This week at AWS
Back from vacation. Who hasn’t gone on vacation is AWS who have continued to release services and features to help their customers be successful with their business. Let’s see the news this week:
Amazon Connect launches API to search for security profiles by permission, description, and tags
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for security profiles in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for security profiles by name, description, permissions, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all security profiles that have permissions to edit contact flows. To learn more about this new API, see the API documentation.
Amazon RDS now supports setting up connectivity between your RDS database and EC2 compute instance in 1-click
Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity from Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance during database creation. When provisioning a database using the Amazon RDS console, you now have the option to select an EC2 instance and with a single click establish connectivity between the database and the EC2 instance, following AWS recommended best practices. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your VPC and related network settings during database creation to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database.
Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon 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. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high quality models.
Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS support for Mandarin Chinese
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a neural version of Zhiyu, Polly’s Mandarin Chinese female text to speech (TTS) voice.
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports non-unique asset names under different hierarchies
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports non-unique asset names under different hierarchies, allowing asset name reusability. The new feature simplifies scaling for companies creating asset hierarchies for more than one hierarchy tree within the same AWS account and AWS IoT SiteWise installation.
Amazon Forecast now supports what-if analyses
Now with Amazon Forecast, you can seamlessly conduct what-if analyses to quantify the potential impact of business scenarios on your demand forecasts. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts. Simulating hypothetical scenarios through what-if analyses is a powerful business tool to stress test your planning assumptions by capturing possible outcomes. It is a common practice to assess the impact of business decisions on revenue or profitability, quantify the risk associated with market trends, or evaluate how to respond to logistics and workforce changes to meet customer demand.
Amazon Location Service now supports refined access control for geofences and tracked devices
Amazon Location Service now supports service specific condition keys allowing developers to set access control rules for each individual tracked device and geofence within a collection. This adds an additional layer of security and prevents unauthorized and unintended access while managing devices and geofences.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for read replicas
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle supports Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for read replica instances (read-only and mounted) deployed in separate AWS Regions, or in different Availability Zones of a given Region.
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reuses SageMaker Training instances to reduce start-up overheads by 20x
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reduces the start-up time of each training job launched to tune your models by 20x on average (from 2.5 minutes to 8 seconds). In scenarios where you have a large number of hyperparameter evaluations, the reuse of training instances can cumulatively save 2 hours for every 50 sequential evaluations.
Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages now generally available
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere Curated Packages, which are software packages that extend the core functionalities of Kubernetes. You can now install the Harbor package as a local container registry, the Emissary-Ingress package as the ingress controller, and the MetalLB package as the service type load balancer.
AWS Support launches support for managing cases in Slack
Starting today, your team can use the AWS Support App to collaborate with support agents on cases through Slack. You can use the AWS Support App to create, update, search for, and resolve support cases in Slack channels, and start a live chat session with support agents and members from your team.
AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.
AWS Application Migration Service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. With this launch, Application Migration Service is available in all commercial AWS Regions.
AWS WAF Fraud Control — Account takeover prevention for Amazon CloudFront
AWS WAF Fraud Control — Account Takeover Prevention now supports Amazon CloudFront. AWS WAF Fraud Control — Account Takeover Prevention protects your application’s login page against credential stuffing attacks, brute force attempts, and other anomalous login activities. Account Takeover Prevention enables you to proactively stop account takeover attempts at the network edge. With Account Takeover Prevention, you can prevent unauthorized access that may lead to fraudulent activities, or you can inform affected users so that they can take preventative action.
Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. X2idn and X2iedn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads. X2idn and X2iedn deliver up to 45% more SAPS than comparable X1 instances and are SAP-Certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on anyDB. You can view the certification data on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
Customers can now pay upfront or with scheduled payments using AWS IQ
You can now pay your experts upfront or with scheduled payments on AWS IQ. With scheduling, you pay experts based on a preset schedule that is set in the proposal. With upfront, you pay for work in advance upon accepting the proposal. You can also pay as you go with milestone payments. As a customer, you review these different payment types in the proposal and can work with your expert to select the option that best fits your project needs.
Amazon QuickSight announces fine-grained visual embedding
Amazon QuickSight now supports fine-grained visual embedding, allowing you to embed individual visuals from QuickSight dashboards in applications and portals to provide key insights to users where they’re needed most.
Amazon Connect launches the ability to configure business operation days per week for capacity planning
Amazon Connect now enables you to select and manage which days the contact center is open for the purpose of capacity planning. This new feature is part of Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling (preview) that helps you predict contact volumes and average handling time, determine optimal staffing levels, and plan agent schedules to ensure you have the right agents working at the right time.
Amazon CloudFront launches Origin Access Control (OAC)
Amazon CloudFront now offers Origin Access Control, a new feature that enables CloudFront customers to easily secure their S3 origins by permitting only designated CloudFront distributions to access their S3 buckets. Customers can now enable AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) on CloudFront requests to S3 buckets with the ability to set when and if CloudFront should sign requests. Additionally, customers can now use SSE-KMS when performing uploads and downloads through CloudFront.
Announcing availability of AWS Outposts rack in Kenya and Oman
AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kenya and Oman.
AWS IoT TwinMaker launches enhancements for scaling digital twins and building data connectors
AWS IoT TwinMaker is launching enhancements to simplify our customers’ experience as they scale their digital twins and build data connectors. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Digital twins are virtual representations of physical systems that can be regularly updated with real-world data to mimic the structure, state, and behavior of the systems they represent to drive business outcomes.
Amazon GameLift now supports AWS Local Zones
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to AWS Local Zones, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into 8 new Local Zones in Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
