Customers running database workloads like Oracle and SQL Server on EC2 today want high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but do not require a high vCPU count since these workloads are rarely compute-bound. Memory-optimized instance families such as Amazon EC2 X1 instances and Amazon EC2 R4 instances offer high RAM-to-vCPU ratio to help customers select […]

Reserved Instance (RI) coverage tracks the number of running instance hours that are covered by RIs, and can be measured over a daily, monthly, quarterly or yearly cadence. For example, you can monitor your RI coverage either at an aggregate level (e.g., monthly coverage of your entire Amazon EC2 RI fleet) or at a more […]

AWS Glue automates much of the effort involved in building, maintaining, and running extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision […]

Previously, linked account bills displayed blended rates and costs. Blended rates are the average cost per unit of usage across all accounts within a customer’s consolidated billing family (calculated by dividing total product costs by total product usage). Blended costs are derived for each linked account by multiplying the blended rate for each product by […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest release of Thinkbox Deadline, v10.0.15. This release includes support for 3ds Max 2019 and Vue 2016, and includes improvements to features such as Spot Fleet with AWS Portal and Usage Based Licensing. You can now use Thinkbox Deadline with the latest versions of 3ds […]

Amazon Elasticsearch Service Reserved Instances are available across 15 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo).

Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS. Get everything you need to jumpstart your website – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable price. Plans start at $5 per month. With this expansion, Amazon Lightsail is currently available in the […]

Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to process streaming data in real time with standard SQL without having to learn new programming languages or processing frameworks. Kinesis Data Analytics enables you to query streaming data or build entire streaming applications using SQL, so that you can gain actionable insights and respond to your business […]

Launched at re:Invent 2017, Amazon EC2 H1 instances are a new family of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized instances designed for popular big data and data-intensive workloads, including MapReduce, distributed file systems like HDFS and MapR-FS, network file systems, log or data processing applications like Apache Kafka, and big data clusters. Powered by 2.3 GHz Intel […]

You can now locally test and debug your AWS CodeBuild builds using the new CodeBuild local agent.  Previously, if you wanted to test your AWS CodeBuild build, you had to fully configure and run CodeBuild.  Now, you can simulate a CodeBuild environment locally to quickly troubleshoot the commands and settings located in the BuildSpec file.  […]

Tableau Server is an online solution for sharing, distributing, and collaborating on business intelligence content created in Tableau. With Tableau Server, you can create workbooks and views, dashboards, and data sources in Tableau Desktop, and publish this content to the server. This Quick Start uses AWS CloudFormation templates to install one of the following architectures: […]

The Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client: Is designed especially for DynamoDB applications Includes secure encryption and signing Provides interoperable language implementations in Java and Python Uses cryptographic materials from any source Does not require AWS or any AWS Service If you have questions about using the DynamoDB Encryption Client, start a new thread on the AWS […]

You can create an EC2 Fleet specification defining target capacity, which EC2 instance types work for you, and how much of your fleet should be filled using On-Demand, RI and Spot purchase models. You can also indicate whether EC2 Fleet should take into account the number of cores and amount of memory on each instance […]

We have increased the maximum row size allowed in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 512KB, so you can process and analyze streams with hundreds of columns. We have also increased the maximum code size of Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 100KB, allowing several hundreds of SQL statements in an application.

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on AWS. With WorkSpaces, you can provision virtual, cloud-based desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. You can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet the needs of your dynamic […]

Global tables builds upon the global footprint of DynamoDB to provide you a fully managed, multi-region, multi-master database. It enables you to replicate table updates automatically across the AWS Regions you select. Global tables can be set up with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK. There […]

We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US). This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains additional bug fixes and improvements. With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and […]

You can now record configuration changes to AWS X-Ray using AWS Config. AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production-level distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are functioning to identify and troubleshoot performance issues and errors.

