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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now leverage EC2 security groups to secure applications in clusters using Internet Protocol version 6(IPv6) address space. View the full article

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports db.t3.micro instances in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This provides you with more options in addition to the db.t2.micro instance in the current AWS Free Tier for new AWS customers. View the full article

The entire AWS News Blog team is fully focused on writing posts to announce the new services and features during our annual customer conference in Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent! And while we prepare content for you to read, our services teams continue to innovate. Here is my summary of last week’s launches. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that captured my attention: Amazon CodeCatalyst – You can now add a cron expression to trigger a CI/CD workflow, providing a way to start workflows at set times. CodeCatalyst is a unified development service that integrates a project’s collaboration tools, CI/CD pipelines, and development and deployment environments. Amazon Route53 – You can now route your customer’s traffic to their closest AWS Local Zones to improve application performance for latency-sensitive workloads. Learn more about geoproximity routing in the Route53 documentation. Amazon RDS – The root certificates we use to sign your databases’ TLS certificates will expire in 2024. You must generate new certificates for your databases before the expiration date. This blog post details the procedure step by step. The new root certificates we generated are valid for the next 40 years for RSA2048 and 100 years for the RSA4098 and ECC384. It is likely this is the last time in your professional career that you are obliged to renew your database certificates for AWS. Amazon MSK – Replicating Kafka clusters at scale is difficult and often involves managing the infrastructure and the replication solution by yourself. We launched Amazon MSK Replicator, a fully managed replication solution for your Kafka clusters, in the same or across multiple AWS Regions. Amazon CodeWhisperer – We launched a preview for an upcoming capability of Amazon CodeWhisperer Professional. You can now train CodeWhisperer on your private code base. It allows you to give your organization’s developers more relevant suggestions to better assist them in their day-to-day coding against your organization’s private libraries and frameworks. Amazon EC2 – The seventh generation of memory-optimized EC2 instances is available (R7i). These instances use the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). This family of instances provides up to 192 vCPU and 1,536 GB of memory. They are well-suited for memory-intensive applications such as in-memory databases or caches. X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in additional Regions: Amazon Bedrock is now available in Europe (Frankfurt). This is important for customers in Europe because they often have to ensure their data stays in the European Union. You can now embed generative AI functionalities and access to large language models in your applications with the assurance that the prompts and customizations will stay in Europe. Amazon EC2 extended its footprint for multiple families of instances: m6gd instances are now available in Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo), c6a in Canada (Central), m6a in Canada (Central) and Europe (Milan), and r6a instances in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Finally, m6id instances are now available in Europe (Zurich). Amazon EMR managed scaling is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Other AWS news Here are some other blog posts and news items that you might like: The Community.AWS blog has new posts to teach you how to integrate Amazon Bedrock inside your Java and Go applications, and my colleague Brooke wrote a survival guide for re:Invent first-timers. The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases. There are also official AWS podcasts in several languages. Check out the ones in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Some other great sources of AWS news include: AWS Open Source Newsletter AWS Graviton Weekly AWS Cloud Security Weekly Last Week in AWS Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), and Brasil (November 4). AWS Innovate: Every Application Edition – Join our free online conference to explore cutting-edge ways to enhance security and reliability, optimize performance on a budget, speed up application development, and revolutionize your applications with generative AI. Register for AWS Innovate Online Asia Pacific & Japan on October 26. AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Browse the session catalog and attendee guides and check out the re:Invent highlights for generative AI. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. And that’s all for me today. I’ll go back writing my re:Invent blog posts. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! -- seb This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces the general availability of Recover Into Existing Instance, which allows you to recover into an original or pre-defined existing instance instead of spinning up a new Amazon EC2 instance. View the full article

