Marketers no longer need to learn multiple tools in order to reach their customers over a variety of applications. Using Custom Channels they can leverage the already familiar Amazon Pinpoint targeting and campaign features to reach their customers on their channel of choice - adding new ones as needed.
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Introducing Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020The Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment solution helps make it easier to set up a multi-region, high reliability architecture and ensure the consistency of a workload by automatically validating and deploying AWS CloudFormation stacks into a pre-production and production environment across a primary and secondary AWS Region. This solution automatically provisions and configures AWS CodePipeline to automate the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for CloudFormation templates in the AWS Cloud.
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Announcing cost controls for Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020You can now monitor and control your usage and associated cost for Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling features. You can create daily, weekly, and monthly usage limits, and define actions that Amazon Redshift automatically takes if those limits are reached to maintain your budget with predictability. Actions include: logging an event to a system table, alerting with a CloudWatch alarm, notifying an administrator with SNS, and disabling further usage. Amazon Redshift Spectrum enables you to power a lake house architecture to directly query and join data across your data warehouse and data lake, and Concurrency Scaling enables you to support thousands of concurrent users and queries with consistently fast query performance.
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Amazon Lex now available in Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020Amazon Lex is now available in Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions.
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Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP
Posted On: Apr 23, 2020The AWS Transfer Family announces AWS Transfer for FTPS and AWS Transfer for FTP, which makes it easy to migrate File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS) and FTP workloads to AWS.
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CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server now supports AWS Lambda and CloudWatch Events
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020Amazon CloudWatch has added new features to the Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server capability to further enhance observability for your .NET and SQL Server based applications. Starting today, if you are running your .NET Core applications on AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Application Insights sets up automated alarms based on dynamically identified thresholds for your Lambda metrics, and provides out-of-the-box analysis for the logs and application traces associated with your Lambda functions. In addition, you can now use CloudWatch Application Insights to detect and troubleshoot problems in your applications due to AWS Health events across your AWS account, Amazon EC2 state changes, and deployment events on AWS CodeDeploy, enabling you to further reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR)
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Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) managed node groups now allow fully private cluster networking by ensuring that only private IP addresses are assigned to EC2 instances managed by EKS.
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AWS Ground Station is now available in the EU (Ireland) Region
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that provides you global access to your space workloads. AWS Ground Station enables you to downlink data and provide satellite commands across multiple regions quickly, easily, and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing their own ground station infrastructure. AWS Ground Station is available today in six AWS Regions around the world. To see a list of supported regions, please visit the Global Infrastructure Region Table webpage.
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Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the immediate availability of the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region, which is the first AWS Region in Africa. The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, AWS now offers 23 Regions and 73 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries. The AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region adds to the list of AWS investments in the growth of South Africa, which include the launch of Direct Connect in 2017, the introduction of Amazon CloudFront to South Africa in 2018, and the launch of two new edge locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Chatbot is now generally available for all customers. AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent for “ChatOps” that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases. Previously, AWS Chatbot was in public preview.
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AWS Config Conformance packs is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Config Conformance packs are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. Conformance packs help you manage configuration compliance of your AWS resources at scale--from policy definition to auditing and aggregated reporting--using a common framework and packaging model.
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Amazon SageMaker now supports Inf1 instances providing high performance and cost-effective machine learning inference
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020Amazon SageMaker customers can now select Inf1 instances when deploying their machine learning models for real-time inference. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Using Inf1 instances on Amazon SageMaker, customers can run large scale machine learning and deep learning inference applications such as image recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, personalization, forecasting, and fraud detection with high performance and significantly lower costs.
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You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Organizations customers can now use AWS Control Tower to manage newly created organizational units (OUs) and accounts. This allows cloud administrators and architects to set up an AWS Control Tower landing zone with an existing Organization.
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AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Security Hub has launched a new security standard: AWS Foundational Security Best Practices v1.0.0. The initial release of this standard consists of 31 fully automated security controls in 12 Regions and 27 controls in AWS GovCloud (West) Region. 7 additional regions will be launched shortly. These security controls detect when AWS accounts and deployed resources do not align with security best practices defined by AWS security experts. This curated set of controls helps improve a customer’s security posture in AWS and covers AWS’s most popular and foundational services. When a deviation from an AWS security best practice is identified, AWS Security Hub issues a detailed and actionable finding to customers. These controls closely align to the Top 10 Security Best Practices outlined by AWS Chief Information Security Office, Stephen Schmidt, at AWS re:Invent 2019. We recommend that you enable AWS Security Hub and this standard in all accounts and Regions where you have activity. To learn more, visit our documentation on the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard.
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AWS Security Hub launches in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East).
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Introducing Amazon AppFlow
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks. With AppFlow, you can run data flows at nearly any scale at the frequency you choose - on a schedule, in response to a business event, or on demand. AppFlow includes powerful data transformation capabilities like mapping, merging, masking, filtering, and validation so you can generate rich, ready-to-use data as part of the flow itself, without additional steps. AppFlow automatically encrypts data in motion, and allows users to restrict data from flowing over the public Internet for SaaS applications that are integrated with AWS PrivateLink, reducing exposure to security threats.
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AWS Firewall Manager now supports organizational units for policy scoping
Posted On: Apr 22, 2020AWS Firewall Manager now supports organizational units (OU), allowing customers greater flexibility while scoping their policies. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. With Firewall Manager, you can manage AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, or VPC security groups across your entire AWS Organization.
