March 2024

AWS Wickr now allows you to establish a network in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions to help you meet data residency requirements, and other obligations.

Amazon EventBridge now supports a streamlined integration with Confluent Cloud in the EventBridge console, making it easier to configure Confluent Cloud as a source in Pipes and as a target with API destinations. Leveraging this new capability, you can increase developer agility by spending less time writing integration code and build features faster that combine Confluent Cloud with AWS services.

AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With up to 34% better price-performance, functions running on AWS Graviton are ideal for powering mission critical Serverless applications.

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports assigning a public IPv4 address from a CIDR block to an accelerator resource in another account.

AWS B2B Data Interchange now enables fully automated, event-driven Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) workflows by publishing events to Amazon EventBridge for all successful and failed transformations. These events can be used to trigger downstream data integration processes, to automate additional processing of your transformed EDI documents, or to automatically send real-time status notifications to you and your trading partners.

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides businesses with the ability to automatically submit agent performance evaluations. Managers can now evaluate up to 100% of customer interactions, using insights from conversational analytics to automatically fill and submit evaluations, and get aggregations on agent performance across cohorts of agents over time. With this launch, managers can comprehensively monitor and improve regulatory compliance, script adherence (e.g. customer greetings), sensitive data collection, while reducing the time spent on evaluating agent performance.

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging to their web applications. Media pipelines allows developers to capture the contents from an Amazon Chime SDK meeting. This captured content can then be sent to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. The content can also be live streamed to reach a large audience via streaming platforms such as Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) or AWS Elemental MediaLive. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK now has media pipeline API endpoints in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (London).

Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query now supports listing unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs), enabling developers to quickly and easily build applications on the Bitcoin Mainnet and Testnet blockchain networks.

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2g, T4g and Serverless instance types in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink. With AWS PrivateLink, you can simplify private network connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), DynamoDB, and your on-premises data centers using interface VPC endpoints and private IP addresses. AWS PrivateLink is compatible with AWS Direct Connect and AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN) to facilitate private network connectivity, and helps you eliminate the need to use public IP addresses, configure firewall rules, or configure an internet gateway to access DynamoDB from your on-premises data centers. As a result, AWS PrivateLink helps you maintain compliance for your DynamoDB workloads over the private network.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 1.18. This new version includes improvements to connectors including Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, and improved watermark alignment and query performance. For a complete list of supported features, improvements, and bug fixes please see Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in our documentation. You can use in-place Apache Flink version upgrades to adopt the Apache Flink 1.18 runtime for a simple and faster upgrade to your existing application. 

Today Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched an update to its guided onboarding wizard to help customers meet the authentication requirements introduced by Gmail and Yahoo Mail in 2024. The SES onboarding wizard now guides customers through the steps of verifying their sending identities, establishing custom mail from domains, and publishing a DMARC record if they don’t already have one. This makes it even easier for customers to begin sending authenticated email with SES.

Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. Neptune Analytics is an analytics database engine that makes it faster for data scientists and application developers to get insights and find trends by analyzing graph data with tens of billions of connections in seconds. Neptune Analytics adds to existing Neptune tools and services such as Amazon Neptune Database, Amazon Neptune ML, and visualization tools. Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, fraud graphs, identity graphs, and security graphs. With Neptune Analytics, you can find insights in graph data up to 80x faster by analyzing your existing Neptune graph database or graph data from Amazon S3.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in two new AWS Regions: Europe (Spain) and Europe (Zurich).

AWS X-Ray announces support for logging eight new data and one new management event APIs in AWS CloudTrail, enabling you to have full visibility across every AWS X-Ray API action in your AWS account for operational and security best practices. AWS X-Ray provides developers with end-to-end tracing capabilities to help debug distributed applications and quickly identify performance bottlenecks.

Today, Amazon VPC added a new feature to its DHCP option set called IPv6 preferred lease time setting, which allows customers to adjust the frequency of IPv6 lease renewals. This feature gives customers the option to increase the preferred lease time of IPv6 address assignments on Amazon EC2 Nitro instances to minimize the number of IPv6 lease renewals and prevent possible renewal failures. This setting applies to both dualstack and IPv6-only Amazon EC2 Nitro instances in the VPC.

Today, AWS announces the availability of next-generation Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io2 Block Express storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes provide consistent sub-millisecond latency for mission critical workloads.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports database security certificate rotation. Security certificates provide an extra layer of security by validating the connection made to Amazon RDS database instances and clusters.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the AWS Generative AI Competency designed to feature AWS Partners that have shown technical proficiency and a track record of continuing success with customers while implementing generative AI technology powered by AWS. The AWS Generative AI Competency includes APN Technology Partners and APN Services Partners. Software path partners have shown their proficiency in either Generative Ai Applications, Foundation Models & App Development, or Infrastructure & Data. Services path partners have shown proficiency in end-to-end generative AI consulting.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Linux containers running on AWS Fargate. With this support, applications running on AWS Fargate can easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources.

Starting today, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports memory-optimized X2iedn instance types and EBS-optimized R5b instance types. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and includes the ability to bring your own licensed SQL Server media or use SQL Server Developer Edition.

Today, AWS re:Post launches AWS re:Post Live - a weekly Twitch livestream series that provides a new and engaging way for builders to interact with a community of experts to grow their knowledge, improve their skills, and discuss the latest in AWS technologies. Every Monday at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST, users can join the livestream to get answers to their questions, chat with experts and other stream attendees, and learn more about top-of-mind AWS topics.

Starting today, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is increasing the maximum throughput capacity per file system by 2x (from 36 GB/s to 72 GB/s), letting you leverage ONTAP’s data management features for an even broader set of performance-intensive workloads.

WorkSpaces now supports the WebAuthn (Web Authentication) standard for in-session authentication. Users can authenticate into WebAuthn-supported web applications through WebAuthn redirection when using Chrome or Edge on their Windows WSP WorkSpaces. This feature is accessible from WorkSpaces Windows, macOS, and Linux client applications and is compatible with YubiKey, Windows Hello, and other FIDO2-compliant authenticators. Your organization can leverage the latest standard to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company data on WorkSpaces.

Hybrid Search is now generally available in Knowledge Bases for Bedrock for OpenSearch Serverless. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications typically use semantic search, which relies on semantic vectors to search unstructured text. These vectors are created from machine learning models to capture contextual and linguistic meaning within the data to answer human-like questions. Hybrid search combines this semantic search with a text based search to improve the relevance of retrieved results, especially for keyword searches.