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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-fips-140-3-interface-vpc-endpoint
Published: September 6, 2024 20:25
Starting today, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams supports adding a VPC endpoint using AWS PrivateLink that connects through the regional endpoint that has been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. With this new…
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-rds-custom-sql-server-additional-aws-regions
Published: September 6, 2024 18:15
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows you to bring your own licensed SQL Server media and have access to the underlying operating system and database environment. This service is now available in the AWS Regions of US…
PostgreSQL 17 RC1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/postgresql-17-rc1-amazon-rds-database-preview-environment
Published: September 6, 2024 17:00
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 RC1 in the Amazon…
Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.9, 10.6.19, 10.5.26
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-rds-mariadb-minors-10/
Published: September 6, 2024 17:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.9, 10.6.19, and 10.5.26. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB,…
Amazon S3 Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-s3-access-grants-listcalleraccessgrants-api
Published: September 5, 2024 21:50
Amazon S3 Access Grants now support ListCallerAccessGrants, a new API that allows AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and AWS IAM Identity Center end users to list all S3 buckets, prefixes, and objects they can access, as defined by their…
Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now allows you to bring your Windows 10 or 11 licenses
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-workspaces-pools-windows-10-11-licenses
Published: September 5, 2024 21:35
Amazon Web Services announces the ability to setup Amazon WorkSpaces Pools powered by Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Now, customers can bring their Windows 10 or 11 licenses (provided they meet…
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports new ways to automate agent performance evaluations
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-connect-contact-lens-automate-agent-performance-evaluations
Published: September 5, 2024 20:50
You can now automatically mark a performance evaluation question as not applicable based on conversational insights (e.g., detected call reason, etc.), and you can now use additional contact metrics (e.g., longest hold duration, number of holds, agent…
Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-ec2-r7i-instances-additional-aws-region
Published: September 5, 2024 18:30
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe (Milan). Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS,…
AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/aws-gateway-load-balancer-tcp-idle-timeout/
Published: September 5, 2024 17:00
Today AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is launching a new capability that allows you to align the TCP idle timeout value of GWLB with clients and target appliances. Using this capability you can now perform uninterrupted stateful inspection and fine tuning…
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-rds-oracle-oem-ols-options-multitenant-configuration
Published: September 5, 2024 17:00
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Oracle Label Security (OLS) option with Oracle Multitenant configuration. OEM enables monitoring and managing the Oracle infrastructure from a single console. OLS provides fine-grained…
Bedrock Agents on Sonnet 3.5
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/bedrock-agents-sonnet-3-5
Published: September 4, 2024 20:40
Agents for Amazon Bedrock enable developers to create generative AI-based applications that can complete complex tasks for a wide range of use cases and deliver answers based on company knowledge sources. In order to complete complex tasks, with high…
AWS AppSync enhances API monitoring with new DEBUG and INFO logging levels
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/aws-appsync-api-monitoring-debug-info-logging-levels
Published: September 4, 2024 19:30
Today, AWS announces the addition of DEBUG and INFO logging levels for AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs. These new logging levels provide more granular control over log verbosity and make it easier to troubleshoot your APIs while optimizing readability and costs. …
Use Apache Spark on Amazon EMR Serverless directly from Amazon Sagemaker Studio
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/apache-spark-amazon-emr-serverless-sagemaker-studio
Published: September 4, 2024 19:20
You can now run petabyte-scale data analytics and machine learning on Amazon EMR Serverless directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks. EMR Serverless automatically provisions and scales the required resources, allowing you to focus on your data and…
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports enhanced managed features
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-timestream-influxdb-enhanced-managed-features/
Published: September 4, 2024 17:00
We are excited to announce the launch of enhanced management options for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing you to scale your instance sizes up or down as needed and update your deployment configuration between Single-AZ and Multi-AZ, giving you…
AWS Fault Injection Service introduces additional safety control
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/aws-fault-injection-service-additional-safety-control
Published: September 3, 2024 22:10
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now provides additional safety control with a safety lever that, when engaged, stops all running experiments and prevents new experiments from starting. Customers can now prevent fault injection during certain time…
AWS Glue now provides job queuing
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/aws-glue-job-queuing
Published: September 3, 2024 21:15
Today, AWS adds job queuing for AWS Glue jobs. This new capability enables you to submit AWS Glue job runs without needing to manage account level quotas and limits. AWS Glue job queuing monitors your account level quotas and limits. If quotas or limits…
Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports IPv6 in AWS PrivateLink
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-ebs-direct-apis-ipv6-aws-privatelink
Published: September 3, 2024 20:30
Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) protocol when you connect your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to EBS Direct APIs using AWS PrivateLink. EBS direct APIs can help customers to simplify their backup and recovery…
Introducing sagemaker-core: A New Object-Oriented SDK for Amazon SageMaker
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/sagemaker-core-object-oriented-sdk-amazon-sagemaker
Published: September 3, 2024 20:00
Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce sagemaker-core, a new Python SDK that provides an object-oriented interface for interacting with SageMaker resources such as TrainingJob, Model, and Endpoint resource classes. The resource chaining feature in…
Amazon DynamoDB announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-dynamodb-attribute-based-access-control
Published: September 3, 2024 17:50
Amazon DynamoDB now supports Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for tables and indexes. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags attached to users, roles, and AWS resources. With ABAC, you can now use your tags to…
AWS announces session reuse with Amazon Redshift Data API
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/session-reuse-amazon-redshift-data-api
Published: September 3, 2024 17:00
Today, Amazon Redshift launches session reuse feature in Data API that enables you to access data efficiently from Amazon Redshift data warehouses by eliminating the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, data buffering, and…
Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-connect-contact-lens-transcriptions-10-languages/
Published: September 3, 2024 17:00
Amazon Connect Contact Lens can now generate transcriptions in 10 new languages that include Catalan (Spain), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Finnish (Finland), Indonesian (Indonesia), Malay (Malaysia), Norwegian Bokmål (Norway), Polish (Poland),…
Amazon Connect now provides a weekly view of agent schedules
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/amazon-connect-weekly-view-agent-schedules/
Published: September 3, 2024 17:00
Amazon Connect now provides a weekly view of agent schedules, making it easier for contact center managers to get an at-a-glance view of staffing for an entire week. With this launch, you can now ensure there is required coverage each day via daily…
AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone expanded to more regions
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/09/ai-descriptions-amazon-datazone-more-regions/
Published: September 3, 2024 17:00
AWS has expanded the AI recommendations for descriptions capability in Amazon DataZone to four new regions: South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central). This expansion helps improve data discovery, understanding,…