October 2023

Starting today you can use the new AWS Elemental MediaPackage filter configuration option to apply a combination of manifest filtering, start over, and time delay parameters to your HLS manifests. This option has the same effect on the manifest content as using query strings in playback URLs.

AWS X-Ray now supports W3C trace IDs generated via OpenTelemetry and other frameworks that conform to the W3C Trace Context specification, providing customers with complete, end-to-end trace visibility for faster triaging and debugging of applications. 

Today, we are excited to introduce a new set of management actions for AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS), supporting the removal of resources no longer needed to be tracked as part of a migration.

AWS Transfer Family now supports the option to include username and password credentials, termed as Basic authentication, when sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages over HTTPS. This enables you to be compatible with your trading partner’s AS2 implementations that require Basic authentication and comply with their security requirements. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports a Dedicated Log Volume for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases. An Amazon RDS Dedicated Log Volume allows customers to select a configuration where the most latency sensitive components of their database, the transaction logs, are stored in a separate, dedicated volume. Dedicated Log Volumes work with Provisioned IOPS storage and are recommended for databases with 5,000 GiB or more of allocated storage.

Today, Amazon Web Services announces support for scheduling Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows to be run at predetermined times. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take during a workflow run. This launch allows you to add a cron expression to a workflow, providing a way to start workflows at set times. For example, you could schedule a workflow run to start every day at midnight.

Amazon Personalize is excited to launch a new integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service that enables customers to personalize search results for each user and improve the user engagement from their search. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within Amazon OpenSearch Service helps customers leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and add personalization to OpenSearch search results, without any ML expertise.

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Custom Queries, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to adapt the Queries feature and improve extraction accuracy for their business-specific documents. Queries is a feature within the Analyze Document API that lets you extract specific pieces of information from documents using natural language questions. Custom Queries allows customers to quickly adapt the Queries feature to meet their business-specific needs without requiring them to have machine learning expertise.

Search Pipelines, a new feature in OpenSearch 2.9, make it easy to build query and result processing pipelines. This lets you build search query and result processing as a composition of modular processing steps without complicating your application software.

Today we are announcing the availability of Ansible and Corretto 21 on Amazon Linux 2023 as a part of second quarterly update.

Amazon QuickSight now supports total positioning option for both rows and columns in pivot tables, providing authors added flexibility to style and present tabular data according to their specific use cases and individual needs. Additionally, it makes it easier to compare and view totals which could otherwise be multiple scrolls or pages away. 

Amazon QuickSight now supports connection to Redshift data with an IAM role. By connecting to data in QuickSight with an IAM role, administrators can enhance data security by using fine-grained IAM access policies for Redshift data sources.

Amazon QuickSight now supports predictive analytics using machine learning (ML) models created in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, without writing a single line of code. QuickSight authors can now export data to SageMaker Canvas, build ML models, and share them back to QuickSight for consumption. This allows you to build predictive dashboards for better insights. With this new capability, you can evolve your analytics from descriptive to predictive capabilities, enabling the entire organization with a forward-looking view of the business.

Amazon Connect Chat now supports up to 15 out-of-the-box chat widgets, making it easy for you to customize chat experiences on different websites with just a few clicks.

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces and WorkSpaces Core announce the general availability of a new feature that provides administrators increased flexibility to manage application bundles on WorkSpaces instances while retaining the end user's data and configurations. It provides administrators with an easier way to add or remove application bundles on existing WorkSpaces instances, including upgrading them to the latest version.

You can now receive a single feed of AWS Health events on Amazon EventBridge from all accounts within your organization in AWS Organizations using organizational view and delegated administrator. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and planned changes affecting your AWS cloud resources. EventBridge is a serverless integration service that makes it easier to build event-driven applications at scale using events generated from your applications, third-party SaaS applications, and AWS services. 

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Drupal Connector to index and search documents from Drupal. 

Starting today, you can link products with their predecessor versions or alternates to improve forecasts. 

Introducing AWS Well-Architected Review Templates, designed to eliminate duplication and foster consistency across your workloads. With the Well-Architected Tool's latest feature, you can effortlessly craft review templates to answer questions, update notes, and even incorporate Custom Lenses across your workloads.

Developers using SAM CLI to author their serverless application with Lambda functions can now create and use Lambda test events to test their function code. Test events are JSON objects that mock the structure of requests emitted by AWS services to invoke a Lambda function and return an execution result, serving to validate a successful operation or to identify errors. Previously, Lambda test events were only available in the Lambda console. With this launch, developers using SAM CLI can create and access a test event from their AWS account and share it with other team members.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public has added new features that make it easier for customers to navigate the ECR Public Gallery and find the images they are looking for. New filters allow customers to search for images from well-known publishers such as Docker and Amazon, and a new landing page highlights those filters as well as other frequently used repositories.

Today, we are excited to launch the general availability of Interactive Endpoints for Amazon EMR on EKS. With this launch, Amazon EMR on EKS customers will be able to run interactive workloads using an integrated development environment such as EMR Studio. For customers that require control on their execution environment, they will be able to use their self-hosted Jupyter notebooks as an another mechanism to run their interactive workloads via Interactive Endpoints.

AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure VPN-less access to your corporate applications, now supports customer managed KMS keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest, making it easier to meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization.