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AWS Config now supports Amazon container services
Posted On: Feb 26, 2021AWS Config now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in all AWS Regions. With this launch, you can now use AWS Config to monitor configuration data for container-based resources in your AWS account, such as monitoring configuration changes to EKS cluster settings and tracking compliance for cluster configurations. AWS Config provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account, including how resources were configured, how they relate to one another, and how the configurations and relationships change over time.
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Support for AS923-1 frequency band is now generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
Posted On: Feb 26, 2021Starting today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN customers can use the AS923-1 frequency band to connect LoRaWAN gateways and devices that are physically present in countries that support the frequency ranges and characteristics of this band. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN enables customers to setup a private LoRaWAN network by connecting their LoRaWAN devices and gateways to the AWS cloud without developing or operating a LoRa Network Server (LNS). AS923-1 is commonly used in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan among other countries. In addition, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN also supports the US902-928 and EU863-870 bands, commonly used in the North America and European regions, respectively.
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AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to specify IP addresses for SAP deployments
Posted On: Feb 26, 2021AWS Launch Wizard now gives you the option to specify a private IP address of your choice for each EC2 instance in your SAP deployment. This makes it easy to adhere to organizational security/ governance processes that dictate which IP addresses are permissible.
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports many media origins and paths within a single configuration with Configuration Aliases
Posted On: Feb 25, 2021AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces new Configuration Aliases, that can reduce the number of MediaTailor configurations needed to support multiple origins and media paths. This feature enables a single MediaTailor configuration to support URL fields with dynamic user-defined variables.
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New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer - JumpStart for Amazon Textract
Posted On: Feb 25, 2021JumpStart for Amazon Textract is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from TensorIoT, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. JumpStart for Amazon Textract enhances the the benefits of Amazon Textract by reducing setup time and adding functionality that improves the data extraction experience and streamlines the user interface. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers identification of requirements; development, testing, and verification of form templates; and deployment of the solution.
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Updated digital course on Coursera and edX - AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Posted On: Feb 25, 2021AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of the updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials digital course on Coursera and edX. If you’re new to the cloud or in a technical or non-technical role such as finance, legal, sales, or marketing, this course provides you with an understanding of fundamental AWS Cloud concepts to help you gain the confidence to contribute to your organization’s cloud initiatives.
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New digital class on DevOps on AWS
Posted On: Feb 25, 2021We are excited to announce the launch of our new digital course, Getting Started with DevOps on AWS. This course explores the basics of developing, delivering, and maintaining high-quality secure applications and services at high velocity on AWS. The course covers the philosophies, practices, and tools used to implement a DevOps environment on AWS.
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AWS Network Firewall Deployment Automations for AWS Transit Gateway is Generally Available
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021We’re excited to announce the launch of AWS Network Firewall Deployment Automations for AWS Transit Gateway, a reference implementation to help customers deploy and configure the AWS resources needed to inspect and filter VPC-to-VPC (East-West) traffic.
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Announcing two new on-demand digital courses for Media Services
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce two new courses for Media Services: Media Supply Chain: Video Processing and Delivery and Introduction to AWS Media Services by Use Case. These digital courses are designed for organizations and individuals seeking to build cloud-based media workflows.
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New digital curriculum: Build Modern Apps with Purpose-Built Databases
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021We’re excited to announce a free new digital curriculum: Build Modern Apps with Purpose-Built Databases. The curriculum explores the benefits of Amazon purpose-built databases and illustrates a step-by-step process for creating and modeling the databases for modern applications. Designed for data engineers, database developers, and solutions architects, this intermediate, three-hour curriculum has six self-paced modules that include presentations, video demonstrations, and downloadable user guides.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports rollups, reducing storage costs for extended retention
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021Amazon Elasticsearch Service introduces index rollups that lets you summarize high granularity data and preserve feature-rich aggregations over large data sets for analytics while reducing the storage costs.
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Automate quality inspection with Amazon Lookout for Vision — now generally available
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021Today, Amazon Lookout for Vision is generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Lookout for Vision is a machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations of manufactured products using computer vision (CV), allowing you to automate quality inspection.
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Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 13
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from new features and performance from new features and enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity within a PostgreSQL database, new security capabilities, and more. This release also adds support for bool_plperl, which simplifies writing Perl procedures.
