Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SAP, which stands for Systems, Applications, and Products, is a renowned global provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and solutions. With a strong presence in the business world, SAP offers a comprehensive suite of integrated applications tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations across industries. SAP SUM DMO and SAP SWPM fall under the category of software tools used in SAP system administration and management. In this blog post, we will make a comparative study between SAP SUM DMO and SWPM covering topics such as an overview of SAP SUM DMO and SWPM, comparative analysis, benefits of using those tools, etc. Let’s dig in! What is SAP Migr…

Starting today, Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now available on AWS Outposts rack, providing your on-premises services and applications with local DNS resolution directly from Outposts. Local Route 53 Resolver endpoints also enable DNS resolution between Outposts and your on-premises DNS server. Route 53 Resolver on Outposts helps to improve your on-premises applications availability and performance. AWS Outposts provides a hybrid cloud solution that allows you to extend your AWS infrastructure and services to your on-premises data centers. This enables you to build and operate hybrid applications that seamlessly integrate with your existing on-premises infrastructure. You…

AWS IoT Device Defender Rules Detect now supports a new disconnect duration metric to monitor the duration of disconnect of each device. With this additional metric, you can track how long a device has been disconnected to learn whether it is operating as expected. You can also configure alarms at predefined threshold levels and be alerted in the case of persistent device connectivity issues. View the full article

AWS WAF now supports URI path as an aggregation key for rate-based rules, providing customers with enhanced control and simplicity in managing request rates for URI paths. With this feature, customers can track request rates for any URI path and apply rule actions based on the number of requests received. View the full article

Amazon Connect Cases now enables agents to easily associate a case with a queue or an individual agent for resolution. Agents can view and filter cases assigned to their queue and managers can directly assign cases to individual agents. Case assignment helps companies’ service and support teams work more efficiently and reduce time to resolve customer questions and issues by clearly tracking case activities and resolution ownership. View the full article

Automated integration testing validates system components and boosts confidence for new software releases. Performing integration tests on resources deployed to the AWS cloud enables the validation of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, service limits, application configuration, and runtime code. For developers that are currently leveraging AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) as their Infrastructure as Code tool, there is a testing framework available that makes integration testing easier to implement in the software release. AWS CDK is an open-source framework for defining and provisioning AWS cloud infrastructure using supported programming languages. T…

Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. With this feature, you can now upgrade your existing workspaces from version 8.4 to 9.4. View the full article

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are enabling real time translation of Docx files. With this launch, Real Time Document Translation can synchronously translate HTML, TXT and Docx files, while preserving the source document format. Customers can use the API via SDK, CLI, or the AWS management console to submit a translation request and receive the document back with source formatting intact. View the full article

Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce “pattern”, a new Logs Insights command which enables customers to more easily identify trends and patterns in their logs. Customers often need to analyze thousands of log lines to identify relevant information. The pattern command uses AWS Machine Learning algorithms to automatically recognize patterns in log data, aggregate related logs and summarize thousands of log lines into a few easy to visualize groupings. Pattern helps customers quickly surface emerging trends, monitor known errors, increase cost visibility by identifying frequently occurring log lines and more. View the full article

Amazon QuickSight launches the Analysis menu for enhanced navigation and efficiency across Analysis Experience. The Analysis menu provides user-friendly interface with a well-organized layout, bringing together all analysis features in one menu. This streamlined organization increases the ease of finding and using different features, thereby speeding up the dashboard creation process and improving the overall efficiency for Authors. View the full article

We're excited to announce significant improvements to the AWS Amplify JavaScript library, by reducing the bundle sizes for our Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics categories. We've improved our codebase so that you get leaner bundles, resulting in faster load times and improved performance for your applications. You can benefit from these improvements by installing or updating to version 5.3.4 or beyond of the Amplify JavaScript library. View the full article

Today, AWS announces support for starting Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows based on pull request events in linked GitHub repositories. When a workflow is triggered by a GitHub-based pull request, users will also be able to see the name of the PR that triggered it in the CodeCatalyst workflows UI, and click a link that takes them directly to the pull request in GitHub. View the full article

In the few months since Amazon CodeWhisperer became generally available, many customers have used it to simplify and streamline the way they develop software. CodeWhisperer uses generative AI powered by a foundational model to understand the semantics and context of your code and provide relevant and useful suggestions. It can help build applications faster and more securely, and it can help at different levels, from small suggestions to writing full functions and unit tests that help decompose a complex problem into simpler tasks. Imagine you want to improve your code test coverage or implement a fine-grained authorization model for your application. As you begin writi…

DevOps has revolutionized software development and operations by fostering collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement. By bringing together development and operations teams, organizations can accelerate software delivery, enhance reliability, and achieve faster time-to-market. In this blog post, we will explore the best practices and architectural considerations for implementing DevOps with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling you to build efficient and scalable systems that align with DevOps principles. The Let’s Architect! team wants to share useful resources that help you to optimize your software development and operations. DevOps revolution Distributed…

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 sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access to rich insights and prebuilt dashboards related to Lex conversations, intents, slots, and utterances. View the full article

Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how long it took for an agent to first greet the customer on chat. For example, using these metrics, customers can create custom dashboards to analyze if an agent’s average handle time is high due to higher than expected agent talk time, and if so, provide agent coaching to improve. View the full…

On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. View the full article

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in the Europe (Paris) and Middle East (Dubai) regions. View the full article

AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containerized workloads, now supports lazy loading container images that have been indexed using Seekable OCI (SOCI). Lazy loading container images with SOCI reduces the time taken to launch Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks on AWS Fargate. Donnie Prakoso’s launch post provides details on how to get started with AWS Fargate and SOCI, therefore is recommended before reading this post. In this post, we’ll dive into SOCI and how it can index a container image without modifying its contents or requiring a change to existing tools or workflows. We will discuss the SOCI snapshotter, a remote containerd snapshotter…

Today, AWS announced Windows support on Karpenter (Starting with v0.29.0), the open-source node provisioning and management project. Using Karpenter, customers can now quickly scale their Amazon EKS clusters running Windows with right-sized Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application load. Karpenter helps customers optimize their operational overhead and costs during this process without manually adjusting the compute capacity of their clusters, overprovisioning compute to meet rapidly changing demand, or creating multiple EC2 Autoscaling Groups (ASGs). View the full article

Authentication with Microsoft Active Directory for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. View the full article

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant, enabling customers to use AWS Mainframe Modernization for applications that store, process, and transmit information for use cases such as payment processing that are subject to PCI DSS. View the full article

AWS Lambda event source mappings and Amazon EventBridge Pipes sources now support additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values to -5e9 to 5e9 from -1e9 to 1e9. With these new enhanced capabilities, you can now write complex rules that provide additional filtering options when building event-driven applications. View the full article

We are happy to announce the general availability of the Lambda Annotations Framework for .NET. This new programming model makes the experience of writing Lambda functions in C# feel more natural for .NET developers by using C# source generator technology. View the full article

Amazon Connect Wisdom now delivers ML-powered, real-time recommended information to help chat agents quickly solve customer needs. Previously only available for agents responding to calls, Wisdom’s machine learning models help detect customer issues and recommend knowledge articles to agents during chat sessions. By proactively delivering agents the information they need, Wisdom helps improve agent productivity and caller satisfaction. Amazon Connect Wisdom is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions. To learn more about Amazon Connect Wisdom, please visit the…

Customers running applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate can now leverage Seekable OCI (SOCI), a technology open sourced by AWS that helps applications deploy and scale out faster by enabling the containers to start without waiting for the entire container image to be downloaded. View the full article

The Data Centered: Eastern Oregon, a five-part mini-documentary series looking at the real-life impact of the more than $15 billion investment AWS has made in the local community, and how the company supports jobs, generates economic growth, provides skills training and education, and unlocks opportunities for local businesses suppliers. Last week, I watched a new episode introducing the Data Center Technician training program offered by AWS to train people with little or no previous technical experience in the skills they need to work in data centers and other information technology (IT) roles. This video reminded me of my first days of cabling and transporting serv…

With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you now have the option to filter the specific HLS renditions stored in your S3 bucket as well as control the resolution and pixel count of thumbnail jpeg files while using the auto-record to S3 feature. These controls allow customers to control the amount of data stored while recording to optimize storage costs. Additionally, customers can reduce the thumbnail generation interval down to one second (previously 5 second limit) to have lower latency thumbnails for discovery or post processing use cases. These enhancements apply to Amazon IVS Standard and Advanced channel types without additional cost. View the full article

While developing with containers is becoming an increasingly popular way for deploying and scaling applications, there are still areas where improvements can be made. One of the main issues with scaling containerized applications is the long startup time, especially during scale up when newer instances need to be added. This issue can have a negative impact on the customer experience, for example when a website needs to scale out to serve additional traffic. A research paper shows that container image downloads account for 76 percent of container startup time, but on average only 6.4 percent of the data is needed for the container to start doing useful work. Starting an…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces domainless Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Linux and Windows containers running on Amazon EC2. This integration allows applications hosted on Amazon ECS (on EC2) to easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources. With this launch, customers can run containers that require AD authentication without joining the ECS nodes to the domain, even during autoscaling events. View the full article

You can now configure ad breaks in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly using cue ad tags in addition to date range when using HLS outputs. When using cue ad tags, Channel Assembly will create the necessary EXT-X-CUE-IN/OUT/CONT markers in the specific HLS outputs. Additionally, you can now also configure asset metadata key/value pairs to be included in the EXT-X-ASSET tag to signal additional content characteristics on a per break basis. View the full article

Amazon Redshift now supports the QUALIFY clause in SELECT SQL statements, which allows you to apply filtering conditions to the result of a window function without using a subquery. By filtering the results of window functions, you can focus on the desired data segments and derive insights from your data more efficiently. View the full article

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. View the full article

Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically delete routing profiles and queues. You can now remove routing profile and queue resources that are no longer applicable, streamlining your contact center as requirements change and you adapt to new strategies for call flows, agent groups and other routing configurations. Deleting unused resources also frees up capacity in your service limits, giving you room to create new routing profiles and queues. View the full article

