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Amazon EC2 G5 instances now are available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Apr 26, 2024Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases.
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We support dynamically removing and adding auto assigned public IPv4 address
Posted On: Apr 25, 2024Amazon VPC announces a network interface setting to dynamically remove and add an auto assigned public IPv4 address on EC2 instances. With this capability, customers that no longer require an auto assigned public IPv4 address on their EC2 instance can remove the public IPv4 address, and if needed attach back a new public IPv4 address, by modifying the public IP setting on the network interface. To retain the same IPv4 address when removing or adding to an EC2 instance, use Elastic IP address. Before today, once a public IPv4 address was auto assigned to EC2 instance it was not possible to remove it. It remained on the network interface for the lifetime of the EC2 instance.
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Application Load Balancer can authenticate X.509 certificate based identities with Mutual TLS support
Posted On: Apr 25, 2024Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports Mutual TLS enabling you to authenticate clients while establishing TLS encrypted connections.
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Amazon Inspector agentless vulnerability assessments for Amazon EC2 are now Generally Available (GA)
Posted On: Apr 24, 2024Amazon Inspector now offers continuous monitoring of your Amazon EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without installing an agent or additional software in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Currently, Inspector leverages the widely deployed Amazon Systems Manager (SSM) agent to assess your EC2 instances for third-party software vulnerabilities. With this expansion, Inspector now offers two scan modes for EC2 scanning, hybrid scan mode and agent-based scan mode. In hybrid scan mode, Inspector relies on SSM agents to collect information from instances to perform vulnerability assessments and automatically switches to agentless scanning for instances that do not have SSM agents installed or configured. For agentless scanning, Inspector takes snapshots of EBS volumes to collect software application inventory from the instances to perform vulnerability assessments. For agent-based scan mode, Inspector only scans instances that have a SSM agent installed and configured. New customers enabling EC2 scanning are configured in hybrid mode by default, while existing customers can migrate to hybrid mode by simply visiting the EC2 settings page within the Inspector console. Once enabled, Inspector automatically discovers all your EC2 instances and starts evaluating them for software vulnerabilities.
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Amazon CloudFormation improves ChangeSets to enable safer deployment practices
Posted On: Apr 24, 2024Amazon CloudFormation enhances ChangeSets to provide a richer preview of the actions that CloudFormation will take in a deployment. This launch improves your ability to assess whether a deployment will cause unintended changes to running resources, including changes that trigger outages. Additionally, this launch makes it easier to manage references to Amazon Secrets Manager and Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store (SSM) within templates.
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NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB launches a revamped operation builder user interface
Posted On: Apr 24, 2024NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is a client-side application that provides data modeling and query development features to help you design, create, and query DynamoDB tables. We regularly improve our user interface based on customer feedback to provide even better user experience. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our operation builder to help customers better navigate, run operations, and browse their DynamoDB tables.
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Amazon MWAA adds larger environment sizes
Posted On: Apr 23, 2024Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers larger environment sizes, giving customers of the managed service the ability to define a greater number of workflows in each Apache Airflow environment, supporting more complex tasks that can utilize increased resources.
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Amazon EventBridge API destinations now supports content-type header customization
Posted On: Apr 23, 2024Amazon EventBridge API destinations now supports custom HTTP content-type header values for API destination connection resources and when using API destinations as a target in EventBridge Event Buses or Pipes.
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Amazon ECS now integrates with CloudWatch alarms for deployment monitoring in the Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Apr 23, 2024Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now lets you add automated safeguards for rolling updates of Amazon ECS services in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This allows you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for failed deployments and minimize the impact of a bad change.
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Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides execution plan for RDS SQL Server
Posted On: Apr 23, 2024Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now collects the query execution plans of the resource-intensive SQL queries in Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and stores them over time. It helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or stalled query.
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Amazon Transfer Family now lists files from remote SFTP servers using SFTP connectors
Posted On: Apr 22, 2024Amazon Transfer Family customers can now use SFTP connectors to list files stored in remote SFTP servers, enabling visibility into the contents of directories in remote SFTP file systems and transfer files when file names are not known in advance.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP language analyzers
Posted On: Apr 21, 2024Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Hebrew and HanLP (Chinese NLP) language analyzer plugins. These are now available as optional plugins that you can associate with your Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters.
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Get visibility to your auto deployment configuration with a new StackSets API
Posted On: Apr 18, 2024Amazon CloudFormation StackSets launches ListStackSetAutoDeploymentTargets API that allows customers to list existing target Organizational Units (OUs) and Regions for a given stack set. With this launch, customers get visibility into the list of Regions where StackSets will auto-deploy stacks when a new account is added to target OUs. Customers no longer have to log into individual accounts under a given OU to get this information. Customers instead can get this Region combination for all target OUs of a given stack set in a single preview.
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Amazon Workspaces helps simplify Bring Your Own License (BYOL) account management
Posted On: Apr 18, 2024Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your Amazon Web Services accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. We enable you to run your Bring Your Own License (BYOL) WorkSpaces on infrastructure that is dedicated to you in the Amazon Web Services Cloud, and these new APIs make it easier for the you to use your dedicated infrastructure efficiently.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2022 CU12 in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Apr 17, 2024A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. The new minor version include SQL Server 2022 CU12 - 16.0.4115.5.