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AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions
Posted On: Feb 24, 2021AWS Transfer Family, a service that provides fully managed serverless file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), is now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions. With this launch, AWS Transfer Family is now available in 19 commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to view deleted Auto Scaling groups in the scaling history. Previously if you deleted an Auto Scaling group, you needed to either maintain a record of scaling activities for deleted Auto Scaling groups or ask AWS support team to retrieve the scaling activities for you. Now, you can specify one additional parameter in a describe call to get a description of the scaling history for deleted Auto Scaling groups. This makes it easier to keep a record of scaling activities after an application has been shut down.
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New troubleshooting feature now generally available for AWS IoT Events
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Today, AWS launched a new feature for static analysis of your event “detector models” (representations of your IoT devices as state machines on the AWS cloud) in AWS IoT Events. The feature automatically performs 7 different analyses (see list in developer guide) of your models for potential syntax errors (e.g. bad expressions or payloads), structural issues (e.g. missing states or input triggers) and runtime errors (e.g. data type mismatch, missing data, potential to hit service limits, etc.). This debugging tool is particularly useful for complex detector models which have a large number of state changes, each with unique conditional logic triggered by multiple input data streams. The analysis summarizes diagnostic information of each of the 7 analyses by severity level ('info', 'warning', 'error') and identifies its location within the model (state, transition, action, etc.) to help you fix issues in your model even before publishing it.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for Standard Edition
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Always On Availability Groups (AGs) for the Multi-AZ configuration in all AWS Regions on Standard Edition. This new high-availability option meets the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads on SQL Server.
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AWS Database Migration Service now supports MariaDB version 10.5
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MariaDB version 10.5. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to MariaDB 10.5 databases, and from MariaDB 10.5 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets.
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Introducing our new Solutions Training for Partners: Sales Best Practices courses
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021AWS Training and Certification is excited to launch the Solutions Training for Partners: Sales Best Practices digital training series. These 30-minute fundamental courses are designed to introduce AWS Partners to cloud concepts and relevant AWS solutions for services that customers leverage most to innovate and transform their business.
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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Big Sur
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Starting today, customers can run macOS Big Sur (11.2.1) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on EC2 Mac instances. macOS Big Sur is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. macOS Big Sur will support running Xcode versions 12.5 and later, which will include additional SDKs for iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS Big Sur 11.3. Customers can now also access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur.
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Access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Starting today, you can access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems from your Amazon EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur. You can now mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your instances by using the Amazon EFS client, an open source toolset, installed using the Homebrew package manager. You can also mount your Amazon EFS file systems on your instances using the macOS native NFS client version 4.0. To learn more about mounting Amazon EFS file systems on EC2 Mac instances, see the Amazon EFS documentation.
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New AWS Solutions Implementation: IoT Static IP Endpoints
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021We are delighted to announce the addition of IoT Static IP Endpoints to the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. AWS Solutions Implementations help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 1.8.2 / 2.6.2 / 3.3.2 now available
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Patches 1.8.2 / 2.6.2 / 3.3.2 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation. You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service add support for Reporting in Kibana
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Reporting, a new feature that enables Kibana users to generate and download reports. They can now generate reports directly from the Dashboard, Visualize and Discover panels, and export them to PDF, CSV and PNG file formats.
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Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation
Posted On: Feb 23, 2021Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling you to manage Contributor Insights settings for DynamoDB with CloudFormation templates.
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Amazon Connect now provides disconnect reason for Voice Calls & Tasks
Posted On: Feb 22, 2021Amazon Connect CTR (contact trace records) stream now includes disconnect reason for Voice calls & Tasks. This will indicate whether an agent or customer disconnected the call, or whether a telecom or network issue caused a call to disconnect, or if a task was completed by an agent or flow.
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AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton2
Posted On: Feb 22, 2021AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm-based workloads now run on AWS Graviton2 without any additional configuration.
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AWS Control Tower now provides region selection
Posted On: Feb 22, 2021Today, we are announcing AWS Control Tower Region Selection, a new capability that provides you the ability to efficiently manage the geographical footprint of your AWS Control Tower resources. You can now select the additional Regions you would like AWS Control Tower to govern; providing you with the capabilities to address compliance and regulatory concerns while balancing the costs associated with expanding into additional regions.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2021 Release Updates (RU)
Posted On: Feb 22, 2021Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. January 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon.
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Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm) regions
Posted On: Feb 22, 2021Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm) regions. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. They offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, including large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications.
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Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region
Posted On: Feb 22, 2021Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. They offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, including large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications.
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Support for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS Config
Posted On: Feb 19, 2021AWS Config now supports the ability to use an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key or alias Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that you provide, to encrypt the data delivered to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. By default, AWS Config delivers configuration history and snapshot files to your S3 bucket and encrypts the data at rest using S3 AES-256 server-side encryption, SSE-S3. With this release, if you provide AWS Config with your KMS key or alias ARN, AWS Config will use that KMS key instead of using AES-256 encryption.
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Now create Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL with custom expiration time
Posted On: Feb 19, 2021Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare, build, train and tune, deploy and manage models.
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Amazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ Deployments
Posted On: Feb 19, 2021Amazon RDS adds new events reporting the cause of an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ automated database failover so that you can detect and respond to your outage faster. You can view these failover reasons in the event log.
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Assign a Delegated Administrator to manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets across your AWS Organization
Posted On: Feb 19, 2021AWS CloudFormation StackSets extends the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple accounts and regions with a single operation. Last year, we introduced StackSets integration with AWS Organizations, allowing you to define a central template that can be applied across AWS accounts, reducing the need for you to set up permissions, networking needs, and infrastructure for each new account, and allowing you to easily apply changes across your organization. We are now announcing the ability to delegate an AWS member account in your organization as an administrator to create and manage stack sets for your entire organization. Delegated administration removes the need for you to access the management account for stack sets administration on behalf of the organization. Using this feature enables you to adopt an AWS security best-practice, which recommends that you delegate responsibilities outside of the management account where possible.
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports canary events with Amazon EventBridge
Posted On: Feb 19, 2021CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring canary events with Amazon EventBridge. This allows you to send notifications to teams, capture canary event information, and take corrective action in response to a canary state change or the completion of a canary run.
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Updated digital training for AWS Partners on End User Computing and Machine Learning
Posted On: Feb 18, 2021AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the availability of three updated digital courses for AWS Partners.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds Trace Analytics, a new feature for distributed tracing
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds Trace Analytics, a new feature for distributed tracing that enables developers and IT operators to find and fix performance problems in distributed applications, leading to faster problem resolution times.
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Amazon Redshift Query Editor now supports clusters with enhanced VPC routing, longer query run times, and all node types
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query editor with Amazon Redshift clusters enabled with enhanced VPC routing. You can leverage AWS Secrets Manager to store your cluster credentials and use that with the Amazon Redshift Query Editor.
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AWS Glue Studio jobs can now update AWS Glue Data Catalog tables
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021AWS Glue Studio now supports updating the AWS Glue Data Catalog during job runs. This feature makes it easy to keep your tables up to date as AWS Glue writes new data into Amazon S3, making the data immediately queryable from any analytics service compatible with the AWS Glue Data Catalog.
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Simplified Amazon Elastic File System management console now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021You can now use the updated Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) console in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The updated console makes it even easier for you to create and manage your file system resources. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you can create file systems configured with the recommended settings in just few clicks. You can also monitor your file system’s behavior using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms natively in the Amazon EFS console.
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Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 14 additional AWS regions
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. To deploy ML models for real-time predictions, Amazon SageMaker provides you with a large selection of AWS compute instances, so you can find the right cost to performance ratio depending on your requirements. One such instance type is Amazon Inf1, powered by AWS Inferentia, a custom chip built from the ground up by AWS to accelerate ML inference workloads. Amazon ml.Inf1 instances were available in Amazon SageMaker in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Starting today, Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are available on Amazon SageMaker in 14 additional AWS regions worldwide.
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Amazon Pinpoint now supports 10DLC and toll-free numbers
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021Amazon Pinpoint now includes the ability to register Ten-Digit Long Codes (10DLC), and purchase toll-free phone numbers. Both 10DLC phone numbers and toll-free numbers are used to send SMS text messages to recipients in the United States. Both of these types of phone numbers enable you to send Application-to-Person (A2P) messages with improved delivery rates and at an affordable price.
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Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS messages to US destinations using ten-digit long codes and toll-free numbers
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports ten-digit long codes (10DLC) and toll-free numbers (TFN) for sending SMS text messages from businesses to consumers in the US. These new origination ID types enable SNS customers to send messages using a phone number that is unique to them, and provide improved delivery rates.
