Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon QuickSight now supports new axis configurations for small multiples and radar charts, empowering users to customize axis settings according to their use case. In small multiples, users now have the option to select either shared or independent axis configuration for both the X and Y axes, specifically for line and bar charts. View the full article

Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed AIOps service that uses machine learning (ML) to quickly identify when applications are behaving outside of their normal operating patterns and generates insights from its findings. These insights generated by DevOps Guru can be used to alert on-call teams to react to anomalies for business mission critical workloads. If you are already utilizing Datadog to automate infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management for real-time observability of your entire technology stack, then this blog is for you. You might already be using Datadog for a consolidated view of your Datadog Events interface to search…

In March 2023, IBM Consulting delivered an Innovation Hackathon in France, aimed at designing and building new innovative solutions for real customer use cases using the AWS Cloud. In this post, we briefly explore six of the solutions considered and demonstrate the AWS architectures created and implemented during the Hackathon. Hackathon solutions Solution 1: Optimize digital channels monitoring and management for Marketing Monitoring Marketing campaign impact can require a lot of effort, such as customers and competitors’ reactions on digital media channels. Digital campaign managers need this data to evaluate customer segment penetration and overall campaign effec…

Introduction Modern applications run on a variety of compute platforms in AWS including serverless services such as AWS Lambda, AWS App Runner, and AWS Fargate. Organizations today are often required to support architectures using a variety of these AWS services, each offering unique runtime characteristics, such as concurrency and scaling, which can be purpose fit and optimized for a particular workload. As customers adopt these services using practices such as infrastructure as code (IaC) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices, they often face challenges with how to scale them within their organizations. In contrast to the original idea of…

Introduction We are happy to announce new features in AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) that allow you to inject a variety faults into workloads running in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This blog shows how to use new AWS FIS actions with Amazon ECS. AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) is a fully managed service that helps you test your applications for resilience to failures. AWS FIS follows the principles of chaos engineering, which allows you to simulate failures in your AWS environment. These can be network outages, infrastructure failure, and service disruptions. AWS FIS experiments help you iden…

Introduction Chaos engineering is the discipline of verifying the resilience of your application architecture to identify unforeseen risks, address weaknesses, and ultimately improve confidence in the reliability of your application. In this blog, we demonstrate how to automate running chaos engineering experiments using the new features in AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) to target Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Pods. AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS FIS is a fully managed service for running chaos engineering experiments to test and verify the resilience of your applications. FIS gives you the ability to inject faults into the underlying comp…

Amazon Location Service now supports publishing tracked device position updates on Amazon EventBridge, allowing customers to leverage position updates to deliver features tailored to the physical location of tracked devices. Developers can create applications that show devices as they move on a map, or store movement data in long-term storage to be used for purposes like asset movement insights, predictive analytics, or compliance. View the full article

This post was co-written with Sparsh Agarwal, Senior Product Manager at Salesforce Introduction Amazon EKS Anywhere (Amazon EKS-A) takes the power of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) beyond the AWS cloud and enables you to run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure. It provides an installable software package for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on-premises and automation tooling for cluster lifecycle support. Amazon EKS Anywhere can be installed on bare metal servers, VMware vSphere, CloudStack, Nutanix, AWS Snowball Edge and Docker. It allows you to leverage the benefits of EKS across hybrid environments, ensuring consistency and flexibility in…

The US celebrated Independence Day last week on July 4 with fireworks and barbecues across the country. But fireworks weren’t the only thing that launched last week. Let’s have a look! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS Glue – AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for data stored in data lakes. You can now automatically register Apache Iceberg tables into AWS Glue Data Catalog by running the Glue Crawler. You can then query Glue Catalog Iceberg tables across various analytics engines and apply AWS Lake Formation fine-grained permissions when querying from Amazon Athena.…

Amazon Omics has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization for the AWS US East-West Regions. You can use Amazon Omics to store and process your data in AWS with up to the Moderate impact level. View the full article

AWS Elemental MediaLive now saves channel metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 1-second intervals allowing you to track fast-changing activity. These metrics can be retrieved using the console or the CloudWatch API at 1-second periods for up to 3 hours after the datapoints were created. View the full article