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports Amazon PrivateLink
Posted On: Apr 17, 2024Amazon DynamoDB now supports Amazon PrivateLink in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With Amazon PrivateLink, you can simplify private network connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), DynamoDB, and your on-premises data centers using interface VPC endpoints and private IP addresses. Amazon PrivateLink is compatible with Amazon Direct Connect to facilitate private network connectivity, and helps you eliminate the need to use public IP addresses, configure firewall rules, or configure an internet gateway to access DynamoDB from your on-premises data centers. As a result, Amazon PrivateLink helps you maintain compliance for your DynamoDB workloads over the private network.
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Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now supports write forwarding
Posted On: Apr 15, 2024Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now lets you forward write requests from a secondary to a primary Region, simplifying writing from multiple Regions and making it easier to develop globally distributed applications. With this launch, write forwarding is now available on both Aurora Global Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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Amazon Transfer Family now supports self-signed TLS certificates and 3DES encryption when sending AS2 messages
Posted On: Apr 14, 2024Amazon Transfer Family now provides you with the option to import and use a trading partner’s public, self-signed TLS certificate for sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages to their server over HTTPS. Additionally, you can now choose to encrypt messages sent to your partner’s server using the 3DES cipher. By default, AS2 connectors will encrypt messages with the AES128 cipher unless you select 3DES for purposes of backwards compatibility with your partner’s existing AS2 implementation. These capabilities add to Amazon Transfer Family’s existing list of AS2 interoperability features and enable you to reliably connect with your trading partners that require these specific security configurations.
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Amazon KMS Announces Faster, More Flexible, and Lower Cost Automatic Key Rotation
Posted On: Apr 14, 2024Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS), the managed service for creating and managing cryptographic keys, today announced new flexibility, visibility, and pricing improvements for KMS automatic key rotation. You can now customize the frequency period for rotation (between 90 days to 7 years (2560 days)) as well as rotate any key on-demand to invoke immediate rotation of any customer managed KMS key. Lastly, we’ve added new console and API options to list all previous key rotations for any KMS key that has been rotated.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Single-AZ Read Replica in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Apr 11, 2024Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Single-AZ Read-Replicas using Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) for Enterprise Edition in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This provides customer the option to create up to 15 number of read replicas from a Single-AZ Enterprise Edition source instance in the same region, or cross regions.
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Announcing the general availability of UEFI Secure Boot on Amazon EC2
Posted On: Apr 11, 2024Today, Amazon EC2 announced the general availability of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot.
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Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights announces observability for Windows containers on Amazon EKS
Posted On: Apr 11, 2024Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now offers observability for Windows containers running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and helps customers collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from their containerized Windows applications. With this support, customers can monitor utilization of resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, as well as get enhanced observability such as container level EKS performance metrics, Kube-state metrics and EKS control plane metrics for Windows containers. CloudWatch also provides diagnostic information, such as container restart failures, for faster problem isolation and troubleshooting for Windows containers running on EKS.
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Amazon DataSync now supports manifests for transferring a specific set of files
Posted On: Apr 10, 2024Amazon DataSync introduces manifests, a new feature that enables you to provide a definitive list of source files or objects to be transferred by your DataSync tasks. Using manifests, you can decrease your task execution times by specifying only the files or objects that need to be processed by your task.
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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments with two readable standbys now supports security certificate rotation
Posted On: Apr 9, 2024The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports database security certificate rotation. Security certificates provide an extra layer of security by validating the connection made to Amazon RDS database instances and clusters.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you update node count without blue/green
Posted On: Apr 7, 2024Amazon OpenSearch Service is now extending the ability to update the number of data nodes without requiring a blue/green deployment for clusters without dedicated cluster manager (master) nodes. This change will allow you to make node count changes faster. Clusters with dedicated cluster manager nodes already supported updating the data node count without a blue/green deployment.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service announces new OR1 Instance family
Posted On: Apr 6, 2024Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces OR1, the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family, that delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances in internal benchmarks and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. The new OR1 instances are best suited for indexing-heavy workloads, and offers better indexing performance compared to the existing memory optimized instances available on OpenSearch Service.
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Amazon CloudWatch now supports tagging alarms with Amazon CloudFormation
Posted On: Apr 6, 2024Amazon CloudWatch now supports using Amazon CloudFormation to manage tags when you create, update, or delete alarms.
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Amazon Transfer Family offers predefined security policies for SFTP connectors
Posted On: Apr 6, 2024Amazon Transfer Family’s predefined security policies for SFTP connectors gives you the flexibility to control cryptographic algorithms used for establishing connections with remote SFTP servers, enabling compatibility with a wider range of remote server configurations.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Infrequent Access log class
Posted On: Apr 4, 2024We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch Logs Infrequent Access (Logs IA), a new log class for cost-effectively consolidating all your logs natively on Amazon Web Services Cloud, helping to improve visibility into your overall application health. CloudWatch Logs IA offers a subset of CloudWatch Logs' capabilities including managed ingestion, cross-account log analytics, and encryption with a lower per GB ingestion price making Logs IA ideal for ad-hoc querying and after-the-fact forensic analysis on infrequently accessed logs.
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Amazon Config now supports organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account
Posted On: Apr 3, 2024Amazon Config lets you assess, audit, and evaluate how your resources are configured, and helps you determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. You can use Amazon Config aggregators to collect your configuration and compliance data from the below sources, and aggregate that data into a single account and Amazon Web Services Region to get a centralized view of your resource inventory and compliance.
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Announcing per-second billing for EC2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances
Posted On: Apr 1, 2024Effective April 1, 2024, we have extended per-second billing to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based instances running on Amazon EC2. Customers will pay for RHEL-based instances that are launched in On-Demand and Reserved form in one second increments, with a minimum of one minute.
