This week at AWS
AWS always works to offer to its customers services and tools to help them focus on their business. Everything have built for 90–95% of the road map comes directly from customers feedback, AWS start with what customers want and work backwards. AWS take customer obsession very seriously.
So let’s see what they did for them this week:
AWS Service Catalog announces support for Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Catalog now supports Attributed Based Access Controls (ABAC), allowing customers the ability to use tags to easily manage access and permissions to AWS resources in Service Catalog. Now, Service Catalog administrators have the ability to define their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to grant access and specify finer-grained permissions based on tags shared between AWS resource(s) and IAM users or roles. For example, based on a matching set of tags, an IAM entity (e.g., user or role) may be allowed or denied to create resources in their Service Catalog account.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports TDE enabled SQL Server Database Migration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports TDE enabled database migrations using Native Backup/Restore for Microsoft SQL Server. Previously, you would need to disable TDE on your on-premises TDE enabled SQL Server database in order to migrate to Amazon RDS.
Announcing support for cross-region search in Amazon OpenSearch
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-cluster search across regions, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple domains in different regions with a single query.
AWS Transfer Family expands server configuration options to support a broader set of clients
Starting today, AWS Transfer Family customers can ignore the SETSTAT command and customize how they want to process TLS session resumption. These new features enable customers to support a broader set of clients without making any client-side changes.
Amazon Quicksight now provides drag controller for rows and columns for table and pivot
Amazon QuickSight now provides an option for both author and readers the flexibility to use drag controller on table and pivot table. Authors and Readers can simply alter column width by dragging from cell, row header or column header from both parent and leaf level in case of pivot table.
Amazon Keyspaces now helps you monitor table storage costs through Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now helps you monitor your table-level storage costs through Amazon CloudWatch.
Amazon EC2 C6gn instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are available in the Europe (Paris, Milan), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions.
Amazon EC2 VT1 now supports the AMD-Xilinx Video SDK 2.0 that enables GStreamer and 10-bit video transcoding
We are excited to announce that the Amazon EC2 VT1 instances now support the AMD-Xilinx Video SDK 2.0, bringing support for Gstreamer, 10-bit HDR video, and dynamic encoder parameters. In addition to new features, this new version offers improved visual quality for 4k video, support for a newer version of FFmpeg (4.4), expanded OS/kernel support, and bug fixes.
AWS Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs now supports IAM condition keys to manage retention rules
You can now use Identity and Access Management (IAM) condition keys to specify which resource types are permitted in the retention rules created for Recycle Bin. With Recycle Bin, you can retain deleted EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs for a period of time so that you can recover them in the event of an accidental deletion. You can enable Recycle Bin for all or a subset of the Snapshots or AMIs in your account by creating one or more retention rule. Each rule also specifies a retention time period. A deleted EBS snapshot or de-registered AMI can be recovered from the Recycle Bin before the expiration of the retention period.
Easily customize your notifications while using Amazon Lookout for Metrics
We are excited to announce that you can now add filters to alerts and also edit existing alerts while using Amazon Lookout for Metrics. With this launch you can now add filters to your alerts configuration to only get notifications for anomalies that matter the most to you. You can also simply modify existing alerts as per your needs for notification as anomalies evolve.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in 12 additional Regions
Starting today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is available in 12 additional Regions: US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), South America (São Paulo).
Announcing Bottlerocket ECS variant for NVIDIA GPUs
Today, we are announcing availability of a Bottlerocket variant that supports NVIDIA GPU-based Amazon EC2 instance types on Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS). Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system that is purpose-built to run container workloads. Customers can now benefit from using the same container-focused host operating system for both their non-GPU and GPU workloads while using ECS, including machine learning, video encoding, and streaming workloads. This helps customers standardize on a single operating system that utilizes the underlying specialized compute hardware.
Amazon DynamoDB Standard Infrequent Access table class is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DynamoDB Standard Infrequent Access (DynamoDB Standard-IA) table class is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The DynamoDB Standard-IA table class is ideal for use cases that require long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed, such as application logs, medical records, and financial transactions.