AWS Service Catalog, used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, is announcing the AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow. The connector allows you to use your existing AWS Service Catalog configuration, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose this to your ServiceNow […]

Push events from GitHub are configured via the AWS CodePipeline console, AWS Command Line Interface, and CodePipeline API. You will need to configure your new or existing pipelines to use webhooks. Pipelines you do not configure with webhooks will continue to use periodic checking. Please see our documentation to learn more about using webhooks with […]

Administrators can chain together products during a launch. To do this, the initiating CloudFormation template will call the Service Catalog ProvisionProduct API as a CloudFormation resource, and reference the next product to launch. For example, administrators can create separate Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS products and then have the completed EC2 product initiate the creation […]

AWS IoT Analytics can accept data from any source, including any external sources using an BatchPutMessage API, and is fully integrated with AWS IoT Core. AWS IoT Analytics collects, pre-processes, enriches, stores, and analyzes IoT device data so you can easily identify things like the average distance traveled for a fleet of connected vehicles, or […]

You can now access Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources for training and hosting workflows in Amazon SageMaker. With this new feature, you can use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets that are only accessible through your VPC to store training data, as well as to store and host the model artifacts derived from the […]

TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition is an integration product suite that enables you to create services and applications in a visual, model-driven development environment. It provides a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, a graphical data mapper, and a large library of connectors, including plug-ins for Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), data conversion, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Apache Kafka, […]

Alexa for Business now enables you to view the connection status of your shared devices in the Alexa for Business console by showing whether they are online or offline. Shared devices can be placed in common areas, like conference rooms and building lobbies, and they are managed centrally using the Alexa for Business console. By […]

You can monitor bucket storage using CloudWatch, which collects and processes storage data from Amazon S3 into readable, daily metrics. These storage metrics for Amazon S3 are reported once per day and are provided at no additional cost. Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon S3 is available in all commercial AWS Regions starting today.

To schedule a recurring security assessment, go to the Amazon Inspector console and expand the assessment template you want to schedule on the Assessment Templates page. In the ‘Assessment Events’ section, select your desired frequency and click the ‘Add Schedule’ button. Inspector will then set up a schedule event rule in CloudWatch Events for you. […]

With AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you can now add Common Media Application Format (CMAF) fragmented MP4 HLS endpoints to live channels. This is in addition to the Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and DASH endpoints already supported. Support for CMAF HLS endpoints allows you to ingest a single live stream and format it to play on […]

When you upload a MySQL backup file to S3, you can encrypt it with an S3-managed key or with an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) managed key. Aurora automatically decrypts backup files encrypted with an S3-managed key. The RDS management console provides an easy way to grant access to KMS-managed keys. With this launch, Aurora […]

R4 instances are the latest generation of Memory Optimized instances, featuring all previous-generation sizes plus a new 16xlarge instance size. They are optimized for memory-intensive and latency-sensitive database workloads, including data analytics, in-memory databases, and high-performance production workloads. They offer15.25 to 488 GiB of DDR4 memory and 2 to 64 vCPUs. R4 instances feature Enhanced […]

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs provide integrated tools for machine learning practitioners to quickly get started with deep learning. The AMIs are optimized for high performance on Amazon EC2 instances such as P3 and C5, and come pre-installed with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Apache MXNet, PyTorch, Chainer, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, Caffe2, as well […]

For GPU-based training, the AMIs come with Chainer 4 fully configured with CuPy, NVIDIA CUDA 9, and cuDNN 7 to take advantage of mixed-precision training on NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs powering Amazon EC2 P3 instances. Chainer 4 also provides improved support for TensorCores in Volta GPUs used in low-precision computations. The AMIs also deploy the […]

This updated Quick Start builds a highly available, secure global transit network on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 5 minutes. It deploys Aviatrix Controller and Aviatrix Gateways in a central virtual private cloud (VPC) on AWS to manage routing between remote networks (spoke VPCs) in a hub-and-spoke model. A central transit hub […]

The new Db2 LUW source adds to the existing list of relational database, NoSQL, and object store sources supported by DMS. If the database migration target is Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift or Amazon DynamoDB, you can use DMS free for six months. SCT supports conversion of Db2 LUW objects to Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon […]

AWS SMS is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. It allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations.