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Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020Starting today, customers can interrupt a Lex chatbot in mid-sentence to quickly provide a voice input without waiting for it to finish speaking. Amazon Lex chatbots can be used in Amazon Connect flows to provide conversational interactions using the same machine learning technologies like Alexa, enabling companies to offer automated self-service to their customers using natural language. Today, customers who know what they want to say, can immediately speak without having to listen to the entire prompt being played. For example, when a customer calls to schedule a tune-up for their car, they no longer have to listen to a complete menu of options like "Thanks for calling our Seattle car dealership location, would you like to speak with sales, finance, parts, or service." Instead, they can immediately say, "Put me through to service," as soon as the prompt starts playing.
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Introducing Amazon Linux 2 Ready Partners
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020AWS customers want a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With Amazon Linux 2, AWS customers get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem.
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor ad break fill preference for live streaming
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020You can now configure ad break personalization for live streams with DVR-like time-shift windows using the Ad Break Suppression feature in AWS Elemental MediaTailor. For long-running events, or linear streams that have time-shift features enabled, viewers can start watching at the live edge, or at the start of the event or time-shift window. Using this feature, you can optimize the personalization of the time-shift window to increase the chance that only ad breaks that are viewed are personalized. For viewers joining live, you can choose to only insert personalized ads after the live point. For those joining from the start of the event, you can personalize all the ads within the manifest.
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Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020Starting today, PyTorch customers can use TorchServe, a new model serving framework for PyTorch, to deploy trained models at scale without having to write custom code.
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AWS IoT Events actions now support AWS IoT SiteWise and Amazon DynamoDB as targets
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020When using AWS IoT Events, you now have the option to define actions to write to AWS IoT SiteWise properties and Amazon DynamoDB tables. Previously, you could define actions to publish messages to six AWS services - AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS IoT Events, and AWS IoT Core. These expanded actions make it easier to build remote condition monitoring applications that help you quickly understand the state of your devices by providing more options to trigger actions on changes detected by AWS IoT Events.
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Amazon QuickSight adds Stacked Area charts, legend actions and more
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020Amazon QuickSight now supports stacked area charts, allowing display of cumulative totals of metrics over time with breakdown by specific categories. Authors can create a stacked area chart by selecting this new visual type from the the visuals menu, configuring the X-axis, metric and group-by dimensions. See here to learn more.
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Amazon GuardDuty simplifies multi-account threat detection with support for AWS Organizations
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020Amazon GuardDuty adds support for AWS Organizations to simplify threat detection across all existing and future accounts in an organization. With this launch, new and existing GuardDuty customers can delegate any account in their organization as the GuardDuty administrator and manage GuardDuty for up to 5,000 AWS accounts. Customers using GuardDuty’s existing multi-account feature can transition to AWS Organizations supported multi-account management without any disruption to existing GuardDuty operations. When managing GuardDuty with AWS Organizations, customers can automatically apply GuardDuty’s threat detection to new accounts added to the organization. This support is available today in all GuardDuty supported AWS regions. To learn more, see the Amazon GuardDuty account management User Guide.
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Amazon Route 53 supports Domain Name Transfer between AWS accounts
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Introducing AWS Cost Categories
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020With AWS Cost Categories (GA), you can now categorize your cost and usage information precisely to your organizational structure and cost allocation needs such as teams, cost centers, geography, applications, and more. Using Cost Categories, you can create these unique categories and then write rules on which costs belong to each group. After defining your unique category, you can view, track, and optimize costs using Cost Categories in the AWS Cost Management suite of products such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Report (‘CUR’).
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Custom dictionary files now supported on Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers support for adding custom dictionary files to your domains. Now you can specify synonyms, stop words, and segmentation files to improve your indexing, matching, and search relevancy. Previously, you could only include these types of customizations directly in your mapping which could make them unwieldy and difficult to manage.
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AWS Cost Explorer Rightsizing Recommendations Integrates with AWS Compute Optimizer
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020We are excited to announce that customers can now receive EC2 rightsizing recommendations powered by the AWS Compute Optimizer in AWS Cost Explorer. With today’s launch, Cost Explorer customers can get Amazon EC2 rightsizing recommendations across EC2 instance families, in addition to existing support for recommendations within the same EC2 instance family. The same launch also makes cost information for M, C, R, T and X instance types available in AWS Compute Optimizer.
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Now easily identify the identity responsible for the actions performed using IAM roles
Posted On: Apr 21, 2020AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier to identify who is responsible for an AWS action performed by an IAM role when viewing AWS CloudTrail logs. Adding the new service-specific condition, sts:RoleSessionName, in an IAM policy, enables you to define the role session name that must be set when an IAM principal (user or role) or application assumes the IAM role. AWS adds the role session name to the AWS CloudTrail log when the IAM role performs an action, making it easy to determine who performed the action.
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Amazon Redshift introduces support for multi-factor authentication
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020Amazon Redshift now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). Customers can use MFA to provide additional security when authenticating to their Amazon Redshift cluster.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) directly on RDS DB instances. You can run SSAS in the Tabular mode. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS DB instance.
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Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with AWS Config, making it easier for you to track configuration changes to the secrets you manage in Secrets Manager. You can now track change to your secrets’ metadata (e.g. rotation configuration), attributes (e.g. tags), and encryption key. You can also use two managed AWS Config rules to evaluate whether secrets are configured in compliance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. You can identify secrets that don’t conform to these requirements and receive notifications about these via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) or Amazon CloudWatch Events.
