Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MariaDB version 10.4. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to MariaDB 10.4 databases, and from MariaDB 10.4 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets. View the full article

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced the general availability of Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker, for EC2 and Fargate launch types. With this feature, Amazon ECS customers using the ECS Rolling update deployment type can automatically roll back unhealthy service deployments without the need for manual intervention. This empowers customers to quickly discover failed deployments, without worrying about resources being consumed for failing tasks, or indefinite deployment delays. View the full article

Compliant Framework for Federal and DoD Workloads in AWS GovCloud (US), a new AWS Solutions Implementation, helps customers accelerate their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing (CC) Security Requirements Guide (SRG) compliance while reducing the level of technical effort, cost, and risk. The solution deploys foundational AWS infrastructure to support an automated, secure, scalable, multi-account environment based on AWS best practices in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. It is designed to meet requirements prescribed by the DoD for hosting Impact Level (IL) 4 and IL 5 workloads in the cloud, as well as provid…

AWS Config advanced queries feature adds ability to save your queries in your AWS Config account. Now, when you customize a sample query or write your query, you can save it with a name, description, and tags. This eliminates the need to save a query in a separate repository or rewrite it every time you want to run it. After you save the query, you can search it, copy it to the query editor, edit it, or delete it. View the full article

Starting today, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) source and target database credentials. Rotating credentials is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice that helps you meet your security and compliance requirements. View the full article

AWS Systems Manager now lets you perform a side-by-side comparison between different versions of your runbooks and other Systems Manager documents such as Run Command documents. Using this feature, you can quickly troubleshoot issues by visually comparing what changed in your runbook across versions. View the full article

Amazon Corretto11 on ARM32 for Linux Platforms and x86 (32-bit) on Windows are now Generally Available. With our ARM32 build, you can run Corretto 11 on Linux distributions on 32bit ARMv7 hardware. Our x86 on Windows build will run on the same supported versions of Windows and will allow usage of 32-bit libraries. These are full-featured, fully supported JDK11 builds. You can report any issues on our GitHub repo at https://github.com/corretto. View the full article

You can now send attachments directly through Amazon Connect Chat, making it easier than ever to resolve your customers’ support needs. For example, an agent can send a copy of a recent hotel invoice or a customer can share a photo of a damaged product. Attachments are included in the chat transcript, to help ensure the full context from the conversation is available if a contact is transferred to another agent. The files are also stored in your S3 bucket to allow access from other systems such as customer relationship management or case management systems. You can turn attachments on in the AWS console with a couple of clicks. View the full article

AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system, enabling you to run your Windows-based workloads at the edge on AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized, and AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. Amazon Linux 2 provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. With Amazon Linux 2 , you get an application environment that offers long term support with access to the latest innovations in the Linux ecosystem. Amazon Linux 2 is provided at no additional charge. View the full article

The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce v5.9 now supports automatically adding transcripts and insights from Contact Lens for Amazon Connect to customer records and cases in Salesforce Service Cloud. Amazon Connect customers have enjoyed being able to gain valuable insights from their call recordings such as customer sentiment, agent sentiment, sentiment change, key phrase detection, categorization tagging, and more simply by enabling Contact Lens in their contact flows. With the v5.9 release of the Amazon Connect CTI adapter for Salesforce, Connect users can now deliver those same insights, including the full call transcript, direct…

You can now add tags to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Elastic IP addresses while creating the resource. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to Elastic IP addresses to easily organize, search, identify, and control access using Identity and Access Manager (IAM) policies. By tagging at the time of creation you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after Elastic IP addresses creation. View the full article

The s3:ResourceAccount and s3:TLSVersion IAM condition keys help you write simple policies that restrict access to your buckets based on the AWS Account ID of the bucket owner, or by the TLS Version used by the client. View the full article

AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. With CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use. View the full articl…

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 as a source. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 clusters to any AWS DMS supported targets with minimal downtime. View the full article

PartiQL—a SQL-compatible query language—for Amazon DynamoDB is now supported in the following 23 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Montreal), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), China (Beijing), China (Ningxia), and Middle East (Bahrain). View the full article