Using DAX, you can improve the read performance of your DynamoDB tables by up to 10x—taking the time required for reads from milliseconds to microseconds—even at millions of requests per second. DAX manages cache invalidation and data population on your behalf. It also works with existing DynamoDB API calls so that developers can use DAX […]

You can now record configuration changes to AWS Lambda using AWS Config. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Config, you can track changes to the Lambda function, runtime environments, tags, handler name, code size, memory allocation, timeout settings, and concurrency settings. You can also record changes to Lambda IAM […]

RCF is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for detecting data points that diverge from otherwise well-structured or patterned data set. Detecting these anomalies in data can be critical in a variety of applications – such as identifying fraud detection and incorrectly-priced products as a retailer, or monitoring the health of emergency room patients. The Amazon […]

Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a third Edge Location in Singapore and second Edge location in Taipei, Taiwan. Every Edge Location that we add to the AWS infrastructure increases CloudFront’s capacity to serve secure content with low latency and high availability, around the world. A full list of CloudFront’s global infrastructure can be seen on the […]

You can now record configuration changes to AWS Elastic Beanstalk resource types using AWS Config. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed in multiple languages. You upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. With […]

AWS Auto Scaling allows you to discover scalable resources underlying your application and scale them all using a single scaling plan. Previously, AWS Auto Scaling discovered application resources based on an Amazon CloudFormation stack. Now, AWS Auto Scaling can also discover scalable resources that you have categorized for your application using resource tags. Resource tag-based […]

AWS Glue automates much of the effort to build, maintain, and run extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision or […]

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform. About the examThe security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. It validates understanding of specialized […]

These AMIs, along with the previously announced .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu AMIs, make it easier for you to modernize .NET and SQL workloads on free Linux-based operating systems, without the need to buy Windows Server licenses. You can launch SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Amazon Linux 2 Candidate […]

With AWS Blockchain Templates, you can deploy Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric frameworks using managed and certified AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS Blockchain Templates allow you to focus on building your blockchain applications instead of spending time and energy on manual setup of your blockchain network. AWS Blockchain Templates deploy the blockchain framework you choose as containers […]

To generate these recommendations, Cost Explorer first analyzes your instance usage to automatically identify all of your on-demand usage that can be covered with RIs. From there, Cost Explorer generates RI purchase recommendations to optimally cover your On-Demand usage at a discounted RI rate—including automatically identifying instance family usage that can be most efficiently covered […]

AWS CloudHSM offers you the flexibility to integrate with your applications using industry-standard APIs, such as PKCS#11 and Java Cryptography Extensions (JCE). CloudHSM is also standards-compliant and enables you to export all of your keys to most other commercially-available HSMs. It is a fully-managed service that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for you, such as hardware […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Today, we are releasing a new JDBC driver with features such as Array data type […]

For example, if a DNS record is missing, you can use the DNS Audit event log to help identify the root cause and fix the issue. You can also use DNS Audit event logs to improve security by detecting and blocking requests from suspicious IP addresses.

AWS Config and AWS Firewall Manager now support new multi-account features by integrating with AWS Organizations. With the new AWS Config multi-account data aggregation capability, Organizations administrators can now get an organization-wide view of their compliance status. AWS Firewall Manager enables Organizations administrators to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules across accounts in their […]

DC2 is designed for demanding data warehousing workloads that require low latency and high throughput. They feature powerful Intel E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs, fast DDR4 memory, and NVMe-based solid state disks (SSDs). Our DC2.8xlarge instances now provide twice the memory per slice of data and an optimized storage layout with 30% better storage utilization than […]

The Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA) makes it easy for people to find datasets that are publicly available through AWS. When data is shared on AWS, anyone can analyze it without needing to download or store it, which allows users to spend more time on analysis rather than acquisition. RODA is available now […]

AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smart phones, and set-top boxes. The service functions independently or as part of AWS Media Services, a family of services that form the foundation of […]

• Introduction to Amazon Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM – PCA) discusses a new feature that extends ACM’s certificate management capabilities to private certificates. You’ll learn how to get started with ACM – PCA, learn how this managed private CA service helps you easily and securely manage the lifecycle of your private certificates, and […]