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AWS Elemental MediaStore adds lower cost infrequent access storage tier
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020You can now use a single AWS Elemental MediaStore endpoint to originate your video content throughout its lifecycle, from live stream, to video-on-demand (VOD) playback, through long-tail VOD playback. With the MediaStore Infrequent Access storage tier (MediaStore-IA), you get the performance required for originating live streams and the cost efficiencies needed for long-tail VOD streams, all in a single service.
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Amazon FSx is Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups.
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Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020You can now export an OpenAPI 3.0 compliant API definition file from HTTP APIs in Amazon API Gateway. API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Previously, you had to import OpenAPI 3.0 API definitions to create HTTP APIs in API Gateway.
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Amazon Translate Batch Translation is Now Available in Europe (London)
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Translate Batch Translation is now available in EU West 2 (London). Now, customers have the option to translate a large collection of text or HTML documents stored in a folder in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket using the new asynchronous Batch Translation service in EU West 2 (London). This is in addition to the real-time (synchronous) translation service that is already available, giving you options that best fit your needs.
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Introducing AWS Elemental Link: A Device to Send Live Video to AWS
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020Today we announced the general availability of AWS Elemental Link, a device that connects a live video source, like a camera or other video production equipment, to AWS Elemental MediaLive for video encoding in the cloud. To learn more and to place an order, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/elemental-link/.
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cluster deletion protection using AWS CloudFormation
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data.
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EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES
Posted On: Apr 20, 2020EC2 Image Builder, a service that makes it easier and faster to build and maintain secure Virtual Machine images now supports additional Operating Systems - Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Amazon Linux 2 and Windows Server 2019/2016/2012 R2 operating systems are already supported.
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Amazon Connect supports adjustable timeouts for Amazon Lex chatbots
Posted On: Apr 17, 2020Starting today, contact center admins can improve their Amazon Lex chatbots by configuring timeouts for each customer response in a conversation. The timeout determines how long the chatbot waits for the customer to finish speaking. For example, you might configure a short timeout for a yes/no question, but a longer timeout when asking for an address or credit card number, to give the customer more time to finish speaking.
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AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise Now Supports Custom Domains
Posted On: Apr 17, 2020AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise now supports custom domains. Through the existing interfaces you can now provide a custom fully qualified domain name (FQDN), its matching SSL certificate, and SSL private key and have the OpsWorks server configured accordingly. After you have created a Canonical Name (CNAME) entry in your DNS management service to point to the internal OpsWorks endpoint, you will find your Puppet Enterprise Dashboard under a domain of your choice instead of the generic OpsWorks-created one. Also, this will now be the public endpoint of your OpsWorks server. By using a custom domain with an SSL certificate that you manage, you have an endpoint that stays the same regardless of the server being re-created: any node under management by the OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise server will stay associated through this endpoint.
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Posted On: Apr 17, 2020AWS 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.
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Amazon SageMaker now supports ml.g4dn and ml.c5n instances for ML model training
Posted On: Apr 17, 2020Amazon SageMaker customers can now select ml.g4dn and ml.c5n instances for training machine learning models. Amazon SageMaker is a modular, fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale.
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AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now includes increased certificate issuance rate limits and support for Amazon S3 bucket encryption
Posted On: Apr 17, 2020AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports increased certificate issuance rate limits and support for encryption of Amazon S3 buckets used for certificate revocation lists and audit reports.
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor their private endpoints that run in a virtual private cloud (VPC). Microservices, APIs, or internal web tools inside a private network often power customer-facing websites and applications. Further, there are several critical internal applications such as for accounting, collaboration tools, corporate email, and payroll that have a direct impact on increased productivity for your organization. Continuously monitoring both internal and external endpoints using synthetic monitoring is vital to ensure smooth operations on a consistent basis.
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AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager now available in additional AWS Regions
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and EU (Stockholm) Regions.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Multifile Native Backups
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports Multifile Native Backups. With this feature, you can back up data from a single database across multiple files, uploading each of them in parallel directly to Amazon S3. This improves the overall backup experience.
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Amazon MSK is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.
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Amazon Polly launches Spanish Newscaster style voice
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the general availability of US Spanish Newscaster speaking style voice. The Newscaster speaking style was developed using the latest Neural Text-to-Speech technology, and imitates the voice of a news anchor. The US Spanish voice is the second language launched by Polly in the Newscaster speaking style, following the release of Newscaster speaking style voices in US English in July 2019. To hear an audio sample of the US Spanish Newscaster voice click here.
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AWS Security Hub launches a new API called BatchUpdateFindings and new Workflow Statuses
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020AWS Security Hub has released a new API action called BatchUpdateFindings, and we plan to deprecate the current UpdateFindings API. The UpdateFindings API only supported a few fields in the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF), and wasn't integrated with CloudWatch Events. The BatchUpdateFindings API fixes those issues and supports a much larger set of fields that can now be updated, such as severity, criticality, confidence, user defined fields, notes, and workflow status. Also, the fields that BatchUpdateFindings can update cannot be updated by finding providers. Those fields can only be updated by the customer or by SIEM/ticketing/SOAR tools that have access to this API action. This prevents finding providers from overwriting your updates. You can use the BatchUpdateFindings API to complete actions such as creating your own suppression rules, changing severity scores, and adding notes to findings. To learn more about this API, please visit our documentation.
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Amazon Redshift announces general availability for federated querying
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Amazon Redshift enables you to query data across your operational databases, your data warehouse, and your data lake. With Amazon Redshift Federated Query, you can query live data in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and integrate it with the data in your Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 environments.
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Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in AWS OpsHub, you have the full functionality of the Snowball devices at your fingertips; you can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics.