You now can use PartiQL with NoSQL Workbench to run SQL-compatible queries on your DynamoDB data. PartiQL makes it easier to interact with DynamoDB, and now you can use PartiQL to query, insert, update, and delete table data by using NoSQL Workbench. View the full article

Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, you can use the new Channel Identification feature to transcribe the speech from both live audio streams or static audio files that contain multiple audio channels. With Channel Identification, you can process audio from multiple channel to generate a single transcript of the conversation complete with channel labels. View the full article

The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. By using Hibernation, you can maintain a fleet of pre-warmed instances to get to a productive state faster without modifying your existing applications. View the full article

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum in preview. Ethereum is a popular decentralized blockchain platform that establishes a peer-to-peer network allowing participants to transact without a trusted central authority. AWS customers can easily provision Ethereum nodes in minutes, and connect to the public Ethereum main network and test networks such as Rinkeby and Ropsten. With Amazon Managed Blockchain, customers get secure networking, fast and reliable syncs to the Ethereum blockchain, durable elastic storage for ledger data, encryption at rest and transport, and secure access to the network via standard open-source Ethereum APIs. Amazon Managed Blockchain autom…

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed data integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, added Upsolver as a destination. You can now use Amazon AppFlow to configure data flows with Upsolver as the destination. Upsolver is a data lake ETL platform that stores data on the cloud, applies advanced transformations, and distributes it to multiple destinations. View the full article

The AWS Load Balancer Controller provides a Kubernetes native way to configure and manage Elastic Load Balancers that route traffic to applications running in Kubernetes clusters. Elastic Load Balancing offers multiple load balancers that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to help make your applications fault tolerant. View the full article

You can now connect your on-premises AWS Outposts infrastructure privately over DirectConnect to services running in the AWS region using AWS Outposts Private Connectivity. View the full article

Multi-Attach is now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2. Launched in August 2020, io2 is the newest generation of our Provisioned IOPS volume type designed for 99.999% durability (100x io1) and 500:1 IOPS:GiB (10x io1). Multi-Attach lets you share access to an EBS data volume between up to 16 Nitro-based EC2 instances within the same Availability Zone (AZ). Each attached instance has full read and write permission to the shared volume. Multi-Attach is intended to make it easier to achieve higher application availability for customers that want to deploy applications that manage storage consistency from multiple writers in shared storage infrastructur…

AWS Systems Manager Automation now lets you define the actions to perform when an operator cancels the execution of a runbook. Using this feature, you can automatically roll back any changes or perform necessary cleanups when the execution of a runbook is canceled. View the full article

You can now reboot individual brokers within your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) cluster by using the Reboot Broker API. The Reboot Broker API enables you to test the resiliency of your data producers and consumers by simulating MSK service maintenance such as automated patching or the effect a version upgrade has on a MSK broker. Visit the Amazon MSK API Reference for information on how to use this API. View the full article

Today, we are excited to release a new learning capsule that dives deep into Transformer models. To learn the concepts behind generative AI, developers can use easy-to-consume, bite-sized learning capsules in the AWS DeepComposer console. In this new learning capsule, developers will learn about Transformer models which use attention layers to capture dependencies non-sequentially. Transformers are a machine learning architecture model designed to handle sequential data. By building a transformer-based model that understands musical motifs, or sequences, developers can create a model that can generate new music based on a series of sequences learned during training. Get s…

Porting Assistant for .NET now supports automated code translation through the code translation assistant feature. With this capability, developers can automate their porting experience using a set of predefined rules and actions. This feature looks for specific incompatible patterns in the source code and apply appropriate translation code. The rule files are used to find patterns in the source code and compile a list of applicable actions. These actions can be executed to modify the code. In addition to using a default set of rules provided by this code translation capability, developers have the option to inject custom rules, imitating the rules template. This capabili…

Amazon EC2 now allows you to copy up to 100 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) concurrently per destination region per account, an increase from the previous limit of 50 concurrent copies. This increase helps reduce the throttling exceptions and propagation limitations faced while copying multiple AMIs across regions at the same time. You can use CopyImage API to copy an AMI from one region to another. View the full article