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AWS Glue Studio now supports reading uncatalogued data from Amazon S3 and inferring its schema
Posted On: Feb 17, 2021AWS Glue now supports reading data stored in Amazon S3 without first adding it to the AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature makes it fast to start authoring Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and ELT jobs in AWS Glue Studio by allowing you to use locations and objects in Amazon S3 directly as data sources. AWS Glue infers the schema of the data in real time , allowing you to easily define transforms on it in the AWS Glue Studio visual job authoring interface.
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Update content of inbound and outbound emails using AWS Lambda in Amazon WorkMail
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021Today, Amazon WorkMail announced that you can now update content of in-transit emails to and from your organization with AWS Lambda functions when using Email Flow Rules. With this, you can easily update the contents of the email as it flows in and out of your organization in order to help meet security, compliance, or productivity needs. For example, you can create a Lambda function which removes all attachments, or adds disclaimers or signatures on the email before it is delivered.
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AWS Config now supports the ability to save advanced queries in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021AWS Config advanced queries feature now supports the ability to save your queries in your AWS Config account in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, when you customize a sample query or write your query, you can save it with a name, description, and tags. This reduces the need to save a query in a separate repository or rewrite it every time you want to run it. After you save the query, you can search it, copy it to the query editor, edit it, or delete it.
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AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021AWS Fargate recently increased default service quotas to 500 and starting today you can launch up to 1000 concurrent Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on Fargate On-Demand and 1000 concurrent Amazon ECS tasks running on Fargate Spot. These are default quotas (also commonly known as limits) for an account in a given AWS Region, but you can always raise these values even further to meet your application needs by requesting a quota increase. This makes it even more seamless to run your workloads at scale on Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Batch.
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Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.19
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. Highlights of the Kubernetes 1.19 release include Ingress API and Pod Topology Spread reaching stable status, EndpointSlices being enabled by default, and immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps. Learn more about Kubernetes version 1.19 in the Kubernetes project release notes.
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AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports region transfer for AWS Elemental Link
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports the ability to transfer your AWS Elemental Link device from one service region to another. You can transfer the device to any region that supports MediaLive.
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AWS Elemental Link now available in Europe (Paris) region
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021AWS Elemental Link is now available in the Europe (Paris) region. Using Link, you can now ingest your high-quality video in the AWS Cloud in more locations globally.
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AWS Graviton2 based M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are now available in EU (Stockholm) region, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances are now available in US West (Northern California), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Posted On: Feb 16, 2021Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in EU (Stockholm) region. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd and R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are now available in US West (Northern California), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.
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Announcing General Availability of Amplify Flutter, with new data and authentication support
Posted On: Feb 15, 2021Flutter support in AWS Amplify is now generally available (GA). Amplify is a set of tools and services that help frontend web and mobile developers build secure, scalable, full-stack applications. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google for developing applications for Android and iOS from a single codebase. Amplify Flutter brings together Amplify and Flutter. It is designed for developers who have invested in the Flutter ecosystem and now want to take advantage of the power of AWS. You can use the Amplify Flutter libraries with Amplify-created backends, as well as existing AWS backends.
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AWS Direct Connect Announces Native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections at Select Locations
Posted On: Feb 15, 2021AWS Direct Connect now offers native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections to support your private connectivity needs to the cloud.
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Amazon S3 on Outposts adds a smaller storage tier
Posted On: Feb 15, 2021AWS Outposts now offers a 26 TB storage tier for Amazon S3 on Outposts. This new storage tier gives you flexibility to configure 26 TB of Amazon S3 storage alongside up to 11 TB of Amazon EBS on your AWS Outposts. This adds to the 48 TB and 96 TB tiers of S3 storage currently available for S3 on Outposts.
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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports PCI DSS compliance to help you run payment processing workloads more easily
Posted On: Feb 15, 2021Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance to help you run payment processing workloads more easily.
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AWS Elemental MediaLive expands its automatic input failover capabilities
Posted On: Feb 15, 2021AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports additional automatic input failover conditions including black frame and audio loss detection. You can use automatic input failover to build highly resilient and redundant live streaming workflows on AWS.
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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next generation, burstable general-purpose Amazon EC2 T3 instance types
Posted On: Feb 15, 2021Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next-generation, burstable general-purpose Amazon EC2 T3 instance types, which provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage however long is required.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB support replication filtering
Posted On: Feb 12, 2021Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports replication filters for MySQL and MariaDB instances. Replication filters specify which databases and tables are replicated in a read replica. Customers create lists of databases and tables to include or exclude for each replica.