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AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020AWS Snowball now supports local AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), allowing you to securely manage access to AWS services and resources running on your Snowball device by controlling what actions users can take, and what AWS resources on the device users can take those actions on.
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AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager, simplifying common maintenance and deployment tasks on instances and other resources on your Snowball device. You can write scripts in Python or PowerShell directly in AWS OpsHub, a graphical user interface for managing Snow Family devices. The scripts can include any operations supported on the device. When these scripts are executed, AWS OpsHub will automatically execute the defined operations. These automated scripts can also be presented as actions listed in customizable drop-down menus.
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AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance, accelerating the process of moving terabytes to petabytes of data to AWS. Edge compute capabilities in the new device increased to 40 vCPUs and 80 GiB of memory, supporting sbe-c instance types for running applications at the edge. Network port options have expanded with the addition of 100 GbE ports. To improve unlocking, monitoring, and operation, AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized is fully compatible with the new AWS OpsHub application that provides a graphical user interface for these tasks.
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New AWS Public Datasets Available from Ford, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the National Cancer Institute, and others
Posted On: Apr 16, 202030 new or updated AWS Public Datasets from Ford, the Allen Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia, the National Cancer Institute, and others are now available in the following categories:
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NICE DCV Releases Version 2020.0 with Surround Sound 7.1 and Stylus Support
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020We are pleased to announce the release of NICE DCV version 2020.0 with the following new features:
- Stylus and touch support on Linux server
- Surround sound 7.1 playback on Windows server to Windows native client
- Hardware acceleration and stylus support on Linux native client
- New API command to set display layout on server side
- Multi-monitor web client support on the new Microsoft Edge browser (version 79.0.309 or higher)
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AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available, enabling Go developers to get an end to end view of requests as they travel through their applications.
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AWS IoT Events adds support for custom actions payloads and custom timers
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Starting today, you can customize the message in any action triggered by an event or a state change using the new AWS IoT Events expression syntax. This allows you to add custom text and remove irrelevant data from the messages sent by AWS IoT Events. With this launch, you can also define timer durations and MQTT topic names unique to each device (or detector instance).
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AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs Adds New CloudWatch Logs Integration
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020CloudWatch Logs integration in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, Rider and WebStorm) — allows developers to easily view and search for specific error codes or patterns from log streams. The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains is an open source plugin for the integrated development environments (IDEs) from JetBrains. The toolkit makes it easier to create, debug, and deploy Java, Python, JavaScript or .NET applications on Amazon Web Services using JetBrains IDEs. You can get started faster and be more productive with an integrated experience for developing serverless applications, including assistance for getting started, step-through debugging, building, and deploying from the IDE.
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Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles
Posted On: Apr 16, 2020Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles to easily delegate cluster management permissions to EKS.
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Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 8.0 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 13, 2020Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Community Edition major version 8.0 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. MySQL 8.0 is the latest major version release and offers new query functionality and enhancements for better performance, reliability, security, manageability, and international and mobile support.
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AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region advanced query in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 13, 2020AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region advanced query enabling you to run queries across accounts and Regions in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature provides you an easy mechanism to query your entire AWS footprint from a central account and get relevant information about your resources. For example, using this query capability, you can retrieve a list of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances of a particular size, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes that are not attached to an Amazon EC2 instance, or resources that have encryption disabled. This capability works across accounts, Regions, and organizations in AWS Organizations.
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Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility Supports Additional Sizes for the db.r5 Instance Class
Posted On: Apr 10, 2020Starting today, Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports the r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge instance sizes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using r4.8xlarge or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances.
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Amazon EMR announces EMR release 6.0.0 with new major versions of Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Amazon Linux 2, and support for Docker
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020We’re excited to announce Amazon EMR release 6.0.0 with support for new major versions of Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Amazon Linux 2 and support for packaging Spark environment dependencies with Docker.
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Amazon EMR is now available in the AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020You can now launch Amazon EMR clusters in the AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles (LA), California. Amazon EMR helps customers process vast amounts of data quickly and cost-effectively at scale. Using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi (Incubating), and Presto, coupled with the dynamic scalability of Amazon EC2, EMR gives analytical teams the engines and elasticity to run Petabyte-scale analysis for a fraction of the cost of traditional on-premises clusters. With support for AWS Local Zones, customers can now deploy their latency-sensitive big data applications close to their users in Los Angeles. The LA Local Zone is a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, and other select services closer to customers, giving developers the ability to run applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies to end-users in LA.
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New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020The new AWS Elastic Beanstalk console is now generally available. The new console makes it easier for you to use Elastic Beanstalk and simplifies the management of Applications and Environments. Send us your comments and suggestions using the feedback link in the new console. See Release Notes for additional details.
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Amazon QuickSight dashboards are now denser with slick look and feel
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020Amazon QuickSight now supports cascading filter actions. You can use filter actions to select multiple data points in a dashboard and view the cumulative impacts of filtering those data points, across multiple datasets used to build the dashboard. For example, on a business dashboard revenue data and bar charts representing ‘revenue by industry’ and ‘revenue by category’, you can choose ‘Technology’ as industry from the first bar chart and Hardware as category from the second bar chart to filter the entire dashboard to show contributions for Hardware category within the Technology industry. See here to learn more.
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Amplify Framework announces new, rearchitected UI Component and modular JavaScript libraries
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications, consisting of libraries, UI components, and an interactive CLI toolchain.
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Amazon Textract now reads Checkboxes and other Selection Elements more accurately
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. One advantage of services like Textract is that customers benefit from continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements that make Amazon Textract even more accurate.