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CloudWatch Container Insights now delivers observability for NVIDIA GPUs
Posted On: Apr 1, 2024Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKS now auto-discovers critical health and performance metrics from your NVIDIA GPUs and delivers them in automatic dashboards to enable faster problem isolation and troubleshooting in your AI/ML workload observability. Container Insights with Enhanced Observability delivers you out-of-the-box trends and patterns on your infrastructure health and removes the overhead of manual dashboard and alarm set-ups saving you time and effort.
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies for simplifying access control to tables, indexes, and streams
Posted On: Mar 31, 2024Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Resource-based policies help you simplify access control to your DynamoDB resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify the Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals that have access to a resource and what actions they can perform on it. You can attach a resource-based policy to a DynamoDB table or a stream. The resource-based policy that you attach to a table can include access permissions to its indexes. With resource-based policies, you can also simplify cross-account access control for sharing resources with IAM principals of different Amazon Web Services accounts.
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Amazon EventBridge announces Confluent Cloud integration in the Amazon Web Services console
Posted On: Mar 31, 2024Amazon EventBridge now supports a streamlined integration with Confluent Cloud in the EventBridge console, making it easier to configure Confluent Cloud as a source in Pipes and as a target with API destinations. Leveraging this new capability, you can increase developer agility by spending less time writing integration code and build features faster that combine Confluent Cloud with Amazon Web Services services.
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Amazon Cost Allocation Tags now support retroactive application
Posted On: Mar 28, 2024We now allow customers to enable Cost Allocation Tags retroactively for up to 12 months. As long as customers have added tags to specific resources in the past, customers can activate (or deactivate) cost allocation tags today and apply cost allocation tags to historical usage for these resources for up to 12 months.
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Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Mar 28, 2024Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by Amazon Graviton2 server processors and featuring up to 100Gbps network bandwidth are available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.
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Set IMDSv2 as default for all new instance launches in your account in the Amazon Web Services China Region
Posted On: Mar 27, 2024You can now set all new Amazon EC2 instance launches in your account to use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) by default. IMDSv2 is an enhancement that requires session-oriented requests to add defense in depth against unauthorized metadata access. To set your instances to IMDSv2-only, you previously had to use the IMDS Amazon Machine Image (AMI) property, set Instance Metadata Options during instance launch, or update instances after launch using the ModifyInstanceMetadataOptions API.
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Amazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk import
Posted On: Mar 27, 2024Amazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk import. With the increased default service quota for import from S3, customers who need to bulk import a large number of Amazon S3 objects, can now run a single import to ingest up to 50,000 S3 objects, removing the need to consolidate S3 objects prior to running a bulk import.
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EC2 Hibernate now supports 20 additional instance families on EC2 Spot
Posted On: Mar 27, 2024Customers in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, can now hibernate their Amazon EC2 Spot instances on 20 additional instance families. With this expanded coverage, customers can now enjoy the benefits of hibernate on the supported instance families, regardless of whether their purchase option is On Demand, Spot, or Savings Plan.
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Announcing Amazon Lambda functions powered by Amazon Graviton2, delivering up to 34% better price performance
Posted On: Mar 26, 2024Amazon Lambda functions powered by Amazon Graviton2 processors are now available in Amazon Web Services (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Using an Arm-based processor architecture designed by Amazon, Lambda functions running on Amazon Graviton2 deliver up to 19 percent better performance at 20 percent lower cost for a variety of Serverless workloads, such as web and mobile backends, data and media processing. With lower latency and better performance, these functions are ideal for mission critical Serverless applications.
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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink adds support for Apache Flink 1.18
Posted On: Mar 25, 2024Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 1.18. This new version includes improvements to connectors including Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, and improved watermark alignment and query performance. You can use in-place version upgrades for Apache Flink to adopt the Apache Flink 1.18 runtime for a simple and faster upgrade to your existing application.
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Fully Digitalized Electronic invoices will be implemented in Amazon Web Services China Regions soon
Posted On: Mar 25, 2024According to the “Notice of the State Taxation Administration Beijing Municipal on Implementing the Pilot Program of fully digitalized electronic invoices” and “Notice of the State Taxation Administration Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Implementing the Pilot Program of Fully Digitalized Electronic Invoices”, starting from November 1, 2023, certain taxpayers in the Beijing Municipality and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region will join the piloting of fully digitalized electronic invoices (“Digitalized E-Fapiao”).
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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink adds in-place version upgrades for Apache Flink
Posted On: Mar 24, 2024You can now upgrade existing applications to new Apache Flink versions in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink using in-place Apache Flink version upgrades. With in-place Apache Flink version upgrades you retain application traceability across Apache Flink versions including snapshots, logs, metrics, tags, Flink configurations, resource limit increases, VPCs, and more. You can upgrade to new Apache Flink versions by selecting the application, the snapshot you want to restore from, and the new Apache Flink runtime you require using the Amazon CLI, SDK, CloudFormation, or Amazon Web Services Management Console.
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Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.06 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.34) is Generally Available
Posted On: Mar 24, 2024In addition to security enhancements, bug fixes, and improved data replication performance with binary log (binlog), this release includes new generative AI capabilities and improved cross-region resiliency for Aurora Global Database. This release also contains improvements that bolster the cross-region resiliency of Aurora Global Database, enabling secondary regions to seamlessly serve read requests if the primary writer were to become unavailable during an instance restart. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.34 release notes.
