This week at AWS
New appointment on Friday with the series “This week at AWS”, also this week the news are quite interesting. Let’s see what they are:
Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon FSx for Lustre.
Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances now available in Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Europe (Paris) region. X2idn and X2iedn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (code named 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 any database. You can view the certification data for X2idn and X2iedn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
Amazon SWF launches new console experience
Amazon SWF has launched a new console experience, making it easier for you to manage SWF workflows with more visibility and control.
AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Stockholm) region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. The local SSD storage provided on these instances will benefit applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files.
SageMaker Studio now supports Glue Interactive Sessions
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. SageMaker Studio comes with fast start, collaborative notebooks. You can quickly launch notebooks in Studio, easily dial up or down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even share your notebook as a link in few simple clicks. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now come with built-in integration with AWS Glue Interactive Sessions. Data scientists and data engineers can use the serverless Apache Spark runtime environment managed by AWS Glue Interactive Sessions to interactively prepare data at scale right in their Studio notebooks.
Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless applications in near real-time with CloudWatch metrics
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.
Amazon WorkSpaces is available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This expansion into a new AWS Region allows you to provision WorkSpaces closer to your users, providing a more responsive experience. Additionally, you can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet changing demand, without the cost and complexity of on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports displaying top 25 SQL queries
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights’ Top SQL tab shows the SQL queries that are contributing the most to database load. Starting today, we are increasing the top SQL queries displayed in Amazon RDS Performance Insights from 10 to 25. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Amazon Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action.
AWS Transfer Family now supports multiple host keys and key types per server
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:37:24 +0000
AWS Transfer Family now supports up to ten host keys per SFTP server. In addition, ED25519 and ECDSA key types are now supported for server host keys. Previously, AWS Transfer Family only supported one host key per server, and only the RSA key type.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) announces CDK Construct tree view in the AWS CloudFormation console
Customers using CDK want a simple way to map the resources synthesized in a CloudFormation template back to the source CDK Construct. In an effort to display all resources in a CloudFormation template the Management Console loses the hierarchical nature of CDK Constructs, which customers are used to today. CDK Construct tree view in the CloudFormation console is intended for the customers who want to observe the context from which the resources were created to the CloudFormation console, in order to provide a better, focused experience.
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports Amazon AppFlow connectors
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now available as a destination in the Amazon AppFlow console. With a few clicks, customers can now bring data from 20+ application connectors into Customer Profiles and equip contact center agents with the information needed to provide personalized customer service. Amazon AppFlow connectors allows ingestion of data such as transactions (e.g., purchase orders from SAP OData), profile information (e.g., leads from Zendesk Sell) and customer interactions (e.g., Slack conversations) to create a single, unified profile for each of your customers.
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves now supports Apache HTTP webservers
You can now use Apache HTTP webservers with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves.
AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect Custom Metrics and Dimensions support
We are excited to introduce two new enhancements to AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect, Custom Metrics and Dimensions support. ML Detect now supports monitoring of custom metrics, allowing you to evaluate operational health parameters that are unique to your fleet. Besides setting static alarms manually with Rules Detect, you can now use machine learning to automatically learn your fleet’s expected behaviors on custom metrics. Further, with the new Dimensions filter support for ML Detect, you can define attributes to evaluate more precise metrics in your ML security profile.
AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies. With AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can generate auditor-ready reports to help prove compliance of your data protection policies with your defined industry-specific regulatory requirements.
Introducing Visual Conversation builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We’re excited to introduce the Visual Conversation Builder, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design. In addition to the already available menu-based editor, and Lex APIs, the visual builder provides a complete view of the entire conversation flow in one location. It empowers any user to build engaging conversational experiences more quickly.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/09/amazon-visual-conversation-builder/
AWS Config announces a price reduction up to 58% for conformance packs
We are excited to announce that AWS Config has reduced conformance pack prices by up to 58% depending on your usage levels. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an entire organization, helping you manage the compliance of your AWS resources at scale.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the instance store for temporary tablespace and the Database Smart Flash Cache for M5d and R5d instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the instance store for temporary tablespaces and the Database Smart Flash Cache (flash cache) for M5d and R5d instances. M5d and R5d instances are ideal fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches.
Direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack is now available
With direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack, you can now directly use the VPC private IP address of an Amazon EC2 instance on Outposts rack to communicate with your on-premises network. This new direct VPC routing mode is an alternative to the Customer-owned IP (CoIP) routing mode where Outposts rack uses a separate IP address pool provided by you from your on-premises network.
AppFlow now supports deleting records in Salesforce
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports deleting records in Salesforce. Customers of Amazon AppFlow may now execute Amazon Appflow flows which delete targeted records in a destination Salesforce instance. This new capability enhances Amazon AppFlow’s connector for Salesforce which already supports write methods such as Insert, Update, and Upsert.
AWS Enterprise Support launches AWS Incident Detection and Response
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of AWS Incident Detection and Response, that offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management for their selected workloads. AWS Incident Detection and Response is designed to help you improve your operations, increase workload resiliency, and accelerate your recovery from critical incidents. AWS Incident Detection and Response leverages the proven operational, enhanced monitoring, and incident management capabilities used internally by AWS teams and externally by AWS Managed Services (AMS).
FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan registration now open
We are excited to announce that registration for the FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan (EMP) is now open. FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS EMP subscriptions allow embedded developers to receive critical bug fixes and security patches on their chosen FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) version for up to 10 years beyond the end of its initial support period. During the subscription period, developers will receive notifications for upcoming patches on FreeRTOS libraries, allowing them to systematically plan their product maintenance activities. This helps developers to secure their microcontroller-based devices for years, save operating system upgrade costs, and reduce the risk associated with patching their devices.
AWS Systems Manager now supports patching newer versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now helps you automate patch deployments for instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) versions 15.2, 15.3, and 15.4, Oracle Linux versions 8.4 and 8.5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8.6. Patch Manager helps you automate the process of patching nodes with both security related and other types of updates. Patch Manager also helps you automate patch deployments for instances running Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu Server, Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
Local gateway ingress routing for AWS Outposts rack is now available
You can now create Outposts rack local gateway (LGW) inbound routes to redirect incoming traffic to an elastic network interface (ENI) attached to an Amazon EC2 instance before the traffic reaches your enterprise workloads running on your Outpost. The EC2 instance may run virtual network appliance software to inspect, modify, or filter network traffic before relaying the traffic to other EC2 instances.
AWS PrivateLink announces enhanced tagging capability for service owners
You can now use tags to better track and manage your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity solution that enables customers to connect to other services hosted on AWS using a secure and scalable method while keeping network traffic private.