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AWS CodePipeline now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020AWS CodePipeline is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
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NICE DCV with a free 90-day demo license is now available
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020To help support customers working from home, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is releasing a special, limited-time version of NICE DCV with an automatic 90-day evaluation license. This limited-time release of NICE DCV with the 90-day evaluation license will be available for download and activation until May 31, 2020. All activations of the software after this date will default to the standard 30-day automatic evaluation license.
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AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of HANA based SAP applications
Posted On: Apr 9, 2020AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS resources on HANA based SAP systems without the need to manually identify and provision individual AWS resources. You input your application requirements, including HANA settings, SAP landscape settings, and deployment details on the service console, and Launch Wizard identifies the AWS resources to deploy and run your application. Launch Wizard provides an estimated cost of deployment, and lets you modify your resources and instantly view the updated cost assessment. When you approve your settings, Launch Wizard provisions and configures the selected resources in a few hours to create a fully-functioning production-ready SAP application.
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Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020You can now launch the T3 instance type with Amazon Neptune for development and test scenarios. Amazon T3 instances are the next generation burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are ideal for database workloads with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use.
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Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. ECS tasks using EFS will automatically mount the file systems specified by the customer in the task definition and make them available to the containers in the task across all availability zones in the region. This enables persistent, shared storage to be defined and used at the task and container level in ECS.
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Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With DynamoDB global tables, you can create fully replicated tables across regions for disaster recovery and high availability of your DynamoDB tables. With this launch, you can now add a replica table in one AWS China Region to your existing DynamoDB table in the other AWS China Region. When you use DynamoDB global tables, you benefit from an enhanced 99.999% availability SLA at no additional cost.
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AWS Migration Hub now automatically tags migration results for cost tracking
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Throughout a migration, you will want to compare on-premises infrastructure costs to AWS costs, so that you can track spend and adjust your plans to maximize the ROI of your migration project. Migration Hub’s automatic tagging helps you track costs of migrated resources and compare that to on-premises costs using Cost Allocation Tagging and AWS Cost Explorer. For migrations tracked using the Migration Hub, an AWS system tag is automatically applied to each migrated EC2 instance or AMI. AWS resources are tagged with the key aws:migrationhub:source-id and the tag value is the discovery server ID corresponding to the originating server. Migration Hub can be used to track migrations from CloudEndure Migration, Server Migration Service, or other tooling using the AWS SDK/CLI.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020You can now use the AWS Elastic Beanstalk ListPlatformBranches API action that lists available Elastic Beanstalk platform branches and provides summary information about each platform branch. You can use the API action to query the platform state (Supported, Beta, Deprecated, Retired) of your Elastic Beanstalk environment. For more information on Platform Branch state, see Elastic Beanstalk Platforms Glossary in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide. For details about the ListPlatformBranches API action, see ListPlatformBranches in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk API Reference. See Release Notes for additional details.
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AWS Fargate launches Platform Version 1.4
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers, launches new platform version 1.4.0. This latest version enables several new Fargate features of which some are highlighted below. Unless otherwise noted, the new features discussed in this post are relevant to the native Fargate platform and are directly consumable by the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestrator.
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Local launch constraints are now generally available in AWS Service Catalog
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020AWS Service Catalog now supports local launch constraints. With this new feature, administrators can share products from one AWS account to other AWS accounts, and have those products launch locally in each account. In Service Catalog, this is referred to as a hub-and-spoke model of sharing approved IT services. This makes it easier for administrators to distribute and manage these services across multiple accounts, providing self-service access while staying compliant with organizational best practices and policies.
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AWS Elemental MediaConnect and MediaLive add input failover features
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports failover between two live sources into a flow. If one source fails, MediaConnect can failover to the second source, increasing the resiliency of live video transport. This provides uninterrupted ingest and transport of live video streams by adding resilience and automatic failover. The SMPTE-2022-7 standard (seamless protection switching at the packet level) is used if the two sources are compliant, otherwise active/active failover is used. To learn more, please visit the MediaConnect User Guide.
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Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview)
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), is now available in preview for Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS PostgreSQL. RDS Proxy makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure.
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Create Amazon MSK clusters with T3 brokers for less than $2.50/day
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters for less than $2.50/day using kafka.t3.small brokers.
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Amazon Managed Cassandra Service now enables you to manage access to resources based on tags
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now enables you to manage access to resources based on tags.
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AWS Data Exchange achieves ISO Compliance
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020AWS Data Exchange is now one of the AWS services under ISO Compliance for the ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27018 standards. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately managed.
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Support for Manifest Filtering and Other Improvements Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaPackage
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020With AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you can now use Manifest Filtering to customize video streams presented to specific devices based on their capabilities, or presented to specific end-user groups based on their subscriber status or language preferences. You can configure up to four filters that select tracks depending on audio language, audio sample rate, video codec, and video bitrate criteria. Filters can be combined to create highly targeted variants of the manifests in all supported formats, for live and VOD endpoints. This capability improves the overall viewing experience with customized and targeted video content tailored to specific audiences. For instructions on how to configure Manifest Filtering, please refer to the documentation page.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 19.2
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 19.2 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.
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Support for Queue Hopping now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020In the past, when submitting an encoding job to an AWS Elemental MediaConvert reserved queue, the job would stay in that queue until it could be processed. If the queue was busy, the job would wait to start until previous jobs completed. This presents a challenge for videos requiring strict turnaround times. To solve this, MediaConvert now has the ability to submit jobs using a feature called queue hopping. You specify the queue a job should start in and how long it should wait before hopping to a different queue. With queue hopping, you can avoid long wait times for transcoding jobs that are time-sensitive while also effectively utilizing your reserved transcoding slots. For example, a job can be submitted to a reserved queue with a wait time of 15 minutes; if the job has not started after that time, it can hop to an on-demand queue to start encoding. For more information about queue hopping, please read the documentation.