Announcing enhanced integration with Service Quotas for Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to proactively manage your account and table quotas through enhanced integration with Service Quotas. Using Service Quotas, you can now view the current values of all your DynamoDB quotas. You can also monitor the current utilization of your account-level quotas.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables customers to deploy and scale web applications and services without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk automatically scales your application up and down based on your application’s specific needs. Starting today, you can run applications orchestrated by AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.
Amazon Quicksight now supports show/hide fields on pivot table
Amazon QuickSight now provides authors the ability to show or hide any column, row or value fields from the field well context menu on pivot table visuals. This capability is currently supported in table visuals and this launch extends it to pivot table visuals. Readers and authors can now export the data to CSV and Excel from both table and pivot table from the context menu.
UI Improvements in AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets has enhanced the console experience by adding a split-view panel that allows you to view budget details without leaving the budgets overview page. AWS Budgets helps you control AWS cost and usage by allowing you to set custom budgets that alert you when your cloud spend exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS Budgets to set Savings Plans and Reservation alerts and receive notifications when your utilization or coverage targets drop below your desired thresholds. AWS Budgets is generally available in all public AWS Regions.
Use PySpark and Altair code snippets to prepare and visualize data faster than ever in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, we are making it faster and easier to prepare and visualize data using PySpark and Altair with support for code snippets in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a single visual interface. With SageMaker Data Wrangler’s data selection tool, you can quickly select data from multiple data sources, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Databricks, and Snowflake.
AWS Service Catalog’s Application Registry now supports cross-account applications.
Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for cross-account AppRegistry applications and attribute groups. With this release, applications can now be shared within your AWS Organization enabling recipient accounts to associate their local resources to shared applications. If you have application resources deployed in more than one account within your AWS Organization, you can now maintain a single repository of your applications and application metadata.
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types including Amazon SageMaker, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Batch, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, and AWS Database Migration Service.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for VPC endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports VPC endpoints enabling secure, private connectivity to other AWS services. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click service that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.
Amazon Chime SDK now supports 100 webcam video streams
The Amazon Chime SDK now supports up to 100 webcam video streams per WebRTC session. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Each client application can select up to 25 webcam video streams to display, enabling developers to create immersive video experiences that are bespoke for each user.
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks using the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the latest AWS SDK or CLI. No new cluster is created in the process which means you keep the same endpoints and other characteristics of the cluster. The upgrade completes in minutes as no data needs to be copied to a new cluster volume. The upgrade can be applied immediately or during the maintenance window. Your database cluster will be unavailable during the upgrade. Review the Aurora documentation to learn more.
Amazon Connect launches API to retrieve agents’ current activity
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically access real-time details about agents’ current activity, such as current status (e.g., “Available”). If an agent is handling a contact, details include the contact’s state (e.g., “Connected” or “Missed”) and duration. Using this API, businesses can build custom dashboards for contact center supervisors to monitor their agents’ activity in real-time. For example, if more agents are needed to handle contacts, you can use this new API to identify agents who are on break the longest and reach out to them to switch to “Available” or change it programmatically using PutUserStatus.
AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now available in the AWS Europe (Milan) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List.
Amazon Connect launches 15 minute scheduled reports
Amazon Connect now provides the ability for customers to schedule historical metric reports that generate the latest data every 15 minutes. Historical metrics reports include data about completed customer contacts, agent activity, and performance, such as how many contacts an agent handled. This helps customers quickly identify insights into queue, routing profile, and agent performance. These insights can be used in a variety of ways, including evaluating and adjusting contact center forecasting and staffing plans.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for data read and write operations
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports tag-based authorization for HTTP methods, making it easier for you to manage access control for data read and write operations. You can use Identity policies in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to define permissions for read and write HTTP methods, allowing coarse-grained access control of data on your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains.
Enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within the Amazon RDS Console
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports enablement from within the Amazon RDS Console. Starting today, you can enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to quickly detect, diagnose, and remediate a wide variety of database-related issues in Amazon Aurora databases while creating a new database. You can also now enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within the RDS Performance Insights page.
Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i instance is available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over C5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Designed for compute-intensive workloads, C6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. These instances are an ideal fit for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.