The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library introduces GraphQL support and a new set of data capabilities with AWS AppSync integration. Web and React Native developers can now easily integrate multiple AWS data sources into their apps via AWS AppSync, and utilize real-time data synchronization capabilities in their apps using the new GraphQL capabilities of the API […]

This release introduces several new features that accelerate development. A test and debug flow has been added for running unit tests with “mock” data on a GraphQL resolver. Amazon CloudWatch has been integrated, enabling streaming of GraphQL operation logs for a live debugging experience. And, Amazon CloudFormation is now supported, enabling creation of a complete […]

Users of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora users can now create quick, efficient database clones. Cloning is useful for a number of purposes including application development, testing, database updates, and running analytical queries.

You can now use Apache Spark 2.3.0, Apache HBase 1.4.2, and Presto 0.194 on Amazon EMR release 5.13.0. Spark 2.3.0 adds several new features and updates, including continuous processing mode in Structured Streaming for lower end-to-end latency, an improved ORC file format reader that supports vectorized reads and improves scan throughput, PySpark and Pandas interoperability […]

For CPU-based training scenarios, the AMIs now include TensorFlow 1.7 built with Intel’s Advanced Vector Instructions (AVX), SSE, and FMA instruction sets, to accelerate vector and floating point computations. The AMIs are also fully configured with Intel MKL-DNN to accelerate math routines used in neural network training on Intel Xeon Platinum processors powering Amazon EC2 […]

Runaway ETL jobs may occur due to coding errors or data anomalies, and they can continue to consume resources without making progress. AWS Glue gives you the ability to set a timeout value on any new ETL job that you create, and edit existing jobs to specify a timeout value or use the default value. […]

Amazon SNS is a reliable, scalable, and fully-managed pub/sub messaging service. With AWS PrivateLink, you can provision and use VPC endpoints to access SNS and other supported services hosted in the AWS Cloud. AWS PrivateLink provides a highly available and scalable way to access AWS services while keeping all the network traffic within the AWS […]

You can also now use the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a stack set in Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to create resource level permissions for StackSets. Previously, you could not create an IAM policy for a specific stack set. Now, you can set the access control of specific stack sets to specific roles […]

AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for you to prepare and load your data for analytics. With this release, your ETL jobs and development endpoints will now run on a serverless, fully managed Apache Spark 2.2.1 environment.  AWS Glue is available in the AWS Regions […]

It is a best practice to use the latest version of the ECS-Optimized AMI when you create a new EC2 cluster for Amazon ECS, as new releases include bug fixes and feature updates. Previously, to ensure you were using the latest AMI meant checking the AWS Documentation or subscribing to the ECS-AMI SNS topic. You […]

With these additional regional launches, C5 instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America […]

With these additional regional launches, M5 instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America […]

The new metric adds to the pre-existing CPUUtilization metric which exposes CPU utilization for the server instance as a whole including other operating system and management processes. We recommend that you use both the new EngineCPUUtilization and prior CPUUtilization metrics together to get a detailed understanding of CPU utilization for your Redis environment. The metric […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports creating Application Load Balancers through the AWS Elastic Beanstalk console. Previously, you could only create an Application Load Balancer using AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, and EB CLI. In the Elastic Beanstalk console, you can now choose Application Load Balancer in addition to Classic Load Balancer when you configure your environment. […]

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. To more easily enable the voicing of longer text input, Amazon Polly has doubled its character limit for the SynthesizeSpeech API operation. The maximum length of input text can […]

Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2 is available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and as a Docker container image for use in any Docker environment, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). It is also available as virtual machine images for VMware ESXi, Oracle VM […]

AWS PrivateLink is available in AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (London), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Paris), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and South America (São Paulo) Regions. To learn more about […]

You can now share mailboxes among your team members. All users that have been granted access to a shared mailbox can send and receive emails using this mailbox without the need to manually share access credentials. Shared mailboxes make it easy to use email addresses that need to be monitored and used by multiple people. […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest release of Thinkbox Deadline, v10.0.13.6. This maintenance release includes greater control over Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet instances as well as bug fixes. With Deadline 10.0.13.6, customers have greater control over their Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet instances, with the option to either maintain the number […]