Amazon Location Service now supports API keys as an alternative for authenticating Maps, Places, and Routes resources, making it easier for developers to create authenticated Amazon Location resources. With API Keys, developers can easily create, manage, and expire access to Amazon Location resources, making it simpler for location based applications to interoperate with Amazon Location Service. View the full article

Over time, many enterprises have built an on-premises cluster of servers, accumulating data, and then procuring more servers and storage. They often begin their ML journey by experimenting locally on their laptops. Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is at a different stage in every business organization. Some remain completely on-premises, others are hybrid (both on-premises and cloud), and the remaining have moved completely into the cloud for their AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. These enterprises are also researching or have started using the cloud to augment their on-premises systems for several reasons. As technology improves, both the size and quan…

Last week the Developer Tools team announced that AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that allows you to build and test code. CodeBuild builds are defined as a collection of build commands and related settings, in YAML format, called a BuildSpec. You can now define GitHub Actions steps directly in the BuildSpec and run them alongside CodeBuild commands. In this post, I will use the Liquibase GitHub Action to deploy changes to an Amazon Aurora database in a private subnet. Background The GitHub Marketplace includes a large catalog of actions developed by third-parties and the open-source community. A…

Pull Requests play a critical part in the software development process. They ensure that a developer’s proposed code changes are reviewed by relevant parties before code is merged into the main codebase. This is a standard procedure that is followed across the globe in different organisations today. However, pull requests often require code reviewers to read through a great deal of code and manually check it against quality and security standards. These manual reviews can lead to problematic code being merged into the main codebase if the reviewer overlooks any problems. To help solve this problem, we recommend using Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer to assist in the review proc…

You can now view and access thumbnails from AWS Elemental MediaLive inputs via the AWS Management Console or API. View the full article

AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables, simplifying the adoption of AWS Glue Data Catalog as catalog for Iceberg tables and migrating from other Iceberg catalogs. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for data stored in data lakes that helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving data sets while maintaining query performance. With today’s launch, you can automatically register Iceberg tables into Glue Catalog by running the Glue Crawler. You can then query Glue Catalog Iceberg tables across various analytics engines and apply Lake Formation fine-grained permissions when querying from Amazon Athena. View the f…

AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. View the full article

AWS CodeBuild customers can now use GitHub Actions during the building and testing of software packages. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Customers’ CodeBuild projects are now able to leverage many of the pre-built actions available in GitHub’s marketplace. GitHub Actions are open source applications for the GitHub Actions platform that perform a complex but frequently repeated task. View the full article

Starting today, you can deploy on your AWS account an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze, and visualize your customers’ clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications (both for Android and iOS). The solution is built on top of standard AWS services. This new solution Clickstream Analytics on AWS allows you to keep your data in the security and compliance perimeter of your AWS account and customize the processing and analytics as you require, giving you the full flexibility to extract value for your business. For example, many business line owners want to combine clickstream analytics data with business system data to gain more comprehensive ins…

For regulatory reasons, decommissioning core business systems in financial services and insurance (FSI) markets requires data to remain accessible years after the application is retired. Traditionally, FSI companies either outsourced data archiving to third-party service providers, which maintained application replicas, or purchased vendor software to query and visualize archival data. In this blog post, we present a more cost-efficient option with serverless data archiving on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In our experience, you can build your own cloud-native solution on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at one-fifth of the price of third-party alternatives. If yo…

On June 8th, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announced support for dead-letter queue (DLQ) redrive via AWS SDK or Command Line Interface (CLI). Today, SQS announces support for dead-letter queue redrive via AWS SDK or CLI in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the DLQ management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Now, customers can use AWS SDK or CLI to programmatically manage the lifecycle of their unconsumed messages at scale. View the full article

AWS Config now supports 16 more resource types for services, including AWS Private Certificate Authority, AWS AppConfig, AWS App Mesh, AWS App Runner, Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Kendra, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS Network Manager, Amazon Pinpoint, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). View the full article

Starting today, we are launching the AWS Network Firewall service in Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). View the full article

Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. We regularly improve the accuracy of the underlying machine learning models and add new features based on customer feedback. Today, we are pleased to announce accuracy enhancements for the AnalyzeDocument - Forms feature to help customers automate their document processing workflows. View the full article

AWS Mainframe Modernization with AWS Blu Age Runtime is now available with more flexibility in configuration of the complete stack and deployment on customers’ AWS account EC2 instances. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne) and Europe (Spain, Zurich) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity. View the full article

Introduction Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the support of prefix delegation mode for Windows nodes running in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This feature increases the number of available IP addresses per node, thereby allowing customers to run more pods per Windows node on AWS Nitro based Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instance types. This leads to significant reduction in the cost of running Windows containers on Amazon EKS. When using prefix delegation mode for Windows on Amazon EKS, customers can run the suggested Kubernetes upstream limits of 110 pods per node, with a maximum of up to 250 pods per node depending upon the chos…

Today, we are delighted to introduce the latest version of the AWS Well-Architected Machine Learning (ML) Lens whitepaper. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides architectural best practices for designing and operating ML workloads on AWS. It is based on six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and—a new addition to this revision—Sustainability. The ML Lens uses the Well-Architected Framework to outline the steps for performing an AWS Well-Architected review for your ML implementations. The ML Lens provides a consistent approach for customers to evaluate ML architectures, implement scalable designs, and …

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Service Quotas in Cross-Account observability allowing customers to track and visualize resource utilization and limits across various AWS services from multiple AWS accounts within a region using a central monitoring account. View the full article

AWS Application Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of migrating your applications to AWS. It allows you to lift and shift many physical, virtual, or cloud servers without compatibility issues, performance disruption, or long cutover windows. You can minimize time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating replication and conversion of your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS by using Application Migration Service for migration. Earlier this year, we introduced major improvements, such as a server migration metrics dashboard, import and export, and additional post-launch modernization a…

Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account backups in AWS Regions Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). Using cross-account backups, customers can copy backups across accounts within their AWS Organizations. View the full article

Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to centrally view and manage migrations to multiple accounts via a single designated account. Designed for large organizations, this new feature uses AWS Organizations to provide visibility and inventory management capabilities directly from the AWS Application Migration Service console. View the full article

Amazon Connect now enables you to automatically present the right step-by-step guide based on agent activity. You can now use the new “Set event flow” block within Amazon Connect flows to run a specific guide when a customer connects with an agent or the agent disconnects from the call. For example, when a customer connects with an agent for a lost baggage issue, the agent is presented with a ‘lost baggage’ step-by-step guide that has been pre-configured by the contact center manager as the default view within the agent workspace. This makes it easy for an agent to walk through the exact steps of the issue the customer is calling about, helping improve resolution time and…

With the shifting landscape of IT, traditional on-premise models are being replaced by cloud-based infrastructures. Businesses worldwide are increasingly realizing the advantages of moving to the cloud. Cloud migration is not stopping, but rather accelerating as businesses modernize their IT infrastructure to minimize risk, optimize costs, and reduce capital expenditures. The cloud security landscape is constantly evolving, and organizations need to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and threats. We expect to see an increasing focus on cloud forensics and incident response as security teams work to gain visibility and respond to threats across multi-cloud, container-b…

Governance plays a crucial role in AWS environments, as it ensures compliance, security, and operational efficiency. In this Let’s Architect!, we aim to provide valuable insights and best practices on how to configure governance appropriately within a company’s AWS infrastructure. By implementing these best practices, you can establish robust controls, enhance security, and maintain compliance, enabling your organization to fully leverage the power of AWS services while mitigating risks and maximizing operational efficiency. If you are hungry for more information on governance, check out the Architecture Center’s management and governance page, where you can find a co…

Parameter Store, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) for GetParameter and GetParameters APIs, increased from the previous 3,000 TPS limit. Parameter Store allows you to securely store configuration data and secrets as hierarchical key-value pairs. You can flexibly store parameters such as API keys, subnet IDs, and passwords, and you can reference those parameters in your code and through AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, and AWS CloudFormation. This increased API limit makes it easier to use Parameter Store to support high-traffic applications and demanding workloads without sacrificing performance due to…