Today, AWS Marketplace announced a new and easier self-service experience for independent software vendors (ISVs) to add new versions and update product information on their container product listings. AWS Marketplace is consistently improving the way that sellers can keep their products up-to-date. With this release, ISVs with container products can now rapidly update and adjust their listing on their own. AWS Marketplace has made it easier for ISVs to publish new container images and Helm charts by hosting dedicated ECR repositories for their product. View the full article

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, which makes it easy to create highly accurate machine learning (ML) models without requiring any ML expertise, now includes deep learning models, enabling you to quickly and accurately make predictions in a wide variety of deep learning applications. View the full article

Data providers using the AWS Data Exchange console can now see filtered views of their products and owned data sets. Providers now have the ability to filter their products in the console by name, short description, publishing status, and subscriber visibility. They can also filter their owned data sets by name, data set ID, and data set ARN. This filtering capability is additionally surfaced in the process of adding data sets to new or existing products. For providers with many data sets and products, these console features facilitate faster product creation and management. View the full article

Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now stores encrypted credentials used to connect to flow sources and destination applications including OAuth tokens, Application and API keys, and passwords in customers’ own AWS Secrets Manager account. Previously, AppFlow was storing these encrypted credentials in the AWS Secrets Manager account owned by the Amazon AppFlow service. View the full article

AWS Lambda functions that are triggered from an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) topic can now access to usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager using SASL/SCRAM (Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism). View the full article

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth are generally available. Amazon EC2 C6gn instances deliver up to 40% better price-performance over C5n instances for applications requiring high network bandwidth such as high performance computing (HPC), network appliances, data lakes and data analytics. View the full article

Distributed Load Testing on AWS helps you easily simulate thousands of users connecting to your application so that you can better understand your application performance under load. The solution launches and configures containers on AWS Fargate to generate a specified number of transactions per second without having to provision servers. View the full article

AWS Glue DataBrew today announced integration of third-party data sets available via AWS Data Exchange directly in the AWS Glue DataBrew console. Customers who use AWS Data Exchange to acquire third-party data can now easily view their entitled third-party data in the AWS Glue DataBrew console and then, visually explore , combine, clean and transform the data to make it ready for analysis. Similarly, these customers can easily export their entitled third-party data sets directly from the AWS Data Exchange console as an AWS Glue DataBrew dataset and start visually transforming the data. View the full article

AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain). StackSets is a CloudFormation feature that allows you to centrally manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and Regions in a single operation. StackSets is also integrated with AWS Organizations so you can take advantage of automatic deployments whenever an account enters an organization. View the full article

Starting today, Echo Show 8 customers can use Alexa to join Zoom meetings on a dedicated device, by simply saying “Alexa, join my Zoom meeting.” No setup is required. Alexa will ask for the meeting ID and Passcode. You can also join a meeting more seamlessly by linking your Microsoft, Google, or Apple calendar account via the Alexa app. After saying “Join my Zoom meeting” Alexa will confirm the meeting title if details are included in the invite and then join the meeting. Alexa won’t ask for additional information. View the full article

Customers can now join Amazon Chime meetings on Echo Show 8. We recommend customers simply link their calendar using the Alexa app. Once linked, customers can say, “Alexa, join the Amazon Chime meeting” or “Alexa, join the meeting” at the time of the meeting to enjoy the meeting experience on their Echo Show 8. If customers do not wish to link their calendars, they can also speak the Amazon Chime meeting ID at the time of the meeting to join the meeting. View the full article

We are excited to announce that customers will now be able to automate copy of EBS snapshots across accounts in different regions, as well as encrypt those copies with a different Customer Master Key (CMK) using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. Many customers have Disaster Recovery (DR) compliance needs that require their EBS snapshots to be copied to a separate region and stored with a different encryption key, to protect their data in case of a compromised account. We launched DLM support for copy across regions in December 2019, and now with support for copy across accounts, customers can automate even more actions on created snapshots to meet their DR requirements. …

Amazon SageMaker now supports ml.p4d instances, the next generation of GPU-based instances that provide the best performance for machine learning (ML) training in the cloud for applications such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, genomics research, and more. View the full article

Starting today, AWS Nitro Enclaves and ACM for Nitro Enclaves are available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and US West (N. California). View the full article