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Announcing support for fine-grained IAM permissions for PrivateLink interface endpoints
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020VPC Interface endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink) and gateway endpoints now support additional IAM condition keys. With this launch, you can now use the IAM condition key ec2: VpceServiceOwner to restrict creation of interface endpoints to either AWS services or services owned by specific AWS accounts. You can also restrict endpoint creation to only specific services by using the ec2: VpceServiceName condition key in your IAM policies. Additionally, you can manage actions on your VPC endpoint and endpoints services based on existing tags on resources like VPCs and subnets using the ec2:resourceTag condition key.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020You can now run your applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the new generation of Docker, Corretto and Python Elastic Beanstalk platforms built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System.
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Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring allows customers to replicate the network traffic from an EC2 instance within their VPC and forward that traffic to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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Amazon Detective is now available in the US West (N. California) Region
Posted On: Apr 8, 2020Amazon Detective is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region. You can now easily analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities in the AWS US West (N. California) region.
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Amazon Managed Cassandra Service (preview) now helps you coordinate increments and decrements to column values by using counters
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you coordinate increments and decrements to column values by using counters.
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Announcing the ability to run Windows Server license included instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020You can now run license included Windows Server instances on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, which enables you to use fully compliant Windows Server software licenses from AWS with a pay-as-you-go model. This new capability helps in scenarios where you have eligible SQL Server licenses to use on Dedicated Hosts but do not have accompanying Windows Server licenses to run the SQL Server workloads.
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Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020The AWS Deep Learning Containers are available with the latest framework versions of PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0. The PyTorch 1.4.0 upgrade includes newly added SageMaker Inference, SageMaker PyTorch Inference, and the latest version of SageMaker PyTorch Training. The MXNet 1.6.0 upgrade includes the latest version of GluonCV, SageMaker MXNet Training, SageMaker Inference and SageMaker MXNet Inference. You can launch the new versions of the Deep Learning Containers on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning Containers, see the release notes for PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0.
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Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple, providing another social identity provider for customers who use Cognito for receiving temporary AWS credentials. This feature is available now in Amazon Cognito Identity Pools with no additional cost.
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New Classroom Course: AWS Security Essentials
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020We are excited to announce the launch of AWS Security Essentials, a new one-day, instructor-led classroom course.
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New Trailhead Training Content: Learn the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce content updates to our Learn the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials “trail” on Trailhead by Salesforce. Built by the experts at AWS, this trail is recommended for those who are new to the AWS Cloud or who are looking to build their AWS Cloud skills. It can help learners further explore cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. This trail also helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, which validates overall understanding of the AWS Cloud with an industry-recognized credential that can help grow your career.
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AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020AWS Transit Gateway now supports the ability to establish peering connections between Transit Gateways in 11 additional AWS Regions. Transit Gateway is a service that enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. With AWS Transit Gateway, customers only have to create and manage a single connection from a central regional gateway to each Amazon VPC, on-premises data center, or remote office across their networks.
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Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020Amazon Managed Blockchain now has support to publish Hyperledger Fabric peer node, chaincode, and certificate authority (CA) logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use these logs to troubleshoot during chaincode development and maintain visibility into network activity and errors. CloudWatch Logs enables you to monitor, store and access log files from all your applications and AWS services in a single, highly scalable service. Additionally, you can set up and take actions on Amazon CloudWatch alarms triggered from logging events.
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VPC Input and Output Support now available with AWS Elemental MediaConnect
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020Support for transporting live video over a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConnect. You can simplify hybrid cloud-based transport workflows by sending video to and from MediaConnect using a VPC. The new VPC feature is also compatible with AWS Direct Connect infrastructure configured with private virtual interfaces (VIF), supporting the ingest and egress of content via private networking. To learn more, please visit the documentation pages.
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Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020Amazon Chime proxy phone sessions let you provide two users with a shared phone number to communicate via voice or text for up to 12 hours without revealing personal phone numbers. When users call or message the provided phone number, they are connected to the other party and their private phone numbers are replaced with the shared number in Caller ID. Personal phone numbers are not displayed, a method often called number masking. With proxy phone sessions, a food delivery service can allow a delivery driver and customer to contact each other for the duration of the delivery period to get information like a gate code or other special instructions. Proxy phone sessions help protect user privacy and keep transactions on your service. Numbers are available on-demand, so developers don't have to calculate how many numbers they will need for different locations, or pay for extra numbers they do not use.
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AWS DeepLens launches new tutorials website and adds supports for Python 3
Posted On: Apr 7, 2020We are pleased to launch a new website with curated tutorials for AWS DeepLens. In addition to our existing tutorials (Worker Safety and Coffee Counter), we added a new tutorial (Trash Sorter) that walks you through how to train a custom image classification model on your own data and deploy it to DeepLens. We will continue adding tutorials to show you how to use a variety of computer vision and machine learning (ML) techniques to level up your ML skills with DeepLens.
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Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs
Posted On: Apr 6, 2020With this release, Amplify CLI makes it easy to create Lambda functions running on Java, Go, .NET and Python runtimes with sample code and a guided creation, update and deployment process. Refer to a full guide for how to create functions with the new runtimes in our documentation.