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Amazon IAM Identity Center now provides new APIs to automate access to applications
Posted On: Mar 21, 2024Today, we launched new IAM Identity Center APIs to manage user assignments to supported Amazon Web Services and cloud applications. Together with the previously available APIs, this release allows customers to automate the management of account and application access, streamlining how customers scale with IAM Identity Center.
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Amazon S3 Access Grants integrate with identity providers to simplify data lake permissions
Posted On: Mar 20, 2024Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Active Directory, or Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end-users based on their corporate identity. Additionally, S3 Access Grants log end-user identity and the application used to access S3 data in Amazon CloudTrail. This helps to provide a detailed audit history down to the end-user identity for all access to the data in your S3 buckets. With just a few clicks in the console or a few lines of code using the Amazon SDK, you can map S3 permissions to users and groups in an existing corporate directory, or to an IAM user or role. Then, as end-users are added and removed from directory groups, S3 permissions are automatically updated based on the end-user’s group membership. S3 Access Grants integrates with Amazon EMR and open source Spark so that you can enforce granular, job-based S3 access for a large fleet of pipeline jobs.
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Amazon EC2 now supports tagging when registering or copying AMIs
Posted On: Mar 14, 2024Amazon EC2 now enables you to tag your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) when you create an AMI from an EBS snapshot, or when you copy an AMI within the same or different Amazon Web Services Regions. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to Amazon Web Services resources such as AMIs to easily organize, search, and identify resources, create cost allocation reports, and control access.
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Amazon Data Firehose now supports specifying a file extension for objects delivered to S3 destinations
Posted On: Mar 14, 2024Amazon Data Firehose now supports specifying a file extension for objects delivered to S3 destinations.
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Amazon CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with new validation checks for stack operations
Posted On: Mar 14, 2024Amazon CloudFormation improves its deployment experience to validate customer stack operation upfront for invalid resource property errors. Customers get instant feedback that their stack operation will fail due to issues such as spelling errors in their template. With this launch, customers fail fast and minimize the steps required for a successful stack operation.
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Amazon DynamoDB local upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17
Posted On: Mar 14, 2024Today, we are excited to announce that DynamoDB local for Amazon DynamoDB upgrades to Jetty 12 and JDK 17. We recommend that you run the latest version of DynamoDB local to utilize the most recent updates and features of DynamoDB local for your development and testing use cases.
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Amazon Data Firehose now supports custom time zone for S3 prefixes in objects delivered to Amazon S3 destinations
Posted On: Mar 14, 2024Amazon Data Firehose now lets you select your preferred time zone for timestamps in S3 object key prefixes.
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Amazon WorkSpaces introduces new metrics on CloudWatch, now available in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.
Posted On: Mar 14, 2024You can now obtain an aggregated view of the performance and health of your WorkSpaces instances using the Amazon CloudWatch Automatic dashboard. This enables WorkSpaces administrators to quickly start monitoring WorkSpaces metrics and identify issues and their potential causes. You can also use CloudWatch Automatic dashboard as a starting point and create your own custom dashboards to meet your monitoring needs.
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Announcing new Amazon VPC DHCPv6 setting to adjust IPv6 preferred lease time
Posted On: Mar 13, 2024On March 7th, Amazon VPC added a new feature to its DHCP option set called IPv6 preferred lease time setting, which allows customers to adjust the frequency of IPv6 lease renewals. This feature gives customers the option to increase the preferred lease time of IPv6 address assignments on Amazon EC2 Nitro instances to minimize the number of IPv6 lease renewals and prevent possible renewal failures. This setting applies to both dualstack and IPv6-only Amazon EC2 Nitro instances in the VPC.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU25 and 2022 CU11 in China Regions
Posted On: Mar 12, 2024Two new minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. The new minor versions include SQL Server 2019 CU25 - 15.0.4355.3 and 2022 CU11 - 16.0.4105.2.
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Announcing Amazon Graviton2 support for Amazon EMR Serverless in the Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Mar 11, 2024Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple to run applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, or scaling clusters.
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Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Mar 11, 2024Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
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Amazon Cost Categories launches a revamped user interface
Posted On: Mar 10, 2024New console experience for Amazon Cost Categories
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Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for streaming of daily metrics
Posted On: Mar 7, 2024Amazon CloudWatch announces support for streaming of daily metrics on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. You can use Metric Streams to send metrics to your data lake on Amazon Web Services Cloud, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), or Amazon Web Services Partner solutions including Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace and Sumo Logic. This new capability provides additional metrics for streaming, adding daily metrics with timestamps up to two days old.
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Amazon X-Ray now supports data events in Amazon CloudTrail
Posted On: Mar 7, 2024Amazon X-Ray announces support for logging eight new data and one new management event APIs in Amazon CloudTrail, enabling you to have full visibility across every Amazon X-Ray API action in your Amazon Web Services account. This helps you maintain operational and security best practices. Amazon X-Ray provides developers with end-to-end tracing capabilities to help debug distributed applications and quickly identify performance bottlenecks.
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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports General Purpose gp3 storage volumes
Posted On: Mar 6, 2024The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes. Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys provides up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and two readable standby instances.
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Amazon RDS for MariaDB Supports New Minor Versions 10.11.7, 10.6.17, 10.5.24, and 10.4.33
Posted On: Mar 6, 2024Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.7, 10.6.17, 10.5.24, and 10.4.33. We recommend that customers upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.