Today, I’m happy to share that we’re expanding these seventh-generation x86-based offerings to include memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) exclusive to AWS and will offer the highest compute performance among the comparable fourth-generation Intel processors in the cloud. The R7i instances are available in eleven sizes including two bare metal sizes (coming soon), and offer 15 percent improvement in price-performance compared to Amazon EC2 R6i instances... View the full article Instance Name vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth r7i.large 2 16 GiB Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7i.xlarge 4 32 GiB Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7i.2xlarge 8 64 GiB Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7i.4xlarge 16 128 GiB Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7i.8xlarge 32 256 GiB 12.5 Gbps 10 Gbps r7i.12xlarge 48 384 GiB 18.75 Gbps 15 Gbps r7i.16xlarge 64 512 GiB 25 Gbps 20 Gbps r7i.24xlarge 96 768 GiB 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps r7i.48xlarge 192 1,536 GiB 50 Gbps 40 Gbps

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn database (DB) instances for RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. These network optimized DB instances deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, which is 300% more than similar sized M6i and R6i database instances. Enhanced network bandwidth makes M6in and R6in DB instances ideal for write-intensive workloads. M6idn and R6idn support local block storage with up to 7.6 TB of NVMe-based solid state disk (SSD) storage. View the full article

Starting today, customers can disable their unused or obsolete Amazon Machine Images (AMIs; pronounced ah-mee). Disabling an AMI changes its state to disabled, makes the AMI private if it was previously shared, and prevents any new EC2 instance launches from that disabled AMI. Customers creating, managing, and consuming AMIs at-scale can now simplify and streamline their workflows with this new capability. View the full article

AWS customers now have the option to enable Systems Manager, and configure permissions for all EC2 instances in an organization that has been configured to use AWS Organizations, with a single action using Default Host Management Configuration (DHMC). This feature provides a method to help customers ensure core Systems Manager capabilities such as Patch Manager, Session Manager, and Inventory are available for all new and existing instances. DHMC is recommended for all EC2 customers, and offers a simple, scalable process to standardize the availability of System Manager tools. View the full article

Starting today, we are introducing a new Amazon CloudWatch metric called Attached EBS Status Check to monitor if one or more Amazon EBS volumes attached to your EC2 instances are reachable and able to complete I/O operations. With this new metric, you can now quickly detect and respond to any EBS impairments that may potentially be impacting the performance of your applications running on Amazon EC2 instances. View the full article

We launched the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances in February 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of new, compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by the 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, which offer up to 50 percent higher performance compared to C6a instances. You can use this increased performance to process data faster, consolidate workloads, and lower the cost of ownership. C7a instances offer up to 50 percent higher performance compared to C6a instances. These instances are ideal for running compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, ad serving, machine learning, multiplayer gaming, video encoding, high performance computing (HPC) such as scientific modeling, and machine learning. C7a instances support AVX-512, Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI), and brain floating point (bfloat16). These instances feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory, which enables high-speed access to data in-memory, and deliver 2.25 times more memory bandwidth compared to the previous generation instances for lower latency. C7a instances feature sizes of up to 192 vCPUs with 384 GiB RAM, which you have a new medium instance size, which enables you to right-size your workloads more accurately, offering 1 vCPU, 2 GiB. Here are the detailed specs: Name vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth (Gbps) EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) c7a.medium 1 2 Up to 12.5 Up to 10 c7a.large 2 4 Up to 12.5 Up to 10 c7a.xlarge 4 8 Up to 12.5 Up to 10 c7a.2xlarge 8 16 Up to 12.5 Up to 10 c7a.4xlarge 16 32 Up to 12.5 Up to 10 c7a.8xlarge 32 64 12.5 10 c7a.12xlarge 48 96 18.75 15 c7a.16xlarge 64 128 25 20 c7a.24xlarge 96 192 37.5 30 c7a.32xlarge 128 256 50 40 c7a.48xlarge 192 384 50 40 c7a.metal-48xl 192 384 50 40 C7a instances have up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and you can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an instance, compared to up to 28 EBS volume attachments with the previous generation instances. C7a instances support always-on memory encryption with AMD secure memory encryption (SME) and new AVX-512 instructions for accelerating encryption and decryption algorithms, convolutional neural network (CNN) based algorithms, financial analytics, and video encoding workloads. C7a instances also support AES-256 compared to AES-128 in C6a instances for enhanced security. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for workloads that benefit from lower network latency and highly scalable inter-node communication, such as high-performance computing and video processing. Now Available Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). As usual with Amazon EC2, you only pay for what you use. For more information, see the Amazon EC2 pricing page. To learn more, visit the EC2 C7a instances page and AWS/AMD partner page. You can send feedback to ec2-amd-customer-feedback@amazon.com, AWS re:Post for EC2, or through your usual AWS Support contacts. — Channy View the full article