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Amazon Redshift now supports changing node types within minutes with elastic resize
Posted On: Apr 6, 2020Amazon Redshift now supports elastic resize across node types. Customers can change node types within minutes and with one simple operation using elastic resize.
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AWS announces the Migration Acceleration Program for Windows
Posted On: Apr 6, 2020AWS now offers the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows. MAP for Windows provides services, best practices, and tools to help our customers save costs, accelerate their migrations and modernize their Windows workloads on AWS.
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Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items
Posted On: Apr 6, 2020Amazon Personalize enables you to personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, using the same machine learning technology as used by Amazon.com, without requiring any prior machine learning experience. Using Amazon Personalize, you can generate personalized recommendations for your users through a simple API interface. We are pleased to announce that Amazon Personalize now provides recommendations scores with each personalized recommendation. These scores can help you understand the relative difference in the relevancy of recommendations, and help you apply additional business logic on the recommendations, such as filtering out recommendations below a threshold or balancing relevancy with other business objectives such as displaying sponsored content. You can retrieve the scores along with the recommendations through the GetRecommendations or the GetPersonalizedRanking APIs, the Personalize console, or through a Batch Inference job. To learn more about this feature, visit our blog.
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Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4
Posted On: Apr 6, 2020Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB version 10.4 in all AWS Regions. 10.4 is the latest major version release of MariaDB offering new functionality and enhancements for better performance, reliability, security, and manageability.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink
Posted On: Apr 6, 2020You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access AWS Elastic Beanstalk APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. This includes the ability to receive Enhanced Health monitoring metrics from your application.
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AWS Serverless Application Repository allows sharing public applications from all commercial AWS regions
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020Authors who publish serverless applications to the AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) can now make their applications publicly available from all commercial AWS regions (except China) where the service is available.
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AWS RoboMaker now supports configurable Simulation Unit limit
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to run robotics simulations at cloud scale, now supports configurable Simulation Unit limit, to help control robotics application testing costs. With AWS RoboMaker simulation, you only pay for the time your simulation job takes to run, and you are charged an hourly rate based on the number of Simulation Units (or SUs) required to run your simulation job – which you can now limit.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports In-Region Read Replicas
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020Starting today, Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports read replicas using Distributed Availability Groups within an AWS Region. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it easy to create replicas in the same AWS Region as the primary DB instance by fully managing the configuration of the Distributed Availability Group and maintaining secure network connections between a primary DB instance and its replicas.
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AWS Glue now supports the ability to create new tables, update schema and partitions in your Glue Data Catalog from Glue Spark ETL jobs
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020AWS Glue now supports the ability to create new tables and update the schema in the Glue Data Catalog from Glue Spark ETL jobs. Previously, you had to run Glue crawlers to create new tables, modify schema or add new partitions to existing tables after running your Glue ETL jobs resulting in additional cost and time.
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AWS Glue now supports reading and writing to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections using Glue Spark ETL jobs
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020Starting today, you can use Glue Spark ETL jobs to read, transform, and load data from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections into services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift for downstream analytics.
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AWS IoT Device Defender Now Available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. AWS IoT Device Defender is a fully managed service that helps you secure your fleet of IoT devices. It continuously audits device configurations for security vulnerabilities. It also continuously monitors security metrics from devices and AWS IoT Core for deviations from what you have defined as appropriate behaviors for each device. AWS IoT Device Defender publishes alerts to AWS IoT Console, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon SNS when an audit fails or when behavior anomalies are detected. AWS IoT Device Defender also supports the ability for customers to use predefined mitigation actions to respond to audit findings and apply them at scale.
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AWS IoT Device Tester now supports automatic updates for test suites
Posted On: Apr 3, 2020AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS and AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass now support automatic updates for test suites.
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Amazon GameLift in 2020 – Major update now available in preview
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon GameLift, a managed service for session-based multiplayer games that leverages the power and reliability of AWS, enables game developers to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated low-cost servers. Since 2016, some of the largest game companies in the world, such as Ubisoft, Behaviour Interactive, and Bethesda, trust GameLift to maximize cost savings while scaling their multiplayer experiences.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the queries you run. Logs Insights scales with your log volume and query complexity giving you answers in seconds. In addition, you can publish log-based metrics, create alarms, and correlate logs and metrics together in CloudWatch Dashboards for complete operational visibility.
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Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is a diagnostic tool that provides an at-a-glance view of your DynamoDB tables’ traffic trends and helps you identify your tables’ most frequently accessed keys (also known as hot keys). You can monitor each table’s item access patterns continuously and use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to generate graphs and visualizations of the table’s activity. Using this information, you can better understand the top drivers of your application’s traffic and respond appropriately to unsuccessful requests.
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Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software from Australia and New Zealand ISVs and Consulting Partners, adding to the 7,000+ software listings and data products from 1,500+ sellers. Starting today, AWS Marketplace customers can find their local solution providers and leverage their trusted relationships with consulting partners in the region, making it easier than ever to migrate to and build operations in the cloud.
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AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain)
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in two new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain).
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Amazon Redshift launches RA3.4xlarge nodes with managed storage
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Starting today, Amazon Redshift RA3.4xlarge nodes are generally available. These new node types support up to 64 TB of Redshift managed storage per node. They enable you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently, allowing you to size your cluster based only on your compute needs.
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Amazon WorkSpaces enables the bring your own license (BYOL) option in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon WorkSpaces now allows customers to bring their own licenses (BYOL) to WorkSpaces in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With BYOL, you can now add your own Windows 10 licenses to WorkSpaces and use the Windows Desktop operating system on your Amazon WorkSpaces running on hardware that is dedicated to you. This option entitles you to a discount per month per WorkSpace, and also allows you to use a single Windows 10 Desktop golden image on-premises and for your Amazon WorkSpaces.
