January 2024

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches its networking capability called ECS Service Connect in Canada West (Calgary) AWS Regions.

Today, we launched the new Console Home, a customizable home page for the AWS Management Console, in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. The new Console Home provides customers the capability to customize their Console Home experience by adding, removing, resizing, and rearranging widgets. 

Amazon QuickSight, which lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization and embed data visualizations into your apps, is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet.

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now provides an API to programmatically delete tuning jobs. This gives you the ability to clean up the tuning jobs that you no longer would like to see in the ListHyperParameterTuningJob APIs, reuse tuning job names, and streamline your tuning job history.

Today, AWS Systems Manager Inventory announces support for Inventory Resource Data Sync in AWS opt-in Regions (Region that is disabled by default). You can use Inventory Resource Data Sync to send inventory data collected from all of your managed nodes to a single Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. By syncing software inventory to Amazon S3, you can run Amazon Athena queries to gain greater inventory insight, such as understanding application use or reviewing application version compliance. You can also use Amazon QuickSight to visualize your software inventory, enabling you to drill down into queries in a point-and-click fashion.

We are excited to launch the AWS Small & Medium Business (SMB) Competency, the first go-to-market AWS Specialization designed for partners who deliver to small and medium sized customers. The SMB Competency provides enhanced benefits for AWS partners to invest and focus on SMB customer business and an aspirational bar for rising star partners to achieve. SMB Competency benefits include partners becoming the go-to standard for participation in new pilots/sales initiatives and receiving unique access to scale demand generation engines.

Amazon VPC now supports idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs, allowing you to safely retry creation without additional side effects. Idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs is intended for customers that use network orchestration systems or automation scripts that create route tables and network ACLs as part of a workflow.

Today, we are excited to announce the introduction of new IPv6 instance bundles on Amazon Lightsail. With these new instance bundles, you can get up and running quickly on IPv6-only without the need for a public IPv4 address with the ease of use and simplicity of Amazon Lightsail.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launches support for automatic traffic encryption with Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for its networking capability called ECS Service Connect. With this support, ECS Service Connect allows your applications to establish a secure connection by encrypting your network traffic. Automatic traffic encryption with ECS Service Connect uses industry-leading encryption capabilities to secure your inter-service communication that helps you meet your security requirements.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now delivers 40% higher read IOPS per file system, making it easier to power data-intensive file workloads on AWS.

Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can use AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs in Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary) regions. The expansion into these regions enables customers to export detailed telemetry information such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, and various metadata for all of their network flows. This feature provides customers with an AWS native tool to centrally export and inspect flow-level telemetry for all network traffic that is traversing between Amazon VPCs and on-premises networks via AWS Transit Gateway.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) announced managed instance draining, a new capability that facilitates graceful shutdown of workloads deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by safely stopping and rescheduling workloads to other, non-terminating instances. This capability enables customers to simplify infrastructure maintenance workflows, such as rolling out a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version, without needing to build custom solutions to gracefully shutdown instances without disrupting their workloads.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports delivering mobile push notifications via Google Firebase’s HTTP V1 API. When creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS console or API, you can choose token-based authentication to enable Amazon SNS to deliver mobile push notifications on your behalf, using the new Google FCM HTTP v1 API. You can also upgrade your existing platform application to use token-based authentication. Once you provide a valid key file, Amazon SNS will switch your application from the legacy FCM API to the new HTTP v1 API.

AWS customers can now pre-book purchases and setup renewals in AWS Marketplace using the future dated agreements feature. With this feature, AWS Marketplace sellers can specify a future ‘start date’ as part of the SaaS private offer creation process. When an offer is accepted, a ‘future dated’ agreement is created, where the customer’s entitlement (or ability to use the product) starts at the specified future start date. 

We are pleased to announce the General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE) for Redis, an AWS-sponsored, open-source Redis client, which is now available in preview. GLIDE for Redis works with any Redis distribution that adheres to the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP) specification, including open-source Redis, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console are also available in the Israel (Tel-Aviv) region. Amazon EC2 Instance Connect provides a single-click and single command Secure shell (SSH) based connectivity to instances and EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US East (Ohio) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

You can now access Amazon S3 on Outposts buckets using IPv6 via S3 on Outposts dual-stack endpoints. IPv6 support for S3 on Outposts allows you to manage your S3 on Outposts buckets and control plane resources over IPv6 networks.