Today we are announcing AWS Well-Architected Guidance Engine (WAGE), a feature in the AWS Management Console that helps you determine next steps, best practices, and make choices so you can make the most of AWS. WAGE enables you to receive prescriptive guidance in the console based on questions and answers you provide. Each WAGE scenario is similar to a decision tree, and built and reviewed by AWS experts. View the full article

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, today announced that customers can now access Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems from non-RFC1918 IP addresses. Starting today, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server customers can now also join their file systems to on-premises Active Directories with non-RFC1918 IP addresses. View the full article

Today, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for Amazon Route 53. You can now enable DNSSEC signing for all existing and new public hosted zones, and enable DNSSEC validation for Amazon Route 53 Resolver. Amazon Route 53 DNSSEC provides data origin authentication and data integrity verification for DNS and can help customers meet compliance mandates, such as FedRAMP. View the full article

AWS Cloud Map is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions. View the full article

Amazon SQS now supports a preview of a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 3000 messages per second per API action. This is a tenfold increase compared to current SQS FIFO queue throughput quota. View the full article

You can now configure your Amazon Lex chatbot to improve engagement with customers who speak Latin American Spanish or German. Amazon Lex allows you to create intelligent conversational chatbots that can be used with Amazon Connect to automate high volume interactions without compromising customer experience. Customers can perform tasks such as changing a password, requesting a balance on an account, or scheduling an appointment using natural conversational language. Customers can say things like “I need help with my device” instead of having to listen through and remember a list of options like press 1 for sales, or press 2 for appointments. View the full article

Today, the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing availability for attribute-based access control (ABAC) to allow the use of tags and aliases in policy conditions for IAM policies and AWS KMS key policies. Attribute-based access control is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on tags which can be attached to users and AWS resources. KMS additionally supports the use of key aliases in policy conditions. View the full article

Customers of EC2 Image Builder can now build and test container images compliant with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. As a result, EC2 Image Builder can be used to automate the building of both – Virtual Machine and container images with similar workflows. View the full article

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the availability of three new digital courses for AWS Partners. View the full article

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like hardware provisioning, software configuration, patching, and backups. View the full article

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a free service that monitors your spending patterns to detect anomalous spend and provide root cause analysis. It helps customers to minimize cost surprises and enhance cost controls. View the full article

Amazon Location Service is a fully managed service that helps developers easily add location data to their applications without sacrificing data security and user privacy. The service is now in preview. With Amazon Location, you can build a wide range of location-enabled applications for use cases such as asset tracking, geomarketing, and delivery management. View the full article

AWS Launch Wizard now enables you to install SAP application software as part of the deployment process, with support for SAP NetWeaver on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA. View the full article

The AWS Well-Architected Tool now offers APIs that allow customers and APN partners to extend AWS Well-Architected functionality, best practices, measurements, and learnings into their existing architecture governance processes, applications, and workflows. View the full article

Member accounts in an AWS Organization can now set-up Cost & Usage Reports containing the specific cost and usage data for just their account. This will provide member account-level insights for cost optimization initiatives and save management account holders' time from having to generate detailed cost and usage data for their member accounts. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on KDDI’s 5G network in Japan. Wavelength allows developers to build applications that need ultra-low latency or high bandwidth for mobile devices and users on KDDI’s 5G network. AWS Wavelength is available on the KDDI 5G network today in Tokyo, and we are collaborating with KDDI to bring AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers across Japan. View the full article

The AWS SDK for JavaScript, version 3 (v3) is now generally available and includes many frequently requested features, such as a new middleware stack and a first-class TypeScript support. It also has a modular architecture, with a separate package for each service. You can improve your application performance by only importing the packages your application requires and reducing your application bundle. View the full article

Customers can now use AWS Lambda to build analytics workloads for their Amazon Kinesis or Amazon DynamoDB Streams. For no additional cost, customers can build sum, average, count, and other simple analytics functions over a contiguous, non-overlapping time windows (tumbling window) of up to 15 minutes per logical partition. Customers can consolidate their business and analytics logic into a single Lambda function, reducing the complexity of their architecture. View the full article

AWS Lambda now allows customers to build applications that can be triggered by messages in an Apache Kafka cluster hosted on any infrastructure. Customers can keep their existing Apache Kafka cluster as-is, and quickly and easily build Kafka consumer applications with Lambda without needing to worry about provisioning or managing servers. View the full article