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Amazon EBS crash-consistent snapshot ability now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Starting today, Amazon EBS crash-consistent snapshot ability is available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now take crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes in an EC2 instance with a single API call. Backup data across multiple volumes is in sync and the restore of EBS volumes is accurate. Since snapshots are automatically taken across multiple EBS volumes, you no longer need to stop your instance or coordinate between volumes to ensure crash-consistency.
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Amazon CodeGuru Profiler flame graphs are now easier to use
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020We are excited to announce that Amazon CodeGuru Profiler has introduced an improved flame graph interface that enhances overall usability. You can now navigate more easily with improved scrolling functionality. There is also a new visual tool that shows the part of a graph that you are currently viewing. This allows you to move around the graph more easily and focus on the areas you are interested in.
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AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Dimensions for topic-based metric monitoring
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020AWS IoT Device Defender announces the General Availability (GA) of the Dimensions feature that enables customers to filter the metrics that Device Defender Detect evaluates by MQTT topic. Dimensions supports the following cloud-side metrics: number of messages received, message byte size, number of messages sent, source IP, and number of authorization failures.
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Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now includes support for AWS CloudFormation
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon CodeGuru Profiler has added support for AWS CloudFormation, allowing customers to create profiling groups when they provision new resources. This makes it easier to monitor and manage the performance of applications without having to configure Amazon CodeGuru Profiler separately through the console.
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Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups.
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Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 for new clusters. Apache Kafka 2.4.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that reduce latency and improve performance. Support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 is offered in all regions where Amazon MSK is available. For a complete list of improvements and bug fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.4.1 and 2.4.0.
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Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available. Contributor Insights analyzes time-series data to help you understand who or what is impacting your system and application performance by pinpointing outliers, finding the heaviest traffic patterns, and ranking the top system processes. This helps developers and operators more quickly isolate, diagnose, and remediate issues during an operational event.
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Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon Transcribe Medical is HIPAA eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Up until now, Amazon Transcribe Medical has been available as a streaming API whereby users can pass realtime audio for transcription. Starting today, customers of the service can conveniently transcribe recorded medical audio files too.
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Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now supports delete functionality for Projects and Models
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is a feature of Amazon Rekognition, that allows customers with no machine learning (ML) expertise, to build their own ML-based image analysis capabilities to identify the unique objects and scenes that are relevant to their business need.
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Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is now generally available. CloudWatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB is a diagnostic tool that provides an at-a-glance view of your DynamoDB tables’ traffic trends and helps you identify your tables’ most frequently accessed keys (also known as hot keys). You can monitor each table’s item access patterns continuously and use CloudWatch Contributor Insights to generate graphs and visualizations of the table’s activity. Using this information, you can better understand the top drivers of your application’s traffic and respond appropriately to unsuccessful requests.
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AWS DeepComposer is now generally available
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020AWS DeepComposer is now generally available to all AWS customers, with exciting new feature additions. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to learn machine learning. Get hands-on, literally, with a musical keyboard and the latest machine learning techniques, designed to expand your ML skills. AWS DeepComposer includes tutorials, sample code, and training data that can be used to build generative AI models, all without having to write a single line of code.
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Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack
Posted On: Apr 2, 2020Customers can now receive and view notifications for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and/or AWS CodePipeline directly in Slack with a few clicks in the AWS console. This includes notifications such as CodeBuild build completions, CodeCommit source changes, completed CodeDeploy deployments, and successful CodePipeline executions.
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Amazon Neptune now supports the r5.8xlarge instance type
Posted On: Apr 1, 2020Now you can launch your Amazon Neptune RDF/SPARQL or Apache TinkerPop graph application with an db.r5.8xlarge instance type in all regions where Amazon Neptune is available.
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Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems
Posted On: Apr 1, 2020Starting today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) General Purpose mode file systems support up to 35,000 read operations per second, a 400% increase from the previous limit of 7,000. Maximum write operations are unchanged at 7,000 per second.
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Amazon Sumerian supports exporting your scenes to glTF
Posted On: Apr 1, 2020Amazon Sumerian, the AWS service that makes it easy to create and run browser-based 3D, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) applications, now supports exporting your Sumerian scenes to glTF (GL Transmission Format), an open-source file format for 3D scenes and models that’s compatible with many other 3D editing tools and rendering engines. To learn more about the glTF file format and what is supported, please refer to our user guide.
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Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF
Posted On: Apr 1, 2020Amazon Connect now enables you to define a custom terminating keypress when capturing DTMF (dual-tone multi frequency) inputs to provide greater flexibility when accepting multiple inputs during a call. Instead of the default “#” to signal the end of DTMF collection, you can now specify a different digit such as “*” or a series of digits such as “##” or “0000”. For example, this can be used to let your callers enter multiple inputs such as account number, amount, and stock name in a single stream of digits, rather than enter each input one at a time.
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Amazon SES is now available in the Canada (Central), EU (London), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions
Posted On: Apr 1, 2020Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Canada (Central), EU (London), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions, in addition to US East (Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and EU (Frankfurt) Regions. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES.
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AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
Posted On: Apr 1, 2020AWS Ground Station expands its global coverage to the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. The Sydney Region in Australia is the fifth region within the AWS Global Infrastructure Network and the first region in the Southern hemisphere to offer AWS Ground Station. AWS Ground Station is available today in US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Middle East (Bahrain), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) with more regions coming soon.