We are excited to announce the launch of Unified Search in the Amazon Web Services Management Console in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling customers to easily search and discover information in the AWS Management Console. You can search for services (e.g., EC2) and service features (e.g., Events) from any page in the AWS Console Management. Unified Search provides search box focus using a keyboard shortcut (alt-s or option-s), autocomplete results using the right arrow key, and navigation to the top search result by pressing the enter key.

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Management Console Private Access in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) Regions. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature that allows customers to define a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations that can access the AWS Management Console from within their network. For example, with AWS Management Console Private Access, customers can restrict access to personal AWS accounts from the company network.

AWS Config is adding support for 22 more resource types in the following services: AWS App Mesh, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Connect, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM), AWS IoT, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS IoT TwinMaker, AWS Lambda, Amazon Managed Grafana, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), AWS Network Manager, AWS Private Certificate Authority, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Resource Explorer, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver. 

The Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes (HCP) deployment model is generally available. Under the classic ROSA deployment model, AWS infrastructure required to run the ROSA control plane is hosted on your AWS account. Now, you can create ROSA clusters with the control plane hosted and managed on a service account. Like ROSA classic, ROSA with HCP clusters incur on-demand service fees per worker node vCPU. Additionally, ROSA with HCP clusters incur an on-demand service fee per cluster hour. For service fee discounts, you can optionally purchase upfront ROSA with HCP contracts from the ROSA console.

Today, AWS made available on GitHub for public comment, the Open Job Description specification for describing portable render jobs. Open Job Description (OpenJD), lets you describe the work instructions and asset locations for visual compute render farm jobs in a way that is extensible and open to help you create interoperable pipelines. OpenJD specifies a structured format that is human and machine readable for ease of development. OpenJD is designed to be extensible for new types of visual compute workflows and applications. This open specification is made available for public comment under a Creative Commons (CC) license.

Today, AWS Marketplace announced the general availability of a new Amazon QuickSight dashboard, displaying customer’s product usage for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the usage dashboard under the Insights > Sales operations tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could only access their customer’s SaaS and Server product usage with the legacy Daily business report Section 1: Usage by instance type; and programmatically by Commerce Analytics Service (CAS). 

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for creating account-level subscription filters using the put-account-policy API. This new capability enables you to deliver real-time log events that are ingested into Amazon CloudWatch Logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda for custom processing, analysis, or delivery to other destinations using a single account level subscription filter.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing an integrated mobile experience for AWS services in the AWS Console Mobile App for Android. AWS customers using the AWS Console Mobile App for Android can now access the full breadth of AWS resource information and management functionality that’s available to them on the AWS Console for natively supported services including EC2, RDS, and S3 via an integrated mobile web browser experience in the Console Mobile App.

Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports Memcached version 1.6.22 when using the node-based deployment option. With this release, you can now design your own ElastiCache for Memcached cluster using Memcached version 1.6.22. ElastiCache Serverless for Memcached already supports Memcached version 1.6.22.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports additional sizes of the Graviton3-based network-optimized C7gn node type. ElastiCache C7gn nodes feature the new 5th generation AWS Nitro Cards and enable you to achieve the highest network bandwidth across ElastiCache node families for network-intensive workloads. With this launch, ElastiCache C7gn nodes are available in 7 different node sizes (large to 16xlarge) for increased scalability. ElastiCache C7gn nodes offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Amazon Location Service has updated the Maps service to include a richer set of places, such as shops, services, restaurants, attractions, and other points of interest, in one of our map styles. The updated Esri Navigation style now provides developers the option to display a detailed map with global places content for reference or navigation purpose.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (Firehose) enables customers to capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, and 10+ other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can now use Firehose to deliver streams to their Splunk cluster configured with either an Application Load Balancer (ALB) or a Classic Load Balancer (CLB). 

AWS CloudShell now has built-in support for Docker, making it easier than ever for developers to quickly spin up containers and run commands inside them directly from their CloudShell environment. With this new integration, CloudShell users can initialize Docker containers on demand and connect to them to prototype or deploy Docker based resources via AWS CDK Toolkit. By providing instant access to Docker without needing to install or configure it, CloudShell aims to simplify container-based development workflows for AWS CloudShell users. This feature is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, see CloudShell Docker Documentation.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Serial console will be available in all AWS Local Zones. Amazon EC2 Serial Console provides a simple and secure way to troubleshoot boot and network connectivity issues by establishing a connection to the serial port of an instance. It provides a one-click, text-based access to an instances’ serial port as though a monitor and keyboard were attached to it.