This week, I’m in Jakarta to support AWS User Group Indonesia and AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. Yesterday, I attended a community event – a collaboration between AWS User Group Indonesia and Hacktiv8 with “Innovating Yourself as Early-Stage Developers” as the main theme. We had a blast and I had a wonderful time connecting with speakers and developers. Next up, AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. I’ll be at the Developer Lounge, come and say hi! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Add Your Swift Packages to AWS CodeArtifact – In this article, Seb describes how Swift developers who write code for Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS or Swift) applications running on the server side can use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their package dependencies. What I really like is how developers can still use standard developer tools, such as Xcode, xcodebuild, and the Swift Package Manager (the swift package command) to interact with AWS CodeArtifact and facilitate integration into the development workflow. Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers – Channy wrote how developers can use Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac to run memory intensive builds and test workloads, modernize their CI/CD and accelerate their product time to market. With 2x RAM, 1.5x CPU cores, and more than 2x GPU cores compared to EC2 M1 Mac instances, Apple developers can now run more tests in parallel using multiple Xcode simulators. Synthetics Python runtime version 2.0 for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics – With Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, you can continually verify your customer experience and discover issues before your customers do by creating canaries. Canaries are configurable scripts that run on a schedule, to monitor your endpoints and APIs. In this announcement, you can use Synthetics Python runtime version syn-python-selenium-2.0 to create canaries. Amazon QuickSight adds new layout and sparkline to KPI visual – Effortlessly design visually appealing KPIs on Amazon Quicksight with these new updates. Quicksight introduces a range of enhancements with user-friendly experience, including templated KPI layouts, support for sparklines, improvements in conditional formatting, and a revamped format pane. Amazon Location Services announces a price reduction of up to 75 percent for tracking and geofencing – Amazon Location Service just announced a four-tiered pricing model for tracking and geofencing to help you scale and cost-effectively run your operations and business. If you use geofencing, you might see your bill decrease by 20 percent to 70 percent, and tracking by up to 75 percent. Amazon Corretto 21 is now generally available – Happy news for Java developers. Amazon Coretto 21 with long term support (LTS) is generally available for Linux, Windows and macOS. AWS App Runner launches improvements for Auto-Scaling configuration management – Now you can use new APIs and parameters for AWS App Runner service to manage your App Runner services and define your auto-scaling configuration (ASC). For example, setting default ASC, update existing ASC and list all App Runner services that are using an ASC resource. Amazon SNS message data protection with redaction or masking – With Amazon SNS, now you can discover and protect certain types of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). You can define your data protection policies and SNS will scan messages in real-time for sensitive data. Upcoming AWS and Community Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS On Tour – September 18 – October 6, AWS Cloud Day Indonesia – September 26, AWS Summit Johannesburg – September 26, CDK Day – September 29. And let’s learn from our fellow builders and join AWS Community Days: AWS Community Day Zimbabwe (Sept. 30), AWS Community Day Chile (Sept. 30), AWS Community Day Bulgaria Bulgaria (Oct. 7). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. Happy building! — Donnie This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a powerful cloud infrastructure for deploying applications, and it's common to have EC2 instances in private subnets for enhanced security. However, connecting to these instances can be challenging. In this guide, we'll explore best practices for securely and efficiently connecting to an EC2 instance in a private subnet on AWS. Read More Here

You can now inject random Amazon EC2 Spot Instance interruptions into your Spot Fleets directly from the Amazon EC2 console. In 2022, we launched the ability for you to use AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) in the Amazon EC2 console to simulate what happens when Amazon EC2 reclaims a single EC2 Spot Instance. Now, we have enhanced this capability so you can introduce interruptions in a randomly selected set of instances of a Spot Fleet with just a couple of clicks. This makes it easy to test if your Spot Fleet-based application is resilient against the random nature of Spot Interruptions. View the full article