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Now Launch Amazon SageMaker Studio using AWS CloudFormation
Posted On: Feb 12, 2021Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare, build, train and tune, deploy and manage models. Starting today, you can now automate the process of creating SageMaker Studio domains and adding user profiles using AWS CloudFormation.
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AWS WAF adds support for JSON parsing and inspection
Posted On: Feb 12, 2021AWS WAF can now natively parse request body JSON content, allowing you to inspect specific keys or values of the JSON content with AWS WAF rules. This capability helps you protect your APIs by checking for valid JSON structure, inspecting the JSON content for common threats against your application, and reducing false positives by inspecting only the keys or values in the JSON content.
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Amazon Simple Email Service launches a redesigned service console experience
Posted On: Feb 12, 2021Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) has launched a redesigned service console that customers can access via an opt-in link on the classic console. With its streamlined look and feel, the new console makes it even easier for customers to leverage the speed, reliability, and flexibility that Amazon SES has to offer.
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AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in Japan (Osaka) Region
Posted On: Feb 12, 2021AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Japan (Osaka region). StackSets is a CloudFormation feature that allows you to centrally manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and Regions in a single operation. StackSets is also integrated with AWS Organizations so you can take advantage of automatic deployments whenever an account enters an organization.
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Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers
Posted On: Feb 12, 2021Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatible identity providers as a user authentication option to Kubernetes clusters. With OIDC authentication, you can manage user access to EKS clusters by using the standard procedures in your organization for creating, enabling, and disabling employee accounts.
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Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM
Posted On: Feb 11, 2021You can now access AWS CloudHSM service APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to AWS CloudHSM service APIs without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance.
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AWS Glue DataBrew supports transformations for seven additional datatypes
Posted On: Feb 11, 2021AWS Glue DataBrew now supports seven additional numeric data types including Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, Double, and Decimal. Customers can now cast columns in these in addition to Timestamp and Date data types.
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Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney)
Posted On: Feb 11, 2021Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney) regions. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, with a frequency up to 4.5 GHz.
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AWS Identity and Access Management now supports tags on additional resources
Posted On: Feb 11, 2021AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now allows administrators to use tags to manage and secure access to Customer Managed Policies, Instance Profiles, OpenID Connect Providers, SAML Providers, Server Certificates, and Virtual MFAs.
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Amazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failover
Posted On: Feb 11, 2021An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. With today’s launch, you can seamlessly change your global cluster’s primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the global cluster. With this managed planned failover capability, you can repeatedly change which AWS Region hosts the primary cluster while preserving the physical topology of your global database and avoiding unnecessary application changes. Aurora Global Database managed planned fail over simplifies the planned fail over process in scenarios like rotating the primary region for regulatory compliance or disaster recovery exercises. Check out this blog to learn how to perform managed planned failovers with Global Database.
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AWS Glue DataBrew now allows you to configure the size of the dataset when auto-generating data quality statistics
Posted On: Feb 11, 2021When running profile jobs in AWS Glue DataBrew to auto-generate 40+ data quality statistics like column-level cardinality, numerical correlations, unique values, standard deviation, and other statistics, you can now configure the size of the dataset you want analyzed. This allows you to customize your profile to run on x% of the dataset for really large datasets or focus on a sub-sample of the dataset for faster results.
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Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring is now supported on select non-Nitro instance types
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Traffic Mirroring is now supported on additional select non-Nitro instance types. Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring allows you to replicate the network traffic from EC2 instances within your VPC to security and monitoring appliances for use cases such as content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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Introducing Serverless Image Handler v5.2
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021The Serverless Image Handler solution enables fast and cost-effective image manipulation in the cloud by combining highly available, trusted AWS Services with the open-source imaging processing suite, Sharp. The solution automatically deploys and configures a serverless architecture optimized for dynamic image manipulation. It uses Amazon CloudFront for global content delivery and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for reliable and durable cloud storage at low costs.
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Amazon Lex is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents and IVR systems.
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Amazon Timestream now offers cross table queries, query execution statistics, and more
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021Amazon Timestream has added new capabilities to its SQL query language to enable customers to gain deeper insights from their time series data by running cross table queries and queries with advanced time series functions. Starting today, customers can also gain more transparency into the query execution statistics, to better understand the cost and duration of a running query. Lastly, the implementation of Amazon Timestream’s JDBC Driver is now available under the Apache 2.0 License on GitHub, so customers can contribute new features and enhancements to the JDBC driver.