AWS Lambda now allows customers to automatically checkpoint records that have been successfully processed for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams, using a new parameter, FunctionResponseType. When customers set this parameter to “Report Batch Item Failure”, if a batch fails to process, only records after the last successful message are retried. This reduces duplicate processing, and gives customers more options for failure handling. View the full article

For customers using AWS Organizations, the AWS Personal Health Dashboard now provides an all-up view of Health events occurring across your organization. From a single aggregated dashboard, you can learn about maintenance events, security vulnerabilities, and AWS service degredations affecting any account in your AWS organization. Organizational View for the Personal Health Dashboard comes at no additional cost and does not require a premium AWS Support plan. View the full article

FreeRTOS is an MIT licensed open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. Starting today, FreeRTOS includes a preview of a cellular LTE-M library and AWS IoT reference integrations with cellular modules from vendors such as Sierra Wireless, u-blox, and Quectel. With this launch, customers will find it easier to build IoT devices that use the cellular LTE-M protocol to connect to AWS IoT Core. View the full article

AWS IoT Analytics is a fully managed service that makes it easy to collect, pre-process, enrich, store and analyze IoT data at scale to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data and gain insights into how IoT devices are operating without having to worry about the complexity typically required to build an analytics platform. View the full article

We are excited to announce Alarms, a new feature (currently in preview) in AWS IoT Events that allows you to set up, visualize and manage rule-based alerts for devices, equipment, and processes. You can now receive alerts via SMS or email in near-real time when equipment data breaches thresholds, allowing operations teams to take timely actions to reduce unplanned downtime. View the full article

You can now use AWS IoT Device Defender to monitor operational health metrics that are unique to your fleet or use case. For example, you could define a new metric to monitor the memory usage or CPU usage on your devices. After your devices start sending these metrics to the cloud, you can monitor the metrics and trigger alarms when memory usage exceeds expected ranges or when CPU usage exceeds a statistically significant threshold. The alerts can be viewed in the Device Defender console or shared through AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS). View the full article

Today, we are announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new feature of AWS IoT SiteWise providing software that runs on-premises at industrial sites and makes it easy to collect, process, and monitor equipment data locally before sending the data to AWS Cloud destinations. SiteWise Edge is installed on local hardware such as third-party industrial gateways and computers, or on AWS Outposts and AWS Snow Family compute devices. View the full article

Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network that helps devices work better through better connectivity options. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Sidewalk Integration for AWS IoT Core to help device manufacturers easily onboard their Sidewalk device fleet with AWS IoT Core. Amazon Sidewalk has been designed to support a wide range of customer devices like locating pets or valuables, to smart home security and lighting control, to remote diagnostics for appliances and tools. View the full article

With Application Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager, it is now easier to manage SQL Server workloads that are deployed using AWS Launch Wizard. Application Manager automatically imports SQL Server resources created by AWS Launch Wizard, and enables you to perform operational tasks such as database integrity checks, backup and restore, and index maintenance centrally from the Application Manager console. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the first FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) release. With this release, developers can rely on a FreeRTOS version that provides feature stability, and security patches and critical bug fixes for two years. This makes it easier to identify and include only recommended changes to the FreeRTOS kernel and libraries, without adding the risk of introducing updates that could break an existing application. View the full article

Today, AWS IoT is announcing Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management (preview). The new feature enables customers to easily create a fully managed web application to view and interact with their device fleets to monitor fleet and device health, respond to alarms, take remote actions, and reduce time for troubleshooting. View the full article

AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a fully managed cloud-based test capability for validating IoT devices, is now available in preview. Previously, device developers had to build their own test infrastructure to confirm if their IoT devices could reliably and securely interoperate with AWS IoT Core. This adds to the cost of development and testing, and slows down completion of their IoT projects. Now, developers can use pre-built tests provided by Device Advisor to validate their IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core. Developers can connect their devices to an IoT Device Advisor test endpoint in the AWS cloud with just a few clicks, and start testin…