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Amazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023
Posted On: Mar 5, 2024Today, we are announcing general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). AL2023 is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services and is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. EKS customers can enjoy the benefits of AL2023 by using the standard AL2023-based EKS optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Managed Node Groups, self-managed nodes, and Karpenter.
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Amazon ECS adds gMSA authentication for Linux containers for Amazon Fargate
Posted On: Mar 5, 2024Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announces Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Linux containers running on Amazon Fargate. With this support, applications running on Amazon Fargate can easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2024 Release Update
Posted On: Mar 4, 2024Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 16
Posted On: Mar 4, 2024Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 16 (16.1). PostgreSQL 16 adds support for SQL/JSON constructors and identity functions, more query types that can use parallelism, and the ‘pg_stat_io’ view that provides statistics on I/O usage. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL version 4.0 such as support for the Full Text Search CONTAINS function. Please refer to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL updates for more information.
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Amazon IoT Core Announces Support for Online Certificate Status Protocol Stapling for Server Certificates
Posted On: Mar 4, 2024Amazon IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets customers securely connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and manage them at scale, announces support for Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Stapling for TLS X.509 Server Certificates using Custom Domains and Configurable Endpoints. The new feature enables customers to add an additional layer of verification to their custom domain's server certificate validity, for example to respond to server certificate revocations more quickly. By including the OCSP response with the certificate during the TLS handshake, it eliminates the need for a separate request from the client to an OCSP server, resulting in faster connection establishment.
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Announcing the new Console Home in Amazon Web Services Management Console
Posted On: Feb 29, 2024Today, we launched the new Console Home, a customizable home page for the Amazon Web Services Management Console that offers customers a single place to access the information they need. The new Console Home provides customers the capability to customize their Console Home experience by adding, removing, resizing, and rearranging widgets.
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Partial Indexes
Posted On: Feb 29, 2024Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces support for partial indexes. With partial indexes, developers can create an index on a subset of documents that meet a specific filter criterion. By indexing a subset of data, partial indexes can reduce query times and improve performance during index creation and management.
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Amazon Step Functions Adds Support for Open Workflow Metrics
Posted On: Feb 29, 2024Amazon Step Functions announces open workflow metrics for Step Functions workflows in Amazon CloudWatch to track and monitor the number of open workflow executions in real-time through Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating virtually any Amazon Web Services service to automate business processes and data processing workloads.
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Amazon Network Firewall is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Feb 28, 2024Amazon Network Firewall is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18
Posted On: Feb 27, 2024Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes support for pgvector 0.6.0, which adds performance improvements for building Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) indexes including parallelism and in-memory builds. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix the known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community.
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Now Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized is available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Feb 27, 2024Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Neptune I/O-Optimized, a new configuration for Amazon Neptune Database that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. With Neptune I/O-Optimized, there are zero charges for read and write I/O operations—you only pay for your database instances and storage usage, making it easy to predict your database spend up front. Neptune I/O-Optimized offers up to 40% cost savings for I/O-intensive applications where I/O charges exceed 25% of the total Neptune database spend.
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Amazon Transfer Family now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for SFTP, FTP, and FTPS servers
Posted On: Feb 27, 2024Amazon Transfer Family now enables conditional workflows by publishing SFTP, FTPS, and FTP file transfer events to Amazon EventBridge in near real-time. You can use these event notifications to easily build and automate file transfer and file-processing workflows. Based on your need for flexibility and low code automation, Transfer Family support for EventBridge as well as existing managed workflows allows you to automate your Managed File Transfer (MFT) workloads.
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Amazon MSK extends Amazon IAM support to all programming languages
Posted On: Feb 27, 2024Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)’s Identity and Access Management feature now supports all programming languages. Administrators can simplify and standardize access control to Kafka resources using Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon MSK’s IAM support is based on SASL/OUATHBEARER, an open standard for authorization and authentication.
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Introducing Amazon Data Firehose, formerly known as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Posted On: Feb 27, 2024Today, Amazon is renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to Amazon Data Firehose. Amazon Data Firehose provides an easy way to reliably capture, transform, and optimally deliver data streams into Amazon S3 based data lakes, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Splunk, and other 3rd party destinations for analytics and archival. The name change is effective in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, documentations, and service web pages. There are no other changes, including to service endpoints, APIs, the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) access policies, Amazon CloudWatch metrics, or the Amazon Billing console dashboard. Your existing applications will continue to work as they did previously.
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NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for cloning tables
Posted On: Feb 27, 2024NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB, a client-side application that helps you visualize and build scalable, high-performance data models, now supports clone tables between development environments. With this feature, you can quickly develop and test your application with your DynamoDB tables across multiple environments.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports New Minor Version 8.0.36
Posted On: Feb 26, 2024Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.36. We recommend that customers upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.
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Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.8
Posted On: Feb 26, 2024You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.8 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.8 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows.
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Amazon SQS launches the Extended Client Library for Python to support payloads up to 2GB
Posted On: Feb 26, 2024Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) launches an open-source Extended Client Library for Python that allows you to send and receive large message payloads. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
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Amazon Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports cross-account sharing
Posted On: Feb 26, 2024Parameter Store, a capability of Amazon Systems Manager, now allows you to share advanced parameters with other Amazon Web Services accounts, enabling you to centrally manage your configuration data. Parameter Store provides secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data and secrets. You can store data such as Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs, database strings, network configurations, and passwords as parameter values. You can reference parameters in code and through several integrations such as Systems Manager Documents and Amazon EC2. Today, many customers have workloads in multiple Amazon Web Services accounts that need shared, synchronized configuration data. Now, you can maintain a single source of truth for configuration data by sharing advanced parameters with other accounts, removing the need to duplicate and synchronize data across accounts.