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Announcing AMD instance support for Amazon GameLift FleetIQ
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift FleetIQ, enabling you as a game developer to use AMD EPYC™ processor-based instances. GameLift is an AWS managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated servers for multiplayer games, and it is trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world, including Ubisoft, Gameloft, and N3TWORK. With this update, GameLift FleetIQ adds AMD EPYC instance families allowing game developers more server types to choose, while still delivering the same low-cost, low-latency player experience.
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AWS Cloud9 launches visual source control integration for Git
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021AWS Cloud9 now includes visual source control integration for Git (Git panel) built in to Cloud9. Prior to this release Git could only be used on the command line of the integrated Cloud9 terminal. Today’s release gives you the option to use a visual tool, built in to the IDE, to clone, push, pull, add, and commit files to your Git repositories on Cloud9 environments.
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AWS Glue now provides column importance metrics in the FindMatches machine learning transform
Posted On: Feb 10, 2021The FindMatches ML transform in AWS Glue now includes information on how much each column in the dataset contributed to determining if records were matches. The FindMatches transform enables you to identify duplicate or matching records in your dataset, even when the records do not have a common unique identifier and no fields match exactly. This feature makes it easier to decide how to improve your FindMatches transforms.
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AWS DeepComposer launches Transformer Notebook on GitHub
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new Transformer notebook on GitHub. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get hands-on with the latest generative AI techniques expand their machine learning skills. The Transformer is a state-of-the-art model that works with sequential data such as genomic data or stock prices. By using a mechanism called attention, the algorithm attempts to learn the relationships between the different data points so it can generate better predictions. In the AWS DeepComposer Music studio, the Transformers feature will allow you to iteratively extend a melody to create new and longer compositions. Learn more about the Transformer technique in the learning capsule in the AWS DeepComposer Console.
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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now helps you automate table creation by supporting point-in-time recovery and tag settings in AWS CloudFormation
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you automate table creation by supporting point-in-time recovery (PITR) and tag settings in AWS CloudFormation.
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New digital curriculum: Managing Amazon S3
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021We’re excited to announce a free new digital curriculum: Managing Amazon Simple Storage Service. This advanced 150-minute curriculum covers techniques to simplify the management of Amazon S3 storage. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations engineers, it includes interactive lessons, video demonstrations, a self-paced lab, and quizzes. The self-paced lab costs up to 15 USD per lab (this cost is not included with free digital training on aws.training).
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AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration easier so that you can start analyzing your data and putting it to use in minutes instead of months.
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AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region.
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AWS Data Exchange enables subscribers to export full revisions
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021AWS Data Exchange now allows subscribers to export full data set revisions to Amazon S3 in a single export job. Starting today, subscribers who want to export all assets within a data set revision can do so using the AWS Data Exchange console or programmatically using the AWS Data Exchange API. This functionality eliminates the need to set-up and maintain code when configuring the export of revisions with many assets. For customers who have subscribed to 3rd party data sets containing hundreds or thousands of assets in individual revisions, this feature materially simplifies the receipt and ingestion of data.
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Amazon CloudFront launches in Croatia
Posted On: Feb 9, 2021Amazon CloudFront announces its first edge location in Zagreb, Croatia. This new edge location in Zagreb will provide viewers as much as a 14% reduction in first-byte latency and is included within CloudFront's European region pricing. For more
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New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer - Persistent Digital Bank and Credit Union Solution
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021Persistent Digital Bank and Credit Union Solution (PDBCUS) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Persistent Systems, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. PDBCUS will enable you to deploy new digital banking capabilities including customer onboarding, digital deposits, loan account opening, and automated credit decisioning. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers discovery, onboarding, configuration, and deployment.
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Application Load Balancer now supports Application Cookie Stickiness
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Application-based cookie stickiness. This new feature helps customers ensure that clients connect to the same load balancer target for the duration of their session using application cookies. This enables customers to achieve a consistent client-server experience with greater controls such as the flexibility to set custom cookie names and criteria for client-target stickiness within a target group.
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AWS CloudHSM Adds New Availability Zones
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021Today, AWS CloudHSM launched service in additional Availability Zones (AZs) in US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) to support high demand from our growing customer base.
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New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer - Digital Banking Engagement Platform
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021Digital Banking Engagement Platform (DBEP) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Sopra Steria, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner, and its subsidiary Sopra Banking Software. DBEP offers data-driven financial services to help institutions adopt Open Banking capabilities and enhance customer engagement. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers inception, design, and implementation of the platform.