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports data ingestion using ModBus TCP and EtherNet/IP (EIP) protocols. You can do so by adding Modbus or EIP devices as data sources to your SiteWise Gateway. For data ingestion from OPC-UA data sources, you can now customize the scan mode and scan rate along with specifying deadbands. Lastly, you can provide a custom AWS IoT Greengrass StreamManager stream as a destination for protocol data. View the full article

AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from your devices directly to your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (“Amazon MSK”) or self-managed Apache Kafka clusters for data analysis and visualization, without writing a single line of code. View the full article

AWS IoT Analytics is a fully managed service that makes it easy to collect, pre-process, enrich, store and analyze IoT data at scale to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data and gain insights into how IoT devices are operating without having to worry about the complexity typically required to build an analytics platform. View the full article

Amazon Managed Service for Grafana is a fully managed and secure data visualization service that enables customers to instantly query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces for their applications from multiple data sources. Developed in partnership with Grafana Labs, Amazon Managed Service for Grafana manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of Grafana servers, eliminating the need for customers to do this themselves. Customers also benefit from built-in security features that enable compliance with governance requirements, including integration with AWS Single Sign-On, data access control, and audit reporting via AWS CloudTrail. …

AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 is now available. With this major release, AWS IoT Greengrass provides an open source edge runtime, a rich set of pre-built software components, tools for local software development, and new features for managing device software on large fleets of devices. View the full article

AWS introduces AWS IoT EduKit, an easy way to learn to build IoT applications using AWS services through a prescriptive learning program. AWS IoT EduKit helps developers – from students to experienced engineers and professionals – receive hands-on experience building end-to-end IoT applications by combining a reference hardware kit with a set of easy to follow guides and example code. To learn more, please visit AWS IoT EduKit. View the full article

You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to deploy new Active Directory (AD) infrastructure on Amazon EC2, or add domain controllers to an existing Active Directory hosted on Amazon EC2 or on-premises. AWS Launch Wizard uses AWS Well-Architected Framework to guide you through setting up your deployment on environment which includes setting up Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), security groups, and AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) roles. AWS Launch Wizard reduces the time that it takes to set up an Active Directory infrastructure and deploy self-managed domain controllers. View the full article

We are thrilled to announce AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, a fully managed capability that allows AWS IoT Core customers to connect and manage wireless devices that use low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) connectivity with the AWS cloud. Using AWS IoT Core, enterprises can now setup a private LoRaWAN network by connecting their own LoRaWAN devices and gateways to the AWS cloud - without developing or operating a LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS). This allows customers to eliminate the undifferentiated work and operational overhead of managing an LNS, and enables them to quickly connect and secure LoRaWAN device fleets at scale. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN also makes it ea…

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) is a new, fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor containerized applications at scale. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Prometheus project is a popular open source and alerting monitoring solution optimized for container environments. View the full article

Today, we are announcing the public preview of ML Detect, a new feature of AWS IoT Device Defender that automatically detects device-level operational and security anomalies across your fleet by learning from past data. Today, customers can use AWS IoT Device Defender’s Rules Detect to manually set static alarms. ML Detect makes this easier by automatically learning your fleet’s expected behavior using machine learning so that you don’t need an in-depth understanding of how your devices behave across a range of metrics to get started, like messages sent, disconnect frequency, and bytes in/out. Also, ML Detect automatically updates the expected behavior based on new data t…

Today, AWS announces Application Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager to enable customers to manage their applications from a single console. The new capability enables developers and operators to discover their applications, view operational data, and perform actions within the context of an application. View the full article

Today, AWS announces Fleet Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager that helps you streamline and scale your remote server management process. Fleet Manager provides you with visual tools to manage your Windows, Linux, and macOS servers, so you can easily perform common administrator tasks for your fleet running on AWS and on-premises, without needing to remotely connect to these servers. View the full article

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) now synchronizes groups, in addition to user information, for customers who use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as their identity source. You can now manage your users and groups in AD, and AWS SSO's AD sync will ensure that this information is accessible to you in a consistent manner within AWS accounts and applications. You will be able to access AD users and groups from AWS SSO-integrated applications and use them for improved collaborative experiences like searching and sharing, and fine-grained access control to application resources like dashboards. Any changes you make to user and group information in AD will automatically reflect in AWS SS…