For more information about Job Execution Timeout, visit the AWS Batch Documentation. This change is effective today in all AWS Regions supported by AWS Batch. AWS Batch is currently available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), […]

Now you can use QuickSight to directly connect to, analyze and report on data from popular business applications such JIRA, GitHub, ServiceNow, Adobe Analytics, and Twitter. For example, engineering teams using JIRA to track issues such as tasks and bugs can now use QuickSight to report on developer efficiency and bug burndown. Marketing organizations can […]

You can now backup to AWS in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region using the Tape Gateway virtual tape library (VTL) configuration of AWS Storage Gateway. Tape Gateway emulates a physical tape library, so instead of backing up to physical tapes, you can backup to virtual tapes stored in Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier, using common […]

The AWS Storage Gateway service expanded the list of Amazon S3 storage classes supported by File Gateway to include S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA). With this addition, you can now store and access your files as objects through the File Gateway using the S3 Standard, S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA storage classes.

The container images are published to Docker Hub and are pre-configured and optimized for both CPU hosts (EC2 C5.2xlarge instance) and multi-GPU hosts (EC2 P3.8xlarge instance). MMS also provides tooling to package MXNet and ONNX neural network models into a single “model archive,” which includes all of the artifacts needed to serve the model. To […]

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) implementation is now available under the Apache 2.0 license. AWS SAM extends AWS CloudFormation to provide a simplified way of defining the resources needed by your serverless application. The SAM implementation is the code that translates SAM templates into AWS CloudFormation stacks. Previously, you could submit feature requests to […]

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now allows you to encrypt data in transit between your file system and its clients. The Amazon EFS encryption of data in transit feature uses industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 to encrypt all data sent to and from connected clients. To further simplify using EFS, a new mount […]

With CloudWatch Metric Math, you can compute metrics from existing metrics without using scripts or additional tools. For example, you can calculate your consumed IOPS for Amazon DynamoDB as a percentage of the provisioned IOPS in CloudWatch console. This enables you to understand when you are approaching your provisioned limit. Metric Math supports arithmetic operations […]

Customers can use the AWS Snowball Edge device to collect, process and store data in environments with intermittent connectivity (such as manufacturing, industrial, and transportation); or in extremely remote locations (such as military or maritime operations) before sending them back to AWS data centers; to reduce transfer time and internet costs.

ACM Private CA is available in in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt) and EU (Ireland). Public and private certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager for use with ACM-integrated services, such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and […]

Starting now, Amazon S3 Select is available for all customers. S3 Select is a new Amazon S3 capability designed to pull out only the data you need from an object, which can dramatically improve the performance and reduce the cost of applications that need to access data in S3. Most applications have to retrieve the […]

The Amazon Transcribe API makes it easy to convert speech to text. The service is able to detect different speakers in your audio with high accuracy and confidence to produce intelligible transcriptions so that you can clearly understand who spoke when. You can also expand and tailor the vocabulary of the speech engine by uploading […]

With the latest versions of the frameworks, you can take advantage of features like AVX instructions for CPUs in TensorFlow, as well as MXNet’s Text API, which can be used to build vocabularies and load pre-trained word embeddings. As open source, the TensorFlow and MXNet Docker containers can be customized by adding libraries to the […]

Amazon S3 Standard, S3 Standard-IA, S3 One Zone-IA, and Amazon Glacier, are all designed for 99.999999999% durability. Amazon S3 Standard, S3 Standard-IA and Amazon Glacier distribute data across a minimum of three geographically-separated Availability Zones to offer the highest level of resilience to AZ loss. S3 One Zone-IA saves cost by storing infrequently accessed data […]

Previously, you had to gather information individually from each account and each region using APIs or custom tools to view your enterprise-wide compliance status. Now, you can monitor your Config rule compliance status across your enterprise through a central dashboard, without the need to navigate between multiple consoles. You can also dive deeper to view […]

With AWS Secrets Manager, you can easily rotate secrets, such as database credentials, using built-in integration for Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora. Users and applications retrieve the latest version of secrets with a call to Secrets Manager APIs, eliminating the need to hardcode sensitive information in plain text. In addition, Secrets Manager […]