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New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer - AI-Powered Inventory Management
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021AI-Powered Inventory Management is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Intellify, an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. AI-Powered Inventory Management helps improve inventory health by automating inventory forecasting to take the time and guesswork out of inventory management. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers data integration, machine learning modelling, solution deployment, and support.
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Amazon ECS Service Discovery Now Available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) launches integrated service discovery in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions.
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You now can use PartiQL with DynamoDB local to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021DynamoDB local now supports PartiQL (a SQL-compatible query language) so that you can query, insert, update, and delete DynamoDB table data. PartiQL is supported for all DynamoDB data-plane operations, and it helps improve the productivity of developers as they use this familiar, structured query language to perform operations. Developers can use PartiQL to develop applications, and test them offline before deploying them to production.
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AWS Cloud Map now supports resource tagging in AWS Console
Posted On: Feb 8, 2021You can now tag your AWS Cloud Map namespaces and services through AWS Console. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, or any other cloud resource. Your application can then discover the location and metadata of cloud resources associated with these custom names via AWS SDK or by making authenticated API calls.
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Introducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
Posted On: Feb 5, 2021Today, we are announcing the Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle, a flexible self-service pricing plan that helps you save up to 30% on your CloudFront bill in exchange for a monthly spend commitment for a 1-year term. The savings bundle also includes free AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) usage up to 10% of your committed amount. Any additional Standard CloudFront or WAF charges not covered by the CloudFront Security Savings Bundle still apply.
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AWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances now available in EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) regions
Posted On: Feb 5, 2021Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd and R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are now available in EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.
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AWS Solutions Implementation - AWS Data Streaming Solution for Amazon MSK adds a template for you to read events and store data to Amazon S3 from a streaming application
Posted On: Feb 5, 2021The AWS Solutions team recently updated AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK, an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This update adds a template that accelerates development of streaming data workloads by reducing the need for you to model and provision resources using AWS CloudFormation; set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms, dashboards, and logging; and manually implement streaming data best practices in AWS.
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Introducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal Instances
Posted On: Feb 5, 2021Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn bare metal instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for HPC/ML workloads are generally available. Amazon EC2 bare metal instances provide your applications with direct access to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying server. These instances are ideal for workloads that require access to the hardware feature set (such as Intel® VT-x), or for applications that need to run in non-virtualized environments for licensing or support requirements.
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AWS Solutions Implementation - AWS MLOps Framework adds a model monitoring pipeline for customers to take remedial action when there are deviations in model quality
Posted On: Feb 5, 2021AWS Solutions has updated the AWS MLOps Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that now provides a pipeline for model monitoring. In addition to the bring-your-own-model pipeline, the solution offers the ability to provision multiple model monitor pipelines to periodically monitor the quality of deployed ML models on Amazon SageMaker endpoints. This added functionality is key in ensuring model performance as customers can get notified when drift in model quality, bias, and feature importance occur in production.
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Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes version 1.3.0 with mTLS support
Posted On: Feb 4, 2021AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes v1.3.0 is now available and includes support for mTLS (mutual Transport Layer Security) authentication on App Mesh. The AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes provides a way to configure and manage AWS App Mesh using Kubernetes directly. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and allowing high availability for your applications.
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AWS Copilot launches v1.2 providing more deployment capabilities
Posted On: Feb 4, 2021Today, AWS Copilot launched version 1.2 which now provides more deployment capabilities for applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
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Introducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts
Posted On: Feb 4, 2021Starting today, with Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts you can store snapshots of your Amazon EBS volumes locally on Amazon S3 on Outposts to meet your data residency and local data processing needs. EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts require your Outpost to be provisioned with S3 on Outposts. You can also continue to back up your EBS volumes to snapshots stored on S3 in the AWS Region. Snapshots are point-in-time copies of your data which can be used to enable disaster recovery and improve backup compliance.
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AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authentication
Posted On: Feb 4, 2021AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS (Transport Layer Security) authentication that offers two-way peer authentication. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications.
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Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Osaka, Japan
Posted On: Feb 4, 2021Today, we are announcing the availability of a new AWS Wavelength Zone on KDDI’s 5G network in Osaka. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in Japan, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in Tokyo.