In last week’s AWS Week in Review post, Danilo mentioned that it’s summer in London. Well, I’m based in Singapore, and it’s mostly summer here. But, June is a special month here as it marks the start of durian season. Starting next week, I’ll be travelling to Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. But before I go, I want to share some interesting updates from last week for you. Let’s get started. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my attention: New Hands-on Course: Generative AI with Large Language Models – Generative AI has been a technology highlight for the past few months. If you are on your journey to learn large language models (LLM),…

AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. This expansion allows organizations based in Canada to establish an AWS Wickr network in their geography to help facilitate compliance with local data residency needs and other regulations. The expansion also allows organizations to manage networks across multiple commercial regions and marks the beginning of AWS Wickr’s regional expansion beyond the United States. View the full article

Amazon Connect Chat now supports new interactive message types, including quick replies and carousels, enabling you to create richer customer experiences and resolve issues faster. Quick replies allow you to present a list of options that customers can click to respond (e.g., “Yes,” “No”), and carousels enable customers to browse through options (e.g., list of products) and make a selection. These interactive message types enable you to send customers pre-configured response options, eliminating the need for a customer to type their response. View the full article

AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard 3.0 (cfn-guard). cfn-guard is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises validate that their cloud infrastructure complies with company policy guidelines. Developers use cfn-guard to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON plans/configurations against those rules. Guard 3.0 allows customers to define complex rules and accelerates development velocity with a new deployment method for cfn-guard-lambda. View the full article

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes flow metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 1-second intervals, instead of the previous 1-minute interval rate. These metrics can be retrieved using the console or the CloudWatch API at 1-second periods for up to 3 hours after the datapoints are created. 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 announcing enhancements to the custom terminology feature that will improve translation fluency and accuracy. The enhancement creates contextually appropriate versions of matching terms to generate translations of higher quality. For example, if the matching term is singular, but the sentence requires a plural, the new version automatically performs this conversion. This enhancement also allows customers to expand the application of their term bases to wider set of translations, as illustrated in the example below. View…

The Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver is now available as an open-source project. The CSI driver makes it easy for developers to use Amazon FSx for OpenZFS with their Kubernetes containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or on self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon EC2. View the full article

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS SDK for SAP ABAP. View the full article

Anna Malanchuk Anna Malanchuk spent seven years in her native Lviv, Ukraine training as a dentist. As the child of two doctors, a career in healthcare seemed a natural choice. She had almost completed her training when the war broke out in Ukraine in February 2022. Together with her mother, 15-year-old brother, and Norwegian husband, Anna fled first to Norway, and then to Portugal, where her husband was able to find a job. Her time away from home forced Anna to reflect on her future. “Being unable to work as a dentist outside of Ukraine made me face a truth I’d been avoiding – which is that dentistry wasn’t the right profession for me.” Determined to make a new sta…

You can now use Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to create new files in Amazon S3. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and PUT. It is ideal for workloads that read large datasets (terabytes to petabytes in size) and write sequentially to a file from a single process or thread. Common use cases include machine learning training as well as rendering and transcoding in media applications. View the full article

Amazon Elastic Container Services(Amazon ECS) now enables faster task launches on container instances that have tasks with prolonged shutdown. This enables customers to scale their workloads faster and improve infrastructure utilization. View the full article

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now launches tasks faster on container instances that are running tasks that have a prolonged shutdown period. This enables customers to scale their workloads faster and improve infrastructure utilization. About Amazon ECS scheduling Amazon ECS is a container orchestrator that’s designed to be able to launch and track application containers across the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capacity of an entire AWS Region. While other container orchestrators give each customer their own unique control plane that’s just for them, the Amazon ECS control plane is designed with extreme efficiency in mind. Under the hood of A…

Today, Amazon Omics announces support for Common Workflow Language (CWL) version 1.0-1.2. This new capability extends support for multiple workflow languages (WDL, Nextflow, and CWL) in Amazon Omics, allowing customers to use the workflow language of their choice. Customers can now easily bring their CWL workflows along with their software tools and Amazon Omics will provision and manage all the underlying infrastructure for their workflow runs. View the full article