AWS Batch now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in AWS Fargate. This feature helps simplify the adoption of modern container technology for AWS Batch customers by expanding their architecture options for scheduling Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Fargate compute environments. Support for ARM64 architecture also gives customers sustainability benefits of Graviton instances in Fargate which can help improve price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a variety of workloads including high performance computing. View the full article

With Amazon S3 Inventory, you can now easily review your access control lists (ACLs) on all of your objects to simplify review of access permissions. ACLs were the original way to manage object access when S3 launched in 2006. Now, when migrating to IAM-based bucket policies for access control, you can easily review all of the object ACLs in your buckets before enabling S3 Object Ownership. View the full article

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. View the full article

Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates. Customers can now associate their 3072-bit RSA certificates with CloudFront distributions to enhance communication security between clients and CloudFront edge locations. View the full article

AWS Proton introduces deployment history, a new feature that provides greater visibility into cloud infrastructure deployment events. Platform engineers use Proton to define infrastructure as code patterns for their services and manage updates for services across shared resource environments. Proton deployment history makes it easier to see when deployments are initiated, what resources they target, and provides a simple way to track deployment trends over time. View the full article

You can now see alerts in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly categorized to understand nature and severity. Alerts will be categorized as either Scheduling Error, Playback Warning or Info. View the full article

AWS Lambda can now detect and stop recursive loops in Lambda functions. Customers build event-driven applications using Lambda functions to process events from sources like Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. However, in certain scenarios, due to resource misconfiguration or code defect, a processed event may be sent back to the same service or resource that invoked the Lambda function. This can cause an unintended recursive loop, and result in unintended usage and costs for customers. With this launch, Lambda will stop recursive invocations between Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon SNS after 16 recursive calls. View the full article

Today, AWS announced Windows support on Karpenter (Starting with v0.29.0), the open-source node provisioning and management project. Using Karpenter, customers can now quickly scale their Amazon EKS clusters running Windows with right-sized Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application load. Karpenter helps customers optimize their operational overhead and costs during this process without manually adjusting the compute capacity of their clusters, overprovisioning compute to meet rapidly changing demand, or creating multiple EC2 Autoscaling Groups (ASGs). View the full article

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, is announcing two additional monitoring capabilities that enable you to monitor file system events and diagnose network connectivity: you can now access ONTAP Event Management System (EMS) logs and collect packet captures on your file systems. View the full article

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports using the IP security (IPsec) protocol to encrypt data in transit. With this additional option to encrypt your data end-to-end, FSx for ONTAP offers even more flexibility for you to protect your data. View the full article

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports SnapLock, an ONTAP feature that prevents data from being modified or deleted for a specified retention period by transitioning files to a write once, read many (WORM) state. FSx for ONTAP is the first and only fully managed file storage service in the cloud offering WORM protection. You can use SnapLock to meet regulatory compliance, protect business-critical data from ransomware, and prevent accidental or malicious attempts at alteration and deletion of data. View the full article

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP was launched in late 2021. With FSx for ONTAP you get the popular features, performance, and APIs of ONTAP file systems, with the agility, scalability, security, and resilience of AWS, all as a fully managed service. Today we are adding support for SnapLock, an ONTAP feature that gives you the power to create volumes that provide Write Once Read Many (WORM) functionality. SnapLock volumes prevent modification or deletion of files within a specified retention period, and can be used to meet regulatory requirements and to protect business-critical data from ransomware attacks and other malicious attempts at alteration or deletion. FSx for ONTAP…

Amazon DocumentDB launches index improvements enabling faster index builds on collections and the ability to view index build statuses. Amazon DocumentDB index builds can now be sped by up to 14X when using parallel workers compared to using a single worker. The index creation process now uses two workers by default, and you can configure the number of workers on Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 and 5.0 instance-based clusters. View the full article

Introduction In November 2021, AWS introduced Karpenter, an open-source high-performance Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Karpenter helps improve your application availability and cluster efficiency by rapidly launching right-sized compute resources in response to changing application load. Since its release, we’ve been seeing an increase in customers migrating from Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter. However, for customers running a heterogeneous Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster with Windows node groups, it became a showstopper as Karpenter didn’t support Windows nodes, until now. The OSS community did …

AWS Mainframe Modernization is now available with a range of new capabilities for easier management and operation of the service’s fully-managed runtime environments. The capabilities include role-based access, application-level monitoring, and application deployment updates that enable seamless user authorization control, greater application performance visibility, and faster application deployment, respectively, for modernizing mainframe applications. View the full article

Amazon QuickSight introduces new unified coloring experience for your analysis and dashboards. Authors now have a way to assign colors on a field level which means that different visuals having the same field will now have the same color. Thus, making it easier for authors to specify color once on field level and reuse across different visuals instead of assigning colors for each visual separately. Along with this, we are also improving the coloring experience where visual color will persist and not change with visual interactions like sorting, filtering and actions. More details can be found here. View the full article