Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports ingestion of events from third party Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools via Amazon EventBridge. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management to increase workload resiliency and accelerate recovery from critical incidents. View the full article

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions, allowing you to ingest, transport, and process your high-quality video in the cloud in more locations globally. View the full article

Today, AWS announced the ability to visualize AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph query results in its 3D scenes. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for customers to create digital twins of real-world systems, and TwinMaker Knowledge Graph knowledge graph structures and organizes information about the digital twin for easier access and understanding. This launch updates the Scene Composer in AWS IoT App Kit that allows users to bind their entities with objects in 3D scenes. Once TwinMaker Knowledge Graph entities are linked with objects in 3D scenes, users can initiate TwinMaker Knowledge Graph queries and highlight the results in their 3D scenes along with a graph represent…

AWS App Runner adds support for editing and rebuilding a failed service. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and minimizing the need to manage infrastructure. View the full article

We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch dashboard variables, a new experience that makes it easier for you to quickly navigate between different operational views by using variables as navigation to view different data sets for the same resource. View the full article

Amazon GameLift now supports Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift now supports new game servers that run on Windows 2016, Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) and AL2023. View the full article

These days, large organizations typically have microservices environments that span across cloud platforms, on-premises data centers, and colocation facilities. The reasons for this vary but frequently include latency, local support structures, and historic architectural decisions. However, due to the complex nature of these environments, efficient mechanisms for service discovery and configuration management must be implemented to support operations at scale. This is an issue also faced by Nomura. Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the need…

Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account management in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Cross-account management helps customers manage and monitor backups across their AWS accounts with AWS Organizations. View the full article

Now you can export key deliverability metrics in Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) through Virtual Deliverability Manager's (VDM) dashboard. This makes it easier to export performance indicators such as delivery volume, complaint rate, and click rate into analysis tools such as spreadsheets for custom analysis. View the full article

Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. View the full article

AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Osaka (Japan). With the addition of this edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 107 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 24 AWS Regions. View the full article

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). View the full article

Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). View the full article

AWS Lambda console code editor now includes a read file listing all the environment variables associated with the function, making it easier for developers to discover the variables and reference them in their code. Environment variables are key-value pairs that developers use to extend a function's configuration outside of their code. When referencing the environment variables in their code, developers need the keys. View the full article

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces a new applications manager feature to help you package and mobilize your Windows applications between different environments without affecting the underlying base image or operating system. To achieve this, you can launch an app block builder instance, install your application(s) and create a self-contained and sharable application image. You can share these application images across multiple AppStream 2.0 elastic fleets provisioned across different AWS regions. View the full article

Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to server products with certain pricing types, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. View the full article

Today, Amazon Athena released a new ODBC driver that improves the experience of connecting to, querying, and visualizing data from your favorite SQL development and business intelligence applications. View the full article

AWS Batch now supports specifying a minimum number of vCPUs (Min vCPUs) for Multi-Node Parallel (MNP) Jobs. MNP jobs allow users to run large-scale tightly coupled workloads, such as ML training, across multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. With this launch, customers can now retain a specified number of vCPUs on a compute environment (CE) even when there are no jobs running. This feature enables customers to maintain a warm pool of healthy instances for MNP jobs, helping prevent situations where capacity is returned to EC2 due to rapid scale down. View the full article

Amazon S3 now provides the restore status of objects stored in Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive using the S3 LIST API. This new information in S3 LIST API responses can be integrated into your applications, helping you identify and access restored objects from S3 Glacier. For example, S3 Glacier restore status is now integrated into Amazon Athena, so you can run queries against your restored data from low-cost S3 Glacier storage classes. View the full article

We are excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Athena to query data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Glacier storage classes. S3 Glacier is a secure and durable service for low-cost data archiving and long-term backup. With this launch, you can use Athena to directly query restored data in the Glacier Flexible Retrieval and Deep Archive storage classes, saving you time by removing the need to move and duplicate data. View the full article

Today, we are announcing an improvement for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance on Amazon EC2 memory-optimized R6a instance type. View the full article

Starting this week, NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) Regions. NoSQL Workbench is a client-side tool that helps you design, visualize, and build scalable, high-performance data models, and query Amazon DynamoDB tables with a point-and-click interface. View the full article

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra as a retriever to build retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) 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. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the BT 4G/5G network in Manchester. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Manchester to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom. View the full article

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announces monorepo framework support for npm workspaces, Yarn workspaces, pnpm workspaces, Turborepo and Nx. With this release, AWS Amplify Hosting offers fully managed CI/CD deployments and hosting for apps contained within a monorepo (aka monorepository, multi-package repository, multi-project repository, or monolithic repository). View the full article

We are announcing the general availability of the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Edge Agent. This feature offers a simple, efficient, and cost-effective way to connect to IP cameras on customer premises, locally record and store video from those cameras, and stream videos to the cloud on a customer-defined schedule for long term storage, playback, and analytical processing. View the full article

With today’s release, Amazon Athena and its latest features and benefits are available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. This release expands Athena’s availability in the Middle East to include Bahrain and the UAE. View the full article

Amazon DevOps Guru now allows you to use customer managed keys (CMKs) with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). DevOps Guru already provides encryption by default using AWS-owned KMS keys for data stored in DevOps Guru. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer, which can help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization. View the full article