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AWS Amplify Hosting adds monitoring capabilities with Amazon CloudWatch integration
Posted On: Feb 4, 2021AWS Amplify Hosting now allows users to monitor metrics for Amplify hosted applications in near real-time. Amplify provides a dashboard with metrics for Incoming requests, Bytes downloaded, Bytes uploaded, 4XX/5XX errors, and latency. You can create CloudWatch alarms in the Amplify console that send notifications when specific criteria are met. An alarm watches a single metric and sends an Amazon Simple Notification Service notification when the metric breaches the threshold for a specified number of evaluation periods.
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Amazon Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Posted On: Feb 3, 2021Amazon Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to eight. Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center service that helps organizations of any size deliver superior customer service at lower cost. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
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AWS Backup Events and Metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatch
Posted On: Feb 3, 2021AWS Backup adds the ability to monitor your AWS Backup metrics and events via Amazon CloudWatch. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services and accounts, helping you support your regulatory compliance obligations and meet business continuity goals.
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Take actions before and after patching to improve safety during patch installation
Posted On: Feb 3, 2021Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now enables you to configure actions to be performed on a managed instance before and after installing patches. Using this feature, you can configure actions to perform pre-installation checks such as ensuring that “Windows Update Service” is running before patching instances. Furthermore, you can configure actions that perform post-installation health checks to ensure that your instances are healthy after being patched.
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AWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for VPC outputs
Posted On: Feb 3, 2021You can now configure AWS Elemental MediaLive to deliver live video directly to your own Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). For customers running specialized video workflows in their own Amazon VPC, MediaLive can now deliver live video to those applications without using public IPs. MediaLive already supports VPC inputs for a MediaLive channel.
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AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 14
Posted On: Feb 3, 2021You can now author AWS Lambda functions in Node.js 14 and use its new features, such as top-level-await, enhanced diagnostics, modifications of the streams APIs, and a revised JavaScript engine for better performance. Lambda functions written in Node.js 14 run on Amazon Linux 2, the latest generation of Amazon Linux. To learn more about writing functions in Node.js 14, see the Node.js programming model in the Lambda documentation.
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addresses
Posted On: Feb 3, 2021Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) makes it easier to setup reverse Domain Name System (DNS) lookup for your Elastic IP addresses and improves your email deliverability. A reverse DNS lookup for an IP address returns its domain name and is commonly used by email services to filter out spams. This release improves your email deliverability from EC2 by enabling you to set reverse DNS lookup with just a few clicks and meet a key spam filter requirement.
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support to create canaries for your Amazon API Gateway APIs using the API blueprint. This simplifies your canary setup time and makes it easy to monitor your API Gateway APIs.
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AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regions
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town) regions on the Console mobile app.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.2
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 20.2 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 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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Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to S3 via a private endpoint within your virtual private network. Simplify your network architecture by connecting to S3 from on-premises or in AWS using private IP addresses in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), eliminating the need to use public IPs, configure firewall rules, or configure an Internet Gateway to access S3 from on-premises.
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Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021We are excited to announce a series of new capabilities that have been added to Amazon Macie to make it easier to configure, scope, and run sensitive data discovery in AWS, including support for scanning jobs that cover Amazon S3 buckets residing across multiple accounts, scoping of scans by object prefix, better cost estimation for visibility of spend before jobs are submitted, and sensitive data location information added to Macie findings.
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Insights is now generally available for AWS X-Ray
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021Today, AWS X-Ray launches Insights, which helps customers proactively discover issues in applications by using anomaly detection. X-Ray Insights enables developers and DevOps engineers to detect anomalies in fault rate for an application and then notify their teams on these issues and why it occurred.
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Amazon S3 Batch Operations adds support for Delete Object Tagging
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021You can now perform S3 Delete Object Tagging operations using Amazon S3 Batch Operations to delete object tags across many objects with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. S3 Batch Operations lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying objects or replacing tag sets across billions of objects. S3 Batch Operations handles all the manual work, including managing retries and displaying progress.
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Scheduled Actions of Application Auto Scaling now support Local Time Zone
Posted On: Feb 2, 2021Application Auto Scaling’s scheduled scaling, commonly known as scheduled actions, now supports Local Time Zones in addition to the default Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). You can now create the scheduled actions in your local time zone or another time zone from your network.
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Amazon Redshift delivers better cold query performance to three additional AWS regions
Posted On: Feb 1, 2021Improved cold query performance is now available in South America (São Paulo), Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions.
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AWS Launch Wizard now configures RHEL and SLES clustering for SAP application High Availability
Posted On: Feb 1, 2021AWS Launch Wizard now configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) clustering for High Availability (HA) at the SAP application layer.