With AWS Firewall Manager, you now have a single service to create firewall protection policies and enforce them consistently across your Application Load Balancer and Amazon CloudFront infrastructure. For example, if you are required to meet US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations, you can use Firewall Manager to deploy a […]

In addition, you can now set resource-level permissions on the CreateSnapshot, DeleteSnapshot, and ModifySnapshotAttribute APIs. This allows you to implement stronger security policies by giving you more precise control over actions that users and groups can take over specific snapshots. You can also enforce the use of tagging and control which tag keys and values […]

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js v8.10. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js v8.10 such as the new V8 6.0 engine, Lambda functions written in Node.js 8.10 can now use the async/await pattern to specify error or return values for the function execution. 

Amazon Rekognition has improved real-time facial recognition and verification accuracy for even more accurate facial authentication and people search use cases. For face verification applications, Rekognition is now up to 80% more accurate in distinguishing between people who look very similar to each other, and up to 35% more accurate in recognizing the same person […]

With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, you can access many of the capabilities of Amazon WorkDocs directly from Windows File Explorer – including sharing files, marking files as favorites, locking and unlocking files for editing, and searching for files. All changes you make to content that is accessed through the WorkDocs Drive are automatically synced to Amazon […]

AWS Glue automates much of the effort to build, maintain, and run extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision or […]

Resource policies are JSON policy documents that control what actions a user or account can perform on an API, and under what conditions. These policies enable you to let users from other AWS accounts securely access your APIs in Amazon API Gateway. You can also use resource policies to restrict access to certain IP address […]

You can now use an AWS Lambda function from a different AWS account as the Lambda Authorizer or Integration backend for your Amazon API Gateway API Methods. This allows for better management and security controls when working across different teams that may have their own AWS accounts.

All Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains include Kibana, an open-source data visualization and exploration tool used for log and time series analytics including application monitoring, clickstream analytics, and more. Kibana tightly integrates with Elasticsearch and is the default choice for Elasticsearch data visualizations.  Kibana authentication is supported on all domains that use Elasticsearch 5.1 or greater […]

Amazon Chime now provides admins with usage reports in the Amazon Chime console. These reports provide visibility into how users are using Amazon Chime, as well as information about their experience with the service. With this update, you can view data such as the total number of registered and active users, meetings and meeting feedback […]

The Amazon Connect outbound contact API for automating calls to customers is now generally available. You can schedule automated calls for appointment reminders, like doctor appointments and payment due notifications. You can also trigger automated notification calls in response to events, like notifying a customer about credit card fraud on their account. In addition, you […]

Amazon Connect federated single sign-on using SAML 2.0 is now generally available. This allows contact center agents and managers to access Amazon Connect using their existing corporate credentials. As an administrator, you can enforce password policies, and use your existing SAML 2.0 user directory to control access to Amazon Connect, based on your agents’ location, […]

Launch templates simplify launch management and give you access to the latest EC2 features, including Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited, in your Auto Scaling groups. Launch templates enable you to centrally make changes to launch parameters and control the roll out of those changes to Auto Scaling groups and Spot Fleet. To learn more, read the […]

Previously, you could automatically patch Linux instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu Server, Amazon Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) through Systems Manager. Now you can also patch instances running CentOS Linux, giving you more patching options for your mixed Linux environment. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS […]

Alexa for Business now lets you create address books that make it easier for users to place phone calls from shared Echo devices. With Alexa for Business, you can place Echo devices in common areas like conference rooms, shared workspaces, or hotel rooms. These are called shared Echo devices, and you can make phone calls […]

Starting today, AWS Organizations enables you to use the console to view and control which AWS services have trusted access to your organization. AWS services for which you enable trusted access can now access your organization information and perform actions in multiple AWS accounts within your organization.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform uses Docker containers, Google Kubernetes orchestration, and the container-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system to help developers and IT create and deploy their apps. This latest update includes the following enhancements: Support for OpenShift Container Platform version 3.7 Auto Scaling Option to use AWS Service Broker for direct […]

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) has added new Amazon CloudWatch Events to notify customers when volume creation or deletion is accomplished. Instead of having to continuously poll describe-volume API to determine whether the volume has been created or deleted after issuing the command, customers can use these events to track the volume state. 