AWS Cloud Map introduces a new API for retrieving the revision of your services. It allows your applications to update the state of your cloud resources only when it has changed, minimizing the discovery traffic and API cost. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API calls. View the full article

While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there was also the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Munich, an amazing day full of insights and passion. Here’s a nice picture of the participants! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: C7i Instances – Powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) and available only on AWS, these compute-optimized instances offer up to 15 percent better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors used by other cloud providers. A great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding, C7i instances deliver up to 15 percent better price performance versus C6i instances. vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth c7i.large 2 4 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.xlarge 4 8 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.2xlarge 8 16 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.4xlarge 16 32 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.8xlarge 32 64 12.5 Gbps 10 Gbps c7i.12xlarge 48 96 18.75 Gbps 15 Gbps c7i.16xlarge 64 128 25 Gbps 20 Gbps c7i.24xlarge 96 192 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps c7i.48xlarge 192 384 50 Gbps 40 Gbps c7i.metal-24xl* 96 192 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps c7i.metal-48xl* 192 384 50 Gbps 40 Gbps *Bare metal instances are coming soon. To facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads, C7i instances support built-in Intel accelerators such as Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and the new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. EC2 R7a Instances – Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, these memory optimized instances deliver up to 50 percent higher performance compared to R6a instances and are ideal for high performance, memory-intensive workloads such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications. Read more in Channy’s blog post. Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock (Preview) – To deliver more relevant and contextual responses, Bedrock can now manage both the ingestion workflow and runtime orchestration to connect your organization’s private data sources to foundation models (FMs) and enable retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for your generative AI applications. To store data, you can choose from a range of vector databases including the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Pinecone, and Redis Enterprise Cloud. Read more in Antje’s blog post. High Query Rates with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Extends Auto-Scaling – You can now rely on OpenSearch Serverless to help manage unpredictable surges in your search and query traffic and efficiently handle tens of thousands of query transactions per minute. Amazon EMR on EKS – You can now improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management by using EMR to run Apache Flink (Public Preview) on the same Amazon EKS cluster as your other applications. Also, to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment with the latest enhancements such as kernel, toolchain, glibc, and openssl, you can now use Amazon Linux 2023 as the operating system together with Java 17 as Java runtime to run your workloads with Amazon EMR on EKS. Amazon Connect – Amazon Connect Cases now supports uploading attachments to a case, enabling agents to have the information they need at their fingertips in order to resolve cases, and displaying the author name for comments that are written on cases, to more easily track who contributed to the resolution of the case and collaborate more effectively. To receive near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (for example, call is queued) in a contact center, you can now subscribe to the new Contact Data Updated event. Custom Notifications for AWS Chatbot – This lets you include additional information, such as number of orders or current throttling limits, when monitoring the health and performance of your AWS applications in Microsoft Teams and Slack channels. AWS IAM Identity Center Session Duration Increased Up to 90 Days – You now have more flexibility based on your security context and desired end-user experience. Previously, the maximum duration was 7 days. The default session duration continues to be 8 hours and existing customer-configured session limits will remain unchanged. Full Support of GraphQL APIs in Amplify Studio – You can now generate forms connected to your API, manage records in your API with Data Manager, and create data-bound Figma to React components for GraphQL APIs created with Amplify Studio or Amplify CLI. Previously, these data-powered features were only available when using Amplify DataStore. Nested Filtering for AWS AppSync WebSockets-Based Subscriptions – You now have additional control over how data should be published out to connected clients by using filtering rules that allow you to target specific sub-items within the published data. Read more in this blog post. API Gateway Console Refresh – There are usability improvements to REST and WebSocket API workflows (now visually aligned with the console experience of HTTP APIs) and dark mode support. Accessibility enhancements also help to better integrate with assistive technology. Override Retention Capability for AWS Supply Chain – Manual forecast adjustments made by a demand planner are now automatically saved and reapplied from one planning cycle to the next. Other AWS News Serverless Development on AWS – AWS Hero Sheen Brisals and his colleague Luke Hedger revealed that they are sharing their expertise with a book that helps build enterprise-scale serverless solutions on AWS. The book outlines the adoption requirements in terms of people, mindset, and workloads, and details architectural patterns, security, and data best practices for building serverless applications. More posts from AWS blogs – Here are a few posts from some of the other AWS and cloud blogs that I follow: AWS Containers Blog – Deploy and scale Django applications on AWS App Runner. AWS Architecture Blog – Let’s Architect! Leveraging in-memory databases. AWS Machine Learning Blog – Learn how to build and deploy tool-using LLM agents using AWS SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models. AWS Machine Learning Blog – Simplify access to internal information using Retrieval Augmented Generation and LangChain Agents. AWS for Games Blog – Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS On Tour, Sept. 18-Oct. 6 – The AWS Developer Relations team is boarding a bus and traveling across European cities (London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Lyon, and Barcelona) to share their experiences and help you improve productivity. AWS Global Summits, Sept. 26 – The last in-person AWS Summit of the year will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26. CDK Day, Sept. 29 – Learn more at the website about this community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. AWS re:Invent, Nov. 27-Dec. 1 – Browsing the session catalog is a nice way to start planning your re:Invent. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Netherlands (Sept. 20), Spain (Sept. 23), Zimbabwe (Sept. 30), Peru (Sept. 30), Chile (Sept. 30), and Bulgaria (Oct. 7). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — Danilo This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