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Amazon Transfer Family now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for AS2 servers and connectors
Posted On: Feb 22, 2024Amazon Transfer Family now enables conditional workflows by publishing events to Amazon EventBridge for all successful and failed inbound and outbound Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) transfer operations. These events can be used to easily automate processing of your AS2 messages and message disposition notifications (MDN), or to send real-time status notifications to you and your trading partners.
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API Gateway now supports TLS 1.3
Posted On: Feb 19, 2024API Gateway (APIGW) now supports version 1.3 of the Transport layer Security (TLS) protocol on its Regional REST, HTTP and WebSocket endpoints. TLS 1.3 on APIGW works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to API gateway.
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Network Load Balancer now supports RSA 3072-bit, ECDSA 256/384/521-bit certificates via Amazon Certificate Manager
Posted On: Feb 18, 2024Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports RSA 3072-bit certificates, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) 256, 384 and 521-bit certificates via Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM). This launch enables customers use stronger encryption during transit to meet their compliance goals.
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Generate CloudFormation templates and CDK apps for existing cloud resources in minutes
Posted On: Feb 18, 2024Amazon CloudFormation announces a new feature called IaC generator that makes it easy to generate CloudFormation templates and CDK apps for existing cloud resources that are not managed with CloudFormation. You can use the generated templates and apps to import resources into CloudFormation and CDK or replicate resources in a new account. With this launch, you can onboard workloads to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in minutes. You can then leverage the IaC benefits of automation, scalability, and replicability for these workloads.
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Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics releases NodeJS/Puppeteer Runtime versions 6.2, version 5.2 and Python/Selenium Runtime version 2.1
Posted On: Feb 18, 2024Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces release of Synthetics NodeJS Runtime versions - syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.2, and syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.2 - and Python Runtime version - syn-python-selenium-2.1. This release brings updated Chromium dependency libs for forward compatibility with the OS and adds new Lambda Ephemeral Storage usage metric in customer account. To learn more, see release notes.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you update cluster volume without blue/green
Posted On: Feb 18, 2024Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you update cluster volume size, volume type, IOPS and throughput without requiring a blue/green deployment. This makes it easier for you to make changes to your EBS settings without having to plan upfront for a blue/green deployment.
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Amazon Transfer Family now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge for SFTP connectors
Posted On: Feb 8, 2024SFTP connectors will now publish file transfer event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. With this enhancement, you can orchestrate your file transfer and file-processing workflows in Amazon Web Services Cloud using Amazon EventBridge, or any workflow orchestration service of your choice that integrates with these events.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports croaring-rs and num-bigint crates for Trusted Language Extensions
Posted On: Feb 7, 2024Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports new crates for PL/Rust such as croaring-rs and num-bigint, enabling you to build more of your extensions on RDS for PostgreSQL. PL/Rust, a PostgreSQL trusted procedural language, lets users build high performance, memory safe user defined functions with the resource efficiency of compiled languages like C.
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Amazon Fargate announces a price reduction for Windows containers on Amazon ECS
Posted On: Feb 6, 2024We are excited to announce that Amazon Fargate for Windows containers on Amazon ECS has reduced infrastructure pricing by up to 49%. Fargate simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on Amazon Web Services Cloud. With Fargate, customers no longer need to set up automatic scaling groups or manage host instances for their application.
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Amazon Inspector is now available in China Regions
Posted On: Feb 6, 2024Amazon Inspector is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers improved visibility into domain updates
Posted On: Feb 6, 2024Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides improved visibility into the progress of domain updates. You can see granular status values representing different stages of an update, simplifying monitoring and automation of configuration changes.
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports maintenance notifications
Posted On: Feb 5, 2024Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now adds support for maintenance notifications to provide users visibility into scheduled maintenance activities on their Amazon DocumentDB clusters. Users can now receive near real time notifications of scheduled maintenance activities through health events in Amazon Health Dashboard (AHD) in Amazon Web Services console and through emails.
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Amazon ECS introduces support for configurable timeout for services running with Service Connect
Posted On: Feb 1, 2024Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) launches support for configuring timeout for service-to-service communication with its networking capability called ECS Service Connect. This feature enables you to set custom timeouts for Amazon ECS services running with Service Connect, supporting applications serving long-running requests. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easier for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. Customers can use ECS Service Connect capability to easily configure service discovery, connectivity and traffic observability for services running in Amazon ECS. This helps build applications faster by letting you focus on the application code and not on your networking infrastructure.
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Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier now includes 750 hours of free Public IPv4 addresses, as charges for Public IPv4 begin
Posted On: Feb 1, 2024Starting today, we are updating the Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, 12 month free, to include 750 hours of public IPv4 address usage per month. If you are an existing or new Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier customer for Amazon EC2, you will get 750 hours public IPv4 address usage per month free when launching any EC2 instance with a public IPv4 address.