Tagging AWS resources simplifies the way you organize and discover resources, allocate costs, and control resource access across AWS services. With the Resource Groups Tagging API, you can programmatically use AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor functionality. This makes it easier for you to implement automated tools to manage, search, and filter tags and resources […]

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch Events to react to resource configuration and compliance change notifications from AWS Config. AWS Config records configuration changes to your AWS resources and evaluates those changes with respect to best practices and internal guidelines according to AWS Config rules. With this launch, you can now use the native capabilities […]

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, and 9.3.22. This release fixes PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities included in current and previous minor releases by PostgreSQL community and contains additional bug fixes and improvements. With this update, we […]

You can now match your AWS Managed Microsoft AD and existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) site names. This makes it faster for AWS Managed Microsoft AD to find and authenticate your existing AD users in your on-premises directory. This results in a better experience when users logon to AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 and […]

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. There are two tiers of AWS Shield – Standard and Advanced. AWS Shield Standard is available on all AWS Regions and Amazon CloudFront edge locations. It is also enabled by default for all AWS customers to […]

AWS IoT Core is pleased to announce increased default service limits for all customers in all regions. Customers will now be granted 10,000 inbound and 20,000 outbound publish requests per second, increased from 3,000 and 6,000 respectively. In addition, customers will now be granted 500 connect requests per second, up from 300. The full list […]

AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream desktop applications from AWS to a web browser without rewriting applications. AppStream 2.0 can provide users with instant-on access to the applications they need with a responsive, fluid user experience on the device of their choice.

With the increased duration of federated access, your applications and federated users can complete longer running workloads in the AWS cloud using a single session. You can easily extend the maximum session duration for an IAM role to up to 12 hours using the IAM console or CLI. This capability saves developer time and effort […]

WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on AWS. With WorkSpaces, you can provision virtual, cloud-based desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. You can pay either monthly or hourly, just for the WorkSpaces you launch, which […]

AWS CodeBuild, a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy, is now available in the South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Paris) Regions. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers.

Customers can now use AWS Storage Gateway to migrate, store and access data in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region from on-premises or AWS GovCloud (US) environments. Storage Gateway connects applications to AWS storage, enabling hybrid cloud architectures used for data migration, processing and analytics, file services, backup, and disaster recovery. With Storage Gateway, you can […]

As part of enhancing Linear Learner, Amazon SageMaker has added automatic early stopping with or without a validation dataset during model tuning. If you provide the Linear Learner algorithm with a validation data set, your model training will stop early once validation loss stops improving. If no validation set is available, model training will stop […]

AWS Glue automates much of the effort to build, maintain, and run extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision or […]

You can now launch R4, db.t2.xlarge, db.t2.2xlarge, and db.m4.16xlarge instance types when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. R4 instances are the latest generation of Memory Optimized instances, featuring all previous-generation sizes plus a new 16xlarge instance size. R4 instances are optimized for memory-intensive and latency-sensitive database […]

AWS Fargate platform versions are used to refer to a specific runtime environment (i.e.: a combination of the Kernel version and the container runtime version) for Fargate task infrastructure. New platform versions are released as the runtime environment evolves, including kernel or operating system updates, new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Amazon ECS task […]

Instead, you enable PITR on your table, and you can recover that table from backup at any point in time from the moment you enable it up to a maximum of the 35 preceding days. You enable PITR with a single click from the AWS Management Console or a single API call. When enabled, PITR […]

You can now customize your users’ AppStream 2.0 experience with your logo, color, text, and help links in the application catalog page. Using your own brand provides a familiar look and feel when users access your applications. Adding your own help links makes it easy for them to access support resources within your organization. To […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL,MariaDB,PostgreSQL, and Oracle now allows you to launch M4 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. Amazon RDS is a managed database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS M4 instances have a good balance of compute, […]