Looks like it is my turn once again to write the AWS Weekly Roundup. I wrote and published the first one on April 16, 2012 — just 4,165 short day ago! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week: R7iz Instances – Optimized for high CPU performance and designed for your memory-intensive workloads, these instances are powered by the fastest 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud. They are available in eight sizes, with 2 to 128 vCPUs and 16 to 1024 GiB of memory, along with generous allocations of network and EBS bandwidth: vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth r7iz.large 2 16 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.xlarge 4 32 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.2xlarge 8 64 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.4xlarge 16 128 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.8xlarge 32 256 12.5 Gbps 10 Gbps r7iz.12xlarge 48 384 25 Gbps 19 Gbps r7iz.16xlarge 64 512 25 Gbps 20 Gbps r7iz.32xlarge 128 1024 50 Gbps 40 Gbps As Veliswa shared in her post, the R7iz instances also include four built-in accelerators, and are available in two AWS regions. Amazon Connect APIs for View Resources – A new set of View APIs allows you to programmatically create and manage the view resources (UI templates) used in the step-by-step guides that are displayed in the agent’s UI. Daily Disbursements to Marketplace Sellers – Sellers can now set disbursement preferences and opt-in to receiving outstanding balances on a daily basis for increased flexibility, including the ability to match payments to existing accounting processes. Enhanced Error Handling for AWS Step Functions – You can now construct detailed error messages in Step Functions Fail states, and you can set a maximum limit on retry intervals. Amazon CloudWatch Logs RegEx Filtering – You can now use regular expressions in your Amazon CloudWatch Logs filter patterns. You can, for example, define a single filter that matches multiple IP subnets or HTTP status codes instead of having to use multiple filters, as was previously the case. Each filter pattern can have up to two regular expression patterns. Amazon SageMaker – There’s a new (and quick) Studio setup experience, support for Multi Model Endpoints for PyTorch, and the ability to use SageMaker’s geospatial capabilities on GPU-based instances when using Notebooks. X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in new regions: ROSA in the Europe (Spain) Region. AWS NAT Gateway in the Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) email receiving service in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (Frankfurt, London) Regions. IAM roles last used and last accessed in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Security Hub findings consolidation in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. C6id instances in the Europe (London) Region. Amazon Location Service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. M6i and R6i instances in the Europe (Zurich) Region. C6gd and R6gd instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. VPC DNS Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. High Memory instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Other AWS News Here are some other AWS updates and news: AWS Fundamentals – The second edition of this awesome book, AWS for the Real World, Not for Certifications, is now available. In addition to more than 400 pages that cover 16 vital AWS services, each chapter includes a detailed and attractive infographic. Here’s a small-scale sample: More posts from AWS blogs – Here are a few posts from some of the other AWS and cloud blogs that I follow: AWS DevOps Blog – Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources. AWS Big Data Blog – Managing Amazon EBS volume throughput limits in Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. AWS Contact Center Blog – How contact center leaders can prepare for generative AI. AWS Desktop and Application Streaming Blog – Selecting the right AWS End User Computing service for your needs. AWS Containers Blog – Migrate existing Amazon ECS services from an internal Application Load Balancer to Amazon ECS Service Connect. AWS Community Builders – Level up your Lambda Game with Canary Deployments using SST. Cloudonaut – Self-hosted GitHub runners on AWS. Trek10 – How and When to Use Amazon EventBridge Pipes. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS End User Computing Innovation Day, Sept. 13 – The one-day virtual event is designed to help IT teams tasked with providing the tools employees need to do their jobs, especially in today’s challenging times. Learn more. AWS Global Summits, Sept. 26 – The last in-person AWS Summit will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26th. You can also watch on-demand videos of the latest Summit events such as Berlin, Bogotá, Paris, Seoul, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington DC in the AWS YouTube channels. CDK Day, Sept. 29 – A community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. Learn more at the website. AWS re:Invent, Nov. 27-Dec. 1 – Ready to start planning your re:Invent? Browse the session catalog now. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Community Days, multiple dates – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Munich (Sept. 14), Argentina (Sept. 16), Spain (Sept. 23), Peru (Sept. 30), and Chile (Sept. 30). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — Jeff; This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