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Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports Multi-Source replication
Posted On: Jan 31, 2024Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports multi-source replication, which allows you to configure multiple RDS for MySQL database instances as sources for a single RDS for MySQL target database instance. Multi-source replication on RDS for MySQL enables you to merge multiple shards into a single target, or consolidate data in one RDS for MySQL instance for analytics, or long-term backups.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches cross-account access with Amazon Lambda
Posted On: Jan 31, 2024Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports resource-based policies, so you can process data ingested into a stream in one account with an Amazon Lambda function in another account. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless real-time data streaming service that can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources. Amazon Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Together with Kinesis Data Streams and Lambda, you can build a completely serverless data streaming pipeline.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports TempDB Configuration Replication in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Jan 29, 2024Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports TempDB configuration replication for Multi-AZ database instances in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With this new feature enabled, we will synchronize TempDB file configurations on the primary host, such as type, name, physical_name, size, max_size, growth, and is_percent_growth, with the secondary host in a Multi-AZ configuration.
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Amazon VPC now supports idempotency for route table and network ACL creation
Posted On: Jan 29, 2024Amazon VPC now supports idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs, allowing you to safely retry creation without additional side effects. Idempotent creation of route tables and network ACLs is intended for customers that use network orchestration systems or automation scripts that create route tables and network ACLs as part of a workflow.
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Amazon Web Services Free Tier usage is now available through the GetFreeTierUsage API
Posted On: Jan 29, 2024Starting today, customers can now access their Amazon Web Services Free Tier usage through the Amazon SDK, command line, and 3rd party tools at no cost. Using this API, customers can programmatically track free tier usage against monthly usage limits, which allows customers to understand when their free usage will transition to pay-as-you-go pricing each month. This helps avoid unintended charges by comparing forecasted usage to the free tier limit for each service throughout the month. The Amazon Web Services Free Tier allows customers to explore more than 100 products by offering free usage each month.
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Amazon EC2 Added A New Spot Price Protection Mechanism for Attribute Based Instance-type Selection
Posted On: Jan 29, 2024Starting today, EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet customers who use attribute based instance type selection can define their Spot instances price protection limit as a percentage of an instances On-Demand price. With this new mechanism, customers have greater control over the instance types that are launched by EC2 Fleet or EC2 Auto Scaling, while also maximizing the benefit of Spot’s lower prices.
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Amazon EMR on EKS Interactive Endpoints is now generally available
Posted On: Jan 28, 2024Today, we are excited to launch the general availability of Interactive Endpoints for Amazon EMR on EKS. With this launch, Amazon EMR on EKS customers will be able to run interactive workloads using an integrated development environment such as EMR Studio. For customers that require control on their execution environment, they will be able to use their self-hosted Jupyter notebooks as an another mechanism to run their interactive workloads via Interactive Endpoints.
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Amazon QuickSight is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet
Posted On: Jan 25, 2024Amazon QuickSight is a fast, scalable, and fully managed Business Intelligence service that lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards across your organization. QuickSight dashboards can be authored on any modern web browser with no clients to install or manage; dashboards can be shared with 10s of 1000s of users without the need to provision or manage any infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be seamlessly embedded into your applications, portals, and websites to provide rich, interactive analytics for end-users. QuickSight provides advanced ML-capabilities out-of-the-box, including 1-click forecasting, anomaly detection and customizable natural language narratives. QuickSight has a subscription-based, per user pricing model for dashboard authors. For dashboard consumption, QuickSight offers unique session-based pricing models which allow you to share insights with all of your users while only paying for usage; you can choose between per-user pricing or session capacity-based pricing that provides discounted per-session rates with annual commitments on session usage.
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Amazon MSK now sends storage capacity alerts
Posted On: Jan 25, 2024Amazon MSK now automatically sends you alerts when you are at risk of exhausting your storage capacity. The alerts also provide recommendations on the steps to take to manage your storage. This feature makes it easier for you to identify and quickly resolve storage capacity issues before they become critical. Amazon MSK automatically sends these alerts to the Amazon MSK Console, Amazon Health Dashboard, Amazon EventBridge, and email contacts for your Amazon Web Services account. You can also easily configure Amazon EventBridge to deliver these alerts via Slack or to tools such as New Relic and Datadog.
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Fully Digitalized Electronic Invoices will be implemented in Amazon Web Services China Regions soon
Posted On: Jan 24, 2024According to the “Notice of the State Taxation Administration Beijing Municipal on Implementing the Pilot Program of fully digitalized electronic invoices” and “Notice of the State Taxation Administration Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Implementing the Pilot Program of Fully Digitalized Electronic Invoices”,starting from November 1, 2023, certain taxpayers in the Beijing Municipality and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region will join the piloting of fully digitalized electronic invoices (“Digitalized E-Fapiao”).
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Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now offers provisioned capacity mode
Posted On: Jan 22, 2024Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to provision read and write capacities for the online store. This capability is an alternative to on-demand billing mode and is designed to make it more cost-effective and provide more controls for workloads with predictable throughput requirements.
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Amazon Step Functions adds integration for 1,500 API Actions
Posted On: Jan 22, 2024Amazon Step Functions expands its SDK integrations with support for over 1,500 new API actions from new and existing services such as Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon EC2, Amazon Relational Database Service, and Amazon Glue.
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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys now supports minor version upgrades with 1 second of downtime
Posted On: Jan 22, 2024The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy. This capability allows you to take advantage of the most recent performance improvements, bug fixes, and any new security fixes or patches from the latest minor versions of PostgreSQL and MySQL with minimal interruption to your application.
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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds greater control over EC2 instance replacement
Posted On: Jan 22, 2024Today, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launches a new capability, instance maintenance policy, for customers to define whether instances are launched before or after existing instances are terminated during instance replacement. This controls how your group replaces instances for operations such as instance refresh, health checks, and rebalancing. From the console, you can choose "policy presets" or provide unique settings that help you optimize for availability or cost.