Each month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification releases new training resources and certification updates to equip individuals and organizations with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. In May and June 2023, we released 6 digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including a sustainability course, a new AWS Builder Lab to configure VPC Traffic Monitoring, an updated AWS Certified Security – Specialty Official Practice Exam, and AWS Cloud Quest Tournaments. We also have a new guide to help you plan your AWS Certification path, and a new AWS Migration Essentials classroom course. New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill…

Gaining the skills for a job in the fast-moving world of cloud computing is a wise investment. Over the past eleven years, AWS Training and Certification has trained many learners on the skills to be successful as architects, builders, and cloud operators. The race to fill cloud positions is only accelerating. Worldwide spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 21.7% in 2023 according to Gartner, yet 95% of respondents in a recent McKinsey survey cited lack of cloud talent and capabilities as one of the biggest roadblocks they face. If you are looking for a job in the cloud and want to know what it’s like to work as an architect, operator, developer, or suppor…

Customers can now use Apache Flink 1.15 with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to perform ad hoc queries to quickly inspect data streams and build and run stream processing applications in minutes. View the full article

Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in public preview. This feature enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data stored in Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. Data written into Aurora is available in Amazon Redshift within seconds, so you can quickly act on it without having to build and maintain complex data pipelines. Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available for Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Provisioned as well as Amazon Redshift Serverless and RA3 instance types. View the full article

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to when native MySQL binlog is enabled. View the full article

Today we are announcing the support for UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances. Starting with AL2023.1, customers can now use Secure Boot on Amazon Linux instances to verify the digital signature of all boot components. View the full article

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne). View the full article

AWS announces two new pricing options for AWS Private 5G for longer-term network deployments. Now, in addition to the 60-day pricing option, you can deploy your private mobile network with a 1-year or 3-year pricing option, at a lower per-hourly rate. View the full article

This post was coauthored by Jesse Gonzalez, Sr. Staff Site Reliability and Naveen Puvvula, Sr. Eng Manager, Reliability Engineering at Life360 Introduction Life360 offers advanced driving, digital, and location safety features and location sharing for the entire family. Since its launch in 2008, it has become an essential solution for modern life around the world, with families in 195 countries relying on the platform’s range of features, benefits, and services. The world’s leading membership for safety and location is now used by 1 in 9 U.S. families and is among the top 50 most downloaded apps daily on iOS and Android and with a strong community of 50 million monthly…

You can now try Amazon Timestream with a 1-month free trial. First time users now have the opportunity to experiment with and adopt Timestream at zero cost for a duration of one month, while adhering to specific usage quotas. This free trial enables you to evaluate the feature set of Timestream and without any financial commitment. View the full article

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and we’re starting to see the next wave of widespread adoption of AI with the potential for every customer experience and application to be reinvented with generative AI. Generative AI lets you to create new content and ideas including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. Generative AI is powered by very large machine learning models that are pre-trained on vast amounts of data, commonly referred to as foundation models (FMs). A subset of FMs called large language models (LLMs) are trained on trillions of words across many natural-language tasks. These LLMs can understand, learn, and generate text that’s nearly i…

Today, we are announcing the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) in the Middle East (UAE) Region. View the full article

AWS Elemental MediaTailor performs server-side ad insertion (SSAI) for a seamless viewing experience when transitioning from program content to ad breaks. You can now configure MediaTailor to condition the personalized SSAI manifests with metadata associated with the ads that have been stitched into the stream. View the full article

Today, we are announcing general availability of watchOS and tvOS support for AWS Amplify for Swift (>= v2.12.0)! This launch enables developers to build cloud-connected apps for Apple Watch and Apple TV devices. Developers can now leverage the power of Amplify from one Swift project and build across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS platforms for production workloads. View the full article

Amazon Connect Chat now provides additional options to customize the out-of-the-box chat widget, enabling you to add a logo and change fields such as 'System Message', 'Bot', 'Text Input Placeholder', and 'End Chat'. You can also further customize the widget using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to change visual elements like the size of the widget, font size and color so you can easily align the widget with your website branding. View the full article

Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS AppFabric, a new no code service that quickly connects software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications including Asana, Atlassian Jira suite, Dropbox, Miro, Okta, Slack, Smartsheet, Webex by Cisco, Zendesk, Zoom, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365—with security tools including Logz.io, Netskope, NetWitness, Rapid7, and Splunk. With AppFabric, IT and security teams can more easily manage and secure applications by aggregating and normalizing log data into a central repository that is accessible to leading security tools, and employees can complete everyday tasks faster using generative artificial intelligence (AI). View th…

In today’s business landscape, companies strive to equip their employees with the most suitable and efficient tools to perform their jobs effectively. To achieve this goal, many companies turn to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. This approach allows companies to optimize their workflows, enhance employee productivity, and focus their resources on core business activities rather than software development and maintenance. As the use of SaaS applications expands, there’s an increasing need for solutions that can proactively identify and address potential security threats to maintain uninterrupted business operations. Security teams spend time monitoring applicati…

AWS Resilience Hub expands support for applications using Amazon EC2 . Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the British Telecom (BT) 4G/5G network in Manchester. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Manchester to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom. View the full article

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and T…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use R6in and R6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached and Redis), in-memory database…