Last week, there was some great reading about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) written by AWS tech leaders. Dr. Werner Vogels wrote Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell, celebrating the 17 years of loyal duty of the original version that started what we now know as cloud computing. You can read how it made the process of acquiring compute resources simple, even though the stack running behind the scenes was incredibly complex. We have come a long way since 2006, and we’re not done innovating for our customers. As celebrated in this year’s AWS Storage Day, Amazon EBS was launched 15 years ago this month. James Hamilton, SVP and distinguished engineer at Amazon, wrote Amazon EBS at 15 Years, about how the service has evolved to handle over 100 trillion I/O operations a day, and transfers over 13 exabytes of data daily. As Dr. Werner said in his piece, “it’s a reminder that building evolvable systems is a strategy, and revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.” Our innovation efforts driven by customer feedback continue today, and this week is no different. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink – You can now use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, a fully managed and serverless service for you to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. All your existing running applications in Kinesis Data Analytics will work as-is, without any changes. To learn more, see my blog post. Extended Support for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS – You can now get more time for support, up to three years, for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS database instances running MySQL 5.7, PostgreSQL 11, and higher major versions. This e will allow you time to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements even after the community ends support for these versions. Enhanced Starter Template for AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – You can now use starter templates to streamline the process of creating and prototyping workflows swiftly, plus a new code mode, which enables builders to move easily between design and code authoring views. With the improved authoring experience in Workflow Studio, you can seamlessly alternate between a drag-and-drop visual builder experience or the new code editor so that you can pick your preferred tool to accelerate development. To learn more, see Enhancing Workflow Studio with new features for streamlined authoring in the AWS Compute Blog. Email Delivery History for Every Email in Amazon SES – You can now troubleshoot individual email delivery problems, confirm delivery of critical messages, and identify engaged recipients on a granular, single email basis. Email senders can investigate trends in delivery performance and see delivery and engagement status for each email sent using Amazon SES Virtual Deliverability Manager. Response Streaming through Amazon SageMaker Real-time Inference – You can now continuously stream inference responses back to the client to help you build interactive experiences for various generative AI applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and music generators. For more details on how to use response streaming along with examples, see Invoke to Stream an Inference Response and How containers should respond in the AWS documentation, and Elevating the generative AI experience: Introducing streaming support in Amazon SageMaker hosting in the AWS Machine Learning Blog. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS News Some other updates and news that you might have missed: AI & Sports: How AWS & the NFL are Changing the Game – Over the last 5 years, AWS has partnered with the National Football League (NFL), helping fans better understand the game, helping broadcasters tell better stories, and helping teams use data to improve operations and player safety. Watch AWS CEO, Adam Selipsky, former NFL All-Pro Larry Fitzgerald, and the NFL Network’s Cynthia Frelund during their earlier livestream discussing the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning in sports. Amazon Bedrock Story from Amazon Science – This is a good article explaining the benefits of using Amazon Bedrock to build and scale generative AI applications with leading foundation models, including Amazon’s Titan FMs, which focus on responsible AI to avoid toxic content. Amazon EC2 Flexibility Score – This is an open source tool developed by AWS to assess any configuration used to launch instances through an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) against the recommended EC2 best practices. It converts the best practice adoption into a “flexibility score” that can be used to identify, improve, and monitor the configurations. To learn more open-source news and updates, see this newsletter curated by my colleague Ricardo to bring you the latest open source projects, posts, events, and more. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS re:Invent – Ready to start planning your re:Invent? Browse the session catalog now. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Global Summits – The last in-person AWS Summit will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Aotearoa (Sept. 6), Lebanon (Sept. 9), Munich (Sept. 14), Argentina (Sept. 16), Spain (Sept. 23), and Chile (Sept. 30). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. CDK Day – A community-led fully virtual event on Sept. 29 with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. Learn more at the website. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — Channy This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