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Amazon ECS announces managed instance draining
Posted On: Jan 21, 2024Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced managed instance draining, a new capability that facilitates graceful shutdown of workloads deployed using Amazon ECS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by safely stopping and rescheduling workloads to other, non-terminating instances. This capability enables customers to simplify infrastructure maintenance workflows, such as rolling out a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version, without needing to build custom solutions to gracefully shutdown instances without disrupting their workloads.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose supports delivering data to Splunk clusters using ALB in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Jan 18, 2024Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (Firehose) enables customers to capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, and 10+ other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can now use Firehose to deliver streams to their Splunk cluster configured with either an Application Load Balancer (ALB) or a Classic Load Balancer (CLB).
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Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL now supports delegating extension management to lower privileged users
Posted On: Jan 16, 2024Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the rds_extension database role which provides a cluster administrator the ability to delegate create, alter, or drop extension operations to lower privileged users. The cluster administrator can use the new rds.allowed_delegated_extensions DB parameter to limit which extensions a member of the rds_extension role can manage. To get started, take a look at our Using Amazon Aurora delegated extension support for PostgreSQL page.
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Amazon Transfer Family introduces static IPs for sending AS2 messages and MDNs
Posted On: Jan 16, 2024Amazon Transfer Family now uses static IP addresses when sending messages to remote AS2 servers and when returning asynchronous message disposition notification (MDN) responses. This adds to Amazon Transfer Family’s existing support for static IPs when receiving AS2 messages with internet-facing, VPC-hosted AS2 endpoints.
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Amazon Transfer Family provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectors
Posted On: Jan 16, 2024Amazon Transfer Family now provides static IP addresses for SFTP connectors, enabling connection with remote SFTP servers that are secured by IP allowlisting controls. With this enhancement, you can now reliably and seamlessly exchange files with external business partners that only accept inbound connections from known IP addresses.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports HypoPG extension for creating hypothetical indexes
Posted On: Jan 14, 2024Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the HypoPG extension for creating hypothetical indexes, which lets you test the performance impact of an index on query plans before you build it.
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Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL now supports h3-pg for geospatial indexing
Posted On: Jan 14, 2024Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the h3-pg extension, which provides an API to H3, an open-source hexagonal, hierarchical geospatial indexing system. With this extension, you can perform different kinds of spatial analysis over large datasets, including efficient indexing and lookups, modeling flow through a grid, and applying machine learning models over your geospatial data stored in Aurora PostgreSQL.
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Amazon Systems Manager Fleet Manager now provides console-based access to Windows instances with enhanced security protocols
Posted On: Jan 14, 2024Fleet Manager, a feature in Amazon Systems Manager (SSM) that helps IT Admins streamline and scale their remote server management processes, now enables a console-based management experience for Windows instances in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This feature provides customers a full graphical interface to setup secure connections to and manage Windows instances. You no longer need to install additional software, set up additional servers, or open direct inbound access to ports on the instance.
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Amazon IoT TwinMaker is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Posted On: Jan 14, 2024Amazon IoT TwinMaker is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet.
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Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now supports query type filtering
Posted On: Jan 12, 2024Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to filter DNS traffic based on the query type (QTYPE) contained in the question section of the DNS query format.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU24 in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Posted On: Jan 11, 2024A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports a minor version for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.
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CloudWatch launches alarm recommendations for Amazon Web Services services and console enhancements
Posted On: Jan 11, 2024Amazon CloudWatch announces a comprehensive set of enhancements to the alarm and dashboard experience. It introduces out-of-the-box, best practice alarm recommendations for 23 Amazon Web Services services, streamlining your monitoring setup. You can easily view all metrics with recommended alarms using a convenient toggle. Creating alarms is simpler with pre-filled configuration in the alarm wizard or bulk downloading infrastructure-as-code templates for the recommended alarms.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17
Posted On: Jan 11, 2024Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. This release also contains new features and improvements such as group role authentication support using Amazon Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory with the new pg_ad_mapping extension, and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 3.4. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to plan your upgrade process. As a reminder, if you are running any version of Amazon Aurora. PostgreSQL 11, you must upgrade to a newer major version by February 29, 2024.
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Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached 1.6.22
Posted On: Jan 11, 2024Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now supports Memcached version 1.6.22 when using the node-based deployment option. With this release, you can now design your own ElastiCache for Memcached cluster using Memcached version 1.6.22. ElastiCache Serverless for Memcached already supports Memcached version 1.6.22.
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Amazon MSK now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for new provisioned clusters
Posted On: Jan 11, 2024Amazon Graviton3-based M7g instances are now generally available for use with new provisioned Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters. MSK provisioned clusters running on M7g instances deliver up to 24% price/ performance improvement, up to 29% higher write and read throughput, and up to 27% reduction in CPU usage over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports TLS 1.3 and perfect forward secrecy
Posted On: Jan 8, 2024Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.3 amongst its transport security options for domain endpoint security. TLS 1.3 offers customers enhanced security and performance as compared to older TLS versions. In addition, we now support perfect forward secrecy, which provides additional safeguards against eavesdropping of encrypted data, through the use of a unique random session key.
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Amazon RDS for MariaDB Supports New Minor Versions 10.11.6,10.6.16, 10.5.23, and 10.4.32
Posted On: Jan 5, 2024Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.6, 10.6.16, 10.5.23, and 10.4.32. We recommend that customers upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.