August 2023

The AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now generally available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Today, we’re excited to announce console enhancements on AWS Network Firewall console pages to improve user experience. AWS Network Firewall console pages are completely revamped using Cloudscape Design System guidelines, an open source solution for building intuitive, engaging, and inclusive user experiences at scale.

Amazon QuickSight now supports scaled shared folders for multi-tenant setup that enables you to share QuickSight asset dashboards, analyses, datasets and datasources at scale with all your tenants at once. Prior to this launch, you could share a folder with up to hundred tenants at a time and had to create copies of folders and assets within them. Scaled shared folders are new type of shared folders which can be created and shared using APIs. To learn more, click here.

Today, AWS announces the launch of Amazon CodeCatalyst in the Europe (Ireland) region. CodeCatalyst provides everything you need to start planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS with a streamlined, integrated experience. With CodeCatalyst, you can spend more time developing application features and less time setting up project tools, creating and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, provisioning and configuring development and deployment environments, and onboarding team members to their projects. CodeCatalyst is also available in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region and can deploy workloads to any public region worldwide.

Amazon S3 now supports multivalue answer (MVA) in response to DNS queries for S3 endpoints. With MVA, you can now get up to eight S3 IP addresses per DNS query. You can use these IP addresses to automatically make multiple concurrent connections to S3 which can improve throughput. MVA also makes retries more efficient as applications will automatically try an alternative IP address without having to wait for another DNS query.

AWS App Runner adds support to deploy services directly from source code stored in Bitbucket repository. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure.

Amazon Connect launches new features that improve the user bulk editing experience. With this launch, you can now update multiple user records simultaneously on the Amazon Connect admin website in less than half the time it used to take to make bulk updates. These time savings can make a difference, for example in a crisis situation, when you need to update hundreds of agent routing profiles to ensure that inbound contacts do not experience extreme wait times. For more information see the Amazon Connect admin guide. 

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio and video to their web and mobile applications with one-to-one and group meetings. Amazon Chime SDK meetings are now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) becomes a meetings control region, providing developers with API endpoints to create and manage meetings as well as a media region, providing the ability to connect clients to audio and video hosted in the region. 

AWS Neuron is the SDK for Amazon EC2 Inferentia and Trainium based instances purposely-built for generative AI. Today, with Neuron 2.13 release, we are launching support for Llama 2 model training and inference, GPT-NeoX model training and adding support for Stable Diffusion XL and CLIP models inference. 

Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 23 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization. You can set up a multi-account AWS environment within 30 minutes or less, govern new or existing account configurations, gain visibility into compliance status, and enforce controls at scale.

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances are now generally available in the US East (Ohio) region. Trn1 instances deliver high performance training of popular Generative AI models on AWS, while offering up to 50% lower cost-to-train over comparable Amazon EC2 instances. 

Amazon Aurora now supports Global Database Failover, a fully managed experience for performing a cross-Region database failover to respond to unplanned events such as a regional outage. With Global Database Failover, you can convert a secondary region into the new primary region in typically a minute and also maintain the multi-region Global Database configuration. To learn more about Global Database Failover, see this blog.

Today, AWS announced support for delegated backup administrators to use AWS Backup Audit Manager for creating and managing audit reports across accounts in AWS Organizations.

You can now use your GitLab.com source repository to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. Connect your GitLab.com account using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository.

The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery features are now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure - or schema - in a shared, central location. You can download code bindings for those schemas for Java, Python, Typescript, and Golang so it’s easier to use events as objects in your code.

Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval improves data restore time by up to 85%, at no additional cost. Faster data restores automatically apply to the Standard retrieval tier when using Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores begin to return objects within minutes, so you can process restored data faster. Now, whether you are transcoding media, restoring operational backups, training machine learning models, or analyzing historical data, you can easily speed up your data restores from archive.

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports online migration from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache for Redis clusters running in cluster mode. Online migration simplifies moving data from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache with minimal application disruption. During the migration, ElastiCache replicates cache data from each self-managed Redis source shard to the target ElastiCache cluster. Once initial replication is complete, the two clusters will be kept in sync until you are ready to update your application configuration to use ElastiCache.

Amazon Connect now provides you the ability to configure routing profiles to exclude all outbound call activity from setting the order in which inbound contacts are assigned to agents. Contact center managers can use this configuration to ensure that agents maintain their position in line to receive inbound calls and do not move to the bottom of the list when honoring their outbound call commitments. As a result, agents will continue to meet their outbound call goals while also receiving a fair share of inbound contacts.

Starting today, customers can use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog helps you centrally curate and share commonly deployed templates across teams to achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. End users such as engineers, database administrators, and data scientists simply see the list of products and versions they have access to, and can deploy them in a single action.

Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or an Amazon Aurora database and an AWS Lambda function using an Amazon RDS Proxy. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up a connection between your Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database and a Lambda function using an existing Amazon RDS Proxy or using an auto-created, new Amazon RDS Proxy in your account. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your related network settings to enable a secure and scalable connection between the Lambda function and the Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora database.

We are excited to announce the launch of a new CloudWatch Logger feature with AWS Amplify, which is available now for Swift and Android developers. This feature empowers developers to log errors from the Amplify libraries to CloudWatch, enhancing the ability to detect production issues. It also enables developers to write custom logs to detect failures in different parts of their applications. 

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an increased quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 9,000 transactions per second, per API action in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) regions. For Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, the throughput quota has been increased to 4,500 transactions per second, per API action. For all other regions where SQS is generally available today, the quota for high throughput mode quota has been increased to 2,400 transactions per second.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. Today, in addition to supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL, this feature now supports MariaDB. Built-in native database tooling with homogeneous data migrations provides simple and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime.

AWS Lake Formation is  a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. AWS Lake Formation is now available in the following two additional AWS Regions:

• Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
• Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks that supports open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, with no provisioning or configuration effort required.

AWS open sourced the Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark to help Apache Spark developers seamlessly build and run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Redshift data. With this release, Amazon Redshift open-sources the Amazon Redshift contributions and integration for Apache Spark, empowering Spark developers to review the source code, extend it, contribute features and/or make modifications that meet their Spark application needs.