Today, AWS announces Change Manager, a new change management feature of AWS Systems Manager. Change Manager simplifies the way you can request, approve, implement, and report on operational changes to your application configuration and infrastructure on AWS and on-premises. With Change Manager, you can use built-in change management best practices based on Amazon’s 20+ years of operational experience to more safely make operational changes. View the full article

AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell available from the AWS Management Console. Once logged into the Management Console, starting a CloudShell session gives customers immediate access to a Amazon Linux 2 environment with the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) pre-installed and pre-authenticated using the same credentials used to login to the console. CloudShell makes it easy to securely manage, interact with, and explore your resources from the command line. Common tools and AWS CLIs are pre-installed and you can install other tools as needed by using the provided root access. Bash, zsh, and PowerShell are all included so you can choose your favorite shell. View the f…

AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202012.00 now includes an over-the-air update (OTA) library (release candidate) and a PKCS #11 implementation (corePKCS11). The OTA library makes it easier to manage notifications, download, and perform cryptographic verification of firmware updates. You can use the OTA library with your chosen MQTT library, HTTP library, and underlying operating system (e.g. Linux, FreeRTOS). This release includes examples for how to use the OTA library with coreMQTT and coreHTTP over Linux. The corePKCS11 library implements a subset of the PKCS #11 v2.40 standard, with a focus on operations involving asymmetric keys, random number genera…

Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). It provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare, build, train and tune, deploy and manage models. Starting today, you can secure the connection from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to SageMaker Studio using AWS PrivateLink. When using PrivateLink, all the traffic flows entirely within the AWS network without traversing the public internet, thus adding an additional layer of security. View the full article

AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now available in preview for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility. Graviton2 instances are already generally available for Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. View the full article

AWS Security Hub now supports a bidirectional integration with ServiceNow ITSM, making it easier for Security Hub users to automatically create and update tickets in ServiceNow ITSM from Security Hub findings and ensure that updates to those tickets are synced with the findings. This integration is available via the AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow app. After downloading the app, you can decide if you want to send all or only certain findings with specific severity levels to ServiceNow and you can decide if you want to automatically create incident or problem tickets. Then, when you make an update to various fields in the ticket, such as state or priority, …

Spot Blueprints is an infrastructure code template generator that makes it easy to start using Spot Instances. It saves time in learning to use Spot and to start leveraging the steep savings and scale that Spot offers for interruptible workloads. You can use Spot Blueprints for the most popular services used with Spot Instances, including Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon EMR, AWS Batch, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). View the full article

Starting today, customers can view and select EC2 specific parameters (single and list) during provisioning from AWS accounts associated with the AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow, formerly known as the AWS Service Catalog Connector. Customers can also view consolidated cloud resources via AWS Config Aggregator within the ServiceNow CMDB, making it easier for ServiceNow administrators to see cloud resource transparency across AWS Accounts. View the full article

On December 11, 2020 we launched the AWS Toolkit for AWS Cloud9, enabling users of our browser-based IDE to easily manage core AWS services through the graphical user interface. A key component of the AWS Toolkit is the Resource Explorer – a view that allows you to navigate and interact with your AWS resources such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon S3, and more. Cloud9 will continue to increase support for other AWS resource types through the Toolkit. View the full article

Customers can now create HTTP APIs that route requests to the new AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows. View the full article

Amazon Lumberyard 1.27 Beta is now available for download, bringing you a range of updates including usability with optimized work flows throughout the user interface, support for new and improved physics features, and even more customization options for developers on major platforms. View the full article

December 11th, 2020 – You can now create Throughput Optimized HDD (ST1) and Cold HDD Volumes (SC1) as small as 125GB, allowing you to save up to 75% over the previous 500GB minimum when creating volumes at this new minimum size. View the full article

Amazon QuickSight dashboards can now visualize data from Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost effectively at scale. Authors in QuickSight can select Amazon Elasticsearch Service as a data source, select the specific data domain to analyze and start visualizing in QuickSight. See here to learn more. View the full article

Amazon EC2 now provides additional network performance metrics to help customers gain more insights into instance network performance. Five new metrics provide customers visibility when their instances exceed network allowances defined by AWS. This visibility helps you proactively resolve application performance issues and right size your instance fleets based on your desired network performance. View the full article