You now have an option to delete an instant type EC2 Fleet. All running instances associated with it will be terminated and the fleet will be deleted. View the full article

Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London) Regions. Is4gen and Im4gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. They feature up to 30TB of storage with the new AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom-designed by AWS to maximize the storage performance of I/O intensive workloads such as SQL/NoSQL databases, search engines, distributed file systems and data analytics which continuously read and write from the SSDs in a sustained manner. AWS Nitro SSDs enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% reduced latency variability in Im4gn and Is4gen instances compared to the third generation of storage optimized instances. These instances maximize the number of transactions processed per second (TPS) for I/O intensive workloads such as relational databases (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), and NoSQL databases (KeyDB, ScyllaDB, Cassandra) which have medium-large size data sets and can benefit from high compute performance and high network throughput. They are also an ideal fit for search engines, and data analytics workloads that require very fast access to data sets on local storage. View the full article

Amazon Nimble Studio adds support for on-demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G3 and G5 instances, allowing customers to utilize additional GPU instance types for their creative projects. Artists depend on a mix of CPUs, RAM, and GPUs for their their creative needs. You can now access additional instance types such as the EC2 G3 and G5 instances (EC2 G5 instances utilize the NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPU), providing Nimble Studio customers greater flexibility to use the right resources for the project. View the full article

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports R5b database (DB) instances. R5b DB instances support up to 3x the I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 3x the bandwidth on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) compared to the x86-based memory-optimized R5 DB instances. R5b DB instances are a great choice for IO-intensive DB workloads. View the full article

You can now use the ‘Verified Provider’ label on the EC2 Console to pick public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are owned by Amazon verified accounts. Previously, customers would need to check the owner IDs of AMIs that were publicly shared to identify the source of the AMI. IDs of verified sources were not always easily available. The new label on the console helps you easily identify trusted sources for publicly-shared AMIs. These trusted sources can be Amazon and its partners or AMI providers from AWS Marketplace. View the full article

We are excited to launch two new features that help enforce access controls with Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters (EMR Clusters). These features are supported with jobs that are submitted to the cluster using the EMR Steps API. First is Runtime Role with EMR Steps. A Runtime Role is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you associate with an EMR Step. An EMR Step uses this role to access AWS resources. The second is integration with AWS Lake Formation to apply table and column-level access controls for Apache Spark and Apache Hive jobs with EMR Steps. View the full article

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 R6a instances. Designed for memory-intensive workloads, R6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which delivers almost all the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. R6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz. These memory-optimized instances, which are SAP certified, deliver up to 35% better compute price performance compared to R5a instances for a wide variety of workloads and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. View the full article

Amazon SageMaker expands access to new ML instances so customers can deploy models on the best instance for their workloads. Now, customers can use ml.g5, ml.p4d, and ml.c6i instances for Asynchronous and Real-time model deployment options. View the full article